Seat vibration dampening system and method for controlling same
AssigneeLear Corporation
InventorsDarren Legh, Martin Hitchman, Adam Freeman Lea
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a vehicle seat vibration dampening system including a vibration sensor that senses vibration of a vehicle seat generated by movement of a vehicle on a roadway, wherein the vibration sensor generates a signal indicative of the sensed vibration, a controller that determines, based on the signal generated by the vibration sensor, a counter vibration to dampen the sensed vibration of the vehicle seat and, based on the determination, produces a control signal to effect generation of the counter vibration, and a transducer that generates the counter vibration of the vehicle seat in response to the control signal to dampen the sensed vibration of the vehicle seat.
Claims20
A vehicle seat vibration dampening system comprising:
- a vibration sensor that senses vibration of a vehicle seat generated by movement of a vehicle on a roadway, wherein the vibration sensor generates a signal indicative of the sensed vibration;
- a controller that determines, based on the signal generated by the vibration sensor, a counter vibration to dampen the sensed vibration of the vehicle seat and, based on the determination, produces a control signal to effect generation of the counter vibration;
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- a transducer that generates the counter vibration of the vehicle seat in response to the control signal to dampen the sensed vibration of the vehicle seat.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored computer executable instructions for controlling a vehicle seat vibration dampening system comprising a vibration sensor that senses vibration of a vehicle seat generated by movement of a vehicle on a roadway, wherein the vibration sensor generates a signal indicative of the sensed vibration, a transducer that generates a counter vibration to dampen the sensed vibration of the vehicle seat, and a controller, wherein execution of the instructions causes the controller to:
- determine, based on the signal generated by the vibration sensor, a counter vibration to dampen the sensed vibration of the vehicle seat;
- produce a control signal to effect generation of the counter vibration by the transducer based on the determination;
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- transmit the control signal to the transducer to generate the counter vibration of the vehicle seat to dampen the sensed vibration of the vehicle seat.
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