Abstract: A method for route planning includes a) making an initial energy forecast for a journey route to a route destination using an initial speed for at least one section of the journey route. The method may also include: b1) making a first energy forecast for the journey route using a first speed for the at least one section; b2) making a second energy forecast for the journey route using a second speed for the at least one section; b3) determining whether the journey route, based on the second energy forecast, includes n or n?1 charging stops; and b4) if the journey route includes n charging stops, determining the first speed as specified speed for the at least one section of the journey route, or if the journey route includes n?1 charging stops, repeating steps b2) and b3) with a third speed for the at least one section.

Abstract: A parking assistance system is remote-controlled for automated parking and exiting from a parking space. The parking assistance system has a receiver for receiving a movement direction of the vehicle selected by the user. A control device which is coupled to the receiver is configured to decide independently, without the user making any specification about the presence of a parking situation or parking-space-exiting situation, whether there is a parking situation or parking-space-exiting situation. If the control device decides that the parking situation is present, the vehicle is parked in the parking space in accordance with the received selected movement direction by forward driving or driving in reverse. Otherwise, if the control device decides that the parking-space-exiting situation is present, the vehicle is made to exit the parking space in accordance with the received selected movement direction by forward driving or driving in reverse.

Abstract: A device for identifying a signaling unit on a road on which a vehicle is traveling is described. The device is configured to determine an arrangement of one or more signal signs of the signaling unit on the basis of environmental data of one or more environmental sensors of the vehicle. The device is further configured to assign the one or more signal signs to one or more corresponding grid cells of a signal sign grid based on assignment logic.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a temperature-control system which is connectable or connected to a temperature-control circuit that conveys a temperature-control medium. The vehicle seat includes at least one temperature-control heat exchanger by which thermal energy can be delivered to and/or absorbed from the environment using the temperature-control medium. The vehicle seat includes at least one electrically operable or electrically operated temperature-control element which is a heating and/or cooling element.

Abstract: A fiber component has at least three fiber rods which each have fibers extending continuously in the axial direction of the fiber rods, wherein at least two of the three fiber rods each form a support rod and at least one of the three fiber rods forms a connecting rod. The support rods are arranged substantially parallel in the axial direction thereof and spaced from each other. The connecting rod connects the support rods to each other. The connecting rod forms a node point with the support rod in question at each of the connecting points between the connecting rod and the support rods.

Abstract: A transmission for a motorcycle includes a housing; at least one shaft at least partially accommodated in the housing, a locking device which has at least one first locking element which can be rotated with the shaft and at least one second locking element which can be moved relative to the housing, relative to the shaft, and relative to the first locking element. The second locking element can move between at least one release position in which the locking elements do not engage in one another and the shaft is released for rotation, and at least one locking position in which the locking elements engage in one another to secure the shaft against rotation relative to the housing. The transmission further includes an actuating device configured to move the second locking element out of the release position into the locking position via at least one intermediate position.

Abstract: A method for smart parking a connected vehicle is disclosed. The method determines a destination of a user's vehicle based on the user's input or historic travel data of the user. The method receives information on available parking spots in a predefined area near the user's destination based on a parking database. The method receives an input to reserve a desired parking spot among the available parking spots. The method initiates an online check-in of the reserved parking spot in the parking database.

Abstract: A digital assistant is determined from a plurality of digital assistants in a vehicle for performing a vehicle function. A speech message of a vehicle occupant is received via a digital assistant from the plurality of digital assistants in the vehicle. A command of the speech message is ascertained via the digital assistant. An execution authorization of the vehicle occupant is determined for the command of the speech message via the digital assistant. If the vehicle occupant has an execution authorization for the command of the speech message, command of the speech message is executed via the digital assistant in order perform the vehicle function in the vehicle.

