Patents Assigned to CONTINENTAL
  • Patent number: 12279380
    Abstract: A method for producing a circuit board arrangement includes: providing a first circuit board substrate, providing a second circuit board substrate, arranged substantially planar-parallel to the first circuit board substrate, the first circuit board substrate having an underside and the second circuit board substrate having an upper face, the upper face and the underside being arranged opposite one another, providing first terminal contacts, applied to the underside of the first circuit board substrate, providing second terminal contacts, applied to the upper face of the second circuit board substrate, applying solder paste cylinders to the first terminal contacts, the solder paste cylinders applied to the first terminal contacts by a solder-paste application process with solder paste, the applied solder paste cylinders having in each case a solder-paste-cylinder upper face, and arranging the second terminal contacts of the second circuit board substrate on the solder-paste-cylinder upper faces of the solder p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Rafael Del Rey, Markus Bebendorf
  • Publication number: 20250110005
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the balancing of the wheels of a motor vehicle, comprising at least a phase of modeling a first sinusoidal theoretical acceleration signal of a first wheel and a second sinusoidal theoretical acceleration signal of a second wheel, a noise-measuring phase including, for the first wheel, calculating the difference between the value of each sample of the first raw acceleration signal and a corresponding theoretical value of the first theoretical acceleration signal, then measuring a first standard deviation for the calculated differences, and, for the second wheel, calculating the difference between the value of each sample of the second raw acceleration signal and a corresponding theoretical value of the second theoretical acceleration signal, then measuring a second standard deviation for the calculated differences, a first step of calculating reference averages including calculating a first reference average of the first standard deviations and a second reference average of the second
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Fabien DELEPLANQUE, Xavier ROLLAND, Nicolas GUINART
  • Patent number: 12253378
    Abstract: A method for determining a location and pose of at least one trailer for hitching to a vehicle includes: receiving at least one image of at least one trailer generated by a camera of the vehicle; locating the at least one trailer in the at least one image; determining a plurality of keypoints associated with at least one trailer in the image using at least one machine learning model; determining a location of a coupler of the at least one trailer relative to the vehicle and a pose of the at least one trailer relative to the vehicle based on the computed keypoints; and determining a path for maneuvering the vehicle into position for hitching the at least one trailer to the vehicle based on the location of the coupler of the at least one trailer and the pose of the at least one trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY US, LLC.
    Inventor: Rujiao Yan
  • Patent number: 12228184
    Abstract: A motor vehicle disc brake lining having friction material fixed on the front side of a back plate, and a resetting spring fixed releasably or non-releasably on the rear side of the back plate with a base and an elastic resetting spring bow. The resetting spring bow sits elastically on an assigned abutment of a holder such that the motor vehicle disc brake lining can be reset to be axially distanced from a brake disc in the released brake state. The friction lining resetting spring has a spring characteristic curve which is additively composed of a plurality of portions including a plurality of quasi-linear straight portions and, interposed in-between, at least one curved transition portion, each having mutually differently defined gradient angles, and among the portions there is at least one portion which is at least partially plastically deformable and serves to automatically allow demand-oriented spring-back based on wear compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Ralph Petri, Kilian Bashayan, Sebastian Salzmann
  • Publication number: 20250055738
    Abstract: A near-optimal Karhunen-Loeve basis expansion modeling (KL-BEM) orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) receiver with superimposed pilots has been proposed for high-mobility communications with Doppler spread channel. First, an initial KL-BEM channel estimation is conducted by superimposed pilots, followed by the removal of superimposed pilots from the received OTFS signal and equalisation by message passing (MP) algorithm. After that, the detected data symbols are utilized as pseudo pilots along with the superimposed pilots to refine both KL-BEM channel estimation and equalisation in an iterative manner. Simulation results confirm the superior performance of the proposed KL-BEM OTFS receiver over the prior art in terms of the mean-square-error (MSE) of channel estimation and bit error rate (BER). It also has a close BER performance to the BER lower bound obtained by assuming perfect channel estimation. It contributes to high spectral efficiency and fast convergence performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicants: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yujie LIU, David GONZÁLEZ GONZÁLEZ, Yong Liang GUAN
