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US 12,715,390 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsSang Min Lee, Jang Yeol Kim, Eul Yong Kim, Dae Han Choi
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus includes a sensor provided in each of vehicle seats and outputting a fastening signal when a seat belt is fastened, and outputting a non-fastening signal when the seat belt is not fastened, and a controller that stores an available seat count based on the non-fastening signal and to update the available seat count when a seat belt signal is changed and output to the non-fastening signal from a vehicle seat where the fastening signal is output.
Claims14
A vehicle control apparatus comprising:
- a sensor provided in each of vehicle seats, and configured to output a fastening signal when a seat belt is fastened, and output a non-fastening signal when the seat belt is not fastened;
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- a controller electrically connected to the sensor and configured to store an available seat count based on the non-fastening signal and update the available seat count when a seat belt signal is changed and output to the non-fastening signal from a vehicle seat where the fastening signal is output,
- wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether the seat belt signal is changed and output to the non-fastening signal from the vehicle seat where the fastening signal is output, when a vehicle power supply is turned off for a first time and then is applied to a vehicle again.
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A vehicle control method comprising:
- obtaining, by a controller, a signal of a seat belt from a sensor provided in each of vehicle seats and configured to output a fastening signal when the seat belt is fastened, and to output a non-fastening signal when the seat belt is not fastened;
- storing an available seat count based on the non-fastening signal when the non-fastening signal is output from the sensor;
- determining, by the controller, whether the signal of the seat belt is changed and output to the non-fastening signal from the vehicle seat where the fastening signal is output, when a vehicle power supply is turned off for a first time and then is applied to a vehicle again;
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- updating, by the controller, the available seat count when the signal of the seat belt is changed and output to the non-fastening signal from a vehicle seat from which the fastening signal is output.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.