Patents Assigned to Audi AG
  • Patent number: 11215273
    Abstract: A transmission for a motor vehicle, including a housing, which at least partly encloses at least one movable transmission part and is filled with an operating medium during a normal operation of the transmission, and including a heating element which dispenses a heat output in order to heat the operating medium. One object is to increase a coupling surface for dispensing a heat output to the operating medium in a simple manner. The heating element is designed to dispense the heat output to the housing via a first coupling surface, and the housing is designed to dispense the heat output to the operating medium via a second coupling surface. The heat output can be transmitted from the heating element to the operating medium in a significantly indirect manner via the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Kopp
  • Publication number: 20210402868
    Abstract: An assembly of a wheel hub on a wheel carrier for a vehicle, in which the wheel hub, on which at least one wheel of the vehicle is fastenable in a rotationally-fixed manner, is rotatably mounted via a wheel bearing on the wheel carrier, including at least one surroundings sensor at least partially arranged in the wheel hub, by which at least a part of the surroundings of the vehicle can be registered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Winfried JUSTUS, Matthias EWERT, Sascha BORNHOLD
  • Publication number: 20210408573
    Abstract: A battery for an at least partially electrically drivable motor vehicle. The battery includes a battery pack with a plurality of battery cells, a frame enclosing the battery pack, which frame at least partially covers each of the battery cells on a shell surface of the respective battery cells, and a battery housing with an insertion opening for receiving the battery pack. The battery further includes a pretensioning device having a pretensioning unit which is designed to apply a pretensioning force onto the battery pack on a first side of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Walter SCHMIEDER, Tamas GYULAI
  • Patent number: 11207965
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a transmission and a transmission fluid pump for transport of transmission oil to and within the transmission. The transmission fluid pump has a moving element which is coupled to a summation shaft of a planetary gear train. The planetary gear train has a ring gear which is operated by a first drive, and a sun gear which is operated by a second drive. A freewheel mechanism is arranged between the sun gear or a shaft connected to the sun gear and a further element so that the second drive can be switched off, when the first drive operates at high speeds while yet maintaining proper operation of the transmission fluid pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Mario Schenker, Ralf Kischkat, Wilhelmus Gieles, Lionel Dumont
  • Patent number: 11211660
    Abstract: A battery for an electric drive of a motor vehicle, having a number of battery modules, which are arranged one above the other in the respective layers and accommodated in an assigned housing. The battery is optimized regarding production engineering aspects, and is also optimized regarding the requirements of tightness and accident properties, each of the layers of the battery modules arranged one above the other is accommodated in a respectively assigned, separate battery housing, which are arranged one above the other in a stack and connected to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Markus Thurmeier
  • Patent number: 11208038
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle, wherein a status information regarding the status of an occupant of the motor vehicle is determined, whereupon the motor vehicle is guided in a fully automated manner to a predetermined target position when one of the release conditions is fulfilled as a function of the status information, wherein, when the release condition is fulfilled, the motor vehicle is guided independently of at least one traffic rule, which restricts the driving operation of the motor vehicle in the event of non-compliance with the release condition, or dependently of a modified version of said traffic rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Christoph Sippl
  • Patent number: 11209647
    Abstract: A display apparatus for displaying an image includes a semitransparent carrier element, and a film provided on the semitransparent carrier element for at least regionally displaying the image. The film incorporates electrical components of the display apparatus. Further, the display apparatus can be included in a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Schwartze, Markus Klug, André Schwager, Muhammad Ali Kezze
  • Patent number: 11212118
    Abstract: The application relates to a method for checking the data transport across a first communication connection between two data processing devices, said first communication connection being realized between two first interface units, wherein the payload to be transferred can be divided into payload blocks and there is at least one second communication connection between the data processing devices, which is established by means of second interface units, and wherein, in order to implement a challenge-response authentication, a request requiring retrieval of randomly selected data units from identifiable, randomly selected payload blocks of the payload is sent as a challenge by an authentication unit to the first interface units by means of the second communication connection, an authentication assembly of each of the first interface units extracts the requested response data from the payload and transmits the same back to the authentication unit and a successful check is determined if the response data match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Klein, Kamil Zawadzki, Changsup Ahn, Michael Schmailzl
  • Publication number: 20210399649
    Abstract: An inverter for an electric machine is provided. The electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The inverter includes a DC/AC converter and a DC/DC converter. The DC/AC converter includes at least one chip of silicon carbide having at least one MOSFET. The DC/DC converter includes at least one chip of silicon having at least one IGBT. The DC/DC converter is connectible to a first one of the rotor or the stator of the electric machine and the DC/AC converter is connectible to a second one of the rotor or the stator of the electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas APELSMEIER, Stephan BRÜSKE
  • Publication number: 20210399753
