Seat control device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKen Kuretake
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Abstract
A seat control device is provided that controls driving of an actuator for changing a posture of a seat in braking, in which, in a case when determining that a sinking behavior in which a front portion of the seat moves downward from a position before the braking is generated, the seat control device executes first control of causing the actuator to output force in a direction opposite to pitch angular velocity of the seat, and in a case when determining that a rocking-back behavior in which the front portion of the seat moves upward from the position before the braking is generated after the execution of the first control until a stop of the vehicle, the seat control device executes second control of causing the actuator to output force in a same direction as the pitch angular velocity of the seat.
Claims5
A seat control device that controls driving of an actuator for changing a posture of a seat on which an occupant of a vehicle is seated and that controls the posture of the seat in braking of the vehicle, wherein
- in a case when determining that a sinking behavior in which a front portion of the seat moves downward from a position before the braking is generated at a start of the braking of the vehicle, the seat control device executes first control of causing the actuator to output force in a direction opposite to pitch angular velocity of the seat, and
- in a case when determining that a rocking-back behavior in which the front portion of the seat moves upward from the position before the braking is generated after the execution of the first control until a stop of the vehicle, the seat control device executes second control of causing the actuator to output force in a same direction as the pitch angular velocity of the seat,
- wherein the case when determining that the sinking behavior is generated refers to a case when, by continuously monitoring an amount of brake pedal force, a change rate in brake pedal force is equal to or larger than a threshold is satisfied, the threshold based on an angular velocity calculation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.