Abstract: A method for operating a braking system for a motor vehicle, which has a service brake device with at least one wheel brake and a brake pressure applied to the wheel brake for generating a braking force acting on a brake disc of the wheel brake is adjusted at least temporarily depending on a setting of an operating element. A condition of a coating of a brake disc of the wheel brake is determined based on the brake pressure applied to the wheel brake and a deceleration of the motor vehicle resulting therefrom.

Abstract: A fastening element and a decoupling assembly, the fastening element for add-on parts connected to a body structure of a motor vehicle, a method for producing the de-coupling assembly and assembling it.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a water drain arrangement for a body of a vehicle. The water drain arrangement includes a drain channel, a tubular feed-through device extending through a first opening of a first wall panel of the body and a second opening of a second wall panel of the body. The water drain arrangement includes a body shell-fixed sleeve extending through the first shell opening of the first wall panel and is coupled to the first wall panel in a fluid-tight manner. A first end of the feed-through device is inserted through a first end of the body shell-fixed sleeve and includes a drain extending through a second end of the feed-through device. A free end of the drain channel is held in a fluid-tight manner in a seat of the feed-through device, which is disposed at a second end of the feed-through device.

Abstract: An airbag of a vehicle occupant restraint system has an actively releasable tether element (14) disposed in an interior (16) of the airbag (10) which is connected, at an airbag-side fixation (18), permanently to the airbag (10) in the region of a contact zone (20) for the occupant, and which comprises a detachable fixing point (22) for the release. The airbag (10) can take up a smaller first filled volume (V1) in which the tether element (14) and the detachable fixing point (22) are not released, and a larger second filled volume (V2) in which the tether element (14) is released at the actively detachable fixing point (22).

Abstract: A wheel suspension for a wheel of an axle of a motor vehicle, including a pivot bearing supporting the wheel, which is articulated in an upper link level via at least one link on the motor vehicle body. The pivot bearing includes a pivot bearing arm on which the link is mounted by a ball joint having a ball pin, the ball pin is aligned extending in the vertical direction of the vehicle and the ball of the ball pin is received in a receptacle on the link side and the shaft of the ball pin is received in a receptacle on the pivot bearing arm side. The receptacle on the pivot bearing arm side is formed as a longitudinally slotted clamping hole.

Abstract: A drive device for an electrified vehicle axle of a vehicle, having an electric machine, which outputs via a transmission onto driveshafts, which are led to vehicle wheels of the vehicle axle, and having an oil module, which supplies the electric machine and/or the transmission with oil. The electric machine, the transmission, and the oil module are combined to form a structural unit, in which the oil module is flanged at a joining plane onto the transmission. The oil module supplies the electric machine and/or the transmission with oil via at least one supply line, and the oil can be returned from the electric machine and/or from the transmission to the oil module via at least one return line.

Abstract: A degassing channel arrangement for a battery of a motor vehicle for discharging gases from a battery cell of the battery, has and having at least one degassing channel. The degassing channel arrangement includes a carrier for a battery housing of the battery, which carrier is designed as a hollow profile and extends in a first direction. A channel wall of the degassing channel represents a first part of a carrier wall of the carrier, which surrounds a first carrier interior of the carrier, and a channel interior of the degassing channel represents at least a part of a first carrier interior, in which at least one first sealing unit is arranged, which separates in a sealing manner a first subarea of the first carrier interior from a second subarea of the first carrier interior comprising the channel interior of the degassing channel.

Abstract: An operating element arrangement for a motor vehicle, with an operating element and an attachment device for connecting the operating element to a body of the motor vehicle. The operating element is mounted on the attachment device so as to be displaceable along an actuation path. An adjustment device for adjusting the actuation path has a first adjustment element, a second adjustment element frictionally coupled to the first adjustment element, an adjustment element end stop for limiting the actuation path and a threaded device. The first adjustment element is mounted so as to be rotatable over a first range of rotation angles and the second adjustment element over a second range of rotation angles about a common axis of rotation.

Abstract: A high-voltage system of a fuel cell vehicle and a method for operating said system are described herein.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle having a transmission and a braking device during a journey, during which the vehicle, the transmission of which comprises at least one form-fitting shifting element, moves along a roadway, wherein during the journey of the motor vehicle, its shifting element is movable into formfitting interaction with at least one further component, an anti-lock braking operation is carried out by the braking device, in which at least one braking torque to be applied by the braking device to at least one wheel of the vehicle for braking the wheel is limited at least temporarily to a specifiable value by a regulating device of the vehicle in order to thereby at least temporarily prevent the wheel from locking relative to the roadway.

Abstract: A method for producing a bipolar plate strand comprises: providing a first and a second unipolar plate strand, the unipolar plate strands comprising a plurality of webs and a plurality of channels extending between two adjacent webs in each case, guiding the unipolar plate strands towards a rolling gap of a pair of rollers of a rolling device provided with rolling structures, local heating of one surface area of a surface of at least one of the unipolar plate strands, the surface area immediately before or upon entry of the unipolar plate strands into the rolling gap being heated to a joining temperature, and joining the unipolar plate strands at the at least one surface area to form a bipolar plate strand during transport of the unipolar plate strands through the rolling gap under the action of pressure.

