Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Seat adjustment
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Application No.: US17120676Application Date: 2020-12-14
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Publication No.: US11613218B2Publication Date: 2023-03-28
- Inventor: Fling Finn Tseng , Shiqi Qiu , Johannes Geir Kristinsson , Patrick Maloney , Alex Perkins , Himanshu Verma , Nikhil Kailas Jamdade , Vishal Vinayak Nageshkar , Victoria Leigh Schein , Samuel Laidlaw , Bhagyashri Satyabodha Katti , Kalyani Purushottam Sonawane
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Bejin Bieneman PLC
- Agent Vichit Chea
- Main IPC: B60R16/037
- IPC: B60R16/037 ; B60N2/66 ; B60N2/02

Abstract:
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive a series of pressure maps indicating a respective series of sitting positions of an occupant in a seat, wherein the pressure maps include a current pressure map; update a profile of the occupant based on the pressure maps, wherein the profile includes a plurality of clusters of sitting positions and classifications of the clusters as preferred or nonpreferred, and updating the profile includes sorting one of the sitting positions into one of the clusters that is classified as preferred in response to the occupant remaining in that sitting position for greater than a threshold time; and adjust a physical configuration of the seat in response to the current sitting position being in one of the clusters that is classified as nonpreferred.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220185210A1 SEAT ADJUSTMENT Public/Granted day:2022-06-16
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