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Granted Patent B2
US 11,472,356 · App. 16/577,989 · Granted Oct 18, 2022

Vehicle parked mode control

Inventors: Andrew John Murray (Colchester, GB); Ian Sutherland Wright (Chelmsford, GB); Torsten Gerhardt (London, GB); Christopher Wright (Somerville, MA); Daniel Tauber (Edling, DE)
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
B60R16/03B60H1/00778B60K28/04B60R25/31B60W10/06B60W10/182B60W10/20B60W30/18054B62D1/183
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Patent No.
US 11,472,356
App. No.
16/577,989
Granted
Oct 18, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle control system for a vehicle, the vehicle control system comprising a controller, wherein the controller has an activatable secondary parked mode in which the controller automatically controls a plurality of components of the vehicle, each component also being controllable by a corresponding user control, and activation of the secondary parked mode changes the state of each component from an in-use state to a parked state when the vehicle attends a delivery or collection.

Claims (21)

1. A system comprising a controller programmed to:

activate a primary parked mode or a secondary parked mode for a vehicle based on at least one of activation data from a user interface device in communication with the vehicle or vehicle position data, wherein the primary parked mode specifies a first set of vehicle components and the secondary parked mode specifies a second set of vehicle components, wherein components in the first set are different than components in the second set; and

actuate the first or second set of vehicle components from an in-use state to a parked state based on the activated parked mode;

wherein the user interface device includes a primary portion and a secondary portion, and the user interface device is configured to transmit a user input indicating selection of the primary portion or the secondary portion to the controller; and

the user input from the primary portion includes an instruction to control a vehicle component, and the user input from the secondary portion includes the activation data and the instruction to control the vehicle component.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further programmed to actuate each vehicle component in the second set of vehicle components from the parked state to the in-use state upon termination of the secondary parked mode.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the secondary parked mode is terminated upon detection of the vehicle being unlocked.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the secondary parked mode is terminated based on the activation data from the user interface device.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein, the parked state in the secondary parked mode for a particular vehicle component differs from the parked state in the primary parked mode.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further programmed to activate the secondary parked mode based on the vehicle position data indicating the vehicle is within a distance of one or more predetermined destinations.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the distance is determined based on an urbanization categorization of the predetermined destination, wherein the urbanization categorization is one of urban, suburban, or rural.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface device is configured to transmit a user input, including the activation data, to the controller.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the user input further includes an instruction to control a vehicle component.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface device is separable from the vehicle.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the user interface device is a wearable device.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface device is permanently attached within the vehicle.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further programmed to activate the secondary parked mode on one side of the vehicle based on a first user input to the user interface device and to activate the secondary parked mode on the other side of the vehicle based on a second user input to the user interface device.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further programmed to receive data indicating user interactions with vehicle components in the parked state.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further programmed to receive the set of vehicle components for the secondary parked mode from a user input.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further programmed to receive the parked state of each vehicle component specified by the secondary parked mode from a user input.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of vehicle components specified by the secondary parked mode includes a steering wheel.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 20, 2019
From: MURRAY, ANDREW JOHN; WRIGHT, IAN SUTHERLAND; GERHARDT, TORSTEN; WRIGHT, CHRISTOPHER; TAUBER, DANIEL
To: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Reel/Frame 050448/0811 →
Priority Claims (2)
GB 1815703 · Sep 26, 2018 · national
GB 1905757 · Apr 25, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200094757A1 · Mar 26, 2020
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