Vehicle door control system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuya Nagasaki
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Abstract
A vehicle door control system includes a courtesy switch that detects an opened/closed state of a side door, a latch actuator that performs an unlatch operation for releasing a latch that holds the side door in a closed state, an unlatch switch that is provided in a vehicle compartment and is operated by a user when releasing the latch, and a controller that causes the latch actuator to perform the unlatch operation when the unlatch switch is operated. The controller prevents the unlatch operation from being executed in a period during which the side door is in an opened state, even when the unlatch switch is operated.
Claims8
A vehicle door control system comprising:
- a door sensor that detects both an opened state and a closed state of a door;
- a latch actuator that performs an unlatch operation for releasing a latch mechanism that holds the door in the closed state;
- an unlatch switch that is provided in a vehicle compartment and is operated by a user to initiate the unlatch operation for releasing the latch mechanism;
- and
- a controller that causes the latch actuator to execute the unlatch operation when the unlatch switch is operated in a period during which the door sensor detects the closed state of the door,
- wherein the controller prevents the unlatch operation from being executed by the latch actuator in a period during which the door sensor detects the opened state of the door, even when the unlatch switch is operated once,
- wherein the door sensor detects, in distinction from the opened state, an incompletely closed door state in which a latch body of the latch mechanism, provided in the door, is insufficiently engaged with a striker provided in a vehicle, and
- wherein the controller causes the latch actuator to execute the unlatch operation when the unlatch switch is operated in a period during which the door sensor detects the incompletely closed door state of the door.
A vehicle door control system comprising:
- a door sensor that detects both an opened state and a closed state of a door;
- a latch actuator that performs an unlatch operation for releasing a latch mechanism that holds the door in the closed state;
- an unlatch switch that is provided in a vehicle compartment and is operated by a user to initiate the unlatch operation for releasing the latch mechanism;
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- a controller that causes the latch actuator to execute the unlatch operation when the unlatch switch is operated in a period during which the door sensor detects the closed state of the door,
- wherein the controller prevents the unlatch operation from being executed by the latch actuator in a period during which the door sensor detects the opened state of the door, even when the unlatch switch is operated once, and
- wherein the controller causes the latch actuator to execute the unlatch operation when the unlatch switch is operated two or more times in the period during which the door sensor detects the opened state of the door.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.