Systems and methods for a stimulus-based anti-glare surface
AssigneesToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsOzgun Kilic AFSAR, Koray Benli, Yuyang Song, Shinnosuke Shimokawa, Umesh Gandhi
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Abstract
A method, computer program product, and self-reversing material for incorporating a material into an interior portion of a vehicle, wherein the material is a self-reversing material. The material may be exposed to a stimulus, wherein the material has a first shape prior to being exposed to the stimulus. The first shape of the material may be altered to a second shape based upon, at least in part, exposing the material to the stimulus. The stimulus may be removed from the material. The second shape may be altered back to the first shape based upon, at least in part, removing the stimulus from the material.
Claims20
A method of using a stimulus-based self-reversing material comprising:
- incorporating a material into an interior portion of a vehicle, wherein the material is a self-reversing material;
- exposing the material to a stimulus, wherein the material has a first shape prior to being exposed to the stimulus;
- altering the first shape of the material to a second shape based upon, at least in part, exposing the material to the stimulus;
- removing the stimulus from the material;
- and
- altering the second shape back to the first shape based upon, at least in part, removing the stimulus from the material.
A stimulus-based self-reversing material comprising:
- a material incorporated into an interior portion of a vehicle, wherein the material is a self-reversing material, wherein the material has a first shape prior to being exposed to a stimulus, wherein the first shape of the material is altered to a second shape based upon, at least in part, exposure of the material to the stimulus, wherein the second shape is altered back to the first shape based upon, at least in part, removing the stimulus from the material.
A computer program product residing on a computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed across one or more processors, causes at least a portion of the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- incorporating a material into an interior portion of a vehicle, wherein the material is a self-reversing material;
- exposing the material to a stimulus, wherein the material has a first shape prior to being exposed to the stimulus;
- altering the first shape of the material to a second shape based upon, at least in part, exposing the material to the stimulus;
- removing the stimulus from the material;
- and
- altering the second shape back to the first shape based upon, at least in part, removing the stimulus from the material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.