Patents Assigned to Audi AG
  • WHEEL SUSPENSION FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20140319787
    Abstract: A wheel suspension for a two-track motor vehicle includes a multi-link assembly having control arms that are articulated on a vehicle body and on a wheel carrier, a rotary actuator for an active suspension control system, with a motor-gear-unit constructed to transfer torques as actuating forces to the multi-link assembly via a torsion rod, and at least one reinforcing brace independent of the multi-link assembly and disposed on a side of the vehicle body and extending below the multi-link assembly, as viewed in a vertical direction of the vehicle body. The reinforcing brace delimits downwardly in the vehicle's vertical direction a free space, in which the rotary actuator is at least partially arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas Schindler, Dominik Mohrlock, Joachim Schmitt
  • METHOD FOR OPERATING A BUS SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION WITH A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION NODES, AND MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20140325106
    Abstract: A method operates a bus system for communication with a plurality of communication nodes, in particular in a land vehicle and/or aircraft. A static, cyclically recurring time window of fixed length each communication node is assigned a time slot for transmission of user information of a byte count that can be specified at least once and fixed during the operation of the bus system. The time window has at least two cohesive sub-time windows. The same byte count is specified for all time slots of a sub-time window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventor: Fred Guertner
  • LIGHTING DEVICE WITH 3D-EFFECT
    Publication number: 20140321136
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes several flat light-conducting elements that are arranged in layers one behind the other in a layer arrangement. The individual light-conducting elements do not touch one another and are clearly spaced apart from one another. Each of the light-conducting elements includes a light-scattering structural element. An illuminating device is optically coupled to each of the light-conducting elements in order to couple light into the light-conducting elements. Light is coupled out of the light-conducting elements by means of the structural elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Jens Dietmar Reuschel, Christoph Schmitz
  • Method for monitoring components of a motor vehicle and motor vehicle with corresponding monitoring device
    Patent number: 8874330
    Abstract: In a method for monitoring a functionality of a first and a second component of a motor vehicle the requirements for the monitoring are as follows: for a valid monitoring of the first component a predetermined operating condition of the motor vehicle must exist; for a valid monitoring of the second component the first component must be functioning properly. According to the method according to the invention, upon impending travel, taking into account navigation data of a navigation assistance system, it is determined whether the prescribed operating condition is expected to exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Thomas Perbandt, Reinhard Merl
  • Circuit arrangement for an electric seat heating means
    Patent number: 8870451
    Abstract: An electrical seat heater of a vehicle has a heating resistor which is connected to a seat ground cable has a temperature-dependent sensor resistor in the vehicle seat. A control unit is outside the vehicle seat is connected to a control unit ground remotely from the vehicle seat. The voltage measurement for determining the temperature is carried out with the seat heater briefly disconnected from the supply voltage. The heating resistor is connected to the supply voltage via a series circuit including the sensor resistor and a further resistor or to the supply voltage via a power path. The control unit measures the voltage drop at the sensor resistor by a measuring signal cable. The control unit measures the potential difference between the seat ground cable and the control unit ground, which is used to correct the seat temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Werner Mayer
  • Steering column for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 8863610
    Abstract: A steering column for a motor vehicle includes a mounting and a carriage received in a guideway of the mounting for movement between a rearward starting position and a forward end position. Arranged between the carriage and the mounting is an actuatable locking device to lock the starting position of the carriage during normal travel and, when being released, to allow a shift of the carriage to the forward end position together with the steering wheel to thereby facilitate entry of the driver. The locking device has at least one predetermined breaking element dimensioned to either break or to become deformed sufficient to release the locking device and to allow the carriage to move from the starting position to the end position, when an impacting predefined crash force is exceeded in the event of a crash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Thomas Kräuter
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN AIR GUIDE FOR A SUSPENSION ARM AND SUSPENSION ARM WITH AN AIR GUIDE
    Publication number: 20140306418
    Abstract: Suspension arm 2 with an air guide 1, wherein the suspension arm 2 has in the installation position a downwardly open cross-sectional profile with a base surface 7 and at least two side webs 8 projecting from the base surface 7, and wherein the air guide 1 has a reinforcement element 3 to be arranged on the side webs 8 and an air guiding element 4 composed of a plastic material, and a method for producing an air guide 1 for a suspension arm 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Andreas Ottinger, Hans-Jürgen LANGHOFF
  • Expansion reservoir for a coolant circuit
    Patent number: 8857468
    Abstract: Expansion reservoir (1) for a coolant circuit, having a fill opening (3) that can be closed by a lid (2) and is located in the geodetically upper region of the expansion reservoir (1), wherein a differential-pressure-controlled valve (4) having at least two switching positions is integrated into the lid (2), and having at least one inlet port (5) which opens into a lid region (10), and an outlet port (6) in the geodetically lower region of the expansion reservoir (1), wherein the inlet port (5) is closed by the valve (4) in a first switching position and is opened in at least one second switching position, thus allowing the inlet port (5) to vent into the expansion reservoir (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Uwe Haas, Thomas Anzenberger
  • Illuminated display for representing a three-dimensional object
    Patent number: 8858020
