A steering wheel has a ring portion, spoke portions and a hub portion. The steering wheel is provided with a thermoelectric reversible heat pump to heat or cool a fluid. A closed hydraulic circuit includes a hydraulic pump and at least one duct extending along the ring portion of the steering wheel. The fluid is heated or cooled by the thermoelectric heat pump and is circulated by the hydraulic pump within the ring portion of the steering wheel to heat or cool the ring portion.

Heated and cooled steering wheel / L., Menaldo; G., Testa; Muscio, Alberto; S., Soragni. - .

Heated and cooled steering wheel

MUSCIO, Alberto;

Abstract

A steering wheel has a ring portion, spoke portions and a hub portion. The steering wheel is provided with a thermoelectric reversible heat pump to heat or cool a fluid. A closed hydraulic circuit includes a hydraulic pump and at least one duct extending along the ring portion of the steering wheel. The fluid is heated or cooled by the thermoelectric heat pump and is circulated by the hydraulic pump within the ring portion of the steering wheel to heat or cool the ring portion.
2007
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7908941.PN.&OS=PN/7908941&RS=PN/7908941
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=0&ND=3&at=6&locale=en_EP&FT=D&CC=EP&NR=1493647A1&KC=A1
Key Safety Systems, Inc. (Sterling Heights, MI, USA)
EP 1493647(B1), US7908941(B2)
peltier; automotive; cooling; steering wheel; thermoelectrics
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