GB2462113A - Motor Vehicle User Customisation - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of customising the position or physical orientation of motor vehicle components to suit seated motor vehicle users of different sizes and personal ergonometric preferences or needs, and in particular to the automation of such customisation for a plurality of different such users. The vehicle 1 includes components 2, 4, 6, 8 that may be moved 10-17 by means of electric motors to physically customise the motor vehicle to suit the physical size of the driver and/or a preferred driving position of the seated driver. A control system is used to control the motorised movement of the movable components. A portable information storage device 30 includes a memory for storing user specific data relating to the physical size of the driver and/or a preferred driving position of the seated driver. A communication means 28 is provided by which the control system may in use communicate with the portable information storage device to access the user specific data. The control system is operative upon accessing the user specific data to move the motorised components 2, 4, 6, 8 to suit the physical size of the driver and/or a preferred driving position of the seated driver. The portable information storage device may use communicate using a USB interface.
Description
Motor Vehicle User Custom isation
BACKGROUND
a. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of customising the position or physical orientation of motor vehicle components to suit seated motor vehicle users of different sizes and personal ergonometric preferences or needs, and in particular relates to the automation of such customisation for a plurality of different such users.
b. Related Art Seated motor vehicle users, including drivers and passengers need to be able to adjust the position or physical orientation of motor vehicle components to suit their different sizes and personal ergonometric preferences or needs. Components such as a driver or passenger seat, steering wheel, rear view mirror, left or right external side view mirrors, etc. may all be adjustable in one or more dimensions of travel, tilt or rotation. Examples of the customised adjustments which may be made include the position or orientation of a seat. The seat may have user controls linked to electric motors so that the seat back and seat squab may travel linearly along a forward-backward direction, a left-right direction, or an up-down direction. Electric motors may also move the seat back or seat squab rotationally to tHt these parts of the seat. Seat headrests may also be motorised to move linearly in an up-down extension movement. Although the internal rear-view mirror does not often have a motorised tilt adjustment, tilt adjustment in two orthogonal rotational axes is very common for the left and right external rear view mirrors. The steering columns of steering wheels are often adjustable in extension towards and away from the driver and in a rotational tilt movement up and down with respect to the driver and these motions may also be motorised. For the sake of conciseness and clarity, all such motorised physical adjustments of the position or physical orientation of motor vehicle components or controls relative to a seated user will be referred to below simply as the "physical customisation" of motor vehicle components.
A motor vehicle may be used by different individuals at different times, whether as driver or passenger. Because of the potentially large number of ways in which the vehicle components can be physically customised, it can be difficult for a seated user to reset the physical customisation of the motor vehicle components to suit his or her requirements or preferences, after a previous user seated in the same seat has physically customised the vehicle to his or her own requirements. For this reason, it is known to provide a plurality of programmable memory buttons, which may be linked to a similar number of uniquely identifiable ignition keys, and which automatically effect the physical customisation of a motor vehicle suitable to a particular regular user of the vehicle.
In order to facilitate the automatic physical customisation of a plurality of different motor vehicles to suit one particular user, this concept has been extended to include a portable memory device that can be connected to different vehicles at different times to effect the physical customisation of a range of different vehicles.
See, for example, the disclosure in patent document US2003/0078709 Al.
The inventors of the present invention have noted that while this system works very well when a user has access to a range of different similar vehicles, for example a commercial fleet of identical or similar vehicles, a problem arises when the user wises to use a range of vehicles having widely differing properties. For example, a luxury vehicle will, in general have a wider range of possible different types of physical customisation than an economy vehicle. A user's physical customisation of a large luxury vehicle may not be appropriate for a small economy vehicle.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a more convenient method and apparatus for physically customising a motor vehicle.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the information, there is provided an apparatus for physically customising movable components of a motor vehicle to suit the position of a seated user of said vehicle, the apparatus comprising: -a motor vehicle, said vehicle having at least one motorised component which may be moved to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user, and a control system for controlling the motorised movement of said component; -a portable information storage device, said device including a memory for storing user specific data relating to the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user; -a communication means by which the control system may in use communicate with the portable information storage device to access the user specific data; wherein the control system is operative upon accessing the user specific data to move said at least one motorised component to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user.
The user may be a driver of the vehicle or a passenger in the vehicle.
Because the portable information storage device holds information specific to the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user, rather than particular locations of the movable components in the vehicle, the invention allows the portable information storage device to be used across a range of different vehicles each having movable components having different sizes, movement ranges or different dimensional characteristics, particularly different relative locations and/or separations and/or orientations amongst groups of movable components.
