US 12,405,619 B2
Method and system for dynamically controlling a slide-out assembly
Justin Paul Scherba, Salmon Arm (CA); Jack William Fenkhuber, Salmon Arm (CA); and Luke Wilfred Heckrodt, Salmon Arm (CA)
Assigned to Valid Manufacturing Ltd, (CA)
Filed by Valid Manufacturing Ltd., Salmon Arm (CA)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/822,351.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/237,742, filed on Aug. 27, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. CA 3129134 (CA), filed on Aug. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0063581 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G05D 3/20 (2006.01); B60P 3/34 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 3/203 (2013.01) [B60P 3/34 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatically detecting and dynamically updating a stop position of a slide-out assembly, the method comprising the steps of:
a) synchronizing, by a controller, a movement of each of at least two slide-out actuators during an operation;
b) when the at least two slide-out actuators approach a last saved travel distance defining the stop position, detecting, by the controller in communication with a position sensor, a decreased speed of each slide-out actuator of the said at least two slide-out actuators;
c) stopping, by the controller, each of the at least two slide-out actuators when the speed of each slide-out actuator reaches a stop position threshold;
d) comparing, by the controller, a travel distance of the at least two slide-out actuators to the said last saved travel distance;
e) updating, by the controller, the said last saved travel distance to a new saved travel distance, if the travel distance is greater than or less than the last saved travel distance.