Abstract: A wheel carrier device for a vehicle, with at least one wheel carrier which has at least one bearing point at which at least one wheel bearing is to be mounted for rotatably mounting a wheel hub, wherein the wheel carrier is at least partially surrounded on the outer circumference by at least one thermal insulation element.

Abstract: For the operation of a motor vehicle, according to the present disclosure, situation variables are detected using a number of environment sensors, a current driving situation is derived from the number of situation variables using a controller and a number of control inputs used to control the motor vehicle are detected, and a behavior pattern for a specific driver is determined using the controller on the basis of the control inputs, is assigned to the current driving situation, and is stored in a memory unit of the controller. Should it be concluded on the basis of the situation variables that the view is limited, the lack of certainty of the behavior pattern determined for the current driving situation is compared with that of a behavior pattern for the same driver determined for a driving situation with an unrestricted view, and the use of a system to improve the view is recommended to the driver if a lack of certainty on the part of the driver is identified on the basis of the comparison.

Abstract: A controller for a vehicle (10) and a method of testing a program element of a vehicle function using the controller includes the controller having a computing device which runs a control program for controlling a vehicle function and a test environment with a control test program for testing at least one program element of a vehicle function. The test environment may be defined within a runtime environment delimited by the control program. The control test program may have a program interface which can integrate and run the at least one program element in a runtime of the control test program so that the control test program can test the at least one program element of the vehicle function.

Abstract: A display device and an electronic control unit are included in a vehicle. A graphical user interface of the display device is configured to display a graphic display object. The electronic control unit is configured to receive an orientation signal of a vehicle element. The orientation signal includes information about at least one of a position and an orientation of the vehicle element being in at least one of a first element position and a first element orientation. The electronic control unit is configured to adjust a position of the graphical user interface as a function of, or based on, the orientation signal, such that a position of the graphical user interface relative to the vehicle element is within a predefined tolerance.

Abstract: In an example, a display device may include a flexible display surface element disposed in a housing of the display device; and an adjustable carrier element having a flexible portion and a rigid portion. The flexible portion of the carrier element faces the interior of the housing, the rigid portion is in form of a linear guide and is directed toward external surroundings of the housing, and the flexible portion has at least one guide element. The display device may include a guide apparatus having a supporting surface positioned along the adjustment plane, which guide apparatus may include at least one rail element running along the adjustment axis, which rail element is directed such that the at least one guide element is guided along the adjustment axis in the rail element as the carrier element is adjusted; and an adjustment apparatus configured to control a change between a storing position and a roll-out position of the display surface element by moving the carrier element.

Abstract: A battery assembly with a battery and a cell degassing channel for discharging gases from the battery, which includes at least one battery cell. The cell degassing channel has a chamber which is designed such that a gas emerging from the at least one battery cell can be introduced into it and can be guided through it along at least one gas discharge path to at least one outlet opening of the chamber. The chamber has at least one gas guiding structure arranged in an interior of the chamber and not running in a straight line in a main course direction that corresponds to a first direction, which is designed such that the at least one gas discharge path has multiple changes of direction in its course in the main course direction with respect to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: An inter-cell cooling unit for arrangement a battery module for arrangement in an intermediate space between twin an intermediate space between two battery cells of a cell stack which are arranged adjacent to one another in a stacking direction. The inter-cell cooling unit has two cooling walls including a first cooling wall for arrangement on a first of the two battery cells and a second cooling wall for arrangement on a second of the two battery cells. At least one free space through which a coolant can flow is formed between the first and second cooling walls. At least one first opening is arranged in at least one of the two cooling walls, through which first opening a fluidic connection is provided between the at least one free space and an environment of the inter-cell cooling unit.

Abstract: A drive device for a motor vehicle. A machine housing in which an operating material consumer, and operating material tank, and an operating material pump are arranged. An air space is provided in the machine housing, into which at least one machine shaft of the drive device protrudes and which is separated by a partition wall from the operating material tank formed adjacent to the air space in the machine housing.

Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, having a steering handle, a steering gear actuator mechanically decoupled from the steering handle, a steering sensor which detects a rotational position and/or a rotational movement of the steering handle as a steering command, an electronic control unit which, as a function of the detected steering command, activates the steering gear actuator to set a vehicle wheel steering angle (?), and a hand actuator activatable by the control unit, which generates different types of haptic feedback (R1, R2, R3) for the driver on the steering handle, namely a haptic steering feedback (R1) in which a steering counter torque is applied to the steering handle, a roadway feedback (R2), which correlates with a roadway-side disturbance excitation acting on the vehicle, and a warning feedback (R3), which informs the driver of a fault in the steer-by-wire steering system.