Control device of opening and closing member

• US 20050275363A1
• Filed: 06/13/2005
• Published: 12/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Shintaro, Itami, Eiji, Imaizumi, Tomoaki, Honma, Chiaki
• Application Number:
  US11/150,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20050275363A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/280
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/41 Detection by monitoring transmitted force or torque E05F15/48 takes precedence; Safety couplings with activation dependent upon torque or force, e.g. slip couplings
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/632 for horizontally-sliding wings
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/659 Control circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/695 Control circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/30 of motors
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/554 sensing motor load
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/55 Windows
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 1/04 Arrangements for preventing response to transient abnormal conditions, e.g. to lightning or to short duration over voltage or oscillations; Damping the influence of dc component by short circuits in ac networks
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 7/0851 for motors actuating a movable member between two end positions, e.g. detecting an end position or obstruction by overload signal
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 7/093 against increase beyond, or decrease below, a predetermined level of rotational speed centrifugal switches H01H35/10

Abstract

A control device of opening and closing member includes a driving means for driving, by means of a duty ratio control, an opening and closing member, a speed detecting means, and a controlling means for driving the opening and closing member based on a position of the opening and closing member, and stopping or reversing a movement of the opening and closing member. The controlling means includes a duty ratio determining means for providing a duty ratio to the driving means every predetermined number of periods so that a speed of the opening and closing member reaches the control speed, and increasing a duty ratio when a speed of the opening and closing member becomes below the target speed, and a duty ratio difference calculating means for calculating a difference between a present duty ratio and a duty ratio before a predetermined number of periods.

Claims

1. A control device of opening and closing member comprising:

a driving means for driving, by means of a duty ratio control, an opening and closing member to be opened or closed relative to an opening portion provided on a structure;

a speed detecting means for detecting a moving speed of the opening and closing member; and

a controlling means for driving the opening and closing member based on a position of the opening and closing member, and stopping or reversing a movement of the opening and closing member when a movement of the opening and closing member is inhibited between the opening and closing member and the structure;

wherein the controlling means includes a target speed determining means for determining a target speed of the opening and closing member, a speed estimating means for estimating a moving speed of the opening and closing member, a control speed determining means for determining a control speed of the opening and closing member based on an estimated speed estimated by the speed estimating means and the target speed, a duty ratio determining means for providing a duty ratio to the driving means every predetermined number of periods so that a speed of the opening and closing member reaches the control speed, and increasing a duty ratio when a speed of the opening and closing member becomes below the target speed, a duty ratio difference calculating means for calculating a difference between a present duty ratio and a duty ratio before a predetermined number of periods, and a movement inhibition detecting means for detecting that a movement of the opening and closing member is inhibited when the duty ratio difference exceeds a reference value.

2. A control device of opening and closing member according to claim 1, wherein the control speed is defined to be equal to or greater than the target speed.

3. A control device of opening and closing member according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined number of periods is a few periods.

4. A control device of opening and closing member according to claim 1, wherein the controlling means evaluates a speed correction amount based on the estimated speed and the control speed, restricts the speed correction amount, and determines a duty ratio.

5. A control device of opening and closing member according to claim 1, wherein the opening and closing member includes a vehicle door for which the target speed is defined on the basis of a door position.

6. A control device of opening and closing member according to claim 5, wherein the control speed determining means specifies an intermediate speed between the estimated speed estimated by the speed estimating means and the target speed for a present door position as the control speed.

7. A control device of opening and closing member according to claim 5, wherein the controlling means evaluates a speed correction amount based on the estimated speed and the control speed, and restricts the speed correction amount to either an acceleration limit value or a deceleration limit value.

8. A control device of opening and closing member according to claim 5, wherein the controlling means evaluates the difference between the present duty ratio and the duty ratio before the predetermined number of periods, and compares an integration value that is obtained by integrating the evaluated duty ratio difference for a predetermined period with the reference value for detecting whether a pinch occurs in the vehicle door.