Patents Assigned to Continental Teves AG & Co.
  • Patent number: 11402003
    Abstract: A threaded spindle module includes a threaded spindle which extends along a longitudinal axis and has an external thread at an output-side end and, offset with respect to the external thread, a drive-side end with a peg for rotationally fixed coupling to an actuator interface, and with a threaded nut which is screwed onto the external thread, and a joint-like curved support point of the threaded nut is provided as a pivot joint of the threaded spindle module, with a pivot joint center relative to an associated receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Lazar Milisic, Thomas Hess, Mario Zach
  • Publication number: 20220228635
    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: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: 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: 11390258
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic motor vehicle control device, in particular for a motor vehicle brake system, including a hydraulic unit with electrically activated valves and a brake-pedal-activated master brake cylinder, an electronic control unit which comprises a first printed circuit board with electrical and/or electronic components for actuating the valves, and an electric motor for driving an electrically controllable, hydraulic pressure source which is arranged on a first side face of the hydraulic unit, wherein a second printed circuit board is provided which is arranged in a region of the first side face of the hydraulic unit, wherein a first sensor element for sensing activation of a brake pedal is arranged on the second printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventor: Hans-Jörg Feigel
  • Publication number: 20220212645
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle brake system, wherein the brake system has at least one friction brake and at least one regenerative brake. A defined switching pattern is specified for switching between a self-cleaning operating mode for cleaning the friction brake and a normal operating mode of the brake system. The method includes determining information describing the state of the at least one friction brake, determining the state of the at least one friction brake from the information, determining whether the state satisfies a specific switching criterion, and, if the self-cleaning operating mode is to be activated according to the switching pattern and the state of the friction brake does not satisfy the switching criterion, suppressing activation of the self-cleaning operating mode and maintaining the normal operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Christian Gunselmann, Alexander Rodatos, Nils Horstmann, Farid Abedini Bayghra, Roman Katchan, Lukas Jung, Scott R Smith
  • Patent number: 11377118
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of cooperatively coordinating future driving maneuvers of a vehicle with fellow maneuvers of at least one fellow vehicle, wherein a fellow data packet is received from the fellow vehicle, in which a fellow trajectory set of a fellow reference trajectory is contained, a trajectory from a trajectory set for the vehicle is selected as a reference trajectory for the vehicle using the fellow reference trajectory, wherein a trajectory which is collision-free towards the fellow reference trajectory is selected, the trajectories of the trajectory set are rated using limit trajectories, and at least one cooperation trajectory is selected from the trajectories of the trajectory set using the reference effort value, wherein a data packet containing the reference trajectory and the cooperation trajectory is transmitted to the fellow vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Hendrik Fuchs, Florian Wildschütte, Thomas Michalke, Ignacio Llatser Marti, Maxim Dolgov, Sebastian Strunck, Jonas Schönichen, Thomas Grotendorst
  • Patent number: 11370403
    Abstract: An apparatus having a housing, a cavity which is disposed in the housing and which at least in regions is configured as a bore in which at least one piston and one piston spring associated with the piston are received, wherein the piston spring in the bore when activating the piston in the operation of the apparatus is compressed by the piston. The piston spring is configured from a magnetic or magnetizable material, the piston is configured from a non-magnetic material, and an assembly unit which comprises the piston having the piston spring is provided, and in which the piston spring is held on the piston by a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Andreas Bischoff, Horst Krämer, Manfred Rüffer, Jörg Loke, Sascha Gerber, Ingo Knewitz
  • Publication number: 20220185123
    Abstract: A method for controlling the rotational speed or the torque of a motor to protect a suppressor diode in a control device of a vehicle, wherein the suppressor diode converts recuperation energy of the motor into thermal energy comprises determining the current junction temperature and/or diode voltage of the suppressor diode; and controlling the rotational speed or the torque of the motor by means of the current junction temperature and/or diode voltage in such a way that the junction temperature of the suppressor diode does not exceed a predetermined junction temperature limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Christian Gunselmann, Bogdan Budianu, Andreas Donner, Albert Cimpoesu
  • Patent number: 11362610
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Dominik Schulte, Bogdan Budianu, Eugen Bartel, Tom Kaufmann
  • Publication number: 20220176767
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Dierk Hein, Christian Witala, Volkan Sirke, Holger Oldenettel
  • Patent number: 11353474
    Abstract: A wheel speed sensor includes at least one sensor element, at least one signal processing circuit, as well as at least one first plastics-material housing which houses or at least partially exposes the sensor element and the signal processing circuit, wherein the sensor has a cap, in particular from metal, wherein the sensor has a clamping device which is connected so as to be integral to the cap and/or is integrated in the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Lothar Biebricher, Ulrich Schrader, Felix Ruhmann
  • Publication number: 20220169222
    Abstract: A method for operating a braking system of a vehicle, wherein the braking system comprises a primary hydraulic braking system and a brake actuation unit hydraulically decoupled from the primary braking system. The brake actuation unit comprises at least two sensor arrangements which are configured to detect, independently of one another, actuation information of the brake actuation unit describing a brake request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Thorsten Ullrich, Martin Brenn, Martin Baechle
