Patents Assigned to Audi
  • Publication number: 20240400007
    Abstract: A jack holder, including a base body and a fastening section projecting therefrom. The fastening section for fastening the jack holder is insertable along its longitudinal direction into a receptacle section of a body-fixed receptacle structure of a motor vehicle. The fastening section has at least one latching element which, with respect to an installation position in which the jack holder is fastened to the receptacle structure, interacts in a locking manner with the receptacle section to secure this fastening. At least one latching element is designed to be elastically resilient and/or is fastened to a main body of the fastening section in such an elastically resilient manner such that when the fastening section is inserted into the receptacle section, it elastically deflects and automatically springs back when the installation position is reached to form the locking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dominik PÜRZER, Tobias BRAUN, Marcus DRECHSEL, Carlo GOLD, Hendrik RISCH, Julian KÜKING, Peter KÜLLER, lgor NAGEL
  • Publication number: 20240405690
    Abstract: A pulse inverter and to a power module for such a pulse inverter. The power module has a hard encapsulation body in which the power module lug is embedded, which can be connected in a lap weld to a lug leading to a DC link capacitor. The power module lug is supported on its side, opposite the lug, on a load-bearing hard encapsulation material of the hard encapsulation body, which material acts as a counterholder in the welding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, AUDI Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jan ZACHARIAE, Holger AMECKE, Viktor MAZNOV, Daniel RUPPERT
  • Patent number: 12160982
    Abstract: A power converter including a semiconductor module having a base plate and a cooling housing. The cooling housing includes a receptacle plate and a cover. The receptacle plate has an opening. The receptacle plate is connected to the base plate of the semiconductor module around the opening. The cover is connected to the receptacle plate along a closure path around the opening, and either the receptacle plate or the cover is formed as a stamped or deep-drawn plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, Hitachi Energy Ltd
    Inventors: Thomas Gradinger, Andreas Apelsmeier, Benjamin Söhnle, Daniele Torresin
  • Patent number: 12151534
    Abstract: A link for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle, and a corresponding wheel suspension for a wheel of a front axle of a motor vehicle. The link includes a link base with a bearing point on the vehicle body side. The bearing point on the vehicle body side is designed in the form of a bearing eye. The bearing eye is designed as a frangible member which breaks when a specified misuse load is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Sebastian Baier
  • Patent number: 12151639
    Abstract: An airbag, in particular a front airbag, includes an outer wall having a front wall and a rear wall (18, 24) and a tether (16) as well as an electrically actuatable activation unit (26) for releasing the tether (16). The tether (16) includes plural tether portions (30, 32) connected to each other via a first tear seam (36). A tension means (40) is coupled to the tether (16) so that it destroys the first tear seam (36) when the activation unit (26) is actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Simon Schmid, Sven Tamme, Benjamin Weimer
  • Publication number: 20240382889
    Abstract: An air purifying device for purifying air, including a housing, on which an air inlet and an air outlet are formed, which are fluidically interconnected via a flow path extending in the housing. An air conveying device for conveying the air along the flow path and an air filter for filtering foreign particles out of the air are disposed in the flow path. The air filter has at least one filter body of a motor vehicle particle filter made of a ceramic material having a lipophilic surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthew HALL, Guido SCHIEDT, Alexander ZELLNER
  • Publication number: 20240387899
    Abstract: A cooling device for an energy storage, which has multiple cooling channels through which a coolant can flow and an adjusting device which includes at least one temperature-dependently adjustable adjusting element, through the adjustment of which a flow characteristic of at least one of the cooling channels can be changed. The cooling device is designed as an inter-cell cooling element for arrangement in an intermediate space between a first and a second storage cell of the energy storage. Through the displacement of the at least one adjusting element the flow characteristic of at least one first of the cooling channels can be changed with respect to a second of the cooling channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Paul FRANK, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20240385281
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar sensor device comprising a transmission path and a reception path, an optical input, which is formed for receiving an optical transfer signal, an optical output, which is formed for providing an optical output signal, an antenna, which is configured to transmit an electrical transmission signal and to receive an electrical reception signal, a digital interface unit, which is configured to switch between the transmission path and the reception path, wherein the radar sensor device is formed as a system on a chip, and the transmission path, the reception path, the optical input, the optical output, the antenna and the digital interface unit are arranged on the system on a chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicants: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Heiko KURZ, Rachid KHLIFI
  • Publication number: 20240375487
    Abstract: A module assembly for a refrigerant circuit of a motor vehicle. The module assembly includes an inner heat exchanger and a heat exchanger through which a coolant can flow. The inner heat exchanger is designed to transfer heat from a high-pressure side of the inner heat exchanger to a low-pressure side of the inner heat exchanger. The heat is introducible into a refrigerant compressible by the compressor by operating a compressor of the refrigerant circuit. The heat exchanger is subjected to refrigerant that can be supplied to the heat exchanger from the high-pressure side of the inner heat exchanger and can be expanded by an expansion device of the module assembly. The module assembly is formed separately from an evaporator of the refrigerant circuit and/or separately from a condenser of the refrigerant circuit. and includes a support device separate from the heat exchanger, on which the heat exchanger is held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: AUDI AG, MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Patrick THEN, Thomas HALTMEIER, Bernhard DANNER, Christian REBINGER, Dominik BEHNERT, Timo FELDKELLER, Tobias ISERMEYER
  • Publication number: 20240380816
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for the runtime-based configuration of device-internal signal transmission in a control device, wherein in an AUTOSAR-compliant runtime environment, upon start-up of the control device, publisher components each provide at least one publisher list of the signals provided by them and subscriber components each provide at least one subscriber list of the signals required by them. For each subscriber component, for the signals required by said component, it is determined which signal path from one of the publisher components to the subscriber component the respective signal must take through the control device for given publisher lists, and from those required signals for which an identical signal path is identified, a signal group is defined by storing a common transmission command in the runtime environment for the signals of the respective signal group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Hatem MILED, Konrad HÄUBLEIN, Robert RASCHE, Usam SERSULTANOV
