Vehicle Parking Control Unit with Time-Based Safety Lock
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle parking technologies face safety issues due to unintended vehicle movement caused by erroneous remote control operations and misalignment of vehicle-mounted cameras, leading to potential accidents.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle apparatus with a clock, receiver, and control unit that measures elapsed time after parking and requires a confirmed instruction signal to adjust the parking position, combined with recognition systems to verify user intentions through both motion signals from a mobile device and vehicle-mounted detectors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the vehicle allows position adjustment anytime after parking, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability deteriorates due to erroneous operations causing unintended movement
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit starts tracking the elapsed time immediately after parking completion, before any adjustment instruction is received. This preliminary timing action establishes a safety window that prevents erroneous operations after the driver leaves the vehicle, resolving the contradiction by proactively setting up protection rather than reacting to errors
2Ease of operation
If the vehicle-mounted camera tracks the driver continuously, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability deteriorates due to camera misalignment causing erroneous instruction detection
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle-mounted camera dynamically adjusts its imaging target based on the driver's position and orientation. When the driver faces away from the vehicle or moves out of range, the camera automatically switches to tracking the vehicle itself, maintaining reliable detection while adapting to changing conditions, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and detection accuracy
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AI summary
A vehicle apparatus used in a vehicle measures a first elapsed time after completion of a parking operation by which the vehicle is parked in a parking region, and prohibits movement of the vehicle to adjust the parking position when the first elapsed time reaches a first predetermined time before receipt of a instruction signal by the receiver Accordingly, it is possible to improve safety by preventing the vehicle from moving out of a parking position even if the moving part is erroneously operated when the predetermined time elapses after the completion of parking operation.