Vehicular device control system

A vehicular welfare-use device control system comprising:

• a welfare-use device provided in a vehicle;
• an in-vehicle device provided in the vehicle and configured to control the welfare-use device, the in-vehicle device having a function of wireless intercommunication;
• and
• a portable device carried by a user of the vehicle and configured to execute the wireless intercommunication with the in-vehicle device, the portable device comprising an operation instruction switch which issues, via the wireless intercommunication, to the in-vehicle device an operation instruction of operating the welfare-use device,
• the in-vehicle device being further configured to comprise:
• a determination section to determine, using the wireless intercommunication with the portable device, whether the portable device exists in an assistance-possible area, which is in a vicinity of the welfare-use device, the assistance-possible area in which a user of the welfare-use device is able to be assisted by the user carrying the portable device;
• a movement mode designation section to designate a short-manipulation movement mode when it is determined that the portable device exists in the assistance-possible area;
• and
• an execution section to execute a movement of the welfare-use device such that
• the movement of the welfare-use device is started by a trigger signal corresponding to a short-time manipulation, which is applied to the operation instruction switch of the portable device under the short-manipulation movement mode being designated, and
• the movement of the welfare-use device is continued until reaching a movement end position as long as the movement mode designation section subsequently continues to designate the short-manipulation movement mode.

A method for moving a vehicular service device in a vehicular service device control system including:

• an in-vehicle device provided in the vehicle and configured to control the vehicular service device, the in-vehicle device having a function of wireless intercommunication;
• and
• a portable device carried by a user of the vehicle and configured to execute the wireless intercommunication with the in-vehicle device, the portable device comprising an operation instruction switch which issues, via the wireless intercommunication, to the in-vehicle device an operation instruction of operating the vehicular service device,
• the method comprising:
• determining, using the wireless intercommunication with the portable device, whether the portable device exists in an assistance-possible area, which is in a vicinity of the vehicular service device, the assistance-possible area in which a user of the vehicular service device is able to be assisted by the user carrying the portable device;
• designating a short-manipulation movement mode when it is determined that the portable device exists in the assistance-possible area;
• determining whether, under the short-manipulation movement mode, a short-time manipulation is applied to the operation instruction switch of the portable device;
• starting, when it is determined that the short-time manipulation is applied to the operation instruction switch under the short-manipulation movement mode, a movement of the vehicular service device toward a movement end position;
• and
• then continuing the movement of the vehicular service device until reaching the movement end position as long as the short-manipulation movement mode continues being designated.