Patent ID: 9598037
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: B60R,B60W

Claim:
1. A method for automatically optimizing settings for one or more safety systems on a vehicle for a particular occupant in a seat of the vehicle, said method comprising: determining, using a mass sensor, a mass of the occupant while seated in the seat; determining, using a seat position sensor, a fore-aft position of the seat; classifying, using a controller including a processor and memory, a combination of the mass of the occupant and the position of the seat, where the mass of the occupant is classified as small, medium or large, and the position of the seat is classified as fore, mid or aft, resulting in nine possible classification combinations; determining, using the controller, which of a plurality of safety system settings the classification combination falls in, where the classification combination is assigned to one of three safety system settings, and the safety system settings include small mass-fore seat, large mass-aft seat, and all-other; and setting the vehicle safety systems for that classification combination.