Abstract: A battery arrangement for a motor vehicle, includes a battery housing having a housing tray that provides a receiving area for receiving at least one battery module, and having a housing cover that is arranged on the housing tray. The battery arrangement has at least one battery component arranged in the battery housing and at a distance to the housing cover. At least one felt element for vibration damping of mechanical vibrations of the housing cover is arranged between the housing cover and the battery component, so that the at least one felt element abuts the housing cover and the at least one battery component.

Abstract: An encoder wheel for an internal combustion engine, having six indicator elements, which are arranged spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction with respect to a rotational axis of the encoder wheel on a main body of the encoder wheel. Flanks arranged in the same direction of the indicator elements are arranged equidistantly to one another in the circumferential direction. The indicator elements each have one of three different indicator element extensions in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A method for monitoring at least one motor vehicle having a vehicle system configured to guide the motor vehicle in a completely automatic manner and a communication device configured to communicate with a remote computing device outside the motor vehicle, wherein, during the completely automatic guidance of the motor vehicle by the vehicle system an item of guidance information describing the completely automatic guidance and an item of vehicle information comprising an item of location information comprising at least a current position of the motor vehicle are transmitted to the computing device. The vehicle information received by the computing device is evaluated together with an item of driving environment information, which is available in the computing device and is based on the position of the motor vehicle, to form an item of status information relating to the motor vehicle. The item of status information and is displayed to a person carrying out the monitoring on a display device.

Abstract: An energy storage device for a motor vehicle with a protective device for protecting at least one battery cell of the energy storage device. The energy storage device includes at least one component made of a plastic material. The component is part of the protective device and the plastic material comprises a superabsorbent material, so that the at least one component is designed to absorb liquid. The component is also assigned an additional function that differs from the absorption of liquid.

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method for setting a cruising mode of a vehicle, wherein a human/machine interface is arranged on a steering wheel of the vehicle for shifting a transmission of the vehicle, this human/machine interface comprising at least one first and at least one second switch segment and at least one switch, wherein the switch segments are arranged on the at least one switch, and in the event that the at least one first and the at least one second switch segment of the at least one switch are activated at the same time the cruising mode is set for the vehicle.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for operating a ventilation device for providing an air flow. An equipment parameter value of an equipment element of a motor vehicle and a vehicle parameter value of the motor vehicle are detected. Then, the ventilation device is activated subject to the detected equipment parameter value and the detected vehicle parameter value. To activate the ventilation device, a rotational speed of a fan of the ventilation device is set, where the rotational speed is varied subject to the detected equipment parameter value and the detected vehicle parameter value.

Abstract: A wheel hub for mounting a wheel to rotate about an axis of rotation, having a flange, which has at least one fastening member, by which a rim of the wheel can be fastened at least in the axial direction of the wheel hub to the flange and thereby to the wheel hub, and having a centering seat formed on an extension projecting axially from the flange of the wheel hub, which centering seat includes multiple centering surface segments successively disposed and spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction of the wheel hub and facing outwards in the radial direction of the wheel hub, by which segments the rim can be centered relative to the wheel hub in the radial direction thereof, wherein the single-piece extension has an inner lateral face extending continuously in the circumferential direction and facing inwards in the radial direction.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining a variable which relates to the state of a motor vehicle battery of a first motor vehicle and which indicates a count value in order to count a previously effective service life of the motor vehicle battery, and wherein a starting count value is provided in order to ascertain the count value and at least one parameter which influences the effective service life of the motor vehicle battery is detected. An estimated value for the influence of the at least one detected parameter on the effective service life of the motor vehicle battery is calculated on the basis of the at least one detected parameter, and the starting count value is increased to a current count value on the basis of the calculated estimated value.

Abstract: A pressure compensating assembly for a drive mechanism of a vehicle, wherein the drive mechanism includes as drive components an electrical machine a power electronics unit, and a transmission, wherein each drive component is disposed in a respective housing which encloses an air space, wherein at least two air spaces of adjacent housings are interconnected in an air-permeable manner, wherein the pressure compensating assembly includes a pressure compensating member common to all drive components, which member connects the air spaces of all drive components of the drive mechanism to an environment and is disposed above a wading line of the vehicle when the pressure compensating assembly is installed in the vehicle.

Abstract: A method of operating a refrigerant circuit of a cooling system of a vehicle in cooling system mode, having a chiller branch which includes a chiller and a first expansion element connected upstream from it and being thermally coupled to a coolant circuit, at least one interior evaporator branch connected in parallel with the chiller branch, comprising an interior evaporator, a second expansion element connected upstream from it, and a segmentation element connected downstream from the interior evaporator, being adapted to prevent a backflow of refrigerant into the interior evaporator, a refrigerant compressor, and a condenser or gas cooler, wherein the cooling system mode is carried out in single chiller mode by closing the second expansion element and aspirating the refrigerant from the interior evaporator by the starting or already started refrigerant compressor.

