Abstract: A wheel bearing includes a roller bearing for rotatably mounting a wheel hub. An inner ring of the roller bearing is designed to be stationary; and an outer ring of the roller bearing is designed to rotate. The outer ring has a wheel flange and wherein the outer ring has teeth which are configured to be driven with the aid of a machine.
Abstract: A charging device for inductive charging of a mobile terminal. The charging device has a supporting plate for placing the terminal in a supporting volume, and an electrical transmitting coil for generating an alternating magnetic field for induction charging and a magnet arrangement for a magnetic fixing of the terminal with respect to the transmitting coil by a permanent magnetic field of the magnet arrangement while the terminal is placed on the supporting plate. The transmitting coil and the magnet arrangement are arranged together in a holding device, which is arranged in a recess of the supporting plate and which by a bearing device is mounted in the recess so as to be movable along a coil axis of the transmitting coil wholly or partially out of the recess toward the supporting volume.
Abstract: A roof arrangement for a motor vehicle with at least one panoramic glass element; at least one roof liner element which is arranged along an edge region of the panoramic glass element and which has a cutout in the region of its rear edge; and with at least one sheet metal element which is arranged in the cutout and which is designed to be connected at least indirectly to a roof antenna. At least one clamp-like coupling element is arranged on the sheet metal element, and at least one locking element is arranged on the roof liner element in the region of the cutout of the panoramic glass element, which locking element is designed to correspond to the coupling element, such that the roof liner element can be connected or is connected to the sheet metal element in the region of the cutout.
Abstract: Method for updating a control device of a vehicle, in which software updating the control device is loaded into an execution environment of the control device, and control device for a vehicle.
Abstract: A method for operating a refrigerant circuit of a motor vehicle, with a compressor which, in a heating mode of the refrigerant circuit, conveys a refrigerant through a first condenser, by which an air flow is heated. The compressor conveys the refrigerant through a second condenser for further cooling. At least a partial flow of the refrigerant coming from the second condenser is expanded by a first expansion member and supplied to a first evaporator, by which a humidity of the air flow can be reduced. To increase the heating power available at the first condenser, a further partial flow of the refrigerant is expanded by a second expansion member and supplied to a second evaporator. The refrigerant coming from the evaporators is supplied to a suction side of the compressor.
Abstract: A control unit for a user interface of a motor vehicle comprising a system on a chip having a main processor and a flash memory arrangement that can be used by the system on a chip, wherein the system on a chip comprises a hypervisor that implements a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine. The first virtual machine is configured to execute a first function, associated with a driving operation of the motor vehicle. The second virtual machine is configured to execute a second function, the second function being an infotainment function for the user, wherein at least one of an availability requirement, a safety requirement, a robustness requirement, or a drive readiness requirement for the first function is higher than the second function.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 15, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 3, 2026
Assignee:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Jürgen Lerzer, Hans Georg Gruber, Jan Meletzky
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a virtual exterior mirror system for a vehicle, said system comprising: a display screen integrated into a dashboard of the vehicle; and a reflection means, which is associated with the display screen and located between two A-pillars of the vehicle, for reflecting a display content, which is displayed by the display screen, into an eye of a driver of the vehicle.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 27, 2023
Date of Patent:
November 3, 2026
Assignee:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Daniel Lottes, Marcus Richter, Sebastian Albl, Vincent Kratzer, Philipp Weiss
Abstract: An externally excited synchronous machine having an exciter circuit, a stator, and a rotor. The rotor carries at least one exciter winding which, in operation, generates an exciter field, wherein the exciter winding, in operation, is excited by the exciter circuit along a power supply pathway, wherein the rotor includes at least one temperature sensor device having a communication device which, in operation, transmits a communication signal regarding a temperature of the rotor to at least one evaluation device, and wherein the communication signal is transmitted from the communication device to the evaluation device by a transmission route at least partially formed by a section of the power supply pathway.
Abstract: A method for producing an electrical circuit device for operating an externally excited electric machine is provided and may comprise positioning and attaching at least one power module at a marked attachment position on an outside of a heat sink, positioning at least one exciter module on the outside of the heat sink, attaching the exciter module to the outside of the heat sink. The at least one power module may include power module-side connecting pins. The at least one exciter module may include exciter module-side connecting pins. During the positioning, at least one heat sink-side positioning section may be inserted into or may receive at least one exciter module-side positioning section. After attaching the power module and the exciter module to the heat sink, a control board may be plugged onto the power module-side and the excited module-side connecting pins pointing in the same direction.
