Abstract: A plurality of vehicles request respective data packets, each containing different data sections, from a stationary server and vehicle. In response, the stationary server transmits data packets to the vehicles.

Abstract: A method for producing an inter-cell cooling unit. A heat sink extending in a longitudinal extension direction is provided in the form of an extruded profile, which includes an interior with at least one cooling channel through which a coolant can flow, and which is delimited in the longitudinal extension direction by a first end region with a front-side first opening region which opens into the environment. A first connection unit with at least one first connection opening, which is different from the first opening region, is formed from the first end region.

Abstract: A system includes a copper conductor for the functional insulation of an electrical machine and a stator equipped with the copper conductor.

Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a first voltage network and a second voltage network, an operating voltage of the second voltage network being lower than an operating voltage of the voltage network, and two DC voltage converters connecting the second voltage network to the first voltage network, each of the DC voltage converters including a hardware regulator that regulates the operating voltage of the second voltage network, the DC voltage converters being physically separated in the motor vehicle, the hardware regulators of the DC voltage converters being connected via a communication connection having at least one communication line, a first one of the hardware regulators, in operation, sends regulating information via the communication connection to a second one of the hardware regulators, and the second one of the hardware regulators, in operation, performs a regulating operation based on the regulating information sent by the first one of the hardware regulators.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for which a road area is divided into multiple resources and a storage device for reservation data for exclusively reserving the respective resource is provided that is made available to each road user. A control circuit of a respective road user plans a respective movement route over at least one of the resources on the basis of reservation data currently stored in the storage device and takes the planned movement route as a basis for reserving the resources required therefor by generating its own reservation data in the storage device.

Abstract: A motor for a motor vehicle is provided comprising an engine housing to contain an electric machine, wherein the electric machine and an oil collection tank of the motor or the motor vehicle are incorporated in an oil circuit or can be so incorporated, wherein oil for the cooling and/or lubricating of the electric machine circulates in the oil circuit by at least one delivery device, wherein the delivery device comprises a pump having at least two suction inlets or is such a pump, at least one such inlet being connected to at least one suction outlet of the engine housing and at least one other inlet is connected to at least one suction outlet of the oil collection tank, and the oil can be delivered by a common outlet of the pump at the pressure side to the oil collection tank and to the electric machine.

Abstract: A method for cooling a battery of a motor vehicle, which includes multiple battery cells, by a cooling device through which a coolant can flow, as part of at least one cooling circuit through which the coolant can flow, which includes at least one coolant pump, which in an active state circulates the coolant present in at least one cooling circuit in the cooling circuit. In particular, a control device controls at least one coolant pump depending on a detection of a faul state which is connected to a thermal runaway of at least one of the battery cells of the battery, such that the at least one coolant pump is activated or continues to be operated in the active state when the faul state is detected.

Abstract: An energy storage device for storing electrical energy. A housing frame of the energy storage device has respective housing end walls on two opposite end faces of the housing frame. The energy storage device has at least one battery cell stack. Respective stack end plates are arranged on two opposite end faces of the battery cell stack, which end plates are fastened in the housing frame of the energy storage device and by which end plates the battery cell stack is subjected to a compressive pressure. The stack end plates are aligned parallel to the housing end walls. At least one of the stack end plates is separated from a housing end wall located opposite to it by a space free of a battery cell stack.

Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle comprising at least one first electric machine and at least one second electric machine, which are electrically interconnected to each other, wherein the first electric machine is operated at a first operating point and the second electric machine is operated at a second operating point, wherein the reactive power generated or taken up by the first electric machine at the first operating point is at least partly compensated by the second electric machine operating at the second operating point.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a trailer coupling having a coupling body for forming a motor vehicle/trailer coupling, wherein the coupling body has an electromagnet for generating a magnetic holding force as a safeguard against accidental or unauthorized separation of the motor vehicle/trailer coupling. A control unit is provided, which is configured in such a manner that a charge state of a battery for supplying the electromagnet with electrical power is monitored at least when the electromagnet is activated.

Abstract: A method for operating a plurality of acoustic signal transmitters of a motor vehicle is disclosed, wherein booking information is obtained from an external computing unit by means of a control system of the motor vehicle. By means of the control system, a first part of the plurality of acoustic signal transmitters is deactivated depending on the booking information. By means of the control system, a control signal is generated for each of the acoustic signal transmitters of a second part of acoustic signal transmitters to generate an acoustic output.

