Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for operating a power tailgate system include overload checking a tailgate latched by a latch that is in a full-latching position, connected with a latch actuator, and activated by the latch actuator for non-revertible movement in a latching direction. Overload checking the tailgate includes operating the latch actuator to over-stroke the latch, identifying an over-stroking load on the latch actuator, and based on the over-stroking load on the latch actuator, determining whether the tailgate is overloaded or not overloaded. Over-stroking the latch includes moving the latch in the latching direction from the full-latching position to an over-stroking position, and the over-stroking load on the latch actuator is associated with its operation to over-stroke the latch.

Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for operating a power tailgate system include overload checking a tailgate latched by a latch that is in a full-latching position, connected with a latch actuator, and activated by the latch actuator for non-revertible movement in a latching direction. Overload checking the tailgate includes operating the latch actuator to over-stroke the latch, identifying an over-stroking load on the latch actuator, and based on the over-stroking load on the latch actuator, determining whether the tailgate is overloaded or not overloaded. Over-stroking the latch includes moving the latch in the latching direction from the full-latching position to an over-stroking position, and the over-stroking load on the latch actuator is associated with its operation to over-stroke the latch.

Abstract: Touch sensor apparatus for use with vehicles are disclosed. A disclosed touch sensor assembly for a vehicle gate includes a sensor configured to operatively couple to the vehicle gate. The touch sensor assembly also includes a cover having a tubular body that extends over the sensor and ribs interposed between the tubular body and the sensor. At least one of the ribs is configured to transfer a load from the tubular body to the sensor to change a state of the sensor.

Abstract: Touch sensor apparatus for use with vehicles are disclosed. A disclosed touch sensor assembly for a vehicle gate includes a sensor configured to operatively couple to the vehicle gate. The touch sensor assembly also includes a cover having a tubular body that extends over the sensor and ribs interposed between the tubular body and the sensor. At least one of the ribs is configured to transfer a load from the tubular body to the sensor to change a state of the sensor.

Abstract: A rotation and stop retention switching apparatus includes a rotary member being rotary driven, a slider being movable in an axial direction of a rotary axis of the rotary member, a transmission member transmitting a rotary force of the rotary member to the slider, a biasing member biasing the slider in the axial direction of the rotary axis, and a stopper member coming in contact with the slider being biased by the biasing member. The rotary force of the rotary member is transmitted to the slider via the transmission member in a state where the slider is disengaged from the stopper member by a movement of the slider in the axial direction of the rotary axis, the movement caused by the translational force of the slider with a use of the transmission member against a biasing force of the biasing member.

Abstract: A rotation and stop retention switching apparatus includes a shaft portion within which an output shaft of a drive motor is configured to be disposed, a pivot member placed at a circumference of the shaft portion, a rotary body placed opposite the body in an axial direction, a pivot shaft pivotally supporting the pivot member, a biasing member disposed at the pivot member to be supported thereby, and a switching member pressing the pivot member to separate the pivot member from the shaft portion against a biasing force applied by the biasing member in accordance with a rotation of the output shaft. The rotary body rotates by a rotation force applied by the output shaft by a gap formed between the pivot member and the shaft portion in a case where the pivot member is pressed by the switching member in accordance with the rotation of the output shaft.

Abstract: A resistance generation apparatus includes a power receiving portion, a transmission portion transmitting rotational motion of the power receiving portion to a rotational body, a fixing member, the transmission portion including a pivot member being pivotable between a contact position at which the pivot member is in contact with the fixing member and a non-contact position at which the pivot member is separated from the fixing member, the transmission portion including a holding portion, the holding portion holding the pivot member at the contact position to generate resistance relative to rotational motion of the rotational body, the holding portion holding the pivot member at the non-contact position to release the resistance in a case where the power receiving portion is rotated by the power.

Abstract: A door lock apparatus includes a latch mechanism having a latch being engagable with a striker and having a pawl stopping a rotation of the latch being engaged with the striker at a half latched position and a fully latched position, a half latch detection portion, a full latch detection portion, a driving portion for rotating the latch being in the half latched position toward the fully latched position, an intermediate position detection portion and a controlling portion for controlling the driving portion to start the driving portion in order to rotate the latch being in the half latched position toward the fully latched position, to stop the drive of the driving portion when the latch is in the fully latched position and to temporally stop the driving portion when the latch is in the intermediate position.

