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US 10,850,639 B2Granted
Vehicle seat control device, vehicle seat control method and vehicle seat control program
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Akaba, Yasuhiro Minakawa
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Abstract
A vehicle seat control device includes a collision prediction part that predicts a collision direction of a collision occurring in a vehicle, a first driving part that rotates a vehicle seat around an axis of the vehicle in a substantially upward/downward direction, and a controller that controls the first driving part such that a direction of the vehicle seat is changed to an opposite direction with respect to the collision direction on the basis of the predicted collision direction.
Claims8
A vehicle seat control device comprising:
- a collision prediction part that predicts a collision direction of a collision occurring in a vehicle;
- a first driving part that rotates a vehicle seat around an axis extending in an upward/downward direction;
- a controller that controls the first driving part and changes a direction of the vehicle seat so that a back surface of a backrest section of the vehicle seat is directed toward the collision direction on the basis of the predicted collision direction;
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- a body protecting section that deforms at least one of a sitting surface of the vehicle seat and a side support included in a backrest section and that protects an occupant's body,
- wherein the controller operates the body protecting section in response to detecting that rotation of the vehicle seat has not terminated prior to an occurrence of the collision predicted by the collision prediction part.
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