Patents Assigned to Audi
  • Layered structure for a fuel cell and method for producing a layered structure of this type
    Patent number: 12132231
    Abstract: A layered structure for a fuel cell comprises a carbon-based catalyst-free gas diffusion layer substrate and a carbon-based microporous layer, which is joined to the gas diffusion layer substrate and comprises a plurality of carbon carriers or carbon fibers embedded into an ion-conducting polymer binder mixture. The polymer binder mixture comprises a sulfur-free binding polymer and a sulfonated polymer, and a fraction of the binding polymer at or near a surface of the microporous layer facing away from the gas diffusion layer substrate is less than or equal to a fraction of the sulfonated polymer. A method for producing a layered structure of this type is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Gerold Hübner, Tanja Graf, Thomas Schladt
  • Fuel cell stack, fuel cell device and motor vehicle with a fuel cell device
    Patent number: 12132243
    Abstract: A fuel cell stack has a plurality of fuel cells arranged in a row, each of them comprising a membrane separating the electrodes, with ports for the respective supply and drainage of a fuel and an oxidizer and with a tensioning device for pressing the fuel cells together, wherein the tensioning device is formed by a band and spring system having an integrated force transducer, the signal of which can be relayed to a controller for determining the moisture content based on the moisture-dependent swelling behavior of the membrane of each fuel cell. A fuel cell device with such a fuel cell stack as well as a motor vehicle having such a fuel cell device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Michael Brechter
  • ENERGY STORAGE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20240356142
    Abstract: An energy storage for a motor vehicle, including a housing on which a plurality of fastening positions are formed, at which a fastening receptacle is provided for a fastening element to be connected to a body component. At least some of the fastening positions, a first fastening receptacle and a second fastening receptacle positioned offset from the first are provided, the two fastening receptacles of the fastening positions are provided offset in a common direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christian NEUFELDT, Thorsten KEIM, Sönke KÜHL, Thomas MILDE
  • DETECTION ARRANGEMENT, MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A POSSIBLE FAULT IN AN ENERGY STORAGE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20240351469
    Abstract: A detection arrangement for detecting a possible fault of an energy storage device of a motor vehicle. The detection arrangement has an underride guard, a sensor arranged on or integrated into the same, and a control device for detecting at least two different possible fault cases including a possible first fault case and a possible second fault case, and for determining based on a measurement signal received from the sensor, whether the possible first or second fault case is present. At least one first reaction measure is assigned to the possible first fault case and at least one second reaction measure, which is different from the first, is assigned to the possible second fault case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Florian ACHHAMMER, Carsten LORENZ, Paul SCHNEIDER, Martin SCHÜSSLER
  • UNDERRIDE GUARD FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN UNDERRIDE GUARD
    Publication number: 20240351641
    Abstract: An underride guard for a motor vehicle for arrangement below a high-voltage battery of the motor vehicle. The underride guard is plate-shaped, has a first surface, at least one plastic layer and at least one electrical component arrangement which includes at least one associated electrical line. In particular, the at least one electrical line is arranged on a support and is embedded together with the support in the plastic layer or is arranged on the plastic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Florian ACHHAMMER, Carsten LORENZ, Martin SCHÜSSLER, Oliver STOLL
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING A BODY OR A BODY PART OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20240351141
    Abstract: A method for producing a body or a body part of a motor vehicle. The body or the body part includes multiple components made of metal, which are welded to one another in adjacent connection regions via welding points or welding seams. A welding point or a welding seam is applied to the component at one or more positions outside the connection regions, to locally reduce the strength of the metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias BRAUN, Thorsten BUßMANN, Daniel RUDOLPH
  • Communication light device for a vehicle interior, and motor vehicle having a communication light device
    Patent number: 12122292
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication light device for a vehicle interior, having a housing, wherein light sources are arranged in a row on a housing base, wherein the light sources are configured to generate a time-controllable light signal, wherein a side wall of the housing has a light exit opening which extends across the side wall in the direction of the row of light sources and which points towards the vehicle interior when the communication light device is in an intended installation position, and wherein internal walls of the housing have a diffusely reflecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Philip Hupfer
