Mentor Graphics Corporation

Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Yibing Dong

Salim Momin

Joseph John Zwolinski

Mark A Oleszko

Hassan Anahid

Liwen Xu

Disclosed herein are computer aided design (CAD) techniques to implement a unified data schema and graphical user interface (GUI) to link ECU/devices, in-vehicle communications, and vehicle harness information together with respect to architectural relation, performance relation, and cost relation, and to facilitate a designer's understanding and manipulation of this information. The domain-specific information from each domain is converted to objects in this unified data schema and stored in a unified database that is accessible to every domain, so that the impact of the current state in the device domain can be accessed and analyzed by a designer from any domain. This approach enables design data sharing and real-time collaboration between different electrical/electronic (E/E) design domains, thereby facilitating the realization of design data collaboration, design change management, and product lifetime management (PLM) and product data management (PDM) implementation.

GUI-facilitated change management for vehicle electrical/electronic architecture design

Complexity management for vehicle electrical/electronic architecture design

Adaptive seating comfort control automatically senses occupation of a seat, estimates attributes of the seat occupant, and generates and issues seating comfort control commands in response to the occupant attributes to provide for maximum seating comfort and to provide for a desired interaction with other control systems. Comfort control commands take the form of desired pressure commands for at least one fluid filled bladder within the seat and may be updated periodically during a period of seat occupation to account for change in position of the seat occupant or to reduce occupant muscle fatigue.

Adaptive seating system

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Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Yibing Dong