Abstract: Pressure body for an air-spring system, which is produced from a plastics material, wherein the pressure body comprises an outer enveloping structure and an internal reinforcing structure, wherein the enveloping structure comprises a multiplicity of convexly shaped segments, which are arranged adjacent to one another and form part of a wall of the pressure body.

Abstract: An electromechanical-hydraulic piston actuator providing pressurized pressure medium for a brake system of a vehicle, including an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, a rotation-translation mechanism driven by the electric motor and which has a rotatable threaded nut and a threaded spindle prevented from rotating and displaceable in its axial direction, a piston coupled with the threaded spindle in the axial direction thereof, a hydraulic cylinder having a hydraulic chamber filled with pressure medium into which the piston is displaceable from a rear piston position towards a forward piston position to pressurize the pressure medium and/or expel it from the chamber. A hydraulic connection is connected to the chamber via which pressure medium can be expelled from the chamber. An isolation device is provided for the piston-travel-controlled isolation of the rotational coupling between the rotor of the electric motor and the threaded nut.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a corresponding execution device. The method includes determining a position of a vehicle by a satellite navigation system, establishing a guaranteed position range, where the guaranteed position range describes the geographical region around the actual position of the vehicle, in which the determined position has to be located according to a specified minimum integrity, matching the determined position with an electronically stored road map and corresponding allocation of the position of the vehicle to a road on the road map, where the road map includes information regarding open spaces without a drivable infrastructure as well as an allocation of roads according to road classes, and validating the road class of the allocated road according to the road map on the basis of the guaranteed position range as well as the information contained in the road map regarding open spaces without a drivable infrastructure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control system for controlling a brake, a steering and/or a drive of an autonomous or automated vehicle. This involves an artificial-intelligence-based first control apparatus being monitored by virtue of a criticality of a driving situation being determined on the basis of simple calculation values, wherein a specific criticality of the driving situation, or an inappropriate reaction by the first control apparatus to the driving situation, can result in changeover to a second control apparatus that undertakes the control of the vehicle on the basis of a deterministic calculation rule.

Abstract: An air suspension system for a motor vehicle and a method of operating thereof includes an air suspension device for adjusting a ride-height position of the motor vehicle by the feeding and removal of compressed air into a plurality of air springs. The system also includes a dryer supplied via a compressed-air supply unit which has a compressor driven by an electric motor. A control unit for performing a ride-height control function has instruction for: raising the ride-height position to a first ride-height position; subsequently lowering the ride-height position to a second ride-height position; checking a first condition whether a determined air quantity ratio is less than a first predetermined air quantity limit value; checking a second condition whether a saturation level of the dryer is greater than a saturation limit value, and activating the ride-height control function when either the first or the second condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A method for operating a permanent magnet synchronous motor comprises setting a maximum power, determining a current vector and an output voltage vector in the dq coordinate system. A setpoint amount for a setpoint voltage vector is calculated on the basis of the maximum power, the current vector and the output voltage vector. The setpoint voltage vector is generated with the setpoint amount, and then operating the permanent magnet synchronous motor at least with the setpoint voltage vector.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for error evaluation in position determination, comprising time-synchronous recording of first and second position values, wherein the second position values are recorded by a different measuring method than the first position values; forming a first and a second trajectory (A, B) from the first and the second position values respectively; forming differential vectors (D) between first and second position values recorded at the same time; parallel-shifting the second trajectory (B) along a displacement vector (s) such that the amounts of the differential vectors (D) are minimized on average; evaluating the faultiness of the position determination on the basis of one or more amounts of the differential vectors (D) created as a consequence of the parallel shift.

Abstract: A method for operating a compressor for a compressed air system of a motor vehicle, in particular an air suspension system, wherein an operating temperature of the compressor is determined and used as a criterion for the compressor to be operated until a switch-off temperature (T) is reached, wherein a switch-on duration (t) until reaching the switch-off temperature (T) is determined, and the determined switch-on duration (t) is adjusted by a parameter (LP) dependent on the switch-off temperature (T) reached.

Abstract: An anti-rotation banjo connection comprising a banjo plate attached to a pipe at its own first end edge and including an opening configured to receive a bolt, the bolt being configured to be screwed into a port of a hydraulic component, wherein a second end edge of the banjo plate, opposite to the first end edge, is provided with a positioning notch configured to partially surround a stopping fastener when the bolt is screwed into the port, whereby an edge wall delimiting the positioning notch is configured to interfere with the stopping fastener preventing the banjo plate from rotating about the bolt.

