Abstract: Heating device (10), in particular for heating an operating fluid tank of a motor vehicle, preferably a tank for storage of aqueous urea solution, the heating device (10) comprising an electrical resistance heating trace (14) with a heating side (14b), on which, in intended operation, heat is emitted to a fluid to be heated, and the heating side (14b) opposing a carrier side (14a), on which the resistance heating trace (14) faces a mounting supporting it, wherein the resistance heating trace (14) is disposed between a flexible film (16) on its heating side (14b) and a substrate (12), rigid in comparison with the flexible film (16), as the supporting mounting on the carrier side (14a), which is characterized in that the resistance heating trace (14a) is connected to the rigid substrate (12) on the carrier side (14a) without intermediate arrangement of a further film.

Abstract: An air flap apparatus for a motor vehicle encompasses a frame having a flowthrough opening, on which frame at least one air flap is mounted movably relative to the frame, protrudingly into the flowthrough opening or penetratingly therethrough, the at least one air flap being displaceable between a closed position and an open position in order to modify a gas quantity flowing per unit time through the flowthrough opening in the context of a predefined impinging flow, the at least one air flap decreasing a flowthrough-capable cross section of the flowthrough opening more greatly in the closed position than in the open position, the air flap apparatus further encompassing a movement drive system that is coupled in movement- and force-transferring fashion to the at least one air flap in order to drive the at least one air flap to move between the closed position and the open position, at least one air flap constituting a light-emitting air flap including a flap light guide having a light emergence surface through

Abstract: A front spoiler arrangement for a motor vehicle, comprising a support component, a flow guiding component, which is positioned on the support component in a movable way between a further retracted position and a further extracted position, a guiding formation, which guides the movement between the two positions and a moving actuator, which is coupled to the flow guiding component by way of a coupling element, the coupling element and at least one component of either the moving actuator and the flow guiding component are coupled to each other through a connection arrangement, which has a surmountable detent formation, which separates from each other two possible relative operating positions between a component and the coupling element, i.e. a normal operating position and an emergency operating position, wherein a retraction movement of the flow guiding component in the direction opposite to the further extracted position beyond a retracted end position is mechanically prevented.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining an operational readiness state of an electric motor, a pump motor for pumping an operating fluid, for example, an aqueous urea solution, in a vehicle. The method includes applying an electric drive voltage to the electric motor according to a prescribed drive voltage curve in order to drive a rotor of the electric motor to rotate through a prescribed angle of rotation, detecting a response behavior of the electric motor, and determining the state of the electric motor based on the results determined in step b).

Abstract: A vehicle floor arrangement comprises a vehicle floor as well as a sound insulating arrangement covering at least in part, preferentially entirely, the vehicle floor, wherein the sound insulating arrangement at least in sections, preferentially entirely, comprises a sound insulating component formed at least in sections, preferentially entirely, of a thermoplastically bonded fiber structure that is in part, preferentially entirely porous, as well as a second sound insulating component configured separately from the first sound insulating component, which second insulating component is arranged between the first sound insulating component and the vehicle floor.

Abstract: A motor vehicle coolant heat exchanger having a modifiable covering system includes a support, a winding shaft mounted rotatably around a winding axis, a rotational drive, a roller-blind web, at least one pulling means winding body connected to the winding shaft to rotate together, and a pulling means. The roller-blind web is windable onto and unwindable from the winding shaft along a winding trajectory, which comprises a pulling crosspiece at its longitudinal end region located remotely from the winding shaft. The pulling means is unwindable from and windable onto the pulling means winding body parallel to the winding trajectory, which is connected at its longitudinal end remote from the pulling means winding body to the pulling crosspiece. The pulling means is guided around a deflection roller in such a way that its longitudinal end connected to the pulling crosspiece moves away from the winding shaft while it is being wound on.

