I claim:
1. A window system for placing a window of a motor vehicle into an open position and a closed position, said window system comprising:
a window;
a pivot bearing;
a guide rail supported on said pivot bearing so as to pivot in a plane which is substantially parallel to a plane of said window between laterally outward and laterally inward positions; and
engagement means for moving said window to said open position and said closed position, said engagement means being movably supported on said side guide rail,
wherein said engagement means moves in a direction away from said pivot bearing to place said window into said open position.
2. The window system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising two pivoting guide rails for supporting said window on two opposing sides of said window.
3. The window system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said guide rail is guided on an end located opposite to said pivot bearing.
4. The window system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said guide rail is pre-tensioned into an outer pivot position by a tensioning device.
5. The window system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said engagement means pivots said guide rail against a force supplied by said tensioning means when said window is placed into said open position.
6. The window system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a pivoting drive for moving said guide rail into said pivot position to match the position of said engagement means.
7. The window system as in claim 1, further comprising parallel guide means attached to a lower edge of said window for vertically guiding said window into at least a lowered position into a body part of said motor vehicle.
8. The window system as claimed in claim 7, further comprising a drive motor for movably guiding said window along said parallel guide means.
9. The window system as claimed in claim 7, wherein said parallel guide means has two parallel guide paths on which slide elements mounted on said lower edge of said window are movably guided.
10. The window system as claimed in claim 9, wherein each of said guide paths has an initial section which is bent in a direction toward said window.
11. The window system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said guide rail has an initial section which is bent in a direction toward said window such that when said window is in said open position, an initial displacement motion causes said window to lift inwardly.
12. The window system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said window is a rear window for a motor vehicle.
13. The window system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said window is a cover of a sliding roof for a motor vehicle.
14. A window system for placing a window of a motor vehicle into an open position and a closed position, said window system comprising:
a window;
engagement means movable along a path for moving said window to said open position and said to closed position,
a guide rail supported on a vehicle body part by a pivot bearing at each side of said window between laterally outward and laterally inward positions, said engagement means being movably supported on said side guide rail, the guide rail being in an outwardly pivoted position relative to the path of movement of the engagement means in the closed position of the window, and the guide rail being progressively pivoted inwardly about said pivot bearing by displacement of the engagement means in a direction away from the pivot bearing during movement of the window into said open.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of operating a wireless device, comprising:
determining to use one grouping of peer discovery resources of a plurality of groupings of peer discovery resources based on one of a path loss or a distance to a base station, the plurality of groupings comprising a first grouping of resources having a first plurality of identical subsets of resources and a second grouping of resources having a second plurality of identical subsets of resources, each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extending over at least one of a different time period or a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources; and
transmitting a peer discovery signal on one subset of the identical subsets of said one grouping of peer discovery resources.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a different time period and a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a first time period and over a first number of subcarriers, each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a second time period and over a second number of subcarriers, the first time period is less than the second time period, and the first number of subcarriers is greater than the second number of sub carriers.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources, each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a first number of subcarriers, each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a second number of subcarriers, and the first number of subcarriers is greater than the second number of subcarriers.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining to use said one grouping of peer discovery resources comprises:
determining to use resources in the first plurality of identical subsets of resources when the wireless device has a path loss or a distance to a serving base station that is greater than a first threshold; and
determining to use resources in the second plurality of identical subsets of resources when the wireless device has a path loss or a distance to the serving base station that is less than a second threshold.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining to use said one grouping of peer discovery resources comprises:
determining to use resources in the first plurality of identical subsets of resources when the wireless device has a path loss or a distance to a neighboring base station that is less than a first threshold; and
determining to use resources in the second plurality of identical subsets of resources when the wireless device has a path loss or a distance to the neighboring base station that is greater than a second threshold.
7. A method of operating a base station, comprising:
determining a path loss or a distance to each of a plurality of wireless devices; and
transmitting information to the wireless devices instructing the wireless devices to use peer discovery resources based on the determined path loss or distance.
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising distributing an allocation of the peer discovery resources to the wireless devices such that resources allocated to wireless devices with a path loss or a distance less than a threshold and to wireless devices with a path loss or a distance greater than the threshold are approximately evenly distributed across each set of time concurrent resources of the peer discovery resources.
9. The method of claim 7, further comprising summing path losses and distances for each set of concurrent resources such that at least one of a maximum is minimized or a minimum is maximized across the concurrent resources.
10. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
means for determining to use one grouping of peer discovery resources of a plurality of groupings of peer discovery resources based on one of a path loss or a distance to a base station, the plurality of groupings comprising a first grouping of resources having a first plurality of identical subsets of resources and a second grouping of resources having a second plurality of identical subsets of resources, each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extending over at least one of a different time period or a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources; and
means for transmitting a peer discovery signal on one subset of the identical subsets of said one grouping of peer discovery resources.
11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a different time period and a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources.
12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a first time period and over a first number of subcarriers, each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a second time period and over a second number of subcarriers, the first time period is less than the second time period, and the first number of subcarriers is greater than the second number of sub carriers.
13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources, each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a first number of subcarriers, each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a second number of subcarriers, and the first number of subcarriers is greater than the second number of subcarriers.
14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the means for determining to use said one grouping of peer discovery resources is configured to:
determine to use resources in the first plurality of identical subsets of resources when the apparatus has a path loss or a distance to a serving base station that is greater than a first threshold; and
determine to use resources in the second plurality of identical subsets of resources when the apparatus has a path loss or a distance to the serving base station that is less than a second threshold.
