Method and device for operating a motor vehicle, motor vehicle

• US 10,315,564 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2016
• Issued: 06/11/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Fuehrer, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Shafi, Muhammad
• Application Number:
  US15/210,057
• Publication Number:
  US 20170015241A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,062 Days
• Field of Search: 701 70
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/00 Arrangement or adaptation of signal devices not provided for in one of main groups B60Q1/00 - B60Q7/00 , e.g. haptic signalling
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/18 including control of braking systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/30 including control of auxiliary equipment, e.g. air-conditioning compressors or oil pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/10 Longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/125 Lateral acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/14 Yaw
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2552/00 Input parameters relating to infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2555/20 Ambient conditions, e.g. wind or rain
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/45 External transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/18 Braking system
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/20 Steering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2756/10 Involving external transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/04 related to roll-over prevention
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/36 using visible light sources

Abstract

A method for operating a motor vehicle, in which an imminent rollover of the motor vehicle is detected, depending on the status values of the motor vehicle, at least one countermeasure being initiated and/or at least one warning message being output when an imminent rollover is detected. It is provided that, when an imminent rollover is detected, at least one of the instantaneous status values and/or the warning message is/are transmitted to a central database, where it is/they are made available for other motor vehicles.

Claims

1. A method for operating a motor vehicle, comprising:

detecting an imminent rollover of the motor vehicle;

in response to instantaneous status values of the motor vehicle;

i) initiating at least one countermeasure for physically preventing the imminent rollover through an automatic control of a system of the vehicle without intervention by a human driver of the vehicle, and ii) outputting at least one warning message being output when an imminent rollover is detected, wherein the warning is output in a form that is perceptible to the human driver;

when an imminent rollover is detected, transmitting, to a central database, at least one of;

i) at least one of the instantaneous status values, and ii) the warning message, where the at least one of the instantaneous status values and the warning message is made available for other motor vehicles.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of:

i) position coordinates, ii) a driving speed, iii) a steering angle, and iv) a distance traveled, are detected as the instantaneous status values of the motor vehicle.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein data on surroundings of the vehicle, at least one of:

i) weather data, ii) roadway condition, iii) season of the year, and iv) time of day, are additionally detected and transmitted to the central database.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of:

i) vital data on a driver of the motor vehicle, and ii) a type of the motor vehicle, is detected and transmitted to the central database.

5. A device for operating a motor vehicle, comprising:

a control unit equipped to;

detect an imminent rollover of the motor vehicle;

in response to instantaneous status values of the motor vehicle;

i) initiate at least one countermeasure for physically preventing the imminent rollover through an automatic control of a system of the vehicle without intervention by a human driver of the vehicle, and ii) output at least one warning message being output when an imminent rollover is detected, wherein the warning is output in a form that is perceptible to the human driver;

when an imminent rollover is detected, transmit, to a central database, at least one of;

i) at least one of the instantaneous status values, and ii) the warning message, where the at least one of the instantaneous status values and the warning message is made available for other motor vehicles.

6. A safety system for a motor vehicle, comprising:

a central database; and

a device assigned to the motor vehicle, the device including a control unit equipped to;

detect an imminent rollover of the motor vehicle;

in response to instantaneous status values of the motor vehicle;

i) initiate at least one countermeasure for physically preventing the imminent rollover through an automatic control of a system of the vehicle without intervention by a human driver of the vehicle, and ii) output at least one warning message being output when an imminent rollover is detected, wherein the warning is output in a form that is perceptible to the human driver;

when an imminent rollover is detected, transmit, to the central database, at least one of;

i) at least one of the instantaneous status values, and ii) the warning message, where the at least one of the instantaneous status values and the warning message is made available for other motor vehicles.