Patents Assigned to CONTINENTAL
  • Patent number: 11592875
    Abstract: A plastic arrangement that includes a first plastic component, a second plastic component, and a plastic lock mechanism for fastening the second plastic component to the first plastic component. The plastic lock mechanism includes a first lock unit and a second lock unit. The first lock unit includes a U-shaped cantilever member, a catch element and a catch element retention part. The second lock unit includes a protruding member and a protruding member retention part. The plastic lock mechanism provides a locked position wherein the catch element retention part restricts movement of the catch element for preventing the second plastic component from separating from the first plastic component, and the protruding member retention part restricts movement of the protruding member for hindering the moving of the first lock unit to a released position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Hian Keat Jeff Kong, Joo Hou Khor, Kevindran Pillay Mauree, Kok Hee Abel Lim
  • Patent number: 11580229
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving system information data representing configurations of digital systems; receiving attack information data associated one or more of the digital systems; analyzing the received system information data and attack information data, to associated attack types; identifying, for each identified attack type, correlations and/or causalities between individual system constituents or combinations thereof in the digital systems associated with attacks; determining and assigning, based on the identified correlations and/or causalities, an attack vulnerability value, for each attack, respectively, to each of the systems and/or systems' constituents and/or combinations thereof; and retrievably storing attack vulnerability values associated with the systems, system constituents and/or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Abhijit Ambekar, Mohammad Ilyas
  • Patent number: 11569598
    Abstract: A smart key for a vehicle includes: a base part; a first terminal part coupled to the base part and which makes contact with a first electrode of a battery so as to be electrically connected to the battery; a second terminal part disposed facing the first terminal part to form an insertion part where the battery is inserted and which makes contact with a second electrode of the battery to be electrically connected to the battery; a separation prevention part which extends from the second terminal to the base part and which abuts the side surface of the battery to prevent the battery from separating from the insertion part; and a pressure applying part which is connected to the second terminal part so as to enable contact with the battery and which maintains contact between the battery and the separation prevention part by an elastic restoring force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: JaeHo Mun
  • Patent number: 11550480
    Abstract: A method of identifying errors or manipulations of data or software, includes receiving a first hash value stored in a first block of the memory, receiving a second hash value from a reference memory, and comparing the hash values. If different, error correction information and the content of the first block is received. The content of the first block is reconstructed by in accordance with the error correction information, generating a hash value and comparing the hash value of the modified content with the received first hash value, until the modified content and the received hash values are identical. The content of the first block received from the reference memory and the content of the reconstructed first block stored in the memory of the device are compared for identifying the differences in the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Marc Sebastian Patric Stöttinger, Abhijit Ambekar
  • Patent number: 11550610
    Abstract: A vehicle system having: a hardware level, a first operating system, and a virtual machine integrated on the hardware level having a second operating system. A hypervisor operates the virtual machine such that the first and the second operating systems) are operated in parallel on the hardware. A first application is executed on the first operating system and a second application is executed on the second operating system. The first application has a higher safety standard than the second application. The second operating system is configured to be operated in suspend-to-RAM mode while the first operating system is switched off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Goldmann, Steffen Ehrhardt
  • Patent number: 11538337
    Abstract: A notification method configured so as to signal to a user a malfunction liable to affect his vehicle during a driving phase. The notification method includes a monitoring step configured so as to generate route datasets relating to a driving route of a vehicle of each user; a malfunction signaling step configured so as to generate signaling datasets including information about the vehicle in question relating to a malfunction with the vehicle in question as observed by a user-observer; an analysis step configured so as to identify which vehicle is the vehicle in question, on the basis of the route datasets and the signaling datasets; and a notification step configured so as to generate a notification message intended for the user of the vehicle in question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Erwan Doceux
  • Patent number: 11537718
    Abstract: A method for reprogramming data of a software function executed by an execution core and a security core, the data being present in two physically separate non-volatile memories, each managed by one of the execution or security cores, including the following steps: upon receiving a reprogramming request, a second value is stored in a first Boolean, determining whether the first Boolean is equal to the second value and if a second Boolean is equal to a first value, and if affirmative; an execution core is made to emit at a reinitialization request via a bidirectional communication channel towards a security core and a request to initialize a portion of the first non-volatile memory towards the set of functions for managing the non-volatile memory by an execution core; a second value is stored in the second Boolean; it is determined whether a predetermined reprogramming event has taken place, and if affirmative, the first value is stored in the first Boolean, while keeping the second value in the second Boolean
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Lauranne Carles, Jérôme Monier
  • Patent number: 11536334
    Abstract: A friction lining holding spring and the equipped component/assembly, specifically a motor vehicle disc brake lining, including the friction lining holding spring. The friction lining holding spring includes an offset knee piece of a U-spring leg, which branches off at an angle from a largely flat U base section, and wherein the largely flat base section has a fastening tab with a cup-shaped rim hole including a through-opening for the purpose of fixing on a backplate of the friction lining, wherein each knee piece has integrated gearing, which is in particular designed as an uneven brake piston insertion trajectory such that, when a brake piston is inserted, there is a predefined gearing reduction effect for the purpose of automatically influencing or modelling the necessary force requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Matthias Würz, Stefanie Weise, Norbert Leidecker, Jens Adam, Martin Klacik
  • Patent number: 11530935
    Abstract: The invention relates to a crankshaft, transmission or camshaft sensor (10) for a motor vehicle, intended for being connected to an engine control unit (30) by a cable (20). The sensor comprises a processing module (17) and a voltage-modifying circuit (18) configured to generate an output signal via an output port (12) of the sensor (10) allowing a diagnosis module (36) of the engine control unit (30) to detect and identify faults of the sensor (10) or the cable (20). In particular, the processing module (17) is configured to provide on its output port (172), when the toothed target (14) is immobile, a predetermined pattern representing the fact that the toothed target (14) is immobile, this predetermined pattern corresponding to a status change of the output port (172) of the processing module (17) with a predetermined time and repeated periodically. The invention likewise relates to a diagnosis system (1) comprising such a sensor (10), a cable (20) and an engine control unit (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Marie-Nathalie Larue, Masuo Hannuki, Benjamin Marconato
