Patent ID: 7821154

Claim:
A device for controlling an electric parking brake of a utility vehicle, comprising: an electronic control unit; a manual control unit communicating with the electronic control unit and by which a driver's requests, which are dependent on an activation type of the manual control unit, are transmittable to the electronic control unit; wherein the electronic control unit is operatively configured to process signals of the manual control unit if an ignition of the utility vehicle is switched on; wherein the manual control unit is operatively configured such that in at least one type of activation, a wakeup signal is output to a microcontroller of the electronic control unit; and wherein the electronic control unit, subsequent to the reception of the wakeup signal, further processes at least one further signal of the manual control unit even when the ignition of the utility vehicle is switched off, the wakeup signal causing a voltage supply of the microcontroller to be switched on.