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Method and apparatus for avoiding a collision of a motor vehicle

US5726647A · kind A · utility

20Cited by

4References

4Claims

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Assignee

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 5, 1996
Grant date	Mar 10, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 5, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S7/484
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a method for avoiding a collision of a motor vehicle and an obstacle, in which the output signal of a ranging device with several scanning beams emitted in a fan shape toward the front, is received by a receiver and analyzed by an analysis unit connected thereto, the transmitting frequency for scanning beams on the inside of the curve is selected to be higher than for scanning beams on the outside of the curve.

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