Autonomic Nerve Control via Pre-Occupancy Physiological Baseline

Solution Overview

Problem

In a moving body such as a vehicle, controlling a user's autonomic nerves is challenging due to vibrations and other disturbances that disrupt the detection of physiological quantities, making it difficult to accurately control the user's autonomic nervous system.

Innovation Solution

An autonomic nerve control device that obtains a user's physiological quantity before they occupy the moving body and uses this data to control their autonomic nerves, employing a controller to activate sympathetic or parasympathetic nerves based on calculated activation time ratios, utilizing devices like air conditioning and audio systems within the vehicle to achieve this control.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If physiological quantity is detected within the moving body, then real-time control of autonomic nerves is achieved, but vibrations in the moving body disrupt the detection accuracy

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvephysiological quantity detection accuracyVSAvoidvibrations in moving body

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of the user's physiological quantity before the user occupies the moving body. This advance measurement captures the baseline physiological state without the interference of vehicle vibrations, enabling subsequent control decisions to be based on clean, accurate data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The detection function is extracted from the moving body environment and performed externally or beforehand. By separating the detection process from the vibrating environment, the system obtains physiological data free from vibration contamination while still enabling control within the moving body.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Productivity

If physiological quantity is detected inside the moving body, then continuous monitoring is achieved, but vibrations make appropriate control impossible

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontinuous monitoring capabilityVSAvoidcontrol reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of the user's physiological quantity before the user occupies the moving body. This advance measurement captures the baseline physiological state without the interference of vehicle vibrations, enabling subsequent control decisions to be based on clean, accurate data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Speed

If autonomic nerves are controlled based on real-time detection, then responsive control is achieved, but vibration disruption prevents appropriate control

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontrol response speedVSAvoidphysiological quantity detection accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of the user's physiological quantity before the user occupies the moving body. This advance measurement captures the baseline physiological state without the interference of vehicle vibrations, enabling subsequent control decisions to be based on clean, accurate data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11478605B2Autonomic nerve control device, autonomic nerve control system, and autonomic nerve control method

Publication Date: 2022.10.25 PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYST CO LTD

AI summary

An autonomic nerve control device includes an obtainer that obtains a physiological quantity of a user before the user occupies a moving body, and a controller that controls the autonomic nerves of the user occupying the moving body based on the physiological quantity of the user obtained by the obtainer.