Patent ID: 11965371
Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC E  B | IPC B  E

Claim 9:
10. A control method of a vehicle including a tail gate, a driving unit engaged to the tail gate and configured to open or close the tail gate and a Ultra Wide Band (UWB) module configured to communicate with a smart key according to an authentication signal transmitted from the smart key in a first mode, and to transmit a detection signal to an object and detect the object according to the detection signal reflected from the object in a second mode, the method comprising:
operating, by a controller connected to the UWB module, the UWB module in the second mode upon determining that the driving unit operates;
stopping the operation of the driving unit when the object is detected from the UWB module operating in the second mode during operation of the driving unit; and
determining a location of the smart key according to signals received from the UWB module operating in the first mode,
wherein when the object detected by the UWB module operating in the second mode is determined to be the smart key, the controller is determine that a user sets an opening amount of the tail gate.