Patents Assigned to Continental Teves AG & Co., OHG
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Patent number: 11273812Abstract: Brake system of a motor vehicle having front wheels and rear wheels having a hydraulic service brake device. The system further includes an electrically actuatable pressure-providing device, wherein the pressure-providing device is connected to the first and second wheel brakes, comprising a parking brake device having electric-motor-actuatable wheel brakes at the rear wheels, and an electronic open-loop and closed-loop control unit, wherein in a hydraulic fallback operating mode of the brake system, in the case of a brake pedal actuation by a vehicle driver, only the first wheel brakes are connected to the master brake cylinder and supplied with pressure by the driver by the master brake cylinder, while the rear wheels are braked by the electric-motor-actuatable wheel brakes.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Paul Linhoff, Marco Besier, Stefan Drumm, Andreas Heise
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Patent number: 11273829Abstract: A driver assistance system (10) for a vehicle includes a control unit (11), and a communication device (12) for receiving data from a server (30). The control unit (11) is configured to calculate a trajectory (T) for the vehicle on the basis of sensor data. The control unit (11) is also configured to replace the calculated trajectory (T) for the vehicle (20) with an offboard trajectory (T1) received from the server (30) under certain circumstances.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventor: Ulrich Staehlin
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Patent number: 11273835Abstract: A system for a vehicle, having a driver monitoring device with a sensor device and with a first camera, an environment detection device with sensors for surroundings acquisition, a control unit and a classifier. Using the environment detection device and the classifier, traffic scenarios A and B may be classified. Using the driver monitoring device, it is possible to determine whether a direction of view of the driver is directed towards a traffic situation and whether the driver has their hands on a steering wheel of the vehicle. Using the control unit, it is possible, on the basis of information from the driver monitoring device and the environment detection device, to determine whether the driver is capable of resolving the traffic scenario classified as A or B within a response time.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Hagen Stübing, Oliver Fochler
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Publication number: 20220073048Abstract: A braking system having wheel brakes, a pressure supply device connected to the wheel brakes, a master brake cylinder actuated by a brake pedal and connected to the wheel brakes, and a brake fluid reservoir having a first and a second reservoir chamber separated by a partition wall, wherein the first reservoir chamber is connected to the pressure supply device, via which the pressure supply device is supplied with pressure medium, and the second reservoir chamber is connected to the master brake cylinder, via which the master brake cylinder is supplied with pressure medium The braking system is operated in a first operating mode when the first filling level is reached and a second operating mode when the second filling level is reached, and a hydraulic fallback level if a lowest filling level is reached.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Martin Brenn, Thorsten Ullrich
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Publication number: 20220065310Abstract: For controlling electromechanically actuatable brakes of servo type construction, it is necessary to detect the forces acting on the abutment of the brake shoes. The abutment is therefore formed from a massive material which deforms under load, wherein measurement devices are provided which detect this deformation. The shape of the abutment is selected in such a way that the abutment has measurement gaps, the size of which changes when the abutment is loaded. The size of the measurement gaps can be sensed by means of Hall sensors or AMR sensors, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Uwe Bach, Christian Vey, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann
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Patent number: 11247651Abstract: A hydraulic unit for generating brake pressure for a hydraulic brake system, comprising a housing which is produced from a cast blank, wherein the cast blank has at least one receiving cavity which is provided for machining to form a receiving profile for sealingly receiving a connecting piece, which is connected to a fluid container and can be plugged into the receiving profile along a plug-in axis, wherein the housing comprises at least one piston bore for receiving at least one piston, which is driven along a piston bore axis into the cast blank.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Jörg Loke, Horst Krämer, Manfred Rüffer, Andreas Bischoff, Sascha Gerber, Ingo Knewitz
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Patent number: 11248672Abstract: A drum brake module for motor vehicles, the drum brake module being driven by an electric motor and having at least one parking brake function, includes an electromechanical cable pull actuator which is fastened on the anchor plate with the aid of an adapter. The adapter is designed as a one-piece, thin walled frame having at least one fastening flange for receiving the cable pull actuator and is held in place on the anchor plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventors: Uwe Bach, Jens Hoffmann, Niclas Görrissen, Wolfgang Ritter, Ahmed Sefo, Holger von Hayn
