Patents Assigned to Audi
  • Patent number: 12098766
    Abstract: A gear motor for a motor vehicle is provided comprising a housing having an engine housing section to contain an electric machine and a transmission housing section to contain a transmission coupled to the electric machine, wherein the electric machine, the transmission, and an oil collection tank are incorporated in an oil circuit, wherein oil for the cooling and/or lubricating of the electric machine and the transmission circulates in the oil circuit by at least one delivery device of the gear motor or the motor vehicle, and wherein the interior of the engine housing section and the interior of the transmission housing section are separated from each other such that the oil collects separately in the engine housing section and the transmission housing section at respectively at least one suction outlet connected to the delivery device, while a lower section of the transmission housing section in which the oil collects forms the oil collection tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Ivo Greiter
  • Patent number: 12101537
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image sensor apparatus of a camera for detecting light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Moll, Markus Klug
  • Publication number: 20240313334
    Abstract: An emergency degassing arrangement for a motor vehicle, which has a gas discharge channel for discharging gases emerging from a battery cell from the motor vehicle into the surroundings of the motor vehicle, an outlet opening of the gas discharge channel located at one end of the gas discharge channel and opening into the surroundings, and an emergency degassing device which is arranged at the end of the gas discharge channel and has a closure. This closure comprises a flap which is rotatably mounted around a pivot axis for closing the outlet opening, and the flap is transferable from a closed position to at least one open position by rotating around the pivot axis, in which a gas flowing out of the outlet opening and partially flowing against the flap can be diverted by the flap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Imke DITTMANN, Thomas MILDE
  • Publication number: 20240313621
    Abstract: A coolant supply system for an electric machine, in which a free electric machine space is provided in the axial direction between the rotor/stator arrangement and an electric machine housing wall, to which coolant can be applied, in particular for stator cooling. The electric machine has a rotor shaft bearing arrangement in which the rotor shaft is rotatably mounted in a hub section of the electric machine housing wall via a rotary bearing. The bearing opening is sealed to the outside of the housing using a sealing element, with the formation of a free space between the rotary bearing and the sealing element. The electric machine housing wall has a coolant connection, via which coolant can be guided from the electric machine space into the free space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Harald GLOEDE, Christian PRÜTTING
  • Patent number: 12090928
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor vehicle including at least one optical surroundings sensor which has a detection range in a detection direction. The motor vehicle further includes a deflection arrangement for the surroundings sensor. The deflection arrangement includes an optical arrangement configured to deflect the detection direction and the entire detection range, and an adjustment device configured to move the optical arrangement into and out of the detection range of the surroundings sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Stefan Krämer, Marvin Raaijmakers
  • Patent number: 12093444
    Abstract: A processor circuit, which is provided in data glasses or coupled to the data glasses via a communication connection, receives image data from at least one camera of the data glasses, representing an environment of the data glasses. A digital model of at least one predetermined orientation object is stored in the processor circuit and a predetermined matching routine checks whether the model correlates with an image region of the environment represented in the image data. If a correlation is identified, a relative position associated with the image region via a coordinates map is determined and image content of the data glasses is controlled according to the determined relative position of the at least one orientation object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Sebastian Dorn
  • Patent number: 12095551
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for configuring a channel coding during a transmission of data packets from a transmitter to a receiver, which are both located in a traffic environment, wherein a control apparatus of the transmitter ascertains environment data, describing the traffic environment, and orientation data, describing a relative orientation of the transmitter and the receiver, and the environment data and the orientation data are taken as a basis for using a radio link model to forecast, by means of a forecast, whether a currently selected coding configuration of the channel coding can be used to successfully decode and/or reconstruct a data packet currently needing to be sent in the receiver, and if the forecast signals a lack of success, then a switch is effected to an extended coding configuration that produces greater redundancy than the current coding configuration, and the data packet to be sent is sent using the extended coding configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Hehn, Christina Heindl
  • Publication number: 20240300333
    Abstract: A sensor device, a motor vehicle and a method of determining an intrusion into a traction battery with an underbody element of the motor vehicle, may include the underbody element including at least one sensor device including at least one electrically conductive sensor wire integrated into a laminar textile material. The sensor device is configured so that a voltage applied to the sensor wire is measurable to determine a deformation of the sensor wire in dependence on a measured change of the voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicants: AUDI AG, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Julius RAUSCH, Oliver STOLL, Ilija BRANDIC, Markus GRUPP
  • Patent number: 12084076
    Abstract: An identification key associated with a motor vehicle is carried by a user as the user moves outside of the motor vehicle. When the identification key enters the reception range of short-range transceiver units, position data of the identification key are ascertained and transmitted via a far-field transceiver unit which is not included in the identification key. The receiver of the transmitted position data ascertains a movement vector for the identification key from the position data. If the movement vector meets at least one predefinable activation criterion, preconditioning of at least one component of the motor vehicle is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Stefan Vollmann, Christian Meyer
  • Patent number: 12087970
    Abstract: A battery cell having first cell connectors, a galvanic cell and a first switching unit electrically coupled to the first cell connectors and the galvanic cell for electrically coupling the galvanic cell to the first cell connectors depending on a switching state of the first switching unit. The battery cell has second cell connectors electrically separated from the first cell connectors and a second switching unit electrically coupled to the second cell connectors and the galvanic cell for electrically coupling the galvanic cell to the second cell connectors depending on a switching state of the second switching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Michael Hinterberger, Christoph Terbrack, Christian Endisch, Julia Stöttner
