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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2008
Applicant:
Frédéric Gehin, Creteil Cedex, FR;
Inventor:
Frédéric Gehin, Creteil Cedex, FR;
Assignee:
Valeo Securite Habitacle, Creteil, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 22/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The subject of the invention is a secure method for automatically closing a motor vehicle tailgate () fitted with at least one presence sensor () of an element in a detection zone (), the said detection zone having at least one shadow zone (), characterized in that it comprises the step consisting in making the automatic operation of closing the vehicle tailgate conditional upon the completion of the following various operations: —detecting () the presence of an element in the detection zone; —detecting () a departure of the said element from the detection zone.