Device with additional restoring force on the gas pedal based on the deviation of a vehicle parameter from the set value

US7770491B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Ritter · Düsseldorf, DE
• Holger von Hayn · Bad Vilbel, DE
• Jürgen Schonlau · Eltville am Rhein, DE
• Torsten Queisser · Frankfurt, DE
• Milan Klimes · Zornheim, DE
• Manfred Rüffer · Pocking, DE
• Martin Haverkamp · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Johannes Görlach · Langgöns, DE
• Wolfgang Kroll · Hofheim, DE
• Lothar Schiel · Hofheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 10, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 26, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/20888
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

It is known in the art to apply a counterforce, which opposes the actuating force, onto an accelerator pedal of a vehicle in the event that the vehicle, with respect to a vehicle parameter, sufficiently deviates from the nominal value. The parameter can be the speed or the measured distance from vehicles driving ahead.The invention discloses a series of embodiments that satisfy especially easily and reliably the defined requirements for applying the counterforce to the pedal.