Abstract: A method of monitoring execution of computer instructions includes receiving data items representing real-time measurements of side-channel information emanating from execution of computer instructions, each data item forming a value of a corresponding dimension of a side-channel information vector, receiving, for two or more of the dimensions of the side-channel vector, classifiers that assign the corresponding values of a side-channel vector to classes, and classifying the data items in accordance with the received classifiers, wherein an orthogonal distance of the data item from the classifier indicates a confidence value of the classification, generating a combined a confidence value for the side-channel information vector a, and outputting a signal if a confidence value indicates affiliation to a selected one of the two classes with a predetermined probability. The method conducts a self-test by generating a combined confidence value based to ensure correct outputting of the confidence value.

Abstract: A method of controlling a parking process of a vehicle includes the following steps: identifying a driver; learning driver parameters during a manual parking process performed by the driver, and associating the driver parameters with the identified driver; determining parking parameters based on the driver parameters; and controlling, based on the parking parameters, an autonomous parking process of the vehicle performed by a parking assistance system.

Abstract: A seal mold divided structure for combination cable disclosed comprises the following structures: a first cable and a second cable separated from the combination cable; a connector provided at the end of the first cable; a division molding portion that molds the division part between the first cable and the second cable and keeps the first cable and the second cable separated from each other; a connector molding portion that molds the connection part between the connector and the first cable; and a protect tube, with its ends respectively fixed to the division molding portion and the connector molding portion to protect the first cable and prevent inflow of a molding compound.

Abstract: An air suspension strut for a motor vehicle comprises an air spring having an air spring cover and a rolling piston. A shock damper is integrated with the air spring and has a damper tube and a piston rod receivable within the damper tube. A rolling bellows is secured between the spring cover and the rolling piston thereby delimiting a variable volume pressure chamber filled with compressed air. The rolling bellows rolls on the rolling piston with a rolling fold being formed. A damper bearing is accommodated in a bearing socket of the air spring cover and connected to the piston rod. The damper bearing comprises a supporting piece, an elastomer body, and a sleeve. A closure element inserted in the bearing socket above the damper bearing. An elastic element arranged between the sleeve and the closure element.

Abstract: An air spring strut for a motor vehicle comprising an air spring with a shock damper for the spring-cushioning and damping of oscillations of a motor vehicle chassis, wherein the air spring comprises an air spring cover and a rolling piston, wherein a rolling bellows of elastomer material is clamped in an airtight manner between the air spring cover and the rolling piston, wherein the air spring cover comprises a damper bearing receptacle in which a damper bearing of the shock damper is arranged, and wherein the air spring cover comprises a clamping base to which a first end of the rolling bellows is attached, wherein at least the damper bearing receptacle of the air spring cover is produced from a plastic material.

Abstract: A motor-vehicle fixed-caliper partially lined disk brake with pin mounting for backing plates of disk brake linings, comprising a one-piece clearance spring with two spring legs which are elastically clamped in between the backing plates on a bearing portion which is free of friction material.

Abstract: A hydraulic control housing of modular construction consists of a first block, in which a compression chamber is formed, and a second block, which has a port to a reservoir. The compression chamber is connected to the reservoir via a duct extending through the control housing. A check valve is arranged in that duct section of the duct which extends through the first block.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve arrangement (10) comprising valves and coil arrangements (20), each coil arrangement (20) having two coils (110, 210) which are electrically connected to separate control units (100, 200). Each valve can be independently actuated by either the first coil (110) or the second coil (210) of the coil arrangement (20) associated therewith. The invention further relates to a brake system (400, 500) having such a valve arrangement (10).

Abstract: A brake disk with a friction ring or to a friction ring, which comprises a PMMC (particle metal matrix composite), at least in the region of its friction surface. The friction surface of the friction ring is provided with mechanically applied microgrooves, which extend in a radial direction with respect to a circumferential direction of rotation of the friction ring, non-tangentially angled thereto.

Abstract: An injection-molding device for producing a hollow-formed plastic object, at least comprising a mold for the primary shaping of the plastic object, an injection device for at least partially introducing a flowable polymer melt into a cavity within the mold and a fluid injection device for introducing a pressurized fluid and for driving a projectile through the polymer melt introduced into the cavity, the mold comprising a mold wall and a mold core that is arranged at least partially within the mold wall, the projectile being formed at least partially in such a hollow-formed manner that it is arranged on the mold core and is movable along a longitudinal extent of the mold core on the latter. A projectile injection process for producing a hollow-formed plastic object with this injection-molding device and a hollow-formed plastic object produced by this process.

Abstract: A second electrohydraulic brake control device for a motor vehicle comprises a pressure control valve assembly, an controllable pressure source and a reservoir connection. For a group of wheel brakes, the second electrohydraulic brake control device is connected in series between the associated output pressure connections of a first or main brake control device and the vehicle wheel brakes.