Patents Assigned to Audi
  • Patent number: 12291080
    Abstract: A method for operating a refrigeration system for a motor vehicle. The method includes setting an operating mode of the refrigeration system having active primary line and inactive secondary line or having active secondary line and inactive primary line; detecting the pressure in the inactive line; and activating and extraction of refrigerant from the inactive line into the active line by lowering the pressure in the active line to a value below the pressure in the inactive line and by opening the relevant valve device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Dirk Schroeder, Christian Rebinger, Thomas Haltmeier, Stephen Rost
  • Patent number: 12291105
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a DC voltage power supply, a component, a filter, and a shield. The component is connected across the filter module to the DC voltage power supply. The filter module is connected across an power supply connection of the filter module to the DC voltage power supply and across a component connection of the filter module to the component. The filter module dampens alternating voltage coupled into the component connection by the component. The shield encloses either a power supply line that connects the component to the component connection, or a connection region in which the component connection contacts a power supply connection of the component, together with the component and the filter module. The shield at least partly shields out electromagnetic radiation emitted from the power supply line or the connection. The component connection is reversibly detachable from the component or the power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Benedikt Fries, Cornelius Rettner
  • Patent number: 12291270
    Abstract: A container assembly for a vehicle, having a container which is arranged in a closed cavity of a vehicle body structure, and methods for producing a vehicle body structure having such a container assembly for a vehicle. At least one mechanical interface having a container-side first attachment part and a vehicle-side second attachment part is provided, which is embodied both for fastening the container on the vehicle body structure and also for filling and/or emptying the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Thomas Hanisch, Silke Rudolph, Carsten Bär
  • Patent number: 12291081
    Abstract: A method for operating a refrigeration system having a heat pump function for motor vehicle, including the following steps: setting a heat pump operation, in which the refrigerant is routed from the refrigerant compressor into the secondary line; setting an expansion valve assigned to the third heat exchanger such that a total mass flow of refrigerant flows through the third heat exchanger; and detecting the temperature of the coolant in the third heat exchanger. The total mass flow of refrigerant is routed through the third heat exchanger when the temperature of the coolant is greater than an upper limiting temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Christian Rebinger, Dirk Schroeder, Helmut Rottenkolber
  • Patent number: 12295127
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a thermal coupling element, a method of manufacturing the coupling element, and a switchable arrangement for heat dissipation from electrical or electronic components of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christoph Glassl, Christian Gert Voigt
  • Patent number: 12290877
    Abstract: A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. At least one cell module having multiple battery cells is arranged in a receptacle compartment of a battery housing of the traction battery. The battery cells are provided with a separate temperature sensor At least one temperature sensor is arranged on a metal carrier in each case and the metal carrier is welded to a cell housing of the respective battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Walter Schmieder
  • Publication number: 20250136125
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle, wherein a controller of a vehicle determines a travel parameter for the travel of the vehicle and operates the vehicle during travel with the determined parameter value and an infotainment system of the vehicle provides for a passenger of the vehicle during travel an entertainment content selected by the passenger. The present disclosure also relates to a system for operating a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Florian SCHWENSFEIER, Christina BÖHMER
  • Publication number: 20250135886
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for adjusting a screen of a vehicle, wherein the screen is provided for a front passenger of the vehicle, and wherein it is originally provided to display at least one display element. The at least one display element is analyzed to determine, whether the at least one display element is dynamic and/or is provided only for the front passenger. Based on the determination, at least one static display element that differs from the display element originally provided for display is alternatively displayed from the driver's perspective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich MÜLLER, Tobias MOLL
  • Publication number: 20250137518
    Abstract: A drive device for a vehicle axle of a two-track vehicle, which has an axle differential, the input side of which is drivingly connected to an electric machine and the output sides of which drive on flange shafts leading to the two vehicle wheels. The vehicle axle has a superposition gear with a multi-disk clutch on each side of the vehicle, by which the electric machine can be connected directly to the vehicle wheel flange shaft by bridging the axle differential. The multi-disk clutches can be controlled by a control unit. On each side of the vehicle the multi-disk clutch is assigned a multi-disk brake acting as a vehicle wheel brake, by which vehicle braking processes can be carried out alternatively or in addition to the multi-disk clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Alfred REHR, Tassilo SCHOLLE, Björn KÜRTEN-PACHOWSKY, Kay-Uwe HENNING
  • Patent number: 12288345
    Abstract: When at least one mobile head-mounted display (HMD) is located in at least one vehicle, a control unit of the HMD performs inside-out tracking based on a six-degree-of-freedom (6DOF) algorithm with the aid of at least one camera image captured by at least one camera, using a 6DOF-algorithm-based translation of the at least one mobile HMD. The HMD control unit executes an application that creates an edge model of an interior of the vehicle and provides automated computer-vision-based 6DOF tracking of the at least one mobile HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christoph Weigand, Stefan Mayer
  • Publication number: 20250132628
    Abstract: An electric drive machine, having a rotor which is arranged on a rotor shaft rotatable about a rotor axis, a stator which surrounds the rotor radially on the outside, a housing which surrounds the stator radially on the outside, and a drive shaft which is arranged rotatably about a shaft axis in a shaft tunnel. The rotor shaft acts, on a first axial end side, which is covered by a first housing part, on the drive shaft via a gear and the rotor shaft is covered on a second axial end side with a second housing part. The first housing part forms a first cavity on the first end side and the second housing part forms a second cavity on the second end side. The first and second cavities are respectively in fluid-conducting connection with the shaft tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Harald GLOEDE
