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: 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 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.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 22, 2024
Publication date:
January 9, 2025
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Imke DITTMANN, Thorsten KEIM, Thomas MILDE, Martin SCHÜSSLER
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 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 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.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 7, 2025
Assignee:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Jacques Helot, Ulrich Mueller, Sewon Chun, Jieun Song, Soyoung Kim
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: 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 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 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.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 12, 2022
Publication date:
January 2, 2025
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Carsten LORENZ, Paul SCHNEIDER, Martin SCHÜSSLER
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.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 5, 2024
Publication date:
January 2, 2025
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Uwe GERLINGER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
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 spectrometry device includes a carrier medium, or waveguide, for transmitting light by internal reflection, and a transceiver device that has at least one light source and a detection device. A transceiver deflection structure couples at least the light emitted by the light source into the carrier medium. A measurement deflection structure, arranged at a distance from the transceiver deflection structure, decouples the light out of the carrier medium onto a measuring surface of the carrier medium so that the biological tissue can reflect the light back to the carrier medium. The reflected light is transmitted back onto the detection device via the measurement deflection structure, the carrier medium and the transceiver deflection structure. The detection device determines an intensity signal of the reflected light which is used by an analysis device to determine a pulse frequency signal and/or a pulse curve signal as a medical characteristic value.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 30, 2020
Date of Patent:
December 31, 2024
Assignee:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Markus Klug, Tobias Moll, Johannes Scheuchenpflug
Abstract: A method for coordinating charging and/or filling of an energy storage device of a motor vehicle. A navigation device determines user-specific appointment data having location coordinates, a departure location of the motor vehicle, and energy storage data for a state of charge and/or a fill level, and environmental data for a specified time range. The navigation device provides a digital agenda model, which describes the determined data, as well as map data for the respective locations and for at least one energy delivery device, and uses the agenda model to determine at least one travel plan for keeping the at least one appointment. As a function of the determined energy storage data, the respective travel route takes into consideration at least one location of an energy delivery device as an intermediate destination having a charging and/or filling time.
Abstract: An electrical circuit device comprises at least one first power electronics module, at least one second power electronics module, a circuit board and a supporting structure, wherein the power electronics modules each lie by a contact side against an associated contact surface of the supporting structure and have one or more terminal pins connected to the circuit board on and/or next to a connection side situated opposite the contact side, wherein the first power electronics module has a lesser thickness between the contact side and the connection side than the second power electronics module, wherein the contact surface against which the contact side of the first power electronics module bears has a lesser distance from the circuit board than the contact surface against which the contact side of the second power electronics module bears, and/or wherein the terminal pins of the first power electronics module are longer than the terminal pins of the second power electronics module.
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.
Abstract: A punch rivet connection having at least two joining partners, which are connectable to one another in a setting process, in which a semi-tubular punch rivet is drivable in a setting direction with its rivet foot through the setting-side joining partner into the die-side joining partner, while maintaining a residual base thickness in the die-side joining partner and with spreading of the rivet foot, so that the joining partner, viewed in the setting direction, is clamped under compressive stress between a rivet head and a rivet foot cutting edge of the semi-tubular punch rivet. The setting-side joining partner includes a pilot hole through which the semi-tubular punch rivet is drivable into the die-side joining partner, so that in the setting-side joining partner a build-up of shear stress transverse to the setting direction is reduced or eliminated.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for carrying out a driving maneuver for creating a gap in the traffic flow, which is multiple lanes wide, involving a first vehicle and a plurality of second vehicles. The first vehicle, which requests the gap in the traffic flow periodically sends corresponding request signals at least to a plurality of second vehicles. The second vehicles that intend to comply with the request send out corresponding signaling signals. As soon as a sufficient minimum number of second vehicles that intend to comply with the request can be determined, the second vehicles participating in the driving maneuver for creating the gap in the traffic flow are informed. The second vehicles participating in the driving maneuver agree on the beginning of the driving maneuver and mutually coordinate their trajectories. One of the second vehicles is designated as the maneuver leader and transmits at least one characteristic of the gap in the traffic flow to the first vehicle.