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Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 07, 2009
Applicants:

Salvador Toledo, Ypsilanti, MI (US);

Dirk Gunia, Pulheim, DE;

Kay C. Müller, Köln, DE;

Torsten Wey, Moers, DE;

Nate Rolfes, Livonia, MI (US);

Janet Meise, Köln, DE;

Marcus Kalabis, Krefeld, DE;

Inventors:

Salvador Toledo, Ypsilanti, MI (US);

Dirk Gunia, Pulheim, DE;

Kay C. Müller, Köln, DE;

Torsten Wey, Moers, DE;

Nate Rolfes, Livonia, MI (US);

Janet Meise, Köln, DE;

Marcus Kalabis, Krefeld, DE;

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A park assist system for parking a vehicle in a target parking space includes a sensing system. The sensing system determines whether there is a sufficient slot length in a target parking space too small to complete a parking maneuver in a single maneuver, but large enough to complete a parking maneuver in more than one maneuver. During each of the more than one parking maneuvers, the driver is prompted to execute a calculated steering trajectory.


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