Vehicle climate control

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9159232-B2
Application number	US-201213679400-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 16, 2012
Priority date	Nov 16, 2011
Publication date	Oct 13, 2015
Grant date	Oct 13, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods of vehicle climate control are provided. Specifically, a vehicle with climate control includes a number of sensors for sensing climate control information, such as human bodily conditions, e.g., temperature or heart rate, of the human occupants of the vehicle, a processing unit, and a climate control. The processing unit uses the sensed human bodily conditions data from the sensors to activate the climate control the adjust the climate conditions for the human occupants. In another aspect of the disclosure, stress level of the human operator of a vehicle can be detected by sensing the bodily conditions of the human operator, determining the stress level of the human operator based on the sensed bodily conditions, and displaying a warning if the stress level is over a certain limit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle, comprising:
a climate control system operable to control a climate in an interior of a selected vehicle, the climate control system comprising:
a tangible and non-transient computer readable memory comprising climate control logic; and
a microprocessor to execute the logic, the climate control logic performing the following operations when executed by the microprocessor:
sense climate control information, in lieu of or in addition to an int…

Assignees

• Flextronics Ap Llc

Inventors

• Ricci Christopher P

Classifications

• B60W2540/221

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60W2540/043

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60W2555/60

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• G06F13/14

  Physics · mapped topic

• B60W40/08

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic