Patents Assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
  • Publication number: 20230166704
    Abstract: A braking device for a hydraulic motor vehicle braking system has a housing with a cylinder bore formed therein along a bore axis (A), with at least one piston which is actuable axially in the cylinder bore by a pedal, and which braking device has at least one simulator unit which is positioned directly below the cylinder bore with a simulator axis (S) which is oriented perpendicularly to the side flank and transversely with respect to the bore axis (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Constantin Loghin, Cristian-Constantin Apetrei, Eduard Cretu, Constantin-Petrica Cazacu, Marius Cucos, Marius-Vasilica Adam, Ionut-Madalin Pista, Radu-Tudorel Damian, Cristian Aonesti
  • Publication number: 20230145357
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement comprises an LED chain comprising multiple LEDs and bypass switching elements, wherein each LED is assigned to one of the bypass switching elements, and the bypass switching elements each have a driver terminal, wherein each of the bypass switching elements is configured to bypass the LED of the LED chain that is associated with the bypass switching element based on a voltage at the driver terminal that is associated with the bypass switching element; and a switch, wherein the driver terminals of the bypass switching elements are connected to the switch via a common node, the switch being configured to discharge a capacitor of a constant current source that can be connected to the LED chain based on a voltage applied to the node. A circuit comprises the circuit arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Emil Kovatchev
  • Publication number: 20230144250
    Abstract: A computer-implemented reconstruction method of discrete digital signal recovery in noisy overloaded wireless communication systems in the presence of hardware impairments that is characterized by a channel matrix of complex coefficients, the method including, receiving the signal from channel by a signal detector, estimation of hardware impairments parameter ? is done at the receiver, estimation noise power is done by a noise power estimator, forwarding the detected signal and hardware impairments parameter ? and noise power estimation to a decoder that estimates the transmitted symbol, wherein the estimation of the decoder produces a symbol that could probably have been transmitted it is forwarded to a de-mapper, which outputs the bit estimates corresponding to the estimated transmit signal and the corresponding estimated symbol to a microprocessor for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: David Gonzalez Gonzalez, Andreas Andrae, Osvaldo Gonsa, Hiroki Iimori, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Razvan-Andrei Stoica
  • Publication number: 20230139711
    Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle along a trajectory, in which the vehicle has a control device which plans the trajectory within a definable search space of the trajectory and can access actuators of the vehicle in order to control the vehicle , wherein at least one limit value is determined for at least one manipulated variable of an actuator and a search space of the manipulated variable is defined on the basis of the at least one limit value, wherein the search space is used to plan the trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Philipp Keßler
  • Publication number: 20230125088
    Abstract: A brake system has at least two energy sources and at least two electromechanical wheel brakes. A first wheel brake is directly connected exclusively to a first of the energy sources and is not directly connected to a second of the energy sources. A second wheel brake is directly connected to the second energy source and is not directly connected to the first energy source. The wheel brakes are each configured to, in the event of failure of the energy source of the respective other wheel brake, supply energy to the other wheel brake from the remaining energy source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Jochen Beuss
  • Publication number: 20230127266
    Abstract: A driver monitoring camera comprises an optical sensor configured to take an image of a driver of a vehicle, an inclination sensor configured to determine an inclination of the driver monitoring camera with respect to a vehicle coordinate system and a processor configured to determine a pose of the driver in a driver monitoring camera coordinate system from the image and configured to transform the pose of the driver in the driver monitoring camera coordinate system to a pose of the driver in the vehicle coordinate system using the determined inclination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Kah Soon Ang, Florin Burza
  • Publication number: 20230126121
    Abstract: A braking system for a motor vehicle has a first and a second parking brake A first and a second control device each have a driver for driving at least the first and/or the second parking brake actuator. The first control device has a first arbitration unit to data whether a parking brake action should be carried out. The second control device has a second arbitration unit to receive parking brake request data and to ascertain from the received data whether a parking brake action should be carried out. The result of the second arbitration unit is fed to the first arbitration unit as parking brake request data and the result of the first arbitration unit is transmitted to the driver of the first and/or second control device for driving the first and second parking brake actuators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Brenn, Thorsten Ullrich
