VEHICLE DOOR CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20170268278A1
• Filed: 03/13/2017
• Published: 09/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation (Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation (Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ichinose, Mikio, Hattori, Hiroki
• Granted Patent: US 10,450,788 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/037 for occupant comfort , e.g. for automatic adjustment of appliances according to personal settings, e.g. seats, mirrors, steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/20 Means to switch the anti-theft system on or off
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/40 Safety devices, e.g. detection of obstructions or end positions
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/611 for swinging wings
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/74 using photoelectric cells

Abstract

A vehicle door control system comprises a door that is supported to a vehicle body; an electric door opening device that can open and close the door electrically; a touch panel display that can display an image like the door; a loudspeaker that can create a voice; and a control device that controls the electric door opening device. The control device performs opening control by which the electric door opening device opens the door by touching an image on the touch panel display and performs voice control by which it is reported through the voice from the loudspeaker that the door opens.

Claims

1. A vehicle door control system comprising:

a door that is supported to a vehicle body;

an electric door opening device that opens and closes the door electrically;

a touch panel display that can display an image that suggests the door;

a loudspeaker that can create a voice; and

a control device that controls the electric door-opening device,

wherein the control device performs opening control through which the door is opened by the electric door opening device by touching the image displayed on the touch panel display, and performs voice control by which it is reported through the voice from the loudspeaker that the door opens.

2. The vehicle door control system of claim 1 wherein the touch panel display displays information that suggests that the door opens when the control device performs the opening control.

3. The vehicle door control system of claim 1, further comprising an obstacle sensor that can detects an obstacle that prevents the door from opening, the touch panel display can display an open-extent adjusting portion that can adjust an open extent of the door by touching, and the control device performs rotation opening control of the electric door opening device corresponding to the open extent and performs stop control of the electric door opening device even before the door reaches the open extent if the obstacle sensor detects the obstacle.