Vehicle closure panel control assembly and method

US10921900B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Howard Paul Tsvi Linden · Southfield, US
• Onoyom Essien Ekanem · White Lake, US
• Marc Beeman · Grosse Pointe Woods, US
• Christopher Matthew Radjewski · Chesterfield Township, US
• Kristopher Karl Brown · Dearborn, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 1, 2019
• Grant date: Feb 16, 2021
• Expiry date: Nov 1, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C9/00563
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle closure panel control assembly includes, among other things, a closure panel, an actuator system that can move the closure panel back and forth between an open position and a closed position, a positional sensor that senses a position of at least part of a user to detect a user gesture, and a control module that commands the actuator system to control movement of the closure panel. The commands from the control module to the actuator system are based at least partially on the user gesture.