Abstract: A support device of a front end module of a vehicle is provided for fastening the front end module to a vehicle structure. The support device has a frame component. The frame component is provided for attaching a bumper cover and/or a decorative grille and for attaching at least one sensor. The support device has at least one movement device by which the frame component can move relative to the vehicle structure. A vehicle includes the support device and a vehicle structure, wherein the support device is mounted on the vehicle structure via the at least one movement device so that, in the event of an impact at low speed, the support device moves in the direction of the vehicle structure and, after the impact, moves away from the vehicle structure again into its initial position.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 3, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Timo Hausner, Arne Koehler, Haci Korkusuz Janket, Stefan Wallner
Abstract: A vehicle with a high-voltage store which has a high-voltage-store housing in which a plurality of electrical storage cells are arranged, wherein the vehicle is provided with a fire-extinguishing route which is provided and intended to permit fire-extinguishing agent to be supplied in the event of a fire or in the event of risk of a fire to the high-voltage-store housing and/or into the interior of the high-voltage-store housing, wherein, when in the correct state of the high-voltage store, the fire-extinguishing route is closed or covered by a covering element which is arranged on an outer side of the vehicle.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 25, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Norman Geissler, Daniel Hielscher, Maximilian Rampf
Abstract: A fixing device for detachably fixing a body to a vehicle, such as a tilting vehicle, includes: at least one first fixing device which can be fixed or is fixed to the body; at least one second fixing device which can be fixed or is fixed to a load-bearing vehicle component of the motor vehicle and which is detachably joined to the first fixing device in a coupled arrangement in order to fix the body to the vehicle component; and at least one electrical line which can be guided from the vehicle component to the body and can be fixed to the body in order to supply an electrical load. The fixing device is characterized in that the first fixing device has a first conductor of the electrical line and the second fixing device has a second conductor of the electrical line. The first conductor and the second conductor can be electrically conductively connected or are electrically conductively connected to one another in the coupled arrangement of the fixing devices.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Abstract: A method for controlling the use of a pre-defined vehicle function of a vehicle includes capturing a graphical token; transmitting the token to the vehicle; transmitting the token to a person who should be authorized to use the vehicle function; capturing a graphical token presented at the vehicle; and unlocking the vehicle function if the presented token matches the transmitted token. The graphical token includes a manual graphical input of a person authorized to use the vehicle function.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 4, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Abstract: A group of motor vehicles contains at least vehicles of two different vehicle types of the following vehicle types: a battery drive vehicle with only one electric motor drive, a hybrid drive vehicle with an electric motor drive and an internal combustion engine drive, a fuel cell drive vehicle with a fuel cell drive, and an internal combustion engine drive vehicle with only one internal combustion engine drive. All of the vehicle types of the group of motor vehicles have a base assembly with a left-side sill structure, a right-side sill structure, an upper base, a lower base, and a central tunnel structure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 15, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Richard Eiletz, Robert Harrison, Robert Loch, Alexander-Wilhelm Otte, Christoph Warkotsch, Alexander Weingardt
Abstract: A drivetrain has at least one electric drive machine configured for driving a motor vehicle, a drivable rear motor vehicle axle for transmitting drive forces of the electric drive machine to a roadway surface, and a vehicle transmission which has at least one transmission ratio stage and which is configured for transmitting drive forces in the direction of the drivable rear motor vehicle axle. The transmission ratio stage can, in at least one operating mode of the drivetrain, be engaged by a transmission control unit. The vehicle transmission can, from the transmission ratio stage, be shifted by the transmission control unit into a neutral position in which a transmission output shaft is freely rotatable relative to a transmission input shaft.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 15, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Benjamin Huttenlocher, Georg Johann Meingassner, Aditya Sharma, Reinhard Simkovics
Abstract: Please substitute the new Abstract submitted herewith for the original Abstract: An operating unit of a vehicle includes an operating element. The operating element includes a glass body, a touch sensitive input layer, an electrically nonconductive intermediate layer, and a base. The glass body has an upper side which forms a visible and touchable surface of the operating element, and a lower side opposite the upper side. The touch-sensitive input layer is on the lower side of the glass body and is configured to detect a touch on the upper side of the glass body. The electrically nonconductive intermediate layer is located between the lower side of the glass body and the input layer. The operating element is mounted on the base.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Matthias Lindner, Maximilian Prex, Daniel Wiedemann
