Vehicle door controlling device

• US 9,840,866 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2014
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Goto, Yuya
• Primary Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US15/025,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20160208541A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• Field of Search: 49 25
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/04 arranged at the vehicle sides panel mounted arm-rests B60N2/78; wall liners B60R13/02; door edge guards B60R13/043; padded linings associated with the side doors B60R21/0428
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/245 where the antenna reception area plays a role
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/76 responsive to devices carried by persons or objects, e.g. magnets or reflectors E05F15/77 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/531 Doors
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/64 using a proximity sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00182 operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

A vehicle door controlling device includes a vehicle-side controller, installed on the vehicle including a door capable of being opened automatically; and a mobile device on which reservation setting of automatic door-opening of the door can be made by a user. The mobile device can transmit a signal that includes information about the reservation setting. The vehicle-side controller can receive the signal, detect the mobile device having the reservation setting and existing in a first area around the door, based on the signal received by the receiver unit, and unlock the door when the mobile device having the reservation setting has been detected in the first area by the first detection unit, and to open the door when the mobile device detected in the first area by the first detection unit is further being detected in the first area for a predetermined time.

Claims

1. A vehicle door controlling device, comprising:

a vehicle-side controller, installed on a vehicle including a door capable of being opened automatically; and

a mobile device on which a reservation setting of automatic door-opening of the door can be made by a user,

wherein the mobile device includes a transmitter unit configured to transmit a signal that includes information about the reservation setting, by a wireless communication function,

wherein the vehicle-side controller includes a receiver unit configured to receive the signal transmitted from the mobile device,

a detection unit configured to detect the mobile device having the reservation setting and existing in an area around the door, based on the signal received by the receiver unit, and

a control unit configured to unlock the door when the mobile device having the reservation setting has been detected in the area around the door by the detection unit, and to open the door when the mobile device detected in the area around the door by the detection unit is further being detected in the area around the door for a predetermined time.

2. The vehicle door controlling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein when opening the door, the control unit reduces the door-opening speed of the door between a start point and a predetermined position slower than the door-opening speed of the door between the predetermined position and an end point on an opening trajectory of the door.

3. The vehicle door controlling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit pauses opening the door after having started opening the door.

4. The vehicle door controlling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vehicle includes a plurality of the doors,

wherein the detection unit is further configured to be capable of detecting in which one of the areas around the door corresponding to respective doors of the plurality of doors, the mobile device having the reservation setting exists,

wherein the control unit opens the door that corresponds to the area around the door in which the mobile device having the reservation setting has been detected by the detection unit.

5. A vehicle door controlling device, comprising:

a vehicle-side controller, installed on a vehicle including a door capable of being opened automatically; and

a mobile device on which a reservation setting of automatic door-opening of the door can be made by a user,

wherein the mobile device includes a transmitter unit configured to transmit a signal that includes information about the reservation setting, by a wireless communication function,

wherein the vehicle-side controller includes a receiver unit configured to receive the signal transmitted from the mobile device,

a first detection unit configured to detect the mobile device having the reservation setting, and existing in a first area around the door, based on the signal received by the receiver unit,

a second detection unit configured to detect the mobile device existing in a second area included in the first area and formed on a side approaching the door in the first area, based on the signal received by the receiver unit, and

a control unit configured to unlock the door when the mobile device having the reservation setting has been detected in the first area by the first detection unit, and to open the door when the mobile device detected in the first area by the first detection unit is further detected in the second area by the second detection unit.

6. The vehicle door controlling device as claimed in claim 5, wherein when opening the door, the control unit reduces the door-opening speed of the door between a start point and a predetermined position slower than the door-opening speed of the door between the predetermined position and an end point on an opening trajectory of the door.

7. The vehicle door controlling device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the control unit pauses opening the door after having started opening the door.

8. The vehicle door controlling device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the vehicle includes a plurality of the doors,

wherein the first detection unit is further configured to be capable of detecting in which one of the first areas corresponding to the respective doors, the mobile device having the reservation setting exists,

wherein the control unit opens the door that corresponds to the first area in which the mobile device having the reservation setting has been detected by the first detection unit.