US 10,329,823 B2Granted

Anti-pinch control system for powered vehicle doors

AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC

InventorsMuhammad Omer Khan, Kosta Papanikolaou, Christopher Matthew Radjewski, H. Paul Tsvi Linden, George Anthony Bernwanger, Jr.

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Abstract

A vehicle includes a body and front and rear doors having front and rear powered latches, front and rear anti-pinch sensors, and front and rear electrically-powered door openers. The vehicle further includes a controller that is configured to receive an unlatch signal from unlatch sensors/switches and generate a signal to unlatch the front and rear powered latches and actuate the front and rear door openers after the front and rear powered latches are unlatched. The controller may also be configured to actuate the rear door opener to retain the rear door in an open position when the front pinch sensor detects a hand to thereby prevent pinching.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A vehicle, comprising:

a body having a door opening:
a door rotatably mounted to the body to close off the door opening when the door is in a closed position;
an anti-pinch sensor that is configured to detect a user's hand if a user's hand is positioned adjacent the door opening and/or adjacent an edge of the door;
an electrically-powered latch mechanism configured to permit the door to open when the electrically-powered latch mechanism is unlatched, wherein the electrically-powered latch mechanism is configured to retain the door in a closed position when the electrically-powered latch mechanism is latched;
an electrically-powered door actuator that can be actuated to shift the door from a closed position to a partially open position;
and
a controller configured to actuate the electrically-powered door actuator to prevent the door from closing if the anti-pinch sensor detects a user's hand.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.