Abstract: A lid lock apparatus for a vehicle includes a retainer, a cap, and a lock pin. The retainer includes a fitting portion to which an end portion of the cap is configured to fit from an outside of the lid box towards an inside of the lid box and a first engaging portion formed to be positioned outward of the lid box relative to the fitting portion. The cap includes an operational lever portion configured to be elastically deformed to tilt by an operation at an outside of the lid box and including a second engaging portion configured to engage with and disengage from the first engaging portion.

Abstract: A lid lock apparatus for a vehicle includes a retainer, a cap, and a lock pin. The retainer includes a fitting portion to which an end portion of the cap is configured to fit from an outside of the lid box towards an inside of the lid box and a first engaging portion formed to be positioned outward of the lid box relative to the fitting portion. The cap includes an operational lever portion configured to be elastically deformed to tilt by an operation at an outside of the lid box and including a second engaging portion configured to engage with and disengage from the first engaging portion.

Abstract: A door lock apparatus includes a latch mechanism having a latch being engagable with a striker and having a pawl stopping a rotation of the latch being engaged with the striker at a half latched position and a fully latched position, a half latch detection portion, a full latch detection portion, a driving portion for rotating the latch being in the half latched position toward the fully latched position, an intermediate position detection portion and a controlling portion for controlling the driving portion to start the driving portion in order to rotate the latch being in the half latched position toward the fully latched position, to stop the drive of the driving portion when the latch is in the fully latched position and to temporally stop the driving portion when the latch is in the intermediate position.

Abstract: A polyamide resin composition contains: 85 to 95 parts by weight of a polyamide resin; 5 to 15 parts by weight of a wollastonite; 3 to 10 parts by weight, to 100 parts by the total weight of the polyamide resin and the wollastonite, of a styrene copolymer modified with at least one modifier of unsaturated carboxylic acids and unsaturated dicarboxylic anhydrides; and 0.5 to 5 parts by weight, to 100 parts by the total weight of the polyamide resin and the wollastonite, of a high-density polyethylene modified with at least one modifier of the unsaturated carboxylic acids and the unsaturated dicarboxylic anhydrides, and the polyamide resin containing ingredients: 10 to 50 parts by weight of nylon 6 and 50 to 90 parts by weight of nylon 66, based on 100 parts by weight of the whole polyamide resin.

Abstract: A polyamide resin composition contains: 85 to 95 parts by weight of a polyamide resin; 5 to 15 parts by weight of a wollastonite; 3 to 10 parts by weight, to 100 parts by the total weight of the polyamide resin and the wollastonite, of a styrene copolymer modified with at least one modifier of unsaturated carboxylic acids and unsaturated dicarboxylic anhydrides; and 0.5 to 5 parts by weight, to 100 parts by the total weight of the polyamide resin and the wollastonite, of a high-density polyethylene modified with at least one modifier of the unsaturated carboxylic acids and the unsaturated dicarboxylic anhydrides, and the polyamide resin containing ingredients: 10 to 50 parts by weight of nylon 6 and 50 to 90 parts by weight of nylon 66, based on 100 parts by weight of the whole polyamide resin.

Abstract: A handle lever is rotatable and movable in an axial direction relative to a frame and when the handle lever is rotatably moved from a predetermined position in a rotation direction with a predetermined amount against a urging force of a rotative urging spring and also moved from a predetermined position in the axial direction with a predetermined amount against a urging force of an axial urging spring, an engaging hook of the handle lever is engaged with an engaging portion of the frame in the rotation direction and the axial direction for holding the handle lever in a tentative holding position.

Abstract: A handle lever is rotatable and movable in an axial direction relative to a frame and when the handle lever is rotatably moved from a predetermined position in a rotation direction with a predetermined amount against a urging force of a rotative urging spring and also moved from a predetermined position in the axial direction with a predetermined amount against a urging force of an axial urging spring, an engaging hook of the handle lever is engaged with an engaging portion of the frame in the rotation direction and the axial direction for holding the handle lever in a tentative holding position.