摘要 |
A taped sealed heating system for low voltage heated garments includes at least one heating pad connected by a bus to a power supply. The heating pad and bus are laminates comprised of a tape with a thermoplastic hot melt adhesive that encapsulates heating wires and adhere to textiles. A reticulate pattern of resistance wire is attached to a substrate disposed between the core shell and an outer layer of the heating element. By heat-pressing the sealing tape on the wire pattern stitched onto a substrate, the adhesive layer melts, covers the wires and substrate, cools to become solid, and firmly encases the wires. The heating pad and bus are affixed to the garment using sealing tape with a hot melt adhesive along the periphery of the pad and bus.
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