Abstract: A wind protection system for a convertible vehicle comprises a textured perforated plate which is embossed with a regular honeycomb structure and has a sufficient degree of inherent rigidity so as not to require a frame. In addition, the perforated plate preferably has the greatest possible number of holes of identical shape and size which afford good transparency is achieved.

Abstract: A device and a method for estimating the position of the center of gravity of a vehicle are described. A sensing device which determines a weightload variable which indicates a weightload, and an evaluation unit which, on the basis of the acquired weightload variable, determines a center of gravity position variable which represents the position of the center of gravity of the vehicle are provided. The sensing device is arranged in the spatial vicinity of an additional load which can be mounted in the roof region of the vehicle, wherein the evaluation unit determines the center of gravity position variable on the basis of the weightload variable which indicates the additional load.

Abstract: A method is provided for a preventive-action protection system in a motor vehicle having an inter-vehicle distance sensor system and having safety devices for lessening the consequences of accidents, wherein driving state data is acquired by means of a driving state sensor system and is monitored, in evaluation stages, with respect to critical states of vehicle movement dynamics (emergency braking, understeering, oversteering, rolling over). As a further triggering condition, a speed threshold has to be exceeded by the vehicle's own speed or preferably by the relative speed measured by the inter-vehicle distance sensor system.

Abstract: A radiation-curable composite layered sheet or film comprising at least one substrate layer and one outer layer, said outer layer being composed of a radiation-curable composition having a glass transition temperature of more than 40° C.

Abstract: An operator control system for a vehicle is provided, including an input unit, an output unit, and a speller application with which information can be input character-by-character into the operator control system. The speller application may include a plurality of language-dependent character sets from which a character set can be selected by selecting an operator control language.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for adjusting an airflow of an air supply device for a vehicle seat, in particular of a cabriolet, are provided. At an outside temperature which is greater than a predetermined limit temperature, the heating element of the air supply device may be deactivated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle door comprising a braking function before a detected obstacle (3) and for damping the final position, which decelerates the movement of the vehicle door (2) by applying a braking torque, wherein an evaluation and control unit (7) determines the braking torque by evaluating an instantaneous door movement, which is sensed by a sensor system (6), or a sensed obstacle and actuates the damper (5) correspondingly.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining a rotational speed about the vertical axis of a vehicle, comprising a rotational speed sensor which outputs a signal which is dependent on the rotational speed about the vertical axis, and a signal evaluation means which determines the rotational speed from the signal supplied by the rotational speed sensor. According to the invention, a radiation sensor is provided for sensing an angle of a preceding vehicle located in the region ahead of the vehicle relative to the vehicle, the data from the radiation sensor being supplied to the signal evaluation means in order to sense the angle and being taken into account in the compensation of the offset error of the rotational speed sensor.

Abstract: A control device for controlling components in a vehicle with an interface to an external databus is described. The device includes a hardware module and a memory for making available the data necessary for the data processing. Controller processes are executed by control processes which can be actuated chronologically in parallel with one another, as a result communicating directly via an interface to the databus or with sensors/actuators in order to control components of vehicle. The control device has at least two configurable hardware modules which carry out a plurality of control processes in parallel on the basis of the messages from the databus or on the basis of the control instructions of the control device. A distribution unit is provided for assigning the controller processes which run in parallel to the hardware modules.

Abstract: A backrest for a motor vehicle seat is described. The rear side of the seat is covered by a planar lining part within which an air supply device for supplying the head, shoulder and neck region of a seat occupant with an airflow is integrated. The air supply device comprises a housing. Fitted together from at least two housing parts, with one of these housing parts being directly supported by the lining part of the backrest.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder, in which a combustion chamber is delimited between a piston and a cylinder head, a fuel injector, is arranged in the cylinder head and has an injection nozzle with a plurality of injection bores. A piston depression is arranged in the piston, and a compression projection, with a projection cone angle, is positioned opposite the injection nozzle in the piston depression. The injection bores are formed such that, during a fuel injection in a range from 20° C.A before top dead center to 35° C.A after top dead center, the fuel jets emerging from the injection bores with a fuel cone angle impinge on the piston depression and are guided by a piston depression surface. The injection bores and the compression projection are formed such that a generated ratio of fuel cone angle to projection cone angle is in a range between 0.95 and 1.

