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Method and apparatus for preventing entrapment by a vehicle closure

  • US 6,137,404 A
  • Filed: 05/26/1999
  • Issued: 10/24/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of preventing undesired operation of a vehicular portal closure member comprising the steps of:

  • receiving, at an entrapment prevention controller, at least one sensor signal relating to the presence of a vehicle operator;

    determining, from said at least one sensor signal, an operator presence state indicative of the presence of an operator at an operating position in said vehicle;

    preventing, if said operator presence state is negative, operation of said vehicle portal closure member;

    allowing, if said operator presence state is positive, operation of said vehicle portal closure member.

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