Patents Assigned to Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 10760320
    Abstract: A door drive for a motor vehicle door has a lever element which can be mounted on the body work side of the motor vehicle and which can be connected to an adjustable drive element of a drive device arranged on the motor vehicle door. The adjustable drive element is designed as a rocker element which can be mounted about a bearing axis and which includes a first lever arm by which the rocker element is at least indirectly connected to an actuator of the drive device, and also includes a second lever element by which the rocker element is connected at least indirectly to the lever element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marcus Knechtel, Andreas Laemmerhofer, Manuel Wernicke
  • Patent number: 10402212
    Abstract: A method is provided for making available an assistance suggestion for a user of a motor vehicle. The method determines information on the availability of helpers and displays the available helpers based on that information. After selecting a helper by the user, the method sets up a communication link between the user and the selected helper, makes available assistance information to the selected helper, and receives an assistance suggestion which is based on the assistance information made available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Steidle, Markus Strassberger, Christopher Roelle
  • Patent number: 10323953
    Abstract: For the input of navigational target data into a navigation system by way of a facility for a mobile radio voice link, voice signals or signals derived therefrom, transmitted via the mobile radio voice link, are processed by a voice recognition device for recognizing spoken words. By way of at least one word recognized during this process, a comparison of targets with navigational target entries in a navigation database takes place. In the case of a positive result of the comparison, the corresponding navigational target entry is provided for input as navigation target in the navigation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Luca Trentinaglia, Christian Kuehnel
  • Patent number: 9102235
    Abstract: A method for reactivating an interrupted cruise control function of a cruise control system of a vehicle is provided. When the vehicle is not in the stationary state, in order to allow the driver to reactivate intuitively the interrupted cruise control function, the driver may reactivate the interrupted cruise control function by actuating a gas pedal of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Pei-Shih Huang
  • Patent number: 8589009
    Abstract: For controlling the charge state of a battery in a hybrid vehicle having an internal-combustion engine and an electric machine, the battery is operated in a working state-of-charge range falling within a theoretically possible state-of-charge range. In a first sub-range, the battery is charged by the electric machine, the electric machine working as a generator and being engine driven. In a second sub-range, the battery is neither charged nor discharged, the electric machine working as a generator and being driven by the engine and, in the process, supplying only an on-board power supply system of the hybrid vehicle with current. In a third sub-range, the battery is discharged and, in the process, supplies the on-board power supply system with current, the electric machine running along passively. In a fourth sub-range, the battery is discharged and, in the process, supplies current to the electric machine operating as an electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ronny Hirsch, Holger Hummel, Georg Mumelter
  • Patent number: D551150
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jochen Hueller
  • Patent number: D625674
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Mario Majdandzic
  • Patent number: D827884
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Lisa Hannemann
  • Patent number: D864079
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andre Rueckheim