Abstract: A vehicle has a high-voltage store, which is provided for storing electrical energy, wherein the high-voltage store has a high-voltage store housing, in which a plurality of electrical storage cells are arranged, and a device is provided in the high-voltage store housing through which the gas escaping from one or more of the storage cells into the interior of the high-voltage store housing can escape outwards from the high-voltage store housing into the environment. The device has a purely mechanical acoustic signal generator which is provided in order to generate an acoustic warning signal when gas flows through the device, wherein the warning signal is generated merely by the gas flowing through.

Abstract: A driver assistance system assists a driver of a motor vehicle in driving along a trajectory by displaying the trajectory on a display unit. It is identified that the vehicle is approaching a proximity region of the trajectory starting from an actual position on the basis of the fact that a plurality of different segments of the trajectory intersect, are superimposed and/or approach one another. t least one relevant segment which is relevant for the journey starting from the actual position of the vehicle is determined from the plurality of segments. The relevant segment in the display trajectory is highlighted on the display unit relative to one or more other segments of the plurality of segments.

Abstract: A functional module for a vehicle interior trim has a substrate layer, at least one detection layer, which is arranged above the substrate layer and is designed to generate a signal on the approach, such as the proximity and/or touch of a user, and a decorative layer, which is arranged above the detection layer. An interior trim and a motor vehicle have at least one such functional module.

Abstract: A control unit is provided for a pressure vessel system having at least one pressure vessel with a pressure vessel valve designed to convey fuel from the pressure vessel into a discharge line in order to supply an energy converter. The control unit is configured to determine that a reduced-power operating mode of the energy converter is present, wherein, in the reduced-power operating mode, the fuel mass flow for supplying the energy converter is less than or equal to a predefined mass flow threshold value. The control unit is further configured to cause the pressure vessel valve to be intermittently opened during the execution of the reduced-power operating mode, in order to convey in each case a surge of fuel from the pressure vessel into the discharge line.

Abstract: A tail light includes a housing with a translucent cover panel and one or more flexible light guides at least partly arranged in the housing. Each light guide contains one or more fibers which extend between two ends of the respective light guide in the longitudinal direction thereof. One or more laser light sources are provided at one end of each light guide, and the supplied light produces an emission of light out of the respective light guide along the longitudinal direction thereof. At least one part of the emitted light exits the tail light via the cover panel as a first light emission. An additional lighting device with one or more LEDs is at least partly arranged in the housing and is configured such that light originating from the LED(s) exits the tail light via the cover panel as a second light emission.

Abstract: A filling device for a pressure vessel of a motor vehicle includes a filling neck via which an operating medium can be filled into a pressure vessel, a dust cap which can be plugged onto the filling neck and which, together with the filling neck, delimits a filling volume. A housing apparatus includes a main element and a cover element which can be adjusted relative to the main element between an open position and a closed position which, together with the main element, delimits a housing interior. The dust cap is arranged in the housing interior. At least one ventilation channel, which is delimited in regions by the dust cap, extends from the filling volume into an environment separated from the housing interior by way of the cover in its closed position and has at least one direction-reversing element.

Abstract: A shaft bearing point has a radial shaft bearing in which a drive shaft is rotatably supported relative to a machine housing. The radial shaft bearing is arranged directly or indirectly in a machine housing wall separating a lubricant space from a lubricant-free space. The radial shaft bearing has a lubricant side facing the lubricant space, and a seal side facing away from the lubricant space, in the axial direction, and a radial shaft seal is provided which is arranged at an axial distance to the seal side such that a lubricant chamber is produced between the seal side and the radial shaft seal ring in the axial direction. The lubricant chamber is equipped with a chamber separating wall. The chamber separating wall separates the lubricant chamber into a storage chamber, which is arranged between the seal side and the chamber separating wall, and a seal chamber, which is arranged between the chamber separating wall and the radial shaft seal ring.

Abstract: A supply device for an apparatus includes: a first flow path through which a fluid can flow; a first consumer which is arranged in the first flow path and can be supplied with the fluid via the first flow path; a pump which is arranged in the first flow path and by which the fluid can be pumped out of a reservoir through the first flow path; a throttle which is arranged in the first flow path upstream of the first consumer and downstream of the pump; a second flow path through which the fluid can flow and which is fluidically connected to the first flow path at a first connection point located in the first flow path upstream of the throttle and downstream of the pump; and a second consumer which is arranged in the second flow path and can be supplied with the fluid via the second flow path.

Abstract: An electronic control unit for a motor vehicle diagnostic system includes a diagnostic module for identifying and storing faults; a decision module, by way of which specific fault reactions are assigned to each identifiable fault and specific customer complaint states are assigned to the fault reactions; and a generation module for generating a defined fault status. For each fault which is set in the fault memory and can be transmitted to a diagnostic tester external to the vehicle by way of a fault log, the fault status can be generated such that all customer complaint states assigned to the fault can be identified from the fault log in the diagnostic tester. The decision module is also provided to a suitable diagnostic tester having a transmission interface to the at least one electronic control unit.

Abstract: A method for securing a geographic position of a vehicle includes scanning multiple information sources, which each provide items of information which indicate the position of the vehicle; determining individual positions on the basis of each of items of information of one of the information sources and items of surroundings information in the region of a position hypothesis; validating items of information, the associated individual position of which deviates by not more than a predetermined amount from the position hypothesis; determining the position of the vehicle on the basis of the validated items of information, wherein a change of a quality of the items of surroundings information is determined; and, on the basis of the change, determining a probability at which the determined position deviates by more than the predetermined amount from an actual position.

Abstract: An intake system for an internal combustion engine has at least one inlet channel through which air can flow and by which the air flowing through the inlet channel is to be conducted into at least one combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The inlet channel is, on the bottom side thereof, of flat form at least in one length region, wherein the flat bottom side extends as far as a tumble edge by which a tumbling flow of the air flowing into the combustion chamber can be effected.

Abstract: A cleaning unit for a window or a sensor in a motor vehicle includes a reservoir for a cleaning liquid, at least one cleaning nozzle provided in or on a cleaning nozzle unit, a fluid connection between the reservoir and the cleaning nozzle and at least one spray pump provided between the reservoir and the cleaning nozzle. The spray pump is formed by a piston-cylinder unit that has a cylinder axis and is provided in or on the cleaning nozzle unit. The cleaning unit is characterized in that the piston of the piston-cylinder unit is designed as an electromagnetically actuated piston, which can be actuated in a first direction under the action of an electromagnetic force directed along the cylinder axis, which first direction forms a compression direction.

Abstract: A method for estimating the usable charge capacity of an electrical energy store includes determining a nominal initial charge capacity and a maximum initial estimation error of a new or slightly degraded energy store; determining one or more nominal charge capacities and one or more maximum estimation errors for the degraded energy store; interpolating a graph for the nominal charge capacity and for the maximum lower and upper estimation errors between the interpolation points of the nominal charge capacity and the interpolation points of the maximum estimation errors; and estimating a nominal charge state, a current usable charge capacity with a lower estimation reserve, and a current usable charge capacity with an upper estimation reserve for a current degradation state of the electrical energy store.

Abstract: A deformation structure has at least a first layer and a second layer, which are spaced apart from each other and are mounted to be movable relative to each other in the deformation direction or load direction. The first layer and the second layer have complementary protrusions and recesses, which are designed such that the protrusions of the first layer can dip into the recesses of the second layer and vice versa.