Abstract: Disclosed is a roof antenna for a vehicle, comprising an electronics module and a separate antenna cap for protecting the electronics module or as a design element, said cap being provided with a positioning means for positioning the antenna cap on a roof panel of a vehicle. Also disclosed is an antenna assembly comprising a roof antenna and a roof panel of a vehicle.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 4, 2019
Date of Patent:
December 24, 2024
Assignee:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Christian Albert Morscher, Lars Reichardt
Abstract: A method for producing a pulse inverter comprising a module with electronic components, a contact bar sticking out from a side of the module, a current measuring device arranged on the contact bar, and a control board arranged on the module with a driver circuit, wherein the driver circuit makes contact with the module across control contacting pins of the module and with the current measuring device across measurement contacting pins of the current measuring device, wherein the current measuring device is movably attached to the contact bar, after which the control board is positioned such that the control contacting pins are led through control contact openings of the control board and the current measuring device is displaced such that the measurement contacting pins are led through measurement contact openings of the control board, after which the current measuring device is secured to the contact bar and/or the control board.
Abstract: A power supply device for the electrical power supply of at least one consumer has a primary power grid, in which a fuel cell device is present, having a secondary power grid, in which a battery is present, having an operating voltage range bounded at the top by a maximum voltage and at the bottom by a minimum voltage, and having an operating current strength range for powering the at least one consumer. An open circuit voltage of the fuel cell device corresponds at most to the maximum voltage of the battery, while there is present in the primary power grid an impedance spectroscopy device, which is designed to perform an impedance spectroscopy measurement on the fuel cell device or on individual fuel cells of the fuel cell device. A fuel cell vehicle has such a power supply device and a method for starting a power supply device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 9, 2019
Date of Patent:
December 24, 2024
Assignee:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Martin Breu, Maximilian Schiedermeier, Fabian Schulte
Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has an active wheel suspension, by which each wheel can be subjected individually to vertical forces and/or lifting movements. An actual excitation of the vehicle body of the motor vehicle is determined and the determined actual excitation is compared to a stored reference excitation, and if the determined actual excitation is less than the stored reference excitation, the active wheel suspension is activated to create a vertical rolling movement of the vehicle body.
Abstract: A radiator arrangement for a motor vehicle the motor vehicle is driven by an internal combustion engine or at least partially electrically, with a first heat exchanger that is connected to a coolant circuit of the motor vehicle; and with a second heat exchanger that is connected to a refrigerant circuit of the motor vehicle. With respect to a main direction of an air flow through the radiator arrangement, the first heat exchanger is arranged in front of the second heat exchanger, and a first base area of the first heat exchanger that is exposed to the air flow is smaller than a second base area of the second heat exchanger that is exposed to the air flow. The first base area is dimensioned such that it overlaps the second base area only in an inlet-side region with respect to the refrigerant flow in the second heat exchanger.
Abstract: A wheel bearing arrangement, preferably for a motor vehicle, with a cardan shaft, a wheel hub, a screw with a screw head, and a pretensioning element. The wheel hub is connected to the cardan shaft by the screw. The pretensioning element is arranged and/or braced between the screw head, preferably a head underside of the screw head, and the wheel hub.
Abstract: The invention relates to a cell degassing channel arrangement with a cell degassing channel for discharging gases from a battery which has at least one battery cell, wherein the cell degassing channel has at least one inlet opening, and has an outlet opening, and is designed such that a gas emerging from the at least one battery cell can be introduced through the at least one inlet opening into the cell degassing channel, can be guided through the channel to the outlet opening and can be discharged from the outlet opening. In particular, the cell degassing channel has at least one component for gas cooling that is different from a cooling device for cooling the battery.
Abstract: A method for operating a drive device which has a drive unit that generates exhaust gas and an exhaust gas aftertreatment device for aftertreatment of the exhaust gas. A composition of a fuel-air mixture used for operating the drive unit is determined at least temporarily by a lambda control based on a first measured value of a first lambda sensor arranged upstream of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device and based on a second measured value of a second lambda sensor arranged downstream of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device.
