Patents Assigned to Daimler AG
  • Cooling system for electric vehicle axle
    Patent number: 11117439
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a chassis, a rigid axle housing, and a suspension system control arm coupling the rigid axle housing to the chassis. The electric vehicle also includes first and second electric motors, each having a rotator and a stator. The stator of the first and second electric motors are rigidly fixed to the rigid axle housing. The electric vehicle also includes a coolant supply system coupled to a radiator and the rigid axle housing to supply coolant from the radiator to a coolant inlet of the rigid axle housing and to supply used coolant from a coolant outlet of the rigid axle housing to the radiator. A first mounting bracket is fixed to the chassis and the coolant supply system. A second mounting bracket is fixed to the rigid axle housing and the coolant supply system, and a third mounting bracket is fixed to the control arm and the coolant supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Pete Abram, Lokesh Pandey, Hemant Gull, Nikita Timofeev
  • METHOD FOR CALIBRATING AND/OR ADJUSTING AT LEAST ONE SENSOR UNIT OF A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20210276579
    Abstract: A method for calibrating and/or adjusting at least one sensor unit of a vehicle operated at least partially automatically may have in the event of a known need for calibration and/or adjustment of the at least one sensor unit along an upcoming roadway, at least one suitable road section for performing the calibration and/or adjustment is defined, on which the at least one sensor unit to be calibrated and/or adjusted is not necessary or is at least only minimally necessary or is needed as little as possible for the at least partially automated operation of the vehicle, where the calibration and/or adjustment of the at least one sensor unit occurs as soon as the vehicle reaches the defined road section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicants: DAIMLER AG, ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: HOLGER MIELENZ, EBERHARD KAUS
  • Fairing assembly for at least one axle of a commercial vehicle
    Patent number: 11110974
    Abstract: A fairing assembly for at least one axle of a commercial vehicle is disclosed. The fairing assembly includes at least one forward fairing configured to be arranged at least partially in front of a drive wheel of the axle with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and at least one rear fairing configured to be arranged at least partially aft of the drive wheel. Each of the fairings includes at least one first portion made of a first material and at least one second portion adjoining the respective first portion where the second portion is made of a second material different from the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Carlos Cosme, Manjul Gupta, Morris Henry, Nathan Hill, Scott Sargeant, Paolo Zanetti
  • Method for locking and/or unlocking a vehicle
    Patent number: 11110890
    Abstract: A method for locking and/or unlocking a vehicle having an input device for a code on the vehicle, via which the vehicle can be locked and/or unlocked, involves requesting the code via a mobile device having a mobile number registered to the respective vehicle with a data server. After the request, the data server generates a current code and send this to the mobile device and to the vehicle. The code can then be input via the input device and compared to the code sent to the vehicle and, should they match, locking and/or unlocking of the vehicle is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Verena Lutterbeck, Benjamin Burger
  • Cylinder housing for a reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 11111874
    Abstract: A cylinder housing for a reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle, includes a first cylinder which is delimited by a first cylinder barrel and a second cylinder which is delimited by a second cylinder barrel. The cylinders differ from one another with respect to their respective inner contour formed by the respective cylinder barrels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Behr, Klaus Geiger, Udo Grimmer, Tobias Hanschke, Martin Hartweg, Volker Lagemann, Harald Scheib, Sebastian Schiefer, Martin Stroeer, Silvia Tomaschko
  • Valvetrain for an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 11111828
    Abstract: A valvetrain for an internal combustion engine has a camshaft that can be rotated in a direction of rotation around an axis of rotation, at least two cam pieces arranged on the camshaft which each have at least two cams for actuating a respective gas exchange valve and which are rotationally fixedly connected to the camshaft, and an actuator via which the cam pieces can be shifted in the axial direction of the camshaft. A first of the cam pieces has a first rib protruding outwardly from a first base body of the first cam piece in the radial direction of the camshaft and the second cam piece has a second rib protruding outwardly from a second base body of the second cam piece in the radial direction of the camshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Alexander Von Gaisberg-Helfenberg, Thomas Stolk
  • Method for Desulphurising a Nitrogen Oxide Accumulator Catalytic Converter
    Publication number: 20210270166
