A glazing comprises first and second busbars for connection to an electrical supply; a third busbar between the first and second busbars; plural conductors electrically connected to the first busbar; wherein a first group of the conductors extends from the first busbar to the third busbar to form a first resistor; a second group of the conductors extends from a side of the third busbar facing the second busbar and is electrically connected to the second busbar to form a second resistor; fewer conductors extend from the side of the third busbar facing the second busbar than extend from a side of the third busbar facing the first busbar; at least one gap on one side of the third busbar opposite a conductor on the other side and an information acquisition area between the third busbar and the second busbar, the at least one gap being outside the information acquisition area.

Disclosed are an anti-icing material with stealth function, a preparation method and use thereof. The anti-icing material with stealth function according to the disclosure includes an electrically insulating and thermally insulating layer, a patterned heating layer, an electrically insulating and thermally conducting layer, and a hydrophobic layer, that are disposed sequentially through stacking, wherein the patterned heating layer has a patterned hollowed-out structure.

An article includes a substrate and a resistance heating element bonded to the substrate. The resistance heating element is comprised of, by weight, 10 to 45% of graphene, 0.25 to 45% of carbon nanostructure (CNS) material different than the graphene, and a remainder of glass frit. The graphene and the CNS material include a coupling agent that bonds the graphene and the CNS material with at least the glass frit.

An exhaust gas heater for an exhaust gas system of a combustion engine includes a carrier and at least one heating conductor through which a current flows. The heating conductor is mounted on the carrier. The heating conductor is provided via separation from a metal flat material blank. A method of making an exhaust gas heater includes a step of separating the heating conductor from the metal flat material blank.

According to the invention there is provided an electrothermic composition comprising: a carbon component; a graphite component having a crystallinity of 99.9% and wherein the graphite is heat treated at a temperature of 2500° C. to 3000° C., and a binder, whereby the composition has a thermal coefficient of electrical resistance (TCR) of ±0.0001 to 0.0010 per ° C. over a temperature range of from about 20° C. to 60° C. in an airborne environment, wherein the ratio of the first conductive component and the second resistor component is selected between 10:1 to 1:10.

An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes a housing, a lens unit, a heater, an imaging unit, a temperature sensor, and a heater control unit. The lens unit is attached to the housing. The heater is provided in the lens unit. The imaging unit, the temperature sensor, and the heater control unit are housed in the housing. The imaging unit outputs an optical image formed by a light flux transmitted through the lens unit as an image signal. The heater control unit controls the heater in accordance with a temperature detection value by the temperature sensor.

A structural element of a means of transport comprising a resistive heater for defrosting operations, wherein the resistor has conduction terminals coupled to respective terminals of a voltage generator adapted to cause a current flux through the resistor. The resistor includes one or more conductive paths of partially reduced graphene oxide or partially oxidized graphene configured to generate, when travelled by the current flux, heat by Joule effect.

A glass plate includes a first surface provided with a first film; and a second surface provided with a second film and opposite to the first surface. Each of the first film and the second film includes mainly tin oxide and has a sheet resistance value of 20 Ω/□ or less. When film thicknesses of the first and second films are θ.sub.1 nm and θ.sub.2 nm respectively, and when, in the glass plate, a haze value measured from the first surface side for a configuration provided with the first film only is H.sub.1 (%), and a haze value measured from the second surface side for a configuration provided with the second film only is H.sub.2 (%), a value of θ.sub.1 divided by H.sub.1 is 500 or more but 1200 or less, and a value of θ.sub.2 divided by H.sub.2 is 300 or more but 750 or less.

A sensor device includes an emitter configured to emit radiation a detector configured to detect radiation reflected from an object and a cover having an interior surface facing the emitter or detector and allowing the radiation to pass through the cover. The sensor device also includes a heater with a wire-like trace directly deposited on the interior surface of the cover formed of a fluid comprising an electrically conductive material that was deposited onto a portion of the cover and cured. The heater has an electrically conductive connector pad formed with the heater by directly depositing and curing the fluid comprising the electrically conductive material directly on the interior surface of the cover simultaneously with forming the heater. The heater is positioned and arranged to sufficiently heat the cover while not blocking an area through which radiation must pass for proper operation of the emitter and the detector.

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