Patents Assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
  • Publication number: 20250149780
    Abstract: A vehicle antenna module including a first main printed circuit board seated horizontally in a housing, at least one second printed circuit board including a radio frequency antenna mounted vertically on the first printed circuit board and projecting from an upper face of the housing, a cover mounted on the housing and designed to cover at least the second printed circuit board. The antenna module being such that the cover includes a shell and an elastic element. The elastic element being designed to exert a pressure on the upper edge of the second board when the cover is in place on the housing in order to provide an electrical contact between the lower edge of the second board and at least one flexible contact element on the surface of the first board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe BEKAERT
  • Publication number: 20250145127
    Abstract: A method for operating a brake system assembly includes evaluating input data and downgrading from a first mode to a second mode according to the result of the evaluation. The input data is a performance curve of the first mode and determining the performance curve includes using a torque-speed curve, a first mode-dependent characteristic curve with at least one mathematical formula. Evaluating the input data includes comparing an ascertained performance capability of the first mode according to the calculated performance characteristic with the performance capability of the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Linden, Bogdan Budianu, Tom Kaufmann, Michael Wintzer
  • Publication number: 20250150161
    Abstract: A method for controlling a satellite configured to exchange data with a plurality of vehicles positioned in a visibility zone of the satellite. The method includes estimating a number of vehicles eligible for a specific service present in the visibility zone using a global data receiver module configured to receive data from all of the visibility zone; and activating, depending on the estimated number of vehicles eligible for the specific service in the visibility zone, the global data receiver module or all or some of the local data receiver modules, configured to receive data from a respective sub-zone of the visibility zone, for reception of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Emmanuel PASQUET, Mohamed CHEIKH, Sébastien KESSLER
  • Publication number: 20250145135
    Abstract: A brake system for a motor vehicle, comprises a first assembly, in which a first electrically actuable pressure source and a master brake cylinder can be actuated by means of a brake pedal. A second assembly, in which a second electrically actuable pressure source and electrically actuable inlet valves are arranged for each wheel brake. The second electrically actuable pressure source being hydraulically connected to the inlet valves, wherein the first assembly comprises a single pressure port for transmitting brake pressure for actuating the wheel brakes to the second assembly. The first pressure source and the master brake cylinder are connected to the pressure port via a system pressure line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Harald Biller
  • Publication number: 20250135888
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for controlling a graphical user interface on a display of a vehicle is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a current driving mode, wherein, if the current driving mode corresponds to high or full automation, the method comprises receiving driver-side image data, comprising an image of a driver-side rear field of view; receiving passenger-side image data, comprising an image of a passenger-side rear field of view; displaying the driver-side and passenger-side image data in the driver-side digital rearview mirror area such that said data are displayed less obviously than in a manual driving mode; identifying objects in the driver-side and the passenger-side image data; checking whether at least one trigger object has been identified in the objects, wherein, if at least one trigger object has been identified, adapting the graphical user interface, and displaying the adapted graphical user interface on the display of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Cieler, Markus Bosl, Heidi von Bychowski, Bettina Leuchtenberg, Sebastian Weiss
  • Publication number: 20250138174
    Abstract: A method for activating a vehicle function using an activation device, having at least two transceivers communicating with a portable user appliance and communicating with each other via ultra-wideband communication. The method includes: transmitting using a first transceiver; computing a radius of a circle centered around the first transceiver as a function of the time of flight of the waves reflected by the portable appliance, and determining a perimeter of the circle; comparing a profile of received reflected waves originating from the second transmitter with a predetermined received wave profile; detecting a presence as a function of the result of the comparison; computing, if a presence is detected, a distance between the second transceiver and the presence; locating the portable appliance by computing an intersection between the distance and the perimeter; and activating the vehicle function as a function of the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Stéphane BILLY, Sylvain GODET
  • Publication number: 20250130454
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display element with disappearance technology and to a method for producing such a display element. The display element has a display assembly with a display panel and a backlight arranged behind the display panel. The display element also has a stabilization assembly with a cutout for accommodating the display assembly, and a decorative film, which is attached at least to a top side of the stabilization assembly and extends over the cutout for the display assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Kai Hohmann, Jürgen Bäthis, Andreas Brüninghaus
  • Publication number: 20250121808
    Abstract: Electrohydraulic actuator device for a motor vehicle brake system, comprising a cylinder housing, within which a pressure piston is displaced in a translational manner by a rotating threaded spindle, wherein the threaded spindle is driven via a transmission device by a rotor shaft of an electric motor, wherein the actuator device comprises an electronic unit, and a brake system for a motor vehicle having such an electrohydraulic actuator device and a pressure generator, a pressure modulation valve device for the wheel-individual generation of brake pressure at wheel brakes of the brake system, an electronic control device, which is designed for controlling the pressure generator and the pressure modulation valve device, and having a driver's brake actuation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schmidt, Robert Grimm, Johannes Görlach, Christian Bitsch
  • Publication number: 20250115226
    Abstract: A brake actuating device for a motor vehicle brake system comprising a hydraulic unit having a side face, on which an electric motor is arranged, wherein the electric motor drives a pressure generator, located in the hydraulic unit, for conveying a hydraulic fluid, wherein the hydraulic unit comprises a number of outlet openings in the side face, wherein an adapter unit which comprises a number of inlet openings is arranged on the side face, wherein the outlet openings of the hydraulic unit are connected in fluid communication via a respective connecting tube with the corresponding inlet openings of the adapter unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Paul-Razvan Dumitrascu, Alex-Cristian Dumitru, Marco Müller, Johannes Singer, Mihai Baciu
