Autonomous Vehicle Seat Reconfiguration to Prevent Cabin Interference

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing seat arrangement systems in autonomous driving vehicles face challenges in smoothly transitioning seats from a standard mode to a seat-facing mode through remote control, often resulting in interference with surrounding parts.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that automatically arrange seats in an autonomous driving vehicle into a seat-facing mode by generating a signal corresponding to the seat-facing mode, changing the positions and postures of consoles and seats to safety regions, rotating the first row seats to face the second row seats, and returning them to reference positions, all while preventing interference.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If seats are remotely adjusted to be moved and arranged in the seat-facing mode without priority in the arrangement processes, then the seats can be reconfigured into different modes, but interference with surrounding parts is generated when the seats are moved

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveseat mode reconfigurationVSAvoidinterference with surrounding parts

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The console is moved to a safety region before the first row seats are rotated to the seat-facing mode. This preliminary action prevents the console from interfering with the rotating seats, thereby avoiding interference with surrounding parts while enabling seat mode reconfiguration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The seat arrangement process is divided into multiple sequential steps with defined priorities: first moving the console to a safety region, then rotating the first row seats, and finally adjusting the second row seats. This segmentation of the arrangement process ensures that each component moves in a controlled sequence that prevents interference

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If seats are moved and arranged in the seat-facing mode without priority in the arrangement processes, then the seats can be reconfigured, but the arrangement of the seats is not performed well

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveseat mode reconfigurationVSAvoidseat arrangement performance

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The console is moved to a safety region before the first row seats are rotated to the seat-facing mode. This preliminary action prevents the console from interfering with the rotating seats, thereby avoiding interference with surrounding parts while enabling seat mode reconfiguration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The seat arrangement process is divided into multiple sequential steps with defined priorities: first moving the console to a safety region, then rotating the first row seats, and finally adjusting the second row seats. This segmentation of the arrangement process ensures that each component moves in a controlled sequence that prevents interference

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12311807B2Seat automatic arrangement method and apparatus of autonomous driving vehicle

Publication Date: 2025.05.27 HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD

AI summary

A seat automatic arrangement method and apparatus of an autonomous driving vehicle is provided. The seat automatic arrangement method and apparatus have an advantage that it is possible to automatically arrange seats in the vehicle into the seat-facing mode through remote control, and it is possible to prevent interference when moving the seats by arranging the seats in accordance with priority when arranging the seats into the seat-facing mode, thereby being able to more smoothly arrange the seats into the seat-facing mode in an autonomous driving vehicle.