  • Patent number: 12142416
    Abstract: An electrical machine having a winding support having multiple grooves, which carries at least one winding. The winding is formed by a conductor which has multiple groove sections which each extend within one of the grooves of the winding support and which are conductively connected by connecting sections of the conductor, which are outside the grooves. The conductor has an insulation layer applied to the conductor at least in the groove sections. The insulation layer has layer thicknesses different from one another for at least two of the groove sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Korbinian Weber
  • Patent number: 12138701
    Abstract: A method for creating a surface structure on a gear wheel in a honing process, in which at least one honing tool is moved along the gear wheel in a first direction using a first crossed axes angle, and in which, subsequently, the at least one honing tool is moved along the gear wheel in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, using a second crossed axes angle, and in which the first crossed axes angle and the second crossed axes angle are chosen such that first scoring marks produced when the at least one honing tool is moved in the first direction on a surface of the gear wheel at least partially intersect, at a given angle, respective second scoring marks produced when the at least one honing tool is moved in the second direction on the surface of the gear wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Heilmann, Philipp Buratowski
  • Publication number: 20240367521
    Abstract: In a method for adjusting a display device and a motor vehicle having such a display device, the display device is arranged on a dashboard of the motor vehicle. The display device has at least two rimless screens. Each of the screens is connected to the dashboard by an adjustment element. The respective adjustment element can move the respective screens into a plurality of adjustment positions in all spatial directions. In a combined adjustment position, the screens are arranged as a combined display surface, and the screens are designed to display a uniform display image on the combined display surface. In at least one separated adjustment position, a first screen is assigned to a driver's position and a second screen is assigned to a passenger's position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Daniel LOTTES, Philipp WEISS
  • Publication number: 20240369867
    Abstract: According to a method for activating a privacy device and a motor vehicle having a display device, which may be arranged on a dashboard of the motor vehicle and may include a liquid crystal display screen which may be assigned at least to a front passenger position, the liquid crystal display screen is divided into a plurality of segments. A respective segment includes an electronically switchable privacy device, which is configured in an activated state, to block a display of a display image of the respective segments from the viewing direction of a driver position and to permit the display from the viewing direction of the passenger position, and, in a deactivated state, to permit the display from both viewing directions. The display device is configured to determine the segments on which a moving entertainment content is displayed, and to activate the privacy device for these segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias MOLL, Ulrich MÜLLER, Roland SAGER
  • Publication number: 20240367668
    Abstract: A method for interaction with occupants of a motor vehicle, including the steps of receiving a time specification from a location remote from the motor vehicle, detecting an image using an image detection device arranged on the motor vehicle within the time specification, sending the detected image to a location remote from the motor vehicle, receiving an image from a location remote from the motor vehicle, and displaying the received image on a display device in the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Karsten BELZ, Steffen ROSS
  • Patent number: 12134327
    Abstract: A function extension module for charging stations and a method for its operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Sebastian Kirschner
  • Patent number: 12136895
    Abstract: A method for operating an electrical circuit arrangement comprising an electrical circuit and an electrical machine, wherein when at least one triggering criterion is fulfilled the electrical machine is switched via the electrical circuit to a freewheeling, after which a time duration is determined in dependence on at least one measurement value describing a change in the stator current in the electrical machine, and the electrical machine is operated in the freewheeling for this duration and then it is switched via the electrical circuit to an active short circuiting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Graßl, Mathias Korn
  • Publication number: 20240359557
    Abstract: A display system includes a display apparatus with a screen carrier to which a flexible screen film is fastened, and a housing with a housing interior space for at least partially receiving the display apparatus. The display apparatus can be moved through a housing opening between use positions. The screen carrier includes, in a first carrier portion, a first inherent rigidity so that the first carrier portion is bendable and/or foldable. Guide rails fixed with respect to the housing and of curved shape in the housing interior space define a curved movement path for the screen carrier. The carrier portion has guide elements mounted to be movable along the guide rails. A respective guide element is in form-fitting engagement with its respective guide rail transversely with respect to the movement path, such that, during a movement along the movement path, the display apparatus is retained on the guide rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christian WALL, Johannes HEROLD, Jens SCHIRMER
  • Publication number: 20240365487
    Abstract: The examples may relate to a method for displaying display content on an extendable screen and to a display device for a motor vehicle. The display device may include at least a first and a second screen, configured to present respective display contents. The extendable screen may be arranged in a housing of the display device and configured to able to be shifted by an adjustment device between an extended position, in which the extendable screen is extended out of the housing, and a retracted position, in which the extendable screen is recessed in the housing. The display device may include a control unit configured to activate the adjustment device to shift the extendable screen into the extended position, and to display the display content on the extendable screen, when a user action for moving display content from the second screen onto the first screen is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques HELOT, Christian WALL
  • Patent number: 12128767
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a touch-sensitive input unit of an operating device of a motor vehicle. A touch-sensitive control unit controls whether a protection session for encrypting or signing user inputs for respective applications should be activated by switching to the protection session if a message of a composition circuit confirms that the graphic user interface of the respective application is displayed in the foreground of a display and that the touch-sensitive control unit has received an activation message from the respective application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Lerzer, Markus Klein