Seat control electronic system and method for a motor-driven motor vehicle adjusting device

• US 8,214,109 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2007
• Issued: 07/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Schüssler, Markus, Rösch, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Dickson, Paul N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Verley, Nicole
• Application Number:
  US12/279,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055055A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,965 Days
• Field of Search: 701/49
• US Class Current: 701/49
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0244 with logic circuits
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0277 characterised by the calculation method or calculation flow chart of sensor data for adjusting the seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2210/14 Inductive; Magnetic field
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2220/20 using a deterministic algorithm
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 7/0851 for motors actuating a movable member between two end positions, e.g. detecting an end position or obstruction by overload signal

Abstract

The invention relates to a seat control electronic system for controlling a drive of a motor vehicle seat which is configured for detecting a characteristic variable of the drive during several short actuations of the drive, and to evaluate variables respectively associated with several short actuations, and to determine a blocking function according to the evaluations.

Claims

1. A seat control electronic system having a trapping prevention function for a motor driven seat adjusting device, with the seat control electronic system being configured

to determine an adjusting movement of a drive from at least one detected characteristic variable of the drive, and

to determine a trapping instance from measured values of the characteristic variable of a first adjustment operation and from measured values of the characteristic variable of a second and/or further brief adjustment operations during a plurality of brief adjustment operations of the drive in the same adjustment direction,

to determine a first total load exerted by the drive during the first adjustment operation,

to determine a second total load exerted by the drive after an adjustment break for the second adjustment operation in the same adjustment direction,

to not reject an evaluation of the determined first total load if an adjustment path or adjustment time of the second adjustment operation falls below a threshold,

to stop the drive or to reverse the adjustment direction of the drive if a trapping instance is detected as a function of an evaluation of the first total load and the second total load,

to determine and store a second nominal load first during a start phase of the second adjustment operation from the second nominal load if the adjustment path of the second adjustment operation exceeds the threshold, and

to determine whether trapping has occurred during a monitoring phase from a comparison between the second nominal load and the second total load which varies during the second adjustment operation,

wherein, in order to delete the evaluation after the threshold is exceeded, the seat control electronic system is configured to replace the determined first nominal load with the second nominal load for the further determination of a trapping instance.

2. The seat control electronic system according to claim 1, wherein said seat control electronic system is configured to determine and to store a first nominal load during the first adjustment operation from the first total load, and which is configured to determine whether trapping has occurred during the second adjustment operation from a comparison between the first nominal load and the second total load which varies during the second adjustment operation.

3. The seat control electronic system according to claim 1, in which the start phase corresponds to a translatory adjustment path of up to 50 mm or an inclination adjustment of approximately 10 of the adjusting device.

4. The seat control electronic system according to claim 1, which is designed

to determine a third total load after a further adjustment break in the event of a third adjustment operation in the same adjustment direction,

to not delete an evaluation of the determined first total load if an adjustment path of the third adjustment operation falls below the threshold, and

to stop the drive or to reverse the adjustment direction of the drive if a trapping instance is detected as a function of an evaluation of the first total load and the third total load.

5. The seat control electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the seat control electronic system is configured to employ a first mathematical model in order to determine a total load, and to change over to a second mathematical model which takes into account the trapping instance only if there is a deviation between the total load and a nominal load or if there is a deviation between the detected characteristic variable for assessing whether trapping has occurred.

6. A motor vehicle comprising the seat control electronic system according to claim 1.

7. A seat control electronic system for controlling a drive of a motor vehicle seat, which is configured

to detect a characteristic variable of the drive during a plurality of brief actuation operations of the drive,

to evaluate the characteristic variable which is in each case associated with the plurality of brief actuation operations, and

to determine a trapping instance as a function of these evaluations of a plurality of actuation operations.

8. A method for controlling a motor-driven motor vehicle adjusting device, wherein a total load that is exerted by the drive is derived from at least one detected characteristic variable of a drive in order to monitor for a trapping instance, the method comprising

determining a first total load during a first adjustment operation,

determining a second total load after an adjustment break in the event of a second adjustment operation in the same adjustment direction,

not rejecting an evaluation of the determined first total load if an adjustment path or adjustment time of the second adjustment operation falls below a threshold,

stopping the drive or reversing the adjustment direction of the drive if a trapping instance is detected as a function of an evaluation of the first total load and the second total load,

determining and storing a second nominal load first during a start phase of the second adjustment operation from the second nominal load if the adjustment path of the second adjustment operation exceeds the threshold, and

determining whether trapping has occurred during a monitoring phase from a comparison between the second nominal load and the second total load which varies during the second adjustment operation,

wherein, in order to delete the evaluation after the threshold is exceeded, the seat control electronic system is configured to replace the determined first nominal load with the second nominal load for the further determination of a trapping instance.

9. The method according to claim 8, the method further comprising

determining and storing a first nominal load during the first adjustment operation from the first total load, and

determining whether trapping has occurred during the second adjustment operation from a comparison between the first nominal load and the second total load which varies during the second adjustment operation.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein, in order to delete the evaluation after the threshold is exceeded, the determined first nominal position is replaced with the second nominal load for the further determination of a trapping instance.

11. The method according to claim 8, the method comprising

determining a third total load after a further adjustment break in the event of a third adjustment operation in the same adjustment direction,

not deleting an evaluation of the determined first total load and/or an evaluation of the determined second total load if an adjustment path of the third adjustment operation falls below the threshold, and the drive is stopped or the adjustment direction of the drive is reversed if a trapping instance is detected as a function of an evaluation of the first total load and the third total load.