  • Patent number: 12083886
    Abstract: A display device may include a flexible display surface element having a display surface, and an adjustment unit which includes a clamping element in form of a rod and arranged such that the rod moves in a first adjustment direction, a restoring element arranged on the clamping element, and a deflection element in form of a rod. A first side edge of the display surface element is arranged on a length of the clamping element. A second side edge of the display surface element opposite the first side edge is connected to the clamping element via the restoring element. A surface of the display surface element is bent and has a bending region. A length of the deflection element extends in same direction as the clamping element, the deflection element extends within the bending region of the bent display surface element and is arranged such that the deflection element moves in a second adjustment direction to change a distance between the deflection element and the clamping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christian Wall, Michael Herter
  • Patent number: 12088332
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a mobile transceiver and for a network entity, a mobile transceiver, a network entity and a system, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a mobile transceiver. The method for a mobile transceiver to communicate in a mobile communication system includes providing information on a field of application of the mobile transceiver to the mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Steffen Schmitz, Jörg Plechinger
  • Patent number: 12083854
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an air-conditioning arrangement for a vehicle. The air-conditioning arrangement includes at least one fluid channel, which has at least two identically designed connection devices. The air-conditioning arrangement includes at least one movable vehicle seat. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding vehicle having such an air-conditioning arrangement. The at least one vehicle seat includes an air-conditioning component that outputs a temperature-controlled airflow from the vehicle seat. The air-conditioning component can be removably connected to the connection devices of the at least one fluid channel via a movable fluid connection to establish fluid communication between the air-conditioning component and the fluid channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jörg Michael, Bastian Guyot, Sebastian Albl
  • Patent number: 12085476
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Karl, Felix Winkelmeyr
  • Patent number: 12082456
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel matrix configured to emit light, a first display screen which faces in a first direction, a second display screen which faces in a second direction, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the pixel matrix to emit light which passes through the first display screen and passes into surroundings of the display device in the first direction so that graphical content is displayed on the first display screen, based on image data that define the graphical content. The controller is also configured to operate in a first display mode in which graphical content as defined by image data is only displayed on the first display screen and the second display screen is deactivated, and a second display mode in which identical graphical content is displayed on both the first display screen and the second display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Jacques Helot, Seung Mo Kang, Sung Jun Park, Jiwon Oh
  • Patent number: 12077100
    Abstract: The described examples relate to a lighting device for a motor vehicle with multiple optical fibers and multiple further fibers, which are woven to a two-dimensional fiber fabric. The multiple further fibers may be formed as multiple further optical fibers or as multiple non-optical fibers. The fiber fabric may be formed corresponding to a developed surface of multiple sides of a preset three-dimensional body, which may be generated by cutting and by selectively separating the multiple optical fibers and the multiple further fibers that are woven with each other, at a distal cut end of the fiber fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Friedrich-Uwe Tontsch
  • Patent number: 12079694
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes storing a set of training data. One or more machine learning models are trained based on the set of training data. The method also includes receiving, from a computing device, a request to access the set of training data. The method further includes determining whether the computing device is allowed to access the set of training data. In response to determining that the computing device is allowed to access the set of training data, the method includes transmitting a training token to the computing device. The training token grants a training environment with access to the set of training data for a period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Porsche AG, Audi AG
    Inventors: Liang Kong, Oleg Tolstov
  • Publication number: 20240291067
    Abstract: A battery arrangement with a battery module, which includes a cell stack with multiple battery cells arranged next to one another in a stacking direction and one or more cell separation elements. One of the cell separation elements is arranged between respective two battery cells arranged adjacent to one another. At least one of the cell separation elements protrudes on one side of the cell stack from a gap between the two battery cells, in which the cell separation element is arranged. The protruding cell separation element is connected to an active cooling device through which a cooling medium can flow and which is encompassed by the battery arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias ENZINGER, Andreas KOPP
  • Publication number: 20240291355
    Abstract: The described examples may relate to a connection device for electrically conductively connecting a stator and a pulse inverter of an electric motor. The connection device includes at least one clamping piece pair with two clamping pieces, which are movable in relation to each other along a clamping direction between a closed and an open position and formed to clamp a stator-side line end with a pulse inverter-side line end between the two clamping pieces in the closed position such that an electrically conductive connection of the line ends is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicants: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: András Csákány, Marvin Emde, Andreas Lenz, Max Possen
  • Publication number: 20240288691
    Abstract: A method of operating virtual reality glasses in a vehicle, in which a risk of motion sickness for a wearer of the virtual reality glasses is reduced with the aid of the method. A virtual reality system (IO) includes the virtual reality glasses and the vehicle. According to the method, a vehicle movement of the vehicle is evaluated in such a way that ultimately, after the image data describing the virtual surroundings have been split into a background image dataset and a foreground image dataset, a lateral offset for a position of an object in the foreground in comparison with the background is determined, so that virtual surroundings which are processed in this way can be determined and displayed. Alternatively, the virtual surroundings can be enlarged in accordance with the vehicle movement, and processed virtual surroundings can be determined by a movement of the enlarged virtual surroundings along a movement trajectory, and displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias MOLL, Tahar BOUAZIZ