Development of Heated Jacket for bike riders using Kansei Engineering

Abstract

Due to metabolic heat generation of our body, we are very uncomfortable in both cold and hot weather, especially when we work hard. In cold weather we wear jackets & trousers to have more comfort. Thus, we have developed an innovative evaporative type of motor bike seat, jacket and a trouser that have been designed and fabricated using multiple heating coils. Measurements are taken from multiple feedback thermal sensors which are widely spread in the seat, jacket and the trouser. Then those readings are sent to the Control Unit and after that, the heating coils adjust the temperature to match the demand of the body temperature. We have designed the bike seat to transmit the electricity power to the trouser using wireless power transmission. This trouser has a small power cord that connects to jacket for the purpose of distributing power to the top of the jacket.