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.

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.

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: 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.

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: 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 brake lining arrangement for a disc brake of a vehicle, including at least one brake lining, which is arranged axially spaced apart from a brake disc in a starting position in the installed state of the disc brake. The brake lining includes a lining carrier plate, on which a friction lining is attached. A spring element positioning the brake lining is arranged on at least one brake lining, which spring element is at least partially formed from a bimetal element and changes the axial distance of the brake lining relative to the brake disc in the starting position as a function of a temperature.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting an urgent message from a transmitting vehicle to at least one receiving vehicle via a radio network, while a normal message has already been outputted in a radio channel of the radio network by a subscriber of the radio network different from the transmitting vehicle. A transmitting circuit of the transmitting vehicle transmits the urgent message in the radio channel with a transmission level which is lower than a transmission level of the normal message. An associated receiving circuit of the at least one receiving vehicle receives a superimposition signal containing the normal message and the urgent message from the radio channel, extracts the normal message from the superimposition signal, determines a residual signal describing a difference between the superimposition signal and the extracted normal message, and reconstructs the urgent message on the basis of the residual signal.

Abstract: A vehicle axle for a two-track vehicle is disclosed, and may include an axle differential having an input side and two output sides and at least two superposition gears for torque vectoring. The input side may be drivingly connected to a drive unit. The two output sides may each include a drive flange shaft leading to a respective vehicle wheel. Each of the at least two superposition gears may have a multi-plate brake or clutch. Each multi-plate brake or clutch may have an actuator. Each actuator may be a pressure mechanism and may be configured as a pair of disks comprising a rotationally fixed disk and a coaxially rotatable disk. Each drive flange shaft may be configured to interact with a respective superposition gear. The rotationally fixed disk of each actuator may form a gear carrier on which at least one gear is rotatably mounted.

Abstract: A wheel bearing arrangement, preferably for a motor vehicle, with a cardan shaft, a wheel hub, a screw with a screw head, and a pretensioning element. The wheel hub is connected to the cardan shaft by the screw. The pretensioning element is arranged and/or braced between the screw head, preferably a head underside of the screw head, and the wheel hub.

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.

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.

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.