Vehicle security system
AssigneeWABCO Global GmbH
InventorJanik Ricke
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Abstract
A vehicle security system is provided for a vehicle having a braking system that includes a parking brake, the parking brake being capable of being switched between a driving position and a braking position. The vehicle security system is configured to secure the vehicle after an accident. The vehicle security system comprises a control unit configured to ascertain an accident of the vehicle and to switch the parking brake of the vehicle into the braking position in response to ascertaining an accident of the vehicle, and a sensor configured to capture and make available first vehicle data that represent a rotary location of the vehicle. The control unit is configured to carry out the ascertainment of an accident on the basis of the first vehicle data.
Claims22
A vehicle security system for a vehicle having a braking system that includes a parking brake, the parking brake being capable of being switched between a driving position and a braking position,
- the vehicle security system being configured to secure the vehicle after an accident and comprising:
- a control unit configured to ascertain an accident of the vehicle and to switch the parking brake of the vehicle into the braking position in response to ascertaining an accident of the vehicle, and
- a sensor configured to capture and make available first vehicle data that represent a rotary location of the vehicle,
- wherein the control unit is configured to carry out the ascertainment of an accident on the basis of the first vehicle data.
A method for securing a vehicle with a vehicle security system in the event of an accident, the method comprising:
- capturing vehicle data by a sensor unit,
- making the vehicle data available to a control unit,
- ascertaining, using the vehicle data, an accident of the vehicle by the control unit, and
- bringing, by the control unit, a parking brake of the vehicle into a braking position in response to the control unit ascertaining the accident of the vehicle,
- wherein the vehicle data represents a rotary location of the vehicle.
The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the switching of the parking brake into the braking position by the control unit is undertaken in response to the vehicle signal and/or the temporal progression of the vehicle signal satisfying the predetermined signal criterion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.