Abstract: A DC filter device includes: a first filter device connection; a second filter device connection; a third filter device connection; a fourth filter device connection; a coil core; at least one first coil arranged on the coil core, the at least one first coil being connected in between the first filter device connection and the third filter device connection; at least one second coil arranged on the coil core, the at least one second coil being connected in between the second filter device connection and the fourth filter device connection; and a third coil arranged on the coil core, the third coil having a first coil connection and a second coil connection. The first coil connection and the second coil connection are connected to one another via a circuit device, which circuit device has a resistor.

Abstract: A cooling air flap device is for a motor vehicle. The cooling air flap device has a cooling air opening through which cooling air can flow. The cooling air flap device has: a cooling air flap, which is arranged in or on the cooling air opening so as to be adjustable in order to change an opening cross section of the cooling air opening through which the cooling air can flow; and a sensor configured to sense surroundings in a region of the cooling air flap device. The sensor is secured to the cooling air flap so that the sensor is adjustable together with the cooling air flap.

Abstract: A personalization method for a motor vehicle and data release method. The motor vehicle includes at least the following components: an on-board computer; a human-machine interface; a vehicle-side data interface; and an access security device for recognizing physical or electronic vehicle-specific access authorization information. The personalization method includes a first step of recognizing, by the on-board computer using the access security device, the physical and/or electronic input of the vehicle-specific access authorization information. The method also includes a second step of retrieving and storing, by the on-board computer using the vehicle-side data interface, personal data of at least one user assigned to the motor vehicle. The second step is only carried out if in the first step the vehicle-specific access authorization information is recognized. The personalization method and data release method significantly simplify the personalization process in a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A battery module housing for accommodating at least one cell stack for use in a motor vehicle. The battery module housing includes a plurality of housing units for accommodating battery cells, as well as a front and a rear cover member for closing the housing units. The housing units are designed as extrusion profiles and include a front and a rear face-side opening for introducing the battery cells and a housing wall arranged between the openings. The housing units are positively connected to one another via their housing wall and the front and rear cover elements are designed to cover the front and rear face-side openings of the housing units.

Abstract: A method for determining an aging state of at least one cell of a battery. The method includes the step receiving a large amount of operating data relating to the at least one cell of the battery via a memory unit, wherein the operating data can be assigned to a specific point in time. The received operating data is stored in the memory unit with a timestamp which corresponds to the respectively assigned point in time. An aging state of the at least one cell of the battery is calculated using a processor while interdependently taking into account multiple operating data having a common timestamp. The method makes it possible to estimate an aging state using a multidimensional database.

Abstract: A method for robust identification of a vehicle occupant. Simultaneously acquired data pairs from interior sensors and sensing elements are used as a training data set for global learning of a Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis architecture with two neural networks, wherein an authentication of the respective vehicle occupants from the group of vehicle users is carried out in a first step as an initialization. In a second step or a subsequent use, only one of the two sensing elements is then needed to identify the respective vehicle occupant. Also described is a system, via which the robust identification is provided by way of the method.

Abstract: A method for filling a thermal paste into a battery module. The battery module includes a module housing with at least one cooling wall, at which a cooling plate can be arranged outside the module housing. At least one stack is formed by a plurality of uniformly stacked pouch cells. The at least one stack is arranged at the at least one cooling wall in the module housing. In proximity to at least one opening, a fold of at least one pouch cell is folded over toward the surface of pouch cell and glued, thereby forming a first flow channel between a stack cooling side and the cooling wall. The thermal paste is filled in through the opening and the thermal paste spreads homogeneously in the first flow channel.

Abstract: A motor vehicle traction battery arrangement includes two cooling plates respectively disposed in a horizontal plane and a high-voltage battery module. The lower and upper horizontal walls of which are cooled directly by the cooling plates and which encases a plurality of identical rectangular battery cells in a rigid battery module housing. The battery cells are all configured such that they are plate-like and elongated, are parallel to one another in vertical planes (y,z) and each includes two small-area vertical end walls, two large-area vertical side walls and two medium-area horizontal walls. On its end face, each battery cell includes an anodic connecting element and a cathodic connecting element. At least two similar cell stacks including a same plurality of battery cells are provided, and are stacked such that their battery cell side walls adjoin one another. The battery cell horizontal walls directly adjoin a cooled battery module horizontal wall.

Abstract: A motor vehicle having a shell including a first side facing a roadway and a second side opposite to the first side, and a housing in which at least one electronic component is arranged. The housing is fastened to the shell via a mounting member. The mounting member is releasably fastened to the shell and the housing is releasably fastened to the mounting member such that, in a mounting operation of the housing, the mounting member and the housing are mountable on the shell via the first side of the shell, and the housing is removable via the second side of the shell during a removal operation of the housing.

