Assistance system for motor vehicles

US7737832B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Gregory Baratoff · Schallstadt, DE
• Ludwig Ertl · Regensburg, DE
• Thorsten Köhler · Deuerling, DE
• Martin Pellkofer · Pentling, DE
• Andre Rieder · Regensburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 13, 2005
• Grant date: Jun 15, 2010
• Expiry date: Dec 13, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/161
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An assistance system for motor vehicles has at least one monitoring unit monitoring a space external to a vehicle, in particular in a direction of travel of the motor vehicle, with a warning zone being defined in the monitored external space on each side of a lane. The warning zone is delimited by an earliest warning line and a latest warning line encompassing the respective lane marking or, as the case may be, boundary. An evaluation unit receives the data transmitted by the monitoring unit and generates a warning signal for an acoustic, visual and/or haptic warning and/or a steering intervention if the evaluation unit detects that a defined warning threshold lying within the warning zone is exceeded. The warning signal is issued only as a function of further planned driver-adaptive conditions.