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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2020
Applicant:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Matsuoka, Kariya, JP;
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2022.01); F24F 11/80 (2018.01); F24F 120/14 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/00742 (2013.01); B60H 1/00285 (2013.01); F24F 11/80 (2018.01); G06K 9/00845 (2013.01); F24F 2120/14 (2018.01);
Abstract
An alertness maintenance apparatus includes a stimulation controller that is configured to cause a stimulation device to generate multiple types of temperature stimuli maintaining an alert state of a subject person, the temperature stimuli including a temperature stimulus to a hand of the subject person and also including a temperature stimulus to a face of the subject person or a temperature stimulus to a torso of the subject person via a seat on which the subject person sits.