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Patent number: 11246036Abstract: A vehicle system including a vehicle-to-X communication device for vehicle-to-X communication and a processing device for processing data to be sent by vehicle-to-X communication. The processing device is designed to transmit to the vehicle-to-X communication device data which are to be sent. The vehicle-to-X communication device is designed to generate an unsigned vehicle-to-X message using the transmitted data to be sent and to transmit the unsigned vehicle-to-X message to the processing device. The processing device is further designed to sign the transmitted vehicle-to-X message and to transmit the signed vehicle-to-X message to the vehicle-to-X communication device for emission. A corresponding method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventor: Marc Menzel
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Publication number: 20220024424Abstract: The invention refers to a method of preventing automatic leveling during battery replacement, and a computer-program thereof. The method of preventing automatic leveling during battery replacement, according to invention, operates for an electric vehicle equipped with a first electronic control unit (100) in charge with battery replacement and a second electronic control unit (200) of suspension system, the respective ECUs (100, 200) communicating by means of an internal bus system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventor: Radu Andrei Ramoiu
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Patent number: 11221088Abstract: A method for actuating a solenoid valve, which is loaded with a pneumatic pressure medium, in order to reduce a pressure (psys) which is applied to the solenoid valve, where the solenoid valve assumes a closed switching position in the deenergized state and assumes a completely open switching position when it is energized with a switching current intensity (Is(p)) which is dependent on the applied pressure (psys), where a first rise current final value (I1) is predetermined, which first rise current final value is smaller than the switching current intensity (Is(p)), where the solenoid valve is energized with an actuating current which follows an actuating current profile (SV1, SV2), and where the actuating current profile (SV1, SV2) comprises a first rise phase (TA1), in which the actuating current is increased to the predetermined first rise current final value (I1), and, following said first rise phase, a first holding phase (TH1) in which the actuating current is held constant at the first rise current fiType: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Dierk Hein, Patrick Wassermann
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Patent number: 11218849Abstract: A vehicle-to-X communications system for a vehicle, includes first antenna, a second antenna, a first transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal, the first transceiver electrically connectable to the first antenna via a first antenna interface, a second transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal, the second transceiver electrically connectable to the second antenna via a second antenna interface, a control device connectable to the first transceiver via a first communications interface and to the second transceiver via a second communications interface. The first transceiver and the second transceiver are configured to communicate with the control device independently of one another and, further, to transmit and receive a signal independently of one another via their first antenna and the second antenna.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventors: Ulrich Stählin, Marc Menzel
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Patent number: 11218093Abstract: A method for driving a multiphase motor by a drive circuit, wherein the drive circuit comprises a plurality of transistors, and for each phase of the motor are provided a first path and a second path, wherein at least one transistor is assigned to the first path and to the second path of each of the different phases, and wherein a normal mode, a first drive mode, and a third drive mode are provided, wherein for the first drive mode, all the transistors in the second paths are short-circuited, and for the third drive mode, all the transistors are opened. The method includes detecting an undervoltage or an overvoltage in the drive circuit, operating the drive circuit in the first drive mode if a first undervoltage has been detected, and operating the drive circuit in the second drive mode if a second undervoltage has been detected.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Andreas Kohl, Bogdan Budianu, Andreas Strecker, Alexandru Turcanu
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Patent number: 11209056Abstract: A friction lining assembly having a backing plate and a sheet metal restoring spring fixed thereto, for a partially lined sliding-caliper type disk brake having a brake holder fixed with respect to the vehicle, on which friction lining assemblies arranged on both sides of a brake disk are slidably guided. A housing, which extends over the brake disk and the friction lining assemblies, is slidably mounted on the brake holder. The restoring spring is clamped axially between the brake holder and the friction lining assembly by at least one spring leg and applies a release clearance to the friction lining assembly. The spring leg extends over a hammer-head-shaped claw of the backing plate. The spring leg is plastically deformable in a defined manner under braking actuation as a result of a reduction in the friction-material thickness in order to impose a constantly dimensioned release clearance on the friction lining assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventors: Sebastian Salzmann, Ralph Petri, Norman Langer, Werner Denhard, Thorsten Adam, Christian Lankes, Jens Bauer, Christoph Keil, Dietrich Golz, Mathias Haag, Christoph Kalff
