Bus station connection to a bus system for restraining means and/or sensors

US7421366B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Nitschke · Ditzingen, DE
• Klaus-Dieter Meier · Leonberg, DE
• Knut Balzer · Beilstein, DE
• Ewald Mauritz · Rutesheim, DE
• Heiko Buehring · Oldenburg, DE
• Hans Bogenrieder · Ingolstadt, DE
• Bernd Pfaffeneder · Regensburg, DE
• Holger Wulff · Ingolstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 23, 2002
• Grant date: Sep 2, 2008
• Expiry date: Mar 23, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B9/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A bus station for connection to a bus system for a restraining device and/or sensor is used for muting a defective bus station or to have automatic error management carried out in the bus station, to enable the bus station to transmit properly again. For this purpose, the transmitting current and/or the power consumption of the bus station is monitored. The transmitting stage is triggered and, if appropriate, isolated from the bus station as a function of this monitoring. In a refinement a backup transmitting stage may be connected as a replacement for the defective transmitting stage.