A seat experience system includes a seat and a controller. The seat has a seat body and a sensor. The sensor is configured to acquire biogenic information of an occupant seated on the seat body. The controller is configured to acquire the biogenic information from the sensor, determine whether or not the occupant is in a resting state based on the biogenic information, execute, if the occupant is in the resting state, control in a first mode to sustain the resting state, and execute, if the occupant is not in the resting state, control in a second mode different from the first mode.

A motor vehicle includes a structural element and a seat having at least two separate and independent seat portions, each of the seat portions being configured to support a part of a user's body and being independently coupled to the structural element in a movable manner relative to the structural element with three degrees of freedom including two translations in a plane along respective orthogonal axes and a rotation around a further axis orthogonal to said plane.

Disclosed are a shoulder airbag and a method of controlling deployment thereof that are capable of adjusting the amount of inflation of chambers covering an occupant's shoulders depending on the body type of the occupant and/or the collision direction of a vehicle, thereby safely protecting the occupant in various collision situations. The shoulder airbag includes an occupant detection sensor configured to detect the posture and body type of an occupant, an airbag cushion including chambers configured to be inflated and deployed so as to cover the front, side, and upper portions of each of the shoulders of the occupant, and a controller configured to variably control the amount of inflation of each of the chambers covering the front, side, and upper portions of each of the shoulders of the occupant based on occupant information analyzed based on the posture and body type of the occupant when a collision accident occurs.

A seat control device is for a subject vehicle equipped with a driver monitor. The driver monitor is configured to monitor a driver's state. The seat control device is configured to control a state of a driver's seat on which a driver is to be seated. The seat control device includes a control grasping unit and a reclining control unit. The control grasping unit is configured to grasp whether the subject vehicle travels under an automated driving control that does not oblige the driver to monitor surroundings. The reclining control unit is configured to, when the subject vehicle travels under the automated driving control, control a reclining state of the driver's seat, such that the driver is included in a detection range of the driver monitor.

A management device includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire setting information for onboard equipment used by a user in a vehicle, vehicle model information for the vehicle, and identification information for the user, convert the setting information that has been acquired into new setting information based on the vehicle model information, and provide the new setting information to onboard equipment used by the user corresponding to the identification information in a new vehicle.

A method for managing passenger comfort. A passenger mobile device is connected with a vehicle computer system in a vehicle using a near-field communications reader for a passenger seat. Passenger comfort preferences associated with the passenger seat are identified by the vehicle computer system based on changes made to an environment in the vehicle by a passenger. Passenger comfort preferences made to the environment by the passenger are sent from the vehicle computer system to the passenger mobile device, which are associated with different current states. New comfort preferences are received by the vehicle computer system from the passenger mobile device when the passenger mobile device detects a change in a current state of the passenger. Signals are sent by the vehicle computer system to a number of vehicle systems to change the environment using the new comfort preferences, enabling an increase in the passenger comfort in the vehicle.

A vehicle seat includes a group of first inflatable bladders, each first bladder having a respective first valve coupled therewith and a pump coupled with each of the first valves. The seat further includes a controller in communication with the pump and with the first valves to cause the pump to inflate the first group of bladders to a predetermined pressure and to close the valves to maintain a subsequent inflation level of each of the first bladders.

A wireless sound equipment including a band having elasticity, a housing provided at both ends of the band, the housing having a receiver holder formed in one end, a receiver coupled/decoupled to/from the receiver holder, a printed circuit board provided in the housing, a rotary member provided in the housing and an audio cable having one end connected to the rotary member and the other end connected to the receiver is provided. The rotary member includes an audio substrate connected to the printed circuit board and having a circular connecting terminal and an audio brush connected to the one end of the audio cable to transmit a signal transmitted from the printed circuit board to the audio cable while moving over the circular connecting terminal of the printed circuit board.

A system and method for adjusting a vehicle seat. The system has an electromechanical switch arranged on the vehicle seat and evaluation electronics for evaluating switching-position signals of the switch and for controlling at least one electromechanical actuator of the vehicle seat based on the switching-position signals. In order to enhance a vehicle equipped with at least one electromechanically adjustable vehicle seat, the system has at least one touch sensor arranged on the switch, the set of evaluation electronics being configured to detect, from sensor signals of the touch sensor, whether a person is currently touching the touch sensor, and to control the actuator based on the switching-position signals only when the person touches the touch sensor.

In one embodiment, one or more suspension systems of a vehicle may be used to mitigate motion sickness by limiting motion in one or more frequency ranges. In another embodiment, an active suspension may be integrated with an autonomous vehicle architecture. In yet another embodiment, the active suspension system of a vehicle may be used to induce motion in a vehicle. The vehicle may be used as a testbed for technical investigations and/or as a platform to enhance the enjoyment of video and/or audio by vehicle occupants. In some embodiments, the active suspensions system may be used to perform gestures as a means of communication with persons inside or outside the vehicle. In some embodiments, the active suspensions system may be used to generate haptic warnings to a vehicle operator or other persons in response to certain road situations.