US 12,466,354 B2Granted

Automatic seat belt height adjustment

AssigneeVolvo Car Corporation

InventorsJohan Rosenberg, Sebastian Rutelin

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Abstract

A system is described herein. The system comprises sensor modules; a memory; and a processor storing instructions in the memory that, when executed, causes the processor to: receive data comprising vehicle compartment features, occupant features and external environmental conditions from the sensor modules; determine a current setup of a seat belt and a current posture of an occupant based on the vehicle compartment features and the occupant features, respectively; determine critical features of the occupant based on at least one of the current posture of the occupant, the current setup of the seat belt and the external environment conditions; determine a deviation from the current setup of the seat belt based on at least one of the critical features of the occupant and the external environmental conditions; and communicate a command to actuators for changing a current height of the seat belt to an optimal height according to the deviation.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more sensor modules;
a seat belt adjustment unit;
a memory;
and
a processor storing instructions in the memory that, when executed, causes the processor to:
receive data from the one or more sensor modules, wherein the data comprises vehicle compartment features, occupant features and external environmental conditions;
determine a current setup of a seat belt and a current posture of an occupant based on the vehicle compartment features and the occupant features, respectively, wherein the seat belt comprises one or more reference points;
determine one or more critical features of the occupant based on at least one of the current posture of the occupant, the current setup of the seat belt, and the external environmental conditions;
determine a deviation of the seat belt from the current setup of the seat belt based on at least one of the one or more critical features of the occupant and the external environmental conditions;
and
communicate a command to the seat belt adjustment unit for changing a current height of the seat belt to an optimal height according to the deviation, wherein the current height of the seat belt is adjusted to the optimal height using the one or more reference points.

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