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US 10,183,640 B2Granted
Systems and methods for door collision avoidance
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDouglas Scott Rhode, Levasseur Tellis, David J. Schmidt
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Abstract
A vehicle includes: (a) a rotatable door including: a door stop assembly configured to arrest opening of the door; a rotatable handle; a haptic feedback assembly arranged to vibrate the handle; (b) processor(s) configured to simultaneously activate the door stop and haptic feedback assemblies. The haptic feedback assembly is disposed within the rotatable handle. The processor(s) are configured to: compute a time-to-collision, and run the haptic feedback assembly at a level based on the time-to-collision.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a sensor;
- a door including:
- a door stop assembly;
- a handle;
- and
- a haptic device;
- and
- a processor to:
- detect, via the sensor, a bicycle predicted to intersect a sweep range of the door;
- determine a time-to-collision (TTC) of the bicycle;
- and
- simultaneously stop the door from opening, via the door stop assembly, and vibrate the handle, via the haptic device, when the TTC is less than a first threshold.
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A method of comprising:
- detecting, via a sensor, a bicycle predicted to intersect a sweep range of a door of a vehicle;
- determining, via a processor, a time-to-collision (TTC) between the bicycle and the door;
- and
- responsive to determining that the TTC is less than a first threshold, simultaneously activating a door stop assembly to stop the door from opening and causing a haptic device to vibrate a handle of the door.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.