	US 7,461,892 B2
	Valve layer for a seat
Goran Bajic, Windsor (Canada); Marinko Lazanja, Windsor (Canada); Zoran Panic, Windsor (Canada); Boris Zlotin, Southfield, Mich. (US); Peter Ulan, Southfield, Mich. (US); Vladimir Gerasimov, Southfield, Mich. (US); and Vladimir Proseanic, Southfield, Mich. (US)
Assigned to W.E.T. Automotive Systems, A.C., Odelzhausen (Germany)
Filed on Dec. 01, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/1,294.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/525972, filed on Dec. 01, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0173950 A1, Aug. 11, 2005
Int. Cl. A47C 31/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 297—180.16 [297/180.1; 297/452.46; 297/452.47]

3 Claims

1. A ventilated seat, comprising:

a valve sheet including a thickness and being located about a frame of a seat, the valve sheet defining one or more discontinuities extending through the thickness of the valve sheet to form one or more valves, wherein upon application of suitable force the one or more discontinuities are configured to change shape to form an opening extending through the valve sheet for allowing fluid flow therethrough and upon removal of said force the one or more discontinuities return to an original shape to close the opening, wherein the valve sheet is in fluid communications with a fluid conditioning unit, and wherein the discontinuities formed by the valve sheet comprises crosses formed on a surface of the valve sheet which extend through the thickness of the cross section of the valve sheet.