Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Autonomous-vehicle climate-control system
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Application No.: US15214496Application Date: 2016-07-20
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Publication No.: US10759255B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Kenneth James Miller , Thomas G. Leone , Christopher Alan Lear , Chris James Hocking
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Current Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Bejin Bieneman PLC
- Agent David B. Kelley
- Main IPC: B60H1/00
- IPC: B60H1/00

Abstract:
Controlling a vehicle includes determining that an occupancy status of the vehicle is unoccupied, estimating a remaining unoccupied time, and controlling a climate-control system according to climate-control parameters based on at least the occupancy status and the remaining unoccupied time. A climate-control parameter is a value or set of values for an attribute or attributes of vehicle climate control, such as a power status for the climate-control system as a whole, a target temperature for a passenger cabin, power statuses corresponding to individual climate zones of the passenger cabin, and target temperatures for the individual climate zones.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180022182A1 AUTONOMOUS-VEHICLE CLIMATE-CONTROL SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-01-25
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