MILITARY CATERPILLAR VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC F41H7/00 B60H1/22 

FIELD: transport engineering industry, in particular, heating systems.

SUBSTANCE: electric heating devices are installed in the control section of the fighting vehicle and in the inhabited middle section on the bottom of the armored hull, they consist of a housing with a cover and an inlet air branch pipe and a unit of electric heating elements. The latters are made of flat heat-conducting thin-walled aluminium pipes, insulating tapes and a graphitic carbon cloth laid on both planar sides of the pipes. The electric wires are coupled through electric connectors to the on-board DC mains of the vehicle. The electric heating elements are fastened right up in the tube boards of the housing. Their flat pipes are connected to the housing interior. The inlet air branch pipes are connected through air ducts to the electric fans positioned in the inhabited middle section. In two electric heating devices in the control section the housing cover has shutters for outlet of warm air. In the electric heating device positioned under the floor in the inhabited middle section the housing end face opposite to the inlet branch pipe is linked with the inhabited area through air ducts.

EFFECT: enhanced efficiency, convenience in use, reliability and electric safety of the means of heating of the workplaces and inhabited area.

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