Vehicle door opening and closing apparatus

• US 20060168891A1
• Filed: 01/24/2006
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Aoyama, Nobuo, Toyama, Daisuke, Yamauchi, Nobuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/337,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20060168891A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/360
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/603 using rotary electromotors
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/632 for horizontally-sliding wings
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/646 allowing or involving a secondary movement of the wing, e.g. rotational or transversal
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/22 Locks
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/246 by motors, magnets, springs or weights
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/434 Electromotors; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/462 Electromagnets
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2600/41 Concealed
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2600/46 in or on the wing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/11 Manual wing operation
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/531 Doors

Abstract

When an ECU interrupts electric power supplying to an electromagnetic coil with a rotor, a rotor and an armature are controlled at a disconnected state, in which a driving force transmission between a vehicle door and a electric driving power source is interrupted and a manual opening and closing operation of the vehicle door is allowed. When the ECU supplies electric power to the electromagnetic coil, the rotor and the armature are controlled at a connected state, in which the driving force transmission between the vehicle door and the electric driving power source is performed. After the ECU activates the electric driving power source to perform one of an opening operation, and a closing operation, of the vehicle door, the ECU interrupts electric power supplying to the electromagnetic coil and activates the electric driving power source.

Claims

1. A vehicle door opening and closing apparatus comprising:

an electric driving power source generates a driving force that performs an opening and closing operation of a vehicle door;

an electromagnetic clutch device provided between the vehicle door and the electric driving power source, and selectively performs and interrupts a driving force by the electric driving power source transmitting to the vehicle door, the electromagnetic clutch device comprising;

a rotor;

an electromagnetic coil integrated with the rotor; and

an armature, and

a controlling means for controlling the driving power source and the electromagnetic clutch device,

wherein, when the controlling means interrupts electric power supplying to the electromagnetic coil, the rotor and the armature are controlled at a disconnected state, in which the driving force transmission is interrupted between the electric driving power source and the vehicle door and a manual opening and closing operation of the vehicle door is allowed, and when the controlling means supplies electric power to the electromagnetic coil, the rotor and the armature are controlled at a connected state, in which the driving force transmission between the electric driving power source and the vehicle door is performed, and wherein, after establishing the connected state, the controlling means interrupts power supply to the electromagnetic coil and activates the electric driving power source.

2. A vehicle door opening and closing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controlling means activates the electric driving power source in one of a direction for opening the vehicle door and a direction for closing the vehicle door.

3. A vehicle door opening and closing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the electromagnetic clutch device includes a rotational shaft rotatable integrally with the rotor, and the electromagnetic coil is connected to a wire harness that is wound about the rotational shaft.

4. A vehicle door opening and closing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the electromagnetic clutch device includes a rotational shaft rotatable integrally with the rotor, and the electromagnetic coil is connected to a wire harness that is wound about the rotational shaft.

5. A vehicle door opening and closing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the electric driving power source is a motor, and a rotational speed of the motor is reduced when a worm gear fixed to a rotational shaft of the motor is meshed with a wheel gear freely rotatably supported about the rotational shaft which is rotatable integrally with the rotor.

6. A vehicle door opening and closing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the electric driving power source is a motor, and a rotational speed of the motor is reduced when a worm gear fixed to a rotational shaft of the motor is meshed with a wheel gear freely rotatably supported about the rotational shaft which is rotatable integrally with the rotor.

7. A vehicle door opening and closing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the electric driving power source is a motor, and a rotational speed of the motor is reduced when a worm gear fixed to a rotational shaft of the motor is meshed with a wheel gear freely rotatably supported about the rotational shaft which is rotatable integrally with the rotor driving power source.