Patents Assigned to Daimler AG
  • Patent number: 11305688
    Abstract: A method for visualizing a crossing over a road for a road user wanting to cross the road. At least one vehicle driving on the road stops and projects an image pattern onto the road for the road user crossing the road. The vehicle projecting the image pattern communicates with another vehicle driving on the road. The first vehicle projecting the image pattern on a first lane informs the other vehicle in at least one further lane at least indirectly about the road user wanting to cross the road and the image pattern which is projected or still to be projected, and it requests the other vehicle to stop and for its part to project an image pattern onto its lane in addition to the image pattern of the first vehicle or at least indirectly reports back to the first vehicle that it should also take over the projection on its lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Fridtjof Stein
  • Publication number: 20220111915
    Abstract: An articulated lorry that includes a tractor which has a fifth-wheel coupling and a trailer which has a connecting element which is reversibly detachably connected at a connection point to the fifth-wheel coupling. A tensioning device relieves a load on a wheel axle of the trailer, loads a drive axle of the trailer, and applies a force that counteracts a relative pivoting movement between the tractor and the trailer around a pivot axis which is oriented parallel to a transverse vehicle direction of the tractor and/or of the trailer. The tensioning device tensions the tractor to the trailer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Frank STEFFENS, Guenter KAYRAN
  • Publication number: 20220106036
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a platform disposed on the roof of the vehicle for landing/launching an autonomously free-flying drone where the drone is set up and designed to receive/deliver and transport an object. A first device determines a current position of the platform and/or the vehicle and a communication device directly or indirectly transmits data from the vehicle to the drone. The communication device transmits at least the current position of the platform and/or the vehicle to the drone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Benjamin KUEHN, Martin SCHMIDT, Thomas WURDIG
  • Patent number: 11292485
    Abstract: A method for granting access and driving authorizations and driving commands to be carried out, in the form of a data format, for a vehicle. A plurality of data processing systems of different user groups, which exchange the data format via a plurality of communication connections, are used, and an exchange undertakes the distribution of the data format among the respective involved user groups and into the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Dirk Hassert, Thomas Hartmann, Christian Rupert, Frank-Peter Pesl, Gerd Scheidhauer, Christian Heikamp
  • Patent number: 11293341
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle includes an exhaust system through which exhaust gas can flow and in which a first exhaust gas aftertreatment element is disposed. An exhaust gas turbocharger has a turbine and the turbine has a turbine wheel which is disposed upstream of the first exhaust gas aftertreatment element. A bypass line bypasses the turbine wheel and via the bypass line at least part of the exhaust gas can bypass the turbine wheel. The bypass line also bypasses the first exhaust gas aftertreatment element. The bypass line is fluidically connected to the exhaust system at a branch point disposed upstream of the turbine wheel and upstream of the first exhaust gas aftertreatment element. The bypass line is fluidically connected to the exhaust system at a discharge point disposed downstream of the turbine wheel and downstream of the first exhaust gas aftertreatment element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kuhn, Nils Brinkert, Rene Ernst
  • Patent number: 11293526
    Abstract: A hybrid dual-clutch transmission includes a first sub-transmission and a second sub-transmission, a first countershaft, a first output gear non-rotatably connected to the first countershaft, a second countershaft, a dual clutch, which has a first clutch assigned to the first sub-transmission and a second clutch assigned to the second sub-transmission, a separating clutch and an electric motor. The electric motor is or can be coupled to the separating clutch and to the dual clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Carsten Gitt, Tobias Haerter, Peter Hahn, Andreas Kolb, Jakub Romaniak, Juergen Schweitzer, Stefan Sperrfechter, Jonathan Zeibig
  • Patent number: 11292385
    Abstract: A method for feedback of a temperature setting of an air-conditioning device involves adjusting a light color of at least one lighting element for the display of a set temperature. The adjusted light color corresponds to a temperature setting of an airflow zone in a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Daniel Betz, Florian Etter, Daniel Fuhrmann, Daniel Steffen Setz
  • Patent number: 11285910
    Abstract: A safety belt for a vehicle includes at least one belt strap which has a belt interior arranged between at least two belt strap layers. In order to introduce heat into the vehicle near a vehicle occupant wearing the belt strap, at least one heating element is arranged in the belt interior adjacent to a belt strap layer facing the vehicle occupant wearing the belt strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Frank Niebling, Yannick Dietrich, Steffen Kampmann
  • Patent number: 11286824
    Abstract: A method for desulphurising a nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter of an exhaust gas system that includes the nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter and at least one selective catalytic reduction catalytic converter disposed downstream of the nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter, of an internal combustion engine, where a desulphurisation strategy, on the basis of which the nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter is desulphurised, is adjusted to the ageing of the nitrogen oxide accumulator catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Woog, Berthold Keppeler, Nathalie Janine Schweitzer
  • Patent number: 11280279
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle includes a combustion chamber with a gas exchange valve which is movable between an open position and a first closed position. The gas exchange valve is movable on its path from the open position in a direction of the first closed position into an intermediate position located between the open position and the first closed position and is holdable in the intermediate position at least during a part of a compression cycle of the combustion chamber following the open position of the gas exchange valve and is movable into a second closed position following the intermediate position. The part comprises more than a half of the compression cycle and less than a whole of the compression cycle. The gas exchange valve is an inlet valve via which the combustion chamber is supplyable at least with air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Franz Huber, Christian Lorenz, Jochen Hufendiek, Johannes Ernst
  • Patent number: 11268579
