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Method and device for notifying the driver of a motor vehicle

US8024102B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Hans-Christian Swoboda · Steinheim an der Murr, DE
Albrecht Irion · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 18, 2003
Grant date	Sep 20, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 29, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60W2720/106
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A device and a method for notifying the driver of a motor vehicle, equipped with an adaptive distance and speed controller, by activating a takeover prompt, informing the driver that the vehicle is coming critically close to a target object. The takeover prompt is activated and deactivated as a function of a fixed minimum distance between the distance- and speed-controlled vehicle and the target object and/or a relative speed-dependent minimum distance between the distance- and speed-controlled vehicle and a target object and/or a maximum vehicle deceleration producible by the distance and speed controller.

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