Abstract: A body for an electrically operable motor vehicle, includes a vehicle floor, which has a floor element arranged above an energy storage device and, in the region of the end of the floor element, at least one fastening point of the body for a support element is provided. In the event of an accident-induced load introduction of a corresponding force in the region of the fastening point, in order to prevent accompanying damage to the energy storage device, the floor element has a deformation region that can be intentionally deformed away from the energy storage device when the accident-induced force is introduced at the fastening point of the body for the support element.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 16, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Markus Amsz, Jan Danneberg, Martin Gamboni, Juergen Leschhorn, Andreas Wolf
Abstract: A liquid-cooled rotor for an electromechanical energy converter has a rotor shaft designed, at least in portions, as a hollow shaft and having a first, open axial end, a liquid-guiding device extending through the first end into the rotor shaft, wherein an annular liquid space is between the liquid-guiding device and the rotor shaft in the radial direction, and the liquid-guiding device has an interior space for guiding liquid and a liquid inlet opening into the interior space and arranged at a first axial end of the liquid-guiding device, the liquid-guiding device, at a second axial end, is received in the rotor shaft and guiding relative to the rotor shaft, and has a liquid outlet opening fluidically connecting the interior space to the annular liquid space, and the liquid outlet opening is between the first and second ends of the liquid-guiding device in the axial direction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 24, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Benjamin Krank, Florian Puschmann, Simon Strasinsky, Bernhard Wolf
Abstract: A decorative cover element for a headlight of a vehicle includes a translucent element, a partially transparent element, and a light-guiding element. The translucent element, in the installed state, forms an outer skin of the vehicle and a safeguard for the headlight. The partially transparent element has translucent sections and opaque sections. The light-guiding element is designed to decouple coupled-in light at least in sections in the direction of the translucent element. The partially transparent element is arranged between the translucent element and the light-guiding element. In the installed state, the translucent sections and the opaque sections of the partially transparent element are at least partially arranged adjacent to the headlight.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 13, 2022
Date of Patent:
January 14, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Abstract: A chassis subframe of a two-track vehicle, includes: at least two tubular longitudinal members, which are oriented at least approximately in a vehicle longitudinal direction, wherein the at least two longitudinal members each comprise an upper shell and a lower shell, wherein the upper shell and the lower shell are produced in a sheet-metal deformation process and are joined by way of a joining process to form a respective one of the tubular longitudinal members, at least one transverse member, which is oriented at least approximately in a vehicle transverse direction and which connects the two longitudinal members to one another, at least one attachment lug, wherein at least one wheel-controlling link for connecting a respective wheel of the vehicle to the chassis subframe is attachable to in each case at least one attachment lug on a respective longitudinal member.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 29, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 14, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Thomas Duerrschmid, Fabian Mueller, Dominik Scheuerer
Abstract: An exhaust system has at least one exhaust tailpipe which is led through a rear apron of the motor vehicle. The drive train of the vehicle has a rear axle. An air duct is provided in a rear region, which air duct supplies exterior air to the at least one exhaust tailpipe at least in sections. The rear axle has at least one rear axle cover at least in sections. An air inlet opening of the air duct is arranged behind the rear axle cover in a travel direction of the motor vehicle. As a result of the design of the motor vehicle, the rear apron is protected from impingement by hot exhaust gases.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 13, 2022
Date of Patent:
January 14, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Wolfram Enke, Jens Jungmann, Sven Klussmann, Stefan Kurz, Thomas Moseler
Abstract: An air-conditioning system for an electrically driveable motor vehicle includes a coolant-conducting HVA circuit to which a traction battery and an evaporator for cooling the traction battery are connected, a coolant-conducting heating circuit for controlling the temperature of an interior compartment of the motor vehicle, to which heating circuit a condenser for releasing thermal power is connected, a coolant-conducting refrigeration circuit, to which the evaporator, the condenser and a compressor are connected, a heat exchanger, which is connected to the HVA circuit and which is controllably connectable to the heating circuit and which is configured for coolant-based transfer of thermal power from the heating circuit into the HVA circuit, and a control device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 3, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 14, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Torsten Frank, Alexander Lichtenberger, Patrick Marinell, Markus Moser, Andreas Siuka
Abstract: A bearing assembly for supporting a unit of a motor vehicle includes at least two first bearings, each of which has a line and an attachment element. Each of the lines is attached to a line attachment point on the unit. The lines are fixed to a structural component of the motor vehicle by means of the attachment elements, and each of the first bearings has a respective bearing rigidity such that forces produced by the rotation of the unit and introduced into the structural component of the vehicle via the first bearings cancel each other out.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 25, 2022
Date of Patent:
January 14, 2025
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Frank Albertz, Peter Genender, Ulrich Theuersbacher