Patents Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
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Patent number: 12260849Abstract: A device for controlling vibrations generated by electric machines of a vehicle is provided. The vehicle includes a first electric machine unit for driving a first wheel and a second electric machine unit for driving a second wheel. The device is configured to operate the first electric machine unit depending on a first torque to be applied to the first wheel and to operate the second electric machine unit depending on a second torque to be applied to the second wheel. Furthermore, the device is configured to operate the first electric machine unit and the second electric machine unit in a manner coordinated to one another such that predefined target vibrations can be generated as a result of the superimposition of first vibrations caused by the operation of the first electric machine unit and second vibrations caused by the operation of the second electric machine unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jovan Knezevic, Jean-Baptiste Maurice, Markus Wadepuhl
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Patent number: 12259072Abstract: A retention member for holding a line includes first and second retention elements connected to one another such that the retention member is pivotable between a retaining position, in which the first and second retention elements abut one another, and a fitting position, in which the first and second retention elements are spaced apart. The first and second retention elements each have a line guide, and in the retaining position the line guides together form a through-opening for the line. The first retention element has an insertion element which can be disposed in a receptacle of a fastening arrangement, which receptacle is fixed to the vehicle, and the insertion element comprises a first through-hole. The second retention element has a second through-hole which is aligned with the first through-hole in the retaining position. The receptacle fixed to the vehicle comprises a recess.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Gebhard Mairegger
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Patent number: 12259698Abstract: In a method for analyzing a mechatronic system which has one or more mechatronic components, structure data is provided. The structure data is representative of a predefined structure for a network. The structure has a plurality of layers and a respective layer is representative in each case of a technical domain of the mechatronic system. A model in the form of a multilayer network is generated depending on a multiplicity of input data relating to the mechatronic system and to the predefined structure. The multilayer network comprises a multiplicity of nodes and a plurality of connections in each case between two nodes. Each node of the plurality of nodes is assigned to one of the plurality of layers. The mechatronic system is analyzed depending on the multilayer network.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dominik Brehl, Marc Brummer, Maximilian Thiele
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Patent number: 12257901Abstract: A reflection display system for displaying a display image for a vehicle occupant of a motor vehicle by reflecting the display image on a windshield is provided. The system includes a display unit which is designed to display the display image via a display surface of the display unit, wherein the display unit is arranged on an upper face of a dashboard, in a recess, such that a reflection of the display image via the windshield can be perceived in the eye region of a vehicle occupant, a detection sensor system which is designed to detect a foreign object present on the display surface, and a control unit which is designed to signal a disruption of the display of the display image if the foreign object is detected on the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Tomas Hejda, Sadzida Kratz, Christopher Rölle
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Patent number: 12252138Abstract: A driver assistance system for a motor vehicle is configured to receive or determine maximum assumptions about a course of a roadway; to determine a maximum left lane boundary and a maximum right lane boundary for a roadway in which the motor vehicle is located according to the maximum assumptions; to detect at least one object which is located between the maximum left lane boundary and the maximum right lane boundary; and to take the at least one object into account in the driver assistance.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Moritz Werling
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Patent number: 12253969Abstract: A method includes sending, from the master controller to the slave controller, a follow up message in response to a pull of a predefined pin, wherein the follow up message includes a global time of the master controller when the predefined pin was pulled; sending, from the slave controller to the master controller, a validation message in response to the received follow up message, wherein the validation message includes a global time of the slave controller when the pull of the predefined pin is detected by the slave controller; and validating the time synchronization by checking, at the master controller and/or the slave controller, if a difference between the global time of the master controller when the predefined pin was pulled and the global time of the slave controller when the pull of the predefined pin is detected by the slave controller is smaller than a predefined first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Mohamed-Saad Abdelhameed, Manjeet Singh Bilra, Karl Budweiser, Wolfgang Laengst
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Patent number: 12251753Abstract: A method is provided for producing a die-cast part by means of a die-casting die, wherein air contained in the die-casting die is sucked out. A moisture contained in the air that is sucked out is measured. In the method, the moisture is measured while the air is sucked out. A device for producing a die-cast part, which device has a diecasting die, a suction apparatus for sucking out air present in the die-casting die, at least one sensor for detecting the moisture in the air that is sucked out, and a control apparatus for controlling the device, is designed to perform the method.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Josef Maier, Sascha Mueller, Guenther Kahl, Michael Dechene, Manfred Tremmel
