Patents Assigned to CONTINENTAL
  • Publication number: 20240368086
    Abstract: A compound, a rubber mixture containing the compound, a vehicle tire comprising the rubber mixture in at least one component, a process for producing the compound and the use of the compound as an aging stabilizer and/or antiozonant and/or dye, in which, the compound has the formula (I), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of benzyl radicals, 1-phenylalkyl radicals having altogether 7 to 18 carbon atoms and linear, branched and cyclic aliphatic C3- to C12-radicals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Jacob, David-Raphael Dauer, Julian Strohmeier, Elisabeth Wittenberg
  • Publication number: 20240367463
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire with a tread with at least one circumferential groove, which is formed to the profile depth and has a groove base and groove flanks, wherein free-standing webs, which are at a distance from one another in the circumferential direction, are elongate in the circumferential direction and have a top surface running parallel to the tread periphery and a height of 7% to 30% of the profile depth, are formed on the groove base, wherein at least one protrusion, which sits on the groove base and is elongate in the circumferential direction, is formed between successive webs in the circumferential direction on and along each groove flank, wherein the one protrusion overlaps the other protrusion with respect to the circumferential direction, at least in portions, so that between the protrusions there remains a groove-base channel, which has a constant width in the axial direction between protrusion edges which are formed on the protrusions and run at a constant depth and
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Herbst, Fabian Zimmermann, Stefan Rittweger
  • Publication number: 20240371271
    Abstract: A method for creating a map with collision probabilities for an area including a plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Stählin, Marc Menzel
  • Publication number: 20240368364
    Abstract: A process for producing a vulcanizable composite material, including the steps of: a) producing or providing a textile strength member, b) producing or providing a crosslinkable rubberization mixture comprising: i) at least one base rubber selected from the group consisting of ethylene-propylene-diene rubbers and butyl rubbers, and ii) at least one aging selected from the group consisting of p-phenylenediamines, dihydroquinolines, phenylnaphthylamines, substituted phenols and substituted bisphenols, and c) introducing the textile strength member into the crosslinkable rubberization mixture to obtain the vulcanizable composite material, wherein the crosslinkable rubberization mixture is processible by vulcanization to give a crosslinked rubberization mixture which is at least partly transmissive to visible light at least in sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Guitler, Mathias Wenckel, Rainer Kahner
  • Publication number: 20240367397
    Abstract: A sealant device for a sealant for sealing a vehicle tire, including a closure unit with two openings, the first opening configured for the air inlet and the second opening configured for the sealant outlet and a tube is arranged at the first opening, which extends into the device and through which the air can flow into the device At the end of the tube, the first opening has a first sealing element and the second opening has a second sealing element. A puncture repair kit includes the sealant device and a pressure source. A method for producing the sealant device includes:—manufacture of a housing section by blow molding or injection molding,—manufacture of a closure unit with two openings by injection molding, and—connecting of the housing section to the closure unit to form a sealant device by means of ultrasound or snap-on closure or via a bayonet closure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Schlosser, Rainer Detering
  • Publication number: 20240372648
    Abstract: Scalable space-time quadrature spatial modulation for multidimensional wireless systems is performed by configuring a plurality of transmit antennas to each represent an in-phase spatial constellation symbol within an in-phase spatial constellation, and a quadrature spatial constellation symbol within a quadrature spatial constellation, mapping source data to the in-phase spatial constellation symbols and the quadrature spatial constellation symbols represented by the plurality of transmit antennas, wherein the method constructs the set which has equal multiplicities of the transmit antenna activation, which ensures maximum possible transmit diversity and reduces the required complexity, making this feasible for larger number of antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: David Gonzalez Gonzalez, Osvaldo Gonsa, Hiroki Iimori, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Hyeon Seok Rou
  • Publication number: 20240372649
    Abstract: Configuring a plurality of transmit antennas to each represent an in-phase spatial constellation symbol within an in-phase spatial constellation, and a quadrature spatial constellation symbol within a quadrature spatial constellation, mapping source data to the in-phase spatial constellation symbols and the quadrature spatial constellation symbols represented by the plurality of transmit antennas, wherein the method is applying an optimal and scalable quadrature spatial modulation scheme (OS-QSM) resulting in a maximum possible coding gain in the resultant quadrature spatial modulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: David Gonzalez Gonzalez, Osvaldo Gonsa, Hiroki Iimori, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Hyeon Seok Rou, Andreas Andrae
