An electrical heating device (14) for an operating fluid tank (10) of a motor vehicle, in particular for a tank (10) for storing aqueous urea solution, having at least one PTC element (34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44), that is disposed connecting two electrical conductors (24, 26, 28, 29), characterized in that the electrical heating device (14) comprises a multitude of PTC elements (34, 36, 28, 40, 42, 44), of which each is connectively arranged to two electrical conductors (24, 26, 28, 29), wherein at least one of the electrical conductors (24, 26, 28, 29) is configured as a laminar conductor component and forms a heat conductor for transferring the heat produced in the PTC element (34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44) to a volume portion of the outside environment (18) of the electrical heating device (14), which is adjacent to the electrical heating device (14).

Heating device (10), in particular for heating an operating fluid tank of a motor vehicle, preferably a tank for storage of aqueous urea solution, the heating device (10) comprising an electrical resistance heating trace (14) with a heating side (14b), on which, in intended operation, heat is emitted to a fluid to be heated, and the heating side (14b) opposing a carrier side (14a), on which the resistance heating trace (14) faces a mounting supporting it, wherein the resistance heating trace (14) is disposed between a flexible film (16) on its heating side (14b) and a substrate (12), rigid in comparison with the flexible film (16), as the supporting mounting on the carrier side (14a), which is characterized in that the resistance heating trace (14a) is connected to the rigid substrate (12) on the carrier side (14a) without intermediate arrangement of a further film.

Heating device (10), in particular for heating an operating fluid tank of a motor vehicle, preferably a tank for storage of aqueous urea solution, the heating device (10) comprising an electrical resistance heating trace (14) with a heating side (14b), on which, in intended operation, heat is emitted to a fluid to be heated, and the heating side (14b) opposing a carrier side (14a), on which the resistance heating trace (14) faces a mounting supporting it, wherein the resistance heating trace (14) is disposed between a flexible film (16) on its heating side (14b) and a substrate (12), rigid in comparison with the flexible film (16), as the supporting mounting on the carrier side (14a), which is characterized in that the resistance heating trace (14a) is connected to the rigid substrate (12) on the carrier side (14a) without intermediate arrangement of a further film.

A vehicle exterior component includes a decorative main body and a heater sheet that includes a heating wire and a sheet base made of a plastic. The heating wire is routed on the back surface of the sheet base. The heater sheet includes a heating main body that is arranged to be closer to a front side than the decorative main body, and an extending portion that is bent along the outer circumference of the decorative main body to be arranged at a position closer to a back side than a front surface of the decorative main body. The extending portion includes a bent portion along the outer circumference. The wire length of the heating wire in the bent portion is set to a length that allows the heating wire to change shape to adapt to expansions and contractions of the sheet base in the bent portion.

An electrode-embedded ceramic structure includes: a ceramic shaft, wherein an electrode is disposed on an outer circumference thereof; and a ceramic tube housing the ceramic shaft therein and coupled to the ceramic shaft. In this electrode-embedded ceramic structure, spaces are provided locally between the ceramic shaft and the ceramic tube.

The present invention is a plush heat up runner with features including: Bluetooth smart app, voice control, lights, timer auto turn off, and battery powered. Heating coils are inside the runner to provide warmth to the user and also facilitate safety against spills and pet damage. The heat up runner suctions to the floor to resist shifting while a person walks on it. A user may control settings on the runner by using the accompanying app or the voice control feature. A method includes straightening a single scroll for heating via a substrate having a length, a width and a thickness, the substrate initially rolled up into a single scroll. The method also includes running a scrollable grid of internal heating coils, having an angular relation to each other, along a portion of the length and a portion of the width of the substrate within the thickness of the substrate.

A heating panel including a thermally conductive (e.g. metal) layer, a laminar heating element disposed over a framing-facing side of the thermally conductive layer, an insulation layer disposed over the laminar heating element, and a room-facing surface layer disposed over at least the room-facing side of the thermally conductive layer. A method for heating a room may include installing at least one heating panel on a ceiling of the room and providing power to the heating element to generate heat that radiates into the room. The panel may be part of a heating system including a controller, such as a thermostat, for regulating power to the heating panel. A plurality of heating panels or a plurality of heating zones in one or more of the panels may be independently controllable.

A laminated electrically heatable glazing panel includes: (i) a first outer and second inner substrates with respectively an internal and an external faces, laminated to one another via at least one polymer inclusive interlayer, (ii) a coating including at least one heatable conductive layer provided between the outer and the inner substrates, the coating divided into at least one heatable coating zone and at least one non-heatable coating zone, the first heatable zone being delimited by at least two zone boundaries which are insulating by a coating deletion area, and (iii) at least a first and second conductive bus bars, each of the spaced first and second bus bars adapted to supply electrical voltage across the at least one electrically heatable coating zone. Only the at least one electrically heatable coating zone is heated when current runs through said first and second bus bars and wherein the conductive path is defined between the busbars.

A ceramic heater includes an AlN ceramic substrate having a wafer placement surface in which, from a position closer to the wafer placement surface, a plasma-generation RF electrode and a heater electrode are embedded in this order so as to be separated from each other. The AlN ceramic substrate includes an AlN ceramic high-resistivity layer disposed between the RF electrode and the heater electrode, and an AlN ceramic low-resistivity layer other than the high-resistivity layer. The high-resistivity layer and the low-resistivity layer each contain Si, Mg, and Ti. The high-resistivity layer has higher Mg and Ti contents and a higher volume resistivity than the low-resistivity layer.

A showerhead provided in a chamber of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and facing a wafer holder includes: a plate-shaped ceramic substrate; a plurality of through holes penetrating the ceramic substrate in the direction of the thickness of the ceramic substrate; and a plurality of radio frequency conductors embedded in a plurality of zones, respectively, of the ceramic substrate, as seen on the side of a surface of the ceramic substrate facing the wafer holder.