Patents Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
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Patent number: 11936016Abstract: Disclosed is a battery cell including an electrode, a housing, a cell interior inside the housing, a temperature sensor, and a heat-conducting part which differs from the electrode, is entirely or partially disposed inside the housing of the battery cell, and is thermally connected to the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christoph Born, Christian Kulp, Arne Menck, Sebastian Paul, Jan Philipp Schmidt, Benno Schweiger, Werner Seliger, Jens Vetter, Hermann Zehentner, Dieter Ziegltrum
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Patent number: 11931948Abstract: A device for thermosetting a knitted fabric includes a first tool half and a second tool half. The first tool half and the second tool half in a closed position enclose a cavity in which the knitted fabric is receivable. Each of the first tool half and the second tool half have a respective shape-imparting effective surface by way of which an external form of the knitted fabric is determinable. The device further includes a heating installation where thermal energy is introducible into the knitted fabric via the heating installation.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Aumann, Florian Dechant, Johann Gasslhuber
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Patent number: 11932113Abstract: A drive device has an internal combustion engine connection configured for receiving driving power from an internal combustion engine and has an electric motor generator configured for outputting driving power to an electric motor generator connection. A coupling device is configured for coupling both the internal combustion engine connection and the electric motor generator connection to at least one power train connection that is configured for outputting driving power to a power train. The coupling device has a radially outer drive part and a coupling portion lying radially within the drive part, which coupling portion is configured for selectively connecting the drive part to the power train connection in a rotationally fixed manner. A power transmission portion is arranged on an outer circumferential surface on the radially outer drive part, which power transmission portion is configured for receiving driving power from the electric motor generator.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Otmar Full, Werner Pfau, Michael Staake
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Patent number: 11932181Abstract: An electronic component includes external ground connections for connecting to a cable harness and internal ground connections electrically coupled to paired external ground connections so that the potential at each internal ground connection corresponds to the potential at the paired external ground connection. An analysis circuit determines on which internal ground connections first and second signal information is applied to infer a coding of the component from the pattern of the internal ground connections being supplied with the first and second potential. A combination circuit connects the internal ground connections to the external ground connections such that when a ground line of a cable harness is connected to precisely one of the external ground connections, the first signal information is applied to a respective different sub-quantity of internal ground connections depending on which of the external ground connections the ground line is connected to.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Fabian Bajfus, Stephan Fahrnbauer
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Patent number: 11932177Abstract: A cladding part has a carrier part and a surface covering, which is arranged on a side of the carrier part that faces the surface covering. The surface covering is made of an intrinsically stiff knitted-fabric material.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Aumann, Florian Dechant, Johann Gasslhuber, Dienhung Huynh
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Patent number: 11932276Abstract: A driving system for at least automated longitudinal guidance for a motor vehicle is designed to determine or receive a virtual acceleration for the motor vehicle, to determine, for each of at least two further road users in the environment of the motor vehicle, the duration until a virtual collision of the motor vehicle with the road user in question, in each case at least in dependence on the virtual acceleration of the motor vehicle, to select one of the at least two further road users as a target object in dependence on the respective durations until a virtual collision of the motor vehicle with the respective road users, which durations were determined for the at least two further road users, and to determine the longitudinal guidance for the motor vehicle in dependence on the road user selected as the control object.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Tamas Fendler, Robert Knorrn, Thomas Velten
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Patent number: 11933376Abstract: A disk brake for a motor vehicle includes an internally ventilated brake disk, a brake disk nave, and radially directed bores. In the radially directed first bores the connecting means are introduced such that they extend further into radially directed second bores in the friction ring into the friction ring. The brake disk nave forms the fit with a single friction ring half and this fit has material convexities, which point inward toward the cooling channels or the ribs, at the points at which the second bores are introduced for the connecting means.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Kordian Kokott, Florian Walther
