Robert Boschgmbh

Stefan Rychlak

Ulrich Kersken

Joachim Wietzke

Jochen Wagner

Bjoern Von Gerlach

A method for determining a route from a starting point to a destination point in a navigation system for a motor vehicle, a factor which influences the energy consumption or the pollutant emissions while traveling the route being taken into account when determining the route. The factor describes the energy consumption or pollutant emissions during standstills of the motor vehicle while traveling the route and a navigation system for this purpose. A route calculation is improved with the goal of minimizing the energy consumption or pollutant emissions over the entire route and thereby contributes to environmental protection.

Method for determining a route in a navigation system, and navigation system

A method and a communications terminal device intended for mobile use are described, with or in which it is possible in a simple manner to update information stored in the device, for example, components of the system software required for the operation of the device. A communications terminal device is distinguished by a nonvolatile overwritable or erasable and rewritable memory, the information in which can be replaced and/or supplemented via a connection, preferably a radio link, between communications terminal device and a provider offering updated information. An updating can be initiated on the request of the user of the device or also by the device manufacturer.

Method for updating information stored in a communications terminal device intended for mobile use and communications terminal device

Navigation method and navigation system for motor vehicles for navigating from a present location to a destination. In response to an emergency user request, an emergency destination closest to the present location is selected from a database, set as the destination, and a route calculated from the present location to the emergency destination. The navigation system includes a memory having a database for emergency destinations and a device for selecting, from the database, an emergency destination closest to the present location.

Navigation method and navigation system for motor vehicles

The present invention relates to a navigation method for a means of transportation, in particular for a vehicle, motor vehicle, ship or aircraft, for navigating from a starting point to a destination, in which a route from the starting point to the destination is specified and the means of transportation or its user is guided along this route. Upon departing from the specified route before reaching the destination, the course traveled at least until re-entering the specified route or reaching the destination is recorded, stored in memory, and upon a later request for a route with the same starting point and destination, the course stored in memory is proposed as the route or the applicable route segment that replaces an originally proposed route segment.

Navigation method for a means of transport

A method of directing a driver of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, aircraft or ship, from at least one starting point to at least one destination is described, a trip route being defined from the at least one starting point to the at least one destination. Once a certain property is specified, the driver of the vehicle is informed of which sections along the trip route have the given property. This allows the user or the driver of the vehicle to intervene specifically in the trip planning by including route sections having the given property in the route planning or by initiating the determination of an alternative route section.

Method of directing a driver of a vehicle from at least one starting point to at least one destination

With an electronic device, in particular a car radio that includes a microprocessor and operating buttons that can be illuminated by light sources, the functions of illumination and detecting an operating status of the operating buttons are linked together by the fact that the light sources can be supplied with control pulses cyclically in succession as controlled by the microprocessor. The operating buttons each have a light receiver arrangement, which can be connected optically to the light source and whose optical connection to the light source can be varied by operating the respective operating button. The microprocessor is equipped for an allocation of the output signals of the light receiver arrangements to the cyclically emitted pulses.

Electronic device with illuminated operator button, the activation of said operator buttons being determined by detection of the change in the luminous reflectance

A stereo radio receiver has a channel separation stage for setting an optimal channel separation of the left audio channel from the right audio channel, even under sufficient receiving field strength following a time of multipath reception for the duration of the operating time of a timing element, to a reduced (i.e., lesser degree of) channel separation.

Stereo radio receiver

A drive of a primary transportation means is navigated by a navigation device along a calculated route from a starting point to a destination by the device issuing appropriate travel advice, in that a transfer location from the primary transportation means to a secondary transportation means traveling to an ultimate destination is selected for the above destination, and additional information is produced in dependence on known departure times and destinations of various ones of the secondary transportation means for use in at least one of bringing such additional information to the driver's attention and calculating the route.

Transfer location navigation method and arrangement

A method of ensuring the braking effect of brake actuators in a vehicle is described, each brake actuator having first and second components for producing the braking effect, where films on the first components which would interfere with the deployment of the braking effect are removed. In this method, when an activation condition is met, the brake actuators are activated to remove the films so that the second components are applied to the first components, thereby setting the vehicle deceleration so that little or no deceleration is perceived by the driver. In checking on whether the activation condition is met, a quantity describing operation of the accelerator pedal is taken into account.

Method and device for ensuring the braking effect of brake actuators in a vehicle

A moving object, in particular a vehicle, a motor vehicle, a ship and an airplane, is navigated from an initial point to a destination point by providing a destination guiding device; guiding the moving object along a preliminarily calculated route from an initial point to a destination point by means of the destination guiding device; before boarding the moving object, inputting at least one destination point in a data processing device which is external to the moving object, calculating in the external data processing device at least one route, and transmitting corresponding route data through a transmission line to the destination guiding device.

Method of navigating of and a navigation system for a moving means

An electrical device, in particular a car radio, which requires less manufacturing outlay. The electrical device includes a display device and operating control elements. A transparent panel is provided, in front of which is arranged the display device. The panel has a contact strip with connection contacts for the display device. Arranged on the panel are contact surfaces, which are able to be contacted via the operating control elements. The contact strip has connection contacts for the contact surfaces.

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Ilsede, Germany

Stefan Rychlak