Patents by Inventor Axel Schwab
Axel Schwab has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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DRIVE SYSTEM FOR OPENING AND CLOSING A MOTOR-VEHICLE DOOR, AND MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING THE DRIVE SYSTEM
Publication number: 20240102331Abstract: A drive system for a motor vehicle door is provided including an electric motor and a hinge for fastening the motor vehicle door. The hinge includes a door leaf, a body leaf for attachment to the body and a hinge pin arranged coaxially to the hinge axis and rotatably mounted on the body leaf. The electric motor includes a stator and a rotor arranged coaxially with the hinge axis in the stator and mounted rotatably about the hinge axis relative to the stator. The hinge pin is disposed in sections within the rotor, the rotor being coupled to the hinge pin in a gearless manner to transmit rotation. The drive system includes a tolerance ring arranged between the rotor and the hinge pin for transmitting the rotation from the rotor to the hinge pin, wherein the tolerance ring is coupled frictionally to the hinge pin or to the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Axel Knopp, Wilhelm Schwab -
Publication number: 20230314086Abstract: A vertical rod baffle heat exchanger may be used for heat removal, condensation operations, electricity generation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and other industrial applications. The vertical rod baffle heat exchanger may include a shell; a tube-sheet; a tube bundle having a plurality of heat exchange tubes extending in an axial direction; six or more longitudinal partition plates; and a plurality of rod baffle rings provided along an axial length of the plurality of heat exchange tubes. At least one longitudinal partition plate may be a notched longitudinal partition plate. The plurality of rod baffle rings may have lateral rod baffles and longitudinal rod baffles. The lateral rod baffles and the longitudinal rod baffles may pass through gaps between every two adjacent tubes of plurality of heat exchange tubes. The lateral rod baffles may pass through openings in the notched longitudinal partition plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Lummus Novolen Technology GmbHInventors: Oliver Marco Ruhl, Jochen Axel Schwab, Marco Brignone, Frank Fiedler
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Patent number: 10384554Abstract: The contactless charging device is designed to provide a charging current for at least one specified energy store in the vehicle in such a manner that a current is transferred from a fixed location primary coil to a secondary coil in the vehicle depending on a magnetic field change generated by the charging device. During a charging phase of the at least one energy store, the invention detects, depending on specified ambient data for a specified environment around the vehicle, whether a vehicle user is approaching the vehicle and/or another vehicle which is located in a specified vicinity of the vehicle with a desire to access the vehicle or the other vehicle. If the invention detects that the vehicle user wishing to access the vehicle is approaching the vehicle and/or the other vehicle, the charging current is reduced in a specified manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Axel Schwab
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Patent number: 9849835Abstract: On the basis of a predetermined three-dimensional vehicle environment model and of a second image, acquired at that time, of an image sequence, a corrected display image is determined. The vehicle environment model is determined based on at least a first image of the image sequence and includes an object detected in the first image that has a predetermined resultant absolute position and/or a predetermined resultant position with reference to the vehicle. The second image is acquired a predetermined period of time after the first image and includes the detected object. The corrected display image includes at least one graphic element which represents the detected object and is determined such that it is suitable for being projected onto a display area of the head-up display so as to be perceived by a viewer of the display area from a predetermined viewing position with direct reference to the actual environment of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Klaus Dollinger, Axel Schwab, Alexander Buchner
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Patent number: 9791289Abstract: Predefined route data for a driving route situated in front of the vehicle in the driving direction are provided. Further, at least one predefined predictive operating variable for the vehicle is provided. A three-dimensional model for a predefined environment of the vehicle is determined as a function of the route data. A graphic element is determined as a function of the three-dimensional model and of the at least one predictive operating variable. A head-up display of the vehicle has a predefined display field. The graphic element is displayed in the predefined display field. The graphic element is determined and displayed such that the graphic element is perceived by a viewer of the display field from a predefined viewing position with direct reference to the real environment of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel Schwab, Christof Schulze
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Patent number: 9724972Abstract: A method is provided for encrypted radio transmission of data telegrams spaced apart in time in a sequence between a transmitter and a receiver of a system, wherein a key is changeable and is cryptologically derived from a current piece of information. The time elapsed between a preceding telegram and the encrypted telegram implementing the desired data transmission is used as the key. The time span results from a value or entry of a parameter present in the system. The duration in the transmitter and the receiver is determinable from a previously transmitted value or entry of a parameter, or derived only in the transmitter and wirelessly transmitted to the receiver for a future telegram. In a motor vehicle tire pressure monitoring system, the transmitted data originate from a tire sensor and are wirelessly transmitted in an encrypted manner to a vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Cristian Zucchetti, Axel Schwab
