Patents Assigned to Audi
  • Patent number: 11932163
    Abstract: A pixel lamp of a motor vehicle emanates light based on a control signal that represents an image sequence. A respective individual image from the image sequence corresponds to a respective light distribution currently needing to be provided by the pixel lamp. The route is captured by use of a vehicle camera, and the camera data are evaluated and the control signal is provided based on an ascertained advisory route accoutrement. The image sequence is provided at an image sequence frequency of greater than 24 Hz and includes at least one reference image for uniformly lighting the route, the vehicle camera is synchronized to the reference image, the advisory route accoutrement and information data associated with the advisory route accoutrement are ascertained from the provided camera data, the associated information data are compared with data of a database, and the control signal is ascertained based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Johannes Neukam
  • Patent number: 11932108
    Abstract: A display panel with a first panel side and a second panel side is included in a display device. The display panel displays at least one graphic display object. The display panel includes a first layer which is a pixel matrix and a second layer which includes a plurality of predetermined primary subareas. The display device includes control circuitry to enable the displaying of the graphic display object based on a predefined display alignment in one of a first orientation and a second orientation. The control circuitry adjusts a respective light transmission to a predetermined individual degree for each of the predetermined primary subareas independent of each other based on a physical environment condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Helot, Ulrich Mueller, Immo Redeker, Joris Mertens, Michael Herter, André Georgi
  • Patent number: 11932275
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating an autonomously moving road user, in particular a motor vehicle. A signal relating to an external event is received, and an authorization of the road user is compared with an authorization prescribed due to the external event. Navigation parameters are restricted as a function of the comparison. The present disclosure further relates to an autonomously moving road user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Markus Lang
  • Patent number: 11932236
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle with regard to a parking operation to be carried out in a parking space, wherein the motor vehicle comprises a vehicle system designed to detect and select the parking space to be used from a plurality of candidate parking options, wherein at least one candidate parking option is associated with a transmitting device, from which the motor vehicle receives permissibility information describing the permissibility of parking the motor vehicle on the candidate parking option and/or of driving through at least a portion of a path leading to the candidate parking option, wherein the selection of the parking space to be used occurs dependent on the permissibility information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Werner Wilding, Malte Möller
  • Publication number: 20240083250
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for triggering at least one airbag, in particular a passenger airbag, positioned behind or next to a display apparatus, an impact being detected and at least one airbag being triggered via a control unit, a triggering unit being triggered in addition to the at least one airbag in order to destroy the display apparatus. Furthermore, an apparatus is disclosed, in particular for use in a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Bernd JAKOBS
  • Publication number: 20240084886
    Abstract: The examples relate to a drive device for an electrified vehicle axle of a vehicle, with an electric machine which outputs via a transmission to drive shafts which lead to vehicle wheels of the vehicle axle, and with a coolant and/or lubricant module which supplies the electric machine and/or the transmission with coolant and/or lubricant. The electric machine, the transmission and the module being joined together to form an structural unit, in which the electric machine and the coolant/lubricant module may be flange-connected to the transmission in a manner to be spaced apart axially from one another, and, on its side which lies axially opposite the transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Harald GLOEDE
  • Publication number: 20240083350
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor vehicle having a control device and at least one lighting device, which comprises several light-emitting diodes arranged to be distributed within at least one surface, wherein at least one signal light can be generated by means of the lighting device. The control device is designed to individually control the light-emitting diodes and/or several groups of the light-emitting diodes such that a contour of the signal light is dependent upon at least one item of operational information. The at least one item of operational information is at least one item of driver assistance information which describes a current operating situation and/or a current vehicle environment situation of the motor vehicle and which can be generated by means of a driver assistance system of the motor vehicle, and/or at least one item of user action information which can be generated by means of at least one operating device of the motor vehicle by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Reiner LENDLE, Stefan REICH
  • Patent number: 11927876
    Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a flexible carrier medium formed as a light guide and on which an input coupling region and an output region are disposed. Light, which is incident on the input coupling region from the surroundings, can be input into the carrier medium via the input coupling region. Internal reflection allows the light to be transmitted through the carrier medium from the input coupling region to the output coupling region. At the output coupling region, the transmitted light can be output from the carrier medium and be captured by an image capture device, which is disposed adjacent to the output coupling region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Markus Klug
  • Patent number: 11919471
    Abstract: An airbag module (10) for a restraint device (14) includes an airbag (24), in particular a seat-integrated side airbag, and a slidable actuator (40), wherein the airbag (24) has at least a first chamber (26) and at least a second chamber (28) which are fluidically connected to each other via a fluid communication, wherein the actuator (40) has a blocking position in which the fluid communication is blocked and a release position in which the fluid communication is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marco Wahl, Gerd Zischka
  • Patent number: 11921538
    Abstract: A method includes operating at least two inverters connected to a direct current network. Each inverter includes a control unit connected to a common communication bus and in each case at least one switching element, which is controlled by the control unit of the inverter with a clock signal. The common communication bus is connected to at least one further control unit, which in each case sends a message of a message type via the communication bus at different points of times. The reception of one of the messages of the message type in the control units of the inverters triggers a synchronization of their clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Maximilian Schiedermeier
  • Patent number: 11922812
