System and method for adjusting a vehicle seat
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorSebastian Meyer
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Abstract
A system and method for adjusting a vehicle seat. The system has an electromechanical switch arranged on the vehicle seat and evaluation electronics for evaluating switching-position signals of the switch and for controlling at least one electromechanical actuator of the vehicle seat based on the switching-position signals. In order to enhance a vehicle equipped with at least one electromechanically adjustable vehicle seat, the system has at least one touch sensor arranged on the switch, the set of evaluation electronics being configured to detect, from sensor signals of the touch sensor, whether a person is currently touching the touch sensor, and to control the actuator based on the switching-position signals only when the person touches the touch sensor.
Claims14
A system for adjusting a vehicle seat, the system comprising:
- an electromechanical switch arranged on the vehicle seat, the electromechanical switch configured to generate switching-position signals;
- evaluation electronics for evaluating the switching-position signals of the electromechanical switch and for controlling an electromechanical actuator of the vehicle seat based on the switching-position signals;
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- a touch sensor arranged on the electromechanical switch and configured to generate sensor signals, the evaluation electronics being configured to detect, from the sensor signals of the touch sensor, whether a person is currently touching the touch sensor on the electromechanical switch, and to control the electromechanical actuator based on the switching-position signals only when the person is detected touching the touch sensor on the electromechanical switch.
A vehicle seat comprising:
- an electromechanical actuator;
- an electromechanical switch configured to generate switching-position signals;
- evaluation electronics for evaluating the switching-position signals of the electromechanical switch and for controlling the electromechanical actuator based on the switching-position signals;
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- a touch sensor arranged on the electromechanical switch and configured to generate sensor signals, the evaluation electronics being configured to detect, from the sensor signals of the touch sensor, whether a person is currently touching the touch sensor on the electromechanical switch, and to control the electromechanical actuator based on the switching-position signals only when the person is detected touching the touch sensor on the electromechanical switch.
A method for adjusting a vehicle seat by an actuation of at least one electromechanical switch arranged on the vehicle seat, the method comprising:
- controlling an electromechanical actuator of the vehicle seat based on switching-position signals generated by the electromechanical switch;
- detecting sensor signals generated by a touch sensor arranged on the electromechanical switch whether a person is currently touching the touch sensor on the electromechanical switch;
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- controlling the electromagnetic actuator based on the switching-position signals only when the person is detected touching the touch sensor on the electromechanical switch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.