Vehicle door control system

• US 10,450,788 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2017
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation (Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation (Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ichinose, Mikio, Hattori, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): Kelly, Catherine A
• Application Number:
  US15/456,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20170268278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/037 for occupant comfort , e.g. for automatic adjustment of appliances according to personal settings, e.g. seats, mirrors, steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/20 Means to switch the anti-theft system on or off
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/40 Safety devices, e.g. detection of obstructions or end positions
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/611 for swinging wings
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/74 using photoelectric cells

Abstract

A vehicle door control system comprises a door that is supported to a vehicle body; an electric door opening device that can open and close the door electrically; a touch panel display that can display an image like the door; a loudspeaker that can create a voice; and a control device that controls the electric door opening device. The control device performs opening control by which the electric door opening device opens the door by touching an image on the touch panel display and performs voice control by which it is reported through the voice from the loudspeaker that the door opens.

Claims

1. A vehicle door control system comprising:

multiple doors including front doors and rear doors each of which is supported to a vehicle body;

multiple electric door opening devices each of which opens and closes each of the multiple doors electrically;

a touch panel display that can display an image that suggests the multiple doors for selecting one of the doors;

a loudspeaker for creating voice corresponding to information displayed on the touch panel display;

multiple obstacle sensors provided corresponding to each of the multiple doors, each of which can detect an obstacle that prevents the door from opening;

a control device that controls the electric door opening devices and the loudspeaker,

wherein the touch panel display displays an image including an open adjusting area that adjusts an open extent of a selected door by touching,

wherein before the control device performs a door opening control through which the selected door is opened by the electric door opening device by touching the image displayed on the touch panel display, the touch panel display displays a word information that suggests that the selected door opens before the control device performs the door opening control, and the control device performs voice notification control by which it is reported through the voice from the loudspeaker that the selected door opens, and

wherein, if an obstacle sensor does not detect the obstacle after performing the voice notification control, the door opening control for opening the selected door is continued, and when the set open extent of the door is reached, the door opening operation for the selected door is stopped.

2. The vehicle door control system of claim 1, wherein the control device stops control of the electric door opening device even before the selected door reaches the open extent if the obstacle sensor detects the obstacle.