DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A DOOR LEAF

• US 20120035814A1
• Filed: 02/23/2010
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DAV Société par actions simplifiée
• Original Assignee: DAV Société par actions simplifiée
• Inventors: Tissot, Jean-Marc
• Application Number:
  US13/201,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20120035814A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/49
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/00 Power-operated mechanisms for wings motor-operated accessories in locks for completing closing or initiating opening of a wing E05B17/00
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/689 specially adapted for vehicle windows
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/35 related to specific positions
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/852 Sensors
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/86 by hand
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2600/46 in or on the wing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/40 Protection E05Y2400/50, E05Y2400/52 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/542 Roof panels
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/55 Windows
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/9625 using a force resistance transducer

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for controlling a door leaf (3) of a passenger compartment, in particular of an automobile, comprising: a detection field formed on at least one active surface of the door leaf (3); a unit (5) for detecting a gesture of a user on said active surface; and an interpretation module (7) for generating a command relating to the door leaf (3) and associated with the detected gesture.

Claims

1. A device for controlling an opening element of a motor vehicle, comprising:

a detection field defined on at least one active surface of the opening element;

a detection unit for detecting a hand action of a user on said at least one active surface; and

an interpretation module for generating at least one command, relating to the opening element, based on the detected hand action.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said active surface of the opening element is a glazed surface.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the detection field is defined on a face of said at least one active surface of the opening element, said at least one active surface being directed toward the inside of the motor vehicle.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the detection field is defined on a face of said at least one active surface of the opening element, said at least one active surface being directed toward the outside of the motor vehicle.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the detection unit comprises at least two ultrasound sensors.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the detection unit comprises a tactile sensor for detecting a pressure of the hand action of the user on said at least one active surface of the opening element.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein said device comprises means for disabling said at least one command when the detected pressure is outside a predefined pressure range.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interpretation module generates two commands relating to the opening element, said two commands being associated with a combined hand action of the user.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interpretation module generates a command for movement of the opening element, said command being associated with the detected hand action of the user.

10. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said detected hand action is the user applying pressure on said at least one active surface of the opening element.

11. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein a length of movement of the opening element is associated with the position of the applied pressure on said at least one active surface of the opening element.

12. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said detected hand action is a movement of the user on said at least one active surface of the opening element.

13. The device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the interpretation module exploits a resultant outcome of the user'"'"'s movement on said at least one active surface of the opening element substantially parallel to a direction of movement of the opening element.

14. The device as claimed in claim 12, wherein said at least one command allows movement of the opening element in a direction corresponding to the direction of movement of the user on said at least one active surface of the opening element.

15. The device as claimed in claim 12, wherein a length of movement of the opening element is associated with a length of movement of the hand action of the user on the opening element.

16. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interpretation module generates a command for changing properties of the opening element.

17. The device as claimed in claim 16, said command is associated with a movement of the user on said at least one active surface of the opening element in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction of movement of the opening element.

18. The device as claimed in claim 17, wherein:

a movement of the user in a first direction is associated with a command to reduce the properties of the opening element,

a movement of the user in a second direction is associated with a command for increasing the properties of the opening element, and

a quantity of change of properties of the opening element is associated with a length of travel of the movement of the user on the opening element.

19. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an auxiliary tactile surface allowing a command relative to the opening element.