Method and device for stabilizing a motor vehicle in order to prevent it from rolling over

US6349247B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Schramm · Leonberg, DE
• Klaus-Dieter Leimbach · Heubach, DE
• Falk Hecker · Aichholzhof, DE
• Oliver Jundt · Hessigheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 13, 2000
• Grant date: Feb 19, 2002
• Expiry date: Oct 13, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T2270/313
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for stabilizing a vehicle in particular to prevent overturning, in which a strategy is selected from at least two different strategies as a function of a quantity describing or corresponding to whether an overturn tendency about a vehicle axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle exists, and which may be determined at least as a function of a quantity describing or corresponding to the wheel behavior of at least one wheel, and which may also be determined a function of a comparison which is carried out as a function of a quantity describing or corresponding to the lateral dynamics of the vehicle and of a characteristic value that is determined as a function of a quantity describing or corresponding to the instantaneous friction conditions.