Patent ID: 11970088
Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A seat control system for a vehicle, the seat control system comprising:
a seat comprising a seat cushion configured to support buttocks of an occupant of the vehicle and a seat back configured to support a back of the occupant;
a seat position changer configured to change a seat position that includes one or more of a height of the seat cushion, an inclination of the seat back, a front-rear position of the seat, and a swivel position of the seat;
a door open/close sensor configured to sense open and close of a door of the vehicle; and
an occupant information controller configured to identify the occupant riding in the vehicle and to perform control based on information of the identified occupant, wherein
the occupant information controller is configured to,
in response to the occupant performing registration operation after an ignition switch of the vehicle is turned on to drive a drive unit of the vehicle,
on a condition that the door open/close sensor senses a closed state of the door of the vehicle, store, in a storage, a current seat position of the seat on which the occupant is seated as a driving position during traveling of the vehicle, in association with the information of the identified occupant, and
on a condition that the door open/close sensor senses an open state of the door of the vehicle, store, in the storage, the current seat position as a get-out position at a time when the occupant gets out of the vehicle, in association with the information of the identified occupant, and

after the registration operation is performed by the occupant,
change the seat position to the driving position of the identified occupant by controlling the seat position changer before the vehicle travels, and
change the seat position to the get-out position of the identified occupant by controlling the seat position changer at a time when the occupant gets out of the vehicle while the vehicle is stopped, and

wherein the occupant information controller is configured to carry out, prior to the registration operation and after the ignition switch of the vehicle is turned on, a temporary registration operation wherein a sensed change from a pre-set seat position to a modified seat position by the occupant operating the seat position changer is determined, and wherein the registration operation involves an option of accepting the modified seat position as a replacement stored setting of the pre-set seat position or maintaining the pre-set seat position as a stored setting.