John Kaminski

US Patent:

20140032043, Jan 30, 2014

Filed:

Jul 25, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/951174

Inventors:

Steve Michell - Commerce MI, US
Jeroen Lem - Maastricht, NL
Florian Golm - Herzogenrath, DE
John Gerald Kaminski - Dearborn MI, US
Stefan Wolter - Aachen, DE

International Classification:

B60N 2/44

US Classification:

701 36

Abstract:

A method for selecting and controlling massage functions of a motor vehicle seat having a control system comprising the steps of: switching the system to a selection mode and starting the selection mode; providing a menu list having options for querying the user's requirements during the massage; selection of an option by the user and providing predefined responses to the respective query and selection of the response by the user and if necessary repeating the steps for further queries; and terminating the selection mode and automatically determining suitable massage settings on the basis of the user's selection and controlling the massage actuators in the motor vehicle seat on the basis of determined massage settings to perform the massage function.