US 2005/0038591 A1 · Device for the longitudinally guiding a motor vehicle

Abstract

A device for the longitudinal guidance of a motor vehicle, having a speed sensor for measuring the driving speed of the vehicle; a distance sensor for measuring the distance to an obstacle possibly located in front of the vehicle; and a controller, which intervenes in the drive and brake system of the vehicle and regulates the driving speed, possibly as a function of the distance to the obstacle, in a closed-loop control circuit if the vehicle speed is above a certain limit speed, characterized by a control device, which intervenes in the drive and brake system in a controlling manner at driving speeds below the limit speed.

Claims9

Dependent claims

1-7. (Canceled)

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/494,432Filed 17 Sep 2002

Priority

DE 10153527.930 Oct 2001

Published

17 Feb 2005

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B60W 30/17
Control of distance between vehicles, e.g. keeping a distance to preceding vehicle: with provision for special action when the preceding vehicle…
B60K 31/0008
Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed, i.e. preventing speed from exceeding an…:…
B60T 7/22
For automatic initiation; for initiation not subject to will of driver or passenger: initiated by contact of vehicle, e.g. bumper, with an…
B60W
Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function

Device for the longitudinally guiding a motor vehicle

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Device for the longitudinally guiding a motor vehicle

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Abstract

Claims9