Patent ID: 8068960

Claim:
A control device of an adjustment apparatus of a motor vehicle for controlling a driven adjustment element of the motor vehicle in an adjustment movement along an adjustment path, the control device comprising: a memory unit with a non-volatile digital memory with more than 10 8 writing cycles and configured to acquire a plurality of adjustment data items assigned to a position or a speed of the adjustment element along the adjustment path; wherein the control device continuously stores the acquired adjustment data items in the non volatile digital memory when triggered by a triggering process; wherein the triggering is affected, during an adjustment movement of the adjustment element along the adjustment path, depending on a detected movement interval of the adjustment element along the adjustment path such that the storage is tied to a rising edge of a signal pulse indicative of the adjustment movement; and wherein the triggering is affected, when the adjustment element does not move, depending on a predefined time interval such that the adjustment data items are stored at predefined time intervals.