Power seat operating device having seesaw type switch for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsBaek Hee LEE, Keun Hui KIM, Beom Young OH, Hyuk Soo KIM
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Abstract
A power seat operating device for a vehicle has a switch module for operating a power seat of the vehicle. In particular, the switch module includes a plurality of seesaw type switches to control operation directions of the power seat, and the operation directions of the power seat according to the operation of each switch is displayed with arrows on a display, thereby improving the switch operating convenience of the user such as accurately controlling the operation direction of the power seat according to the switch operation by the user, and accurately recognizing a selection state and an operation direction of the switch desired by the user.
Claims16
A power seat operating device for a vehicle, the power seat operating device comprising:
- a switch module including a plurality of seesaw type switches, and configured to adjust a power seat to a desired position in a desired direction;
- a plurality of touch sensors embedded in each seesaw type switch of the plurality of seesaw type switches, and configured to each generate a sensing signal corresponding to an operation direction of the power seat when touched by a user;
- a main controller configured to determine the operation direction of the power seat, based on the sensing signals of the plurality of touch sensors;
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- a display configured to display an arrow visually informing the user of the operation direction of the power seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.