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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2018
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Joseph Anthony Alequin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/00 (2006.01); B60N 2/02 (2006.01); B60Q 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/0244 (2013.01); B60N 2/0228 (2013.01); B60N 2/0276 (2013.01); B60Q 9/00 (2013.01); B60N 2002/0268 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle seat haptic system includes a vehicle seat and a controller. The vehicle seat includes a plurality of discrete haptic zones defined across the vehicle seat, and a plurality of actuators positioned in the plurality of haptic zones and configured to generate a haptic output. The controller is communicatively coupled to the plurality of actuators and configured to output a control signal to one or more of the plurality of actuators to generate an asynchronous haptic output across the vehicle seat based upon a position of a user in the vehicle seat.