Patents Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke
  • Methods and production system for laminating interior components in vehicles
    Patent number: 10464299
    Abstract: Methods are provided for laminating interior components in vehicles, the methods include the acts of: providing at least one laminating element; providing at least one laminant; providing at least one interior component; laminating the interior component with the laminating element and the laminant, the lamination of the interior component with the laminating element and the laminant being performed in a substantially continuous process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Melzig, Gerald Meindl, Stefan Hobelsberger, Sebastian Alt
  • Method, system and computer program for automatically detecting traffic circles on digital maps
    Patent number: 10467467
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for detecting a traffic circle on a digital map, the method comprising: detecting a cycle within a road graphic of the digital map; calculating a similarity of an internal angle of a corner of a polygon, which represents the geometry of the cycle, to an internal angle of a corresponding corner of a reference polygon; calculating a similarity indicator on the basis of the calculated similarity of the internal angle of all the corners of the polygon of the detected cycle; and, if the similarity indicator exceeds a predefined threshold value, defining the detected cycle as a traffic circle on the digital map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Hackeloeer, Klaas Klasing
  • Method and device for producing a fiber composite component and fiber composite component
    Patent number: 10464266
    Abstract: A method and a device are provided for producing a fiber composite component. The method includes preparing a long-fiber layer; applying short fibers to the long-fiber layer; and applying a further long-fiber layer to the long-fiber layer provided with the short fibers. The device is configured to carry out the method. The fiber composite component has a layer arrangement composed of at least two long-fiber layers, wherein the layer arrangement has an addition of short fibers. The short fibers are configured and dimensioned and are applied in such a way or are in such an arrangement that propagation of tears in one of the long-fiber layers into in each case the other or an adjacent one of the long-fiber layers and/or delamination between the long-fiber layers is rendered more difficult.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Wagner, Gerhard Greim
  • Coating for metal components, method for coating a metal component, piston for internal combustion engines and motor vehicle
    Patent number: 10458361
    Abstract: An abrasion-resistant and friction-reduced coating for metal components is provided. The coating includes an inner layer, an intermediate layer and an outer layer. The inner layer is intended to be applied to the metal component and has at least one layer selected from: a metal layer, a metal-carbide layer, a metal-nitride layer, a metalcarbide- nitride layer and a metal-containing hydrocarbon layer. The intermediate layer includes at least one layer of amorphous carbon and the outer layer includes a W—C:H layer or a a-C:H* layer. A maximum layer thickness of the coating is at most 5 ?m. The coating is suitable in particular as a piston coating for use in internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andrea Procopio, Nigel Stothard, Stefan Ungar
  • Method for providing obstacle maps for vehicles
    Patent number: 10460603
    Abstract: A method for the preparation of an obstacle map, wherein the obstacle map comprises cells, includes assigning each of the cells to segments of an environment of the vehicle, and assigning to each of the cells information as to whether the corresponding segment of the environment is occupied by an obstacle. The method also includes preparing an environment map that comprises the cells, and determining a threshold value specification, where the threshold value specification specifies different threshold values for the cells of the environment map. The threshold value specification is determined depending on a trajectory of the vehicle. An obstacle map is then determined on the basis of the environment map and the threshold value specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marc Walessa, Oliver Kormann
  • Method for non-destructively determining material properties
    Patent number: 10458950
    Abstract: An approach to determining the crash dynamic behavior of structural castings made of a AlSi10MnMg alloy in a simple and cost-effective manner is provided. In this approach eddy current testing is carried out using a high-resolution measuring coil which is adjusted to the cast-specific conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Aigner, Manuel Anasenzl, Franz-Josef Klinkenberg
  • Hood for a vehicle
    Patent number: D865589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Calvin Luk
  • Hood for a vehicle
    Patent number: D865592
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Anders Thogersen
  • Hood for a vehicle
    Patent number: D865593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Alexey Kezha
  • Front fender for a vehicle
    Patent number: D865597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Calvin Luk
  • Vehicle wheel, toy vehicle wheel, and/or replicas thereof
    Patent number: D865613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Johannes-Markus Speck
  • Headlight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D866017
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Binder
  • Headlight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D866022
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Lisa Hannemann
  • Headlight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D866023
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Lisa Hannemann
  • Headlight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D866024
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Lisa Hannemann
  • Taillight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D866025
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Lisa Hannemann
  • Taillight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D866026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Lisa Hannemann
  • Front bumper for a vehicle
    Patent number: D866415
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Alexey Kezha
  • Rear bumper for a vehicle
    Patent number: D866416
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Alexey Kezha
  • Rear bumper for a vehicle
    Patent number: D866417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Anne Kristina Forschner