Ford Patent Filed For Vehicle Seat With Liquid Cooling

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I do hope they put -60'C glygol in the pipes...

(highest, or actually lowest I've seen was minus -50.5'C and that is enough to freeze an AGM battery)
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I can see all kinds of problems with that.? But cooled seats would be nice!
What could go wrong? :rolleyes::oops:

Actually Tesla also has a patent out (3 years now) which uses this same technology. It looks like they're using a gel similar to the ones in re-freezable ice packs. Fords would most likely be similar.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29354607/tesla-patent-seat-heating-cooling/


Within the intermediate layer, there exists a distribution layer, which is the heating and cooling element. When it's activated, the liquid will either heat up or chill. We can’t tell from this patent application what, exactly, is going to be used as the distribution element or as the liquid, but we can make some guesses. The distribution element will probably be made of some sort of metal or metallic compound, which is conductive to heat and can be cooled with A/C refrigerant, which is how the air in a car is cooled. The liquid that is being heated up or cooled down is probably more of an aqueous gel, similar to what is found in hot and cold packs, rather than water.

You may be wondering how someone could sit on such a seat without bursting the intermediate layer and ending up with a pair of damp pants. Tesla has a solution for that as well: conduits and supports to ensure proper flow throughout the system without the risk of a leak, which would be a pain to fix.
 

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Ford will probly devise a system in which the windshield washer will circulate to cool and the antifreeze to heat that seat.
 


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It's all about driver comfort these days , bidet function is an option

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Cooled seats are useless to me unless I can run both cool and heat at the same time.
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