    Abstract: A method for desulphurising a nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter of an exhaust gas system that includes the nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter and at least one selective catalytic reduction catalytic converter disposed downstream of the nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter, of an internal combustion engine, where a desulphurisation strategy, on the basis of which the nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter is desulphurised, is adjusted to the ageing of the nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thorsten WOOG, Berthold KEPPELER, Nathalie Janine SCHWEITZER
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SURROUNDINGS, AND VEHICLE WITH SUCH AN APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210271908
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting surroundings around a vehicle may include the step of periodically scanning the surroundings in a first detection region by a laser scanner. The method may also include detecting the surroundings in a second detection region by an optical camera. The first detection region and the second detection region may at least overlap each other. An optical sensor in the camera may be exposed at least twice within one period of the laser scanner. A first exposure time for a first exposure of the at least two exposures of the optical sensor may be chosen and synchronized with the laser scanner so that the first exposure occurs within a first time window, in which the laser scanner scans the first detection region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicants: DAIMLER AG, ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: MANUEL SCHAEFER, MARKUS GRESSMANN, HELMUTH EGGERS, PHILIPP LEHNER, MARTIN MEINKE
  • Battery Unit, Method for Electrically Interconnecting Cell Stacks of a Battery Unit and Method for Separating an Electrical Interconnection of Cell Stacks of a Battery Unit
    Publication number: 20210257705
    Abstract: A battery unit of a vehicle includes a plurality of cell stacks which each include a respective plurality of cells electrically interconnected to one another, an electrical attachment contact, and a contact key element. The contact key element has a contact region and is electrically insulating outside of the contact region. In a first contact position of the contact key element the plurality of cell stacks are interconnected electrically to one another via the contact region and in a subsequent second contact position of the contact key element the plurality of cell stacks that are interconnected electrically to one another are electrically connected to the electrical attachment contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Denis BLANUSA
  • Method for operating an occupant protection means of an occupant protection device, and occupant protection device
    Patent number: 11084444
    Abstract: A method for operating an airbag of an occupant protection device of a vehicle moveable in autonomous driving mode involves positioning the airbag in an active position depending on at least one trigger condition. The airbag is automatically positioned and/or aligned within a vehicle interior depending on a positioning of a vehicle seat assigned to the airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Julien Richert
  • Driving authorization system
    Patent number: 11084459
    Abstract: A driving authorization system for a vehicle includes a connectivity unit for communication at least with a key and a keyless access authorization system. A server has an access lock, which can be activated or deactivated by the key and/or the keyless access authorization system. The keyless access authorization system is an application on a mobile device, further having an immobilizer. The immobilizer is designed in such a way that it is activated when the access lock is activated by the application and is deactivated again in this case only when the access lock is deactivated by the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Daniel Deparis, Jan-Peter Langer, Jakob Luickhardt, Markus Rossmann, Gabriele Galwas
  • Method For The At Least Partly Automated Guidance Of A Motor Vehicle
    Publication number: 20210237736
    Abstract: A method for the at least partially automated guidance of a motor vehicle includes receiving a plurality of surroundings signals which represent an area surrounding the motor vehicle and, when a turning situation is present in which the motor vehicle is to turn at an intersection point, generating a plurality of control signals for the at least partially automated control of a lateral and longitudinal guidance of the motor vehicle on the basis of the surroundings signals. The method includes outputting the control signals to guide the motor vehicle on the basis of the control signals to, before a turning maneuver, guide the motor vehicle at a reduced lateral distance from a lane edge that is on an inside of a bend corresponding to the turning maneuver, to impede or prevent overtaking by a two-wheeled vehicle on a side of the motor vehicle on the inside of the bend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicants: Robert Bosch GmbH, Daimler AG
    Inventors: Christoph Gustav Keller, Holger Mielenz
  • Method for Operating an Internal Combustion Engine for a Motor Vehicle, and Internal Combustion Engine for a Motor Vehicle
    Publication number: 20210239072
