Patents Assigned to Daimler
  • Restraining System
    Publication number: 20100230941
    Abstract: A restraining system includes a restraining volume that is bounded by a cladding, and is deployable by expansion of the restraining volume, to restrain or protect an object or person. Deployment of the restraining volume by expanding it into a restraining position is performed by a mechanical enlarging unit, rather than by a pyrotechnic gas generator, so that the restraining system may be restored to a storage position following a deployment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Andreas Hirth, Lutz Quarg, Friedrich Reiter, Clark Ruedebusch
  • User interface system and method for jump assist of hybrid vehicles
    Patent number: 7795838
    Abstract: The present disclosure is a system and method for charging a high voltage battery of a hybrid automotive vehicle which contemporaneously provides a user with a visual display of diagnostic hybrid system information, including but not limited to, battery data and state of charge data through a user interface located internal a cabin of the vehicle. In other exemplary embodiments, the user interface is operable for providing the visual display while also providing access to other features of the vehicle to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignees: Chrysler Group LLC, Daimler AG
    Inventors: Kumar Singarajan, Berlinda Bai, Shweta Kumar, Gunnar Urbschat
  • Exterior rearview mirror for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7793380
    Abstract: An exterior rearview mirror for a motor vehicle has a mirror housing, a wiper motor, and a wiper arm which is driven by the wiper motor via a wiper mechanism and bears a wiper blade for cleaning a mirror surface. The wiper mechanism generates an essentially parallel reciprocating movement of the wiper blade. It is essential here to the invention that the wiper mechanism has a first L-shaped pivot arm and a second L-shaped pivot arm which are respectively mounted rotatably in a fixed position at their elbows and are mounted rotatably, at their limbs on the wiper side, on an inner parallel wiper arm. Furthermore, an outer parallel wiper arm which is connected to the inner parallel wiper arm and bears the wiper blade is arranged on the inner parallel wiper arm. The two pivot arms are driven by the wiper motor to which they are connected in terms of drive at their limbs on the drive side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Wolf Boll
  • Vehicle film component, and method for the production thereof
    Patent number: 7789457
    Abstract: A component such as a vehicle exterior part having a transparent area without creating gaps is produced by introducing a hole into a film for the transparent area, inserting the film into a component mold, and then back-molding the same with a transparent plastic material in the mold such that the hole is filled with the transparent plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Jan Krueger, Margit Veeh
  • Folding top for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7789449
    Abstract: A folding top for a motor vehicle is provided. The folding top includes a rear roof part which delimits a window opening for a rear window and which is displaceable about a main pivot axis in order to transfer the folding top from a closed position into a storage position. The rear window is pivotable relative to the rear roof part about a window pivot axis which extends at a distance from the main pivot axis. The rear window bears against the rear roof part from the outside when the folding top is in the closed position and, after the folding top has been transferred into its storage position, is moved at least by way of a partial region through the window opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Martin Guckel, Bernhard Schenk, Juergen Schrader
  • Enclosed Separator Unit for a Gas Supply of a Fuel Cell System
    Publication number: 20100221618
    Abstract: An enclosed separator unit for incorporation into a gas supply device of a fuel cell system, to separate liquid from the gas supply device, includes a separator for separating the liquid. A housing encloses the separator unit which is arranged in a gas space 21 in the housing and/or is in thermal contact with the gas space. A line system is provided for discharging the liquid from the separator, and at least one fluid dynamically active functional component is arranged in the line system, in the gas space 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicants: Daimler AG, Ford Global Technologies LLCA
    Inventors: Thomas Baur, Werner Englert, Dietmar Mirsch, Hans-Joerg Schabel
  • Method and Apparatus for Operation of a Fuel Cell Arrangement
    Publication number: 20100221623
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for operation of a fuel cell arrangement having a plurality of fuel cells which are combined to form a stack and have a common cathode input and cathode output, as well as a common anode input and anode output, and having first components which supply the fuel cells with reactants and second components which process the reaction products of the fuel cells. First and second components are surrounded by separate housings or by a common housing. Exhaust air containing hydrogen is passed directly from all of the housings into a combined exhaust air line in which the hydrogen content of the combined exhaust air is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicants: Daimler AG, Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Markus Pabst
