Docking system for vehicle and building and control method therefor
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsKi Hyun Choi, Hyung Sik Choi, Sang Heon Lee
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Abstract
A docking system for a vehicle and a building and a control method therefor, include a plurality of vehicle doors provided to enter the vehicle, a roof connected to an upper portion of each of the vehicle doors, and configured to be vertically lifted and lowered above and below the plurality of vehicle doors, wherein when the roof is lifted, an indoor space expands upward to connect the indoor space of the vehicle to an indoor space of the building into one space, and a sealing door respectively provided inside each of the vehicle doors, when the roof is lifted, which is rotated toward each of the vehicle doors to seal each of the vehicle doors and the roof.
Claims20
A docking system for a vehicle and a building, the docking system comprising:
- a plurality of vehicle doors provided to enter the vehicle;
- a roof connected to an upper portion of each of the vehicle doors, and configured to be vertically lifted and lowered above and below the plurality of vehicle doors, wherein when the roof is lifted, an indoor space of the vehicle expands upward to connect the indoor space of the vehicle to an indoor space of the building into one space;
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- a sealing door respectively provided inside each of the vehicle doors, wherein when the roof is lifted, the sealing door is rotated toward each of the vehicle doors to seal each of the vehicle doors and the roof.
A docking control method for a vehicle and a building, the docking control method comprising:
- receiving, by a controller, a docking request of the vehicle while parking of the vehicle is completed;
- determining, by the controller, a direction in which the vehicle and the building are docked with each other, according to the received docking request;
- connecting, by the controller, an indoor space of the vehicle to an indoor space of the building into one space by lifting a roof of the vehicle so that the indoor space of the vehicle expands upward, while a sealing door in a docking direction of the vehicle and the building is closed;
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- sealing, by the controller, a vehicle door and the roof by rotating the sealing door in a non-docking direction of the vehicle and the building toward the vehicle door.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.