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Method for detecting a contact event on the outer shell of a vehicle and vehicle with a sensor device for detecting contact events on the outer shell of the vehicle

US10604096B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA · DE

Inventors

Thomas Niemann · Delmenhorst, DE
Christian Jurgens · Seevetal, DE
Patrick Fuchs · Leonberg, DE
Hauke Baumgärtel · Delmenhorst, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 27, 2018
Grant date	Mar 31, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 27, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04R2499/13
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

With a method for detecting a contact event on the outer shell of a vehicle, wherein at least one structure-borne sound signal is detected by means of a structure-borne sound sensor, the detected structure-borne sound signal is evaluated by an evaluation device, and wherein the vehicle comprises a number of structure-borne sound sensors, it is provided as essential to the invention that each of the structure-borne sound sensors is associated with an area of the vehicle outer shell via a structure-borne sound conducting link, that an evaluation device is used to ascertain, by which of the structure-borne sound sensors respectively, a structure-borne sound signal has been detected, that conclusions are drawn from the association of the structure-borne sound sensors as to the area of the vehicle outer shell which has been touched, and that conclusions are drawn from the area of the vehicle shell which has been touched, as to the kind of underlying contact.

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