Dust resuspension system for a motor vehicle
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMarcel Mathissen, Volker Scheer, Rainer Vogt
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Abstract
A dust resuspension system for a vehicle includes one or more dust sensors mounted to a roof, the dust sensors being configured to observe a part of a roadway surface situated ahead of the vehicle in a direction of travel and provide data of a magnitude of a road dust load of the roadway surface based on type of road surface. The system also includes a device configured to, in response to the data indicating that the magnitude of the road dust load being above a predefined threshold, implement a dust resuspension measure, wherein the measure activates a brake system to impose a forced speed restriction.
Claims5
A method for reducing dust resuspension by a motor vehicle comprising:
- operating a dust sensor on the vehicle to observe a part of a roadway surface ahead of the motor vehicle in a direction of travel;
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- responsive to an estimate of road dust load present at the part of the roadway surface derived from data from the dust sensor, prompting a driver of the vehicle to reduce a driving speed of the motor vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.