Setting-element control arrangement and method for motor vehicle longitudinal speed and/or the steering angle

US5836416A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Muller · Wuppertal, DE
• Werner Reichelt · Jeffery Road, DE
• Peter Frank · Budapest, HU
• Johannes Clauss · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 3, 1997
• Grant date: Nov 17, 1998
• Expiry date: Jan 3, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2720/10
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Setting-element arrangement controls the longitudinal speed and/or the steering angle of a motor vehicle. More specifically, a user-actuable setting element which, during forward motion, when actuated in a respectively first actuation direction, brings about a change of the parameter controlled thereby in a first change direction and, when actuated out of the position of rest into a respectively second actuation direction which is opposite the first, brings about a change of this parameter in a second change direction opposite to the first. In such a setting-element arrangement, the assignment of the two change directions of the longitudinal speed and/or of the steering angle to the respectively first or second actuation direction of the setting element is inverted, during reverse motion, in relation to that during forward motion. The driver's intuitive association of a setting-element actuation corresponding to the desired dynamic vehicle reaction is thus maintained, even during reverse motion.