Patent · US Expired

Method for avoiding collisions between a motor vehicle and obstacles

US5477461A · kind A · utility

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13References

2Claims

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Assignee

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Andreas Waffler · Neubiberg, DE
Walter Weishaupt · Munich, DE
Winfried Siegl · Beilngries, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 27, 1994
Grant date	Dec 19, 1995
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 27, 2014

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S17/931
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a method for avoiding a collision of a motor vehicle with an obstacle, in which the output signal from a distance measuring device with a plurality of scanning beams emitted fanwise in and beside the motion path of the motor vehicle is fed to an evaluation unit, the output signal from a steering angle sensor is additionally fed to the evaluation unit. The motion path of the motor vehicle is calculated in the evaluation unit and the obstacle is evaluated in terms of the motion path of the motor vehicle. The obstacle is taken into account only if it enters the motion path of the motor vehicle.

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