  • Patent number: 11333482
    Abstract: A method for sensing travel by a travel-sensing arrangement for a brake system, wherein the travel-sensing arrangement has a first magnetic angle sensor, and the method includes determining a first field strength in a first direction and determining a second field strength in a second direction by the first angle sensor, wherein the travel-sensing arrangement has a second magnetic angle sensor which is arranged at a predetermined distance from the first angle sensor, and the method further includes determining a first field strength in a first direction and determining a second field strength in a second direction by the second angle sensor. A travel-sensing arrangement, to a brake system having a travel-sensing arrangement, to a motor-vehicle and to a use of the travel-sensing arrangement and the method in a brake system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Veit Albrecht, Volker Schardt, Jens Habig, Benjamin Hütter, Christian Burgdorf, Wolfgang Fritz
  • Publication number: 20220144033
    Abstract: A compressed air supply device for an air suspension system of a motor vehicle comprising a motor-driven compressor, a dryer, a discharge path from the dryer to the outside, and an adjustment device for changing a flow cross section of the discharge path is provided in the discharge path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventor: Christian Witala
  • Patent number: 11325208
    Abstract: A method for roughening a surface of a body by a laser, the laser acting on the surface of a body and thereby creating recesses in the surface, and the laser thereby being directed and guided onto the surface and set in terms of its power output in such a way that recesses with at least two substantially different depths are created in the surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Marco Benner, Svenja Raukopf, Florian Häupl, Johannes Rosenberger
  • Patent number: 11327182
    Abstract: A method and corresponding device for detecting correction information for an antenna for receiving data of a satellite of a satellite navigation system includes the steps of determining first distance information of the antenna relative to a satellite of a satellite navigation system, capturing position information and orientation information of the antenna on the basis of sensor information, determining second distance information of the antenna relative to the satellite on the basis of the position information captured using sensor information, detecting a deviation of the first distance information from the second distance information, determining correction information on the basis of the detected deviation, and storing, in a data memory, the correction information regarding the orientation information captured by the sensor information. The correction information can be used in particular for correcting an angle-dependent phase center offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO OHG
    Inventors: Michael Zalewski, Ulrich Stählin
  • Publication number: 20220135014
    Abstract: A hydraulic unit for a slip-controlled brake system, the simulator receiving hole of which is aligned transversely to a master cylinder hole in a receiving body of the hydraulic unit, thus enabling a section of the simulator to be received in a cap of a control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Rüdiger Briesewitz, Joseph Dolmaya, Mike Hirsemann, Christian Rene Koch
  • Patent number: 11318524
    Abstract: A method for producing a container having an upper part, a lower part and a receiving element such as an electronics module includes the following steps: the lower part is created from a first starting material in a first processing region of a processing device; the upper part is created from a second starting material in a second processing region of the processing device; the receiving element is fed into the first processing region of the processing device; the lower part receives the receiving element in the first processing region of the processing device; the upper part is fed from the second processing region into the first processing region of the processing device; and there the upper part and the lower part are joined together to form the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Manfred Goll, Martin Haverkamp, Gerhard Sticksel
  • Patent number: 11312198
    Abstract: 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. The air spring cover comprises a damper bearing receptacle in which a damper bearing of the shock damper is arranged, and the air spring cover comprises a clamping base to which a first end of the rolling bellows is attached. At least the damper bearing receptacle of the air spring cover is produced completely from a plastic material, and the plastic material is a thermoplastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventor: Kai Marcus Rautenberg
  • Publication number: 20220118809
    Abstract: A device for fastening an air spring to a body portion of a motor vehicle, at least comprising an air spring cover, wherein the air spring cover comprises at least one fastening means, by means of which the air spring can be connected to the body portion of the motor vehicle, wherein, for attachment of the air spring, the fastening means is plugged through an opening of the body portion and is fixed to said body portion in a force-fitting manner by a securing element, wherein a first and a second plastics part are provided for acoustic decoupling of the air spring, wherein the first plastics part, is clamped between the body portion and the securing element, and the second plastics part is provided so as to be positioned below the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventor: Kai Marcus Rautenberg
  • Patent number: 11300170
    Abstract: An improved electromechanically drivable spreader unit having an integrated adjustment apparatus for a drum brake, in which the linear motion of brake shoe holders is produced by two ball-ramp devices, wherein a first ball-ramp device includes a first actuation piston arranged for rotation about the axis and a second ball-ramp device includes a second actuation piston arranged for rotation about the axis, and wherein an adjustment apparatus for compensating an actuation travel that increases as a result of wear on the friction linings is arranged in an axially centered position within the housing and substantially between the actuation pistons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter