Vehicle control system

US6263262A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Bitzer · Rutesheim, DE
• Juergen Bauer · Burgkunstadt, DE
• Udo Diehl · Stuttgart, DE
• Holger Bellmann · Ludwigsburg, DE
• Martin-Peter Bolz · Laufenburg (Baden), DE
• Rainer Mayer · Weil der Stadt, DE
• Uwe Maienberg · Stuttgart, DE
• Christian Grosse · Kornwestheim, DE
• Marko Poljansek · Reutlingen, DE
• Torsten Heidrich · Lambach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 24, 2000
• Grant date: Jul 17, 2001
• Expiry date: Apr 24, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2050/0297
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A control system of a vehicle is suggested, which has several components (10 to 1014), which are arranged in different logical levels with at least one coordination component (14), which monitors the making available of power and the power requirement of at least one type of resource which is needed by at least two consumers, and with at least one component (101, 1011-1013) which makes the resource available, with at least two components (10, 12 ) which consume the resource; coordination components and consuming components are arranged in one logical level, characterized in that the component, which makes available the resource, is arranged in a subordinated level of a consuming component (10, 12) and the coordination component (14) inquires of the component, which makes available the resource, as to its power capacity with respect to the resource.