Patent ID: 9574388
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: E05F,E05Y

Claim:
1. A control system configured for driving a motorized closure element arrangement of a motor vehicle, comprising: at least one linear distance sensor, which measures distances transverse to its local extent and passes over an elongate sensor region in a longitudinal direction, wherein the at least one linear distance sensor is configured to detect operator control events in the form of operator movement cycles; and a control arrangement configured to monitor the at least one distance sensor, as part of an operator control event monitoring process, in order to check whether a predetermined operator control event is present, wherein a longitudinal movement of a body part of an operator in the longitudinal direction can additionally be detected by the at least one distance sensor, wherein the control arrangement detects a predetermined longitudinal movement cycle, which runs in the longitudinal direction of a body part of an operator as an operator control event as part of the operator control event monitoring process, and drives the closure element arrangement in response, wherein the at least one distance sensor, for the purpose of longitudinal movement detection, has a sensor configuration which changes periodically along the longitudinal direction with a period length, so that the body part of the operator which moves in the longitudinal direction generates changing sensor measurement values of the distance sensor, and wherein the period length corresponds at least to the extent of the longitudinal movement cycle in the longitudinal direction.