A system for both onboard piloting and remote piloting an aircraft having thereon at least one onboard pilot includes an aircraft having an onboard flight control system, onboard flight control devices, and onboard condition indicators mounted proximal the pilot seat. A remote flight control system, in electronic communication with the onboard flight control system, includes remote flight control devices and remote condition indicators. At least in a remote piloting mode, the onboard flight control system transmits flight and aircraft condition-related signals to the remote flight control system, receives flight control signals from the remote flight control system, and actuates, according to the flight control signals received from the remote flight control system, onboard actuators thereby remote piloting the aircraft. In the remote piloting mode, the aircraft may be cooperatively piloted by a remote pilot and at least one alert onboard pilot as another onboard pilot rests.

In order to prevent distortion of slide rails caused by an urging force generated by an urging member in a vehicle tumble seat, a vehicle seat is capable of taking a stowed position in which a seat back 6L is folded onto a seat cushion 5L and the seat cushion 5L together with the folded seat back 6L is rotatably lifted away from a floor 3, and the vehicle seat is configured to include: a support member 31 coupled to the floor; a rotating member 33L rotatably supported by the support member via a support shaft extending in a right-left direction; a lower rail 41 extending in a front-rear direction and coupled at an end to the rotating member so as to be extend literally offset relative to the support shaft; an upper rail 42 slidably supported by the lower rail and coupled to the seat cushion; a coupling device 51 provided at a second end of the lower rail on a side toward the support shaft and capable of selectably connecting to the floor; and an urging device 60 extending the front-rear direction and having one end coupled to the support member and a second end coupled to the lower rail on the side toward the support shaft side, wherein the urging device is configured to be expandable and contractible in a longitudinal direction thereof so as to urge the seat cushion in such a direction as to rotate about the support shaft away from the floor.

A vehicle seat track position sensor assembly is adapted for mounting to a moveable vehicle seat track. The vehicle seat track position sensor assembly comprises a bracket including a plurality of walls defining a central bracket cavity and a plurality of teeth. A sensor body is seated in the central bracket cavity of the bracket and includes another plurality of teeth adapted for engagement with the plurality of teeth on the bracket for securing the sensor body to the bracket. The vehicle seat track position sensor assembly is adapted for mounting into the interior cavity of a moveable vehicle seat track. The plurality of teeth on the sensor body are adapted for advancement relative to and against the teeth of the bracket for locking the vehicle seat track position sensor assembly in the interior cavity of the vehicle seat track at a selected position.

In a vehicle seat system, lowering of a seat cushion further toward a vehicle lower side than a lowerable limit value corresponding to a recline angle of a seatback is restricted by a control device in cases in which the physical build of an occupant is smaller than a predetermined value. This enables a reduction in the ability to restrain the body of the occupant using a webbing to be suppressed.

An apparatus for calming a baby in an interior of a vehicle has a heartbeat sensor device (11, 12, 13) configured to capture a heartbeat input signal that depends on the heartbeat of an occupant in an interior (18) of a vehicle (10). A heartbeat signal processing device (14) is configured to produce a heartbeat output signal that depends on the heartbeat input signal. A calming signal output device (15, 16, 17) is configured to output a calming signal that depends on the heartbeat output signal and that is perceivable by a baby in the interior (19) of the vehicle (10). The apparatus is to configured to output the calming signal, at least intermittently, directly during the capture of the heartbeat input signal.

A seat control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to, based on a selection by an occupant of a vehicle, select a video display area for displaying a video from among a plurality of video display areas provided at the vehicle, determine an adjustment amount corresponding to the determined video display area for a vehicle seat provided in the vehicle, and, via a modulation section, modulate a position and posture of the vehicle seat based on the determined adjustment amount of the vehicle seat.

A roof airbag system includes a roof airbag, a lifting mechanism, a collision sensor, memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The roof airbag is provided at a roof portion of a vehicle, receives a supply of gas from an inflator and deploys toward an upper body side of a vehicle occupant sitting on a vehicle seat. The lifting mechanism is provided at a seat cushion side of the vehicle seat and lifts a thigh area of the vehicle occupant. A collision sensor detects a collision of the vehicle. The processor is configured to, when a seat back of the vehicle seat is tilted more than a predetermined angle to the seat rear side and the collision sensor detects a collision of the vehicle, control the lifting mechanism to lift the thigh area of the vehicle occupant and control operation of the inflator to deploy the roof airbag.

A vehicle seat management system configured to adjust one or more seats based on occupant and/or vehicular data. In one aspect, the occupant and/or vehicular data may be sent to a remote device for calculation of a seat adjustment algorithm. In another aspect, the seat adjustment algorithm may be sent via wireless transmission. In one example, the wireless transmission may be 5G.