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Post-automatically determined user-modifiable activity performance limit apparatus and method

DC CAFC
  • US 6,741,052 B2
  • Filed: 04/11/2002
  • Issued: 05/25/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for use with a movable barrier comprising:

  • at least one motor operably coupleable to the movable barrier;

    a barrier movement control unit operably coupled to the at least one motor, which barrier movement control unit includes;

    a processor operably coupled to receive information regarding at least some forces acting upon the movable barrier when the movable barrier is moving and being arranged and configured to automatically determine at least one force threshold during a first mode of operation for use by the barrier movement control unit when controlling the motor in a second mode of operation; and

    a user manipulable force threshold modification control having an output that provides force threshold modification information for use by the barrier movement control unit when controlling the motor in the second mode of operation.

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