Patent ID: 11933096
Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E  B | IPC B  E

Claim 4:
5. A window control method of a vehicle, the window control method comprising:
collecting, by a sensor, state information related to the vehicle; and
subdividing, by a controller, an entire short drop section of a frameless window provided in the vehicle into a plurality of short drop sections, and performing, by the controller, a transition of the frameless window between a full closed state of the frameless window and a plurality of shot drop states corresponding to the plurality of shot drop sections, according to the state information related to the vehicle,
wherein the plurality of shot drop states includes a first short drop state and a second short drop state, and
wherein the performing of the transition includes dividing a state of the frameless window into the full closed state in which the frameless window is drawn into a pocket of a frame provided on a body of the vehicle and is in close contact with the pocket, the first short drop state in which the frameless window is dropped by a reference value from the pocket of the frame, and the second shot drop state in which the frameless window is completely separated from the pocket of the frame,
wherein the performing of the transition includes:
performing a transition of the frameless window from the full closed state to the first short drop state when a door unlocking of the vehicle is detected;
performing a transition of the frameless window from the first short drop state to the second short drop state when the controller determines that a user starts to manipulate an outside door handle of the vehicle;
performing a transition of the frameless window from the second short drop state to the first short drop state when a door closing of the vehicle is detected; and
performing a transition of the frameless window from the first short drop state to the full closed state when a door locking of the vehicle is detected.