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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2017
Applicant:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Osamu Ito, Wako, JP;

Hiroshi Akaba, Wako, JP;

Hidetoshi Nakamura, Wako, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/013 (2006.01); B60N 2/14 (2006.01); B60R 21/015 (2006.01); B60R 21/00 (2006.01); B60R 21/02 (2006.01); B60R 21/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/013 (2013.01); B60N 2/14 (2013.01); B60R 21/01554 (2014.10); B60R 2021/0006 (2013.01); B60R 2021/01013 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is a vehicle control device including a restriction unit configured to restrict a change in an orientation of a vehicle seat, a vehicle information recognition unit configured to recognize information of a traveling environment of a vehicle, a risk evaluation unit configured to evaluate a risk of a collision which may occur in the vehicle on the basis of the traveling environment recognized by the vehicle information recognition unit, and a control unit configured to control the restriction unit and restrict the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat on the basis of a level of the risk of the collision evaluated by the risk evaluation unit.


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