  • Portable device for reducing simulator sickness-induced impairments during the use of electronic augmented reality glasses in a vehicle
    Patent number: 12124754
    Abstract: Movement data characterizing the movement of a vehicle in which electronic smartglasses are used, are sent by a portable apparatus from a data output to the electronic smartglasses for reducing simulator-sickness-induced impairments. The electronic smartglasses display data taking into account the movement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kuehne, Nils Wollny, Daniel Profendiner
  • Method for operating a fuel tank arrangement for a motor vehicle, and corresponding fuel tank arrangement
    Patent number: 12123377
    Abstract: A method for operating a fuel tank arrangement for a motor vehicle. The fuel tank arrangement has a fuel tank, a hydrocarbon filter and a pump. The fuel tank is fluidically connected via a tank shut-off valve to the hydrocarbon filter and the hydrocarbon filter is fluidically connected, on the one hand, via the pump to an external environment of the fuel tank arrangement and, on the other hand, via a purge valve to an intake tract of an internal combustion engine. A first leakage test mode is carried out when the pressure in the fuel tank is greater than a pressure threshold value, in which a shut-off valve arranged in terms of flow between the pump and the external environment is closed and the tank shut-off valve is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Oliver Grunwald, Aleksandar Tesic
  • Component
    Patent number: 12122458
    Abstract: A component with a support, for which a flat region is defined. The support has a support cover which at least partly has the shape of a cone, a funnel, or a tent and which is raised out of the flat region. One end of the at least partly cone-, funnel-, or tent-shaped support cover, said end facing away from the flat region of the support, is equipped with a recess for mounting a securing element to be secured to the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Béla Székely, Bence Szabó, Arne Boldt
  • Vehicle
    Patent number: 12122223
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle having a body, a first vehicle door, and a second vehicle door arranged behind the first vehicle door in a vehicle longitudinal direction. The first and second vehicle doors are each movably coupled to the body such that the first and second vehicle doors are movable between a closed position and an open position in a sliding-pivoting manner. The vehicle includes at least one passive locking device that interlockingly connects one of the first and second vehicle doors to the body of the vehicle when set at the closed position to form a vehicle pillar of the body of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Thomas Liepold, Frank Mauersberger
  • Brush holder for holding at least two brushes for a sliding contact arrangement, electrical machine and motor vehicle
    Patent number: 12126241
    Abstract: A brush holder for holding at least two brushes for a sliding contact arrangement, including an intermediate element and two contact elements for electrically contacting at least one of the brushes, the contact elements being arranged on two opposite sides of the intermediate element and the intermediate element having a receptacle extending through the opposite sides for a rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Philipp Uhlmann, Andreas Ruf
  • HEAD SUPPORT COMPRISING A NOISE-SUPPRESSION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE SEAT
    Publication number: 20240343177
    Abstract: A headrest which is designed to at least partially surround a head. The headrest has a device for noise suppression, which is arranged on a side of the headrest (facing toward a head position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Alexander BART, Edwin OLLEFERS
  • BATTERY ARRANGEMENT HAVING A THERMAL PROTECTION DEVICE, MOTOR VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A BATTERY ARRANGEMENT
    Publication number: 20240347849
    Abstract: A battery arrangement, which includes a thermal protection device, a housing component, and a battery module having multiple battery cells, each of which has a releasable cell degassing opening. The battery module has a module side which is opposite the housing component with respect to a first direction, and which has a contiguous degassing subregion in which all cell degassing openings are arranged. Between the housing component and the degassing subregion there is a gap subregion having passage areas, which are each arranged directly below a respective, assigned cell degassing opening with respect to the first direction. The thermal protection device is arranged in the gap subregion and is formed using a thermally expandable material in such a way that it expands when a predetermined limiting temperature is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ruben HEID, Matthias WlMMl
  • METHOD FOR ADAPTING LIGHTING, AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTING LIGHTING
    Publication number: 20240349410
