US 12,344,151 B2
Vehicle seat control system and method therefor
Tae Hoon Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Byeong Seon Son, Seoul (KR); Jihwan Kim, Seoul (KR); Sanghoon Park, Incheon (KR); Sang Ho Kim, Incheon (KR); and Sejin Park, Namyangju-si (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/983,861.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0079461 (KR), filed on Jun. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0001831 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B60N 3/06 (2006.01); B60N 2/02 (2006.01); B60N 2/90 (2018.01); B60N 2/005 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 3/063 (2013.01) [B60N 2/0292 (2013.01); B60N 2/995 (2018.02); B60N 2002/0055 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
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1. A vehicle seat control system, comprising:
a front seat;
a rear seat located behind and being longitudinally in-line with the front seat;
a footrest mounted on a rear of a seatback of the front seat;
a leg-rest mounted on a seat cushion of the rear seat located behind and being longitudinally in-line with the front seat;
an individual seat switch unit mounted on the front seat and the rear seat, respectively; and
an integrated controller configured to determine current state information of the front seat and the rear seat through sensor units mounted on each of the front seat and the rear seat and, when receiving a request for an operation of the footrest or the leg-rest from the respective individual seat switch unit of one of the front seat and the rear seat, to perform interference avoidance control in consideration of current state information of the other of the front seat and the rear seat.