Abstract: An air vent is configured to discharge two separate volumetric flows of air in respectively different and intersecting discharge directions. A perceived air discharge direction is adjustable with no change to the intersecting discharge directions. A first volumetric flow of air exits the first air duct in a first direction, and a second volumetric flow of air exits the second air duct in a second direction that intersects the first direction so that the volumetric flows of air collide after exiting airducts of the air vent. A non-visible vane located along one of the air ducts is moveable to change the perceived air discharge direction.

Abstract: A user's position inside a passenger compartment is judged easily and reliably and control according to the user's position is provided. An in-vehicle apparatus control system includes a server and an in-vehicle apparatus and is configured to communicate with a mobile terminal, such as a smart phone, that is located within the vehicle. The in-vehicle apparatus control system includes a storage unit that stores a face image of a user of the mobile terminal by associating the face image with identification information of the mobile terminal. The system also includes a seated position judgment unit that judges a seated position of the user by means of facial recognition to evaluate an inside passenger compartment image and the face image. The in-vehicle apparatus executes control according to the seated position of the user of the mobile terminal when accepting a specified control request from the mobile terminal.

Abstract: A parking assistance device includes: a vehicle location acquiring unit for acquiring the current location of a vehicle; an object information acquiring unit for acquiring object information that includes information relating to locations of objects in the vicinity of the vehicle; and a target route setting unit for setting a plurality of routes between the current location and a predetermined parking space, identifying the route, of the plurality of routes, with the longest distance to the object, and, based on the identified route, setting a target route for the vehicle to travel from the current location to the predetermined parking space.

Abstract: A protective cover for an electrical conductor comprises a substantially tubular cap surrounding the electrical conductor. The protective cover further includes a substantially disc-shaped flange comprising a bore surrounding the electrical conductor in a liquid-tight manner and an outer contour strictly inscribed in an inner contour of the tubular cap facing disc-shaped flange. The tubular cap also comprises at least one perforation arranged at a low point of the tubular cap. In one example, the protective cover is used for a heating element for an exhaust line.

Abstract: A collapsible vehicle interior console includes a plurality of walls and is changeable between a deployed configuration in which the walls are vertical and a stowed configuration in which the walls are horizontal. The walls change length between the two configurations such that a console body has a height that is greater than its width when deployed.

Abstract: A module support arrangement for attachment to the seat structure of a motor vehicle seat and for fixing pneumatic components or non-pneumatic components includes a module support with a front side and a rear side opposite the front side and optionally at least one further component. Air ducts and/or air duct sections are integrated into the module support and/or into the at least one further component. At least one of the air ducts or air duct sections has, at least locally, a change in the cross-sectional area.

Abstract: A module support arrangement for attachment to the seat structure of a motor vehicle seat and for fixing pneumatic components or non-pneumatic components has a module support with a front side and a rear side opposite the front side. Optionally, the module support arrangement has at least one further component, wherein air ducts and/or air duct sections are integrated in the module support and/or in the at least one further component. At least one pressure accumulator that is in fluidic communication with at least one of the air ducts or air duct sections is integrated on or in the module support and/or on or in the further component.

Abstract: An apparatus of tilting a seat cushion of a vehicle, includes a tilting motor, a pinion gear, a sector gear, and a tilting link which perform the tilting operation of the seat cushion and exert a binding force in a tilted state of the seat cushion and are provided to be connected to both of one side and the other side of a seat cushion frame, and has two sector gears positioned on left and right sides and connected to each other by a connection bar so that, by strengthening a binding force of the front portion of the seat cushion, it is possible to secure the safety of passengers in the event of a collision.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control unit for a vehicle interior. In particular, the control unit can comprise an information region with symbols, wherein some symbols are always visible and some symbols are only visible when they are back lit. The application also relates to a method for producing a corresponding control unit. The control unit can be part of a vehicle interior trim part, for example part of an instrument panel, door trim or center console.

Abstract: A display control device includes an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image capturing surrounding of a vehicle; an inclination information acquiring unit that acquires information about an angle of a road surface captured in the image relative to the inclination of the vehicle; a viewpoint detecting unit that acquires information related to eye position of an occupant; a reference plane setting unit that sets an angle of a reference plane as a reference for conversion of the image so that an image of the surroundings of the vehicle is displayed as seen from the eye position of the occupant; an image processing unit that performs image processing to convert an image of the surroundings of the vehicle into an image of the surroundings of the vehicle as viewed from the eye position of the occupant; and a display processing unit for controlling to display the processed image.

Abstract: An occupant support surface heater includes a foundation, a cover, an optional comfort layer, an activation layer, and at least one bus bar secured between the foundation and the cover. The foundation may include a foam pad and the comfort layer includes a conductive material mat that is contiguous with the foundation. The activation layer includes thermally conductive material in the form of an inorganic or organic nanotube structure to provide efficient thermal diffusion and heat delivery for the occupant support. The occupant support surface heater may be used to heat an occupant in the occupant support or to provide heat at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined period of time in order to destroy live viruses or live bacteria at a surface of the unoccupied occupant support.