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Patent number: 11205347Abstract: A method for ascertaining an ego position of an electronic device, having the steps: ascertaining an ego position of the electronic device by a position-detecting apparatus of the electronic device, ascertaining, by a computing apparatus for processing the data of the electronic device, a position of a road user using positional information comprising a received vehicle-to-X message in respect of cooperative road user recognition, ascertaining, by the computing apparatus or a further computing apparatus for processing data, a distance between the ascertained ego position and the position ascertained using the received positional information, correcting the ascertained ego position using the positional information to form a corrected ego position if the distance is less than or equal to a threshold value. An electronic device, the use of the electronic device as well as a corresponding system as also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignees: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Ulrich Stählin, Sebastian Strunck
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Patent number: 11203352Abstract: A motor vehicle controller performs one or more control and/or monitoring functions. The controller includes a processor which determines a first utilization level of the controller during the motor vehicle's travel mode, and a communication interface which receives program code. The program code defines a new control and/or monitoring function of the controller and/or modifies a control and/or monitoring function of the controller. The processor further determines a second utilization level of the controller in the motor vehicle's standstill mode. The program code is the basis for performing the controller's new control and/or monitoring function and/or the modified control and/or monitoring function of the controller, and take the first and second utilization levels as basis for deciding to perform the controller's new control and/or monitoring function and/or the controller's modified control and/or monitoring function in the vehicle's travel mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventors: Ulrich Stählin, Jürgen Kunz
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Publication number: 20210367930Abstract: A method of secure data export from an automotive ECU to a requesting entity includes receiving a signed request, the request transmitting a first public encryption key. The signature is verified using a second public key stored in the automotive ECU. Further, the requesting entity is authenticated. Only upon successful verification and authentication the automotive ECU generates a random symmetric key for encrypting the data to be exported. The symmetric key is encrypted using the first public key received in the request, and unencrypted data is deleted. The encrypted data is exported to the requesting entity, which decrypts the symmetric key using a first private key associated with the first public key, and decrypts the data encrypted with the symmetric key.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co . oHGInventors: Wen Wang, Marc Sebastian Patric Stöttinger
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Patent number: 11184919Abstract: A communication apparatus for vehicle-to-X communication (V2X communication), including a first interface for V2X communication on a first communication channel, a second interface for V2X communication on a second communication channel and a computing device for processing V2X messages received and/or to be sent. The apparatus is configured, initiated by the transmission of a first V2X message by the first interface, to transmit a second V2X message by the second interface. A corresponding method as well as the use of the communication apparatus in a vehicle or a mobile apparatus is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignees: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Marc Menzel, Ulrich Stählin
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Patent number: 11179667Abstract: A method for the treatment of air of a compressed air system for a motor vehicle, the compressed air system comprising an air compressor, an air dryer and an ambient temperature sensor, wherein an exchange operation of a system air volume is performed by the air compressor, wherein during the exchange operation a part of the system air from the compressed air system is released into the surroundings and ambient air is filled into the compressed air system. The method includes determining a current ambient temperature value (TU) using the ambient temperature sensor, checking a first condition, whether or not the current ambient temperature value (TU) is lower than a temperature limit value (TG), and performing the exchange operation to lower the dew point of the system air by the air dryer if the first condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Holger Oldenettel, Harald Schaumburg
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Patent number: 11175412Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle-to-X communication system for a vehicle. The vehicle-to-X communication system comprises a first communication module having a first antenna, wherein the first antenna has a first communication angle; a second communication module having a second antenna, wherein the second antenna has a second communication angle; wherein the first communication module and the second communication module are arranged in such a manner that the first antenna and the second antenna are oriented in different directions, in order to obtain a total communication angle which is composed of the first communication angle and the second communication angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventor: Ulrich Staehlin
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Patent number: 11173764Abstract: An air suspension strut for a motor vehicle, comprising an air spring having a shock, 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 rolling bellows, together with the air spring cover and the rolling piston, delimit a working chamber filled with compressed air, wherein the shock damper is supported via a damper bearing arranged on a piston rod in a pot-shaped bearing holder of the air spring cover. The closure cap seal comprises an inner sleeve and a closure part radially enclosing the inner sleeve, wherein the inner sleeve is pushed onto an end section of the piston rod, and the closure part is pushed sealingly into the bearing holder.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventor: Ralf Pielock