Patent ID: 6952633

Claim:
A device for monitoring a lateral-acceleration sensor, the lateral acceleration sensor detecting a first lateral acceleration variable that describes a lateral acceleration activity on a vehicle, the device comprising: a detecting arrangement for detecting at least one wheel-speed variable that describes at least one speed of at least one wheel; a first determination arrangement for determining a variable describing a vehicle speed as a first function of at least one of the at least one wheel-speed variable; a second determination arrangement for determining a second lateral-acceleration variable as a second function of another of the at least one wheel-speed variable; a monitoring arrangement for performing at least one first comparison of the first lateral-acceleration variable to the second lateral-acceleration variable in order to monitor the lateral-acceleration sensor; and an enabling arrangement for deciding about one of an implementation and an interruption of a monitoring performed by the monitoring arrangement, wherein: at least one second comparison of the at least one wheel-speed variable to the variable describing the vehicle speed is performed by the enabling arrangement, and the monitoring of the lateral-acceleration sensor is performed depending on a result of the at least one second comparison.