US 2020/0282950 A1Published application

Vehicle operation detection device

AssigneesAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsAyaka SHIMIZU, Takaya AIYAMA, Koichi HIROTA, Hiroshi SHINGU, Kenichiro KAGAWA, Toshihiro KANEDA, Makoto ONO, Satoshi KATAYAMA

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Abstract

A vehicle operation detection device includes sensors laid out in a vehicle along an axis in an opening-closing direction of a door of the vehicle. When the user moves a part of a body toward the sensors and a motion of moving the part of the body along the axis is detected, the sensors detect an opening-closing operation for the door. The vehicle operation detection device further includes light-emitting members laid out in the vehicle along the axis in the opening-closing direction and an operation direction indicator configured to drive the light-emitting members in sequence in a first direction in a fully-closed state of the door and drives the light-emitting members in sequence in a second direction in a fully-open state of the door.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A vehicle operation detection device comprising:

sensors laid out in a vehicle along an axis in an opening-closing direction of a door of the vehicle and configured to individually output a detection signal that changes when a part of a body of a user moves toward the sensors, wherein
when the user moves the part of the body toward the sensors and a motion of moving the part of the body along the axis is detected, the sensors detect an opening-closing operation for the door, and
the vehicle operation detection device further comprises:
light-emitting members laid out in the vehicle along the axis in the opening-closing direction;
and
an operation direction indicator configured to drive the light-emitting members in sequence in a first direction extending along the axis and corresponding to an opening direction in a fully-closed state of the door and configured to drive the light-emitting members in sequence in a second direction extending along the axis and corresponding to a closing direction in a fully-open state of the door.

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A vehicle operation detection device comprising:

a set of sensors laid out in a vehicle in a first direction corresponding to an opening direction of a door of the vehicle, wherein each of the sensors is configured to detect a part of a body of a user, and the vehicle operation detection device is configured to detect an opening operation for the door when the user moves the part of the body toward one of the sensors and moves the part of the body in the first direction, and detect a closing operation for the door when the user moves the part of the body toward another one of the sensors and moves the part of the body in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction;
a set of light-emitting members laid out in the vehicle in the first direction;
and
processing circuitry configured to drive the light-emitting members in sequence in the first direction when the door is in a fully-closed state and configured to drive the light-emitting members in sequence in the second direction when the door is in a fully-open state.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/807,762Filed 3 Mar 2020
Priority: JP 2019-0392905 Mar 2019
Published: 10 Sep 2020
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Classification12 codes

B60R 25/01
Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles: operating on vehicle systems or fittings, e.g. on doors,…
B60Q 1/26
Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor: the devices being primarily…
B60Q 1/2619
The devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic: built in the vehicle body
B60Q 1/2669
Mounted on parts having other functions: on door or boot handles