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radio receiving device for a vehicle, having a first signal processing unit, which comprises an MRC module for combining a plurality of synchronized analog intermediate frequency signals into one combined analog intermediate frequency signal and a demodulator for extracting a useful signal from the combined analog intermediate frequency signal. The present disclosure further relates to a radio receiving system and a method for a vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and/or for receiving a radio signal from a stationary radio transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Amir CENANOVIC, Lars REICHARDT
  • Publication number: 20210396277
    Abstract: A drive device with a drive unit which has an output shaft and is mechanically connected to a driven shaft of the drive device via a clutch. At least one hydraulic channel and one hydraulic cylinder flow-connected to the hydraulic channel are formed in the output shaft, wherein a hydraulic piston coupled to the clutch for operating the same is displaceably arranged in the hydraulic cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthew David HALL, Guido SCHIEDT
  • Patent number: 11203297
    Abstract: A holder device for a rear-view and/or display device of a motor vehicle having at least one holder plate fixed to a panel or plate-like object, and having at least one securing foot, which is or can be detachably arranged on the holder plate wherein by at least one retaining means fixed to the securing foot or at least partially surrounding the securing foot, which is or can be fixed to a vehicle component spaced apart from the holder plate, which limits a movement of the securing foot in a state in which it is at least partially detached from the holder plate in form fitting and/or force-locking manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Stefan Held
  • Patent number: 11203263
    Abstract: A system with a high-voltage battery and a coupling device that couples the high-voltage battery to a high-voltage onboard power supply system of a motor vehicle. The coupling device couples a positive pole and a negative pole with corresponding phases of the high-voltage power supply system. The coupling device includes a current measurement device that measures the current flowing between a first electrically conductive connection and a first interface and/or the current flowing between a second electrically conductive connection and a second interface, an actuating device, and at least one first semiconductor switch, as well as at least one second semiconductor switch, which is coupled between the second electrically conductive connection and the second interface. The first semiconductor switch includes a first control electrode and the second semiconductor switch includes a second control electrode, which are coupled to the actuating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Roman Strasser
  • Patent number: 11203356
    Abstract: A method for setting a driving mode of a vehicle which is driven by at least one electric machine, wherein several levels of a recuperation mode and a coasting mode are provided for the vehicle mode, wherein a first operating step or a second operating step is carried out with an operating element, wherein a level of the recuperation mode is raised upon a one-time carrying out of the first operating step with the operating element, wherein a level of the recuperation mode is set by one-time carrying out of the first operating step with the operating element which level is higher than a lowest level of the recuperation mode, wherein the coasting mode is directly set up when carrying out the second operating step with the operating element starting from the set, in particular higher level of the recuperation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Bernd Ritter
  • Patent number: 11203246
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, preferably for a vehicle, including an applicative stratification, wherein the applicative stratification includes at least two stratification strands, wherein the applicative stratification is configured in such a manner that when incoming air into the heat exchanger is supplied in the direction of the applicative stratification, the incoming air is spread out by means of the applicative stratification in the respective stratification strand into an associated outgoing air portion. Furthermore, an exemplary embodiment may include an air-conditioning unit and an associated method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Willibald Pfaller, Sascha Rös
  • Publication number: 20210388786
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine having multiple cylinders. A warm-up operation is carried out after the internal combustion engine has been started, during which a speed of the internal combustion engine is limited to a limit value. The limit value is selected during the warm-up operation at least temporarily as a function of a starting temperature of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Philipp PROCHAZKA, Florian ZINK, Bernhard MADERER, Christoph SCHWEITZER, Michael LEIHENSEDER, Florian FREUND
  • Publication number: 20210388833
    Abstract: A drive device for a motor vehicle, having at least one drive unit and one coolant circuit for controlling the temperature of the at least one drive unit, in which at least one coolant pump is arranged in the coolant circuit for circulating an aqueous coolant in the coolant circuit. It is provided in this case that the coolant pump is designed as a screw spindle pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Thomas HOFFMANN, Sebastian WAWERSIG
  • Publication number: 20210389213
    Abstract: A method for monitoring at least one bearing of a motor vehicle which has the bearing and at least one electric machine, and can be operated by the electric machine supplying the electric machine with alternating electric current which is made available by power electronics, assigned to the electric machine, of the motor vehicle, as a result of which the electric machine is operated as an electric machine, by which the motor vehicle is operated, detecting the alternating current, made available by the power electronics, by at least one alternating current sensor; determining at least one torque which is made available by the electric machine in order to drive the motor vehicle, in accordance with the detected alternating current; and monitoring the bearing in accordance with the determined torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Bernhard KARL, Felix WINKELMEYR
  • Patent number: D940034
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Albert Rosello Visa
  • Patent number: D940035
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Albert Rosello Visa