Abstract: In an example, a device for interaction with a user in a motor vehicle may include an interaction unit arranged in an interior of a motor vehicle and which is configured to provide an interaction with the user. The interaction unit is configured to modify a degree of interaction of the interaction unit in response to a user input.

Abstract: An energy storage device for a motor vehicle, including an energy storage housing and at least one battery cell accommodated therein. At least one cooling device is arranged adjacent to the battery cell or to at least one of the battery cells in such a way that this battery cell can be cooled by a cooling fluid guided in at least one cooling fluid guide portion of the cooling device. At least one portion of the cooling device is plastically or elastically deformable, so that an expansion of the adjacent battery cell or the adjacent battery cells due to the charging cycle and/or aging causes a deformation of the cooling device in such a way that the cross-section of the cooling fluid guide portion is reduced at least in portions.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle, in which at least one sensor signal is detected, which indicates an actuation of an actuation element of an X-by-wire device of the vehicle performed by a user. At least one target value associated with the sensor signal is compared to at least one actual value, which corresponds to an actual behavior of at least one component of the vehicle. Upon presence of a predetermined deviation of the actual value from the target value, at least one measure is taken. The at least one target value and the at least one actual value are transferred to a monitoring device external to the vehicle, which performs the comparison of the actual value to the target value, and which causes at least one device internal to vehicle to take the at least one measure upon presence of the deviation. Furthermore, the invention relates to a vehicle.

Abstract: A method for controlling a configuration state of at least one vehicle device of a motor vehicle, wherein calibration state data which signal a current calibration state of a self-calibration routine carried out by the calibration device during a driving operation of the motor vehicle are received from a calibration device of the vehicle device in question. A progress value is assigned to the respective current calibration state data in accordance with a predefined evaluation rule and a configuration data set which defines a configuration state of the vehicle device in question is selected from a plurality of predefined configuration data sets depending on the current progress value, and the vehicle device is configured by the selected configuration data set, wherein at least one function parameter is set according to the respective configuration data set for the execution of the least one sub-function.

Abstract: A battery cell housing for forming a battery cell for an energy storage device of a motor vehicle. The battery cell housing has at least one receiving chamber in its interior for receiving at least one active material unit. The receiving chamber is delimited on the outside by at least one housing wall, the housing wall has at least one cooling chamber for guiding a cooling fluid provided for cooling the active material unit. At least one portion of the housing wall is plastically or elastically deformable, so that an expansion of the active material unit due to the charging cycle and/or aging causes a deformation of the housing wall such that the cross-section of the cooling chamber is reduced at least in portions.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a lighting device for a motor vehicle, wherein the lighting device has at least an exterior lamp and a control device. The exterior lamp has an illuminating area having at least two independently controllable segments each comprising at least one light source, wherein, in at least one dynamic operating mode of the control device, for at least one dynamic group of the segments comprising at least two segments a pseudo-randomized or randomized, temporally variable lighting operation of the segments of the dynamic group takes place.

Abstract: A system for fixing the loading floor in a motor vehicle, including a loading floor support and at least one loading floor. The loading floor support includes at least one latching element, and the loading floor has at least one molded element which is adapted to latch onto the at least one latching element of the loading floor support. The system is adapted, based on the latching, to lock the loading floor on the loading floor support.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a data network in a motor vehicle is provided, wherein a switch device is operated in the data network, in which physical ports for receiving and for transmitting data packets are interconnected via a switch circuit. A network processor reads out detection data in monitoring positions of the data packets and forms pseudo target determination data for an associative memory therefrom, which actually is to process target determination data for a target port determination, and it is examined if certain action data results, which signalizes a necessity of a detection action, by inputting the pseudo target determination data into the associative memory.

Abstract: A method for illuminating vehicle surroundings of a motor vehicle that comprises an illumination device and a detection device, wherein the illumination device is set up to illuminate at least part of a solid angle region of the vehicle surroundings with different illumination patterns, in particular with visible light, wherein the illumination patterns each predefine illumination intensities for different solid angle subregions of the solid angle region, comprising the steps of: illuminating the vehicle surroundings with a first of the illumination patterns by means of the illumination device, detecting a light pattern that results from the illumination of the vehicle surroundings with the first illumination pattern by means of the detection device, selecting a second of the illumination patterns on the basis of the detected light pattern, and illuminating the vehicle surroundings with the second illumination pattern by means of the illumination device.