Abstract: A drive system includes a first rotary component configured to be rotated by an actuator, a second rotary component selectively coupled to the first component, and a third rotary component selectively coupled to the first component. A coupling arrangement is configured to, in a first range of angular positions of the first component, couple the first and second components and decouple the first and third components and configured to, in a second range of angular positions of the first component that does not overlap with the first range, couple the first and third components and decouple the first and second components.

Abstract: A method for identifying and classifying objects in the surroundings of a motor vehicle, which method uses merely a single sensor for object detection. The method is characterized in that this single sensor moves in space while the object is being detected. In this case, during the measurement, the single sensor would act to a certain extent like a second sensor. The echo signals, reflected by the object, of different measurement cycles can be used to determine the differential speed, distance and angle. The method provides the possibility of being able to classify, by means of a single sensor, objects and items in the surroundings of a motor vehicle in terms of their size.

Abstract: A drive for adjusting an adjustment element of a motor vehicle, the drive including a hollow cylinder, a rod guided axially therein, two articulated parts configured to provide linear drive movements to the motor vehicle and form a drive connection to the adjustment element and the rest of the motor vehicle. The one articulated part axially fixed to a first component of the components of the drive unit and the other articulated part axially fixed to a second component of the components of the drive unit in the installed state. The drive has a drive spring assembly including a drive spring acting on the articulated parts. In the installed state, at least one of the components of the drive unit is axially fixed to a securing element by a threaded connection, and the securing element projects radially into an axial projection of a spring material of the drive spring assembly.

Abstract: A cable drive device of an adjustment system of a motor vehicle has an actuating drive and a cable drive housing in which a cable drum that is rotatably coupled to the actuating drive and has a traction cable wound thereon is received. The cable drum, for receiving a cable nipple fastened to the traction cable, on at least one end side has a nipple chamber having a chamber opening and mutually spaced apart chamber walls. The nipple chamber on at least one of the chamber walls has a delimiting element. The cable nipple when introduced into the nipple chamber by way of the chamber opening engaging below the delimiting element.

Abstract: A control device for regulating a volume flow of a fluid in a drive train of a motor vehicle includes a torque monitoring unit, set up to determine, on the basis of a characteristic diagram of the pump which describes a functional dependency of the torque to be applied by the drive motor on the rotational speed of the drive motor for a predetermined fluid state of the fluid, a current torque deviation occurring between the current torque and the torque given by the characteristic diagram for the current rotational speed, and a correction unit, set up to correct a power setting signal for the drive motor in accordance with the current torque deviation and to provide a corrected power setting signal, and a power regulation unit, set up to generate a second power setting signal for actuating the drive motor on the basis of the corrected power setting signal.

Abstract: A vehicle subassembly includes at least one planar component. The at least one component has a material-specific deformability. To at least locally increase the deformability, through-holes are provided on at least one section of the at least one component. A method of producing of the component is also disclosed.

Abstract: A spindle drive for a closure element of a motor vehicle including a downstream spindle/spindle nut mechanism, a spindle, a spindle nut and a spindle guide tube, for producing drive movements along a drive axis. A number of drive connections adjustable with respect to one another to transmit the drive movements, the first drive connection axially fixed to the spindle guide tube, a second drive connection axially fixed to the spindle, a drive spring configured to produce drive movements along the drive axis, the spindle guide tube has a first outer radius extending along at least one axial portion and on a side facing the first drive connection, a tube end portion with a tube end edge, that the tube end portion is widened radially so that the tube end edge has an outer end edge radius which is greater than the first outer radius.

Abstract: A system for adjusting a vehicle door relative to a vehicle body including an adjusting device, a control device for controlling the adjusting device. The control device is configured to receive an operating command and control the adjusting device based on receiving the operating command, and a sensor device for detecting an object. The control device is configured to evaluate for the purpose of collision protection monitoring whether an operating command is received in a near area relative to the vehicle door via an operating device. For collision protection monitoring, the control device is configured to use a first recognition area in a first operating mode upon receiving an operating command via an operating device in the near area, and in a second operating mode to use a second recognition area different from the first recognition area when an operating command is not received in the near area.

Abstract: A clothes hanger assembly for installation in a vehicle interior space. The clothes hanger assembly comprises two arms and is adjustable between a stowage position, in which the arms are stowed, and a functional position, in which the arms form a hanger-like construction. The clothes hanger assembly furthermore comprises a carriage and a cable drive. The arms are articulated to the carriage, and the carriage is arranged on the cable drive, wherein the carriage is shiftable by means of the cable drive in order to adjust the clothes hanger assembly between the stowage position and the functional position.

Abstract: A motor vehicle lock including a latch pivotable about a latch axis to an opening position and to a closing position. In the assembled state, the latch is in retaining engagement with a striker in the closing position, and in the opening position, the latch releases the striker, a blocking mechanism configured to be brought into a blocking state to block the latch in the closing position, and configured to be brought into a release state to release the latch to the opening position. The blocking mechanism including a pawl assembly including a pawl pivotally mounted via a pivot bearing and configured for blocking engagement with the latch. A crash blocking surface is provided so during a crash, when the pawl or the pivot bearing yields from deformation, an engaging surface of the pawl engages the crash blocking surface, to dissipate crash forces the crash blocking surface.

Abstract: An adjustable slider of a window regulator includes a base body configured to connect with a cable of the window regulator and a clamp-plate assembly having first and second jaws configured to clamp a windowpane therebetween. A hinge plate supports the clamp-plate assembly. A first adjustment mechanism pivotally connects the hinge plate to the base body such that the clamp-plate assembly and the hinge plate are pivotal relative to the base body allowing a vertical angle of the clamp-plate assembly to be changed. The first adjustment mechanism is actuatable to move the hinge plate relative to the base body in a fore-and-aft direction allowing a fore-and-aft position of the clamp-plate assembly to be adjusted.

