Device and method for regulating the speed of a vehicle during maneuvering/parking of the vehicle

• US 20070083313A1
• Filed: 12/08/2006
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dirk Schmid, Werner Uhler
• Original Assignee: Dirk Schmid, Werner Uhler
• Inventors: Uhler, Werner, Schmid, Dirk
• Application Number:
  US11/636,106
• Publication Number:
  US 20070083313A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/70
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 31/0008 including means for detecting potential obstacles in vehicle path
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2201/10 Automatic or semi-automatic parking aid systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/22 initiated by contact of vehicle, e.g. bumper, with an external object, e.g. another vehicle , or by means of contactless obstacle detectors mounted on the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/04 including control of propulsion units
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/18 including control of braking systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/10 Accelerator pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9314 Parking operations
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9317 Driving backwards
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93185 Controlling the brakes
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9319 Controlling the accelerator
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9321 Velocity regulation, e.g. cruise control
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9323 Alternative operation using light waves
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9324 Alternative operation using ultrasonic waves
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93271 in the front of the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93272 in the back of the vehicles

Abstract

A device and method for regulating the speed of a vehicle during maneuvering/parking of the vehicle. The device may comprise a detection device for detecting objects within the surrounding area of the vehicle and for recording the distance to an object lying closest in the travel direction of the vehicle; a regulator for regulating the speed of the vehicle as a function of the position of an actuating device and of the distance to the most proximate object in the movement direction of the vehicle according to a predefined speed/distance relation; and a control device for automatically controlling a braking element and a driving device of the vehicle as a function of a corresponding output signal of the regulator.

Claims

1. A method for regulating a speed of a vehicle during maneuvering/parking of the vehicle, comprising:

detecting objects within a surrounding area of the vehicle and recording a distance between a most proximate object to the vehicle in a travel direction and the vehicle, using a detection device;

regulating, using a regulator, a speed of the vehicle while maintaining a first predefined distance to the most proximate object in the travel direction, as a function of a position of an actuating device and of the distance to the most proximate object in the travel direction of the vehicle according to a predefined speed/distance relation; and

controlling a braking element and a driving device of the vehicle as a function of a corresponding output signal of the regulator, using a control device;

wherein, after an activation of the regulator, the regulator utilizes stored characteristics fields to generate an instantaneous setpoint speed as a function of a position of the actuating device and the distance to a most proximate object in the travel direction.