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US 10,118,451 B1Granted
Automatic trailering mirror
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Pietro Buttolo, Erick Michael Lavoie, Keith Hoelscher
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Abstract
A disclosed system and method for adjusting vehicle mirrors automatically moves mirror assemblies to an extended trailering position in response to initiation of a hitching operation.
Claims14
A system for adjusting vehicle mirrors comprising:
- a vehicle mirror movable to one of a plurality of trailering positions;
- a detection device identifying a trailer proximate to but not hitched to the vehicle;
- a memory device including at least one saved mirror position corresponding with one of the plurality of trailering positions corresponding with an identified trailer;
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- a controller for communicating with a token on the trailer to determine if the detected trailer corresponds with an identified trailer and generating commands to automatically move the vehicle mirror to one of the plurality of trailering positions corresponding with the identified trailer responsive to initiation of a hitching operation and detection of the identified trailer.
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A method of automatically adjusting vehicle mirrors comprising:
- storing at least one saved mirror trailering position in a memory device on the vehicle, wherein the at least one saved mirror trailering position corresponds with a previously identified trailer;
- generating a signal from a token on a trailer to communicate identifying information of the trailer to the controller of the vehicle utilized to determining if the trailer is an identified trailer;
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- moving a vehicle mirror to the saved mirror trailering position according to commands generated by a controller responsive to initiation of a hitching operation.
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A system for adjusting vehicle mirrors comprising:
- a vehicle mirror movable to a trailering position;
- a detection device detecting that a trailer is proximate the vehicle;
- a controller that indicates initiation of a hitching operation responsive to detection of the trailer and the vehicle being in a reverse gear and generates commands to automatically move the vehicle mirror to the trailering position;
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- a token on the trailer that communicates with the controller of the vehicle to determine if a detected trailer corresponds with an identified trailer with a previously saved mirror position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.