Patents Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 11993190
    Abstract: A storage device for a vehicle has a housing, a drawer, which in normal use can be moved relative to the housing in a vehicle longitudinal direction between a closed state and an open state, a movable wall, and a movement mechanism, which is designed to change the position of the movable wall from the closed state of the drawer, in which closed state the movable wall is in a retracted position, at least into a first extended position in the open state of the drawer. In the retracted position, the movable wall is arranged in a cavity of a wall of the drawer. In the first extended position, the movable wall is at least partially arranged in an interior of the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manuel Baur, Andreas Beck, Markus Riess, Nicolas Rojek
  • Patent number: 11993961
    Abstract: A lock striker of a motor vehicle body lock includes a striker. The striker is arranged on a striker plate. The striker has a striker section which is configured to admit a load. The striker plate has a first striker plate section which is configured to be connected to a body component. The striker plate has a second striker plate section on which the striker is arranged. The first striker plate section and the second striker plate section are connected to one another. A stiffness of the striker plate in the direction of the load is less than in a direction orthogonal to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Nicholas Aldersley, Michael Brandstaetter
  • Patent number: 11993142
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a pressure relief device that can be thermally activated, for the pressure relief of at least one pressure vessel. A body floor element is arranged at least partially between the passenger compartment or the cargo area and the pressure vessel. A pressure relief triggering device is designed to directly or indirectly bring about the pressure relief. The pressure relief triggering device is designed to absorb thermal energy from the passenger compartment or the cargo area in order to trigger the pressure relief device, without the thermal energy absorbed for the triggering having previously been transmitted to the pressure relief triggering device through the body floor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Timo Christ
  • Patent number: 11996513
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating a lithium ion battery having at least one lithium ion cell and a heating device, the method includes a step of operating the lithium ion battery in a temperature range between 5 and 90° C. The heating device is designed to operate the lithium ion battery in a temperature range between 5 and 90° C. The lithium ion cell includes an anode, a cathode, a separator, a current collector and an electrolyte. The electrolyte can contain LiBOB as the conducting salt and at least one solvent selected from propylene carbonate and ethylene carbonate; or having LiFSI and/or LiDFOB as the conducting salt and at least one solvent selected from glycol ether and/or DMC; or having LiFSI and/or LiTFSI and/or LiDFOB and/or LiTDI as the conducting salt and at least one solvent selected from imidazolium compounds, pyrrolidinium compounds and piperidinium compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dave Andre, Christoph Bauer, Simon Nuernberger, Jakub Reiter, Sebastian Scharner
  • Patent number: 11994395
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method, a machine readable medium, a device and a vehicle for determining a route connecting a plurality of destinations in a road network, and a method, a machine readable medium and a device for training a machine learning module for determining a route connecting a plurality of destinations in a road network. The method for determining a route connecting a plurality of destinations in a road network comprises receiving input information, which comprises information on distances between the plurality of destinations in the road network. The method further comprises inputting the input information on the distances into a trained machine learning module and providing output information on the route connecting the plurality of destinations based on an output of the trained machine learning module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jilei Tian, Yang Cao
  • Patent number: 11993824
    Abstract: A method for producing a sheet metal component, in particular a motor vehicle structural component, includes the following steps: providing a basic structure consisting of a hot formable material, arranging at least one reinforcing structure in a region to be reinforced of the basic structure, preliminarily or definitively fixing the reinforcing structure to the basic structure, in particular by an integrally bonded connection, cold forming the basic structure with the reinforcing structure arranged thereon, and press hardening the basic structure with the reinforcing structure arranged thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Kerscher, Markus Pfestorf
  • Patent number: 11993153
    Abstract: A hybrid drive assembly includes an internal combustion engine as a first drive machine having a first drive shaft, an electromechanical energy converter as a second drive machine having a second drive shaft, a switchable traction transmission device with a first transmission input shaft selectively connected to the first drive shaft, and a second transmission input shaft connected to the second drive shaft. The traction transmission device has an input planetary gear set having at least three transmission shafts, an input sun gear shaft, an input ring gear shaft, and an input planet carrier shaft. One of which is the first transmission input shaft, with a first torsional vibration reducing device arranged between it and the first drive shaft. Another of which is the second transmission input shaft, with a second torsional vibration reducing device arranged between it and the second drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Benjamin Kluge, Sebastian Liebert, Ulrich Ohnemus, Fritz Pobitzer
