Method for operating a closing device, and a closing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9035577-B2
Application number	US-201113640930-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 6, 2011
Priority date	Apr 14, 2010
Publication date	May 19, 2015
Grant date	May 19, 2015

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for operating a closing device, wherein a closing element ( 2 ), with the aid of a drive motor ( 4 ) controlled by a control unit ( 7 ), can be displaced in a closing direction up against a stop edge, wherein the control unit ( 7 ) can be shifted into a normal-operation mode, in which position-related information is sensed as the current position of the closing element ( 2 ), and into a sleeping mode, in which no sensing of position-related information takes place, the method having the following steps: —interrogating whether a wake-up condition, in which the control unit ( 7 ) goes from the sleep mode into the normal-operation mode, is present; —if the presence of the wake-up condition is established, and if the closing element ( 2 ), prior to assuming the sleep mode, last moved in the closing direction, the position-related information is subjected (S 25 ) to a predetermined correction value in order to correct the position-related information, in respect of an actual position of the closing element ( 2 ), into an opening direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for operating a closing device, a closing element being movable in a closing direction against a stop edge with the aid of a drive motor controlled by a control unit, the control unit being shiftable into a normal operating mode, in which position information is detected as the current position of the closing element, and into a sleep mode, in which no detection of the position information is carried out, with the following steps:
interrogation as to whether a wake-up condition is present in which the control unit changes over from the sleep mode to the normal operating mode;
when the presence of the wake-up condition is established and when the closing element last moved in the closing direction before the assumption of the sleep mode, loading of the position information with a stipulated correction value, in order to correct the position information with respect to an actual position of the closing element in an opening direction.

2. The method according to claim 1 , the position information being corrected by a stipulated correction value only when the closing element has moved in the closing direction before the assumption of the sleep mode.

3. The method according to claim 1 , the position information being corrected by the stipulated correction value only when, after calibration in which the position information is calibrated to the actual position of the closing element , a number of wake-up operations from the sleep mode which overshoots a stipulated threshold value has taken place.

4. The method according to claim 3 , calibration being carried out when it is established that, during a closing movement, the closing element is moved against the stop edge.

5. The method according to claim 1 , no loading with a correction value being carried out when the presence of the wake-up condition is established and when the closing element last moved in the opening direction before the assumption of the sleep mode.

6. The method according to claim 1 , the wake-up condition comprising actuation of an operating element for closing and/or opening.

7. The method according to claim 1 , a pinch protection function, which causes an automatic switch-off of the drive motor when a pinching situation is detected, being deactivated when the position information indicates that the clearance between an edge, opposite the stop edge, of the closing element and the stop edge corresponds to less than a stipulated clearance.

8. A closing device for an automatic window lifter system, the closing device comprising:
a closing element which is movable in a closing direction against a stop edge with the aid of a drive motor,
a control unit for operating the drive motor; the control unit being shiftable into a normal operating mode, in which position information is detected as the actual position of the closing element, and into a sleep mode, in which no detection of the position information is carried out, the control unit, furthermore, being designed:
in order to interrogate as to whether a wake-up condition is present in which the control unit changes over from the sleep mode to the normal operating mode;
in order, when the presence of the wake-up condition is established and when the closing element last moved in the closing direction before the assumption of the sleep mode, to load the position information with a stipulated correction value, in order to correct the position information with respect to an actual position of the closing element in an opening direction.

9. A non-transitory computer program product containing a program code which, when it is executed on a data processing device, carries out a method according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Huck Thomas
• Kusserow Peter
• Koerwer Matthias
• Bosch Gmbh Robert

Inventors

• Huck Thomas
• Kusserow Peter
• Koerwer Matthias

Classifications

• E05Y2900/55

  Windows · CPC title

• E05Y2400/452

  for saving energy, e.g. sleep or wake-up · CPC title

• E05F15/695

  Control circuits therefor · CPC title

• E05F15/40 Primary

  Safety devices, e.g. detection of obstructions or end positions · CPC title

• E05Y2400/508

  of detection · CPC title