Speed regulator with distance regulating function

US7373237B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Wagner · Warthausen, DE
• Hermann Winner · Bietigheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 17, 2002
• Grant date: May 13, 2008
• Expiry date: Sep 17, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S2013/9325
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A speed controller for motor vehicles is provided, the vehicle having a distance regulating function, a locating system for detecting locating data for objects that are in front of the vehicle, and an evaluation device for determining whether a located object needs to be treated as a relevant target object in the vehicle's lane. The speed controller includes a monitoring module that is designed to detect, by reference to the locating data, a situation in which objects not detected by the locating system are within close range and, in this situation, issue a takeover prompt to the driver.