Method and device for controlling automatic emergency braking

US7975798B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Bernhard Lucas · Alagón, ES
• Martin Heinebrodt · Stuttgart, DE
• Dirk Meister · Mountain View, US
• Fred Oechsle · Ludwigsburg, DE
• Ulf Wilhelm · Rutesheim, DE
• Martin Randler · Markdorf, DE
• Paco Haffmans · Eppelheim, DE
• Wolfgang Branz · Ludwigsburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 8, 2005
• Grant date: Jul 12, 2011
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T2201/022
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and a device for controlling automatic emergency braking of a motor vehicle to reduce the severity of a collision of a vehicle with an object, the position and/or speed of the object with respect to the host vehicle being determined via an object detection device, and this information being sent to a collision detection device which ascertains whether a collision with an object is imminent and, on detecting a collision, triggers emergency braking and ascertains a collision instant, emergency braking being terminated after the period of time until the determined collision instant has elapsed.