  • Method and Apparatus for Forming a Wetting Nominal Value for a Fuel Cell Unit
    Publication number: 20100221632
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for wetting a fuel cell unit on the basis of a predetermined dew point nominal value as a function of the operating state of the fuel cell unit, a corrected dew point nominal value is determined using a predetermined dew point nominal value, a component-specific correction value, and a process correction value. The corrected dew point nominal value is used to set the required amount of water for optimum wetting of the fuel cell unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Sabine Flanz, Martin Gruber, Stefan Kaindl, Michael Kurrle, Matthias Lederbogen, Gerald Post, Volker Schempp
  • Selective closing of at least one vehicle opening at a front portion of a vehicle
    Patent number: 7784576
    Abstract: Mechanisms are described for selectively closing grille and/or bumper openings. These mechanisms may be operated in response to one or more vehicle parameters. Closure mechanism control signals may be delivered to such mechanisms along a vehicle databus. In addition, vehicle parameters used in determining the control of such mechanisms may be sensed and provided along the databus to a controller which then processes the parameter information for determining whether to open or close the vehicle grille closing mechanism and/or the vehicle bumper opening closing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler Trucks North America LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Guilfoyle, Carl Trabant, Changhyun Shin, Michael von Mayenburg
  • PANEL PART FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PANEL PART
    Publication number: 20100213739
    Abstract: The invention relates to a panel part of the outer panel or inner panel of a motor vehicle. Said panel part comprises a base body (10) at least partially consisting of a transparent plastic material (12) carrying at least one solar module (16), the plastic material entirely surrounding the solar module (16) in a form-fitting manner, at least on the sun-facing side or the outer side of the panel part. The sun-facing side or outer side of the panel part is covered, at least in sections, by an essentially opaque and/or coloured covering layer (14) comprising a recess (18) associated with the solar module, in the arrangement region of the solar module (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Jan Krueger, Jens Humpenoeder, Ulrich Seiler
  • METHOD FOR CALIBRATING AN ASSEMBLY USING AT LEAST ONE OMNIDIRECTIONAL CAMERA AND AN OPTICAL DISPLAY UNIT
    Publication number: 20100214412
    Abstract: A method for calibrating an assembly consisting of an omnidirectional camera (2) located on a vehicle (1) and an optical display unit. An image displayed by the display unit reproduces a perspective of an imaginary virtual camera above the object (1), an image from the virtual camera is projected into an object coordinate system and resulting coordinates (XW, XW.Y) are projected into the omnidirectional camera. During the projection of the image of the virtual camera into the object coordinate system, pixels (xp) of the image of the virtual camera within an imaginary circle or ellipse (1) around the object are projected onto an imaginary plane, while pixels (xp) of the image outside the circle or ellipse are transformed by the virtual camera into the object coordinate system in such a way that they are projected onto an imaginary surface that rises from the edge of the circle or ellipse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Tobias Ehlgen
  • ACTUATION SYSTEM FOR A DRIVE UNIT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20100217463
    Abstract: An actuation system for a drive unit of a motor vehicle includes a control unit which is assigned to the drive unit and which has a function level, a function monitoring level, and a power output stage for actuating the drive unit or actuators or sensors which are assigned to the drive unit. To relieve the function level, a data transmission device for outputting data to a data bus is arranged in the function monitoring level. The data transmission device can output a drive setpoint torque to the drive unit, to actuators or sensors which are assigned to it, or to a power output stage (9, 9?) of a separate, second drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Daimler
    Inventors: Detlef Fuchs, Lothar Rehm, Thomas Von Raumer
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D622652
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Geisler
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D623108
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Frank Spoerle
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D623111
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Frank Spoerle
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D623112
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Geisler
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D623113
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Geisler
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D623114
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Geisler
  • Front bumper for a vehicle
    Patent number: D623566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Bauer, Ingo Feuerherdt, Hans-Dieter Futschik, Holger Hutzenlaub, Steffen Koehl, Frank Pfisterer, Uwe Schuller
  • Front light assembly for a vehicle
    Patent number: D623782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Stefan Handt, Steffen Koehl, Frank Pfisterer