Vehicle seat controller

• US 9,616,774 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: ASMO Company Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Itou, Hirotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Paul, Antony M
• Application Number:
  US14/975,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20160185259A1
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 31840001, 31840003, 31840014, 31840015, 318266, 318280, 318286, 318466, 318700, 318701, 318721, 318727, 318779, 318799, 318800, 318801, 318599, 318811, 49 43, 49 72, 49100, 49146, 49380, 49467
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/02246 Electric motors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0244 with logic circuits
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/06 slidable B60N2/12 , B60N2/2209 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/16 height-adjustable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/22 the back-rest being adjustable B60N2/2878 takes precedence

Abstract

A vehicle seat controller includes a feedback controller, a speed instruction value setting unit, and an entrapment determination unit. The feedback controller performs speed feedback control so that a rotation speed of the motor follows a speed instruction value based on a difference of the speed instruction value and an actual speed of the rotation speed of the motor. The speed instruction value setting unit sets the speed instruction value in accordance with a position of the vehicle seat. The entrapment determination unit determines entrapment of a foreign object entrapped by the vehicle seat when the vehicle seat is motor-driven. When the entrapment determination unit makes a foreign object entrapment determination, the speed instruction value setting unit changes the speed instruction value for an entrapment position of the vehicle seat to a low speed value that is smaller than a predetermined initial value.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat controller that controls motor-driving of a vehicle seat based on rotation force of a motor, the vehicle seat controller comprising:

a feedback controller that performs speed feedback control so that a rotation speed of the motor follows a speed instruction value based on a difference of the speed instruction value and an actual speed of the rotation speed of the motor;

a speed instruction value setting unit that sets the speed instruction value in accordance with a position of the vehicle seat; and

an entrapment determination unit that determines entrapment of a foreign object entrapped by the vehicle seat when the vehicle seat is motor-driven,

wherein when the entrapment determination unit makes a foreign object entrapment determination, the speed instruction value setting unit changes the speed instruction value for an entrapment position of the vehicle seat to a low speed value that is smaller than a predetermined initial value.

2. The vehicle seat controller according to claim 1, wherein if the vehicle seat is moved in a direction that is the same as when the entrapment determination was made and the entrapment determination unit does not detect entrapment of a foreign object at the entrapment position, the speed instruction value setting unit returns the speed instruction value of the entrapment position to the initial value.

3. The vehicle seat controller according to claim 1, wherein the speed instruction value setting unit changes the speed instruction value, from the initial value, for a section located in front of the entrapment position of the vehicle seat so that the speed instruction value gradually decreases as the vehicle seat moves.

4. A vehicle seat controller that controls motor-driving of a vehicle seat based on rotation force of a motor, the vehicle seat controller comprising:

a feedback controller that performs speed feedback control so that a rotation speed of the motor follows a speed instruction value based on a difference of the speed instruction value and an actual speed of the rotation speed of the motor;

an entrapment determination unit that determines entrapment of a foreign object entrapped by the vehicle seat when the vehicle seat is motor-driven based on a threshold value; and

a threshold value changing unit that changes the threshold value to make a stricter determination than when using a predetermined initial value for a section including an entrapment position of the vehicle seat where the entrapment determination unit made a foreign object entrapment determination.

5. The vehicle seat controller according to claim 4, wherein if the vehicle seat is moved in a direction that is the same as when the entrapment determination was made and the entrapment determination unit does not detect entrapment of a foreign object at the entrapment position, the threshold value changing unit returns the threshold value of the entrapment position to the initial value.

6. The vehicle seat controller according to claim 4, wherein the threshold value changing unit changes the threshold value for a section located in front of the section including the entrapment position of the vehicle seat from the initial value so that determination gradually becomes stricter as the vehicle seat moves.