Vehicle control system, portable terminal, and vehicular device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016347207-A1
Application number	US-201515113852-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 21, 2015
Priority date	Jan 31, 2014
Publication date	Dec 1, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a vehicle control system which is capable of setting sleep positions appropriate for a user in different vehicles. In the vehicle control system, a portable terminal receives inputs of sleep positions each of which is a seat position appropriate for the user to sleep in a corresponding vehicle, a storage stores the sleep positions associated with respective vehicles, and a sleep position transmission portion reads out, from the storage, the sleep position corresponding to the vehicle boarded by the user in response to a manipulation made by the user and transmits the readout sleep position to the corresponding vehicular device. Each vehicular device, in response to a reception of the sleep position from the portable terminal, sets the seat position to be appropriate for the user to sleep in accordance with the received sleep position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A vehicle control system comprising:
a portable terminal carried by a user; and a plurality of vehicular devices provided, respectively, for a plurality of vehicles, wherein, each of the plurality of vehicular devices automatically sets a driving position appropriate for a user to perform a driving operation by communicating with the portable terminal, the portable terminal includes: an input reception portion receiving inputs of sleep positions each of which is a seat position appropriate for the user to sleep in a corresponding one of the plurality of vehicles; a storage storing the sleep positions received by the input reception portion associated with the plurality of vehicles; and a sleep position transmission portion reading out, from the storage, one of the sleep positions corresponding to one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user in response to a manipulation made by the user and transmitting the one of the sleep positions which is read out to a corresponding one of the plurality of vehicular devices, each of the plurality of vehicular devices includes a sleep position setup portion, and, when one of the plurality of vehicular devices receives the one of the sleep positions from the portable terminal, the sleep position setup portion automatically sets, in accordance with the one of the sleep positions, the seat position to be appropriate for the user to sleep.

2 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the portable terminal further includes: a shift position information acquisition portion acquiring shift position information indicating a position of a shift lever of the one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user from the corresponding one of the plurality of vehicular devices; and a parking determination portion determining whether the shift lever of the one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user corresponds to a parking position based on the shift position information acquired by the shift position information acquisition portion, and the sleep position transmission portion transmits the one of the sleep positions to the corresponding one of the plurality of vehicular devices under a condition that the parking determination portion determines that the shift lever of the one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user corresponds to the parking position.

3 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the storage stores driving positions each of which is a seat position appropriate for the user to perform the driving operation of the corresponding one of the plurality of vehicles, the portable terminal further includes: a wakeup time determination portion determining whether a current time reaches a wakeup time set by a manipulation made by the user; and a driving position transmission portion reading out, from the storage, one of the driving positions corresponding to one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user when the wakeup time determination portion determines that the current time reaches the wakeup time, and then the driving position transmission portion transmitting the one of the driving positions which is read out to the corresponding one of the plurality of vehicular devices, and each of the plurality of vehicular devices further includes a driving position setup portion receiving the one of the driving positions from the portable terminal and setting, in accordance with the one of the driving positions, the seat position to be appropriate for the user to perform the driving operation.

4 . The vehicle control system according to claim 3 , wherein
the portable terminal further includes an alarm sound output portion outputting an alarm sound from a speaker when the wakeup time determination portion determines that the current time reaches the wakeup time.

5 . A portable terminal communicating with each of a plurality of vehicular devices which are provided, respectively, for a plurality of vehicles, wherein each of the plurality of vehicular devices sets a driving position appropriate for a user to perform a driving operation,
the portable terminal comprising: an input reception portion receiving inputs of sleep positions each of which is a seat position appropriate for the user to sleep in a corresponding one of the plurality of vehicles; a storage storing the sleep positions received by the input reception portion associated with the plurality of vehicles; and a sleep position transmission portion reading out, from the storage, one of the sleep positions corresponding to one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user in response to a manipulation made by the user and transmitting the one of the sleep positions which is read out to a corresponding one of the plurality of vehicular devices.

6 . The portable terminal according to claim 5 , further comprising:
a shift position information acquisition portion acquiring shift position information indicating a position of a shift lever of the one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user from the corresponding one of the plurality of vehicular devices; and a parking determination portion determining whether the shift lever of the one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user corresponds to a parking position based on the shift position information acquired by the shift position information acquisition portion, wherein the sleep position transmission portion transmits the one of the sleep positions to the corresponding one of the plurality of vehicular devices under a condition that the parking determination portion determines that the shift lever of the one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user corresponds to the parking position.

7 . The portable terminal according to claim 5 , wherein the storage stores driving positions each of which is a seat position appropriate for the user to perform the driving operation of the corresponding one of the plurality of vehicles, the portable terminal further comprising:
a wakeup time determination portion determining whether a current time reaches a wakeup time set by a manipulation made by the user; and a driving position transmission portion reading out, from the storage, one of the driving positions corresponding to one of the plurality of vehicles boarded by the user when the wakeup time determination portion determines that the current time reaches the wakeup time, and then the driving position transmission portion transmitting the one of the driving positions which is read out to the corresponding one of the plurality of vehicular devices.

8 . The portable terminal according to claim 7 , further comprising
an alarm sound output portion outputting an alarm sound from a speaker when the wakeup time determination portion determines that the current time reaches the wakeup time.

9 . A vehicular device provided for each of a plurality of vehicles and automatically setting a driving position appropriate for a user to perform a driving operation by communicating with a portable terminal carried by a user, wherein the portable terminal receives inputs of sleep positions each of which is a seat position appropriate for the user to sleep in a corresponding one of the plurality of vehicles, stores the sleep positions in a storage, and transmits one of the sleep positions corresponding to the vehicle boarded by the user in response to a manipulation made by the user,
the vehicular device comprising: a sleep position setup portion receiving the one of the sleep positions from the portable terminal and automatically setting, in accordance with the one of the sleep positions, the seat position to be appropriate for the user to sleep.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Kusunose Yuji

Classifications

• B60N2/0228

  Hand-activated mechanical switches (B60N2/0229 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60N2/12

  slidable and tiltable · CPC title

• B60N2/0248 Primary

  with memory of positions · CPC title

• B60N2/16

  height-adjustable · CPC title

• H04W88/02

  Terminal devices · CPC title