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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2018
Acps Automotive Gmbh, Markgroeningen, DE;
Wolfgang Gentner, Steinheim, DE;
Galib Krdzalic, Tamm, DE;
ACPS Automotive GmbH, Markgroeningen, DE;
Abstract
A device for pulling a trailer and/or retaining a load carrying unit that is mountable at the rear end of a motor vehicle body. The device comprises a supporting arm that is connected by a first end region to the motor vehicle body and is provided at a second end region with an element for attaching the trailer and/or for fixing the load carrying unit and furthermore which comprises sensors for capturing reversible deformations of the supporting arm caused by loads on the supporting arm. The device includes strain sensors which are affected by reversible deformations thereof are assigned to a supporting arm section of the supporting arm. For capturing at least one selected bending strain, at least one strain sensor is arranged on one side and at least one strain sensor on an opposite side of a surface region of a neutral reference surface assigned to the selected bending load. Each of the strain sensors are arranged at a distance from this surface region.