Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Autonomous operation of vehicle vents
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Application No.: US16692661Application Date: 2019-11-22
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Publication No.: US11433734B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: John-Michael McNew
- Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Plano
- Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Plano
- Agency: Darrow Mustafa, PC
- Agent Christopher G. Darrow
- Main IPC: B60H1/00
- IPC: B60H1/00

Abstract:
A vent control system for a vehicle includes one or more processors and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The memory may store a vent control module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to autonomously control operation of a vehicle to open at least one vehicle vent when the vehicle is in a regular vent opening condition. Responsive to manual closure of the at least one vehicle vent within a predetermined time period after the at least one vehicle vent was autonomously opened, the regular opening condition may be updated to an updated regular opening condition. After updating the regular opening condition, operation of the vehicle may be autonomously controlled to open the at least one vehicle vent when the vehicle is subsequently in the updated regular opening condition.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210155070A1 AUTONOMOUS OPERATION OF VEHICLE VENTS Public/Granted day:2021-05-27
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