Device for detecting a seating position of a passenger in a motor vehicle

• US 20040122575A1
• Filed: 09/09/2003
• Published: 06/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Marchthaler, Reiner
• Application Number:
  US10/658,060
• Publication Number:
  US 20040122575A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/49
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/002 Seats provided with an occupancy detection means mounted therein or thereon detection means responsive to presence or absence of children B60N2/266
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0027 for detecting the position of the occupant or of occupant's body part
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2210/22 Optical; Photoelectric; Lidar [Light Detection and Ranging]
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/01554 Seat position sensors

Abstract

A device is provided for detecting a seating position of a passenger in a motor vehicle, the device being characterized in that it outputs at least one instruction to the passenger for adjusting the seat as a function of a signal from a sensory system. The instructions may be output at predefined points in time that minimize a driver'"'"'s loss of concentration.

Claims

1. A device for detecting a seating position of a passenger in a seat of a motor vehicle, comprising:

a sensory system for providing a signal indicative of the seating position of the passenger in the seat of the motor vehicle; and

an arrangement for outputting at least one instruction for adjusting the seat as a function of the signal from the sensory system.

2. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a switch whose activation induces the device to trigger a driving device in the seat as a function of the signal.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the driving device is situated in a region of a head rest, a seat backrest and a seat pad.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the sensory system is one of an optical and an acoustical system.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the arrangement outputs the at least one instruction to the passenger at predefined points in time.