Vehicle Window Control System for Automatic Height Equalization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicles lack a mechanism to automatically control the roll-down height of multiple windows to ensure they are evenly adjusted, leading to an inconvenient and potentially distracting process for users.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a window control module that uses cameras to monitor and adjust the operating heights of multiple windows, allowing for automatic alignment through a touch screen dashboard or voice control system, ensuring they are set to substantially equal levels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual window adjustment is used, then users can control window position, but window height equality cannot be ensured and driver distraction increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables windows to automatically adjust themselves to equal heights without driver intervention. The window control system monitors window positions and autonomously commands actuators to equalize heights, eliminating the need for manual adjustment while ensuring precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors window positions using sensors or actuators and uses this feedback to determine when height equality is achieved. Based on this feedback, the system automatically adjusts window positions and confirms when equalization is complete, ensuring precision without manual intervention.
2Measurement precision
If automatic window control is implemented, then window height equality is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The window control system performs multiple functions: it monitors window positions, calculates height differences, commands actuators for adjustment, and confirms equalization. By consolidating these functions into a single control system, the patent manages complexity while achieving window height equality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines window monitoring, height calculation, and actuator control into an integrated window control system. This merging of functions reduces overall system complexity compared to having separate systems for each function while still achieving precise window height equality.
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AI summary
Automatic vehicle window control systems and methods are provided herein. An example method includes determining a first operating height of a first window of a vehicle, determining a second operating height of a second window of the vehicle, comparing the first operating height with the second operating height, and selectively adjusting the first operating height or the second operating height to be substantially equal to one another when the first operating height and the second operating height are not substantially equal.