Patent ID: 6736754
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: B60W,F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for operating a motor vehicle having an automatic transmission one of during and in a time around a selection action for a driving-mode range, the method comprising the steps of:transferring a driver's requirement for a change in the driving-mode range, from a neutral driving-mode range to one of a forward-direction driving-mode range and a reverse-direction driving-mode range, to a selection device; generating a change signal by the selection device in accordance with the driver's requirement transferring step; transferring the change signal generated in the generating step to a control unit; actuating at least one braking device in an automated manner by the control unit after the driver's requirement for a change in the driving-mode range from the neutral driving-mode range to the one of the forward-direction driving-mode range and the reverse-direction driving-mode range is transferred to the selection device in the driver's requirement transferring step; after the at least one braking device is actuated in the actuating step, changing the driving-mode range by the control unit in accordance with the change signal, from the neutral driving-mode range to the one of a forward-direction driving-mode range and a reverse-direction driving-mode range; and after the changing step, releasing the at least one braking device in an automated manner after an effective duration of the actuating of the at least one braking device.