Patents Assigned to Automotive Technologies
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Publication number: 20250256652Abstract: The disclosure relates to a vehicle interior monitoring device, a vehicle interior monitoring system, and a display having a vehicle interior monitoring device. The vehicle interior monitoring device has a body transparent to a visible wavelength range, which has a plurality of surfaces and a plurality of edges. Surfaces of the body arranged adjacent are each at angles to one another. Furthermore, the vehicle interior monitoring device has a camera which operates in the visible wavelength range. The camera has an objective and an image sensor, wherein the objective is designed to project images on the image sensor. The body transparent to the visible wavelength range is arranged on the objective and body and objective are designed and arranged in relation to one another such that light incident on the objective passes a plurality of the surfaces of the transparent body placed at angles to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2025Publication date: August 14, 2025Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Daniel Naujack, Martin Gottwald
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Publication number: 20250261082Abstract: A wireless relay communication apparatus is operated and is adapted to exclusively communicate over a second wireless communication channel, which is incompatible in at least one property, aspect, or parameter, with a first wireless communication channel. A message indicating a capacity to act as a relay in the second communication channel is transmitted over the second wireless communication channel. A transmission, received over the second communication channel from a source communication apparatus, includes information enabling the relay communication apparatus to determine that the transmission is to be relayed to a destination communication apparatus. Accordingly, the relay communication apparatus relays the transmission to the destination communication apparatus over the second communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: August 14, 2025Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: David Gonzalez Gonzalez, Andreas Andrae, Rikin Shah, Osvaldo Gonsa, Hueseyin Daglioglu
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Publication number: 20250261297Abstract: An electronic device comprises a circuit arrangement having a circuit board with a heat-generating semiconductor component, and a thermally conductive plate as a heat sink configured to be in thermally conductive contact with a cooling element. A recess provided in the thermally conductive plate in the region of a connecting surface, for connecting to the cooling element, is configured to receive a part of a flexible hose. A housing with at least two receiving rails for receiving the circuit arrangement, is formed with a cooling element arranged between the two receiving rails such that contact is made between the connecting surface of the thermally conductive plate and the cooling element when the circuit arrangement is fully inserted into the housing between the receiving rails, wherein the cooling element has, in the region of a connecting surface, a recess in which at least a part of the flexible hose is arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2022Publication date: August 14, 2025Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventor: Andreas Plach
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Publication number: 20250261243Abstract: An RA (Random Access) procedure is performed by a UE (User Equipment) in cell of a gNB (next-generation Node B) of a mobile network. The UE activates, based on first data, a primary PCell. The UE receives second data from the gNB about one or more secondary PCells for (i) configuring the one or more secondary PCells and for (ii) performing an RA procedure in the one or more secondary PCells. The UE further receives third data from the gNB, indicating which of the one or more secondary PCells is to be activated. After the UE determines that the primary PCell is switched off, it activated the indicated secondary PCell, based on the second and third data. The UE performs an RA procedure in the activated secondary PCell based on the second data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: August 14, 2025Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Rikin Shah, David Gonzalez Gonzalez, Hojin Kim, Reuben George Stephen
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Publication number: 20250251721Abstract: A system for the control of at least one hydraulic valve by a user, including a sensor unit located on the body of the user; an evaluation unit, which is communicatively connected to the sensor unit; and a control unit, which is communicatively connected to the evaluation unit. At least one hydraulic valve is communicatively connected to the control unit and is controlled thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventor: Martin Griesbeck
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Patent number: 12377831Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle brake system, wherein the brake system has at least one friction brake and at least one regenerative brake. A defined switching pattern is specified for switching between a self-cleaning operating mode for cleaning the friction brake and a normal operating mode of the brake system. The method includes determining information describing the state of the at least one friction brake, determining the state of the at least one friction brake from the information, determining whether the state satisfies a specific switching criterion, and, if the self-cleaning operating mode is to be activated according to the switching pattern and the state of the friction brake does not satisfy the switching criterion, suppressing activation of the self-cleaning operating mode and maintaining the normal operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Christian Gunselmann, Alexander Rodatos, Nils Horstmann, Farid Abedini Bayghra, Roman Katchan, Lukas Jung, Scott R Smith
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Patent number: 12377698Abstract: A method for adapting a system air volume in an air suspension system of a motor vehicle, wherein a setpoint system air volume is determined on the basis of a vehicle body weight of the motor vehicle, wherein the setpoint system air volume is set as discretely or variably increasing in relation to the vehicle body weight.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Stefan Mölle, Andreas Kind