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Patent number: 9529193Abstract: The device for operating one or more optical display devices of a vehicle is configured to determine a three-dimensional model for a predefined environment of the vehicle depending on data sets provided and depending on a predefined latency time, wherein the data sets represent predefined vehicle information and/or driving information which is suitable for being signaled graphically and/or pictorially to a vehicle user.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel Schwab, Wolfgang Rieger
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Patent number: 9469167Abstract: A vehicle pneumatic tire has a sealing material on the inside of the tire, which material approximately closes off a leak resulting from damage to the tire. A warning system is provided in a section of the tire having the sealing material. The warning system may be a sensor unit, which monitors the tire air pressure and is secured via an adhesive film to the inside of the tire having the sealing material. The adhesive film is adhered over a large surface area which is larger by an order of magnitude than a base surface of the sensor unit or of a sensor unit securing device. The adhesive film may cover the sensor unit so that it is located between the adhesive film and the inside of the tire.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel Schwab, Martin Pehlke, Armin Gumpp
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Patent number: 9377322Abstract: A dataset is determined as a function of a specified navigation information, where the dataset includes a specified metadata structure which is suitable for textually characterizing the navigation information. The dataset is transmitted by way of a specified communication interface. As a function of the dataset received by way of the communication interface, pixel values are determined for at least a portion of pixels of a digital image and/or of a graphic element. Furthermore, a signalization signal is determined for signalizing the pixel values of the pixels by means of the optical display device.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel Schwab, Wolfgang Rieger
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Publication number: 20160039302Abstract: The contactless charging device is designed to provide a charging current for at least one specified energy store in the vehicle in such a manner that a current is transferred from a fixed location primary coil to a secondary coil in the vehicle depending on a magnetic field change generated by the charging device. During a charging phase of the at least one energy store, the invention detects, depending on specified ambient data for a specified environment around the vehicle, whether a vehicle user is approaching the vehicle and/or another vehicle which is located in a specified vicinity of the vehicle with a desire to access the vehicle or the other vehicle. If the invention detects that the vehicle user wishing to access the vehicle is approaching the vehicle and/or the other vehicle, the charging current is reduced in a specified manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventor: Axel SCHWAB
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Publication number: 20150158430Abstract: On the basis of a predetermined three-dimensional vehicle environment model and of a second image, acquired at that time, of an image sequence, a corrected display image is determined. The vehicle environment model is determined based on at least a first image of the image sequence and includes an object detected in the first image that has a predetermined resultant absolute position and/or a predetermined resultant position with reference to the vehicle. The second image is acquired a predetermined period of time after the first image and includes the detected object. The corrected display image includes at least one graphic element which represents the detected object and is determined such that it is suitable for being projected onto a display area of the head-up display so as to be perceived by a viewer of the display area from a predetermined viewing position with direct reference to the actual environment of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2015Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: Klaus DOLLINGER, Axel SCHWAB, Alexander BUCHNER
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Publication number: 20150127255Abstract: A first aspect of the invention relates to a method of operating an optical display device of a vehicle. Here, a dataset is determined as a function of a specified navigation information, the dataset having a specified metadata structure which is suitable for textually characterizing the navigation information. The dataset is transmitted by way of a specified communication interface. As a function of the dataset received by way of the communication interface, pixel values are determined for at least a portion of pixels of a digital image and/or of a graphic element. Furthermore, a signalization signal is determined for signalizing the pixel values of the pixels by means of the optical display device. A second aspect of the invention relates to a data determination unit; a third aspect relates to an image determination unit and a fourth aspect relates to a display system for a vehicle for implementing the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2015Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Axel SCHWAB, Wolfgang RIEGER
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Publication number: 20150116320Abstract: The device for operating one or more optical display devices of a vehicle is configured to determine a three-dimensional model for a predefined environment of the vehicle depending on data sets provided and depending on a predefined latency time, wherein the data sets represent predefined vehicle information and/or driving information which is suitable for being signaled graphically and/or pictorially to a vehicle user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2015Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Axel SCHWAB, Wolfgang RIEGER
