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US 11,448,002 B2Granted
Trunk cover for vehicle and opening method thereof
AssigneeContinental Automotive GmbH
InventorsSanghun Lee, Erwin Kessler
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Abstract
A trunk cover for a vehicle includes an upper panel covering one portion of a loading space part formed in a vehicle, a lower panel disposed continuously with the upper panel and covering the other portion of the loading space part; a main body connection part connecting the upper panel to a main body of the vehicle, and a panel connection part connecting the upper panel and the lower panel so that a length formed by the upper panel and the lower panel is variable when opening the loading space part.
Claims10
A trunk cover for a vehicle, comprising:
- an upper panel covering one portion of a loading space part formed in the vehicle;
- a lower panel disposed continuously with the upper panel and covering an other portion of the loading space part;
- a main body connection part connecting the upper panel to a main body of the vehicle;
- a panel connection part connecting the upper panel and the lower panel so that a length formed by the upper panel and the lower panel is variable when opening the loading space part;
- a sensor unit comprising a rear sensor sensing an obstacle to the rear of the vehicle and an upper sensor sensing an obstacle above the vehicle;
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- a control unit controlling a rotation angle of the upper panel according to a sensing signal of the sensor unit when opening the loading space part,
- wherein the trunk cover is controlled, by the control unit, to open in:
- a) a first mode when the first mode is set, in the first mode the lower panel hangs freely from the panel connection part such that a rotation angle of the lower panel changes as the lower panel rotates freely due to gravity,
- b) a second mode when the second mode is set, in the second mode a rotation angle of the lower panel is controlled by the control unit to be folded towards the upper panel at a set speed, and
- c) a third mode when the third mode is set, in the third mode the control unit maintains a constant angle between the upper panel and the lower panel.
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An opening method of a trunk cover for a vehicle, comprising:
- an opening standby step of installing an upper panel and a lower panel to cover a loading space part formed in a vehicle;
- a mode determination step of determining a method in which the lower panel is operated while the upper panel is opened;
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- a panel opening step of moving at least one side of the upper panel and the lower panel to open the loading space part, the panel opening step including:
- sensing, by a rear sensor of a sensor unit, an obstacle to the rear of the vehicle,
- sensing, by an upper sensor of the sensor unit, an obstacle above the vehicle, and
- controlling, by a control unit, a rotation angle of the upper panel
- according to a sensing signal of the sensor unit when opening the loading space part,
- wherein the trunk cover is controlled, by the control unit, to open in:
- a) a first mode when the first mode is set, in the first mode the lower panel hangs freely from the panel connection part such that a rotation angle of the lower panel changes as the lower panel rotates freely due to gravity,
- b) a second mode when the second mode is set, in the second mode a rotation angle of the lower panel is controlled by the control unit to be folded towards the upper panel at a set speed, and
- c) a third mode when the third mode is set, in the third mode the control unit maintains a constant angle between the upper panel and the lower panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.