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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2018
Applicant:
Continental Automotive Systems, Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Inventors:
Ningsheng Qiao, Troy, MI (US);
Geoff Bauer, Oxford, MI (US);
Dominik Froehlich, Ferndale, MI (US);
Jeremy McClain, Ortonville, MI (US);
Rodrigo Gomez-Mendoza, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
Continental Automotive Systems, Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 7/22 (2006.01); B60T 8/32 (2006.01); B60T 8/171 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 7/22 (2013.01); B60T 8/171 (2013.01); B60T 8/3255 (2013.01); B60T 2201/022 (2013.01); B60T 2201/024 (2013.01); B60T 2220/04 (2013.01); B60T 2230/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A rear automatic braking system is automatically overridden and released if the accelerator pedal is depressed with the rate of change which is greater than empirically determined threshold beyond a predetermined percentage of its travel for at least a predetermined length of time and if the vehicle's brake pedal is not depressed.