Abstract: A method for providing a piece of injury information about an injury of an unprotected road user in the event of a collision with a vehicle. In this method, a probability value, which represents a probability of a degree of severity of the injury, is determined using a function representing the degree of severity as a function of at least one collision parameter characterizing the collision. A piece of injury information is generated using the probability value, which is finally sent to a receiving station of an emergency call system.

Abstract: A method and a device for operating an automated vehicle. The method includes determining a collision risk for the automated vehicle originating from a further vehicle, determining an expected collision zone on the automated vehicle as a function of the collision risk, determining a driving strategy as a function of the expected collision zone, and operating the automated vehicle as a function of the driving strategy.

Abstract: A method for providing a piece of injury information about an injury of an unprotected road user in the event of a collision with a vehicle. In this method, a probability value, which represents a probability of a degree of severity of the injury, is determined using a function representing the degree of severity as a function of at least one collision parameter characterizing the collision. A piece of injury information is generated using the probability value, which is finally sent to a receiving station of an emergency call system.

Abstract: A method for determining the lean angle of a two-wheeler in which the axle load on at least one wheel is ascertained and the lean angle is calculated as a function of the axle load.

Abstract: A safety device for a vehicle includes a sensor system and an evaluation and control unit that is coupled to the sensor system via an interface and that evaluates information from the sensor system in order to detect objects in the area ahead of the vehicle, calculates, on the basis of the information from the sensor system, a likely impact point of a detected object and/or a likely amount of overlap of the detected object and the vehicle, brings the vehicle into a defined slide-off position by way of a targeted intervention into the vehicle dynamics when the calculated likely impact point and/or the calculated amount of overlap satisfies at least one predefined condition.

Abstract: A method for determining the lean angle of a two-wheeler in which the axle load on at least one wheel is ascertained and the lean angle is calculated as a function of the axle load.

Abstract: A method for generating a signal representing an occupation of a vehicle seat of a vehicle including the steps: detecting a signal of a sensor system for detecting a dynamic parameter with respect to the vehicle seat; evaluating the signal, in particular, a progression of the signal; generating a seat occupancy signal as a function of the evaluation of the signal, the seat occupancy signal being suited for indicating whether the vehicle seat is occupied by a person or by an object.

Abstract: A device for directing radiation in the direction of an optical element of an image sensing device of a vehicle. The device includes a central area for directing at least one portion of a first incident radiation onto the optical element. The device also includes at least one border area for directing at least one portion of at least one second incident radiation onto the optical element. The at least one second incident radiation runs in the opposite direction or at an obtuse angle with respect to the first incident radiation.

Abstract: In a method for automatically correcting a state variable of a vehicle, in the event of the vehicle having departed from the predefined lane a vehicle control system is re-parameterized in such a way that an intervention predefined by the driver is converted in a reduced manner into a change in a vehicle state variable.

Abstract: A method for releasing a restraint device for a rider on a vehicle, the restraint device having a connecting element by which the rider is detachably connected to the vehicle, includes: ascertaining an inclination angle and/or a slope angle of the vehicle; ascertaining a rotational rate about a longitudinal axis of the vehicle and/or a transverse axis of the vehicle; comparing each ascertained rotational rate with an associated critical rotational rate which is a function of the inclination angle and/or the slope angle; and releasing the connecting element if the ascertained rotational rate is at least equal to the associated critical rotational rate.

Abstract: A method is described for controlling an occupant protection arrangement which has at least two levels of protection for an occupant of a vehicle. The method has a step of selecting one of the at least two levels of protection of the occupant protection means as the level of protection to be used in the event of an impact of the vehicle using a yaw direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for avoiding an accident or for reducing the effects of an accident for a rider of a vehicle, especially a two-wheeled or three-wheeled vehicle, includes a first method step in which information is ascertained by a first accident-preventing system and/or a first system for mitigating the effects of an accident; a second method step in which the information is transmitted to a second accident-preventing system and/or a second system for mitigating the effects of an accident; and a third method step in which the second accident-preventing system and/or the second system for mitigating the effects of an accident are/is preconditioned on the basis of the information. The first and second accident-preventing systems differ from each other, and the first and second systems for mitigating the effects of an accident differ from each other.

Abstract: In a triggering method for activating a lateral velocity estimating system for occupant protection devices, one or more vehicle-dynamics variables are sensed and evaluated. Based on the sensed vehicle-dynamics variables an oversteer and understeer detection procedure and a road condition detection procedure are performed, which are evaluated for activation of the lateral velocity estimating system.

Abstract: A method for releasing a restraint device for a rider on a vehicle, the restraint device having a connecting element by which the rider is detachably connected to the vehicle, includes: ascertaining an inclination angle and/or a slope angle of the vehicle; ascertaining a rotational rate about a longitudinal axis of the vehicle and/or a transverse axis of the vehicle; comparing each ascertained rotational rate with an associated critical rotational rate which is a function of the inclination angle and/or the slope angle; and releasing the connecting element if the ascertained rotational rate is at least equal to the associated critical rotational rate.

Abstract: A method is described for controlling an occupant protection arrangement which has at least two levels of protection for an occupant of a vehicle. The method has a step of selecting one of the at least two levels of protection of the occupant protection means as the level of protection to be used in the event of an impact of the vehicle using a yaw direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle seat arrangement includes a seat body that includes a seat and a seat back at a rear of the seat. The vehicle seat arrangement also includes displaceable seat components which produce a lateral bracing as a function of accelerations in the direction of a transverse vehicle axis. The displaceable seat components are at least partly extendable in a necessitating situation. In a retracted state, the displaceable seat component is situated entirely within the seat back. In an actuated state, the displaceable seat component extends forward from an interior of the seat back, thereby forming an interior sidewall of the seat.

Abstract: A method for detecting a dangerous driving condition of a vehicle located on a roadway is provided, which includes a step of receiving a first damping signal (310) via an interface, the first damping signal being suitable for representing a temporal progression of a vertical movement of a first wheel of the vehicle, a step of evaluating (312) the first damping signal in accordance with an evaluation rule, in order to obtain from the first damping signal a first probability value (314) for a departure of the first wheel from a roadway, and a step of providing an evaluation signal (316), the evaluation signal being designed to indicate a departure of the vehicle from the roadway, as a function of the first probability value.

Abstract: In a method for setting characteristic variables of a brake system in a motor vehicle, driver type identification is performed first and the identified driver type is classified into an assigned driver type class. Brake system characteristic variables of this class of driver type are then activated.

Abstract: A method for activating and/or controlling at least one reversible restraining device as a function of a danger situation that is detected ahead of time, the danger situation being detected ahead of time by evaluating sensor signals that are provided by at least one sensor unit, and an evaluation-control unit for implementing the method and an occupant protection system having such an evaluation and control unit. Such a danger situation is detected if an evaluation of the sensor signals determines that the vehicle has departed from the roadway, a directional angle being ascertained at which the vehicle has departed from the roadway, and the at least one reversible restraining device being activated and/or controlled as a function of the ascertained directional angle.

Abstract: A method is described for detecting a width of an impact area of an object in the front-end section of a vehicle, which has a step of receiving a first deformation element signal, which represents a change in the distance of components of a first deformation element from one another, that is mounted in the left front-end section of the vehicle. Furthermore, the method includes a step of receiving a second deformation element signal, which represents a change in the distance of components of a second deformation element from one another, that is mounted in the right front-end section of the vehicle. Finally, the method includes detection step of an offset collision with a small width of an impact area of the object on the vehicle, if the first deformation element signal differs by more than a predefined threshold value level from the second deformation element signal.