Abstract: A system and a method for the dynamic and robust updating of a digital map for self-driving vehicles are provided. The system includes a server that is configured to determine a non-up-to-date geographical region of the digital map. The system also includes a vehicle fleet having a plurality of self-driving vehicles. The server is configured to determine the geographical position of the vehicles, to select a suitable vehicle from the vehicle fleet, and to instruct the selected vehicle to move to the non-up-to-date region of the digital map. The vehicle is configured to capture, in the non-up-to-date geographical region, data that is suitable for updating the non-up-to-date geographical region of the digital map.

Abstract: A fastening device is provided for arranging a water-catching strip of a motor vehicle on an A-pillar of the motor vehicle. The fastening device can be secured in its position relative to the A-pillar by way of a bolt fastened to the A-pillar. The fastening device has a retaining region for retaining a fastening portion of the water-catching strip. The fastening device includes, in the retaining region, at least one tab, which protrudes from a main body of the fastening device and has a detent element, which detent element is designed to engage in one of a plurality of grooves. The grooves are formed in the fastening portion of the water-catching strip such that the grooves are arranged adjacent to each other in a direction of extension of the at least one tab. An arrangement of a water-catching strip of a motor vehicle on an A-pillar is carried out by a fastening device of this type.

Abstract: A motor vehicle has a control element for selecting a vehicle operating mode from a plurality of defined vehicle operating modes. Furthermore, the motor vehicle has at least one drive motor and an electronically controllable, automated transmission, which is operable in at least one automatic program and in at least one manual program. The motor vehicle also has an electric control arrangement and at least one button for triggering a changeover from an automatic program to a manual program. The electronic control arrangement is configured such that, upon activation of the button for triggering a manual program for a predefined minimum duration by the driver, an operating mode, which is not selectable via the control element based on dynamics, independent of the activation of the control element, is automatically activatable and displayable on the display instead of a selectable operating mode.

Abstract: A method for welding components includes the following steps: providing a first component and a second component; bringing together the two components; welding the two components by use of a laser beam, wherein a plurality of welding impulses are generated through the repeated activation and deactivation of the laser beam, with each welding pulse being interrupted by welding-free rest intervals in which the laser beam is deactivated, wherein a local welding area is generated by each welding pulse, in which material of the two components is melted and fused in a locally limited manner, wherein individual welding areas of those generated by the welding pulses overlap.

Abstract: A control unit is provided for an automatic transmission of a vehicle. The vehicle has a gear selection operating element which allows a user of the vehicle to set different gear stages of the transmission by actuating the gear selection operating element, and the vehicle has at least one setting operating element which allows the user to change the value of a parameter of a function of the vehicle by actuating the setting operating element when the function of the vehicle is activated. The control unit is designed to detect an actuation of the gear selection operating element for a period of time which is equal to or longer than a minimum duration and to determine that the function of the vehicle is deactivated. In response thereto, the control unit is additionally designed to allow a manual change of the transmission gear by actuating the at least one setting operating element.

Abstract: A motor vehicle seat with a lying function has a seat cushion, a backrest which is arranged on a first end region of the seat cushion, and a calf support which can be elongated and which is arranged on a second end region of the seat cushion. The calf support is provided with a lifting device for lifting two outer support panels out of a rest position and into a support position which protrudes beyond a support surface of the calf support.

Abstract: A support element fastens an interior lining part to a structural part of a vehicle, wherein the interior lining part is fastenable to the structural part via the support element. The support element has at least one deformation region which is of meandering design in at least one plane and is deformable under the application of a force.

Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes a lighting apparatus which has one or more light sources and one or more transparent bodies which each have a surface made of a plurality of flat facets. The lighting device is configured such that light which comes from a light source at least in part passes through a transparent body and is refracted at facets of the transparent body. The light which passes through the transparent body at least in part exits from the lighting device in order to create a light distribution. An associated transparent body is a molded component having one or more recesses which are integrally molded in the molded component, the molded component being clamped in the lighting device by the engagement of one or more projections into the one or more recesses.