Adaptive interior air quality control apparatus and methods for vehicle compartment
First Claim
1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a sensor interface to interface with a plurality of sensors, wherein the plurality of sensors are disposed at one or more locations at one or more sides or in an interior space of a vehicle compartment and measure one or more indicators of air quality at the one or more locations; and
one or more airflow controllers, operatively coupled with the sensor interface, to adaptively control a plurality of ventilation components of the vehicle compartment to regulate airflow in the interior space using, at least in part, a wind force acting on the vehicle compartment;
whereinto adaptively control is based at least in part on the measured indicators of air quality, wherein the plurality of ventilation components comprise a window or sunroof, wherein the sensor interface measures a travel pathway of airflow in the vehicle compartment based on a measurement of an air quality indicator occurring at successive sensors of the plurality of sensors, and wherein the airflow controllers control the plurality of ventilation components of the vehicle compartment to regulate airflow in the interior space to affect the air quality indicator along the travel pathway.
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Abstract
Embodiments of apparatus and methods for adaptively controlling air quality in a vehicle compartment are described. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a sensor interface configured to interface with one or more sensors, disposed at one or more locations at one or more sides or in an interior space of a vehicle compartment, and configured to measure one or more indicators of air quality at the one or more locations. The apparatus may further include one or more airflow controllers configured to adaptively control a plurality of ventilation components of the vehicle compartment to regulate airflow in the interior space, based at least in part on the measured indicators of air quality. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
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22 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a sensor interface to interface with a plurality of sensors, wherein the plurality of sensors are disposed at one or more locations at one or more sides or in an interior space of a vehicle compartment and measure one or more indicators of air quality at the one or more locations; and one or more airflow controllers, operatively coupled with the sensor interface, to adaptively control a plurality of ventilation components of the vehicle compartment to regulate airflow in the interior space using, at least in part, a wind force acting on the vehicle compartment;
whereinto adaptively control is based at least in part on the measured indicators of air quality, wherein the plurality of ventilation components comprise a window or sunroof, wherein the sensor interface measures a travel pathway of airflow in the vehicle compartment based on a measurement of an air quality indicator occurring at successive sensors of the plurality of sensors, and wherein the airflow controllers control the plurality of ventilation components of the vehicle compartment to regulate airflow in the interior space to affect the air quality indicator along the travel pathway. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method, comprising:
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determining, with one or more airflow controllers, whether an air quality at one or more locations at a plurality of sides or interior space of a vehicle compartment has changed, based at least in part on measurements of air quality indicators taken with a plurality of sensors disposed at the one or more locations; determining a travel pathway of airflow in the vehicle compartment based on a measurement of an air quality indicator occurring at successive sensors of the plurality of sensors; and in response to measured changes to the air quality at the one or more locations, adaptively adjusting one or more ventilation components of the vehicle compartment, with the one or more airflow controllers, to regulate airflow along the travel pathway in the interior space using, at least in part, a wind force acting on the vehicle compartment, and based at least in part on the measured changes;
wherein the one or more ventilation components comprise a window or sunroof. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. At least one non-transitory storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions to cause an air quality control system, in response to execution of the instructions by the system, to:
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determine, with one or more airflow controllers, whether an air quality at one or more locations at a plurality of sides or interior space of a vehicle compartment has changed, based at least in part on a set of measurements of air quality indicators taken with a plurality of sensors disposed at the one or more locations; determine a travel pathway of airflow in the vehicle compartment based on successive measurements of an air quality indicator in the set of measurements of air quality indicators occurring at successive locations of the plurality of sensors; and in response to measured changes to the air quality in the travel pathway of airflow, adaptively adjust one or more ventilation components of the vehicle compartment, with the one or more airflow controllers, to regulate airflow in the travel pathway of airflow, based at least in part on the measured changes. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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