  • Publication number: 20240369366
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for replanning a parking trajectory of a vehicle during an at least semiautomatic parallel parking process following the reception of information that a pre-planned parking trajectory for the parallel parking process has to be replanned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Hendrik Deusch, Yong-Ho Yoo
  • Publication number: 20240369832
    Abstract: An optical illumination module for a motor vehicle display system including a light generator for generating light beams, and a polarizer film to at least partially polarize the light beams generated by the light generator and a reflective sheet positioned therebetween. The reflective sheet comprises a plurality of punch-holes, each of the punch-hole is configured to align to each of the light cell of the light generator. The reflective sheet is operable to receive the at least partially polarized light beams reflected from the polarizer film and re-direct the polarized light beams towards the polarizer film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Ting Xiao, Christian Junge
  • Publication number: 20240367634
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining operating variables of a drum brake has the following steps: a) recording at least one supporting force of a brake shoe of the drum brake by means of a sensor, and b) ascertaining the operating variable based on the supporting force, the operating variable being selected from the brake lining friction value and the spreading force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Vey, Jens Hoffmann, Martin Kruse, Mathias Haag, Martin Gädke
  • Publication number: 20240368383
    Abstract: A sulfur-crosslinkable rubberization mixture for metallic strength members which contains 0.25 to 5 phr (parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the total rubbers in the mixture) of at least one novolac resin which comprises alkylurethane units and is produced by reaction of a phenolic compound, an aldehyde and a carbamate resin, wherein the carbamate resin is produced by reaction of alkylurethane with an aldehyde, and 0.5 to 3 phr of at least one sulfenimide accelerator. Also provided is a pneumatic vehicle tire which includes at least one such sulfur-crosslinked rubberization mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Eichhorst, Joseph Guardalabene
  • Publication number: 20240371179
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for detecting individual free marked target areas such as, e.g., parking/landing/docking places, from images of a camera system) of a movement device by means of a machine learning system, and to a method for training the machine learning system. The method for segmenting and identifying individual free marked target areas includes the steps of: capturing at least one image of the environment of the movement device by means of the camera system; segmenting the individual free marked target areas from the at least one image by means of a machine learning system trained; and outputting, to a control unit, a first segment which corresponds to the individual free marked target area and second segments of at least one additional class of the captured environment of the movement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Ferdinand Kaiser, Christoph Brand
  • Patent number: 12134842
    Abstract: This invention relates to high tenacity yarn for a tire cord comprising polyethyleneterephthalate multifilament obtained by melting and spinning a resin composition comprising first polyethyleneterephthalate and second polyethyleneterephthalate having different intrinsic viscosities, and a method for preparing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC., CONTINENTAL REIFEN DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Ki Sub Lim, Il Chung, Sung Ho Park, Nermeen Nabih, Michael Schunack, Thomas Kramer
  • Publication number: 20240359509
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire having a tread, a belt assembly, a radial carcass, and having sidewalls which in each case in their radially outer region have at least two rows of parallelogram-shaped elevations with a height of 0.80 mm to 1.50 mm, determined in relation to the remaining level of the sidewall, said rows running so as to be concentric with the annular shape of the sidewall, wherein in which intermediate spaces are present between the elevations within one row and between mutually adjacent rows. The rows of elevations are mutually offset in the circumferential direction of the sidewall, with the elevations overlapping one another, wherein the intermediate spaces between the elevations are also mutually offset in the circumferential direction from row to row, so as not to be co-aligned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ahmet Özüduru, Eugen Henze, Lubos Kuniak
  • Publication number: 20240363041