Abstract: A filling head for an operating liquid tank, in particular of a motor vehicle, comprising a filling tube with an inlet end, which lies farther away from the tank, and an outlet end, which lies nearer to the tank, the filling tube for conducting operating liquid in a filling direction from the inlet end to the outlet end, a venting arrangement with an inflow end, which lies nearer to the tank and an outflow end which lies farther away from the tank, which end is provided for passing of gas in a counter-flow direction with respect to liquid flowing in the filling direction, in a venting direction extending from the inlet to the outflow end, the venting arrangement is provided, at least in the area of its outflow end, separate from the filling tube, the venting arrangement has a valve with a gas valve body, which is movable between a closed position, in which a gas flow in a valve passage is prevented, and a passage position, in which the gas may flow in the valve passage past the gas valve body, the valve havin

Abstract: The invention relates to an air guiding device for a motor vehicle, comprising: a support structure, a first louver, which is mounted on the support structure so as to be swivelable about a first louver axis between a closed position and an open position, a second louver, which is mounted on the support structure so as to be swivelable about a second louver axis, the first and second louver axes extending neither parallel to one another nor in collinear manner, an actuator, which is coupled or couplable to the first louver, in order to drive the latter in a swivel movement about the first louver axis, and a transmission means, which is configured to couple the first louver with the second louver in such a way as to transmit movement, wherein the transmission means is of two-part construction.

Abstract: An air flap device for a motor vehicle, having an air flap member with a flow-through opening and having a plurality of air flaps, which protrude into the flow-through opening or pass through it and which are each mounted on the air flap member so that they can move between a blocking position as a working position and a feed-through position as another working position, wherein each air flap in its blocking position interferes with flow through the flow-through opening as intended to a greater extent than in the feed-through position, wherein the air flap device has, as one operating position, a closed position, in which each air flap of the plurality of air flaps is in the blocking position as the working position associated with the closed position, and has an open position as another operating position, in which each air flap of the plurality of air flaps is in the feed-through position as the working position associated with the open position, the air flap device having a drive device for supplying a dri

Abstract: Air guide system (10) for a motor vehicle, comprising a support structure (12) having an air passage opening (14), an air damper assembly (16) having at least one air damper (18) which is provided on the support structure (12) so that it can pivot about a damper axis (20) between a closed position (FIG. 1(a)) and an open position (FIG. 1(c)) in order to adjust a flow cross-section of the air passage opening (14), the flow cross-section being minimal in the closed position (FIG.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a two-dimensional composite component (150) having a porous basic component (152) and an injection molded component (154) rigidly joined to the basic component (152), said method comprising the following steps: introduction of the mat-like or panel-like basic component (152), comprising two mutually spaced-apart base sides (152b1, 152b2) and a circumferential narrow side (152s) joining the base sides (152b1, 152b2), into a basic component cavity (114) of a molding tool (112), which further comprises an injection molding cavity (116), closure of the molding tool (112), so that at least a portion (152s) of the basic component (152) forms a portion of a wall of the injection molding cavity (116), and injection of injection molding material (156) into the injection molding cavity (116), and formation thereby of the injection molding component (154) and joining of the injection molding component (154) to the basic component (152), wherein upon closure of the

Abstract: A liquid tank includes a tank wall enclosing a tank volume and at least one relief structure facing the tank volume on an inner side of the tank wall. The relief structure is formed as one-piece with the tank wall. Two shell parts can be joined along a joining surface to make a section of the tank wall. One of the shell parts can include a tank bottom. At least one part of the relief structure can be formed on the tank bottom. The relief structure can include projections protruding into the tank volume along a local direction of projection.

Abstract: A tank filler neck including a filling line having an insertion end further away from the tank, designed to temporarily insert a breather pipe into the end region of the filling line further away from the tank, a passage line end closer to the tank, designed for passing through liquid in the direction away from the insertion end, a ventilation volume designed for through-flowing gas while passing liquid through the end of the passage line, a ventilation line which ends at a distance from the filling line and which can be blocked or released by a ventilation valve for through-flowing gas, a detecting device designed to detect a passage-ready state and/or a passage state of the filling line, and an operating device designed to adjust, as a function of the detection result of the detecting device, the ventilation valve between the blocking position and the release position.