The invention is therefore well-suited to being used across a range of different vehicle makes or types, each having different vehicular movable components with different physical sizes or dimensions, with different positional inter-relationships or relative positions when adjusted in order to suit the physical size of the user or his or her preferred driving or seating position.
Therefore, also according to the invention, there is provided a system fOr physically customising movable components of a motor vehicle to suit the position of a seated user of said vehicle, the system comprising: -a plurality of motor vehicles, each vehicle having at least one motorised component which may be moved to suit the physical size of the user of that vehicle and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user in that vehicle, a plurality of said vehicles having different vehicular dimensionaf characteristics relating to said at least one movable component; -a control system in each vehicle for controlling the motorised movement of said at least one component in that vehicle; -a portable information storage device, said device including a memory for storing user specific data relating to the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user; -a communication means in each vehicle by which the control system may in use communicate with the portable information storage device to access the user specific data; wherein each control system is operative upon accessing the user specific data to move said at least one motorised component to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user.
Unlike prior art devices, the invention does not simply store the preferred component positions or orientations in a memory. The data that is stored is independent of movement parameters associated with each movable device, for example the maximum and minimum travel length of a seat squab in a forwards or backwards direction. Rather, an example of the data that may be stored which relates to user size or preferred seating position could include parameters in an (x,y) coordinate system relating to the absolute separations in horizontal and vertical directions of the seat squab or seat back relative to an accelerator pedal location or a steering wheel location when the user is in a preferred seating position.
The user specific data is therefore preferably independent of vehicular dimensional characteristics so that so that the user specific data stored in the portable information storage device may be used across a range of different motor vehicles each having different vehicular dimensional characteristics.
As a result, the portable information storage device can be used across a range of vehicles each having different positional characteristics for movable components.
The control system can then take this data, and calculate from this the necessary movements of the components needed to achieve or at least approximate this preferred seating position.
Therefore, the control system may include processing means arranged to calculate the position and/or orientation of one or more movable components based on the accessed user specific data.
The control system may additionally or alternatively include processing means arranged to calculate a required movement in the position and/or orientation of said at least one movable component based on the accessed user specific data in order to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving or seating position of the seated user.
The control system may include a memory for storing vehicle specific data that correlates said user specific data with a corresponding position and/or orientation of said at least one movable component in order to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user.
The user specific data may relate to a preferred physical separation and/or orientation between at least one pair of locations where the seated driver interacts physicafly or visually with components of the motor vehicle.
These pairs of locations may include: -the location of a foot pedal component and the location of a driver seat component; -the location of a steering wheel component and the location of a driver seat component; -the location of a driver rear view mirror component and the location of a driver seat component; -the location of a driver dashboard instrument component and the location of a driver seat component.
The communications means may include a wireless interface by which the user specific data is accessed. The communications means preferably includes a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, either wired or wireless, by which the user specific data is accessed.
One embodiment of the invention includes a vehicular activation device, for example an ignition key, for activating functions of the motor vehicle. The vehicular activation device is separate from the portable information storage device, and the control system is operative to move the motorised components to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user only after the vehicular activation device has activated functions of the motor vehicle.
Optionally, both the vehicular activation device and the portable information storage device may have an identity, both of these identities being linked so that the control system is only activated to move the movable components when these identities can be matched by the control system.
This ensures that the position of the driver or passenger seat, or other component, is only adjusted after the driver is ready to use the vehicle, and when the data stored by the portable information storage device matches that for the vehicular activation device.
The control system may comprise additionally means by which the user of the vehicle may activate at least one motorised component in order to adjust the position and/or orientation of said component to suit the seated position of the user, for example a set of manually operable buttons on the vehicle within the passenger compartment. The apparatus may then additionally comprise means by which the user of the vehicle may use the control system and communication means to update the user specific data according to said adjusted position and/or orientation of said component. The updated data may then subsequently be used to move the movable components to the adjusted locations or orientations.
Also according to the invention, there is provided a method for physically customising at least one movable component of a motor vehicle to suit the position of a seated user of said vehicle, using an apparatus including a portable information storage device and a control system in the motor vehicle for controlling the motorised movement of said at least one of said components, the method comprising the steps of: -storing in the information storage device user specific data relating to the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user; -establishing data communication between the portable information storage device so that the control system has access said user specific data; -using the control system to move said at least one motorised component to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user according to said accessed user specific data.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention will now be further described, by way of example only, and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: Figure 1 is a perspective view of an apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, showing a motor vehicle passenger compartment having a driver seat, a steering column and wheel and an external rear view mirror, each of which is electrically adjustable in position or orientation; Figure 2 is a schematic block diagram showing relationship between the components of apparatus of Figure 1; and Figure 3 is a block flow diagram illustrating a preferred method according to the invention for physically customising at least one movable component of a motor vehicle to suit the position of a seated driver of said vehicle.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Figure 1 shows a motor vehicle passenger compartment 1 having a driver seat 2, a steering wheel 4 supported by a steering column 6, and a pair external rear view mirrors, one of which 8 is visible in the drawing. The seat, steering column/wheel and external mirrors are each electrically adjustable in position or orientation by means of electric motors 39 (see Figure 2) in various directions as indicated by movement arrows 10-17.
