Method for providing assistance to a driver of a vehicle during a starting process
AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG
InventorRoland Mair
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Abstract
In the method for providing assistance to the driver of a motor vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle comprising a semi-automatic or an automatic transmission, it is recognized, during the starting process, whether the holding torque of the vehicle is greater than the engine intake torque in the current gear. In the event that a current torque is greater than the engine intake torque in the current gear or if no gear is engaged or called for, in the first forward gear, emitting a signal which indicates to the driver the need to use the holding brake of the vehicle and/or a transmitting a signal to the brake control system of the vehicle to impose a brake pressure in the service brake and/or in the holding brake.
Claims8
A method for providing assistance to a driver of a motor vehicle comprising, one of a semi-automatic and an automatic transmission, during a starting process, the method comprising the steps of:
- during the starting process, recognizing whether a holding torque of the vehicle is greater than an engine suction torque in a current gear, and, if it is recognized that the holding torque is greater than the engine suction torque in the current gear, or if it is recognized that no gear is engaged or called for in a first forward gear,
- at least one of emitting an emitted signal indicating to the driver a need to engage a holding brake of the vehicle, and transmitting a system signal to a brake control system of the vehicle to impose a brake pressure on at least one of a service brake and the holding brake.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.