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VEHICLE WINDOW GLASS RAISING/LOWERING DEVICE, VEHICLE DOOR, AND VEHICLE

  • US 20180058127A1
  • Filed: 03/23/2015
  • Published: 03/01/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2015
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A vehicle window glass raising/lowering device, comprising:

  • a drive mechanism arranged on a vehicle door to vertically move a window glass;

    a control unit for controlling the drive mechanism; and

    a camera for capturing an image of a detection line provided on the vehicle interior side with respect to the window glass, the detection line being along at least a part of the outer edge of the window glass in a state that the door and the window glass are closed,wherein the camera comprises an optical system including at least one lens and an image pickup device onto which a subject image is focused by the optical system, wherein the control unit comprises a detection means for detecting a blocked state in which the detection line captured in an image by the camera is at least partially blocked by a foreign object, and a pinching prevention means that causes the drive mechanism to perform a pinch prevention operation for preventing pinching by the window glass when the blocked state is detected by the detection means during when the window glass is moved by the drive mechanism,wherein a minimum value in a vehicle width direction of a distance between a detection surface and an inner surface of the window glass at a lower edge of the detection surface is smaller than a minimum value in the vehicle width direction of a distance between the detection surface and the inner surface of the window glass at an upper edge of the detection surface, andwherein the detection surface is defined as a surface generated by successively arranging positions between the optical system and the detection line for causing the blocked state when the foreign object is located thereat.

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