Vehicle door control system
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsKazuhiro Nakashima, Ifushi Shimonomoto
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Abstract
In a vehicle door control system, a vehicle-side unit communicates with a hand-held device and detects an operation on any one of vehicle doors. When a condition for unlocking the doors is satisfied, the vehicle-side unit unlocks the doors. In addition, the vehicle-side unit also automatically opens some specific doors having an automatic door opening/closing function. Thus, the holder of the hand-held device no longer needs to issue another command to execute an operation to automatically open the specific doors. The vehicle side-unit also detects an operation on any doors and communicates with the hand-held device to automatically close and lock the doors, when the holder of the hand-held device leaves the vehicle.
Claims20
A vehicle door control system comprising a vehicle-side unit and a hand-held device for controlling vehicle doors employed in a vehicle in accordance with a result of collation of an ID code, which is conveyed by a response signal transmitted by the hand-held device in response to a request signal transmitted by the vehicle-side unit, with an ID code registered in the vehicle-side unit,
- wherein the vehicle-side unit includes:
- a lock-state control section for controlling a lock/unlock state of at least one vehicle door;
- an automatic door opening/closing section for automatically carrying out operations to open and close at least the one vehicle door;
- and
- an operation detection section for detecting a predetermined operation carried out by a holder of the hand-held device on any one of the vehicle doors, and
- wherein, when the result of the collation of the ID codes is an OK and the operation detection section detects the predetermined operation,
- the lock-state control section unlocks at least the one vehicle door from a locked state;
- and
- the automatic door opening/closing section automatically carries out an operation to open at least the one vehicle door from a closed state.
A vehicle door control system comprising a vehicle-side unit and a hand-held device for controlling vehicle doors employed in a vehicle in accordance with a result of collation of an ID code, which is conveyed by a response signal transmitted by the hand-held device in response to a request signal transmitted by the vehicle-side unit, with an ID code registered in the vehicle-side unit,
- wherein the vehicle-side unit includes:
- a lock-state control section for controlling a lock/unlock state of at feast one vehicle door;
- an automatic door opening/closing section for automatically carrying out operations to open and close at least one vehicle door;
- and
- an operation detection section for detecting a predetermined operation carried out by a holder of the hand-held device on any one of the vehicle doors, and
- wherein, when the result of the collation of the ID codes is an OK and the operation detection section detects the predetermined operation,
- the automatic door opening/closing section automatically carries out an operation to close at least the one vehicle door from a closed state;
- and
- the lock-state control section locks at least the one vehicle door.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.