Abstract: A vehicle seat has a fan device embedded in a ventilation layer as a radial fan. Fresh air is taken in from the end side of the vehicle seat.

Abstract: A sealing strip for side windows on motor vehicles, which is arranged between a retractable, frameless, front side window and a retractable, frameless, rear side window. The sealing strip reaches from the door line as far as a roof frame of the motor vehicle. A movable locking member is fitted to the sealing strip and, in a closed state, engages with a locking counterpart arranged on the roof frame.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle, in particular a passenger car, having a preventatively acting safety system which comprises safety devices which are actuated as a function of information which is recorded by a driving situation detection device by means of a driving state sensor system and is evaluated in a data evaluation device, with the recorded information being compared with at least one triggering threshold value and the safety devices being actuated when the triggering threshold value is exceeded. According to the invention, the triggering threshold value is adapted as a function of a total vehicle acceleration and a vehicle speed.

Abstract: In a vehicle seat with a backrest arranged on a mount and on which at least one head restraint is arranged, an intermediate space formed between a lower delimitation of the head restraint and an upper delimitation the backrest can be covered by a cover device. To reduce a disadvantageous effect on exchangeability, the novel cover device is to be as universally useable as possible and is to readily follow the vertical movement of the head restraint. Accordingly, the present cover device is firstly connected in terms of action to the head restraint and secondly to the backrest in such a manner that, upon a height adjustment of the backrest and/or of the head restraint, an adjustment of the cover device takes place.

Abstract: The invention relates to a utility vehicle, in particular a truck with or without a trailer, having an on-board electric power system (1) for supplying power to electrical loads of the vehicle, having a plurality of lighting units (2) which are connected to the on-board electric power system (1) and which emit light when they are activated, and having a plurality of switches (3) for activating the lighting units (2). The switches (3) advantageously activate at least some of the lighting units (2) by means of PLC via the on-board electric power system (1).

Abstract: A vehicle door with a variable latching function which holds the vehicle door in a desired latched position by applying a latching torque using a controllable damper is described. An evaluation and control unit detects the desired latched positions by evaluating an instantaneous door movement sensed by a sensor system and actuates the damper using an actuator element. The evaluation and control unit releases the latched position after a corresponding activation is detected. The variable latching function acts on the vehicle door within a functional region which extends to a predefined opening region between a first opening angle and a maximum opening angle when the vehicle door drops below a predefined speed or comes to a standstill within the functional region.

Abstract: In an activation device for controlling the power of a vehicle drive having a foot pedal, in which the foot pedal is pivotably mounted such that it can abut against a rigid end stop, a switching element which can be displaced by the pivoting movement of the foot pedal is mounted ahead of the end stop in the pivoting path of the foot pedal. The displacement of the switching element requires a reaction force which originates from the switching element to be overcome. The intention is to prevent or reduce a possible abutting noise which can occur when the foot pedal impacts on the switching element at a high impact speed. The device includes a spring element connected ahead of the switching element in the pivoting path of the foot pedal. The spring force of the spring element is less than the reaction force originating from the switching element for a displacement by the foot pedal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a computer program and a data carrier with this computer program for personalizing adjustable functions in a vehicle. The method provides that first a user profile in the form of stored, person-related settings and/or data of the functions for a current user of the vehicle is activated. To this extent, this method is basically known from the prior art. In order to restrict the access rights of other users to the user profile of the current user, the invention provides a configuration step, in the scope of which the current user can define which other user he would like to permit to access his person-related settings and/or data of functions within a previously defined group of functions. The access is respectively configured in a standardized way for all the functions within the group. The functions within a group are at least similar in terms of their requirement for personalization and/or their requirement for confidentiality.

Abstract: A gearshift device comprises an input unit for receiving input data which is connected via at least one data line to a first controller via which an actuator unit can be controlled for setting a gearbox, especially an automatic gearbox of a motor vehicle, and comprising at least one second controller which is independent of the first controller. The second controller is separate from the first controller and is connected to the input unit via at least one data line. In the case of a fault in the first controller, the actuator unit can be controlled by the second controller at least partially correspondingly to the first controller.