A vehicle comprises: a plurality of seating assemblies, each seating assembly including an exterior surface, an interior beneath the exterior surface, a pressured supply of liquid sanitizer disposed within the interior, and at least one valve in fluid communication with the pressurized supply of liquid sanitizer that opens to allow liquid sanitizer to be dispensed onto the exterior surface. Each of the at least one valve are selectively positionable to and from an open position where the liquid sanitizer flows through the valve to allow liquid sanitizer to be dispensed onto the exterior surface and a closed position where the liquid sanitizer cannot flow through the valve. A controller, configured to receive instructions from a user interface, communicates with each of the at least one valve to cause any particular valve to move to and from the open position and the closed position.

An occupant support comprises a vehicle seat including a cushion and trim positioned around at least a portion of the cushion. The occupant support includes an occupant-comfort system having a heat transfer station positioned in the seat cushion in spaced-apart relation to the trim and configured to move selectively heat to an occupant in a heating mode and away from the occupant in a cooling mode.

A vehicle seat includes a seating portion and a backrest portion coupled to the seating portion. The seat also includes a temperature-control system associated with at least one of the seating portion and the backrest portion. The temperature-control system includes a base layer and an intermediate layer disposed adjacent to the base layer. The intermediate layer is adapted to allow fluid to flow through it. The temperature-control system includes a cover layer disposed adjacent to the intermediate layer. The temperature-control system includes at least one heating element disposed between the intermediate layer and the cover layer. The temperature-control system further includes a fluid pump to provide fluid flow through the intermediate layer.

A vehicle is provided with a vehicle body equipped with an electric device that generates heat during traveling, a heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the outside air and a refrigerant, and a cooling tube that constitutes a flow passage for circulation of the refrigerant between the electric device and the heat exchanger, and in which a part of the flow passage directed from the electric device to the heat exchanger is laid in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle body.

The present invention comprises a flexible heat exchange assembly for heating and thermal control the surface of a seat that is designed to prevent the blockage of fluid flow due to the pressure of an occupant's weight, which generally consists of formed layers that create passages through which a heat exchange fluid flows. The upper surface seat cushioning material is formed such that there are recesses into which these fluid passages rest, thereby preventing the blockage of fluid flow when the pressure from the weight of an occupant deforms the cushion.

A temperature controlled child seat device including a housing member, a coil assembly, a vent assembly, and a temperature control member. The housing member includes a seat cushion and a back rest. The coil assembly is embedded in the housing member and selectively produces heat and cooling in the seat cushion and back rest. The vent assembly is integrated in the housing member and includes a plurality of air openings and a vent line. The temperature control member initiates a two-stage heating or cooling operation in correspondence with a user selection of heating or cooling. The two-stage heating or cooling operation provides direct heating or cooling of the seat cushion and the back rest and provides heated or cooled air blown out of the vent assembly.

A capillary proximity heating apparatus for heating fluids with high energy savings that has a microfiltration apparatus for the elimination of calcareous particles present in fluids having a proximal end and distal end; a low power electrically operated nozzle connected to the distal end of the microfiltration apparatus; one or multiple capillary tubes with high thermal transmissivity contained internal to the microfiltration apparatus; a bipolar electrical connection connected to the proximal end of the microfiltration apparatus; one or more hydraulic devices for opening and closing the fluid from flowing into the capillary tubes connected to the proximal end of the microfiltration apparatus; and an electronic board with multi-function display for controlling flow and temperature of the fluids and for integration of the electronics of the capillary proximity heating apparatus operably connected to the microfiltration apparatus.

The present invention comprises a flexible heat exchange assembly for heating and thermal control the surface of a seat that is designed to prevent the blockage of fluid flow due to the pressure of an occupant's weight, which generally consists of formed layers that create passages through which a heat exchange fluid flows. The upper surface seat cushioning material is formed such that there are recesses into which these fluid passages rest, thereby preventing the blockage of fluid flow when the pressure from the weight of an occupant deforms the cushion.

A liquid system for a motor vehicle has at least one supply line which can be supplied with a liquid, and at least one functional unit which can be arranged on a movable component of the motor vehicle and is connected in a communicating manner to the supply line. The supply line has at least one immovable line portion which can be arranged on an immovable component of the motor vehicle and at least one movable line portion which can be arranged on the movable component and is connected to the functional unit. In order to ensure a leakage-proof supply of the functional unit with the liquid, the supply line has at least one rotary coupling via which the immovable line portion is connected in a communicating manner to the movable line portion.

A vehicle comprises: a plurality of seating assemblies, each seating assembly including an exterior surface, an interior beneath the exterior surface, a pressured supply of liquid sanitizer disposed within the interior, and at least one valve in fluid communication with the pressurized supply of liquid sanitizer that opens to allow liquid sanitizer to be dispensed onto the exterior surface. Each of the at least one valve are selectively positionable to and from an open position where the liquid sanitizer flows through the valve to allow liquid sanitizer to be dispensed onto the exterior surface and a closed position where the liquid sanitizer cannot flow through the valve. A controller, configured to receive instructions from a user interface, communicates with each of the at least one valve to cause any particular valve to move to and from the open position and the closed position.