Abstract: A method tar operating a vehicle where at least one comfort function is offered to at least one vehicle user for activation. The at least one comfort function is offered to the at least one vehicle user for activation after a start of an electrical charging process of at least one energy storage device of the vehicle. The comfort function is offered to the vehicle user depending on an expected necessary charging time of the electrical charging process of the energy storage device of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle assistance system is described. In one embodiment, when the vehicle is in the autonomous driving mode, encountering an obstacle is prevented independent of the passage height, due to a control unit if is determined that the obstacle is a load supported by a working machine, where the load projects into a driving corridor of the vehicle or moves in the driving corridor. Also described is a device for carrying out the method and to a vehicle having such a device.

Abstract: An electric truck that travels by electric power supplied from a battery includes a ladder frame including a pair of side rails, where the side rails face each other in a vehicle width direction, and a power supply unit including the battery, where the power supply unit is disposed between the side rails and is connected to the side rails. The side rails each have flanges having a predetermined width provided at each edge of a respective web. At least one of the flanges at a location facing a corner of the power supply unit as viewed in the vehicle width direction has a narrowed flange portion having a width smaller than the predetermined width.

Abstract: A driving assistance device that executes automatic steering such that, when a vehicle is reversing, the vehicle tracks back along a trace formed in forward traveling. The device includes: a trace estimator that estimates the trace based on a vehicle speed and a steering angle in forward traveling of the vehicle; a target steering angle calculator that calculates a target steering angle based on a positional relationship between a reference point and a target point, the reference point corresponding to a current position of the vehicle, the target point being positioned on the trace and having a predetermined value of distance from the reference point; an automatic steering unit that automatically operates a steering; and a vehicle speed calculator that calculates the vehicle speed based on a rotating speed of a steerable wheel.

Abstract: A table device for an interior of a vehicle includes a table element that is positionable from a non-use position into a use position. The table element, secured to a pivot arm in the non-use position, forms a trim element of a center console of the vehicle. The pivot arm is secured to a frame element and the frame element is guided by a guide element through a predefined movement path. The frame element is liftable by a first drive unit through the predefined movement path such that the table element pivots out in part, through a predefined angle, from a housing formed by the center console. The table element is liftable by a second drive unit into the use position.

Abstract: A method for determining a cell voltage of a battery cell of a traction battery of a vehicle includes filtering the cell voltage of the battery cell by a filtering device, sampling the filtered cell voltage by an analogue to digital converter, transferring the filtered and sampled cell voltage as a cell voltage signal to a computing device, evaluating the cell voltage signal by the computing device, determining a ripple value which describes a ripple of the cell voltage, and evaluating the cell voltage signal depending on the ripple value.

Abstract: A method for operating a seat system, where the seat system includes a vehicle seat having a plurality of controllable moveable elements integrated into a seat cushion that forms a seat surface and/or into a seat back, includes prompting, during an activated muscle training program, a user on the vehicle seat to exert a pressure with a specific body region of the user on a predetermined region of the vehicle seat in which at least one of the plurality of controllable moveable element is arranged and determining a local and a temporal deviation between a pressure exerted by the user as an input signal and a specification as an output signal.

Abstract: An arrangement includes a housing part for a motor vehicle and a conduit, designed to carry electric current, disposed on the housing part. A first longitudinal region of the conduit is disposed in a recess of the housing part. A seal formed from an elastomer is held on the housing part and via the seal the housing part is sealable against a housing element. A second longitudinal region of the seal extends over the first longitudinal region of the conduit such that the first longitudinal region is fixed in a positive-locking manner in the recess.

Abstract: An arrangement for irradiating a surface includes a radiation source configured to emit ultraviolet radiation, a reflector for directional radiation of the ultraviolet radiation onto the surface, and a control device. A dose of the ultraviolet radiation required for sterilizing the surface and/or a dose already administered is settable and/or determinable by the control device.

Abstract: A device for determining a position of a vehicle includes a camera system, a digital headlight system having a left digital headlight and a right digital headlight, and a data processing unit. The data processing unit is configured to assign a first detected reflected light beam by the camera system to the left digital headlight with a first angle, assign a second detected reflected light beam by the camera system to the right digital headlight with a second angle, and trigonometrically determine a distance of the vehicle from a charging module in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the vehicle and an offset in a transverse direction with respect to the longitudinal axis on a basis of the first and second angles and a distance between the left digital headlight and the right digital headlight.

Abstract: A charging connection device for a vehicle includes a junction box disposed in a recess, a junction box cover flap, and a cover flap. The junction box cover flap and the cover flap are each pivotable into an open position and a closed position. The junction box cover flap covers the junction box in the closed position and the recess is coverable by the cover flap. When the cover flap is displaced from the open position into the closed position the cover flap entrains the junction box cover flap. The junction box cover flap has a first element of a junction box connecting device and the junction box or a component that defines the recess has a second element of the junction box connecting device. In the closed position of the junction box cover flap, the junction box cover flap is held magnetically releasably by the junction box connecting device.

Abstract: A front-end structure arrangement of a bodyshell of a motor vehicle includes a front-end structure which has a first longitudinal member and a second longitudinal member where the first longitudinal member and the second longitudinal member are connected to one another. An assembly carrier is fastened to the bodyshell, extends in a free space between the first longitudinal member and the second longitudinal member, and has a first side region that runs laterally along the first longitudinal member to form a first gap and has a second side region that runs laterally along the second longitudinal member to form a second gap. A first supporting element of a protective device is disposed in the first gap and runs laterally along the first longitudinal member to form a third gap between the first supporting element and the first longitudinal member. The third gap is smaller than the first gap.

Abstract: A method for automatically emergency stopping a motor vehicle from a starting speed to a standstill by a braking device of the motor vehicle is provided. The braking device is actuated to carry out a delay profile with at least two delay phases. During a delay increase phase the delay until a threshold delay is increased and during a delay decrease phase, lasting until standstill, the delay is reduced to zero. The temporal courses of the delay are determined during the delay increase and the delay decrease at least sectionally as nth degree polynomials, where n>0, depending on the starting speed, in such a way that a stopping duration, which represents a time duration necessary for emergency stopping, does not fall below a predetermined minimum stopping duration and a distance covered during the stopping duration does not exceed a predetermined maximum stopping distance.

Abstract: An air-conditioning device includes a first circuit and a second circuit. Air supplied to an interior chamber of a motor vehicle flows through an air pathway. A first heat exchanger is disposed in the air pathway where the air flowing through the air pathway is heatable by the first heat exchanger. A second heat exchanger is disposed downstream of the first heat exchanger where the air flowing through the air pathway is heatable by the second heat exchanger. A valve device has a first switching state in which the first heat exchanger is disposed in the first circuit and the second heat exchanger is disposed in the second circuit and a second switching state in which the first heat exchanger is disposed in the second circuit and the second heat exchanger is disposed in the first circuit.