Automatic door opening arrangement
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorGerald Busse
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Abstract
An automatic door opening arrangement for motor vehicles includes a sensor system for detection of objects in a predetermined region adjacent to a vehicle and a computing unit for at least one door which indicates entry of an object into the predetermined region. The automatic door opening arrangement prevents, as reliably as possible, injury of persons and/or damage to obstacles or to the door itself upon opening of the door, since the sensor system determines the height of an object located in the predetermined region relative to a given reference coordinate system.
Claims10
An automatic door opening arrangement for motor vehicles comprising a sensor system for detection of objects in a selected region adjacent to a vehicle, at least one vehicle door, and a computing unit for determining entry of an object into the selected region, wherein the sensor system is arranged to permit detection of the height of an object located in the selected region with respect to the height of the bottom of the vehicle door to determine whether the vehicle door can be opened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.