Abstract: The present invention relates to a front face assembly configured to be fitted in a motor vehicle. The front face assembly includes a screen and a shut-off device. The screen includes at least one passage via which an air flow can pass through the screen. The shut-off device includes at least one flap adapted to take up a first position in which the flap shuts off the passage and a second position in which the flap opens the passage. The flap includes a shut-off element which extends at least partially in the passage in the screen when the flap is in its first position.

Abstract: A gearbox includes a transmission casing and a blocking mechanism for a vehicle. The blocking mechanism includes a pawl having a locking finger able to be engaged in a locking recess, an actuator which moves a mobile carriage having first and second rollers, and a guide rail attached to the casing. The guide rail forms an attachment wall and a guide wall, the first roller being placed in contact with the second roller and with the pawl, and the second roller being placed in contact with the guide wall. The guide rail is attached to the casing by an attachment mechanism, the guide rail and the attachment mechanism collaborating in such a way that the attachment wall is held against the casing while being able to be moved relative to this same attachment mechanism.

Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor shaft, having a rotation axis; a rotor body, fixed to the rotor shaft and formed of multiple stacked laminations. Magnet mounting grooves are provided in the rotor body, and multiple magnets are disposed in the magnet mounting grooves, with a gap formed between each magnet and an inner wall of the corresponding magnet mounting grooves. First and second end plates are respectively disposed at two ends of the rotor body along the rotation axis. A fluid cooling system includes a slot, disposed on one of the first end plate and second end plate, and located on a side of this end plate that faces towards the rotor body; a through-hole, disposed on the other of the first end plate and second end plate; and the gap. The slot, the gap and the through-hole are in fluid communication to form a cooling medium channel.

Abstract: An inverter includes a capacitive module and a first power module connected to the capacitive module by a first DC connection and includes a first AC connection arranged on an opposite side of the first power module. A second power module is connected to the capacitive module by a second DC connection and includes a second AC connection arranged on an opposite side of the second power module. The power modules are arranged on the same side of the capacitive module, on either side of a median plane of the capacitive module, the AC connections being closer to the median plane of the capacitive module than the DC connections.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes at least two light sources arranged side by side in a first direction and a light guide placed opposed to the light sources. As viewed in an opposing direction of the light sources and the light guide, a light receiving surface of the light guide overlaps light emitting surfaces of the light sources. As viewed in the opposing direction, the light receiving surface has depressions in a region opposed to the light emitting surfaces of the light sources. The depressions are arranged side by side in an arrangement direction of the light sources in a one-to-one correspondence with the light sources.

Abstract: A housing for an electric machine has a hollow-cylindrical housing casing and a circular bearing plate composed of a first material which is arranged at one axial end of the housing casing. A reinforcing element composed of a second material is embedded in the bearing plate. In addition, an electric machine having such a housing, a vehicle having such an electric machine and a method for producing the housing are described.

Abstract: A front face lighting assembly configured to be fitted in a vehicle is disclosed. The front face lighting assembly includes a screen which comprises at least one passage via which an air flow is able to pass through the screen, a shut-off device configured to control circulation of the air flow through the passage, a lever which controls at least the positions of the flap, and at least one lighting device borne by the lever and distinct from the flap. The shut-off device includes at least one flap adapted to take up a first position in which the flap shuts off the passage and a second position in which the flap opens the passage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle assembly for a vehicle, the vehicle assembly including a radar sensor having a field of vision and configured to transmit radar waves over a range of wavelengths in the field of vision, and a lens arranged opposite the radar sensor, with the lens being a gradient-index lens and includes a sublayer and a layer of patterns forming a subwavelength-structured dielectric element with a repetition period of the patterns that is less than quarter of a wavelength of the range, and the layer of patterns has a local refractive index which is calculated as a function of a local density of the patterns in the layer.

Abstract: In general, in one aspect, embodiments disclosed herein relate to a heating control device including a transistor configured to supply electric power by switching operation to a heater that heats a coolant. The heating control device adjusts a heating amount from the heater based on a heating amount control profile. The heating amount control profile includes a decrease portion in which the heating amount decreases as the temperature of the coolant increases. The decrease portion includes a first decrease portion and a second decrease portion each having a negative slope, and the first decrease portion and the second decrease portion have the same heating amount at a target temperature. The first decrease portion includes a first region and a second region, and as negative slopes, a slope at any temperature in the second region is larger than a slope at any temperature in the first region.

Abstract: The present utility model provides an optical element, comprising: a light entry surface; a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface; a light exit surface; and at least one connecting surface, located between the first reflective surface and/or the second reflective surface on the one hand and the light exit surface on the other, wherein the connecting surface at least partly comprises an enhanced reflection part for expanding a maximum exit angle of emergent light exiting via the light exit surface. Advantages: there is no need to process a surface at the light exit surface, so the range of applicability of the optical element is increased; moreover, the optical element according to the present utility model has a greater distance between the light exit surface and light entry surface thereof, i.e. can be thicker, so the optical element can adapt to a greater variety of shapes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a distance sensor (4) of a vehicle (1), in which method a plurality of successive measurement cycles are carried out in an operating mode, wherein, in each measurement cycle, a transmission signal is transmitted, a reception signal (Rx1 to Rx8) is determined on the basis of the transmission signal reflected in a surrounding region (9) of the vehicle (1), the object (8) is classified, and the transmission signal is selected from a plurality of predefined transmission signals in accordance with how the object (8) is classified, wherein the transmission signal is selected in accordance with an assignment rule determined in a learning mode, said assignment rule describing an assignment of the plurality of predefined transmission signals to classes of objects (8), wherein, in each measurement cycle, the object (8) is classified on the basis of the reception signal (Rx1 to Rx8) and the transmission signal is selected in accordance with how the object (8) is classified

