Control device

• US 20040204809A1
• Filed: 02/25/2004
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Balzer, Knut
• Application Number:
  US10/788,139
• Publication Number:
  US 20040204809A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/45
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/01265 Seat belts
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/4816 for sensing locking of buckle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/01546 using belt buckle sensors
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/48 Control systems, alarms, or interlock systems, for the correct application of the belt or harness

Abstract

A control device stores a value as a function of a signal from a belt-latch sensor and a usage of a vehicle and transmits this first value via an interface as a function of call-up signals.

Claims

1. A control device for a vehicle, the vehicle having a belt-latch sensor, the control device comprising:

an arrangement for storing at least one first value as a function of a signal from the belt-latch sensor and a usage of the vehicle, and for transmitting the at least one first value via an interface in response to the at least one first value being called up.

2. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the control device is connectable to an operating switch of the vehicle in such a way that the control device determines the usage of the vehicle by an activation of the operating switch.

3. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the control device is connectable to an operating counter of the vehicle in such a way that the control device determines the usage of the vehicle by a second value of the operating counter.

4. The control device according to claim 3, wherein the operating counter is a timing element.

5. The control device according to claim 3, wherein the operating counter is a speedometer.

6. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the interface is connectable to a plug connector of an external device.

7. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the interface is connectable to a transmitter-receiver station for a wireless transmission of the first value.

8. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the arrangement generates the first value by adding up a duration of the vehicle usage during which a belt latch of the vehicle is locked.

9. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the control device is connectable to an occupant detection.