Patent ID: 9283994
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: B60R,B62D,E05F,E05Y,H03K

Claim Text:
1. A method for actuating a closure element arrangement of a motor vehicle, wherein the closure element arrangement has a closure element, a drive arrangement assigned to the closure element, and a control system having a controller and a sensor arrangement, wherein the sensor arrangement has at least one elongate distance sensor with a sensor extent, the method comprising: detecting with the at least one distance sensor a transverse distance from a user with respect to the sensor extent, wherein the user is located at a longitudinal position along the sensor extent, wherein at least two elongate sensor sections, running essentially one next to the other, of the at least one distance sensor are provided, which sensor sections are each configured to detect the distance from the user, and wherein the sensor sections have changing sensor configurations along the sensor extent; determining, with the controller, the longitudinal position of the user based on the sensor measured values of the at least two sensor sections; monitoring, with the controller, the sensor measured values of the at least one distance sensor within the scope of an operator control event monitoring operation, to determine whether a predetermined operator control event occurs; and actuating the drive arrangement based on the result of the operator control event monitoring operation.