    Abstract: A method for filling up a parking structure with vehicles, which comprises at least one parking level, wherein vehicles can be parked on the at least one parking level, which are allowed to have a combined weight with a maximum value, which is specified for the at least one parking level, includes: when entrance to the parking structure is requested for a new vehicle at a time when it is still located outside of the parking structure the combined weight is determined as the sum of the weight of this new vehicle and the respective weights of other vehicles for which entrance is granted to the at least one parking level at that time, and in the event that the combined weight of the vehicles for a parking level of the at least one parking level is at most as large as the maximal value specified for this, entrance to this one parking level is granted for the new vehicle, and in the event that the combined weight of the vehicles for each parking level of the at least one parking level is greater than the maximum v
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Horvath, Franz Lankes
  • Patent number: 11921932
    Abstract: A control device of a display and operating device specifies a graphical configuration of a display element to be displayed by the display device. Based on the specified graphical configuration, at least one light wave parameter for a respective light wave of a group of light waves is ascertained. A totality of the light wave parameters describes an interference pattern which describes an at least partial superposition of the light waves for generating an image representation of the display element. An interference pattern signal which describes the totality of the ascertained light wave parameters is generated and the generated interference pattern signal is transferred to an interference output device of the display and operating device. Based on the transferred interference pattern signal, the interference output device generates a light wave interference, and an output of a real image of the display element is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Jacques Helot
  • Patent number: 11919586
    Abstract: The application relates to a method for operating an actuator for a motor vehicle, the actuator having an actuating drive and a signal input. The actuating drive is operated as a function of a setpoint value received via the signal input and a threshold value stored in the actuator for setting an actual value of the actuator to the setpoint value, wherein the threshold value is set equal to the setpoint value when the actuator leaves an operating range of the actuator defined by the threshold value of the setpoint value. The application further relates to an actuator for a motor vehicle and a method for operating an arrangement of an actuator and a control unit for a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Adrian Mihailescu, Moritz Baber
  • Patent number: 11922794
    Abstract: When a parked vehicle sustains accidental damage, the system automatically communicates with the vehicle owner and optionally the perpetrator of the damage via, e.g., WLAN communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Harald Hagen, Willi Wendt
  • Patent number: 11922585
    Abstract: A control device in a motor vehicle receives a signal from a sensor device which includes at least one image of the current interior situation. The control device generates a superimposition signal containing the at least one image of the current interior situation and transmits the superimposition signal to a display element of a display apparatus. The display apparatus superimposes the at least one image of the current interior situation onto predefined output content output to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Marcus Kuehne
  • Publication number: 20240068523
    Abstract: A shaft-hub connection includes a shaft and a hub which engage with one another for conjoint rotation about an axis of rotation via a first toothing and a second toothing. The first toothing has a first toothing region and a second toothing region, wherein the first toothing region and the second toothing region are, as viewed in the circumferential direction (u), arranged offset by a dimension (d) in such a way that the first toothing region engages with the second toothing via front tooth flanks as viewed in the circumferential direction (u), and the second toothing region engages with the second toothing via rear tooth flanks as viewed in the circumferential direction (u).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: AUDI AG, Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Michael FRISCH, Johannes ALBL, Wolfgang HEISE
  • Publication number: 20240067149
    Abstract: An assembly for an electrohydraulic brake system of a vehicle, including at least one brake control module which has an electronically actuated pressure supply device which, in the installed state of the assembly, is fluidically coupled to at least one wheel brake of the vehicle. The brake control module is connected to a holding device for arrangement on a vehicle body. The brake control module includes a mechanical stop device which, when the assembly is installed, is spaced apart at a distance from an adjacent vehicle component and, by interaction with the vehicle component, emits a warning signal in the event of a loss of support of the brake control module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Christopher WOLFRAM
  • Publication number: 20240067113
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a body component and a wing element pivotably coupled to the body component such that the wing element pivots relative to the body component about a pivot axis between a neutral starting position and a first pivot position. A control device of the motor vehicle detects an impending collision of the motor vehicle with a collision object located in the surroundings of the motor vehicle. Upon detecting the impending collision, the control device automatically pivots the wing element toward the body component from the neutral starting position to the first pivot position. The control device of the motor vehicle evaluates a severity of the collision and, depending upon the severity, automatically pivots the wing element away from the body component from the first pivot position to the neutral starting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Johann BERGER
  • Patent number: 11916443
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, comprising a rotor shaft and a laminated core arranged on it, comprising multiple metal plates arranged in axial succession and lying against each other, as well as at least one coolant duct running through the laminated core, wherein the laminated core is axially clamped by at least one clamping means, wherein the clamping means shoved onto the rotor shaft comprises at least one axially braced spring element and at least one tolerance compensation disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Moritz Lux, Peter Suess, Lars Wetterau
  • Patent number: 11911818
    Abstract: A method for producing an automobile rim from aluminum or an aluminum alloy for a wheel of a motor vehicle. The automobile rim has a rim well delimited on opposite sides by an outer flange and an inner flange, a hub having a center recess and a bolt hole circle, and a rim center connecting the rim well and the hub to one another. The automobile rim is produced integrally and continuously in a casting mold by die casting of a casting material. After the introduction of the casting material into the casting mold, a volume of the casting mold is reduced for post-compaction of the casting material. The invention furthermore relates to a device for producing an automobile rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jaan Mattes Reiling, Jan Gaugler, Marc Hummel