Abstract: A vehicle component assembly has a vehicle control device, a vehicle function component that is different from the vehicle control device, an RFID transponder configured separately from the vehicle control device for identifying at least the vehicle function component, at least one data storage device in which the firmware or/and software allocated to the vehicle function component is stored as a function program packet, and a communication device, which is configured for data communication between the vehicle control device, the RFID transponder, and the data storage device. The vehicle control device and communication device are configured to drive the RFID transponder to set up a wireless RFID communication connection with an RFID transponder that is external with regard to the vehicle component assembly.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wheel air gap for a motor vehicle of which according to the invention at least one section of the wheel air gap open air comprises a sound-absorbing material.

Abstract: An air valve device for a motor vehicle comprises an air valve support with a flow opening and has at least one air valve extending into or passing through the flow opening, which is movably seated on the air valve support between a blocking position as one working position, and a flow position as another working position, wherein the air valve in the blocking position provides a greater resistance to a particular flow through the flow opening than in the flow position. A drive device is connected to the at least one air valve for movement between its working positions at least temporarily in a drive force transmitting manner. A control device actuates the drive device.

Abstract: An SCR device for a motor vehicle, comprising a tank for storing reducing liquid, an injection device for injection of the reducing liquid into an exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle, a liquid conduit for delivering reducing liquid from the tank to the injection device, a feed pump for conveying reducing liquid in the conduit, and a valve arrangement in the conduit, the valve arrangement designed to interrupt an injection flow in the conduit when the tank-side pressure is greater, than the injection device-side pressure in the conduit by less than an injection threshold value, and to allow the injection flow to pass when the tank-side pressure is greater by at least the injection threshold, the valve arrangement designed to interrupt a return flow in the conduit from the injection device to the tank when the injection device-side pressure is greater than the tank-side pressure by less than a return threshold value, and to allow the return flow to pass through when the injection device-side pressure is great

Abstract: The present invention comprises an air flap arrangement (10) for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one air flap (16), an air flap carrier (12), on which the at least one air flap (16) is mounted rotatably about an air flap rotational axis (L), and a rotary drive (14), of which the torque-delivering drive shaft (32) is coupled to the at least one air flap (16) in a torque-transmitting manner, wherein a rotation angle limiting device is provided, which has a stop (38) secured to the air flap carrier and which has a counter-stop (28) that can be rotated with the at least one air flap (16), wherein the stop (38) and counter-stop (28), in a relative end position of the at least one air flap (16), are configured for contact engagement with one another, wherein the counter-stop (28) is configured on a counter-stop component (26) and an air flap face formation (20) is configured on an air flap component (18) configured separately from the counter-stop component (26), the counter-stop component (26) being formed of

Abstract: An automotive service liquid tank for receiving a service liquid of a motor vehicle, in particular an aqueous urea solution, has a tank wall that encloses a tank volume on the inside of the tank, wherein the tank has locally, by comparison with at least one other tank region, at least one region with enhanced thermal insulation, in order to influence a freezing behavior of the service liquid received in the tank in such a way that the service liquid, when the outside temperature drops, freezes later in the tank region with enhanced thermal insulation than in the at least one other tank region without enhanced thermal insulation. According to the invention it is provided that the enhanced thermal insulation is formed integrally with the tank wall.

Abstract: A vehicle comprises a front spoiler with at least one spoiler lip made available in a front area of the vehicle and a spoiler lip drive by means of which the at least one spoiler lip may be displaced such that the aerodynamic properties of the vehicle can be changed in the front area by displacement of the at least one spoiler lip, wherein the spoiler lip drive of the at least one spoiler lip is electro-mechanical.