US 12,240,358 B2
Method for operating a vehicle seat device, vehicle seat device
Tomas Barkow, Braunschweig (DE); and Christian Busch, Braunschweig (DE)
Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed by Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Jul. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/372,010.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 208 647.8 (DE), filed on Jul. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0009383 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. B60N 2/02 (2006.01); B60N 2/00 (2006.01); B60N 2/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/0252 (2013.01) [B60N 2/0025 (2023.08); B60N 2/02246 (2023.08); B60N 2/0273 (2023.08); B60N 2/20 (2013.01); B60N 2/0268 (2023.08)] 10 Claims
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1. A method for operating a vehicle seat device for a motor vehicle, which has a vehicle seat with a seat part and a backrest associated with the seat part, and at least one actuator that is associated with the seat part and/or the backrest and via the at least one actuator, the vehicle seat is automatically movable into a sitting position and into a reclining position, the method comprising:
automatically moving the vehicle seat, via at least one actuator, into a sitting position and into a reclining position based on a vehicle seat position request input by a user and at least one detectable vehicle seat state, the at least one detectable vehicle seat state including a current temperature that is detected by a temperature sensor; and
monitoring the current temperature via a control device and when the current temperature falls below a limit temperature, the control device instructs the at least one actuator to automatically move the vehicle seat from the reclining position into the sitting position regardless of the vehicle seat position request input by the user or the control device instructs the at least one actuator to maintain the vehicle seat in the sitting position when the vehicle seat is already in the sitting position regardless of the vehicle seat position request input by the user.