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Robert Boschgmbh

Reinhard Helldoerfer

Peter Knoll

Wolfgang E Mueller

Winfried Koenig

Ulrich Kanzler

Michael Reiner

Bernhard Toepfer

Juergen Leinberger

Ruediger Mock-Hecker

Wilfried Urbanski

Edmund Zaeuner

A method controls brake pressure for a motor vehicle pressure medium-actuated power brake system in which the adjustment of a proportionality factor (k) between deceleration and brake pressure starting from an initial value (k ) is limited to a range bounded by a lower limit value and an upper limit value in which range the initial value (k ) is contained. This produces a warning travel of the pedal when excessive deviation of the brake pressure from the expected value occurs. The warning travel informs the driver of the braking effect which is deviating excessively from the expected degree. Methods are known in which a specific travel (s ) of the brake pedal is interpreted as a setting of a specific desired deceleration (z ) of the vehicle and the required brake pressure is set automatically if appropriate by incrementally adjusting a variable proportionality factor (k).

Brake pressure control method for a motor vehicle power brake system

A positioning and navigation system for land vehicles features a simple and memory-conserving route entry method. Routes on maps can be specified by the junctions traversed by the route, so that entering only the junctions in memory uses much less space than prior art digital route storage systems which stored the coordinates of each point along the route. A trip progress information display shows the route vividly by using color or brightness contrast with the rest of the map. Additional direction of travel indications can be given, for example on a Head Up Display reflected off the inside of the windshield within the operator's field of view or by acoustic signals or speech-synthesized announcements. This results in particularly easy-to-follow guide to the driver or operator. Head-up displays on motor vehicles often have double images and interfering reflections on the windshield. To avoid these, arrangements of linear polarization filters or shutter foils are suggested, which have particularly high light transmission. Arrangements of filter plates on a combiner inside of the windshield are also advantageous.

Enroute vehicle guidance system with heads up display

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Igelsdorf, Germany

Reinhard Helldoerfer