    Abstract: A hybrid dual-clutch transmission includes a first countershaft sub-transmission, a second countershaft sub-transmission, a first clutch assigned to the first countershaft sub-transmission, a first actuating chamber, a first centrifugal oil chamber, a first power transmission region, a first inner lamella carrier, and a first outer lamella carrier. The transmission also includes a second clutch assigned to the second countershaft sub-transmission, a second actuating chamber, a second centrifugal oil chamber, a second power transmission region, a second inner lamella carrier, and second outer lamella carrier. The transmission further includes a third clutch to connect to an internal combustion engine and which has a third actuating chamber, a third centrifugal oil chamber, a third power transmission region, a third inner lamella carrier, and a third outer lamella carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Peter Hahn, Stefan Sperrfechter, Tobias Haerter, Juergen Schweitzer, Jonathan Zeibig, Andreas Kolb
  • Patent number: 11269617
    Abstract: A system for transmitting at least one upgrade package for at least one control device of a motor vehicle is provided. The system includes a storage device external to the motor vehicle that stores the upgrade package, as well as a communication device that wirelessly transmits the upgrade package from the storage device external to the motor vehicle to at least one transmission device of the system. The transmission device conducts a transmission process of the upgrade package for the at least one control device and installs the upgrade package on the at least one control device. The at least one transmission device is arranged internally in the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Sven Biermann, Volker Feil, Markus Folk, Denis Goldis, Jörg Harr, Daniel Hoffmann, Marcus Hohloch, Peter Höhmann, Tobias Neumeier, Lifang Pilarski, Stefan Sperlich, Sebastian Widmaier
  • Patent number: 11267435
    Abstract: An airbag arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an airbag, which can be unfolded by filling with a gas, and a sheathing, in which the airbag is arranged before and after filling. The airbag is provided and is to be arranged on the motor vehicle in such a way that, before filling, it is located in the region of a first end of the sheathing and/or a vehicle pillar of the motor vehicle and can be unfolded by filling inside the sheathing and along at least one section of the vehicle pillar up to a second end of the sheathing and/or the vehicle pillar. The invention further relates to a motor vehicle having such an airbag arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Yves Clauss, Till Heinrich, Ingo Kalliske, Marco Porstmann, Norman Steinke
  • Patent number: 11265999
    Abstract: A communication network for networking lighting systems of home and office technology involves an application on a mobile terminal that can control lighting systems in the surroundings of the mobile terminal. The lighting systems in the interior of a vehicle are also networked and the lighting systems are controlled depending on the lighting settings of a screen of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Daniel Betz
  • Patent number: 11242089
    Abstract: A chassis for a passenger car includes two main longitudinal chassis beams which are connected to one another via a bumper cross member. A support arrangement extends between the two beams and is supported on a central tunnel. The support arrangement forms a load path in an event of a collision-related force being applied to the passenger car where above and/or below the support arrangement an installation space region is provided for accommodating a component or unit in need of protection. The support arrangement includes a strut which extends in a region of a center of the passenger car between the two beams and which forms a protective device which transmits impact forces forwards to the central tunnel. The strut has a first longitudinal section that is deformable in a targeted energy-absorbing manner and a second longitudinal section which functions as a rigid beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Michael Wirsing, Matthias Hildebrand, Andreas Freund, Peter Gere, Levent Aktay, Jan-Mark Opelka, Peter Kuemmerlen, Dietmar Kallfass, Jens Spremberg, Joerg Zimmermann, Dieter Edele, Steffen Dingfelder, Ralf Mehrholz, Marcus Hirzel, Bianca Oehm, Marie-Louise Hertfelder
  • Patent number: 11236687
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle includes a combustion chamber with a gas exchange valve which is movable between an open position and a first closed position. The gas exchange valve is movable on its path from the open position in a direction of the first closed position into an intermediate position located between the open position and the first closed position and is holdable in the intermediate position at least during a part of a compression cycle of the combustion chamber following the open position of the gas exchange valve and is movable into a second closed position following the intermediate position. The part comprises more than a half of the compression cycle and less than a whole of the compression cycle. The gas exchange valve is an inlet valve via which the combustion chamber is supplyable at least with air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Franz Huber, Christian Lorenz, Jochen Hufendiek, Johannes Ernst
  • Patent number: 11237318
    Abstract: A light for a motor vehicle includes a flat light guide with decoupling structures for light on the front side, as well as at least one light source for coupling light into the flat light guide. A graphic is arranged on the rear side of the light guide, the graphic being constructed from regions with different degrees of reflectivity and/or colors. The decoupling structures and the graphic have the same graphical pattern and are oriented in relation to one another. The at least one light source couples the light into the flat light guide on the end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Jens Mertens
  • Publication number: 20220030014
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting intrusion in a distributed field bus of a vehicle network involve using an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect intrusion in the network. In a network with a number of nodes, IDS is configured in each of the number of nodes. The IDS, in a first node configured in a transmission mode, receives at least one message signal. A hash function is performed on at least one message signal for generating a first Honeypot (HPT) signal. Simultaneously, the first node transmits the first HPT signal to the second node. The first node and the second node generates a reference HPT and second HPT respectively using an echo-hash function. The IDS detect intrusion based on a comparison of the reference HPT and the second HPT. The method is independent of network traffic timing and can be performed in real-time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Chandrasekhar POTLURI, Andreas KRUEGER
  • Patent number: D944688
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Bastian Baudy, Holger Hutzenlaub, Steffen Koehl, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener, Sylvain Christophe Wehnert
  • Patent number: D947424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Patrick Guth, Robert Lesnik, Frederic Seemann, Gorden Wagener