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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2008
Axel Kaschner, Tuebingen, DE;
Axel Kaschner, Tuebingen, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A device for preventing the start-up or initial operation of a vehicle, in particular of a motor vehicle, by a vehicle driver who is under the influence of alcohol, as well as a vehicle equipped with such a device. The device includes a device for determining the alcohol content in the breath, blood, tissue, sweat of the skin, or in the interstitial tissue fluid of the vehicle driver, as well as an immobilizer which prevents the start-up or the initial operation of the vehicle when the alcohol content in the vehicle driver's breath, blood, tissue, sweat of the skin, or interstitial tissue fluid, that is ascertained by the device, exceeds a specified threshold value. Means are provided for bypassing or disabling the immobilizer.