Abstract: Apparatus for guiding air toward a wheel brake of a motor vehicle. The apparatus includes an air guide element, which can be displaced between a retracted rest position, in which the same is retracted in relation to an undercarriage of the motor vehicle, and an extended operating position, in which the same is extended in relation to the undercarriage. The air guide element can be displaced, via a hydraulic adjustment mechanism between the rest position and the operating position. The hydraulic adjustment mechanism includes a hydraulic cylinder and a return element. In the presence of brake actuation, the hydraulic cylinder can be filled with brake fluid in order to displace the air guide element from the rest position to the operating position. In the absence of brake actuation, the return element displaces the air guide element from the operating position to the rest position.

Abstract: A motor vehicle comprising a camera, a controller, and a lighting device arranged in an interior of the motor vehicle. The lighting device is a light strip configured to emit light in different color tones. The camera is configured to create images and/or videos of an environment of the motor vehicle and to output the images and/or videos to the controller. The controller is configured to recognize, from the images and/or videos, a color tone displayed by a light signal system in the environment of the motor vehicle. The controller is configured to cause the lighting device to emit light in the displayed color tone.

Abstract: A method controls switching states of a multi-level converter with multiple modules. Each module has: terminals on a first and second side; controllable switches; and an energy store in series with a first switch in a first connection between the terminals. A second switch is arranged in a connection between the terminals. The control of the switching states is divided into a real-time and offline part. In the real-time part, for each time step: a voltage level is allocated to a voltage requirement; a total switching state is determined in a first switching table for the voltage level; and the total switching state is passed on as a control signal to the switches. In the offline part: a second switching table is calculated, resulting in accordance with a minimization of a cost function.

Abstract: s A cooling system of a motor vehicle includes a first cooling circuit and a second cooling circuit. A refrigerant circuit supplies a vaporizer associated with the first cooling circuit that has a first target power value (S1) determining a cooling potential. The refrigerant circuit also supplies a refrigerant-coolant heat exchanger associated with the second cooling circuit that has a second target power value (S2) determining a cooling potential. A conveyor unit controls a mass flow of a refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant circuit and can be controlled by the first target power value (S1). The cooling system includes a control unit by way of which the first target power value (S1) can be controlled to achieve the second target power value (S2).

Abstract: A method for performing an on-board diagnostic function in a motor vehicle including at least one drive system, at least one operating element and at least one control unit with a processor, a control module and an on-board diagnostic function module. The method includes the steps of: activating an on-board diagnostic function in the on-board diagnostic function module; supplying a first signal profile (S1) of an operating value (CV) of the operating element to an analysis module; the analysis module analyzing the first signal profile (S1) of the operating value (CV); activating a filtering module in the event of a positive analysis result; and the filtering module filtering the first signal profile (S1) of the operating value (CV) with selected damping parameters (DP) upon activation of the filtering module in order to obtain a filtered second signal profile (S2) of the operating element.

Abstract: A method for controlling an active snubber circuit includes measuring a gate voltage at a first transistor and measuring a gate voltage at a second transistor. The method also includes determining whether the first transistor and the second transistor are in the same state based on the gate voltage measured at the first transistor and the gate voltage measured at the second transistor. The method also includes, in response to a determination that the first transistor and the second transistor are in the same state, enabling the active snubber circuit. The method also includes, in response to a determination that the first transistor and the second transistor are not in the same state, disabling the enable signal. The method also includes disabling the active snubber circuit in response to the enable signal being disabled.

Abstract: An apparatus supplies voltage for an electrical heating catalytic converter. The apparatus includes: a direct current (DC) converter having an input for an input voltage and an output for an output voltage; a buck converter, which is configured to step down the output voltage of the DC converter to a supply voltage, which is lower than the output voltage, for the electrical heating catalytic converter; and a first electrical assembly, which is configured to rectify and smooth the supply voltage.

Abstract: A chassis for use in a motor vehicle with variably adjustable drive height includes a subframe assembly for fastening wheel suspensions of the motor vehicle, and a plurality of control arms for guiding a wheel carrier. The control arms are fastened to the subframe assembly via control arm attachment points. A plurality of eccentric adjustment devices are provided for adjusting the toe-in and the basic camber of the motor vehicle. An insert element is provided for receiving an eccentric adjustment device. The insert element is arranged within the chassis in such a way that the position of at least one eccentric adjustment device can be varied by varying the arrangement of the insert element within the chassis.

Abstract: A sill frame arrangement for a vehicle body arrangement includes: a battery arrangement provided in a floor region of the vehicle body arrangement, which has at least one frame arrangement having frame longitudinal members and frame cross members which surround and support at least one battery module, the frame longitudinal members resting on sill elements of a sill arrangement, the sill arrangement including wall elements which form sill chambers. Over an entire height of the sill arrangement, only one wall element directed toward the frame arrangement is provided, at least one additional sill element being provided on each sill element, the sill element and the at least one additional sill element being integrally bonded and interlockingly connected to one another.

Abstract: A roof rack has at least one lighting device, which is arranged in a protected manner on a rack part. In order to improve the roof rack functionally and/or in respect of its appearance, the rack part includes a fairing having at least two light passage openings, which are assigned to the lighting device.

Abstract: A vehicle audio system includes a loudspeaker configured to be acoustically coupled to an interior of a vehicle and to be ducted to an exterior of the vehicle as well as a controller coupled to the loudspeaker.