MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311085589 A) filed by Mercedes-Benz Group Ag, Stuttgart, Germany, on Dec. 14, 2023, for 'a system for tackling emergencies in an autonomous vehicle.'
Inventor(s) include Atul Shinde; and Dinesh Lohar.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system for tackling emergencies in an autonomous vehicle includes a driver seat assembly (102) comprising a seat belt (102-1) with an adaptive button assembly (104) integrated with a webbing of the seat belt, The adaptive button assembly (104) functions both as an emergency button assembly as well as a means to alert the driver of the vehicle to alert him of emergency. Adaptive button assembly (104) includes a vibrator to provide a pulsed signal to the driver to alert him of an emergency, and a pressure sensor (104-1), which, when pressed, gives a signal to a control unit (120) of the system (100) to actuate a mechanism of the driver seat (102-2) to move the driver seat (102-2) to a relaxed mode to a driving mode. Location of the emergency button assembly on the webbing of the seat belt (102-1) enables quick access to the emergency button assembly."
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