Device for steering a vehicle with controlled course holding

US5485378A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Franke · Uhingen, DE
• Stefan Hahn · Ulm, DE
• Avshalom Suissa · Renningen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 27, 1994
• Grant date: Jan 16, 1996
• Expiry date: Sep 27, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T2201/087
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for steering and maintaining the course of a vehicle contains, in addition to a device for detecting the position of the vehicle, and a steering control device which acts on a steering angle adjustment device, a preselectable limitation of the steering angle setting requested by the control. A steering angle setting requested by the control is combined with the steering angle setting requested by the driver, and the steering angle adjustment device sets the steering angle in accordance with this combination.