Vehicle Cabin Seating Orientation Control for Dynamic Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle cabin configurations do not effectively adapt to varying occupant preferences for privacy and communication, as they lack the ability to dynamically adjust seating orientations based on individual or group communication needs.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle cabin control device that includes seating surface changing devices, a detection unit to assess occupant states, and an output unit to adjust seating orientations accordingly, allowing for either collaborative or private settings by swiveling or tilting seats to facilitate communication or privacy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the seating surfaces are fixed in orientation, then the device complexity is low, but the adaptability to different situations is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the orientation parameter of each seating surface to adapt to different atmospheres and situations. By adjusting the orientation angle of seats, the system creates different cabin atmospheres (communication-friendly or privacy-friendly) without changing the physical structure, thereby achieving high adaptability with relatively simple parameter adjustment.
Solution Approach 2:
The seating surface orientation adjustment mechanism serves multiple functions: it enables both communication and privacy modes, adapts to different group configurations, and responds to various atmospheric requirements. This single mechanism provides universal adaptability across diverse usage scenarios.
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AI summary
A vehicle cabin control device includes: a plurality of seating surface changing devices; a determination unit; and an output unit. The seating surface changing devices is configured to change orientations of seating surfaces of a plurality of vehicle seats. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing devices so as to change orientations of bodies of the occupants to such orientations that the occupants easily communicate with each other. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is not desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing device so as to change an orientation of the body of the occupant to such an orientation that the occupant does not easily communicates with the other occupants.