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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1999
Kazuyoshi Ogasawara, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A simple and cheap opening and closing motion control device is provided for avoiding pinching of an object by a window glass with high accuracy. The device includes a flexible weather strip arranged along a contact portion of a window frame, the contact portion being touched by the window glass when it is closed, a linear electrostatic-capacity detecting sensor embedded in the weather strip, for detecting an electrostatic capacity in the circumference of the sensor, a control micro-computer for judging whether or not the object is pinched by the closing motion of the window glass, on the basis of the detection of the sensor, and a motor drive circuit for allowing a motor to either stop or open the window glass when the micro-computer judges that the object is on the point of being pinched.