Ford filed a patent to extinguish the car by 'burning' the car's smell with the heat of the sun

By HB MotorSports

The characteristic "smell of new car" when opening the door of a new car shiny is divided into likes and dislikes, and while there is a person who likes love, there are a few complaints "unpleasant smell" in China. In view of such a situation in the Chinese market, the US automobile giant "Ford" filed a patent which burns out the origin of odor by heat using the heat of the sun or a heater of a car air conditioner.

Ford seeks patent on getting rid of new car smell
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In Japan and the United States it is a smell of a new car that tends to be relatively favorable, but in China, 10% of users who purchase a car have claimed strong claims against this odor. In order to cope with such a reaction from customers, Ford devised a technique to remove the origin of odor by moving to a place where cars themselves are suitable and applied for a patent.

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The technology that Ford applied for a patent is that the automatic driving car selects and moves the optimum place to eliminate odors, putting the inside of the car at a high temperature state and cutting off the source of smell. In order to make the inside of the car efficiently hot, AI installed in the car receives weather data from the server and moves to the place where the sunlight is best bathed. When you move to the spot, turn on the heater inside the car, open the window a little and drive out objectionable odor out of the car.

The "smell of new car" is thought to be caused by organic substances contained in newly assembled interior parts, adhesives and other substances, and this odor decreases as the date increases from the time of manufacture. Ford's idea is to artificially speed up this process by raising the temperature inside the car.

Ford's technical official, Debbie Mielewski, said the technology is "one of the ideas" and even if the patent is approved, it is not expected to be installed in actual vehicles at the moment. However, since Ford who intends to control the Chinese strategy from the United States is currently struggling in the Chinese market, "smell of new car" can be set as optional equipment specialized in the Chinese market as one of the first resuscitations Sex seems not to be zero.