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Gentherm Incorporated, formerly called Amerigon, created the first thermoelectrically heated and cooled seat system for the automotive industry. Called the "Climate Control Seat" system, it was first adopted by the Ford Motor Company and introduced as an option on the model year 2000 Lincoln Navigator in 1999. Today it is available on more than 50 vehicles sold by Ford,〔Oberweis, Jim. (“Four Small Stock Innovators Finding Riches in Niches” ), ''Forbes.com'', 4 April 2012.〕 General Motors,〔St. Antoine, Arthur. “Backdraft. Troubled by gas? Try cooling your fanny”, ''Motor Trend'', Page 28, September 2006. www.motortrend.com.〕 Toyota〔 (Lexus), Kia,〔(“Heated and ventilated seat system for the 2011 Kia Sportage” ), “(Auto-Power-Girl Blog )”, 13 May 2010.〕 Hyundai,〔 Nissan〔 (Infinity), Range Rover and Jaguar Land Rover. The company today is a developer and marketer of thermal management technologies for heating and cooling and temperature control devices for a variety of industries.〔GS Analytics. (“Will Gentherm Be Able To Leverage Benefit of W.E.T. Integration and Investments in New Electronic Business” ), ''Seeking Alpha''. 8 September 2013. Retrieved on September 26, 2013.〕 Gentherm is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol THRM and is headquartered in Northville, MI.〔Kosdrosky, Terry. “Amerigon’s Potential Raises Its Profile”, ''The Wall Street Journal'' New York, 5 April 2006.〕 Gentherm’s thermoelectric technologies are based on the Peltier Effect, the 1834 discovery that passing an electric current through a sandwich of two dissimilar metals will make them hot on one side and cold (the lack of heat) on the other.〔O’Dell, John. (“Want Cool Air? Take a Seat” ), ''Los Angeles Times'', Los Angeles, 18 July 2001. Highway 1, G1-2.〕 Since 2005, Gentherm has been partnering with BMW〔(“Gentherm to adapt passenger-car thermoelectric generator to heavy vehicles“ ), (SAE Vehicle Engineering ), Warrendale, PA, 1 October 2012.〕 and Ford〔 on a project that is backed by the U.S. Department of Energy〔〔Laird, Lorelei. (“Could TEG improve your car's efficiency?” ). DOE Energy Blog. August 16, 2010]〕〔(“Researchers Try to Convert Car’s Exhaust Into Power” ), ''Associated Press'', 13 August 2008.〕 focused on the development of an automotive thermoelectric generator (ATEG) that converts waste exhaust heat into electrical power based on the Seebeck Effect.〔Casey, Tina. (“Car of the Future Will Run on Its Own Waste Energy” ), ("Clean Technica" ), 1 September 2009.〕 A prototype of the ATEG was named one of the most promising innovations for 2012 by Car and Driver magazine.〔(“2012 10 Best: 10 Most Promising Future Technologies: Thermal Juice” ), ''Car & Driver'', December 2011.〕 In December 2014 the company announced that it will open a new automotive plant in Prilep, Macedonia and that will employ 1,000 people. This is Gentherm's first facility in Macedonia. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gentherm Incorporated」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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