Patent ID: 7908927

Claim:
An anti-entrapment system for preventing an object from being entrapped by a translating device, the system comprising: a sensor positionable adjacent to or on a translating device, the sensor having a non-conductive compressible jacket with a cavity, a first conductor positioned within the cavity adjacent to a first portion of the jacket and connected to the jacket, and a second conductor positioned within the cavity adjacent to a second portion of the jacket opposite the first jacket portion and connected to the second jacket portion such that the conductors are opposite from one another; wherein, in response to an object pressing against the first jacket portion towards the second jacket portion, the jacket compresses from a non-compressed state in which the conductors are separated from one another to a compressed state in which the first conductor is moved towards the second conductor and contacts the second conductor; the sensor further having a compressible support outside of the cavity and positioned on the second jacket portion; wherein, in response to the object pressing against the first jacket portion towards the second jacket portion while the jacket is in the compressed state, the support compresses away from the second jacket portion to reduce pinching of the object by a translating device when the object is between the first jacket portion and the translating device.