The positions or angles of the seat, steering wheel/column and external mirrors may be manually adjusted by a driver in a conventional manner using associated control buttons that drive the various electric motors. The seat 2 has a pair of manual control buttons 18, 19 on a lower side of a seat squab 20 that allow a user to manually adjust the position of a seat back 21 and seat squab 20 in direction forwards/backwards 10, up/down 12 and in two tilt directions 11, 13. The steering column 6 has a button 22 that allows the user to adjust the position of the steering column in an in/out direction 14 and in a tilt up/down direction 15. The external mirrors 8 each can be tilted left/right 16 and up/down 17 by means of a button 24 onadashboard26.
The dashboard 26 also has a socket 28 having a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port (not shown) into which a USB portable information storage device 30 has been plugged.
Reference is now made also to Figures 2 and 3, which show respectively a schematic block diagram 40 showing relationship between the components of the apparatus of Figure 1, and a block flow diagram 50 illustrating a preferred method according to the invention.
The portable information storage device 30 includes a memory 31 that stores 51 user specific data relating to the physical size of the driver and/or a preferred driving position of the seated driver. When the information storage device 30 is plugged into the USB socket 28, communication is established 51 between the device and a control system 32 that is used to control the motorised movement of the movable components 2, 4, 6, 8.
The control system 32 uses the established communication 51 to access 52 the user specific data stored in the memory 31. In this example, the user specific data relates to preferred displacements, for example in terms of millimetres in an (x,y) coordinate system, and angles, for example in degrees, between pairs of locations in the motor vehicle compartment. These pairs of location may be locations in the flowing list: -lower seat back and accelerator pedal -front seat squab and accelerator pedal -upper seat back and steering wheel centre -steering wheel centre and accelerator pedal -steering wheel centre and external mirror centre The list is not exhaustive, and other pairs of locations could alternatively be used.
The dimensional data will all, ultimately, be related to directly to the physical size of the driver and/or the preferred driving position. It is highly desirable that that all the locations or orientations are linked through one or more pairs to any other location in an unambiguous manner so that the control system can calculate the best fit to the desired driving position or driver size. The calculation may have to take into consideration differences between the user data and what is achievable in the vehicle. For example, different vehicles may have different widths and heights which will result in the distance between external rear view mirrors, or equivalently the distance from a rear view mirror to a point of reference such as the centre of a steering wheel, varying from one vehicle to another. The height of a rear view mirror above the ground may also vary between vehicles. Such dimensions are not adjustable, but the control system will still be able to calculate mirror tilt angles so that the view afforded to the driver is correctly oriented.
In this respect, the user data may also include data relating to the height of the driver's eyes with respect to a reference point, for example the base of the seat squab. The data may also include data relating to the driver's leg length or arm length. All such driver size specific data need not be measured directly, but can be derived in the first by analysing the separation between or orientation between two or more movable components after the vehicle has been physically customised to the driver. The invention envisages that such data will be derived by the control system whenever a user manually adjusts or resets the preferred position or orientation of any movable component, with the updated data being stored in the portable information storage device for future use by the user in that vehicle or another vehicle.
The control system 32, which will in general include a processor 33, can then process the received user specific data. The control system is linked to various electric motors 39 by means of a Controller-area network (CAN or CAN-bus) 38, in order to move 54 the motorised components, 2, 4, 6, 8 to suit the physical size of the driver and/or a preferred driving position of the seated driver.
It will be appreciated that as an alternative to the USB connectivity described above, the portable information storage device could communicate using other communications means and protocols, for example using Bluetooth (Reg. TM) wireless communication. The user information storage device may also for convenience be incorporated in another type of device, for example a mobile telephone or a personal music player.
When the driver switches to driving a different vehicle, or when a new driver comes to drive the same vehicle, he or she can carry the portable information storage device to the new vehicle, plug the device into the USB socket, or allow the connectivity to be automatically established using wireless communication means, after which the movable components in the new vehicle will move positions or orientations to suit the physical size of the driver and/or a preferred driving position of the seated driver.
