Vehicle direction guide vibration system and method
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorByung Sung Kim
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a direction guide vibration system of a vehicle operating with a navigation and control method thereof, which applies vibration to a driver's seat on which a driver sits at the spot where a left turn or a right turn and a U turn are expected, on a path to move to a driver's intended destination, informs a driver thereof in advance for people and the hearing impaired using a navigation and informs the driver thereof before an enforcement area in which an over-speed camera is installed, thereby securing a safe driving of a vehicle.
Claims7
A direction guide vibration system of a vehicle operating with a navigation system, comprising:
- a driving unit installed along a longitudinal direction of a seat rail provided in the vehicle and comprising a chain having an upper side, which is circulated and operated by a roller connected onto an axis of a driving motor;
- a vibration generator provided in the upper side of the chain to generate a vibration in a driver's seat on which the driver sits at a time of a left turn, a right turn or an U-turn of the vehicle, the vibration being provided together with an image and a voice guide through the navigation system;
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- a controller electrically connected to the driving unit and the vibration generator such that the controller operates the driving unit at the time of the left turn, the right turn and the U-turn of the vehicle to move the vibration generator to a predetermined position along the driving unit and in the predetermined position that the vibration generator is moved, generates the vibration in the vibration generator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.