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Patent number: 11933618Abstract: A method of determining a first route on a first map based on a second route on a second map, comprising the steps of determining second points on the second map, the second points being included in the second route; determining first points on the first map; wherein the first points correspond in pairs to second points; and determining the first route comprising the first points by means of trace matching with respect to the second route.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Hackeloeer, Stefan Holder
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Patent number: 11933089Abstract: Improved vibration damping in a closing bar of a motor vehicle body lock makes use of a bar which is arranged on a bar plate and which is designed to be movable from a rest position in a working direction and is operatively connected to a counter bearing. A base plate is attached to a motor vehicle body. In the event of a movement of the bar from the rest position, in which the bar has a first rigidity, to a first functional position, which represents the operating state of the closing bar, the counter bearing has a second rigidity, which is lower than the first rigidity, and a third rigidity, which is greater than the second rigidity, in a second functional position, which represents a highly dynamic acceleration of the motor vehicle body lock.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Nicholas Aldersley, Michael Brandstaetter, Tomasz Jedraszek
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Patent number: 11935262Abstract: A method where one or more objects of a three-dimensional scene are determined in accordance with provided raw data of the three-dimensional scene representing a predefined environment inside and/or outside the vehicle. A two-dimensional image is determined in accordance with the provided raw data of the three-dimensional scene such that the two-dimensional image depicts the determined objects of the three-dimensional scene on a curved plane. The two-dimensional image has a quantity of pixels, each representing at least one part or several of the determined objects of the three-dimensional scene. Data is provided which represents at least one determined field of view of the driver. For at least one of the determined objects, the probability with which the at least one object will be located in the field of view of the driver is determined in accordance with the provided data and the two-dimensional image.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Florian Bade, Moritz Blume, Martin Buchner, Carsten Isert, Julia Niemann, Michael Wolfram, Joris Wolters
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Patent number: 11935415Abstract: A method for assisting an occupant exiting a vehicle includes: receiving opening data describing an imminent opening of a door of the vehicle; receiving object data describing positions and speeds of objects in the vehicle environment; determining a time-to-collision between the opening of the door and a possible collision of a first object with the door, based on the opening data and the object data; outputting an urgent warning signal if the time-to-collision falls below a predetermined minimum duration; using the object data to check whether the first object is followed by a second object; classifying the second object as a first following object if a time-gap between the first object and the second object is below a predetermined limit; and outputting a warning signal after the output of the urgent warning signal in the event that the second object is classified as the first following object.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Tomasz Siekierka, Werner Tschoepe
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Patent number: 11936013Abstract: A cell contacting arrangement is provided for an energy storage module having at least one energy storage cell, each storage cell having at least two connection terminals. The cell contacting arrangement has a carrier plate which can be arranged on the energy storage module, a cable harness which is carried by the carrier plate and has a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of cell connectors which are inserted into the carrier plate or integrated into the carrier plate and are designed to connect a connection terminal of the storage cell and a signal line of the cable harness. There is also a connection element which has a first end which can be connected to the signal line and a second end which can be connected to the cell connector. The carrier plate and/or the cell connector has at least one spatial orientation element which defines the spatial orientation between the connection element and the cell connector and/or the carrier plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Kilian Friedrich, Andreas Rozankovic
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Patent number: 11927663Abstract: A calibration method includes (a) connecting a impedance measuring device to an impedance standard which has at least two excitation terminals for feeding an excitation signal and two measuring terminals for determining a measurement signal, and which has a fixed or adjustable impedance which corresponds to the impedance target; (b) applying a voltage signal to the excitation terminals and measuring the current flowing through the impedance standard due to the voltage signal at the measuring terminals; or supplying a current signal to the excitation terminals and measuring the dropping voltage at the measuring terminals; and (c) calibrating the impedance measuring device against the impedance standard to the impedance target. The geometrical arrangement of terminals of the impedance standard corresponds to the geometrical arrangement of the terminals of the cell of which the impedance is to be measured.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Hammerschmidt, Ulrich Roth, Jan Philipp Schmidt, Martin Stanglmaier, Christian Steinbauer