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a drivable region (6) for an at least semi-autonomously operated motor vehicle (1), comprising the steps of: —specifying a drivable trajectory (10), which is formed by a trajectory point sequence (16); —specifying a first boundary (11), which is in the form of a first boundary point sequence (16), for a travel envelope (13), the first boundary having a first lateral distance (A1) from the drivable trajectory (10) and being formed on a first side of the drivable trajectory (10); —specifying a second boundary (12), which is in the form of a second boundary point sequence (17), for the travel envelope (13), the second boundary having a second lateral distance (A2) from the drivable 10 trajectory (10) and being formed on a second side of the drivable trajectory (10); and —producing the drivable region (6) by means of the drivable trajectory (10), the first boundary (11) and the second boundary (12).

Abstract: A heat exchange system of a vehicle lighting device. The heat exchange system includes an air duct that is arranged facing a heat sink for transferring heat by the light sources of the lighting device. The air duct includes an air inlet portion with a first air passage area receiving an airflow into the air duct and an air outlet portion with a second air passage area directing the airflow towards a heatsink. In addition, an intermediate portion is disposed between the air inlet portion and the air outlet portion. The intermediate portion is having a variable cross-section in a non-linear way. The largest section of the intermediate portion is superior to the section of both the first air passage area and the second air passage area.

Abstract: The present invention mainly relates to a device for cleaning a glazed surface of a detection device for a vehicle, the cleaning device includes at least two parts fitted one against the other which at least in part delimit a network for distributing a cleaning liquid and a circuit for channeling an air flow, the network for distributing the cleaning liquid being distinct from the circuit for channeling the air flow.

Abstract: An air conditioning system having: a housing with a second fluid inlet, a second fluid outlet, and a second fluid circuit provided therebetween; a heat exchanger for the first fluid, at least partially encapsulated within the housing; a blower housing with a blower motor configured to accelerate the second fluid circulation through the second fluid circuit. The blower housing is at least partially encapsulated within the housing so that the blower motor is located at the lower level than the heat exchanger. The housing includes a filtering compartment located in the vicinity of the second fluid inlet. The filtering compartment further includes a filtering component, a filter fluid evacuation circuit for condensation fluid that condenses on the surface of the filtering component, and a second opening configured to evacuate the filter fluid from the housing. The second opening is fluidly connected to the filtering compartment.

Abstract: An electric drive axle for a vehicle, having an electric motor, a gearbox, a differential with two output shafts and a separating clutch, the input side of which is coupled to one of the output shafts of the differential and the output side of which is assigned to one of two drive shafts of the drive axle. A mechanical oil pump is provided, which is coupled to one of the two drive shafts by means of a shifting clutch. A module for such a drive axle includes a gearbox and an oil pump which is coupled to the gearbox in such a manner that the oil pump has a delivery capacity only when the gearbox does not transmit drive power.

Abstract: Method for heating a coolant of an electrical traction machine of a motor vehicle, the electrical machine including, in addition to the coolant, a stator including a polyphase winding, the stator being in heat exchange with the coolant, a rotor, and an inverter/rectifier supplying power to the polyphase winding. The inverter/rectifier includes a plurality of switching cells controlled by a control device. The control device of the inverter/rectifier is configured to control the switching cells so as to short-circuit the polyphase winding in predetermined conditions for the purpose of heating the coolant.

Abstract: A light guiding device includes a first light guide having an end surface, a corner section and a downstream section. The corner section of the first light guide has a corner and is closer to the end surface of the first light guide than the downstream section. Light incident surfaces of the first light guide include the end surface, and an inner side surface of the corner section located on the inner side of the corner. A light exit surface of the first light guide includes an outer side surface of the first light guide located on the outer side of the corner. The light incident surfaces of the first light guide may additionally include the inner side surface of the corner section. It is found that the corner section can be lit on when the corner section is observed along the direction tangent to the corner section.

Abstract: A control system for a voltage converter includes a first module for measuring a voltage of the DC voltage source, a module for comparing the measured voltage with a first safety threshold, and a second measurement module for measuring a speed of rotation of the rotary electric machine. A control module generates an open-circuit command which is made up of a command to open the first group of switches and a command to open the second group of switches. If a variation over time of the measured voltage of the DC voltage source is less than a first safety variation. If the speed of rotation measured by the second measurement module is less than a first safety speed.

Abstract: An item of electrical equipment includes an electronic board, an electronic component fixed onto the electronic board and disposed parallel to the electronic board, and a heat sink configured to dissipate the heat emitted by the electronic component. A retention member supports a bearing element which presses onto the electronic component in a direction orthogonal to the electronic board and in a direction away from the electronic component relative to the electronic board. The bearing element is configured to press the electronic components onto the heat sink.