15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the means for determining to use said one grouping of peer discovery resources is configured to:
determine to use resources in the first plurality of identical subsets of resources when the apparatus has a path loss or a distance to a neighboring base station that is less than a first threshold; and
determine to use resources in the second plurality of identical subsets of resources when the apparatus has a path loss or a distance to the neighboring base station that is greater than a second threshold.
16. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
means for determining a path loss or a distance to each of a plurality of wireless devices; and
means for transmitting information to the wireless devices instructing the wireless devices to use peer discovery resources based on the determined path loss or distance.
17. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising means for distributing an allocation of the peer discovery resources to the wireless devices such that resources allocated to wireless devices with a path loss or a distance less than a threshold and to wireless devices with a path loss or a distance greater than the threshold are approximately evenly distributed across each set of time concurrent resources of the peer discovery resources.
18. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising means for summing path losses and distances for each set of concurrent resources such that at least one of a maximum is minimized or a minimum is maximized across the concurrent resources.
19. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
a processing system configured to:
determine to use one grouping of peer discovery resources of a plurality of groupings of peer discovery resources based on one of a path loss or a distance to a base station, the plurality of groupings comprising a first grouping of resources having a first plurality of identical subsets of resources and a second grouping of resources having a second plurality of identical subsets of resources, each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extending over at least one of a different time period or a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources; and
transmit a peer discovery signal on one subset of the identical subsets of said one grouping of peer discovery resources.
20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a different time period and a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources.
21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a first time period and over a first number of subcarriers, each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a second time period and over a second number of subcarriers, the first time period is less than the second time period, and the first number of subcarriers is greater than the second number of sub carriers.
22. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources, each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a first number of subcarriers, each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a second number of subcarriers, and the first number of subcarriers is greater than the second number of subcarriers.
23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein to determine to use said one grouping of peer discovery resources, the processing system is configured to:
determine to use resources in the first plurality of identical subsets of resources when the apparatus has a path loss or a distance to a serving base station that is greater than a first threshold; and
determine to use resources in the second plurality of identical subsets of resources when the apparatus has a path loss or a distance to the serving base station that is less than a second threshold.
24. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein to determine to use said one grouping of peer discovery resources, the processing system is configured to:
determine to use resources in the first plurality of identical subsets of resources when the apparatus has a path loss or a distance to a neighboring base station that is less than a first threshold; and
determine to use resources in the second plurality of identical subsets of resources when the apparatus has a path loss or a distance to the neighboring base station that is greater than a second threshold.
25. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
a processing system configured to:
determine a path loss or a distance to each of a plurality of wireless devices; and
transmit information to the wireless devices instructing the wireless devices to use peer discovery resources based on the determined path loss or distance.
26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processing system is further configured to distribute an allocation of the peer discovery resources to the wireless devices such that resources allocated to wireless devices with a path loss or a distance less than a threshold and to wireless devices with a path loss or a distance greater than the threshold are approximately evenly distributed across each set of time concurrent resources of the peer discovery resources.
27. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processing system is further configured to sum path losses and distances for each set of concurrent resources such that at least one of a maximum is minimized or a minimum is maximized across the concurrent resources.
28. A computer program product in a wireless device, comprising:
a computer-readable medium comprising code for:
determining to use one grouping of peer discovery resources of a plurality of groupings of peer discovery resources based on one of a path loss or a distance to a base station, the plurality of groupings comprising a first grouping of resources having a first plurality of identical subsets of resources and a second grouping of resources having a second plurality of identical subsets of resources, each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extending over at least one of a different time period or a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources; and
transmitting a peer discovery signal on one subset of the identical subsets of said one grouping of peer discovery resources.
29. The computer program product of claim 28, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a different time period and a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources.
30. The computer program product of claim 29, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a first time period and over a first number of subcarriers, each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a second time period and over a second number of subcarriers, the first time period is less than the second time period, and the first number of subcarriers is greater than the second number of subcarriers.
31. The computer program product of claim 28, wherein each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources, each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a first number of subcarriers, each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over a second number of subcarriers, and the first number of subcarriers is greater than the second number of sub carriers.
32. The computer program product of claim 31, wherein the determining to use said one grouping of peer discovery resources comprises:
determining to use resources in the first plurality of identical subsets of resources when the wireless device has a path loss or a distance to a serving base station that is greater than a first threshold; and
determining to use resources in the second plurality of identical subsets of resources when the wireless device has a path loss or a distance to the serving base station that is less than a second threshold.
33. The computer program product of claim 31, wherein the determining to use said one grouping of peer discovery resources comprises:
determining to use resources in the first plurality of identical subsets of resources when the wireless device has a path loss or a distance to a neighboring base station that is less than a first threshold; and
determining to use resources in the second plurality of identical subsets of resources when the wireless device has a path loss or a distance to the neighboring base station that is greater than a second threshold.
34. A computer program product in a base station, comprising:
a computer-readable medium comprising code for:
determining a path loss or a distance to each of a plurality of wireless devices; and
transmitting information to the wireless devices instructing the wireless devices to use peer discovery resources based on the determined path loss or distance.
35. The computer program product of claim 34, wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises code for distributing an allocation of the peer discovery resources to the wireless devices such that resources allocated to wireless devices with a path loss or a distance less than a threshold and to wireless devices with a path loss or a distance greater than the threshold are approximately evenly distributed across each set of time concurrent resources of the peer discovery resources.
36. The computer program product of claim 34, wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises code for summing path losses and distances for each set of concurrent resources such that at least one of a maximum is minimized or a minimum is maximized across the concurrent resources.