US 12,409,839 B2
Method and control device for operating a motor vehicle
Stefan Spühler, Markdorf (DE); Stefan Blattner, Ravensburg (DE); Stefan Bemetz, Wangen im Allgäu (DE); Dennis Wohlfahrt, Kressbronn am Bodensee (DE); Thorsten Leim, Friedrichshafen (DE); Jochen Breuer, Tettnang (DE); Mario Steinborn, Friedrichshafen (DE); Fabian Ley, Bürstadt (DE); Hannes Werner, Friedrichshafen (DE); Benjamin Berger, Markdorf (DE); and Christian Mittelberger, Ravensburg (DE)
Assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen (CN)
Filed by ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen (DE)
Filed on May 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/666,218.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2023 204 674.1 (DE), filed on May 17, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0383476 A1, Nov. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60K 23/04 (2006.01); B60T 8/1755 (2006.01); B60W 10/12 (2012.01); B60W 10/14 (2012.01); B60W 10/16 (2012.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 10/184 (2012.01); B60W 30/045 (2012.01); B60W 30/184 (2012.01); F16H 48/20 (2012.01); B60W 10/22 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/18145 (2013.01) [B60W 10/14 (2013.01); B60W 10/16 (2013.01); B60W 10/184 (2013.01); B60W 30/184 (2013.01); B60W 10/22 (2013.01); B60W 2510/125 (2013.01); B60W 2520/14 (2013.01); B60W 2710/125 (2013.01); B60W 2710/18 (2013.01); B60W 2710/22 (2013.01); B60W 2720/403 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a motor vehicle having at least one driven axle with a locking differential, the method comprising:
determining, while the motor vehicle is driving, that the motor vehicle is driving around a curve;
determining that a respective locking differential is engaged on at least one driven axle;
actuating the locking differential concerned for the purpose of disengaging the locking differential;
determining, despite actuating the locking differential that the locking differential concerned has not been disengaged; and
braking a wheel on the outside of the curve on the driven axle concerned.