US 6,637,534 B2Granted

Selection device for adjusting vehicle speed

AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

InventorsKai Barbehoen, Joachim Girke

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Abstract

A selection device for setting the driving speed of a vehicle is provided having an operating element, a control device, which is connected with the operating element and coupled with an engine control and which is designed so that, upon activation of the control, the vehicle speed will be regulated automatically, whereby at least two vehicle speed values can be marked on a display. These values can be initiated by using the operating element. In addition to the vehicle speed values, a pointer is indicated on the display. The pointer can be moved by using the operating element. In a programming operating mode of the control unit, the set vehicle speeds or the vehicle speeds to be set can be set and erased by use of the pointer. In a driving speed control operating mode of the control unit, the set vehicle speeds can be activated by the use of the pointer.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A selection device for setting a driving speed of a vehicle, comprising:

an operating element;
a control device operatively coupled with the operating element;
an engine control coupled with the control device so that, upon activation of the engine control by the control device, the driving speed of the vehicle will be automatically regulated;
a display operatively coupled with the control device, wherein at least two vehicle speed values are markable on the display using the operating element;
wherein the display further comprises a pointer mark movable through use of the operating element;
and
wherein in a first operating mode of the control device, the markable vehicle speed values are settable and erasable through the use of the pointer mark, and in a second operating mode of the control unit, any set marked speed values are activated to control the driving speed of the vehicle accordingly through the use of the pointer mark.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/938,834Filed 27 Aug 2001
Published: US 2002/0036109 A128 Mar 2002
Granted: 28 Oct 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

B60K 31/185
Including a device to audibly, visibly, or otherwise signal the existence of unusual or unintended speed: connected to the speedometer display,…
B60K 31/042
And means for comparing one electrical quantity, e.g. voltage, pulse, waveform, flux, or the like, with another quantity of a like kind, which…:…
B60K
Arrangement or mounting of propulsion units or of transmissions in vehicles