Abstract: A method for monitoring the interior of a vehicle including the steps of: detecting interior data of a vehicle interior by at least one detection device; determining a volume of the vehicle interior based on the detected interior data; determining a volume change based on the determined volume of the vehicle interior; and detecting at least one deformation of the vehicle and/or at least one intrusion into the vehicle interior based on the determined volume change, as well as a corresponding device for monitoring the interior of a vehicle and a vehicle with such a device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 27, 2026
Publication date:
October 29, 2026
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Dennis BÖHMLÄNDER, Raul GARCIA GOMEZ, Markus KÖBE
Abstract: An all-wheel drive vehicle may include a drivetrain which has precisely one electric machine which, in a front-wheel drive, only drives the front axle of the vehicle. The electric machine is couplable via a center differential and a center clutch to a cardan shaft, which is couplable in terms of drive to rear wheels of the vehicle via a rear axle differential and via propeller shafts. The rear axle is decoupled from the drivetrain when the center clutch is open and the rear axle is couplable to the drivetrain when the center clutch is closed. In an example, a rear axle separating clutch is installed in one of the propeller shafts of the rear axle.
Abstract: A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle, including a wheel support on which a wheel hub is rotatably supported about a wheel hub rotational axis by a wheel bearing and including two chassis links of a first link assembly, two chassis links of a second link assembly, and a track rod which is hinged to a track rod kinematic point on the wheel support. The chassis links are hinged to the wheel support such that the wheel support describes a rotational movement about a virtual wheel support rotational axis when the track rod is displaced, and a horizontal plane receives the wheel center is aligned horizontally and a vertical plane receives the wheel center and is perpendicular to the horizontal plane delimit multiple orthants from one another. In the installed position of the wheel suspension, the track rod kinematic point is arranged in a first orthant of the orthants.
Abstract: A method of operating a coordinator system being coupled to multiple input devices and multiple actuators. From at least one input device data defining a situation to be created by the actuators are received, and in reaction to such receipt, at least one actuator is selected, and signals are generated/output to the selected at least one actuator.
Abstract: An artificial intelligence configured to control actuators in a motor vehicle to provide a passenger compartment experience. If there are deviations from a target value for one actuator among the actuators, the target value may be adjusted for other actuators among the actuators so that the passenger compartment experience remains in accordance with target settings.
Abstract: A motor vehicle with multiple sensors and a cleaning device for applying a water-based cleaning fluid obtained from a fluid reservoir to the sensors. An electro-catalytic unit is provided for producing an end product in the form of an alcohol from water of the cleaning fluid and air as reactants, which end product can be added to the cleaning fluid as an additive.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 20, 2023
Publication date:
October 22, 2026
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Thomas HANISCH, Mike HERBIG, Martina BUSCH
Abstract: A signal processing device for a communication system, such as a BUS system. The signal processing device performs two different functions, depending on a drop in an energy supply signal (E): a communication function and an emergency operation function. In the case of the communication function, a communication-system-compliant control signal (S) is generated by the signal processing device for transfer as a message signal between a transmitting device coupled to the signal processing device and a receiving device. In contrast, in the case of the emergency operation function an activation signal (A) is generated for transfer as a supply signal between the transmitting device and the receiving device.
Abstract: In an example, a clutch assembly has two shaft portions, which can be coupled by a dog clutch, which has a sliding dog, which is arranged so as to be rotationally fixed but axially displaceable on one of the shaft portions. In operating state, for example, in a fault case, the sliding dog may be adjusted counter to the closing direction in a restoring movement (R). According to the example, a damping element, against which the sliding dog strikes during the restoring movement (R), may be provided to reduce kinetic energy, for example, shock energy.
Abstract: A door actuating device for controlling a door locking device, including an actuating surface for the user to apply an actuating force, a first switching device with a sensor device for detecting the actuating force and for transmitting an unlocking signal to the door lock device via an operating circuit when a predetermined first minimum force is detected, and a second switching device with a mechanical switch which can be closed when a predetermined second minimum force greater than the first minimum force is applied. When the switch is closed, an unlocking signal can be transmitted to the door lock device via an associated emergency circuit.
Abstract: An electric machine, designed as an internal rotor and including a rotor and a stator, is provided, the stator having a plurality of teeth each extending along a radial direction and along a longitudinal direction of the electric machine, each of the teeth carrying a winding wound around them, stator slots extending between two adjacent teeth and along the longitudinal direction being provided through which the windings extend, the windings being coolable by a cooling fluid which can be guided in a plurality of cooling channels formed in the stator and extending along the stator slots, at least one section of at least one of the plurality of windings running between the cooling channels in such a way that this section can be cooled on both sides.