Safety apparatus for monitoring charging of an electrical energy store in a motor vehicle, and method for operating a safety apparatus for monitoring charging of an electrical energy store in a motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9931940-B2
Application number	US-201314442270-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 17, 2013
Priority date	Nov 20, 2012
Publication date	Apr 3, 2018
Grant date	Apr 3, 2018

Abstract

The present invention relates to a safety apparatus ( 20 ) for monitoring charging of an electrical energy store in a motor vehicle ( 100 ), having at least one first sensor device ( 21 a ) and at least one second sensor device ( 21 b ), the two of which are each designed to capture motion data for the motor vehicle ( 100 ) and to provide said motion data as a sensor signal; and a control device ( 25 ) that is coupled to the at least one first sensor device ( 21 a ) and to the at least one second sensor device ( 21 b ) and that is designed to deactivate the at least one second sensor device ( 21 b ) while the electrical energy store is being charged and, if the control device ( 25 ) detects motion of the motor vehicle ( 100 ) on the basis of one of the provided sensor signals, to actuate at least one actuator device ( 30 ) of the motor vehicle ( 100 ) in order to brake the motor vehicle ( 100 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
at least one first sensor device configured to:
detect a movement of a motor vehicle, and
generate a first sensor signal in response to detecting the movement of the motor vehicle;

at least one second sensor device configured to:
detect the movement of the motor vehicle, and
generate a second sensor signal in response to detecting the movement of the motor vehicle; and

a safety control device coupled to the at least one first sensor device and to the at least one second sensor device, the safety control device configured to:
monitor charging of an electrical energy store of the motor vehicle,
receive the first sensor signal,
receive the second sensor signal, and
control at least one actuator device configured to brake the motor vehicle in response to monitoring the charging of the electrical energy store and in response to receiving at least one of the first sensor signal or the second sensor signal.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the safety control device is further configured to alternately activate or to deactivate the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device to minimize an operating period of the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the safety control device is further configured to perform an alternating activation and deactivation of the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device after a predetermined time period.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the safety control device is further configured to perform an alternating activation and deactivation of the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device on a basis of a predetermined rotation method.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device has a sensor unit and a signal converter unit.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the sensor unit is configured as a rotational-speed sensor.

7. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a memory device which is configured to store in each case a switch-on time which has already been achieved up to now of a sensor unit of the at least one first sensor device or the at least one second sensor device.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one actuator device is an electronic braking system of the motor vehicle.

9. A method for operating a system, the method comprising:
detecting, with at least one first sensor device, a movement of a motor vehicle;
generating, with the at least one first sensor device, a first sensor signal in response to detecting the movement of the motor vehicle;
detecting, with at least one second sensor device, the movement of the motor vehicle;
generating, with the at least one second sensor device, a second sensor signal in response to detecting the movement of the motor vehicle;
monitoring, with a safety control device, charging of an electrical energy store of the motor vehicle;
receiving, with the safety control device, the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal; and
controlling, with the safety control device, at least one actuator device configured to brake the motor vehicle in response to monitoring the charging of the electrical energy store of the motor vehicle and in response to receiving the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal.

10. A system comprising:
at least one first sensor device configured to:
detect a movement of a motor vehicle, and
generate a first sensor signal in response to the movement of the motor vehicle;

at least one second sensor device configured to:
detect the movement of the motor vehicle, and
generate a second sensor signal in response to the movement of the motor vehicle; and

a safety control device coupled to the at least one first sensor device and to the at least one second sensor device, the safety control device configured to:
monitor charging of an electrical energy store of the motor vehicle,
receive the first sensor signal,
receive the second sensor signal,
deactivate the at least one second sensor device in response to monitoring charging of the electrical energy store of the motor vehicle, and
control at least one actuator device configured to brake the motor vehicle in response to monitoring the charging of the electrical energy store and in response to receiving at least the first sensor signal.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the safety control device is further configured to activate the at least one second sensor device in response to receiving the first sensor signal to verify the movement of the motor vehicle using the second sensor signal.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the safety control device is further configured to alternately activate or to deactivate the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device to minimize an operating period of the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the safety control device is further configured to perform an alternating activation and deactivation of the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device after a predetermined time period.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the safety control device is further configured to perform an alternating activation and deactivation of the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device on a basis of a predetermined rotation method.

15. The system of claim 10 , wherein at least one of the at least one first sensor device and the at least one second sensor device has a sensor unit and a signal converter unit.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the sensor unit is configured as a rotational-speed sensor.

17. The system of claim 10 , further comprising a memory device which is configured to store in each case a switch-on time which has already been achieved up to now of a sensor unit of the at least one first sensor device or the at least one second sensor device.

18. The system of claim 10 , wherein the at least one actuator device is an electronic braking system of the motor vehicle.

Assignees

• Bosch Gmbh Robert

Inventors

• Parga-Cacheiro Jose-Luis

Classifications

• B60L2240/486

  Operating parameters · CPC title

• Y02T90/14

  Plug-in electric vehicles · CPC title

• Y02T10/72

  Electric energy management in electromobility · CPC title

• B60L2240/80

  Time limits · CPC title

• B60L15/2054

  by controlling transmissions or clutches · CPC title