System for managing a seat occupancy status by a passenger and a method for controlling the same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11975684
APP PUB NO 20230226996A1
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17890665

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A system for managing a seat occupancy status by a passenger and a control method of the system includes a seat belt sensor provided for each seat to detect a fastening or unfastening of the seat belt, a pressure detection unit provided for each seat to detect occupancy or non-occupancy of a seat by a passenger and pressure of the seated passenger, a secondary control unit provided for each seat and woken up by radio communication with a vehicle to alert to an unfastened state of the seat belt when the seat belt is unfastened upon determining, by a seat belt sensor, whether the seat belt is fastened, and a primary control unit provided in the vehicle to perform radio communications with each secondary control unit and check an abnormality based on reception or non-reception of the system data transmitted from the secondary control unit.

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HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYSEOUL 137-938
SAMSONG INDUSTRIES LTD(YANGJAE-DONG) 17 MABANG-RO 6-GIL SEOCHO-GU SEOUL 06776
KIA CORPORATION12 HEOLLEUNG-RO SEOCHO-GU SEOUL 06797

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bok, Chang Kyu Seoul, KR 12 33
Kim, Man Seok Changwon-si, KR 7 3
Kim, Su Cheon Incheon, KR 4 0
Shin, Dong Ryul Busan, KR 25 239
Yoon, Yong Chan Seoul, KR 4 0

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