Abstract: A motor vehicle energy system has a first circuit having a first battery for supplying a traction drive of a motor vehicle with electrical energy; a second battery; a connecting apparatus for connecting the first circuit and the second battery, which has a transfer operating state for transferring electrical energy from the first circuit to the second battery; and a controller for switching the connecting apparatus into this transfer operating state on the basis of a predicted imminent charging process of the first and/or second battery.
Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and system for determining an emergency route for an automated driving function of a vehicle. The method may comprise a plurality of method steps. In a first method step, map information associated with infrastructure features of drivable lanes of a road to be traveled may be acquired. Furthermore, attributes for the drivable lanes may be determined based on the acquired map information. Furthermore, an emergency route may be determined based on the determined attributes of the drivable lanes.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 9, 2026
Publication date:
October 15, 2026
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Vladimir HETZ, Jan David SCHNEIDER, Jan Frederik TOTZ
Abstract: An intercellular cooling plate for positioning between at least two battery cells of a battery. The intercellular cooling plate includes an interior having at least one first cooling channel through which a coolant can flow, a first plate wall, and a second plate wall, which are opposite to one another with respect to a first direction and which bound the interior in and against the first direction. At least one pressure chamber separated from the cooling channel, which is filled with a fluid having a specific fluid pressure, is arranged in the interior.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 20, 2026
Publication date:
October 15, 2026
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN, Manuel LIEDKE-SOBOTTA, Thorsten LAHMANN, Marko PESTER
Abstract: A housing for a module pole connection providing touch protection for the module pole connection. The housing has a module pole busbar with a contact region and is connected in a connecting direction to a module connector and is electrically contacted via the contact region. The housing is electrically insulating, and receives the module pole busbar, and has a first housing wall which has a recess region with at least one recess for exposing at least part of the contact region of the module pole busbar when the module pole busbar is received as intended in the housing. The first housing wall has a recess edge region surrounding the recess region in a radial direction. The first housing wall has an electrically insulating insulation ring radially within the recess region, which is connected to the recess edge region via at least one insulation web.
Abstract: A motor vehicle and a method for feedback of a driving behavior by an avatar in the motor vehicle. The method includes measuring driving data by a sensor device of the motor vehicle; an evaluation of a driving behavior on the basis of the measured driving data by a computing device of the motor vehicle, wherein a reaction of the avatar is determined on the basis of the evaluation of the driving behavior. The method includes control of the avatar with the determined reaction, wherein the reaction is carried out by the avatar as a body movement, which includes at least one gesture of the avatar.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 9, 2025
Publication date:
October 15, 2026
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Matthias Pfromm, Andreas Sebastian Binder, Moritz Neubauer
Abstract: A method for operating a braking system for a motor vehicle, which has a service brake device with at least one wheel brake and a brake pressure applied to the wheel brake for generating a braking force acting on a brake disc of the wheel brake is adjusted at least temporarily depending on a setting of an operating element. A condition of a coating of a brake disc of the wheel brake is determined based on the brake pressure applied to the wheel brake and a deceleration of the motor vehicle resulting therefrom.
Abstract: In a method for adjusting a display device and a motor vehicle having such a display device, the display device is arranged on a dashboard of the motor vehicle. The display device has at least two rimless screens. Each of the screens is connected to the dashboard by an adjustment element. The respective adjustment element can move the respective screens into a plurality of adjustment positions in all spatial directions. In a combined adjustment position, the screens are arranged as a combined display surface, and the screens are designed to display a uniform display image on the combined display surface. In at least one separated adjustment position, a first screen is assigned to a driver's position and a second screen is assigned to a passenger's position.
Abstract: A bumper assembly for a motor vehicle, having a deformation element which is coupled to a cross member of the bumper assembly. In a mounted position of the bumper assembly in the motor vehicle, the deformation element is arranged between a longitudinal member of the motor vehicle and the cross member. The bumper assembly has a connecting device with a first hollow profile region, in which an end region of the deformation element is received. The connecting device has a second hollow profile region, in which a partial region of the cross member is received.
Abstract: A fuel cell device for a vehicle has a fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell stack and has a first cooling circuit for cooling the fuel cell system and a second cooling circuit for cooling an electronic unit and/or an energy storage. The first cooling circuit and the second cooling circuit are thermally connected to each other, wherein only the second cooling circuit has a cooler for cooling the cooling water flowing in the second cooling circuit. A method for cooling a fuel cell device using such components is also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 7, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 13, 2026
Assignee:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Johannes Haf, Thomas Lichius, Thomas Weustenfeld, Sebastian Albl
Abstract: A telescopic steering column for a motor vehicle, with a base element on which a base element spindle is mounted so as to be rotatable about a base element spindle rotation axis, and with a telescopic unit which is guided linearly with respect to the base element and which has a telescopic unit driver which has a telescopic unit driver thread which engages with a base element spindle thread of the base element spindle. The telescopic unit has a telescopic unit spindle which is drivingly connected to a transmission element which is coupled to the base element spindle in a tangential direction with respect to the base element spindle rotation axis and is guided so as to be freely displaceable on it in the axial direction with respect to the base element spindle rotation axis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 11, 2024
Date of Patent:
October 13, 2026
Assignee:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Michael Gradl, Richard Schroeder, Nicolas Stein
Abstract: An operating element arrangement for a motor vehicle, with an operating element and an attachment device for connecting the operating element to a body of the motor vehicle. The operating element is mounted on the attachment device so as to be displaceable along an actuation path. An adjustment device for adjusting the actuation path has a first adjustment element, a second adjustment element frictionally coupled to the first adjustment element, an adjustment element end stop for limiting the actuation path and a threaded device. The first adjustment element is mounted so as to be rotatable over a first range of rotation angles and the second adjustment element over a second range of rotation angles about a common axis of rotation.
Abstract: A module connector for electrically connecting to a module pole collection in a connecting direction. The module connector has a busbar with a busbar through-opening and a contact socket having an end face with a contact surface for electrically contacting the module pole connection. The contact socket has a socket opening arranged below the busbar and coaxially aligned with the busbar through-opening with respect to the connecting direction, so that a fastener can be passed through the busbar through-opening and the socket opening simultaneously in the connecting direction. The module connector has a housing with an insulation collar surrounding at least part of the busbar and at least part of the contact socket in a radial direction. The insulation-free socket part of the contact socket protrudes from the housing in the connecting direction.
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.
Abstract: A solid-state cell module, including several solid-state cells arranged in a series in a stacking direction, and two side plates laterally delimiting the solid-state cells. A heat-conducting element is arranged between each of two adjacent solid-state cells, which is thermally connected to the side plates via lateral contact surfaces.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 20, 2026
Publication date:
October 1, 2026
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Dirk HOEFNER, Niklas KELL, Alexander LEHNEN
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coupling a terminal of a user to smart glasses of a communication device of a call partner, the method comprising the following steps: providing an Internet page with a control element for establishing contact; detecting an operation activity by the user on the control element; detecting a geographic device position (POS) of the terminal; selecting the call partner from a plurality of possible call partners based on a selection criterion which evaluates the device position; contacting the communication device of the call partner; and, if an acknowledge confirmation of the call partner is received from the communication device, coupling the terminal to the smart glasses via a communication channel by means of a management server.
Abstract: A method for configuring a plurality of configurable functions of a vehicle, including steps of generating a plurality of scenarios, each scenario defines a specific configuration of at least a subset with a plurality of the configurable functions of the vehicle; activating a respective scenario; and upon activation, a control device of the vehicle sets the respective scenario by correspondingly controlling the configurable functions of the vehicle included in the respective scenario.