    Abstract: The examples may relate to a method of adapting lighting of at least one lighting module of a motor vehicle to sounds which are generated and output by a sound system of the motor vehicle. In an example, the sounds may be associated at least one image which is automatically represented by the at least one lighting module at least in a section and in a manner temporally correlated with the output sounds. In an example, the at least one image may be read in by a selection module. A system to configure lighting may include a data processing unit, a lighting module and a selection module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Jürgen KARMANN
  • CHARGING SOCKET ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20240343134
    Abstract: A charging socket arrangement for a vehicle, having a charging socket arranged in a charging socket recess and a charging socket flap, which covers the charging socket in a first position and exposes it in a second position, and a warning flap arranged in the area of the charging socket, which in a first position is invisible and can be covered by the charging socket flap and in a second position protrudes from an outer skin of the vehicle visibly in front of and/or behind the charging socket flap as a warning sign and warns other road users of a protruding charging cable, and a vehicle having such a charging socket arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Sebastian VAHLE
  • BATTERY FIRE PREVENTION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING A BATTERY FIRE RESULTING FROM THERMAL RUNAWAY OF A BATTERY CELL
    Publication number: 20240347853
    Abstract: A battery fire prevention system for a battery of a motor vehicle including several battery cells for preventing a battery fire resulting from a thermal runaway of a first battery cell of the battery cells of the battery. The battery fire prevention system includes a cell degassing channel connected to the battery cells and into which a gas escaping from a respective battery cell is introduced and discharged to at least one escape opening of the cell degassing channel, a gas flow influencing structure as part of the cell degassing channel, which influences the course of the gas flow flowing through the cell degassing channel, formed by the gas escaping from the first battery cell, and a cooling device for cooling the first battery cell in thermal runaway mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Paul SCHNEIDER
  • Method for operating a drive for a motor vehicle and corresponding drive device
    Patent number: 12115966
    Abstract: A method for operating a drive device for a motor vehicle, the drive device having a first drive unit designed as an internal combustion engine and a second drive unit designed as an electrical machine, which together at least temporarily provide a drive torque of the drive device on an drive shaft, the drive torque being set to a requested default torque. It In a first operating mode, before changing a speed of the drive shaft for the first drive unit, a torque characteristic is selected from multiple torque characteristics. In the first operating mode, while the speed is being changed, the first drive unit is operated according to the selected torque characteristic for providing at least one part of the specified torque, and a differential torque between the specified torque and the torque provided by the first drive unit boil is provided by the second drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthew David Hall, Benedikt Xander, Andreas Zeyer, Guido Schiedt
  • Method and control circuit for controlling an active rear axle steering of a motor vehicle when steering out from straight travel, and a motor vehicle having the control circuit
    Patent number: 12116060
    Abstract: A method for controlling an active rear axle steering of a motor vehicle when steering out from straight travel with given actual dynamics of the wheel guidance of the motor vehicle, wherein an actual steering signal of the motor vehicle is received by a control circuit from at least one sensor, then from the actual steering signal a dynamic model of the wheel guidance calculates a time variation of a differential signal describing a deviation of the actual steering signal from an imaginary nominal steering signal which would be needed in order to perform the steering with a given nominal dynamics, and from the differential signal a predetermined conversion rule is used to generate a nominal steering signal for the rear axle steering and the rear axle steering is actuated with this.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: Cariad SE, Audi AG
    Inventors: Adrian Mihailescu, Benjamin Schwarz, Christian Wiedenmann
  • Control device, motor vehicle and method for activating an active discharge circuit
    Patent number: 12115866
    Abstract: A method, by a control device, to activate an active discharge circuit to discharge a capacitive energy storage of at least one electrical consumer of an on-board power supply for a motor vehicle. An energy source for the on-board power supply can be coupled to the on-board power supply and be disconnected from the on-board power supply by a switching device. The control device receives a signal (S) for activating the active discharge circuit, examines, after receiving the signal (S), if the energy source is disconnected from the on-board power supply according to at least one first criterion, and activates the active discharge circuit only upon satisfaction of a condition that the energy source has been disconnected from the on-board power supply according to the at least one first criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Tobias Grassl, Jan Schmäling, Samy Arnaout, Marko Kertes, Markus Novotny, Tobias Knoke