Door trim assembly
AssigneeTs Tech Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Yogo
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Abstract
In a door trim assembly for a vehicle door having an opening fitted with a vertically moveable window pane and a drive unit for driving the window pane for selectively closing the opening, the door trim assembly includes: a door trim main body configured to be attached to an inboard side part of the vehicle door under the opening; at least one transmitter provided in an upper part of the door trim main body; at least one receiver provided in an upper part of the door trim main body and configured to receive a signal emitted from the transmitter and reflected by an object positioned near the window pane; and a control unit connected to the receiver to compute a position of the object according to the signal received by the receiver and control the drive unit according to the computed position of the object.
Claims6
A trim assembly for a vehicle having a drive unit for driving a component of the vehicle, comprising:
- a trim main body configured to be attached to an inner side part of the vehicle;
- at least one transmitter provided in the trim main body;
- at least one receiver provided in the trim main body and configured to receive a signal emitted from the transmitter;
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- a control unit connected to the receiver and configured to control the drive unit, wherein the trim main body is a door trim panel attached to an inner side of a vehicle door having an opening fitted with a window pane and a driving unit for driving the window pane, and the door trim panel is configured to be attached to an inboard side part of the vehicle door, and the signal emitted from the transmitter consists of an electric field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.