Electrically heated blanket

• US 6,617,550 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2002
• Issued: 09/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hiroaki Sowa, Yoshiji Sowa
• Original Assignee: Hiroaki Sowa, Yoshiji Sowa
• Inventors: Sowa, Hiroaki, Sowa, Yoshiji
• Primary Examiner(s): PELHAM, JOSEPH MOORE
• Application Number:
  US10/043,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20030132212A1
• Time in Patent Office: 603 Days
• Field of Search: 219/212, 219/529, 607/96, 607/107, 607/108
• US Class Current: 219/212
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/003 using serpentine layout
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/014 Heaters using resistive wires or cables not provided for in H05B3/54
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/017 Manufacturing methods or apparatus for heaters
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/342 heaters used in textiles

Abstract

An electrically heated blanket which is able to adjust temperature by means of a controller comprising a main blanket body composing of fabrics, two heater cables arranged over the main blanket body which form a configuration of a concave or a U-letter in a plan view. The two heater cables are arranged adjacent and in parallel to each other, beginning ends thereof being connected to the controller and the terminal ends thereof being connected to each other in which electric current flows in opposite directions.

Claims

1. An electrically heated blanket structured to be able to control temperature by a controller, comprising;

a main blanket body, and

two heater cables arranged over the main blanket body to form a space of a concave or a U-letter configuration in a plan view,

said two heater cables being arranged adjacent in parallel to each other and their beginning ends being connected to the controller and their terminal ends being connected to each other so as to flow electric current therein in opposite directions.

2. The electrically heated blanket as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the two heater cables comprises a first heater wire which is wound helically around a core thread, a second heater wire which is wound concentrically with and around a periphery of the first heater cable in the same direction with the first heater wire via an insulating layer, a sensor wire which is wound concentrically with and around a periphery of the second heater wire via an insulating layer, and an insulating layer covering the sensor wire.

3. The electrically heated blanket as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the main blanket body is of large size, the two heater cables are so arranged that the heater cables form another space of a concave or a U-letter configuration in a plan view in continuous with the first space at the upper portion of the main blanket body.

4. The electrically heated blanket as claimed in claim 2, wherein when the main blanket body is of large size, the two heater cables are so arranged that the heater cables form another space of a concave or a U-letter configuration in a plan view in continuous with the first space at the upper portion of the main blanket body.

5. The electrically heated blanket as claimed in claim 3, wherein a fabric of the main blanket body is undergone antibacterial treatment.

6. The electrically heated blanket as claimed in claim 4, wherein fabrics of the main blanket body is undergone antibacterial treatment.