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US 2007/0185632 A1Published application
Method and device for detecting a rollover situation of a motor vehicle
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsArmin Blos, Jochen Bonitz, Tomomi Yano
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Abstract
A rate of rotation around the longitudinal axis of a motor vehicle and the lateral inclination thereof are determined as state variables. A rollover situation is detected when the state variables are greater than the characteristic curve of a minimum triggering threshold in a surface plane defined by the state variables.
Claims11
1-10. (canceled)
A method of detecting a rollover situation of a vehicle, which comprises:
- determining state variables including a rate of rotation about a longitudinal axis of the vehicle and a pitch angle of the vehicle in a lateral direction thereof;
- and
- detecting a rollover situation if the state variables exceed an activation threshold characteristic in a state space spanned by the state variables.
A device for detecting a rollover situation of a vehicle, the device comprising:
- means for determining state variables of the vehicle including a rate of rotation of the vehicle about a longitudinal axis thereof and a pitch of the vehicle in a lateral direction;
- and
- means for detecting a rollover situation if the state variables of the vehicle exceed an activation threshold characteristic in a state space spanned by the state variables.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.