Abstract: A drive device for a motor vehicle. In particular a machine housing in which a lubricant consumer, a lubricant tank and a lubricant pump are arranged. The lubricant pump is fluidically connected on the suction side via a suction channel to the lubricant consumer and on the pressure side via a pressure channel to the lubricant tank and the lubricant tank is fluidically connected to the lubricant consumer via a flow channel. The suction channel, the pressure channel and the flow channel are each formed open with an opening in a base body of the machine housing and the openings are covered fluidically separate from one another by an end cover attached to the base body.
Abstract: A battery for a motor vehicle, which has a battery housing with a receiving region, a housing component which delimits the receiving region with respect to a first direction, and has at least one cell stack with at least one battery cell, which is arranged in the receiving region, so that a first side of the at least one battery cell faces the housing component and a second side of the at least one battery cell, which is different from the first side, has a first cell pole connection. Furthermore, the battery includes a passive cooling element associated with the at least one battery cell, which has a first connection region, which is coupled to the first cell pole connector of the at least one battery cell.
Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for detecting objects along a driving route, storing information associated with the detected objects, and using the stored objects and information to assist the driver of a motor vehicle (and/or for automated driving of the motor vehicle) when the motor vehicle is driven along the same driving area. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a method including capturing, using a first sensor, information associated with a route driven by a motor vehicle. The method can further include determining, using a processor and the captured information, whether an object associated with the route and data associated with the object are stored in a memory. In response to determining that the object is stored in the memory, the method can further include displaying the object in a virtual reality (VR) mode using the stored data associated with the object.
Abstract: A side airbag module (24) for a restraint device has a side airbag (26), in particular a seat-integrated side airbag (26), wherein the side airbag (26) includes at least a first chamber (32) and at least a second chamber (34) provided above the first chamber (32) which are fluidically connected to each other via a fluid communication, and wherein, in a first activated state of the side airbag module (24), a first pressure (p1) prevails in the first chamber (32) and, in a second activated state, a second pressure (p2) prevails in the first chamber (32) and in the second chamber (34), the first pressure (p1) being higher than the second pressure (p2).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 19, 2020
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2024
Assignees:
ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH, AUDI AG
Inventors:
Marco Wahl, Gerd Zischka, Karel Jiricka, Christian Weiss
Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle when stopping the vehicle and/or when holding the vehicle at a standstill, in particular after a failure in a brake system, for example, a brake-by-wire system of the vehicle. The vehicle can have an electric motor. The method has the steps of: carrying out a deceleration, in particular a regenerative deceleration of the vehicle, the deceleration preferably being initiated automatically, and switching the electric motor to an active short-circuit, preferably after a regenerative deceleration of the vehicle in order to prevent the vehicle from rolling.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 15, 2024
Publication date:
December 5, 2024
Applicants:
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Audi Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Arne BARTELS, Frank BAERECKE, Hauke SCHLIMME, Kilian FOERSTER
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
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
Abstract: A radiator arrangement for a vehicle, including a radiator and an air guiding element for guiding an airflow towards the radiator. The air guiding element has an inlet for letting in the airflow and an outlet facing the radiator. The air guiding element includes a plurality of louvers which are configured to prevent stones of a predetermined size to hit the radiator. The louvers are fixed in position relative to a housing of the air guiding element. The housing is configured to guide the airflow towards the outlet. The outlet has a cross-sectional area at least encompassing an area of a front face of the radiator, and the front face of the radiator is exposed to the airflow.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 13, 2022
Publication date:
December 5, 2024
Applicant:
AUDI AG
Inventors:
Matteo GHELFI, Patrick THEN, Tzvetomir TZEKOV, Judith HOERSTMANN, Stefano NEBIOLO, Alessandro LONGHINI, Giovanni AUDELLO, Giuseppe MAGNO
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
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
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.