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle having a cylinder, the combustion chamber of which is delimited in the radial direction by a cylinder wall and in the axial direction by a piston and by a combustion chamber roof. The piston has an annularly peripheral piston stage which is arranged axially recessed in the piston compared with an annularly peripheral piston crown and which merges via an annularly jet splitter contour into a piston hollow arranged axially recessed in the piston in relation to the piston stage. An injector is allocated to the cylinder and via the injector several injection jets are simultaneously injected directly into the combustion chamber in a star shape for a combustion process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Joerg Bauer, Herbert Zoeller
  • Method for Start Preparation
    Publication number: 20210242477
    Abstract: A method for preparing a fuel cell system in a vehicle for starting, for which purpose a starting preparation routine is carried out after the vehicle has been shut down depending on a temperature limit value. In the method, in the event that the fuel cell had not reached its normal operating temperature during the previous operation and a temperature falls below the predetermined temperature limit value, the fuel cell system is operated until it has reached its normal operating temperature and after which the starting preparation routine is subsequently carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Pere Antoni PASTOR NIGORRA, Sven SCHMALZRIEDT, Hans-Joerg HEIDRICH
  • Valve drive device, in particular for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, and method for operating such a valve drive device
    Patent number: 11078814
    Abstract: A valve drive device has a camshaft which includes a shaft element and a cam piece which can be driven by the shaft element and a first cam effecting a first stroke of a valve and a second cam effecting a second stroke of the valve, and is displaceable in the axial direction of the camshaft relative to the shaft element between a first position, in which the valve can be actuated by the first cam, and a second position in which the valve can be actuated by the second cam, and has an electrically controllable actuator via which the cam piece is displaceable relative to the shaft element in the axial direction as a result of an electrical control of the actuator. The actuator pushes the cam piece alternately back and forth between the positions in the case of successive electrical controls occurring with the same polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Stolk, Alexander Von Gaisberg-Helfenberg
  • Valvetrain for an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 11073052
    Abstract: A valvetrain for an internal combustion engine has a camshaft rotatable about an axis of rotation, a sliding-block element connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the camshaft and displaceable in the axial direction of the camshaft relative thereto, which sliding-block element has an outer circumferential jacket surface with a shift gate via which a rotational movement of the sliding-block element can be converted into a displacement of the sliding-block element in the axial direction of the camshaft relative thereto, and a shift rod at least partially accommodated in the camshaft and displaceable by the sliding-block element in the axial direction of the camshaft relative thereto and via which shift rod an actuation of a gas exchange valve can be influenced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Martin Mehring
  • Method for the remote control of a function of a vehicle
    Patent number: 11067982
    Abstract: A method for the remote control of a function of a vehicle by a mobile operating device, involves enabling or disabling the function of the vehicle, such as an autonomous function for maneuvering into or out of a parking space, based on a sensed movement of the operating device. Enablement of the function requires that the sensed movement is a micromovement, a micromovement being a movement that is limited in the extent thereof and/or in the dynamics thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Marc Oliver Restle, Tobias Hug, Andreas Hiller, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Michael Rick
  • Electric Vehicle
    Publication number: 20210218101
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a drive unit fitted to a rear axle of the electric vehicle to transmit drive power generated by a motor to rear wheels of the electric vehicle, an auxiliary electric device group including a plurality of auxiliary electric devices disposed in a cab area which is disposed under a cab of the electric vehicle and between side rails which constitute a ladder frame of the electric vehicle, a battery pack disposed between the drive unit and the auxiliary electric device group and between the side rails, a power distribution device disposed on an auxiliary electric device group side of the battery pack and between the side rails to distribute power from the battery pack to the auxiliary electric devices, and a drive power supply device disposed on a drive unit side of the battery pack to supply power from the battery pack to the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Vikram MENON, Katsuhiko MATSUMOTO, Markus UHL, Lars SCHROETER
  • Heat dissipating device for batteries or electric devices
    Patent number: D927435
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD., DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Tomohiko Kuwabara, Takao Shimizu, Markus Christ, Nils Andersson, Christian Brommer, Hubert Schnuepke, Marc Fuchslocher
  • Vehicle, toy, and/or replicas thereof
    Patent number: D929900
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Marco Cartarius, Mark Fetherston, Teckkoun Kim, Robert Lesnik, Andreas Rommel, Gorden Wagener