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Patent number: 11929847Abstract: A method, a bus system, and a transportation means control a utilization of the bus system. The method includes determining a first piece of information representing a current and/or a future utilization of the bus system, and determining a second piece of information representing respective data transmission time periods for a plurality of bus subscribers which transmit data by means of the bus system, as a function of the first piece of information. The method also includes transmitting the second piece of information to the plurality of bus subscribers, and adjusting respective data transmission time periods for the plurality of bus subscribers by the respective bus subscribers, as a function of the second piece of information, and transmitting data by the plurality of bus subscribers within the respective adjusted data transmission time periods by means of the bus system.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ruediger Zoelch, Matthias Traub
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Patent number: 11929518Abstract: A traction battery for a motor vehicle includes a plurality of battery cells which are electrically connected to one another, a battery housing which houses the battery cells, several degassing elements for conducting gas away out of the battery housing in the case of a cell outgassing, a sensing system for localizing the cell outgassing, and a control unit which, in the case of a cell outgassing, actuates the degassing elements such that the degassing element situated nearest the cell outgassing remains closed and one or more of the degassing elements that are farther away from the cell outgassing is/are opened.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Savo Asanin, Felix Laasch, Alexander Mueller
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Patent number: 11919575Abstract: A fiber composite body, in particular a structure stiffening element, has a number of struts which are formed by reinforcing fibers which are embedded in a polymer matrix and which in a region of the respective strut run substantially parallel to one another. The struts are arranged in a truss-like profiled structure which is produced by winding or intertwining the reinforcing fibers.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Richard Gralka, Thomas Hogger, Falco Hollmann, Joachim Starke, Bernhard Staudt, Michael Voelke
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Patent number: 11919374Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle in which a front door and a rear door are mounted on the same side of a bodyshell. Then the doors are removed. The doors are then pre-assembled while the doors are removed. During the pre-assembly of the doors, the front door is fitted with a first side window and with a first trim, the rear door is fitted with a second side window and with a second trim, the second trim is finally positioned relative to the rear door and the second side window is finally positioned relative to the second trim. The doors are then mounted on the side, whereupon the first trim is finally positioned relative to the second trim and the first side window is finally positioned relative to the first trim while the doors are fitted to the side.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Andreas Brenninger
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Patent number: 11912329Abstract: A steering apparatus for a vehicle, includes: a handle element for actuating the steering by hand; a lever element for transmitting a torque to a steering axle of the steering column of the vehicle in order to steer the vehicle; and a coupling device for coupling the handle element to the lever element so as to convert a force in order to convert a steering movement carried out on the handle element into a rotational movement of the lever element about a steering angle with respect to the steering column.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Froemel, Stefan Goldammer, Tobias Lachner, Martin Wiesinger
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Patent number: 11915489Abstract: In a method of operating a vehicle, sensor data comprising an object detection of a sensor of the vehicle is provided, the object detection being representative of a detected object. Further, a trust model is provided, wherein the trust model is configured to model a trust in object detection. Depending on the sensor data and the trust model, a trust value of the detected object is determined, the trust value of the detected object being representative of how high a trust in the detected object is. The vehicle is operated depending on the trust value of the detected object.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dominik Bauch, Marco Baumgartl, Michael Himmelsbach, Josef Mehringer, Daniel Meissner, Luca Trentinaglia
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Patent number: 11915529Abstract: A processing unit includes a first communication interface that is designed for communication with a server device and/or a mobile device. The processing unit also has a second communication interface, which is designed for communication with the mobile device. The processing unit further has an internal communication interface of the processing unit, which is designed for communication with a vehicle bus network of the vehicle. The processing unit is designed to receive vehicle access data, which is representative of an access authorization of a driver to the vehicle via the second communication interface. The processing unit is also designed to determine depending on the vehicle access data a release signal for enabling a use of the vehicle and to provide it to the internal communication interface. The processing unit is also designed to receive vehicle analysis data via the internal communication interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hakan Demir, Christof Gebhart, Frank Hergemoeller, Philipp Keller, Maximilian Krautwig, Kerstin Landrock