A cooling system includes air intakes, air intake fans, a duct, and an intake-air controller. The air intakes are separately formed near seats disposed side by side inside a vehicle. The air intake fans individually take in air through the air intakes. The duct guides the air taken in by the air intake fans to a battery. The intake-air controller controls a ratio of intake air flow rates in the air intake fans according to the state of a seated occupant.

An in-vehicle ventilation system includes a host ECU configured to acquire vehicle outside information using wireless communication, an air conditioner ECU configured to control an air conditioner installed in a vehicle compartment, a zone ECU configured to control a device in the vehicle compartment and to communicate with the host ECU and the air conditioner ECU and a power window unit configured to open and close a window of a vehicle. The zone ECU or the host ECU is configured to perform, based on information acquired inside the vehicle compartment and the vehicle outside information to be acquired by the host ECU, interlocked ventilation control interlockingly controls the power window unit and the air conditioner ECU.

An air conditioning control apparatus for a vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a sensor that senses a number of vehicle occupants, a vehicle speed, and an indoor temperature and an outdoor temperature of the vehicle, an air conditioner that adjusts an amount of air introduced from an outside or exhausted to the outside, and a controller that controls the air conditioner based on the number of vehicle occupants, the vehicle speed, and the indoor temperature and the outdoor temperature of the vehicle. According to the present embodiment, the comfort inside the vehicle may be improved by adjusting the ventilation amount depending on the number of vehicle occupants, the vehicle speed, and the indoor temperature and the outdoor temperature of the vehicle.

Methods and systems are described for air sanitation in vehicles. The system detects a change in a vehicle occupancy in a vehicle. The system then generates an air curtain zone in the vehicle based on the vehicle occupancy. The air curtain zone includes an air curtain to isolate air within the air curtain zone from a portion of the vehicle. The air curtain zone also includes a vent and an air filter to purify air in the air curtain zone.

Apparatus, systems, and methods for methods for monitoring the health status of a vehicle occupant by detecting when a triggering physiological condition is met, confirming the triggering physiological condition is real by identifying a separate vehicle triggering event, and automatically responding to minimize the potential impact of the triggering event.

Systems and methods for mitigating a thermal impact on a vehicle cabin caused by a battery thermal-management system, include determining a status of vehicle climate control system; determining whether a battery thermal-management system of the vehicle is operating above a determined threshold; and if the vehicle climate control system is active and the battery thermal-management system of the vehicle is operating above the determined threshold, adjusting at least one of a plurality of cabin temperature control parameters to mitigate a thermal impact of the battery thermal-management system on a rear portion of the vehicle cabin.

A method of controlling an occupant microclimate system includes determining vehicle environmental conditions, determining occupant personal parameters, predicting a multiple of occupant thermal comfort values based upon at least the environmental conditions, cabin temperature data, and occupant personal parameters. The predicting is performed using a multiple of different machine learning algorithm relationships to provide the multiple of occupant thermal comfort values, evaluating the multiple of occupant thermal comfort values using a voting classifier to provide an estimated occupant thermal comfort, and regulating at least one thermal effector based upon the estimated occupant thermal comfort.

Methods of controlling transport climate control systems are provided to reduce the impact of their operation on the sleep of an occupant, who can be in a nearby sleeping space. Methods include obtaining occupant sleep status data, determining one or more operational parameters of the transport climate control system based on the occupant sleep status data, and operating the transport climate control system according to the one or more operational parameters to control when at least one of a motor, a compressor, a generator, or one or more fans are in operation during an occupant sleep state. The methods can be implemented by a controller of a transport climate control system or a control module for such a system.

A method for controlling a temperature in an interior of a vehicle is provided, wherein the temperature in the vehicle interior is determined with the aid of infrared radiation emitted by the fitments or in the interior, and the air conditioning is adjusted accordingly. A vehicle which is configured to carry out the method is furthermore provided.

There is provided a system for generating instructions for adjustment of vehicle sub-system(s) according to an analysis of a computed six degrees of freedom (6 DOF) of vehicle occupant(s), comprising: hardware processor(s), and a non-transitory memory having stored thereon a code for execution by the at least one hardware processor, the code comprising instructions for: obtaining at least one image of a cabin of a vehicle captured by an image sensor, obtaining depth data from a depth sensor that senses the cabin of the vehicle, wherein the at least one image and the depth data depict at least one head of at least one occupant, computing 6 DOF for the at least one head according to the at least one image and depth data, and generating instructions for adjustment of at least one vehicle sub-system according to the computed 6 DOF of the at least one vehicle occupant.