Abstract: A method for producing a decorative element and uses of a decorative element. A polarizing layer functioning as an analyzer is applied to a transparent optical carrier material and a transparent optical functional layer is applied as an image-forming layer including an optically anisotropic material. By spatially structuring the functional layer, a targeted location-dependent dependency of material properties of the optically anisotropic material is created for producing the image-forming layer. One or several decorative elements produced can each be introduced into a light field of a lighting device in a desired shape, size and quantity and having settable image motifs (image structures) and being disposed at different spatial distances and being freely disposable. The decorative element produced is intended to be used as an architectural element for creating light-optical effects in the exterior area of buildings, as a design element for interior design or for object design.

Abstract: Disk brake including a brake caliper and an application device arranged therein for applying force to the brake pads of the disk brake, wherein a component of the application device is a brake lever which can be actuated by a force element and preferably by a pressure cylinder and is composed of a lever arm against which the force element is supported and an application shaft. The application shaft is supported, on one side, against a pressure piece operating in the direction of the brake pads and, on the other side, with the interposition of a shell, against a channel arranged on the inside of the brake caliper, wherein the curvature of the shell is complementary to the curvature of the channel. In order to develop the disk brake and the shell assembly by constructive measures so as to prevent the shell assembly from moving out of the original position even in the case of long-term use and under frequent load caused by braking, an opening of a bore is located in the channel.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a vehicle lock with a supporting structure for holding at least one locking element and a lock mechanism, wherein the lock mechanism can be put into different function states and has a function element that can be moved into different function positions, wherein a drive assembly having a drive train to the function element is provided, wherein an actuating element is provided, by the actuating motion of which said locking element can be actuated, wherein the function element in one function position guides the actuating motion of the actuating element either into a free-movement path, in which the actuating element moves freely, or into an actuation path, in which the actuating element actuates the locking element, and for this purpose applies a guiding force to the actuating element, the force flow of which guiding force runs outside of the drive train of the drive assembly.

Abstract: A headrest for a vehicle seat, comprises an adjustment device comprising at least two adjusting parts and a drive element movable along an axis, wherein the drive element is coupled to the adjusting parts via engaging drive contours which are defined for each of the adjusting parts describe at least one adjustment path, the adjustment path of at least one of the adjusting parts having a twist with respect to the axis and extending from the adjustment path of at least one other of the adjusting parts so that an axial movement of the driving member along the axis causes a relative rotation between the adjusting parts.

Abstract: A control arrangement for operating a motor vehicle locking system, the locking system has an electric drive with an electric drive motor, during normal operation, the electric drive is supplied with a normal supply voltage to provide a motorized locking, the control arrangement has an energy storage arrangement with a capacitor, the energy storage arrangement, in an emergency mode, provides an emergency electrical supply voltage for the electric drive, and includes a boost stage connected downstream of the energy storage unit for generating the emergency supply voltage, the boost stage boosts an electrical input voltage at an input of the boost stage to an electrical output voltage at an output of the boost stage. The energy storage arrangement, to generate the emergency supply voltage, has a first boost stage connected downstream for generating the emergency supply voltage and a second boost stage connected downstream of the first boost stage.

Abstract: A method of operating a motor vehicle locking system including an electric drive for providing a locking function, a central battery of the motor vehicle supplies electrical energy to the electric drive during normal operation, an auxiliary energy supply supplies electrical energy to the central battery and is arranged in a closure arrangement of the motor vehicle, the closure element is configured to assume an open and a closed position. Access to the auxiliary energy supply is blocked by the closure element in the closed position and cleared in the open position. The central battery is monitored by a control unit to check whether an emergency operation criterion is satisfied. The closure element is locked in the closed position by means of a lock unit, and when the emergency operation criterion is satisfied, the lock unit is actuated by the control unit to unlock the closure element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pinch valve that includes: a main body having a receiving space for a tube section, wherein the receiving space comprises a lateral opening of the main body; a counter-bearing section for a compressor that moves along a actuating axis; and a closure element which is movably fastened to the main body and which is movable relative to the main body between a first position, in which the closure element closes the lateral opening of the main body at least in sections, and a second position, in which the closure element exposes an insertion opening for the tube section.

Abstract: A drive arrangement configured to provide motorized adjustment of an adjusting element of a motor vehicle and including a motor, a driveshaft extending from the motor, an output shaft, a spindle configured to translate to adjust the adjusting element, a coupling configured to selectively couple and decouple the spindle from the motor, the coupling, a housing, and a sensor. The coupling including a coupling element configured to generate a signal indicative of rotation angle of the coupling element. The coupling, the output shaft and at least a portion of the driveshaft disposed in the housing. The sensor disposed in the housing and configured to detect the signal.

Abstract: A profile assembly produced from a first profile and a second profile connected longitudinally by cold joining. Both profiles bear complementary clamping structures on long sides thereof facing toward one another for cold joining together. The clamping structure of the first profile comprises a clamping head formed on a web and forming an undercut on each side of the web by way of a greater extension in the profile transverse direction in relation to that of the web. The clamping structure of the second profile comprises a clamping head receptacle for accommodating a section of the clamping head and a clinching leg, formed on a profile-exterior leg of the clamping head receptacle, having a first profile arm protruding before cold joining and a second profile arm formed at an angle thereon, the free end of which engages behind the clamping head and, before cold joining, faces toward a clamping pocket of the first profile.