Door opening and closing device

• US 10,378,265 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2016
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation (Mitsui Mining and Smelting Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation (Mitsui Mining and Smelting Company Limited)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Yasuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Rephann, Justin B
• Application Number:
  US15/213,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20170044815A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,121 Days
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/00 Power-actuated vehicle locks
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/06 using rotary motors
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/20 for assisting final closing or for initiating opening
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/36 Geared sectors, e.g. fan-shaped gears
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/66 the bolt position, i.e. the latching status
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 83/18 for car boot lids or rear luggage compartments
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/614 operated by meshing gear wheels, one of which being mounted at the wing pivot axis; operated by a motor acting directly on the wing pivot axis
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/63 operated by swinging arms
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/70 with automatic actuation
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/71 responsive to temperature changes, rain, wind or noise
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/434 Electromotors; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/72 Planetary gearing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/302 during electric motor braking
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/36 Speed control, detection or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/40 Control units therefor
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/546 Tailboards, tailgates or sideboards opening upwards

Abstract

A door opening and closing device includes a motor that outputs driving force causing a back door of a vehicle to be opened or closed, and a controller that controls the motor. The controller executes automatic opening and closing control for automatically opening or closing the back door by the motor, and if the controller detects a stop command causing the back door to be stopped when the automatic opening and closing control is being executed, the controller decreases a target velocity of the back door at a predetermined deceleration α1 until the back door stops.

Claims

1. A door opening and closing device, comprising:

a motor configured to output driving force that causes a back door of a vehicle to be opened or closed; and

a controller configured to control the motor, wherein

the controller executes, according to an automatic opening and closing command, automatic opening and closing control for automatically opening or closing the back door from a first position to a second position by the motor, the first position being a door position at which the automatic opening and closing control is started, the second position being a door position at which the automatic opening and closing control ends,

when the controller, during a movement of the back door from the first position to the second position under the automatic opening and closing control, detects a stop command causing the back door to be stopped at a third position between the first position and the second position, the controller decreases target velocity of the back door at a constant deceleration from a time of a detection of the stop command until the back door stops at the third position,

the controller, according to the automatic opening and closing command, further controls the motor to decrease the target velocity of the back door at a predetermined deceleration from a fourth position to the second position,

the fourth position is disposed between the first position and the second position, and

a deceleration rate of the constant deceleration is higher than a deceleration rate of the predetermined deceleration.

2. The door opening and closing device according to claim 1, wherein the constant deceleration is set depending on an inclination of the vehicle in a front-back direction.

3. The door opening and closing device according to claim 1 wherein the constant deceleration is set depending on an environmental temperature.

4. The door opening and closing device according to claim 2 wherein the constant deceleration is set depending on an environmental temperature.