Vehicle park assist system and method for parking a vehicle using such system

US8169341B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Salvador Toledo · Ypsilanti, US
• Dirk Gunia · Pulheim, DE
• Kay Muller · Heppenheim, DE
• Torsten Wey · Moers, DE
• Nate Rolfes · Oak Park, US
• Janet Meise
• Marcus Kalabis · Krefeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 7, 2009
• Grant date: May 1, 2012
• Expiry date: Sep 16, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/165
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A park assist system for parking a vehicle in a target parking space includes a sensing system. The sensing system determines whether there is a sufficient slot length in a target parking space too small to complete a parking maneuver in a single maneuver, but large enough to complete a parking maneuver in more than one maneuver. During each of the more than one parking maneuvers, the driver is prompted to execute a calculated steering trajectory.