Patents Assigned to Audi
  • Publication number: 20240198900
    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: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Philip HUPFER
  • Publication number: 20240198841
    Abstract: A data storage device in a vehicle including a storage medium for data; and an interface for data transfer. The data storage device is installed in the vehicle and the storage medium is a network-connected storage. The data storage device extends a home network and/or an office internal network to the vehicle and the data storage device is accessible from outside the vehicle after a user has been authenticated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Hendrik GRONAU, Tobias ROSS
  • Publication number: 20240204292
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement for bilateral cooling of a battery unit. The cooling arrangement includes two cooling plates, each having a cooling channel through which a coolant can flow, and two respective connections for supplying and discharging the coolant into and out of the respective cooling channel. The first cooling plate includes a first coupling connection, an integrated first fluid line branch and an integrated second fluid line branch. One of the first connections of the first cooling plate is connected to the first cooling channel of the first cooling plate via the first fluid line branch and is connected to the first coupling connection via the second fluid line branch, and the cooling arrangement includes a first coupling line which fluidly connects the first coupling connection to one of the second connections of the second cooling plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias GIER, Philipp SELLE
  • Publication number: 20240198899
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor vehicle lighting device comprising a lighting element with a plurality of light sources and a cover element which is designed to change between a transparent operating state and an opaque operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventor: Jacques HÉLOT
  • Patent number: 12013029
    Abstract: A method for operating a dual-clutch transmission having a first partial transmission, a second partial transmission, a first clutch assigned to the first partial transmission, and a second clutch assigned to the second partial transmission, in which the dual-clutch transmission is shifted into a parking lock state. The dual-clutch transmission is shifted into the parking lock state by the following steps: while a first gear of one of the partial transmissions is engaged: carrying out an engagement process provided for engaging a second gear of the one partial transmission; determining that the second gear is not engaged despite the engagement process being carried out; selecting a third gear of the dual-clutch transmission different from the first gear and from the second gear; and engaging the selected third gear such that in the park lock condition, the first gear and the third gear are at least temporarily engaged simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Enrico Szeppat, Lutz Gundlach
  • Patent number: 12011950
    Abstract: A wheel bearing arrangement for a motor vehicle, having a wheel hub and a wheel bearing for rotatably mounting the wheel hub on a wheel carrier. The wheel bearing has an outer ring and an inner ring. A wheel flange extends from the wheel hub in a radial direction and has a brake disc receptacle which is open in the direction facing away from the outer ring and is formed by a recess in the wheel flange and has a brake disc bearing face for a brake disc. A seal-receptacle space is formed in the wheel flange on its side facing the outer ring in an axial direction, in which seal-receptacle space there is a wheel bearing seal. A rim-centering seat element extends from the wheel hub and runs in the direction opposite the brake disc bearing face with respect to the brake disc receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Johannes Albl, Michael Frisch
  • Patent number: 12012090
    Abstract: A method for operating a dual clutch transmission of a motor vehicle having a first partial transmission, a second partial transmission, and a transmission output shaft common to the partial transmissions and drivable both by the first partial transmission and by the second partial transmission, in which the dual clutch transmission is in a parking lock state in which two gears of one of the partial transmissions are engaged simultaneously. The following steps are carried out to exit the parking lock state: Introducing a torque caused by a drive element of the motor vehicle via the transmission output shaft common to the one partial transmissions into the one and/or other partial transmission while the gears of the partial transmission are engaged; and disengaging at least one of the gears of the one partial transmission engaged simultaneously in step a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Enrico Szeppat, Lutz Gundlach
  • Patent number: 12013534
    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 means of a movement of the enlarged virtual surroundings along a movement trajectory, and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Moll, Tahar Bouaziz
  • Patent number: 12012057
    Abstract: A power network for a motor vehicle includes a first partial power network connected to a supply potential, a second partial power network, and a coupling element which couples the second partial power network to the supply potential via the first partial power network. The coupling element has a reversible disconnect function, such that the coupling element reversibly decouples the first partial power network from the second partial power network based on a physical value of the first partial power network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Schneider, Joerg Spiesshofer, Tihomir Tomanic
  • Patent number: 12012105
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has a drive unit which is designed in such a way that, in case of acceleration, the motor vehicle is accelerated using a continuous torque output. The drive unit is operable in a first and second operating mode. In the first operating mode the motor vehicle is accelerated without interruption by the continuous torque output, and in the second operating mode the continuous torque output is changed over to a stepped torque output, so that in the second operating mode the motor vehicle is accelerated subject to interruption by the stepped torque output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas Zecherle, Harald Hagen
  • Patent number: 12016162
    Abstract: An electric power converter device includes a first power semiconductor module and a frame for a closed cooler. The first power semiconductor module includes a first base plate having a first main side, a second main side opposite the first main side and a lateral side surface extending along a circumferential edge of the first base plate and connecting the first and the second main side. The frame is attached to the second main side of the first base plate. The first base plate has a first step on the second main side along the circumferential edge of the first base plate to form a first recess along the circumferential edge of the first base plate, in which first recess a first portion of the frame is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Thomas Gradinger, Jürgen Schuderer, Felix Traub, Chunlei Lui, Fabian Mohn, Daniele Torresin
  • Publication number: 20240190258
    Abstract: The described examples may relate to a method of operating an on-board power supply of an electrically drivable motor vehicle, in which at least one electrical machine is supplied with electrical energy from a vehicle battery connected to the on-board power supply via an inverter connected to the on-board power supply in an intended drive operation, and the inverter may include a radio interference suppression filter to reduce grid-bound interferences. In an example, at least the inverter may be electrically disconnected from the on-board power supply in a charging operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicants: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Georg Dobmeier, Tobias Grassl, Kai Marschall, Cornelius Rettner, Bjarne Wirsen
  • Patent number: D1031582
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Valencia Pollex
  • Patent number: D1031585
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Valencia Pollex
  • Patent number: D1031599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Valencia Pollex
  • Patent number: D1031600
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Valencia Pollex
  • Patent number: D1031601
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Albert Rosello Visa
  • Patent number: D1031602
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Valencia Pollex
  • Patent number: D1031603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Valencia Pollex
  • Patent number: D1031604
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Valencia Pollex