Method and device for controlling the drive unit of a vehicle
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsMichael Glora, Manfred Weiffen
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Abstract
A method and a device for controlling the drive unit of a vehicle make possible an effective kinesthetic signaling of an event. Based on a detection of the event, an output variable of the drive unit is changed in a stepwise manner, as a function of whether the vehicle is in an overrun state or an acceleration state.
Claims11
A method for controlling a drive unit of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting an event;
- and
- changing an output variable of the drive unit in a stepwise manner, as a function of whether the vehicle is in an overrun state or a acceleration state, to signal the event kinesthetically.
A method for controlling a drive unit of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting an event;
- changing an output variable of the drive unit in a stepwise manner, as a function of whether the vehicle is in an overrun state or a acceleration state, to signal the event kinesthetically;
- and
- detecting the overrun state if a value of an output variable corresponding to a driver's command is less than a value of an output variable corresponding to a sum of all losses.
A method for controlling a drive unit of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting an event;
- changing an output variable of the drive unit in a stepwise manner, as a function of whether the vehicle is in an overrun state or a acceleration state, to signal the event kinesthetically;
- and
- detecting the acceleration state if a value of an output variable corresponding to a driver's command is greater than a value of an output variable corresponding to a sum of all losses.
A method for controlling a drive unit of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting an event;
- changing an output variable of the drive unit in a stepwise manner, as a function of whether the vehicle is in an overrun state or a acceleration state, to signal the event kinesthetically;
- and
- reducing a value of the output variable stepwise upon detection of the acceleration state, and increasing a value of the output variable stepwise upon detection of the overrun state.
A device for controlling a drive unit of a vehicle comprising:
- means for kinesthetically signaling an event;
- means for detecting the event;
- means for detecting at least one of an overrun state and a acceleration state;
- and
- means for changing an output variable of the drive unit, such that, based on the detection of the event, the output variable of the drive unit is changed in a stepwise manner, as a function of whether the vehicle is in the overrun state or the acceleration state, to signal the event kinesthetically.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.