US 12,434,517 B2
Method for assisting during a coupling process with a trailer, computing device, and assistance system for a vehicle
Michael Stroebel, Groebenzell (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/695,567
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 13, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/075379
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 26, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/057180, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 13, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 21201630 (EP), filed on Oct. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2025/0121639 A1, Apr. 17, 2025
Int. Cl. B60D 1/36 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01)
CPC B60D 1/36 (2013.01) [B60W 30/18009 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for assisting a driver of a vehicle during a coupling process of the vehicle with a trailer parked parallel to a road, the method comprising:
receiving environmental data from at least one environmental sensor,
detecting the trailer is parked parallel to the road via the environmental data,
determining at least one coupling position which describes a possible position of the vehicle for coupling the trailer parked parallel to the road, and
presenting at least one coupling position suggestion to the driver, wherein the coupling position suggestion is based on the at least one coupling position,
wherein a free area located in front of the trailer in the towing direction is determined via the environmental data, the free area having a free area length determined in the towing direction of the trailer, and
wherein the at least one coupling position is determined depending on the free area length.