  • Publication number: 20230119215
    Abstract: A battery sensor for detecting a current flowing through an electrical conductor, wherein the battery sensor has at least two mutually independent measuring devices for detecting the current flowing through the electrical conductor. The measuring devices are structurally and/or electrically completely isolated from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Irsigler, Matthias Böhm, Dirk Grobe, Sudarshan Rao
  • Publication number: 20230121655
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic device with active cooling. In order to make a compact design of an electronic device possible and furthermore ensure a high level of ESD/EMC protection and a high level of IP protection, it is proposed according to the disclosure that a housing of the electronic device is connected to a main body of a fan. When the main body and housing are in a connected state, an opening to the interior of the housing is closed off. The main body is furthermore connected to a bushing on which the fan rotor is mounted for rotation. In the connected state, a chamber is furthermore formed which is separated from the interior of the housing and in which the fan rotor is arranged. Here, the chamber forms a housing for the fan rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Hildebrand, Georg Nehm
  • Publication number: 20230113774
    Abstract: A head-up display comprising an image generator with a light source, a tilted display, an aspheric mirror, an optical system, a transmissive screen, and an aspheric lens, wherein the aspheric lens is arranged between the tilted display and the aspheric mirror is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Willi Scheffler-Juschtschenko, Andreas Buechel, Nico Plagens
  • Publication number: 20230111973
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed for monitoring the logical consistency of an artificial neural network. Activation data of the artificial neural network, which are produced from input data, are initially read in. The activation data are transferred to at least one trained concept model which is trained to recognize and, if applicable, localize a partial feature of the features contained in the input data and to output a calibrated partial feature mask. The final output data are linked to the partial feature truth values by means of a fuzzy logic unit in such a way that a continual logical consistency truth value is produced therefrom. The logical consistency truth value is evaluated by means of an evaluation unit, wherein a logical inconsistency of the final output data is ascertained in an inconsistency region if the consistency truth value falls short of a predefined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Gesina Schwalbe, Christian Wirth
  • Publication number: 20230115930
    Abstract: A head-up display comprising an image generator with a light source, a tilted display, a display glass wherein the display glass has a wedged shape, a light trap, an optical system, and a transmissive screen is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Willi Scheffler-Juschtschenko, Andreas Buechel, Christian Junge, Jörg Reimann, Eugen Vetsch
  • Publication number: 20230109494
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for building a training dataset on a server, including the steps of: analyzing meta information of the training dataset for a requirement to extend the training dataset; and based on the requirement, sending a data capturing task to a data capturing device, in particular a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Ionut-Valentin Gheorghe, Christian Hellert, Antje Elisabeth Loyal
  • Publication number: 20230098471
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for identifying an RFID card as a passive or an active RFID card comprising sending a first RFID command, while keeping an RFID field on; receiving, from the RFID card a corresponding first answering signal; populating a first list with each corresponding first answering signal from the RFID card; sending a second RFID command, wherein the RFID field is paused for a predefined pausing period after sending the second RFID command; receiving, from at least zero active RFID cards, a corresponding second answering signal; populating a second list with each corresponding second answering signal from the at least zero active RFID cards; comparing the entries of the first list with the entries of the second list; identifying each of the at least zero passive RFID cards by having the corresponding first answering signal in the first list but not in the second list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Serban Craciun
  • Publication number: 20230098295
    Abstract: Doppler effects are compensated for in received wireless communication signals. In a receiver a first signal is received, that was transmitted by a transmitter at a first frequency f1 and that was received at a doppler-shifted first frequency f1? and a second signal, that was transmitted by said transmitter at a second frequency f2 and that was received at a doppler-shifted second frequency f2? is also received. A frequency difference fS between the first frequency f1 and the second frequency f2 has a predetermined value. Based on the doppler-shifted first frequency f1?, the doppler-shifted second frequency f2? and the frequency difference fS, the first frequency f1 is determined for pre-compensating Doppler effects in the received first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Christopher Georg Haccius
