Patent ID: 9255435
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: E05F

Claim Text:
1. In a vehicle having a vehicle window that is adjusted by an actuating motor between a closed position, a fully open position, and partially open positions therebetween, an actuating method for adjusting the vehicle window, the method comprising: providing a sensor inside a passenger compartment of the vehicle and in vicinity of the vehicle window; monitoring a measurement volume which adjoins the vehicle window and the sensor in the passenger compartment of the vehicle with the sensor, for a presence of a body part of a vehicle occupant or for a presence of a lighted cigarette; and when the presence of the body part or the presence of the lighted cigarette is detected by the sensor in the measurement volume, causing the actuating motor to move the vehicle window from the closed position to a partly open position by moving the window from the closed position to the partly open position.