Arrangement for detecting motor-vehicle roll-overs

US6055472A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Volker Breunig · Neckarsulm, DE
• Joachim Bauer · Hamburg, DE
• Hans-Peter Lang · Harburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 11, 1998
• Grant date: Apr 25, 2000
• Expiry date: Sep 11, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R21/013
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In order to allow for a timely and reliable recognition of a rollover event of a vehicle, the angular velocities of the vehicle about the yaw axis, the roll axis, and the pitch axis are measured by way of respective rotation rate sensors. A rollover event is signaled as having been detected if an angular velocity exceeds a definable threshold.