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Patent number: 12252100Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a wiper blade to a wiper arm for a screen wiping system of a motor vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes an adapter that is connectable to the wiper blade; a receiving element that is connectable to the wiper arm and has an adapter opening for receiving the adapter. The adapter has at least two locking regions which can be deformed with respect to one another and are configured to lock the adapter to the receiving element in a locking position. The apparatus also includes an actuator for unlocking the locking regions, wherein, in an unlocking position, the actuator engages into an engagement opening of the receiving element and, in the process, the two locking regions are deformed with respect to one another by the actuator in such a way that the adapter can be removed through the adapter opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Maximilian Beitelschmidt, Michael Herzinger
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Patent number: 12251895Abstract: A fiber composite component with a lighting function includes a fiber reinforced unit with at least two fiber layers integrated into a plastics matrix, and an electroluminescent light having a light source arranged between two adjacent fiber layers, the light source including a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer which electrically insulate the light source from the two adjacent fiber layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Cornelia Reinhardt, Mirko Schade, Bernhard Zeilmeier
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Patent number: 12252068Abstract: A system for sensing at least one object in the surroundings of a motor vehicle, includes at least one first sensor for classifying the at least one object, the ability of the at least one first sensor to carry out classification depending on the brightness of the at least one object; at least one second sensor for detecting the at least one object; and at least one actuator for increasing the brightness of the at least one object. The system is designed to increase the brightness of the at least one object by the at least one actuator when the at least one second sensor detects the at least one object and the at least one first sensor cannot classify the at least one object.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernhard Dehlink, Mehdi Farid, Gunter Hannig, Nico Kaempchen, Christian Unger
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Patent number: 12253231Abstract: A headlamp device for a tilting vehicle includes an optical housing which has a cavity that is accessible from the outside via an opening; an illuminant which is located in the cavity of the optical housing and through which electromagnetic waves can be emitted in the visible and/or invisible range; a cover unit which can be fixed or is fixed to the optical housing so as to overlay the opening of the optical housing, in particular in its entirety, in order to outwardly delimit the cavity together with the optical housing. The cover unit includes a transparent and/or translucent optical element which is optically downstream of the illuminant and which is optically transparent to the electromagnetic waves of the illuminant; an opaque cover element which is optically opaque to the electromagnetic waves of the illuminant; and a common single-piece component formed by the optical element and the cover element.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Frederic Pfeuffer
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Patent number: 12255031Abstract: A switching device for an on-board electrical system of an electrically driven motor vehicle includes an electromechanical switch which is designed to connect and interrupt a supply line of the on-board electrical system. The electromechanical switch has: a stationary first switching contact, a movable second switching contact, and an actuation unit which has a mechanical force-transmitting element and a drive element. In order to switch from an open switching state to a closed switching state of the electromechanical switch, the drive element moves the transmitting element along a movement path, and the force-transmitting element moved along the movement path acts mechanically on the second switching contact and moves the second switching contact toward the first switching contact.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Florian Pritscher, Ingo Scherer
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Patent number: 12253827Abstract: A method for producing a hologram on a curved substrate plate includes providing a curved substrate plate having a substrate surface, the actual geometry of which is subject to a tolerance deviation with respect to a predetermined desired geometry; providing an inflatable cushion with a cushion surface that can be deformed under the effect of pressure and is preformed into the predetermined desired geometry or with a predetermined deviation therefrom; applying a holographic master in the form of a flexible thin layer to the deformable cushion surface and applying a hologram-recording layer to the substrate surface; pressing or placing the holographic master onto the hologram-recording layer by way of the cushion surface deformed to the actual geometry, thereby achieving full surface-area contact between them with a substantially constant predetermined layer thickness of the hologram-recording layer, and exposing the hologram-recording layer to form a hologram.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Pinsker, Tobias Solchenbach
