Vehicle opening/closing body control device and opening/closing system for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9790727-B2
Application number	US-201414914551-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2014
Priority date	Aug 30, 2013
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle opening and closing body control device includes an opening and closing drive device and a controller. When the opening and closing body is being closed, in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when a trapping of a foreign object is detected is outside a specified range between a fully closed position and a specified position, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to reverse the opening and closing body to perform the opening operation by a predetermined opening-and-returning distance and then stop the opening and closing body. In a case where the position of trapping is in the specified range, the controller reverses the opening and closing body to perform the opening operation by the predetermined opening-and-returning distance or a greater distance and then stop the opening and closing body outside the specified range.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle opening and closing body control device comprising:
an opening and closing drive device, which performs opening and closing operation of an opening and closing body of a vehicle;
an opening and closing body position detector, which detects a position of the opening and closing body;
a trapping detector, which detects a trapping of a foreign object by the opening and closing body; and
a controller, which controls operation of the opening and closing drive device,
wherein, when the opening and closing body is being closed,
in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the trapping of the foreign object is detected is outside a specified range between a fully closed position and a specified position, which is shifted in an opening direction from the fully closed position, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to reverse the opening and closing body to perform the opening operation by a predetermined opening-and-returning distance and then stop the opening and closing body, and
in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the trapping of the foreign object is detected is in the specified range, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to reverse the opening and closing body to perform the opening operation by the predetermined opening-and-returning distance or a greater distance and then stop the opening and closing body outside the specified range.

2. The vehicle opening and closing body control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a fully opening lock, which holds the opening and closing body at a fully open position; and
an engagement and disengagement mechanism arranged in the opening and closing drive device to selectively engage and disengage drive power transmission between a motor serving as a drive source of the opening and closing drive device and the opening and closing body,
wherein, in a case where a trapping of a foreign object is detected when the opening and closing body moves in the closing direction without drive power supplied to the motor from a state in which the opening and closing body is stopped at an intermediate position in an operation range of the opening and closing body with the engagement and disengagement mechanism in an engaged state, in which the power drive transmission between the motor and the opening and closing body is permitted, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to move the opening and closing body to the fully open position.

3. The vehicle opening and closing body control device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the opening and closing body is being opened,
in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the trapping of the foreign object is detected is outside the specified range, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to reverse the opening and closing body to perform the closing operation by a predetermined closing-and-returning distance and then stop the opening and closing body, and
in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the trapping of the foreign object is detected is in the specified range, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to reverse and move the opening and closing body to the fully closed position.

4. The vehicle opening and closing body control device according to claim 1 , comprising an opening and closing manipulation detector, which detects an opening and closing manipulation for driving the opening and closing drive device to perform the opening and closing operation of the opening and closing body,
wherein, when the opening and closing body is being opened or closed,
in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the opening and closing manipulation is detected is outside a second specified range between the fully closed position and a second specified position, which is shifted in the closing direction from the specified position, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to stop the opening and closing body at an intermediate position in an operation range of the opening and closing body, and
in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the opening and closing manipulation is detected is in the second specified range, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device not to stop the opening and closing body at the position of the opening and closing body.

5. The vehicle opening and closing body control device according to claim 4 , wherein, when the opening and closing body is being opened, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to continue the opening operation of the opening and closing body in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the opening and closing manipulation is detected is in the second specified range.

6. The vehicle opening and closing body control device according to claim 4 ,
wherein, when the opening and closing body is being closed,
in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the opening and closing manipulation for performing the opening operation of the opening and closing body is detected is in the second specified range, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to reverse the opening and closing body to perform the opening operation, and
in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the opening and closing manipulation for performing the closing operation of the opening and closing body is in the second specified range, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to continue the closing operation of the opening and closing body.

7. The vehicle opening and closing body control device according to claim 1 , further comprising a fully opening lock, which holds the opening and closing body at a fully open position, wherein
when the opening and closing body is being opened,
in a case where it is determined that the opening and closing body enters a stopped state in a fully open range between the fully open position and an assumed fully open position, which is shifted in the closing direction from the fully open position, the controller stops the opening and closing operation of the opening and closing body by the opening and closing drive device, and
in a case where the opening and closing body moves in the closing direction from inside the fully open range and passes the assumed fully open position, the controller drives the opening and closing drive device to perform the closing operation of the opening and closing body, and

when the opening and closing body is being closed, in a case where the position of the opening and closing body when the trapping of the foreign object is detected is in a reverse prohibiting range between the fully open position and a reverse prohibiting position, which is shifted in the closing direction from the assumed fully open position, the controller controls the operation of the opening and closing drive device to prevent the opening and closing body from being reversed and performing the opening operation.

8. A vehicle opening and closing body control device comprising:
an opening and closing drive device, which performs an opening and closing operation of an opening and closing body of a vehicle;
a fully opening lock, which holds the opening and closing body at a fully open position;
an opening and closing body position detector, which detects a position of the opening and closing body;
a trapping detector, which

Assignees

• Aisin Seiki
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nishikibe Takeshi
• Kobayashi Kohei
• Hitomi Yoshinori
• Katsuda Takeshi
• Hayakawa Shunsuke

Classifications

• E05F15/40 Primary

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

• B60J5/047

  characterised by the opening or closing movement · CPC title

• E05Y2900/531

  Doors · CPC title

• E05F15/44

  responsive to changes in electrical conductivity · CPC title

• E05F15/42

  Detection using safety edges · CPC title