Vehicle compartment with smart glass controlled by a light sensor
AssigneeVolvo Construction Equipment AB
InventorsPiotr Nowak, Andrzej Stochmal
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Abstract
A vehicle compartment for a vehicle includes a screen through which an occupant can view portions of the environment ambient of said vehicle compartment, at least one panel, adapted to adjust the light intensity of light falling into said vehicle compartment via at least a portion of said screen, a light sensor and a control unit adapted to adjust the panel to thereby adjust the light intensity of light falling into said vehicle compartment in response to a signal issued from the light sensor.
Claims10
A vehicle compartment for a vehicle, said vehicle compartment being adapted to accommodate an occupant of said vehicle,
- said vehicle compartment having a vertical extent in a vertical direction,
- said vehicle compartment comprising a screen through which the occupant can view at least portions of the environment ambient of said vehicle compartment,
- said vehicle compartment further comprising a panel assembly, comprising at least one panel, each panel in said panel assembly being adapted to adjust the light intensity of light falling into said vehicle compartment via at least a portion of said screen,
- said vehicle compartment comprising a light sensor adapted to determine an intensity of light falling onto said light sensor via said screen,
- wherein said vehicle compartment further comprises a control unit adapted to adjust at least one panel in said panel assembly, to thereby adjust the light intensity of light falling into said vehicle compartment via at least a portion of said screen, in response to a signal issued from the light sensor,
- said vehicle compartment further comprising a seat for the occupant, said seat being associated with a vertical eye position range indicating within which vertical eye position range, in said vertical direction, the eyes of said occupant are expected to be located when said occupant occupies said seat,
- characterized in that said light sensor is located below, in said vertical direction, said vertical eye position range,
- wherein said light sensor is located below said vertical eye position range within a range of 10-20 cm,
- wherein said seat comprises a main body and a headrest,
- wherein said headrest is adapted to receive at least a portion of the head of said occupant,
- wherein said light sensor is attached to one of a backrest of the main body and a proximal headrest portion of the headrest and, wherein a distal headrest portion of the headrest is located vertically further away from said main body than said proximal headrest portion.
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