Motor vehicle
AssigneeMercedes-Benz Group AG
InventorsJulien Richert, Ralf Bogenrieder
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Abstract
A motor vehicle includes a vehicle wheel which is pivotable around a pivoting axis by a steering device such that cornering and/or changes of a direction of the motor vehicle is causable. An occupant protection device is triggerable in an event of an imminent collision or in an event of a detected collision and thus is movable from a starting position into a protection position such that a driver sitting on a seat system of the motor vehicle, or a body part of the driver, is movable. A coupling device couples the vehicle wheel to the occupant protection device where, via the coupling device, when the occupant protection device is triggered, a pivoting angle of the vehicle wheel around the pivoting axis caused by a steering intervention of the driver is influenceable.
Claims5
A motor vehicle (10), comprising:
- a vehicle wheel (12) which is pivotable around a pivoting axis (28) by a steering device (32) of the motor vehicle (10) such that cornering and/or changes of a direction of the motor vehicle (10) is causable;
- an occupant protection device (50) which is triggerable in an event of an imminent collision (52) or in an event of a detected collision and thus is movable from a starting position (54) into a protection position (56) such that a driver (34) sitting on a seat system (58) of the motor vehicle (10), or a body part (60) of the driver (34), is movable;
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- a coupling device (70) that couples the vehicle wheel (12) to the occupant protection device (50), wherein via the coupling device (70), when the occupant protection device (50) is triggered, a pivoting angle (36) of the vehicle wheel (12) around the pivoting axis (28) caused by a steering intervention of the driver (34) is influenceable when a set criterion (76) is fulfilled and is not influenceable when the set criterion (76) is not fulfilled;
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- a detector (78) via which a touch position (98) of a touch region (100) of the steering device (32) is detectable, wherein, in the steering intervention, a hand (102) of the driver (34) touches the steering device (32) in the touch region (100) and wherein the set criterion (76) is fulfilled when a detected touch position (98) corresponds to a set critical touch position (106).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.