Patents Assigned to AVL Deutschland GmbH
  • Patent number: 9250157
    Abstract: A method for detecting rotational speed/torque fluctuations, in particular patterns of such fluctuations, of a drive device, in particular in a motor vehicle, includes the following steps: detecting a critical rotational speed situation by comparing a measured actual rotational speed with specified characteristic rotational speeds; detecting a local rotational speed minimum and a local rotational speed maximum (local rotational speed variables); analyzing the local rotational speed variables by generating local rotational speed characteristic values, such as a local amplitude and a local frequency preferably; directly or indirectly determining the duration of a local vibration time period, wherein substantially constant local rotational speed characteristic values are present within the time period; and describing a local vibration pattern, the pattern exhibiting at least the local amplitude, local frequency, or the local vibration time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: AUDI AG, AVL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Mathias Felber, Jürgen Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20090077904
    Abstract: A modular testing plant comprising at least two building modules which are designed as transportable containers and which each have two side walls and two transverse walls connecting the side walls, wherein at least one building module having a length L2 and a width B2 and designed as a first testing module for receiving a test item is provided, and at least one building module having a length L4 and a width B4 and designed as a first supply module for receiving supply technology is provided, wherein the first supply module is arranged above the first testing module and the length L4 is less than the length L2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: AVL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Ziegler, Christoph Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6754615
    Abstract: Method of simulating the performance of a vehicle on a roadway on a power train test bed with the help of torque-controlled electric load machines mounted on the shafts of the power train of the vehicle and with the help of a computer with a vehicle model stored therein and a tire model simulating the slip-dependent friction, in which method the angular wheel speed is measured on at least one of the shafts, and the tire model determines a force transmitted from the tire to the roadway at this angular wheel speed on the basis of the tire model using a vehicle velocity and a tire normal force, and it also determines a setpoint torque for this force for the torque-controlled load machine mounted on this shaft, in such a way that a difference corresponding to the actual slip is established between the measured angular wheel speed and a nominal angular wheel speed value corresponding to the vehicle velocity used in the tire model and calculated in the vehicle model with feedback of the force transferred to the roa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignees: AVL Deutschland GmbH, Dr. Ing.h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Germann, Harald Nonn, Wolfgang Kopecky, Georg Abler, Lothar Witte, Hai Tran Xuan, Michael Pfeiffer, Peter Brodbeck