Abstract: A method for activating an electrical charging process between an electric vehicle and a charging station. The certificate data for activating the charging process are stored in a server device by an operating device of a user distinct from the motor vehicle, and the operating device transfers the certificate data to a data memory assigned to the motor vehicle in the server device, by a predetermined transfer command, and, before or while the motor vehicle is connected to the charging station for the charging process, a control unit of the motor vehicle sends out access data for accessing the data memory to an activation circuit of the charging station and the activation circuit requests the certificate data from the data memory of the motor vehicle at the server device based on the access data and, if the requested certificate data meet a predetermined permissibility criterion, carries out the charging process.

Abstract: The invention present disclosure relates to a method for preventing the voice of at least one person in a vehicle from being intercepted. At least one loudspeaker in the vehicle is activated, wherein the at least one loudspeaker is used to generate audio signals which have at least one frequency that is higher than the threshold frequency for sound that is audible to the at least one person, and the audio signals are used to interfere with the reception of a signal by means of at least one microphone when the at least one person uses their voice to articulate.

Abstract: A method for carrying out a charging process using an energy store of a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle can be connected to an intermediate store coupled to an energy source in order to carry out the charging process. A relationship between at least one situation parameter, a charging power and an efficiency of the charging process is provided, a value of the situation parameter is determined, and at least if the charging process is to be carried out using the intermediate store according to a predetermined criterion, the charging process is carried out.

Abstract: A cooling module for a motor vehicle for cooling at least one drive unit of the motor vehicle, having a cooling module housing which has a coolant reservoir for providing a liquid or gaseous cooling medium; a first interface unit for accommodating a predetermined pump unit; a second interface unit for accommodating a predetermined filter unit; and a third interface unit for accommodating a predetermined heat exchange unit.

Abstract: An underbody component for a motor vehicle, with a plate element which has a lower side and an upper side; at least one supporting element arranged on the upper side of the plate element, which is intended to support the plate element against a vehicle side structure and to space it apart. The supporting element is also designed as a partition, which divides the area above the plate element into multiple chambers; a sensor device which is intended to detect intrusion of the plate element into at least one of the chambers caused by an external force action on the lower side.

Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with a Method and System for customizing a vehicle function. The System comprises a developer platform with an application programming interface, API, to create content for at least one predefined vehicle function, wherein the developer platform is configured to transmit the created content to a content server, the content server configured to receive and store the created content, a mobile device comprising an application, wherein the application is configured to access the content server and provide the stored content of the content server for selection; and a vehicle configured to receive selected content and customize the vehicle function with the received content.

Abstract: A computing system comprises a data storage and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the data storage. The at least one processor is configured to execute program instructions to cause the system to perform the following steps. A deep neural network (“DNN”) model is trained using training data. Next, additional scenes are determined based on the DNN model and the training data. The determined scenes are generated, and then used to augment the training dataset. The DNN model is then retrained using the augmented training dataset and stored in a data storage for deployment.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of driving a motor vehicle. The method determines position data relating to at least one of a current position or a predicted future position of the motor vehicle detecting, using at least one sensor device, surroundings data relating to a surrounding environment of the motor vehicle, determining at least one driving intervention based on the surroundings data, and controlling at least one vehicle system of the motor vehicle to execute the determined at least one driving intervention. The at least one driving intervention executed by a selected software module that is selected based on the surroundings data, and the selected software module is selected from a plurality of software modules based on the position data. Each software module is configured to execute the at least one driving intervention.

Abstract: An approach for monitoring a data transmission system that uses a data transmission means such as a vehicle bus or a vehicle network of a motor vehicle. This system includes a monitoring device that transmits a request message to a transmitting device and to a receiving device. The transmitting device generates a particular transmitter response on the basis of the request message, where the transmitter response is transmitted to the monitoring device. The receiving device generates a particular receiver response on the basis of the request message, where the receiver response is transmitted to the monitoring device. The monitoring device receives the transmitter response and the receiver response and checks compliance with a trigger condition which depends on the transmitter response and the receiver response, the compliance of which indicates an event relevant to monitoring.

Abstract: A method for controlling a drive motor in a motor vehicle may include the steps: determining driving situation information which describes a static friction and/or a frictional connection of at least one wheel of the motor vehicle and/or a speed of the motor vehicle, determining a minimum speed of the drive motor as a function of the driving situation information, and regulating or controlling the speed of the drive motor as a function of the minimum speed, in particular such that the speed is always greater than the minimum speed.