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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2008
Applicants:
Christophe Desfriches, Pacy-sur-eure, FR;
Alessandro Monti, La Garenne Colombes, FR;
Richard Pothin, Jouars-pontchartrain, FR;
Inventors:
Christophe Desfriches, Pacy-sur-eure, FR;
Alessandro Monti, La Garenne Colombes, FR;
Richard Pothin, Jouars-pontchartrain, FR;
Assignee:
Renault S.A.S., Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method providing assistance with hill starts to a vehicle including a power plant connected to the driven wheels by a clutch and an automatic parking brake. The method generates an instruction to store in a memory a characteristic of a gradient which corresponds to a state in which it is estimated that the user and the vehicle are ready to pull away, on the basis of conditions that given physical parameters of the vehicle must satisfy.