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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2016
Applicant:
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Inventor:
Nikolaos Gortsas, Sindelfingen, DE;
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/0808 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a method for detecting a malfunction of at least one sensor for controlling a restraining device of a vehicle. In this context, in a first step a vehicle state signal representing a vehicle state of the vehicle is read in. In a second step a fault detection function for detecting the malfunction using the vehicle state signal is changed in order to detect the malfunction with a sensitivity level which is dependent on the vehicle state.