  • Publication number: 20250128700
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for supporting a parking process of a motor vehicle by projecting a light marking by means of a lighting device onto a wall surface visible to the person parking. At least one image of a wall surface is taken. The at least one image is analyzed to ascertain a three-dimensional structure shown in or on the wall surface. Then, a light marking is determined such that it has a marking border that is a negative of the structure border. Finally, the light marking is projected onto the wall surface, wherein the position of the marking border changes relative to the structure border depending on the distance or position of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Johann BERGER, Markus THURMEIER
  • Patent number: 12280625
    Abstract: A vehicle having an active chassis system with curve tilting function, comprises a control unit, which when negotiating a curve determines a vehicle tilting angle on the basis of a current vehicle transverse acceleration or a correlated driving operation parameter, by which the vehicle transverse acceleration can be reduced, wherein the control unit uses the vehicle tilting angle so determined to trigger actuators of a suspension/shock absorbing system in order to adjust the vehicle tilting angle. The curve tilting function incorporates a prediction unit which provides the curve negotiation data for an upcoming curve. The vehicle tilting angle is set in consideration of the curve negotiation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: Cariad SE, Audi AG
    Inventors: Andreas Unger, Michael Jall, Philipp Knuth, Hanno Stingl, Tobias Templer
  • Publication number: 20250125479
    Abstract: A battery cell arrangement which has a battery cell with a cell housing which has a first housing wall and a releasable cell degassing opening arranged therein, and a gas guiding device which has a base element arranged on the first housing wall, a releasable gas outlet opening in the base element and a flap which is arranged on the base element, and which closes the releasable gas outlet opening in a first position and covers the cell degassing opening, and which can be displaced into a second, opened position in which the gas outlet opening is released. The gas guiding device includes at least one first deformable connecting element which connects the flap to the base element in a first flap region of the flap which is different from an end region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Florian KELLER
  • Publication number: 20250121882
    Abstract: A method for operating a steer-by-wire steering system of a motor vehicle, according to which a steering command entered via a steering handle is detected and a control signal for a steering gear actuator mechanically decoupled from the steering handle is generated therefrom by a regulation/control unit and according to which an actuation signal for an excitation of a force-feedback actuator assigned to the steering handle for applying haptic feedback signals on the steering handle is generated by the regulating/control unit. The method includes at least one natural frequency of the steering handle is determined, and the actuation signal to be generated by the regulation/control unit is adapted to the determined at least one natural frequency in such a way that excitations in the range of the natural frequency of the steering handle are prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Sebastian LOOS, Richard SCHROEDER
  • Patent number: 12278534
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine having a stator body and an applied hairpin winding and having conductors for a plurality of phases. A respective pole of the respective phase is formed by a plurality of groups of groove portions each of which including groove portions which are arranged in a group of grooves of adjacent grooves in the same layer of the hairpin winding, the conductor clips which form the groove portions of the respective group of groove portions, form a group of conductor clips connecting adjacent poles of the respective phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Korbinian Weber
  • Patent number: 12276353
    Abstract: A system and method for regulating a flow of a fluid, wherein the system comprises a regulating device and a central axis, wherein the regulating device is adapted to establish at least one through-passage opening for the fluid, wherein each time a through-passage opening is situated between two transport ducts for the fluid, wherein a normal vector of a cross sectional surface of the at least one through-passage opening is oriented parallel to the axis, wherein a size of the cross-sectional surface is adjusted in dependence on the rotary speed of the regulating device turning about the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Lena Schlittenbauer, Klaus Ternovan, Herbert Tschentscher
  • Patent number: 12278403
    Abstract: A bipolar plate has a first inlet port and a flow field comprising a plurality of ducts to connect the first inlet port to a first outlet port for a first reactant, and has a second inlet port and a flow field comprising a plurality of ducts to connect the second inlet port to a second outlet port for a second reactant, wherein at least one bypass duct is present at the margin of at least one of the flow fields. The bypass duct is associated with at least one flow connection branching off from the bypass duct into an adjacent marginal duct of the flow field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Oliver Keitsch, Fabian Lippl
  • Publication number: 20250118906
    Abstract: A contact hook for providing an electric contact to a winding arrangement of an electric machine, with a fastening portion for fastening to the electric machine, which provides a first contact surface for a resistance welding electrode, and a hook portion adjoining the fastening portion, which provides a second contact surface for a resistance welding electrode. The hook portion is formed and arranged for forming with the fastening portion a groove for receiving a wire connected to the winding arrangement in a first assembly state, in which a free end of the hook portion forms, at a distance from the fastening portion, a groove opening for inserting the wire into the groove. The free end of the hook portion in a second assembly state rests against the fastening portion, closing the groove opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Martin GERNGROß, Patrick HERRMANN, Lars WETTERAU
  • Publication number: 20250115298
    Abstract: A subframe for a vehicle, with a unit mounting, in which a unit support is pivotably connected to a unit bearing on the subframe about a bearing axis. The unit bearing is axially fastened on both sides to a respective bracket wing of a bearing bracket of the subframe. The unit bearing is arranged in an inner corner region of the subframe, at which a first subframe member and a second subframe member converge. One of the bracket wings is formed directly by a wall of the first subframe member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marek BUJAK, Jörg EICKSTÄDT, Dominik MOHRLOCK, Stefan RUGIES, Andreas WEBER