A vehicle safety device that prevents the activation of automatic or power switches in a vehicle. The vehicle safety device may have a protrusion that engages or obstructs the switch by filling the void adjacent the switch, the finger groove, thereby preventing access to the finger groove and/or not allowing the switch to be moved into an activation position. The protrusion may have a tab the further prevents the switch from moving from an inactivated state to an activated state. The protrusion is connected to an underside of a hard shell covering the entire switch area/panel, thereby preventing access to a plurality of switches and thus also preventing their inadvertent activation.

An open-roof assembly is configured for covering or at least partly uncovering an opening in a vehicle roof. The open-roof assembly comprises a frame defining the opening, a moveably arranged closure member and a pressure-sensitive sensor device. The open-roof assembly comprises a closed state, in which the closure member covers the opening in the vehicle roof, and an open state, in which the closure member uncovers the roof opening at least partly. The pressure-sensitive sensor device is arranged between the closure member and the frame for detecting presence of an object between the closure member and the frame, at least when the closure member is moving from the open state towards the closed state. The pressure-sensitive sensor device extends over a device length and is configured to detect a location of a local pressure, which local pressure is exerted locally on the pressure-sensitive sensor device, along the device length.

A contact sensor and method of construction thereof are provided. The contact sensor has a sensor body extending along an axis between a first end and an opposite second end. The sensor body has an internal cavity extending from the first end to the second. A first conductor extends through the internal cavity between the first end and the second end. A second conductor extends through the internal cavity, in spaced relation from the first conductor, between the first end and the second end. A wire harness is fixed in electrical communication with the first conductor and the second conductor adjacent at least one of the first end and the second end of the sensor body. The first conductor and the second conductor do not extend axially outwardly from the internal cavity beyond the first end and the second end of the sensor body.

An open roof assembly is configured for providing a closable roof opening in a vehicle roof. Thereto, the open roof assembly comprises a closure member that is moveably arranged for opening and closing the roof opening and a detection system for detecting an object in the roof opening. The detection system is configured to provide an entrapment signal if a foreign object is detected in the roof opening, when the closure member is moving and a collision may occur. The detection system is further configured to provide an operating signal, when an object is detected performing a predefined action. Based on the operating signal a control unit may execute an associated function.

An air control system with an integrated diagnostic device for a motor vehicle includes: a carrier structure, an air output opening, a closing element arrangement with one or several closing elements adjustably placed on the carrier structure, a power unit which is constructed to adjust the closing element arrangement in an adjustment movement, a diagnostic device to acquire information about the condition of the closing element arrangement, an interface to convey data at least from the diagnostic device to another device, wherein for at least one closing element of the closing element arrangement the air control system also includes a resistance element associated with said closing element which is constructed to temporarily change the torque or force required in a predetermined phase of the adjustment movement for the adjustment of the closing element arrangement, wherein the diagnostic device acquires at least one operating parameter of the power unit as information about the status of the closing element arrangement.

A protector with a sensor operatively coupled on a sliding door detects an object by touch between two conductive parts in a hollow part with a space therebetween. The two conductive parts including a conductive part on a lower part of the hollow part as a side of the installation base member and a conductive part on an upper part of the hollow part as a side of a top end are shaped and positioned in a manner that an inner-cabin side end and an outer-cabin side end of the space are continuously provided directly on an inner peripheral surface of the hollow part. A coating layer covers at least an outer peripheral surface of the outer coat of the hollow part having the inner-cabin side end and the outer-cabin side end of the space continuously provided directly on the inner peripheral surface thereof.

A protector with a sensor comprises: a hollow part; and an installation base member formed on the hollow part. In the hollow part, a plurality of conductive parts have core wires embedded therein respectively and a space is positioned between the plurality of conductive parts. The plurality of conductive parts include: a conductive part on a lower part of the hollow part as a side of the installation base member; and a conductive part on an upper part of the hollow part separated from the side of the installation base member by the space. The hollow part includes: an oblique side on an inner-cabin side extending from an inner-cabin side end connected with the installation base member to a tip; and an oblique side on an outer-cabin side extending from an outer-cabin side end connected with the installation base member to the tip.

A vehicle door glass lifting device includes a lifting and lowering mechanism by which a door glass is lifted or lowered relative to a window frame of a vehicle door, a contact sensor that is arranged on a top end surface of the door glass and extended along a longitudinal direction of the top end surface of the door glass, and a control part that controls the lifting and lowering mechanism. The contact sensor can detect a contact state including a contact length with a contact object. The control part determines whether or not the contact object is a foreign object based on the contact state detected by the contact sensor, and the control part lowers the door glass when the contact object is determined as the foreign object.

A window system includes a window that moves between a closed position and an open position, and a pressure-sensitive material disposed on an edge of the window. An object detection method includes moving a window from a more open position to a less open position, and during the moving, detecting an electrical parameter using a pressure-sensitive material.

The present invention relates to a pinch detection switch (1) that includes one tubular pressure-sensitive detection member (5) having a plurality of electrode wires spaced apart from one another, and a cover member (4) covering the pressure-sensitive detection member. When the cover member (4) is viewed in cross section, the cover member (4) includes a base portion (4-1), a hollow portion (6), and a deformation portion (4-2) provided on the base portion (4-1) so as to cover the hollow portion (6). The pressure-sensitive detection member (5) is arranged in the deformation portion (4-2), and a receiving portion (9) configured to receive the pressure-sensitive detection member (5) is arranged on the base portion (4-1). The receiving portion (9) has at least two receiving surfaces (9-1, 9-3) formed at positions facing the pressure-sensitive detection member (5), the two receiving surfaces being configured to receive the pressure-sensitive detection member.