  • Patent number: 11533310
    Abstract: An authentication method and system for mutual authentication between a first entity and a third entity via a second entity, based on an authentication protocol used by the first entity and the third entity. The second entity forwards mutual authentication messages between the first entity and the third entity. An apparatus is configured to perform an authentication method for a mutual authentication between a first entity and a third entity via a second entity, based on an authentication protocol used by the first entity and the third entity, the second entity forwards mutual authentication messages between the first entity and the third entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Sebastian Fach, Gilles Yvars, Ahmad Sabouri
  • Patent number: 11525382
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for analysing the operation of an anti-pollution system for a motor vehicle (1) with an internal combustion engine, said vehicle (1) comprising at least one sensor for measuring (110) a parameter of the vehicle (1) and an analysis computation means (140) directly connected to said measuring sensor (110), said analysis computation means (140) comprising a memory area, said method being characterised in that it comprises a step for using the measuring sensor (110) to measure at least one parameter of the vehicle (1), a step for using the measuring sensor (110) to transmit at least one digital datum representative of the measured value of the parameter to the analysis computation means (140) and a step for using the analysis computation means (140) to compare said digital datum with a predetermined range of values representative of an operation of the anti-pollution system according to a predetermined standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Boyer, Ludovic Rocher
  • Patent number: 11524696
    Abstract: A method for determining the values of parameters for a controller of a vehicle, wherein respective error measures are calculated for different sets of values and a set of values is selected based on the error measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventor: Ulrich Stählin
  • Patent number: 11516191
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Wen Wang, Marc Sebastian Patric Stöttinger
  • Patent number: 11505209
    Abstract: An automated driving system with assistance for a driver in performing a non-driving activity includes an assistance device configured to assist the driver in performing the non-driving activity. The automated driving system, in a first operating state controls the vehicle in an automated manner, and in a second operating state hands over control of the vehicle to the driver. The assistance device is configured to assist the driver in performing the non-driving activity if the automated driving system switches from the first operating state to the second operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Wannemacher, Stephan Cieler
  • Patent number: 11500848
    Abstract: A method for determining the integrity of navigation data of a control unit of an automotive vehicle, including the steps involving setting two counters to a value strictly above the maximum of the two counters, and, in a waking phase, calculating the fingerprints of the data written to the reset safe area, comparing the counters and determining the integrity of the data when the counters are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: François De La Bourdonnaye, Stéphane Eloy, Nora-Marie Gouzenes
  • Patent number: 11491956
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing acquisition of an analog signal value with a read signal for a state of an electrical contact of a motor vehicle. The method includes: controlling, at each start time of the first task, the power supply module so that the power supply module generates a read signal voltage pulse at the interface module input; at the same start time, triggering a counter for a predetermined duration shorter than the duration of the read signal voltage pulse; on the expiration of the counter duration, measuring the value of an analog signal generated by the interface module based on the state signal and of the read signal; and controlling, at the next start time of the second task, the power supply module so that the power supply module generates a zero voltage signal at the interface module input until the next start time of the first task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Besnard, Vincent Fabre
  • Patent number: 11491998
    Abstract: A method for determining the values of parameters for a controller of a vehicle, wherein respective error measures are calculated for different sets of values and a set of values is selected based on the error measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventor: Ulrich Stählin
  • Patent number: 11491870
    Abstract: Disclosed is a solution to the use of a speed limiter in a motorcycle that has a high capacity for acceleration, including a method for limiting the speed of a motorcycle using precise parameters of speed, acceleration and required engine torque and a single control button to manage the smart activation and deactivation of the limiter and to input new speed limits Vlim in a simple way. It thus allows the use of a speed-limiting system in a motorcycle that has a high power/weight ratio by avoiding the sources of interference with the riding and the effects liable to jeopardize its stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Xavier Moine
  • Publication number: 20220352705
    Abstract: A vehicle electrical system, particularly for a motor vehicle. The vehicle electrical system has at least two electrical system branches, a disconnecting switch device between the two electrical system branches, wherein the disconnecting switch device has a first controllable switch unit and a series circuit having a second controllable switch unit and an overcurrent protection unit, wherein the first switch unit and the series circuit are electrically connected to each other in parallel between the two electrical system branches, and a control unit which in an idle mode of the vehicle electrical system, is equipped to switch the first switch unit into an open, current-disconnecting switching state and to keep it in the current-disconnecting switching state and to switch the second switch unit into a closed, current-carrying switching state and to keep it in this current-carrying switching state. A motor vehicle with the above-mentioned vehicle electrical system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Ludwig RAMSAUER, Reiner KNORR, Stephanie PREISLER, Dirk REICHOW
  • Patent number: 11473918
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a system for determining a risk of an accident on a driving route comprising: a memory storing route risk parameters of the driving route, wherein at least one of the route risk parameters is assigned to route sections of the driving route, wherein each of the route risk parameters contains information relevant for road safety on the respective route section; and a processor in communication with the memory, programmed to determine a respective risk factor for each of the route risk parameters, wherein the respective risk factor indicates a measure of a risk of an accident on the respective assigned route section. The processor determines a total risk index of the driving route based on the respective risk factor of the respective risk parameter assigned to the respective route section, wherein the total risk index measures risk of an accident on the driving route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Rene Alexander Körner