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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2022
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Tae Hee Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Dae Un Sung, Incheon, KR;
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An embodiment vehicle includes an air conditioner, a plurality of odor sensing modules provided in an interior of the vehicle or inside the air conditioner, each of the odor sensing modules including a plurality of gas sensors, and a controller configured to determine whether to initiate a process of determining an occurrence of a bad smell based on state information of the vehicle or state information of the air conditioner, in response to a determination to initiate the process of determining the occurrence of the bad smell, to determine odor data based on an output of at least one of the odor sensing modules, to determine whether the bad smell has occurred based on the odor data, and in response to a determination that the bad smell has occurred, to control to provide notice of or to remove the bad smell.
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