Thermal Comfort Prediction for Heated Seat

While heated and cooled seats used to be integrated only in luxury cars, a wider range of carmakers proposes now such seats for their midrange market too. The design of heated or cooled seats and their optimization, to effectively increase the thermal comfort of the occupant, are very complex. Each of the interactions between the occupant, the seat cover, the cushion foam, and the heating or ventilation systems has to be taken into account. The use of virtual seat prototyping to predict the thermal comfort of a driver seating in a heated seat enables to answer effectively such a challenge.