Motor vehicles – With means for promoting safety of vehicle – its occupant or... – Responsive to engagement of portion of perimeter of vehicle...
Patent
1990-10-02
1992-04-07
Rice, Kenneth R.
Motor vehicles
With means for promoting safety of vehicle, its occupant or...
Responsive to engagement of portion of perimeter of vehicle...
293118, 293119, B60K 2810, B60T 712
Patent
active
051019272
ABSTRACT:
An automatic brake actuation system for use on a vehicle having an existing braking system is disclosed as including an elongate detector mounted to the vehicle and being controllably extendable from the vehicle to contact objects being approached by the vehicle when at predetermined distances therefrom. A compression sensor is included to sense contact between the elongate detector and an object. Provision is also made to sense vehicle speed, vehicle-object closing speed, and detector position and to extend and retract the detector and actuate the vehicle braking system in response thereto.
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Regents of the University of Michigan
Rice Kenneth R.
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