A system and method for detecting the position of the head and/or eye of a driver of an automobile and automatically adjusting the position of the steering wheel based on the head and/or eye position in order to provide the driver with an optimized view of the instrumentation panel and road. The system and method utilizes the vehicle parameters, driver parameters, and various settings to determine the proper position of the steering wheel including the height, proximity to driver, and tilt angle of the steering wheel. The system may also adjust the height and/or length of the steering column in order to adjust and provide the proper position of the steering wheel.


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    System and method for automatically adjusting a steering tilt position


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2015-10-06


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge



    Tilt adjusting assembly of steering column

    WEN SHENBING / SONG HONGWEI / ANSPAUGH MICHAEL P et al. | European Patent Office | 2024

    Free access

    System and method for automatically adjusting damping of steering wheel

    CHEN SIYU / LI BING / SUN LOU et al. | European Patent Office | 2024

    Free access

    Method and system for automatically adjusting driving position

    SHEN XICUI / ZHAO YUNQIANG | European Patent Office | 2015

    Free access

    TILT STEERING SYSTEM

    KII HIROYUKI | European Patent Office | 2015

    Free access

    STEERING WHEEL POSITION ADJUSTING DEVICE

    MORIYAMA SEIICHI | European Patent Office | 2016

    Free access