An apparatus and a method for measuring interior temperature of a vehicle, the apparatus includes a base substrate provided inside an interior panel of the vehicle and a housing including an infrared ray blocking material for inhibiting temperature of an inner space from being increased. The housing includes an exposed part provided in one side of the housing and exposed to an interior space of the vehicle, and an opening on a side portion of the exposed part for allowing the inner space of the housing to communicate with the interior space through the opening. The apparatus further includes a non-contact sensor provided on the inner space of the housing for measuring temperatures of the exposed part and the opening, and a controller calculating temperature of the interior space of the vehicle with the measured values by the non-contact sensor.

A glass panel apparatus is provided. The glass panel apparatus includes an outer glass pane comprising a low-e coating on a side facing the inner glass pane, an inner glass pane comprising a low-e coating on a side facing the outer glass pane, a gap between the inner glass pane and the outer glass pane, the gap comprising a vacuum, and a heating element configured to heat the inner glass pane.

The invention relates to a device (50) for analysing infrared radiation emitted or reflected by at least one surface (21) of a motor vehicle (1) passenger compartment (7), characterised in that said device comprises at least one infrared camera (51) arranged and oriented such as to measure at least part of the infrared radiation emitted or reflected by the at least one surface (21) of the passenger compartment (7).

The invention relates to a device for operating an air conditioning system (12) of a vehicle. The air conditioning system has a fan, a plurality of actuating motors for controlling flaps on and/or in air-conducting channels, a heating and/or a cooling unit, and a plurality of sensors (28, 30) for sensing measurement variables required for the operation of the heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning system. The sensors (28, 30) include an interior temperature sensor (26). The device has an operating and control unit (32) for inputting a desired temperature and for outputting air conditioning control signals for the control of components of the air conditioning system. The device also has a processing unit (40), which is arranged outside of and/or separate from the operating and control unit (32) and to which measurement signals from the interior temperature sensor (26) and from at least some of the other sensors (28, 30) of the air conditioning system can be supplied and which processes said measurement signals further to form air conditioning control signals.

A fogging suppression apparatus that suppresses fogging of a window of vehicle, comprises an acquisition unit that acquires an external temperature of the vehicle, a heater that heats the window, the heater differing from an air conditioning apparatus including a blower provided in the vehicle; and a control unit that controls the heater so as to heat the window when the external temperature of the vehicle is lower than or equal to a predetermined temperature and there is a request for activation of the air conditioning apparatus.

A system and method are disclosed for a vehicle that comprises one or more sensors configured to obtain information indicating a physical state of a baby. A wireless transceiver may be included and in communication with a mobile device. The transceiver may be configured to connect mobile device with a camera configured to monitor the baby. A controller may also be in communication with the one or more sensors and the wireless transceiver. The controller may be configured to determine the physical state of the baby utilizing the information obtained from the one or more sensors. The controller may also be configured activate one or more vehicle systems in response to the physical state of the baby and to output on a vehicle display or the mobile device a notification to a user indicating the physical state of the baby.

A heat-loss management system for a vehicle and a control method thereof, which are capable of identifying a heat-insulation degree at a specific point in the vehicle so as to maintain or repair the heat-insulation performance of the vehicle.

A method for setting a thermal comfort state of at least one user of a vehicle, wherein, at a starting time, at least one actual state variable of the user is detected by at least one device for detecting the at least one state variable and a starting comfort state of the user is determined depending on the at least one actual state variable, wherein a target comfort state is determined, wherein at least one target state variable is determined depending on the target comfort state, wherein at least one vehicle-end device for changing the state variable is controlled so that a deviation in the actual state variable from the target state variable is minimized when the target comfort state deviates from the starting comfort state, wherein the at least one state variable is detected by a device carried by the user for detecting the at least one state variable.

An air-conditioning system of a vehicle for air-conditioning a vehicle interior compartment may include a channel system which is flowed through by air and a sensor device for detecting at least one property of air. The sensor device may include at least one analysis channel through which air is flowable during operation, and a generating device configured to generate and emit electromagnetic waves. The sensor device may also include a diverting device configured to divert the electromagnetic waves emitted by the generating device at least partially into an interaction section of the at least one analysis channel, through which interaction section the diverted electromagnetic waves may pass and interact with air flowing through the at least one analysis channel. The sensor device may also include a detector which detects the diverted electromagnetic waves after the interaction with the air.

A temperature sensor for a vehicle that is designed to detect an interior temperature of the vehicle and that can be arranged in the vehicle. The temperature sensor provides improved usability and can be manufactured more easily. In particular, the temperature sensor allows raw data of the temperature sensor to be evaluated by the temperature sensor itself. An advantage of this setup thus is that a tedious sensor-specific adaptation of an associated control device in the vehicle for evaluating the raw data is not necessary. Different temperature sensors can be used with the control device without the control device having to be adapted in a different way to each of these temperature sensors.