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US 9,725,087 B2Granted
Safety device for a motor vehicle and associated operating method
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorFranz Fürst
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Abstract
Safety device for a motor vehicle, having at least one sensor which is configured to detect an impending impact or an impending collision and possibly to generate a triggering signal, and having a control device which is configured to trigger a protective device if a triggering signal is present, wherein the safety device is configured to check whether the predicted impact or the collision has taken place within a predicted time period, and to transfer the motor vehicle into a safe state in the case of erroneous triggering.
Claims13
A motor vehicle, comprising:
- at least one sensor configured to detect an impending impact or an impending collision and produce an initiation signal if necessary;
- a control device configured to initiate a protective device upon a presence of the initiation signal;
- and
- a safety device configured to determine whether the detected impending impact or the detected impending collision took place within a predicted time frame, and move the motor vehicle into a safe state.
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A method for operating a safety device for a motor vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting an impending impact or an impending collision using at least one sensor, wherein the sensor generates an initiation signal;
- initiating a protective device based on a presence of the initiation signal from a control device;
- determining whether the detected impending impact or the detected impending collision took place within a predicted time frame;
- and
- moving the motor vehicle into a safe state based on a false initiation of the protective device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.