Adjusting system for adjusting a component of a motor vehicle on an adjustment path

• US 9,930,165 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2015
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stabilus GmbH (Stabilus S.A.)
• Original Assignee: Stabilus GmbH (Stabilus S.A.)
• Inventors: Bochen, Marian, Knopp, Axel, Becker, Henri
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Dung
• Application Number:
  US14/830,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20160057273A1
• Time in Patent Office: 951 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances

Abstract

An adjusting system for adjusting a component of a motor vehicle on an adjustment path between a basic position and an end position with a mobile communications device through which control commands can be sent wirelessly to a control unit arranged in the motor vehicle and through which a drive for the adjustment of the adjustable component can be actuated. A target position selected from a plurality of target positions on the adjustment path of the adjustable component can be entered in the mobile communications device, and thereupon a corresponding actuating signal can be sent to the control unit wirelessly through the mobile communications device. The drive for adjusting the adjustable component to the selected target position can be actuated by the control unit.

Claims

1. An adjusting system comprising

a mobile communications device;

a control unit which is arranged in a motor vehicle;

an adjustable component of a motor vehicle that is adjustable on an adjustment path between a basic position and an end position with the mobile communications device through which control commands can be sent wirelessly to the control unit and through which a drive for the adjustment of the adjustable component can be actuated,

wherein a target position selected from a plurality of target positions on the adjustment path of the adjustable component can be entered in the mobile communications device and a corresponding actuating signal can be sent to the control unit wirelessly through the mobile communications device, and

wherein the drive that adjusts the adjustable component to the selected target position is configured to be actuated by the control unit,

wherein a position of an obstacle in the adjustment path of the adjustable component is detected by an obstacle sensor, and a corresponding obstacle position signal is sent to the mobile communications device, and the detected position of the obstacle is entered in the mobile communications device as new selected target position.

2. The adjusting system according to claim 1, wherein the adjustable component is a hatch of the motor vehicle.

3. The adjusting system according to claim 2, wherein the drive is an electric motor drive.

4. The adjusting system according to claim 3, wherein the drive has a spindle drive driven by an electric motor and by which the hatch is movably driven to the selected target position.

5. The adjusting system according to claim 1, wherein the selected target position on the adjustment path is entered steplessly for the adjustable component and the adjustable component is movably driven steplessly to the selected target position.

6. The adjusting system according to claim 1, wherein the selected target position is entered in the mobile communications device via voice input.

7. The adjusting system according to claim 1, wherein the selected target position is entered in the mobile communications device via a key input on a keypad.

8. The adjusting system according to claim 1, wherein the selected target position is entered in the mobile communications device via a touch input on a touch-sensitive input surface.

9. The adjusting system according to claim 8, wherein the input surface has a display on which the adjustment path of the adjustable component is displayed, and one of a touch-sensitive input zone and a keypad associated with this display.

10. The adjusting system according to claim 9, wherein the one of the touch-sensitive input zone and the keypad forms a bar graph.

11. The adjusting system according to claim 9, wherein the adjustable component can be displayed on the display in a current starting position and/or the selected target position of the adjustable component.

12. The adjusting system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one of the touch-sensitive input zone and the keypad extends on the display along the adjustment path of the adjustable component.

13. The adjusting system according to claim 9, wherein the movement of the adjustable component from a current starting position into the selected target position is displayed on the display.

14. The adjusting system according to claim 1, wherein a permanently stored target position can be stored in the mobile communications device and can be retrieved by the control unit to actuate the drive for adjusting the adjustable component to the stored target position.

15. The adjusting system according to claim 14, wherein at least one of a visual signal and an acoustic signal is sent by the mobile communications device when the selected target position of the adjustable component has been reached.