Abstract: A method for producing a cell-contacting system for a cell assembly of energy storage cells includes creating a first part of a conductive pattern for connecting the energy storage cells by structuring of a conductive material that involves cutting out holes from the conductive material; integrating the structured conductive material into an electrically insulating substrate by joining through primary forming of an insulating material, wherein the insulating material is arranged at least locally at the holes for mechanically connecting conductive tracks of the conductive pattern, and wherein the insulating material has access openings for exposing conductive track portions serving as cell contacts, and for creating a second part of the conductive pattern; and creating the second part of the conductive pattern by further structuring of the conductive material.

Abstract: An electrical energy store has a plurality of energy storage cells each having a cell housing and two cell terminals, and a cell contact system for connecting the energy storage cells which has a carrier and conductor tracks which are connected to the carrier and have conductor track portions forming contact regions for contacting the cell terminals of the energy storage cells. The cell terminals have terminal regions which are to be at least partially laterally contacted, and the contact regions are at least partially in the form of lateral pressure contacts which, during contact, exert a lateral force on the terminal regions which are to be laterally contacted.

Abstract: A cooling device for an electrical energy store, having a heat sink for arranging on one side of a cell assembly formed of energy storage cells of the electrical energy store and for cooling the energy storage cells is provided. The heat sink has openings for aligned arrangement so as to form degassing elements of the energy storage cells. The openings form a degassing duct for a hot gas of the energy storage cells that leaks via the degassing elements. The cooling device has intermediate cooling elements for arranging in clearances of the cell assembly between the energy storage cells in order to compensate for a loss of cooling surface that results from the openings of the heat sink. The intermediate cooling elements are arranged on the heat sink and are designed to dissipate waste heat from the energy storage cells to the heat sink.

Abstract: An electric energy store for installing into a motor vehicle with an electric drive, having at least one housing consisting of a housing upper part, a housing lower part, and an intermediate element for receiving storage cells, wherein a connection between the intermediate element and the adjacent housing parts is designed in the form of a toothing for absorbing lateral pushing forces and simultaneously increasing the resistance against pulling forces.

Abstract: An electric energy store for installing into a motor vehicle includes at least two housing parts. A first housing part is not designed to receive storage cells and a second housing part is designed to receive all of the storage cells. The first housing part is designed to be installed in the motor vehicle as an upper housing part, and the second housing part is designed to be installed in the motor vehicle as a lower housing part. The first housing part can be closed by a removable first cover, and the second housing part is designed as a closed capsule with a non-removable second cover.

Abstract: A traction battery for a motor vehicle includes a plurality of battery cells, a battery housing with a plurality of housing walls which surround a receiving space for receiving the battery cells and of which at least one housing wall has a degassing unit for discharging a hot gas from at least one of the battery cells out of the receiving space, and a degassing collector arranged outside the receiving space and having a degassing chamber which can be expanded by the hot gas for receiving the hot gas discharged out of the receiving space. The degassing chamber is delimited by the at least one housing wall and a plate-like, at least partially thermally conductive heat shield.

Abstract: A method for producing a cell-contacting system for a battery module of a vehicle includes providing a plurality of connection elements for corresponding electrical connection of adjacent battery cells of the battery module, wherein the corresponding connection elements are produced such that they include a region having reduced stiffness; and providing a holding device for holding the connection elements, wherein the holding device is provided by electrically insulating support elements, initially at least one main body is provided and is connected to the support elements, and subsequently the connection elements are produced from the at least one main body.

Abstract: A method for operating an electropneumatic parking brake system of a vehicle combination, which includes a tractor vehicle and a trailer vehicle, includes activating, after a parking operation and braking of the vehicle combination, a trailer check function in a standstill state. The trailer check function enables a check as to whether, in the case of a decrease in the braking action of the trailer vehicle, the vehicle combination can be held in a stationary manner solely by way of the braking action of a parking brake of the tractor vehicle. The trailer check function is carried out automatically when a vehicle combination has been braked in a stationary manner independently by way of an automatic parking function.

Abstract: A method for producing a cell-contacting system for a battery module of a vehicle includes providing a plurality of connection elements for corresponding electrical connection of adjacent battery cells of the battery module, wherein the corresponding connection elements are produced such that they include a region having reduced stiffness; and providing a holding device for holding the connection elements, wherein the holding device is provided by electrically insulating support elements, initially at least one main body is provided and is connected to the support elements, and subsequently the connection elements are produced from the at least one main body.

Abstract: An electronic module includes a first supporting element, a second supporting element, and a plurality of components arranged on the first supporting element and the second supporting element. The first supporting element and the second supporting element are electrically conductively connected, and the second supporting element forms an intermediate chamber in which the first supporting element is arranged.

