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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 7/20 ; B62D 5/306 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 7/20 ; B62D 5/306 ;
Abstract
A device for determining a distance between the back of a motor vehicle and an object located behind the motor vehicle, including a sensor arrangement for detecting a distance between at least one location on the back of the motor vehicle and a location at the side of the object facing the vehicle, and an evaluation unit for determining distance values on the basis of the detected sensor signals, the evaluation unit including an arrangement for ascertaining a periodic nature of the determined distance values.