MUMBAI, India, May 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517044211 A) filed by Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fur Nutzfahrzeuge Gmbh, Munchen, Germany, on May 7, for 'method and system for detecting the presence of a trailer.'

Inventor(s) include Kiss, Zoltan Richard; and Hajas, Balazs.

The application for the patent was published on May 30, under issue no. 22/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method for detecting the presence of a trailer, comprising: inflating (S1) a trailer supply line (106) and/or using a pressurized trailer supply line (106); exhausting and/or deflating (S2) the trailer supply line (106); obtaining (S3) the pressure being formed in the trailer supply line (106) during inflating (S1) and/or using and/or during exhausting and/or deflating (S2); and determining (S4), if a trailer is connected to the trailer supply line (106), based on the obtained pressure, in particular an obtained pressure curve. Further, the present invention relates to a system (100) for detecting the presence of a trailer and to a vehicle (V), in which said system (100) is included."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 16, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/082127.

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