Method of detecting the docking of vehicles

US7117072B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Ottmar Gehring · Stuttgart, DE
• Carsten Haemmerling · Stuttgart, DE
• Harro Heilmann · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Andreas Schwarzhaupt · Oberrot, DE
• Gernot Spiegelberg · Heimsheim, DE
• Armin Sulzmann · Oftersheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2004
• Grant date: Oct 3, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T7/22
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a module for detecting the docking of a vehicle, changes of vehicle engine torque and rotational wheel speed of the vehicle are determined as a function of time. It is checked whether the change of the engine torque is >>0 and the change of the rotational wheel speed is <<0. If both of these conditions are met, docking is detected and the vehicle can be braked. The module may be implemented in the form of software.