Patent ID: 7018321
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: B60K,B60W,F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Device for stabilizing a vehicle having an engine and an automatic transmission for driving drive wheels of a first axle, the transmission having a free-wheeling position for interrupting the force flux between the drive wheels and the engine, and having rotation-sensing wheel sensors on the drive wheels and on wheels of a second axle of the vehicle, including a gear shift for shifting the transmission into the free-wheeling position when it is determined, using at least one of the rotation-sensing wheel sensors, that at least one wheel of the second axle is locked or is expected to lock, including a speed determiner for determining a speed of the vehicle, wherein the gear shift shifts the transmission into the free-wheeling position below a predetermined speed of the vehicle, wherein at the predetermined speed, an antilock brake system of the vehicle is inactive.