  • Patent number: 11988235
    Abstract: A clip includes a housing with a passage opening and a closed frame where the housing is surrounded by the closed frame or the housing is a constituent part of the closed frame. The closed frame has two laterally running portions and the two laterally running portions are connected to one another by an arcuate portion which is formed opposite the housing. The closed frame has a spring action and is deformable elastically at a level of the two laterally running portions. A respective projection which protrudes from the clip and which is engageable at an intended assembly point with a hooking-behind action is formed on the two laterally running portions on an outer surface of the clip pointing away from the closed frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Enrico Horn
  • Patent number: 11990299
    Abstract: A switch-off device includes a current conductor for forming a load current path, a pyrotechnically activatable separating unit for interrupting the load current path in the event of a fault, including a separating element for detaching the current conductor and a pyrotechnic element for accelerating the separating element in the direction of the current conductor, and an arc extinguishing unit for extinguishing an arc, including a melting conductor which is not normally incorporated into the load current path and an extinguishing device for extinguishing the melting conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Florian Pritscher, Christian Schardax
  • Patent number: 11988514
    Abstract: Methods and devices for determining routes for autonomous driving are provided. The following steps are executed: computing K alternative routes from a route source to a route destination; evaluating each one of the K alternative routes, wherein the evaluating comprises determining a Pareto front of the K alternative routes, wherein the Pareto front of the K alternative routes comprises a set of Pareto-optimized routes that are Pareto-optimized with regard to route constraints comprising travel time T, manual driving time TM, and transition count M that indicates a count of transitions from the autonomous driving to a manual driving in a route; if the set of Pareto-optimized routes comprises more than P routes, reducing number of Pareto-optimized routes in the set of Pareto-optimized routes to P; and outputting the Pareto-optimized routes of the set of Pareto-optimized routes as the determined routes for autonomous driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefaan Duym, Felix Rempe
  • Patent number: 11981266
    Abstract: A display device for the interior of a vehicle includes: (i) a display unit, which is designed for optical display of information and has a display element for this purpose and which can be or is arranged in a longitudinal extension direction of the vehicle behind a front row of seats, preferably on a roof lining of the vehicle; (ii) a movement unit, which is designed to move the display unit, in particular with the display element pivoted away from the roof lining of the vehicle, in the longitudinal extension direction, in particular controllably, between various working positions and/or to hold the display unit in a given working position; and (iii) a control unit which is designed to control the movement unit in such a way that the display unit and the display element are arranged at a predetermined first distance or first distance range from an element of the front row of seats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Harald Lathwesen
  • Patent number: 11981353
    Abstract: In a method for checking an at least semi-autonomous driving mode of a vehicle, intervention data are provided by a plurality of vehicles. The intervention data each represent a human intervention in an at least semi-autonomous driving mode of a vehicle. The intervention data includes sensor data at the time of the intervention and position data for a position at the time of the intervention. In accordance with the intervention data from the plurality of vehicles, a position is determined at which an increased number of vehicles registered a human intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Christian Unger
  • Patent number: 11982251
    Abstract: An air supply device for an internal combustion engine may include at least one air chamber and at least two intake pipes, which are connected to the at least one air chamber. The intake pipes may each be designed to supply air to respective cylinders of the internal combustion engine, and they each may have intake pipe end portion assigned to a corresponding inlet opening. Via the inlet openings, air can move from an air chamber interior of the at least one air chamber into respective intake pipe interiors of the at least two intake pipes and also via the intake pipe interiors to the cylinders. The intake pipe end portions may end in the air chamber interior and overlap in at least one direction, which is oriented perpendicularly to at least one center axis of at least one of the intake pipe end portions at a common overlapping region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Gatzka, Johannes Hoehl, Josef Miritsch
  • Patent number: D1026747
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Boson Ruo-xiang Huang, Sebastian Maria Kroes
  • Patent number: D1026758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Boson Ruo-xiang Huang, Sebastian Maria Kroes
  • Patent number: D1026769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Boson Ruo-Xiang Huang, Sebastian Maria Kroes
  • Patent number: D1026770
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jacek Peplowski
  • Patent number: D1028303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Chunyue Zhai
  • Patent number: D1029321
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Moritz Anton, Sebastian Morgenstern
  • Patent number: D1029322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Moritz Anton, Sebastian Morgenstern