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Patent number: 9019094Abstract: A method is provided for real-time monitoring of tire pressure, wherein the pressure value determined by use of a pressure sensor in the tire is transmitted by an electronic wheel device, without the use of a trigger transmitter fixed on the vehicle, by radio, in short transmission intervals, to a monitoring device installed in the vehicle, only if, at least when the vehicle is not moving, the value is outside a prespecified normal range. When the vehicle is not moving, the electronic wheel device transmits a signal suitable for a system monitoring function, at certain time intervals and, using the same time frame or a whole-number fraction or multiple thereof, carries out a measurement of the tire pressure. The signal has a short transmission duration on the order of 25 ?s to 500 ?s.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel Schwab, Jochen Hartmann
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Publication number: 20150100234Abstract: Predefined route data for a driving route situated in front of the vehicle in the driving direction are provided. Further, at least one predefined predictive operating variable for the vehicle is provided. A three-dimensional model for a predefined environment of the vehicle is determined as a function of the route data. A graphic element is determined as a function of the three-dimensional model and of the at least one predictive operating variable. A head-up display of the vehicle has a predefined display field. The graphic element is displayed in the predefined display field. The graphic element is determined and displayed such that the graphic element is perceived by a viewer of the display field from a predefined viewing position with direct reference to the real environment of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventors: Axel SCHWAB, Christof SCHULZE
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Patent number: 8959990Abstract: An arrangement of a tire pressure sensor unit on the inner wall of the tread of a vehicle tire in a retaining device for the sensor unit is provided. The retaining device is connected to the inner wall, wherein a sealing compound is applied to the inner wall, or in the case of a retaining device having a closed bottom section which is connected to the inner wall, the sealing compound is applied to the bottom section facing the sensor unit. In the event that a foreign object punctures the inner wall, or punctures the inner wall and the bottom section, the sealing compound prevents at least a short-term loss of pressure caused by the hole resulting therefrom in that the sealing compound at least almost tightly seals the hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jochen Hartmann, Axel Schwab, Michael Meier
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Publication number: 20140070936Abstract: A method is provided for real-time monitoring of tire pressure, wherein the pressure value determined by use of a pressure sensor in the tire is transmitted by an electronic wheel device, without the use of a trigger transmitter fixed on the vehicle, by radio, in short transmission intervals, to a monitoring device installed in the vehicle, only if, at least when the vehicle is not moving, the value is outside a prespecified normal range. When the vehicle is not moving, the electronic wheel device transmits a signal suitable for a system monitoring function, at certain time intervals and, using the same time frame or a whole-number fraction or multiple thereof, carries out a measurement of the tire pressure. The signal has a short transmission duration on the order of 25 ?s to 500 ?s.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel SCHWAB, Jochen HARTMANN
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Publication number: 20130319085Abstract: A vehicle pneumatic tire has a sealing material on the inside of the tire, which material approximately closes off a leak resulting from damage to the tire. A warning system is provided in a section of the tire having the sealing material. The warning system may be a sensor unit, which monitors the tire air pressure and is secured via an adhesive film to the inside of the tire having the sealing material. The adhesive film is adhered over a large surface area which is larger by an order of magnitude than a base surface of the sensor unit or of a sensor unit securing device. The adhesive film may cover the sensor unit so that it is located between the adhesive film and the inside of the tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel SCHWAB, Martin PEHLKE, Armin GUMPP
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Publication number: 20130322629Abstract: A method is provided for encrypted radio transmission of data telegrams spaced apart in time in a sequence between a transmitter and a receiver of a system, wherein a key is changeable and is cryptologically derived from a current piece of information. The time elapsed between a preceding telegram and the encrypted telegram implementing the desired data transmission is used as the key. The time span results from a value or entry of a parameter present in the system. The duration in the transmitter and the receiver is determinable from a previously transmitted value or entry of a parameter, or derived only in the transmitter and wirelessly transmitted to the receiver for a future telegram. In a motor vehicle tire pressure monitoring system, the transmitted data originate from a tire sensor and are wirelessly transmitted in an encrypted manner to a vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Cristian ZUCCHETTI, Axel SCHWAB
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Publication number: 20130305818Abstract: An arrangement of a tire pressure sensor unit on the inner wall of the tread of a vehicle tire in a retaining device for the sensor unit is provided. The retaining device is connected to the inner wall, wherein a sealing compound is applied to the inner wall, or in the case of a retaining device having a closed bottom section which is connected to the inner wall, the sealing compound is applied to the bottom section facing the sensor unit. In the event that a foreign object punctures the inner wall, or punctures the inner wall and the bottom section, the sealing compound prevents at least a short-term loss of pressure caused by the hole resulting therefrom in that the sealing compound at least almost tightly seals the hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jochen HARTMANN, Axel SCHWAB, Michael MEIER