US 11,667,271 B2
Method for activation and deactivation of a control device
Bernd Stoehr, Sachsenheim (DE); Christian Jelenowski, Kupferzell (DE); Frank Baehrle-Miller, Schoenaich (DE); and Steffen Zechmeister, Bad Wimpfen (DE)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Jan. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/733,853.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 200 955.7 (DE), filed on Jan. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0238962 A1, Jul. 30, 2020
Int. Cl. B60R 16/02 (2006.01); B60T 8/171 (2006.01); B60T 13/74 (2006.01); B60T 8/32 (2006.01); B60T 1/06 (2006.01); F16D 65/18 (2006.01); F16D 55/226 (2006.01); F16D 125/40 (2012.01); F16D 121/24 (2012.01)
CPC B60T 8/171 (2013.01) [B60T 1/065 (2013.01); B60T 8/3205 (2013.01); B60T 13/741 (2013.01); F16D 55/226 (2013.01); F16D 65/183 (2013.01); B60T 2220/03 (2013.01); B60T 2240/00 (2013.01); F16D 2121/24 (2013.01); F16D 2125/40 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for activation and deactivation of a control unit configured to control an electrically activatable assembly, the method comprising:
controlling, with the control unit, the electrically activatable assembly in a waking state of the control unit, the control unit being active in the waking state;
switching the control unit from a sleep state of the control unit to the waking state based on a sensor signal of at least one monitoring sensor, the control unit being unable to control the electrically activatable assembly in the sleep state;
maintaining the control unit in the sleep state over a specified time interval and automatically switching the control unit from the sleep state to the deactivated state after expiry of the specified time interval; and
switching the control unit from a deactivated state of the control unit to the waking state only in response to switching on the control unit, the control unit being disabled and unable to control the electrically activatable assembly in the deactivated state.