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Patent number: 12255498Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor main body which has at least two poles between which in the circumferential direction of the rotor is disposed at least one pole gap, and a rotor shaft which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor main body. The rotor has a support device which has a covering body that is configured for covering at least regions of an end side of the rotor main body. The support device has an annular body, which is different from the covering body, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the rotor main body, on the one hand, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the covering body, on the other hand.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Markus Lang, Jerome Ragot, Robert Schmidt
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Patent number: 12255486Abstract: A method for charging a battery cell is provided. During a charging phase at a constant charging current, monitoring is carried out to ascertain whether a charging voltage applied to the battery cell reaches or exceeds a predefined switchover voltage, and, if this is the case, a switchover is made to the next charging phase at a lower constant charging current. During the charging phases, additional monitoring is carried out to ascertain whether the difference between the charging voltage and the switchover voltage of this charging phase reaches or falls below a predefined value, and, if so, at least one discharge pulse is applied to the battery cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jan Philipp Schmidt, Johannes Wandt
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Patent number: 12247419Abstract: A lock striker of a motor vehicle body lock includes a striker and at least one additional mass. The striker is arranged on a striker plate. The striker has a striker section which is configured to admit a load. The striker plate has a first striker plate section which is configured to be connected to a body component. The striker plate has a second striker plate section on which the striker is arranged. The first striker plate section and the second striker plate section are connected to one another. The first striker plate section and the second striker plate section are spaced apart from one another so as to form a receiving space in which a damping means is situated. The at least one additional mass is arranged on the second striker plate section and/or on that region of the striker which is adjacent to said second striker plate section.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Nicholas Aldersley, Michael Brandstaetter
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Patent number: 12246576Abstract: An aeration flap is automatically controlled in a fully variable manner in a vehicle. A target value is read for a flap position or strength of an airflow of an aeration outlet. A plurality of configurations of aeration flap positions are provided wherein each configuration assigns a resultant noise level and a resultant energy demand for each combination of aeration flap positions. A weighting between noise level and energy demand is specified. Each of the read target values are adapted for a flap position or strength of an airflow according to the specified weighting. The development of noise in the vehicle may be influenced advantageously as a result.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Herbolzheimer, Thomas Hoehensteiger, Andreas Krompass, Stefan Oberberger, Michael Wakolbinger
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Patent number: 12248314Abstract: A method for activating an automated parking maneuver to be carried out via a parking assistance system with a motor vehicle is provided. The parking assistance system can be operated remotely from outside the motor vehicle by way of a mobile communications device. The method includes outputting an instruction via the mobile communications device for the user-side execution of a predefined activation movement of the mobile communications device; determining first sensor information relating to the activation movement of the communications device by way of a communications-device-side sensor system; detecting an activation movement of the mobile communications device carried out by the mobile communications device based on the first sensor information; and activating the parking maneuver according to the detection of the activation movement of the mobile communications device.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sophie Boehm, Rolf Brenndoerfer, Patrick Heinrich, Yordan Mihaylov, Jordi Sabater, Konstantin Zhukov, Andreas Von Eichhorn
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Patent number: 12250726Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are provided for wireless communication. A wireless communication device includes a transceiver to communicate with another wireless communication device. The wireless communication device further includes a processor to determine a pseudo-random value using a non-recursive function having at least one non-linear component. The processor further selects a wireless resource based on the pseudo-random value and uses the wireless resource for a wireless communication with the other wireless communication device.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Alexander Krebs
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Patent number: 12246403Abstract: A method for applying a seal to a component includes conveying the component to a removal region while the component is held on a holding element and on a conveyor element. By a first robot, the holding element and the component are removed from the conveyor element, which is in the removal region, and moved to a rotary frame. By the first robot, the holding element and the component are supported on the rotary frame and are disposed in a first region of the rotary frame while the rotary frame is in a first rotational position. The rotary frame is rotated from the first rotational position to a second rotational position. The seal is applied to the component by a second robot while the component is supported on the holding element and on the rotary frame and while the rotary frame is in the second rotational position.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Brueckl, Juergen Gollwitzer, Wolfgang Thurmer