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Publication number: 20250247821Abstract: A first communication apparatus of a radio access network transmits paging messages to one or more second communication apparatus in accordance with a paging scheme. The one or more second communication apparatus configure their receivers to be enabled accordingly, while remaining in an operating mode in which they are not fully connected to the first communication apparatus. Small data transmissions may be transmitted from the first to the one or more second communication apparatus after appropriately configuring the receivers of the one or more second communication apparatus to be enabled, while remaining in the operating mode in which they are not fully connected to the first communication apparatus. The required configuration information, in particular times for aperiodic transmissions and/or radio resources used for transmitting and/or the indication for the end of the aperiodic transmission, is transmitted by the first communication apparatus in a paging message.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2023Publication date: July 31, 2025Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Reuben George Stephen, Rikin Shah, David Gonzalez Gonzalez, Andreas Andrae
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Publication number: 20250248291Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display element comprising a substrate, a self-luminous display panel, which is arranged on the substrate and has metallically reflective elements on its lower side facing toward the substrate, a surface screen, to which the upper side of the display panel facing away from the substrate is connected, and a reflected light suppression layer, wherein the reflected light suppression layer has a polarization-independent transmission between 10% and 30%.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2025Publication date: July 31, 2025Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Kai Hohmann, Andreas Brüninghaus, Jürgen Bäthis
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Publication number: 20250239092Abstract: Disclosed is an in-vehicle information processing system and method thereof. The in-vehicle information processing system includes at least one sensing device operable to obtain sensing data in relation to an observation scene. The system may further include a processor including a memory having a set of instruction stored thereon, the set of instructions stored thereon retrievable by the processor. The processor may further include a semantic model operable to generate an aggregated value in relation to at least one subject observed in the observation scene. In response to the aggregated value generated by a semantic model, the processor may be further operable to analyse a motion of the at least one subject observed in the observation scene. A computer product and a computer-readable medium for executing the computer product are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2025Publication date: July 24, 2025Applicant: Continental automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Roozbeh Sanaei, VunPin Wong, Mithun Das
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Publication number: 20250238938Abstract: A computer-implemented method for tracking movements of an industrial machine includes, for each image of a sequence of two-dimensional images that captures the industrial machine: generating a first bounding box and a second bounding box, generating a three-dimensional model based on the first bounding box and the second bounding box, projecting the three-dimensional model on the image resulting in a two-dimensional projection, and optimizing pose of the three-dimensional model based on the two-dimensional projection. The first and second bounding boxes identifies a first and second component of the industrial machine, respectively. The three-dimensional model includes a first geometric shape and a second geometric shape representing the first component and the second component, respectively. The method further includes tracking movements of the industrial machine over time based on the optimized poses of the three-dimensional model for each image of the sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2025Publication date: July 24, 2025Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Mo Shan, Michael Colin Hoy
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Patent number: 12365324Abstract: A brake system for a motor vehicle comprises a hydraulic line system with at least one normally closed hydraulic valve, wherein a final stage is provided for electrically actuating the at least one hydraulic valve. To minimize noise emissions, the final stage is a final stage with analog control and a computing unit is provided which is configured to determine a valve current based on a pressure difference across the hydraulic valve and to actuate the final stage to make the valve current available at the hydraulic valve.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Anne Seidel, Holger Kollmann, Christian Courth
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Publication number: 20250233787Abstract: A communication frame for an OTFS transmission system includes at least one first-type and at least one second-type block. At least the first-type block includes data signals two-dimensionally arranged along the delay domain and the Doppler domain of which at least one has a superimposed pilot signal. The second-type block includes data signals two-dimensionally arranged along the delay domain and the Doppler domain which may or may not have superimposed pilot signals. At least one second-type block is preceded and followed, in the delay-domain, by first-type blocks, the first-type blocks preceding and following a second-type block having at least one identical data symbol and associated superimposed identical pilot symbol at an identical location in the two-dimensional arrangement. An OTFS transmitter generates and transmits the communication frame, and a receiver uses its properties for compensating oscillator frequency offset and channel estimation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2025Publication date: July 17, 2025Applicants: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Yujie LIU, Yong Liang GUAN, David GONZÁLEZ GONZÁLEZ