  • Publication number: 20250055400
    Abstract: A method for driving an assistance-providing motor of a power-steering system of a vehicle, the assistance-providing motor including a first winding electrically energized by a first inverter, and at least a three-phase second winding electrically energized by a second inverter different from the first inverter, the first winding and the at least a second winding being mechanically coupled to each other, characterized in that it includes, when a malfunction of short-circuit type is detected between a phase of the first winding and a supply or an electric ground of the first inverter: —a determining step; —a measuring step; —a tripping step; —a controlling step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicants: JTEKT EUROPE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Arnaud BOUCHET, Benjamin VEREECKE, Daniel GUERRA
  • Publication number: 20250006057
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle-exit assist apparatus including: a target information acquisition device (12) configured to acquire target information on a target existing on a rear side of an own vehicle; and a control unit (10) configured to execute vehicle-exit assist control. The control unit is configured to: determine, based on the target information, whether an interference target which is liable to interfere with the safe exit of the occupant from the own vehicle during a vehicle stop is detected; determine, when a vehicle-exit assist condition which is satisfied at least when the interference target is detected is satisfied, whether a specific condition is satisfied, the specific condition being satisfied when at least a part of the interference target exists in a rear-side vehicle width region; execute the vehicle-exit assist control when the specific condition is not satisfied; and avoid executing the vehicle-exit assist control when the specific condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Koji TAKEUCHI, Masanori TOKUDA, Masaho ISHIDA, Junya FUKUTA, Ryuichi SOYA, Ovidiu Marius CHICEA
  • Patent number: 12169005
    Abstract: A centering mechanism with a brake piston of a disk brake of a motor vehicle, with a spindle extending into a cavity in the brake piston, has dimensions that prevent a force equilibrium of a nut-spindle assembly moved completely out of the vertical position. A force vector of the gravitational force on the nut-spindle assembly extends within a contact surface between a nut and the brake piston. Thus, the brake piston can be easily assembled with the nut-spindle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, SFS GROUP INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Lazar Milisic, Thomas Hess, Marijo Zach
  • Publication number: 20240412577
    Abstract: A method for activating a vehicle function via ultra-wideband communication by an item of portable user equipment. The device includes a plurality of transceivers, the vehicle function activated depending on a position of the item of portable equipment with respect to a boundary between two authorization zones, an internal zone inside and an external zone outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Alain BRILLON, Mohamed CHEIKH
  • Patent number: 12163564
    Abstract: An interconnected multiple disk brake for a rotatable element with an integrated sensor which is based on the rotation of a sensor disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Matthias Schulitz, Thomas Stahl, Phil Lohfink, Martin Gädke, Adrian Messner, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 12157491
    Abstract: A method for operating a driver assistance system in a vehicle including operating the vehicle at an at least partially automated autonomy level by the driver assistance system, providing at least one acoustic transducer, wherein the at least one acoustic transducer is arranged in an interior of the vehicle, registering, by an evaluation unit, whether a vehicle occupant is present, transmitting an acoustic signal through the acoustic transducer, wherein the acoustic signal has a sound power, wherein the sound power is adjusted by the acoustic transducer, wherein the adjustment of the sound power by the acoustic transducer takes place depending on the presence of a vehicle occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Guido Meier-Arendt, Heidi Von Bychowski, Katrin Wenzel
  • Patent number: 12134842
    Abstract: This invention relates to high tenacity yarn for a tire cord comprising polyethyleneterephthalate multifilament obtained by melting and spinning a resin composition comprising first polyethyleneterephthalate and second polyethyleneterephthalate having different intrinsic viscosities, and a method for preparing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC., CONTINENTAL REIFEN DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Ki Sub Lim, Il Chung, Sung Ho Park, Nermeen Nabih, Michael Schunack, Thomas Kramer
  • Publication number: 20240326686
    Abstract: The invention discloses a projector unit comprising a housing on which a light module is supported to be pivotable in two spatial directions. Via eccentrics which are supported on the housing, the light module can be rotated in two axes of rotation each having a specific angle of rotation. Preferably, via one eccentric, the light module is pivoted along with the axis of rotation and, via the further eccentric, the light module is rotated about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicants: PLASTIC OMNIUM LIGHTING SYSTEMS GmbH, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