The invention may also be adapted for use by passengers the vehicle, how may each have their own portable information storage device.
The invention therefore provides a convenient and flexible automatic method and apparatus for physically customising a motor vehicle.
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- -12 -CLAIMS1. An apparatus for physically customising movable components of a motor vehicle to suit the position of a seated user of said vehicle, the apparatus comprising: -a motor vehicle, said vehicle having at least one motorised component which may be moved to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user, and a control system for controlling the motorised movement of said component; -a portable information storage device, said device including a memory for storing user specific data relating to the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user; -a communication means by which the control system may in use communicate with the portable information storage device to access the user specific data; wherein the control system is operative upon accessing the user specific data to move said at least one motorised component to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user.
- 2. An apparatus as claimed in Claim 1, in which the control system includes processing means arranged calculate the position and/or orientation of said at least one movable component based on the accessed user specific data.
- 3. An apparatus as claimed in Claim 1, in which the control system includes processing means arranged calculate a required movement in the position and/or orientation of said at least one movable component based on the accessed user specific data in order to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user.
- 4. An apparatus as claimed in any of preceding claim in which the control system includes a memory for storing vehicle specific data that correlates said user specific data with a corresponding position and/or orientation of said at least -13-one movable component in order to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user.
- 5. An apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, in which the user specific data relates to a preferred physical separation and/or orientation between at least one pair of locations where the seated user interacts physically or visually with components of the motor vehicle.
- 6. An apparatus as claimed in Claim 5, in which said at least one pair of locations comprises one pair of locations including the location of a foot pedal component and the location of a driver seat component.
- 7. An apparatus as claimed in Claim 5 or Claim 6, in which said at least one pair of locations comprises one pair of locations including the location of a steering wheel component and the location of a driver seat component.
- 8. An apparatus as claimed in any of Claims 5 to 7, in which said at least one pair of locations comprises one pair of locations including the location of a driver rear view mirror component and the location of a driver seat component.
- 9. An apparatus as claimed in any of Claims 5 to 8, in which said at least one pair of locations comprises one pair of locations including the location of a driver dashboard instrument component and the location of a driver seat component.
- 10. An apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the communications means includes a wireless interface by which the user specific data is accessed.
- 11. An apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the communications means includes a Universa' Serial Bus (USB) interface by which the user specific data is accessed. -14-
- 12. An apparatus as c'aimed in any preceding claim, comprising additionally a vehicular activation device for activating functions of the motor vehicle, wherein the vehicular activation device is separate from the portable information storage device, and the control system is operative to move said at least one motorised component to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user after the vehicular activation device has activated functions of the motor vehicle.
- 13. An apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, in which the control system comprises additionally: -means by which the user of the vehicle may activate at least one motorised component in order to adjust the position and/or orientation of said component to suit the seated position of the user; -means by which the user of the vehicle may use the control system and communication means to update the user specific data according to said adjusted position and/or orientation of said component.
- 14. An apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, in which the user specific data is independent of vehicular dimensional characteristics so that so that the user specific data stored in the portable information storage device may be used across a range of different motor vehicles each having different vehicular dimensional characteristics.
- 15. A system for physically customising movable components of a motor vehicle to suit the position of a seated user of said vehicle, the system comprising: -a plurality of motor vehicles, each vehicle having at least one motorised component which may be moved to suit the physical size of the user of that vehicle and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user in that vehicle, a plurality of said vehicles having different vehicular dimensional characteristics relating to said at least one movable component; -a control system in each vehicle for controlling the motorised movement of said at least one component in that vehicle; -a portable information storage device, said device including a memory for storing user specific data relating to the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user; -a communication means in each vehicle by which the control system may in use communicate with the portable information storage device to access the user specific data; wherein each control system is operative upon accessing the user specific data to move said at least one motorised component to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user.
- 16. A method for physically customising at least one movable component of a motor vehicle to suit the position of a seated user of said vehicle, using an apparatus including a portable information storage device and a control system in the motor vehicle for controlling the motorised movement of said at least one of said components, the method comprising the steps of: -storing in the information storage device user specific data relating to the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user; -establishing data communication between the portable information storage device so that the control system has access said user specific data; -using the control system to move said at least one motorised component to suit the physical size of the user and/or a preferred driving position of the seated user according to said accessed user specific data.
- 17, An apparatus for physically customising movable components of a motor vehicle to suit the position of a seated user of said vehicle, substantially as herein described, with reference to or as shown in the accompanying drawings.
- 18. A method for physically customising at least one movable component of a motor vehicle to suit the position of a seated user of said vehicle, substantially as herein described, with reference to or as shown in the accompanying drawings.
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