Abstract: A method for operating an electropneumatic parking brake system of a vehicle combination, which includes a tractor vehicle and a trailer vehicle, includes activating, after a parking operation and braking of the vehicle combination, a trailer check function in a standstill state. The trailer check function enables a check as to whether, in the case of a decrease in the braking action of the trailer vehicle, the vehicle combination can be held in a stationary manner solely by way of the braking action of a parking brake of the tractor vehicle. The trailer check function is carried out automatically when a vehicle combination has been braked in a stationary manner independently by way of an automatic parking function.

Abstract: A container for a refrigerated fluid having an external container and an internal container between which an evacuated intermediate space is situated, which contains a superinsulator formed by several, separated layers of foil provided with a metal layer, is used as a storing device for electric energy. The foils act as foil capacitors and are electrically contacted so that an electric voltage can be applied to corresponding electric terminals on the exterior side of the container. In the container, a metal layer can be provided on both surfaces of the foil(s), and the foil(s) may consist of a material with a semiconductor characteristic. The foil capacitors are electrically connectable in series or parallel, and the electrical contacting of the foil metal surfaces can take place via a suspension structure of the internal container in the external container.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement is provided for supplying an electric drive, to which at least two electric energy sources can be connected. At least one of the at least two electric energy sources supplies at least intermittently the electric drive by way of at least one actuating element. At least one electric energy source can be disconnected from the electric drive by way of a switch. Furthermore, a method for operating the circuit arrangement, as well as a motor vehicle including the circuit arrangement, are provided.

Abstract: A receiving unit is provided for a circuit board carrier, wherein the receiving unit has at least one electric contact. The circuit board carrier is insertable into the receiving unit at an angle to an end position of the circuit board carrier. The receiving unit is designed in such a manner that in an inserted state of the circuit board carrier there are in essence no bending forces that act on the circuit board carrier by way of the at least one electric contact. Furthermore, a connection system and an electric machine with such a receiving unit, as well as a motor vehicle with such a corresponding electric machine, are provided.

Abstract: A container for a refrigerated fluid having an external container and an internal container between which an evacuated intermediate space is situated, which contains a superinsulator formed by several, separated layers of foil provided with a metal layer, is used as a storing device for electric energy. The foils act as foil capacitors and are electrically contacted so that an electric voltage can be applied to corresponding electric terminals on the exterior side of the container. In the container, a metal layer can be provided on both surfaces of the foil(s), and the foil(s) may consist of a material with a semiconductor characteristic. The foil capacitors are electrically connectable in series or parallel, and the electrical contacting of the foil metal surfaces can take place via a suspension structure of the internal container in the external container.

Abstract: A receiving unit is provided for a circuit board carrier, wherein the receiving unit has at least one electric contact. The circuit board carrier is insertable into the receiving unit at an angle to an end position of the circuit board carrier. The receiving unit is designed in such a manner that in an inserted state of the circuit board carrier there are in essence no bending forces that act on the circuit board carrier by way of the at least one electric contact. Furthermore, a connection system and an electric machine with such a receiving unit, as well as a motor vehicle with such a corresponding electric machine, are provided.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement is provided for supplying an electric drive, to which at least two electric energy sources can be connected. At least one of the at least two electric energy sources supplies at least intermittently the electric drive by way of at least one actuating element. At least one electric energy source can be disconnected from the electric drive by way of a switch. Furthermore, a method for operating the circuit arrangement, as well as a motor vehicle including the circuit arrangement, are provided.

Abstract: Switching device for linking various electrical voltage levels in a motor vehicle, in which a drive voltage level has an electric drive machine which may be actuated by a power converter, and a drive energy accumulator which is associated with an intermediate circuit, and in which the drive voltage level is connected to a vehicle electrical system voltage level by an electrical converter. The electrical converter is designed as a coupling circuit which is connected at the drive side to at least one node point of a winding circuit of the electric drive machine and to a voltage potential relative to the intermediate circuit. The coupling circuit is connected at the vehicle electrical system side to the vehicle electrical system via a switching unit which has at least one non-diminishing, finite impedance.

Abstract: An electric drive system includes a multi-phase electric machine, multiple electrical power output stages, and devices for controlling and/or regulating the electric machine, which are connected to the electrical power output stages. At least two control units are provided for control and/or regulation, at least one power output stage group being assigned to each control unit.

Abstract: Electrical machine, having a stator which bears a winding and having a rotatable rotor, situated at a distance from the stator via an air gap, which includes at least two coaxial rotor sections which are rotatable relative to one another, in which each rotor section bears a system of permanent magnets having polarities which alternately point outward radially, and having an actuating device for rotating the rotor sections relative to one another, the actuating device having a controllable actuator via which the rotor sections may be aligned with one another with a variable rotary offset which is independent of a rotational speed of the rotor. In a method for setting the field and armature of a permanently energized electrical machine for motor vehicles, the rotational speed range of the electrical machine is divided into an armature-setting range, and a freely preselected field suppression is associated with a particular rotational speed of the rotor.