    Inventors: Berthold GERLACH, Thomas FEIL, Eduard LEMMER, Jozsef SZEKELY, Lars KOLBE, Marcel POZIMSKI, Christoph GAERDITZ, Christian RUDOLF, Michael KOTHS
  • Patent number: 12055110
    Abstract: A sensor for a motor vehicle, the vehicle including a combustion engine and an engine control computer. The engine includes at least one drive shaft able to be driven in rotation, the at least one drive shaft having at least one magnetic element, the sensor being disposed facing the at least one magnetic element, the computer being configured to determine the angular position of the at least one drive shaft in relation to a predefined reference angular position on the basis of an output signal supplied by the sensor, the sensor being characterized in that it is able to generate a square wave output signal. Each square wave is characterized by an initial instant and a temporal width, by associating each initial instant with a predefined angular position of the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Marie-Nathalie Larue, Fabien Joseph, Stéphane Eloy
  • Patent number: 12049192
    Abstract: A method and a system for ultra high frequency communication with and location of a portable device for “hands-free” access to a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle having an on-board communication device comprising an ultra high frequency transceiver, an electrical power supply source and at least one antenna, the motor vehicle including a first arrangement, in which the transceiver is connected to the antenna, and a second arrangement, in which the transceiver is disconnected from the antenna. The transceiver is connected to an attenuation module located at a predetermined distance from the transceiver. The attenuation module includes an impedance of predetermined value connected to ground. The predetermined distance between the transceiver and the attenuation module, as well as the predetermined value of the impedance, defining a locating area of the portable device in and around the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Sébastien Chanal, Sylvain Godet
  • Patent number: 12030471
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a hydraulic brake system for a motor vehicle, wherein a diagnostic valve is omitted and, instead, air volume and leakage are identified by a volume balance during generation of a dynamic pressure. An associated brake system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Christian Courth, Anne Seidel, Ulrich Lohse, Andreas Neu, Roland Caspari
  • Patent number: 12017610
    Abstract: A method for operating a transmitter unit of a radio key system of a motor vehicle, wherein a control device of the transmitter unit provides that, for a respective closing operation in at least one measurement cycle, in each case in response to a polling message, in a plurality of successive time slots, in each case one of a plurality of anchor transmitters of the transmitter unit transmits an anchor message, and the measurement cycle is ended by reception of a final message, which signals reception times of the anchor messages measured by a radio key system. A transmission sequence of the anchor transmitters may be determined by means of an assignment rule in which an assignment of the anchor transmitters to the time slots is carried out, wherein the assignment rule provides that the assignment takes place variably over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AG
    Inventors: Thomas Reisinger, Alexander Krebs
  • Patent number: 12010821
    Abstract: A thermal diode device including an electronic unit to be cooled, a heat-dissipation medium, a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the heat-dissipation medium, and an actuator configured to thermally disconnect the electronic unit from the heat-dissipation medium if the temperature of the heat-dissipation medium is higher than a reference temperature, so as to inhibit any heat transfer between the heat-dissipation medium and the electronic unit, and to thermally connect the electronic unit to the heat-dissipation medium if the temperature of the heat-dissipation medium is lower than the reference temperature, so as to allow a conductive heat transfer between the electronic unit and the heat-dissipation medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Boyer, Arnaud Dieudonne
  • Patent number: 12000446
    Abstract: A drum brake having a brake drum, brake shoes, a carrier plate and a load measurement device in the region of an abutment is mountable on a steering knuckle. The abutment has a cylinder in which two pistons are guided, on the outer end faces of which the abutment ends of the brake shoes rest and the inner end faces of which are each supported by a spring on a step in the cylinder. A hollow peg projects from the outside of the cylinder and penetrates an opening in the carrier plate, such that it can be received in a receiving space in the steering knuckle resting on the carrier plate or in a reinforcement element fixed on the steering knuckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Matthias Schulitz, Ahmed Sefo, Uwe Bach, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter, Jens Hoffmann, Falk Petzold, Martin Kruse, Christian Vey, Ulrike Meyer
  • Patent number: D1026033
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Silja Sautter