Moving Body Equipment Setting Synchronization by User Profile

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems face challenges in efficiently setting multiple pieces of equipment within a moving body and ensuring seamless integration with improved traffic safety for a sustainable transportation system.

Innovation Solution

A moving body setting system that includes a setting apparatus and an equipment control apparatus, which utilizes a user selection unit, transmission control unit, and storage unit to synchronize the settings of multiple equipment units, such as air conditioners, within a predetermined time frame, ensuring operability and safety.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If multiple equipment settings are performed manually and sequentially, then each equipment can be configured individually, but the setting time and operational complexity increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveequipment setting easeVSAvoidsetting time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically reading equipment specifications and pre-configuring setting parameters before the user arrives. The setting apparatus prepares candidate settings based on device information in advance, so when the user needs to configure equipment, the work is already partially completed, significantly reducing actual setting time and effort.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates copies of equipment setting information by reading specifications from device manuals or databases and generating preset configuration templates. These copied settings can be automatically applied to multiple equipment units, eliminating the need to manually configure each device individually and reducing both time and operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Productivity

If equipment settings are automated without coordination, then setting speed increases, but synchronization between multiple equipment units deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesetting speedVSAvoidsettings synchronization
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The setting apparatus incorporates feedback mechanisms that monitor the configuration status of multiple equipment units in real-time. Based on this feedback, the system automatically adjusts and coordinates settings across devices, ensuring they remain synchronized. The system reads device information, compares current settings with target configurations, and makes corrective adjustments to maintain consistency throughout the equipment group.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The setting apparatus is designed as a universal system that can manage multiple types of equipment simultaneously through a single interface. It performs multiple functions including reading device specifications, generating coordinated settings, transmitting configurations to multiple devices, and verifying synchronization status. This multi-functional approach maintains settings consistency across diverse equipment while improving overall productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12466236B2Moving body setting system, moving body, method and computer readable storage medium
Publication Date: 2025.11.11 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

A moving body setting system includes: an equipment control apparatus configured to control first equipment and second equipment included in a moving body; and a setting apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store setting information of each of the first equipment and the second equipment in association with user information; a user selection unit configured to select a user of the moving body; and a transmission control unit configured to read, from the storage unit, the setting information of the first equipment and the second equipment associated with user information of the user selected by the user selection unit, and perform control for transmitting, to the equipment control apparatus, first setting information which is based on the setting information of the first equipment that has been read and second setting information which is based on the setting information of the second equipment, and the equipment control apparatus is configured to change, when one setting information of the first setting information or the second setting information is received first and then the another setting information of the first setting information or the second setting information is received within a predetermined time, settings of both the first equipment and the second equipment based on the one setting information that has been received and the another setting information that has been received within the predetermined time.