  • Publication number: 20250117490
    Abstract: Software vulnerability in an automotive system is analyzed by receiving one or more application files of a software application developed for the automotive system; analyzing: the one or more application files based on an automotive system specification, data from one or more security databases, an expert preference, and information about modules and functions of the software application; identifying one or more vulnerabilities in the one or more application files based on the analysis; and updating the one or more databases with the one or more vulnerabilities, wherein the updated one or more databases are used to detect the one or more vulnerabilities in the software application running on the automotive system in real-time, wherein one or more patches are provided to secure the automotive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Siyang Xiong, Sheikh Habib Mahbub, Yi Wang, Mathias Dehm
  • Publication number: 20250119519
    Abstract: A method of processing images captured within a motor vehicle is disclosed. The method comprises modulating, by way of an illumination source, a continuous wave (CW) light wave to an image module and receiving, by way of the image module, at least three image beams, each of the at least three image beam containing a content of an interior of a motor vehicle captured in at least a different frequency. An image processing unit executes the step of correlating by way of an image processing unit, a location measurement of the at least three image beams captured by the image module, wherein each of the three image beams is captured in a different frequency and creating a three-dimensional (3D) image in response to the location measurement correlated. A system, computer program product and a computer-readable medium is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Weiquan Cong
  • Publication number: 20250119387
    Abstract: A method for processing time-sensitive data in a time-sensitive network includes acquiring a first time, a second time and a third time. The first time is a time when the data is actually scheduled, the second time is a time when a gate control operation of the data is planned to begin, and the third time is a duration of a gate control operation of the data. The method also includes identifying whether the data enters a sending queue abnormally based on the first time, the second time and the third time acquired. If the data enters a sending queue abnormally, inform a sender of the data to adjust a sending time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Xianhui Yang, Xianfang Luo, Xuexue Lei
  • Patent number: 12271544
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for measuring a force action. The disclosure additionally relates to an input apparatus which uses such a device or such a method. In a first step, a voltage pulse resulting from a force action on a force sensor is generated by a charge amplifier. Using this voltage pulse, a trigger pulse may be generated by a comparator circuit. A voltage value derived from the voltage pulse is then stored in a storage capacitor by a current mirror. The capacitor voltage resulting therefrom may be evaluated by an evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Vitalis Frolov
  • Publication number: 20250108784
    Abstract: A method for controlling the force of an electromechanical motor vehicle brake and a motor vehicle brake having an electromechanical motor vehicle brake for carrying out the method are disclosed. The method comprises checking whether a braking power does not exceed a specified limit value for the maximum power of an actuator and reducing or modifying a target actuator speed to a modified target actuator speed if the specified limit value is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Stauder, Jürgen Böhm
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20250113717
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display device for displaying information, comprising at least one layer unit operable to change the quantity of light rays to pass through the layer unit, at least one display unit configured to display an image, wherein the at least one layer unit comprises or consists, mainly or fully, of at least one metal halide perovskite. The disclosure also relates to a display system comprising the display device as well as a method for changing the transparency while displaying information and a method for producing the display device or the display system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Junn Yaw Ong, Yew Chye Leonard Shen, Wen Yao Jackson Chan
  • Publication number: 20250100528
    Abstract: A brake system for a motor vehicle includes an electrohydraulic partial brake system, an electromechanical partial brake system, a redundant power supply, and an actuating device (124). The actuating device is configured to determine an actuation signal quantifying a brake request as a result of an actuation by a vehicle driver. The brake system includes a brake control unit (118) with at least two mutually independent partitions. Both partitions are each configured for controlling the electromechanical partial brake system and the electrohydraulic partial brake system on the basis of an actuating signal received from the actuating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Ullrich, Martin Baechle
  • Publication number: 20250106761
    Abstract: Power is saved by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system by sending a first message from a user equipment (UE) to a base station (gNB), monitoring a second message from base-station (gNB), starting a response window, monitoring a first mode and a second mode in the second message from base-station (gNB) by the user equipment (UE), whereby the first mode describes a first time period, and the second mode describes a second time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Rikin Shah, David Gonzalez Gonzalez, Osvaldo Gonsa
  • Publication number: 20250102800
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lamella arrangement, for a cover assembly for a head-up display, and to a method for manufacturing such a lamella arrangement. The disclosure also relates to a cover assembly having such a lamella arrangement and to a head-up display, in particular a head-up display for a transport which has such a cover assembly. The lamella arrangement has a first rack having a plurality of teeth and a first cover rack strip arranged on the first rack and having a plurality of teeth. The lamella arrangement also has a second rack having a plurality of teeth and a second cover rack strip arranged on the second rack and having a plurality of teeth. A plurality of lamellae are fastened between the teeth of the first and second racks and the first and second cover rack strips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Ziemer, Michael Döbler, Bjoern Hebestreit, Ulrich Tietz, Robert Wolfgang Kissel
  • Publication number: 20250100523
    Abstract: A a hydraulic brake system comprises a hydraulic pump for conveying brake fluid from a suction side to a pressure side, at least one electrically controlled hydraulic valve, and a brake fluid reservoir, which is connected to the suction side of the pump, and at least one control unit for controlling the hydraulic pump and the at least one hydraulic valve. In order to improve the availability at low temperatures, the control unit is configured, when a limit temperature is undershot and/or a limit viscosity is exceeded, to heat the brake fluid reservoir by means of the at least one electrically controlled hydraulic valve by actuating it with an electric current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Neu Neu, Michael Hitzel, Christian Courth, Harald Biller, Sebastian Mihm