VEHICLE POWER WINDOW CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20200131839A1
• Filed: 10/28/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwano, Yoshihiro, Ito, Masaki
• Granted Patent: US 11,732,523 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/17 vertically
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/695 Control circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/73 responsive to movement or presence of persons or objects
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 2015/765 using optical sensors
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/55 Windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883

Abstract

A vehicle power window control device includes an opening-closing section, a detection section, and a controller. The opening-closing section is disposed at a side door of a vehicle, and is configured to move window glass provided at the side door. The detection section is disposed at a location further toward a vehicle upper side than an armrest of the side door and further toward a vehicle front side than a door inner handle of the side door, and is configured to detect a hand movement by an occupant within a detection region set at a vehicle inner side of the location. The controller closes the window glass in a case in which an upward hand movement by the occupant has been detected by the detection section, and opens the window glass in a case in which a downward hand movement by the occupant has been detected by the detection section.

Claims

1. A vehicle power window control device comprising:

an opening-closing section that is disposed at a side door of a vehicle, and that is configured to move window glass provided at the side door up or down so as to open or close the window glass;

a detection section that is disposed at a location further toward a vehicle upper side than an armrest of the side door and further toward a vehicle front side than a door inner handle of the side door, and that is configured to detect a hand movement by an occupant within a detection region set at a vehicle inner side of the location; and

a controller that closes the window glass using the opening-closing section in a case in which an upward hand movement by the occupant has been detected by the detection section, and that opens the window glass using the opening-closing section in a case in which a downward hand movement by the occupant has been detected by the detection section.

2. The vehicle power window control device of claim 1, wherein the controller stops movement of the window glass by the opening-closing section in a case in which the detection section has detected a hand movement by the occupant in an opposite direction to a movement direction of the window glass, partway through movement of the window glass, by the opening-closing section.

3. The vehicle power window control device of claim 1, wherein the detection section has an elongated shape with a length along a vehicle vertical direction, as viewed along a vehicle width direction.

4. The vehicle power window control device of claim 1, wherein:

the opening-closing section and the detection section are respectively disposed at a driver seat side door and a front passenger seat side door; and

the detection region of the detection section disposed at the front passenger seat side door is set to a range that can be reached by an occupant seated in a driver seat by stretching an arm toward a front passenger seat side.

5. The vehicle power window control device of claim 1, wherein:

the opening-closing section and the detection section are respectively disposed at a plurality of the side doors including a driver seat side door; and

the controller includes a function disabling switch that is operable by an occupant seated in a driver seat, and functioning of the detection sections and the opening-closing sections respectively disposed at the side doors other than the driver seat side door is disabled by switching the function disabling switch ON.

6. The vehicle power window control device of claim 5, wherein the function disabling switch is displayed on a display unit of a car navigation device disposed at an instrument panel of the vehicle.

7. The vehicle power window control device of claim 1, wherein:

the opening-closing section and the detection section are respectively disposed at a plurality of the side doors including a driver seat side door; and

the controller includes an operation switch that is disposed at an instrument panel, a center console, or a steering wheel of the vehicle and that is operable by an occupant seated in a driver seat, and the opening-closing sections respectively disposed at the side doors other than the driver seat side door can be activated by operating the operation switch.

8. The vehicle power window control device of claim 7, wherein the operation switch is displayed on a display unit of a car navigation device disposed at the instrument panel of the vehicle.

9. The vehicle power window control device of claim 1, wherein the detection section is disposed proximate to the vehicle front side of the door inner handle.

10. The vehicle power window control device of claim 1, wherein the detection section is disposed proximate to a vehicle rear side of a side register disposed at an instrument panel of the vehicle.