    Abstract: An illuminated display for representing a three-dimensional object includes a display element containing the object, wherein information becomes visible when light is coupled into the display element. The display element is transparent. The three-dimensional object is made from a first plastic material having a first refractive index and is partially or completely surrounded by a second plastic material having a second refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Tobias Schwab, Stephan Berlitz
  • Vehicle wheel
    Patent number: 8857921
    Abstract: Vehicle wheel including a wheel rim a brake pot fastened to the latter and a brake disc fastened to the brake pot, wherein multiple pivotally supported plate shaped cover elements are provided on the wheel rim for temporarily closing assigned wheel rim side openings, wherein each cover element is movable along the pivot axis in opposition to the force of a restoring element an is connected to the wheel rim via a couple element which force guides in case of a shifting movement, by means of which the cover element is moved from a open position to a closed position, which the cover element assumes when the wheel rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schmid, Karl-Heinz Meitinger, Christoph Kossira, Heinrich Beringer
  • METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTHORIZATION DEVICE FOR A KEYLESS ACCESS TO AND START OF A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20140303811
    Abstract: A method for operating an authorization device for keyless entry and starting of a vehicle with a portable ID transmitter that has a motion sensor. A wireless communication link for interchanging data messages can be set up between the authorization device and the ID transmitter. Keyless entry to the vehicle is permissible only when an instant of last movement of the ID transmitter, as captured by the motion sensor, is within a stipulated interval of time. The authorization device permits keyless starting of the vehicle only when keyless entry to the vehicle has previously been permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Ingo Ledendecker
  • ENERGY STORAGE ARRANGEMENT
    Publication number: 20140300181
    Abstract: Energy storage arrangement with a rechargeable energy storage device, wherein the energy storage device includes a plurality of lithium-based storage elements. The energy storage device is composed of three lithium-based storage elements and one lithium titanate-based storage element, or four lithium-titanate-based storage elements and one lithium-based storage element, or three lithium-based storage elements and two nickel metal hydride-based storage elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Josef Winkler, Michael Wansner
  • WHEEL SUSPENSION WITH ROTATION DAMPER
    Publication number: 20140300072
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a plurality of vehicle wheels that are or can be mounted on the vehicle body by means of wheel suspensions. A wheel has at least one suspension arm that connects a vehicle wheel to a vehicle body and is pivotable about an axis, and at least one rotation damper having at least one damper element for damping the relative movement between a first mass arranged on the wheel suspension and a second mass arranged on the vehicle body. The rotation damper is integrated directly into the mounting of the suspension arm, wherein pivoting movements of the suspension arm induced by the mass movement can be transferred to a rotatable damper part of the damper element which is motion-coupled to the connecting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventor: Marco Willems
  • Suspension system for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 8851493
    Abstract: An axle actuator for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle includes an output lever, a torsion bar spring acting on a wheel side upon the output lever, and a rotary actuator adapted to adjust a tension of the torsion bar spring. A coupler links the output lever to a wheel guide element of the wheel suspension and is configured as a spring with defined spring rate and connected by joints with the output lever and the wheel guide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Wilfried Michel
  • Method for synthesizing an engine noise and device for carrying out the method
    Patent number: 8855325
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for synthesizing an engine noise, in particular of an internal combustion engine, wherein the engine noise is generated by at least one electromechanical transducer, in particular an actuator or a loudspeaker, by means of a signal value corresponding to an electrical transducer excitation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Friedemann Vogel, Lars Hinrichsen
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THREAD IN A WORKPIECE
    Publication number: 20140294526
    Abstract: A method for producing a thread in a workpiece comprises the following process steps: a) producing a wall of the workpiece, wherein the wall has a number n of grooves greater than or equal to 1 encompassing a thread axis, b) introducing a corresponding thread-producing region of a thread-producing tool into each of the grooves, c) producing a thread in each subregion, adjoining the groove(s) of the wall of the workpiece by rotating the thread-producing tool about the thread axis, wherein, following rotation, each thread-producing region projects into the same groove again or into another groove in the wall, and d) moving each thread-producing region of the thread-producing tool out of the associated groove in the direction along the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Peter Kopton
  • HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140291101
    Abstract: A dual clutch transmission, in particular of a motor vehicle, includes a hydraulic circuit for cooling the dual clutch transmission, wherein the hydraulic circuit includes at least one pump for conveying a hydraulic medium flow, at least one cooler for cooling the hydraulic medium flow, and a volume control valve for adjusting the hydraulic medium flow for at least one cooling system associated with clutches of the dual clutch transmission. The volume control valve is designed to convey the hydraulic medium flow in a first switching state to a first cooling system associated with a first of the clutches, and in at least one second switching state to a second cooling system associated with a second of the clutches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Schuller, Hans-Peter Fleischmann, Stephan Herold
  • Vehicle
    Patent number: D715190
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Dany Garand
  • Vehicle
    Patent number: D715691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Achim Badstübner, Dany Garand
  • Vehicle
    Patent number: D715693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Frank Lamberty