Method for operating a motor-actuatable tailgate of a motor vehicle
AssigneeAUMOVIO Germany GmbH
InventorsErwin Kessler, Beat Bauer
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Abstract
In a method for operating a motor-actuatable tailgate of a motor vehicle, the motor of which can be activated or deactivated controlledly by actuation of an actuating element of an operating element, a control unit ascertains whether the actuating element is actuated for a predetermined period of time or by a predetermined actuation sequence and at the same time a manual closing movement of the tailgate is effected. If so, a holding mode is activated on reaching the tailgate position at which the actuating element is no longer actuated, wherein the motor is short-circuited in the holding mode.
Claims20
A method for operating a motor-actuatable tailgate of a motor vehicle, a motor of which can be activated or deactivated controlledly by actuation of an actuating element of an operating element, comprising:
- upon a control unit ascertaining the actuating element being actuated for a predetermined period of time or a predetermined actuation sequence and contemporaneously a manual closing movement of the tailgate being effected, activating a holding mode on reaching a tailgate position at which the actuating element is no longer actuated, wherein power supply lines to the motor are short-circuited in the holding mode to brake the manual movement of the tailgate by operating the motor in a generator mode to hold the tailgate position without application of power.
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