Abstract: A vehicle trim element having at least one functional component and at least one aerator of the vehicle compartment. The aerator includes at least one duct for conveying a gas flow defining an opening for diffusing the gas flow, the conveying duct extending in a main direction. The aerator is arranged to diffuse a gas flow in the passenger compartment of the vehicle in a diffusion direction in which the gas flow is diffused and which is variable by Coanda effect, between a first diffusion direction and a second diffusion direction that is different from the first diffusion direction. The opening for diffusing the gas flow extends around the periphery of at least one portion of the functional component.

Abstract: A display control device includes a divided-region setting unit for dynamically changing a size of a divided region provided on a screen. A display control unit provides arrangement regions on the divided region and changes a relative positional relationship between the arrangement regions on the same divided region in conformity with change in size of the divided region, each of the arrangement regions on which at least one or more display objects are arranged, and a priority setting unit configured to set relative priority with respect to the arrangement regions provided on the same display region. When the relative positional relationship between the arrangement regions on the same divided region is changed, which causes the arrangement regions to overlap at least partially, the display control unit controls display of the display objects in a unit of arrangement region, based on the priority set for each of the arrangement regions.

Abstract: To improve operability when changing the display layout. An information processing device connected to a display and a touch panel contains: a touch operation detecting unit; a display control unit controlling a display signal output to the display for displaying a reduced layout screen that displays an arrangement of the plurality of display contents, and allows the arrangement of the plurality of display contents to be changed when a predetermined operation is detected; and operation position determining unit that determines whether the user is operating from the left or right; wherein the display control unit displays the layout screen on the left side of the display when the predetermined operation is determined to have been performed from the left side of the display, and the display control unit displays the layout screen on the right side of the display when the predetermined operation is determined to have been performed from the right side of the display.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a surface assembly, an interior part and an interior system. And the surface assembly includes a skin, and an outer surface of the skin being used as the outer surface of the surface assembly, and as a visible surface to the user provided by the surface assembly, and the skin further includes an inner surface opposite to the outer surface; and a light guiding stitch, the light guiding stitch being connected with the skin by a sewing configuration, and the sewing configuration includes a first part located on the outer surface, a second part penetrating thickness of the skin; and a third part located in the inner surface; and the light guiding stitch provides a light path that a light beam enters the light guiding stitch at one end in length direction of the light guiding stitch, and emits through at least one first part.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mat for detecting the occupancy of a motor vehicle seat, comprising a flexible support, an interdigitated capacitive sensor borne by the flexible support, a first conductive track borne by the flexible support, the first conductive track having a first end connected to the interdigitated capacitive sensor and a second end intended to be connected to a computing unit, a second conductive track borne by the support, the second conductive track having a first free end and a second end intended to be connected to the computing unit. The present disclosure also relates to a system for determining a capacitance, a method for determining a capacitance or a state of occupancy of a seat and a method for detecting a rotation of a part of the trunk of an occupant seated on a seat.

Abstract: A valve, preferably a solenoid valve, for a seat comfort system, preferably a vehicle seat comfort system, which in particular comprises at least one fluid actuator, or/and a seat, preferably a vehicle seat, which is equipped with such a comfort system, comprises a base body with a linearly movable piston. The piston is reversibly displaceable in the direction of a sealing seat and in the direction of an end stop. The piston has at least one damping element provided for mitigating its impact on the end stop or/and on the sealing seat. The piston has a channel extending through it between its two end-face regions. The damping element is arranged within this channel.

Abstract: The catalytic converter of the vehicle includes: an LNT converter including an LNT catalyst to reduce nitrogen oxides; an SDPF converter including an SDPF catalyst to capture particulate matters and reduce the nitrogen oxides; a connection housing connecting the LNT converter and the SDPF converter to each other; an injection module provided in the connection housing to inject the reducing agent from the LNT converter toward the SDPF converter; an impactor atomizing and vaporizing the reducing agent injected from the injection module; a first guide mixer provided inside the connection housing to form a swirl-direction flow of the exhaust gas mixed with the reducing agent atomized through the impactor; and a second guide mixer provided downstream of the first guide mixer inside the connection housing to form an additional swirl-direction flow of the exhaust gas mixed with the reducing agent.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a base and a frame, the position of which relative to the base is adjustable by an adjustment device having at least one connecting rod articulated to the base and to the frame, the seat further including a device for measuring the distance between the base and the frame. The measuring device has an angular position sensor mounted on the base or on the frame and an arm articulated on the angular position sensor and moving in rotation when the connecting rod is moved in rotation, the angular position sensor determining the distance between the frame and the base as a function of the angle of rotation of the arm.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a seat, a disassembling and assembling method therefor, and a backrest module. The seat includes a backrest skeleton, and a backrest module, being able to detachably connect to the backrest skeleton as a whole, to form a backrest part of the seat; and the backrest module includes a frame, and the frame includes a frame body and a frame connecting portion, and the frame body is located within an area limited by the backrest skeleton; and the frame connecting portion is able to connect with a skeleton connecting portion of the backrest skeleton, making the backrest module be able to detachably connect to the backrest skeleton; and the frame connecting portion includes a first portion and a second portion connected with the first portion.