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Method for operating a steering system of a motor vehicle

US7676308B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 19, 2005
Grant dateMar 9, 2010
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Expiry dateDec 18, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB62D5/0481
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for operating a steering system of a motor vehicle, with a steering handling device for specifying a steering wheel angle (δS) as a measure of a desired steering angle (δFm) for at least one steerable wheel of the motor vehicle, a steering gear with a pinion, which converts a pinion angle (δG), which depends on the steering wheel angle (δS), into the steering angle (δFm) of the at least one steerable wheel of the motor vehicle, a superimposing arrangement for generating an additional angle (δM) by means of a control drive, especially an electric motor and for producing the pinion angle (δG) by superimposing the additional angle (δM) on the steering wheel angle (δS) by a superimposing gear mechanism and a control device for carrying out the method for operating the steering system and for triggering the control drive and being carried out by a control device of the steering system. At least one function, on the basis of a model, monitors the dynamics of the control drive.

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