Apparatus for detecting a vehicle rollover

• US 20060238026A1
• Filed: 03/11/2003
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Lich, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 7,483,776 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 303/191
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0233 Vehicle tilting, overturning or roll over
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0018 Roll-over
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0119 Plausibility check
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/01308 monitoring distance between vehicle body and road
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/01325 Vertical acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/01327 Angular velocity or angular acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/0133 by integrating the amplitude of the input signal
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/01336 using filtering
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2230/03 Overturn, rollover
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/17551 determining control parameters related to vehicle stability used in the regulation, e.g. by calculations involving measured or detected parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/243 for roll-over protection

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for detecting a vehicle rollover are provided, which apparatus and method use the signals from tire sensors to determine the plausibility of the detection of a vehicle rollover.

Claims

1-5. -5. (canceled)

6. An apparatus for determining a vehicle rollover, comprising:

at least one inertial sensor for detecting a potential vehicle rollover; and

a plurality of tire sensors, wherein signals from the plurality of tire sensors are used to determine a plausibility of the detection of the potential vehicle rollover.

10. A method of determining a vehicle rollover, comprising:

detecting a potential vehicle rollover using signals from at least one inertial sensor; and

determining a plausibility of the detection of the potential vehicle rollover using signals from a plurality of tire sensors.