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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1382457 · 14 May 2026
A method and system for operating a climate control system of determining positions of occupants within a passenger compartment of a vehicle, determining occupant settings, communicating the positions and the occupant settings to an energy determination sy...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1400155 · 25 Mar 2026
A method for automatically controlling an in-cabin environment for a passenger in an autonomous vehicle includes monitoring a state of the passenger via a video sensor; determining whether the state of the passenger corresponds to one of preset states of a...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1378206 · 29 Jan 2026
The present invention discloses a method for automatically starting up or shutting down a vehicle-mounted humidifier, including the following steps: obtaining, at intervals, a vibration signal received by a humidifier, determining whether the vibration sig...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1366096 · 11 Jul 2024
An air-conditioning control device includes a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to execute: estimating an emotion of an occupant in a vehicle interior when a spot air conditioning is performed on the occupant; and controlling th...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/937807 · 14 Sep 2016
A vehicle, a user interface, and a method for operating a heating and air conditioning system of a vehicle are proposed. The method comprises the steps: - Displaying range limits (15, 16) of an air stream currently being output by the heating and air condi...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/939231 · 10 Aug 2016
An automotive air-conditioning system comprising an electronic control unit 9 programmed to store different operating profiles of the air-conditioning system 3, each of which is defined by a temperature, air flow rate and air distribution in the passenger ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/940508 · 13 Jul 2016
A safety system (10) and a method (100) configured to determine whether a passenger compartment (14) of a vehicle (16) is occupied whether the temperature of the passenger compartment (14) is outside an acceptable temperature range, and to take a safety co...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/941313 · 22 Jun 2016
A vehicle (50), a method (100) and a vehicle safety arrangement (1) are provided. The vehicle safety arrangement (1) comprises a vehicle propellant amount determination unit (3), a vehicle passenger compartment (5), a vehicle motor (7), a communication uni...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/944350 · 20 Apr 2016
An occupant (20) safety system (10) for a vehicle (12) includes a carbon-dioxide (CO2) sensor and a controller (22). The CO2 sensor is configured to determine a CO2 concentration in a passenger cabin (18) of the vehicle (12) while the vehicle (12) is not o...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/945361 · 30 Mar 2016
Disclosed is a vehicle 10 including a sensor unit 310 configured to sense infrared light emitted from one or more areas inside the vehicle, a blocking unit 350 located between the sensor unit and the one or more areas inside the vehicle 10 and a controller...