Automobile with vehicle seats equipped with pressure sensors
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Abstract
An automobile with one or several vehicle seats equipped with pressure sensors to obtain the weight of a respective vehicle seat occupied by a person and by way of a control unit to evaluate the pressure sensor signals as well as to control the given functional units of the vehicle which are dependant upon the pressure sensor signals. The control unit in a vehicle that has an automated transmission can operate to make sure that the transmission of the standing vehicle can not be switched on and that with a running engine and an unoccupied driver'"'"'s seat the transmission is automatically switched to “NEUTRAL” or the parking brake is engaged. Likewise, the control unit can be used to operate comfort functions for the respective seats.
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Citations
14 Claims
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1-7. -7. (canceled)
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8. A vehicle equipped with pressure sensors installed on or in at least one vehicle seat of the vehicle in order to determine a weight of a person sitting on the seat equipped with the pressure sensors, the seat comprising a control unit for evaluating pressure sensor signals as well as for monitoring desired functional units of the vehicle which are dependant on the pressure sensor signals, and the control unit automatically switching at least one of a transmission to neutral (N) and a parking brake to park (P) when the control unit determines that:
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the vehicle is stopped, an engine of the vehicle is running, a key is in an ignition; and
a driver'"'"'s seat of the vehicle is unoccupied by any weight. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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