Opening and closing system
AssigneesMitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation, Gecom Corporation
InventorsMichio Ohashi, Satoru Nishizawa, Takashi Teraoka
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Abstract
An opening and closing system includes a first human detection sensor configured to detect a vehicle user who enters a first area defined on a periphery of a vehicle body, a lamp visible by the vehicle user who enters the first area, and a control device configured to control an unlocking operation of the lock device, a closing operation of the striker device, a pop-up operation of the striker device, and switching on and off of the lamp. The control device switches on the lamp when the vehicle user is detected by the first human detection sensor and starts the controlling of the unlocking operation of the lock device and the closing operation and the pop-up operation of the striker device in response to the lamp being switched on.
Claims4
An opening and closing system comprising:
- (A) a lock device provided on a vehicle door, the lock device being configured to lock the vehicle door in a closed state and to perform an unlocking operation;
- (B) a striker device provided on a vehicle body, the striker device being configured to perform:
- a closing operation comprising moving the vehicle door to a closed position;
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- a pop-up operation comprising moving the vehicle door in an opening direction from the closed position to a pop-up position;
- (C) a first human detection sensor configured to detect a vehicle user who enters a first area defined on a periphery of the vehicle body;
- (D) at least one lamp visible by the vehicle user who enters the first area;
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- (E) a control device configured to:
- control the unlocking operation of the lock device, the closing operation and the pop-up operation of the striker device, and switching on and off of the lamp;
- in a case the vehicle user is detected by the first human detection sensor, switch on the lamp;
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- in response to the lamp being switched on, start the controlling of the unlocking operation of the lock device and the closing operation and the pop-up operation of the striker device;
- (F) a second human detection sensor configured to detect the vehicle user who enters a second area defined on a periphery of the vehicle door, and,
- (G) an illuminance sensor configured to detect an illuminance on the periphery of the vehicle body,
- wherein in a case the vehicle user is detected by the second human detection sensor within a predetermined period of time since the vehicle user is detected by the first human detection sensor, the control device is configured to control the striker device to perform the popup operation;
- wherein the lamp comprises a foot lamp configured to illuminate an area corresponding to the second area on a ground on the periphery of the vehicle door;
- and wherein the lamp comprises an indicator lamp provided on the vehicle door, and
- wherein the control device is configured to:
- in a case an illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor is less than a predetermined illuminance, switch on the foot lamp;
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- in a case the illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor is equal to or greater than the predetermined illuminance, switch on the indicator lamp.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.