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Publication number: 20250227015Abstract: A communication frame for an OTFS transmission system includes first-type and second-type blocks. The first-type block includes pilot signals, guard signals, and data signals, the second-type block exclusively includes data signals. The pilot symbols, guard signals, and data symbols of the first-type block, and the data symbols of the second-type block, are arranged along the points of a grid in the delay-Doppler domain. In the communication frame, a first-type block is followed by a second-type block, and a second-type block is followed by a first-type block. In the first-type block at least one pilot symbol is surrounded on at least three sides by one or more guard symbols. Points of the grid of the first-type blocks in the delay-Doppler domain that are not occupied by pilot symbols or guard symbols are used for data symbols. The communication frame permits determining oscillator frequency offset and channel coefficients in a receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2025Publication date: July 10, 2025Applicants: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Yujie LIU, Yong Liang GUAN, David GONZÁLEZ GONZÁLEZ
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Patent number: 12351128Abstract: A method for activating a function of a motor vehicle by an activation device including a plurality of transceivers capable of transmitting to the world outside the vehicle, from portable access equipment carried by a user. Activation of the function being triggered by detection of the presence of the user in a predetermined area around the vehicle during a polling phase, and depending on a result of authentication of the portable access device by the vehicle during an identification phase, the vehicle being equipped with a driver assistance system including a device for detecting and identifying obstacles in an environment nearby the vehicle. The method including: detection by the driver assistance system of at least one stationary obstacle in the predetermined area, and identification of the obstacle; and polling and identifying, modification of the transmission parameters of the transceivers transmitting in the direction of the obstacle thus detected and identified.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Christophe Grisey, Xavier Bressan
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Patent number: 12351111Abstract: A pivotable display system having a traction spring tensioned to reversibly pivot the display around a pivot axis of a shaft connected to an upper portion of a display in a direction from a front side of the display toward the rear side of the display. In the event of an accident-related application of force below a threshold, the display is rotatable in a rearward direction toward an instrument panel, so that a steering column pushed in a direction towards the display avoids or at least reduces the risk of destruction of the display. In the event of accident-related application of force above the threshold, the traction spring may reversibly displace the display upwardly away from the steering column.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2023Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Laurentiu Pop, Werner Zanzinger, Tobias Huth, Jörg Thomas, Sergiu Rinja, Caius Ungureanu, Marius Pascalau
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Patent number: 12351143Abstract: A method for operating a brake system, which comprises hydraulically actuatable wheel brakes with brake linings; a brake fluid reservoir; a master brake cylinder; a pressure supply device with a pressure piston that can be moved into a pressure chamber; an integrated parking brake, wherein, in a normal operating mode, brake pressure is actively built up in the wheel brakes by means of the pressure supply device, and wherein, in a parking operating mode, the integrated applies the brake linings of at least two wheel brakes, and wherein, when the integrated parking brake is released, the application of the linings is withdrawn again, wherein after the integrated parking brake has been released, the brake fluid volume displaced by the integrated parking brake is taken into consideration for the subsequent operation in the normal operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Aleksandar Stanojkovski, Serge Biegler, Michael Wintzer
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Publication number: 20250214383Abstract: A device, a system and a method for two-way communication between an electronic module from among a plurality of electronic modules and a remote control device. The method includes: transmitting, by the remote control device, which includes at least two switchable directional antennas having different transmission directions, a command through its at least two switchable directional antennas intended for the plurality of electronic modules; and identifying an electronic module from among the plurality of electronic modules that is identified as being opposite the remote control device, with the communication only being established between the remote control device and the electronic module from among the plurality of electronic modules that is identified as being opposite the remote control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2024Publication date: July 3, 2025Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Jean-Philippe BOISSET, Arnaud PROCHASKA
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Patent number: 12345350Abstract: A solenoid valve has a valve plunger which is guided in a passage bore of a valve housing. The valve plunger with its valve closing element is held in a basic position by a restoring spring. The basic position opens up a valve passage in a valve seat. The valve plunger is arranged between an inlet and an outlet channel in the valve housing. A magnet armature provides actuation of the valve plunger. An inlet chamber is connected to the inlet channel between the passage bore and the valve seat. The valve plunger protrudes into the inlet chamber by way of a step section. As a result of being hydraulically impinged on by the pressure medium of the inlet channel an axial force is generated on the valve plunger that acts oppositely to the closing direction of the valve plunger.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Marc Lenz, Daniel Cvetanovic, Christian Courth, Heiko Gensert, Holger Kollmann
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Patent number: 12344516Abstract: A driverless automatically guided transport vehicle for conveying payloads for example a material transport vehicle in a factory. The transport vehicle comprises a payload lifting apparatus which is configured to lift the load such that said load can be transported in the lifted state and an eccentric drive to perform a lifting operation of the lifting apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Sven Mainz, Sascha Gerber