Safety system for a means of transportation and a method relating to the same

US8086406B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Frank Ewerhart · Weinsberg, DE
• Uwe Werner · Hütten, CH
• Heiko Freienstein · Weil der Stadt, DE
• Jan Tilp · Drolshagen, DE
• Joachim Selinger · Stuttgart, DE
• Soenke Carstens-Behrens · Bonn, DE
• Markus Hagemann · Gerlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 5, 2005
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2011
• Expiry date: May 25, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W50/12
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In order to enhance a safety system, in particular an accident avoidance system for a means of transportation, in particular a motor vehicle, having at least one steering system and at least one brake system in such a way that an avoidance maneuver initiated by the operator of the means of transportation when approaching an obstacle is supported with respect to both the device and the method, thus preventing an accident through collision, the evaluation unit determines at least one driving variation, in particular at least one avoidance trajectory and/or at least one automatic emergency braking action from the data and information and when or after the operator of the means of transportation initiates a driving maneuver, in particular an avoidance maneuver or an emergency braking maneuver, the safety system, in particular the evaluation unit specifies, supports and/or suggests this driving maneuver in an optimized form, in particular in the form of an optimal avoidance trajectory or in the form of an automatic emergency braking.