Smart temperature-controlled infant car seat using thermoelectric devices

Senthilkumar, Roshni; Musleh, Mohamed Al

doi:10.1109/iemtronics51293.2020.9216387

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“…Whereas internal combustion engines could supply freely available excess waste heat for the purpose of heating the interior, in the case of electric vehicles, battery power is consumed for heating, which can noticeably reduce the car's travel range. Printed electronics together with design optimization promise to overcome these challenges and are starting to be used for heating car interiors 2,3 . Organic printed elements lend themselves to being easily integrated into the sitting , backrest, and headrest components of a car seat (see Figure 1), as well as other areas such as the steering wheel and armrest.…”

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Enhancement of a smart stretchable resistive heater textile using printed electronic coatings: towards application in automobile

Diatezo¹,

Le²,

Tonellato³

et al. 2023

Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems XVII

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Intelligent textiles are predicted to see a surprising development in the future. The consequence of this revived interest has been the growth of automobile industry and the improvement of innovative methods for the incorporation of electrical and thermal features into textiles materials. In the present work, the development of a smart stretchable heating device integrated into a car-seat headrest has been identified as a target application. The need for smart conductive materials is becoming increasingly apparent, but they still represent a great challenge for the heating textile area, particularly in additive manufacturing. Polymer-based composites reinforced with copper and carbon powders, attractive as advanced coatings, seems to be good solutions to this issue. Such composites are now acquainted as ideal materials for electronic device engineering and fabrication, thanks to their excellent electrical and thermal conductivities while maintaining suitable mechanical compliance. For easier process and integration, an extrusion 3D printer is employed to achieve thin films coated on the surface of the textile substrate. The developed heater device consists of two principal copper electrodes (so-called power bus), and one heating resistor made of carbon composites designed in different configurations. Finite element models (FEM) are developed to predict the heating behavior of the tested fabric substrates under different pattern suggestions. Experimental measurements via a thermal camera are in consistent with the numerical solutions. It is pointed out that the design optimization based on an adequate tuning of the pattern’s parameters allows to solve inevitable matters in terms of temperature regularity and overheating effect.

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