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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2017
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Heishiro Toyoda, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
John K. Lenneman, Okemos, MI (US);
Joshua E. Domeyer, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing a notification of an upcoming acceleration to an occupant of a vehicle are disclosed herein. The vehicle includes a seat that is movable in one or more directions. The vehicle can identify a direction and magnitude of acceleration corresponding to an upcoming maneuver. The vehicle can also track one or more states of the occupant. The vehicle can generate control signals to move the seat based on the state of the occupant and the direction and magnitude of the acceleration for the upcoming maneuver.