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, a computer program comprising instructions and a device for reducing masking by a virtual image of a head-up display of a transport. The disclosure additionally relates to a head-up display for a transport in which such a method or such a device is used. In a first step, a horizon is determined. Afterward, an image to be displayed is subdivided into a plurality of partial areas. In this case, the partial areas are rectangular and their vertical extent varies over the area of the image to be displayed. For the individual partial areas, masking areas are determined and checking is carried out to ascertain whether the determined masking area exceeds a permissible size for at least one of the partial areas. If this is the case, a warning signal is output. Finally, at least one measure for reducing the masking is implemented in response to the warning signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Nils Palm
  • Publication number: 20240363042
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, a computer program comprising instructions and a device for reducing masking by a virtual image of a head-up display of a transport. The disclosure additionally relates to a head-up display for a transport in which such a method or such a device is used. In a first step, a horizon and/or a vanishing point is determined. Afterward, an image to be displayed is subdivided into a plurality of partial areas. In this case, the partial areas are trapezoidal and their size varies over the area of the image to be displayed. For the individual partial areas, masking areas are determined and checking is carried out to ascertain whether the determined masking area exceeds a permissible size for at least one of the partial areas. If this is the case, a warning signal is output. Finally, at least one measure for reducing the masking is implemented in response to the warning signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Nils Palm
  • Patent number: 12128634
    Abstract: A rivet connection has a hollow rivet composed of plastics material and connects a first component to a second component. The first component has a first surface and the second component has a second and third surface. The first surface and the second surface bear on one another. The second component has a first opening between the second and the third surface. The hollow rivet has a tubular component having a lateral wall, a cavity, a first end and a second end. Part of the tubular component is disposed in the first opening of the second component. The second end of the tubular component protrudes beyond the second component. The lateral wall of the tubular component adjacent the first opening of the second component is heated and compressed and configures an outwardly bulging region. Part of the outwardly bulging region contacts the third surface of the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Murmann, Sven Friedrich, Eric Brückner
  • Patent number: 12128643
    Abstract: A method having the following steps is proposed: a) placing a green tire (20) to be vulcanized in a vulcanization mold, b) evaluating the temperature progression from the temperature sensor disposed in the cavity of the inner heater, wherein the energy input is adjusted both via the duration of the idle time and via the starting temperature, c) calculating an adjustment in the duration for the steam phase (24) of the inner heater when the idle time varies from a defined threshold, d) introducing steam into the inner heater of the vulcanization press and performing the steam phase (24, 25) for the calculated duration, wherein the adjustment of the duration for the steam phase (24, 25) is intended to ensure an optimal input of thermal energy for the vulcanization of the green tire (20), e) measuring the actual temperature progression with the temperature sensor (16) in the inner heater, f) comparing the actual temperature progression (27) with a target temperature progression (26) for a particular vehicle tire
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Fricke, Heiko Hesse, Lars Kielhorn, Milos Kovac
  • Patent number: 12128710
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire having a tread with at least one profile block row which is divided into a multiplicity of profile blocks by transverse channels having channel flanks which extend at an angle of up to 50° with respect to the axial direction, wherein transverse channels are provided, in each of which there is formed a base elevation which locally reduces the depth of the transverse channel and which connects successive profile blocks in a circumferential direction to one another, wherein the base elevation has at least two base elevation parts of different height. Centrally on each of the base elevation parts there is formed at least one groove which runs in the direction of extent of the transverse channel and which emerges from the base elevation part at least on one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Atakan Soyyuece, Ahmet Özüduru
  • Patent number: 12128948
    Abstract: A number of illustrative variations may include a system that may manage torque overlay scenarios in a vehicle where the brakes and propulsion system are providing both lateral and longitudinal movement commands and there is a change in longitudinal acceleration requested from a driver or autonomous driving system. The system may manage driver brake inputs and brake-to-steer brake inputs to maintain brake-to-steer functionality while also applying sufficient braking as requested by the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation, Continental Automotive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Labarbera, Clinton L. Schumann, Scott T. Sanford, Michael Wyciechowski, Emmanuel Garcia