  • Patent number: 11614135
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brake piston 1 for a brake caliper 9 of a disk brake, which is produced using working processes from a metallic material, in particular from a flat metal sheet, and is formed in one piece as a unilaterally open pot with a piston longitudinal axis A, with a piston wall 2 and with a piston head 3. There is a need for robust and light as well as alternatively constructed, efficiently producible and well guided brake pistons. The object is achieved firstly in principle on the basis of a cup-shapedly worked brake piston blank 19, in that at least one locally defined, i.e. partially cold-upset or partially ironed, cylindrical piston wall portion is present with a partially deformed piston wall 2 which is configured in adaptively modified manner by plastic material deformation by means of material redistribution (flow) including strain-hardening of its piston wall thickness of sl?x.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, ERDRICH UMFORMTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Uwe Zeibig, Matthias Müller, Ulrich Lorenz, Rico Bauersfeld
  • Publication number: 20230086943
    Abstract: A hydraulic braking system has a vacuum brake booster, an ESC system with a hydraulic pump for generating braking force in a wheel-specific manner in a plurality of wheel brakes, an ESC control device for driving the hydraulic pump and a hydraulic pressure sensor for determining a hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic braking system. For electrified vehicles, an electric vacuum pump is provided for supplying the vacuum brake booster, wherein the ESC control device is designed to drive the electric vacuum pump logically and electrically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Ullrich, Tibor Toth, Martin Kraft, Manfred Liebl, Bernd Zielke, Stefan Daffner, Andreea Cenuse
  • Publication number: 20230079930
    Abstract: An electronic wheel unit for arrangement on a vehicle wheel of a vehicle, having at least one sensor for detecting at least one wheel operational parameter, a control device, which is designed to generate wheel operational data on the basis of the at least one wheel operational parameter, a radio device for transmitting radio data signals containing the wheel operational data, a power supply device for supplying electrical power to the wheel unit which has an energy-harvesting device for converting mechanical energy captured on a rotation of the vehicle wheel into electrical energy and an electric battery, wherein the electronic wheel unit furthermore has a switchover device for switching over between the energy-harvesting device, and the electric battery for the electrical power supply to the wheel unit, and the switchover device has an actuable switch and an actuating device for actuating the switch, wherein the at least one wheel operational parameter comprises an acceleration parameter, and the actuating
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Löffler
  • Publication number: 20230072836
    Abstract: A sensor for detecting relative movements between an encoder, having a substantially periodic scale and/or pattern, and at least one sensor element, wherein the sensor comprises at least one sensor element and a signal processing device, the signal processing device being designed to take the sensor element output signal of the sensor element as a basis for providing a movement signal, wherein the signal processing device is designed such that it has two or more switching thresholds for the at least one sensor element output signal, movement information that is taken into consideration for generating the movement signal being generated substantially whenever a switching threshold is exceeded and/or is fallen short of by the sensor element output signal, wherein the signal processing device is designed such that the appearance of movement information results in a particular movement impulse of defined duration being generated in the movement signal, wherein the signal processing device is designed to substanti
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: René Trapp, Mario Trott, Tillmann Krauss
  • Publication number: 20230067747
    Abstract: A device for accommodating a component in an interior space has a housing comprising a housing wall delimiting the interior space of the housing, and a passage portion in the wall. The component comprises a sensing element with an actuating portion, and a holding portion mechanically connected to said actuating portion and has at least one latching hook with a latching lug. The component has a holder with a latching edge. When the component is accommodated in the interior space, the actuating portion, in a first state, is arranged in the passage portion, and, to reach a second state with the actuating portion in the interior space, is displaceable into the interior space so the latching lug of the latching hook engages over the latching edge. The latching connection so created prevents the actuating portion from being displaced in the direction of the passage portion, and enables damage-free removal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Siegfried Mandl, Antje Steinmüller