Technology for balancing journeys of motor vehicles

US12142148B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MAN Truck & Bus SE · DE

Inventors

• Britta Michel · Birkenfeld, DE
• Christiane Wölfel · Munich, DE
• Veronika Hutmann · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 17, 2020
• Grant date: Nov 12, 2024
• Expiry date: Apr 21, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W4/44
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for balancing journeys of motor vehicles in order to form a vehicle train includes a guiding vehicle and at least one following vehicle, which is longitudinally and laterally guided by the guiding vehicle. The device includes a user unit, which is designed to capture data of a journey of a motor vehicle, a radio unit designed to receive data of an additional journey of at least one additional motor vehicle, a balancing unit which exchanged data with the user unit and the radio unit and is designed to output, at the user unit, a correspondence between the captured data of the journey of the motor vehicle and the received data of the additional journey of the at least one additional motor vehicle, the data including a route and associated driving times of the journey.