Patents Assigned to Volkswagen AG
  • Patent number: 12162414
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cable guide (1) for a cable connection between a vehicle body (52) and a sliding door (54) comprising a first connection device (4), a second connection device (2) and an energy chain (3) running between the first connection device (4) and the second connection device (2), which has a stretched configuration when the sliding door (54) is closed and a deflected configuration when the sliding door (54) is open, wherein the energy chain (3) has a first end link (42) at one end and a second end link (42) at the opposite end (22), wherein the first end link (42) is pivoted on the first connection device (4) and the second connection device (2) comprises a tensioning device (24) for the energy chain (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: NEWFREY LLC, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Bastian Stau, Peter Will, Henrik Burgsmüller
  • Publication number: 20240385281
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar sensor device comprising a transmission path and a reception path, an optical input, which is formed for receiving an optical transfer signal, an optical output, which is formed for providing an optical output signal, an antenna, which is configured to transmit an electrical transmission signal and to receive an electrical reception signal, a digital interface unit, which is configured to switch between the transmission path and the reception path, wherein the radar sensor device is formed as a system on a chip, and the transmission path, the reception path, the optical input, the optical output, the antenna and the digital interface unit are arranged on the system on a chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicants: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Heiko KURZ, Rachid KHLIFI
  • Patent number: 12132231
    Abstract: A layered structure for a fuel cell comprises a carbon-based catalyst-free gas diffusion layer substrate and a carbon-based microporous layer, which is joined to the gas diffusion layer substrate and comprises a plurality of carbon carriers or carbon fibers embedded into an ion-conducting polymer binder mixture. The polymer binder mixture comprises a sulfur-free binding polymer and a sulfonated polymer, and a fraction of the binding polymer at or near a surface of the microporous layer facing away from the gas diffusion layer substrate is less than or equal to a fraction of the sulfonated polymer. A method for producing a layered structure of this type is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Gerold Hübner, Tanja Graf, Thomas Schladt
  • Patent number: 12123377
    Abstract: A method for operating a fuel tank arrangement for a motor vehicle. The fuel tank arrangement has a fuel tank, a hydrocarbon filter and a pump. The fuel tank is fluidically connected via a tank shut-off valve to the hydrocarbon filter and the hydrocarbon filter is fluidically connected, on the one hand, via the pump to an external environment of the fuel tank arrangement and, on the other hand, via a purge valve to an intake tract of an internal combustion engine. A first leakage test mode is carried out when the pressure in the fuel tank is greater than a pressure threshold value, in which a shut-off valve arranged in terms of flow between the pump and the external environment is closed and the tank shut-off valve is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Oliver Grunwald, Aleksandar Tesic
  • Patent number: 12115866
    Abstract: A method, by a control device, to activate an active discharge circuit to discharge a capacitive energy storage of at least one electrical consumer of an on-board power supply for a motor vehicle. An energy source for the on-board power supply can be coupled to the on-board power supply and be disconnected from the on-board power supply by a switching device. The control device receives a signal (S) for activating the active discharge circuit, examines, after receiving the signal (S), if the energy source is disconnected from the on-board power supply according to at least one first criterion, and activates the active discharge circuit only upon satisfaction of a condition that the energy source has been disconnected from the on-board power supply according to the at least one first criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Tobias Grassl, Jan Schmäling, Samy Arnaout, Marko Kertes, Markus Novotny, Tobias Knoke
  • Patent number: 12088332
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a mobile transceiver and for a network entity, a mobile transceiver, a network entity and a system, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a mobile transceiver. The method for a mobile transceiver to communicate in a mobile communication system includes providing information on a field of application of the mobile transceiver to the mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Steffen Schmitz, Jörg Plechinger
  • Patent number: 12079694
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes storing a set of training data. One or more machine learning models are trained based on the set of training data. The method also includes receiving, from a computing device, a request to access the set of training data. The method further includes determining whether the computing device is allowed to access the set of training data. In response to determining that the computing device is allowed to access the set of training data, the method includes transmitting a training token to the computing device. The training token grants a training environment with access to the set of training data for a period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Porsche AG, Audi AG
    Inventors: Liang Kong, Oleg Tolstov
  • Publication number: 20240291355
    Abstract: The described examples may relate to a connection device for electrically conductively connecting a stator and a pulse inverter of an electric motor. The connection device includes at least one clamping piece pair with two clamping pieces, which are movable in relation to each other along a clamping direction between a closed and an open position and formed to clamp a stator-side line end with a pulse inverter-side line end between the two clamping pieces in the closed position such that an electrically conductive connection of the line ends is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicants: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: András Csákány, Marvin Emde, Andreas Lenz, Max Possen
  • Patent number: 12038494
    Abstract: Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for range data compression. According to one embodiment, a current range data frame for a current time point is generated. Each current range data cell in the current range data frame includes current ranges representing points in a point cloud in a 3D space for the current time point. Accumulated prior ranges in an accumulated prior range buffer are propagated from a prior time point to the current time point. Current ranges in the current range data frame are compared with the propagated accumulated prior ranges to determine range differences between the current ranges and the propagated accumulated prior ranges. A proper subset of current ranges in the set of current ranges is identified based on the range difference. The proper subset of current ranges is included in a range data signal excluding other current ranges not in the proper subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, AUDI AG, DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Jerramy Lee Gipson
  • Publication number: 20240190258
    Abstract: The described examples may relate to a method of operating an on-board power supply of an electrically drivable motor vehicle, in which at least one electrical machine is supplied with electrical energy from a vehicle battery connected to the on-board power supply via an inverter connected to the on-board power supply in an intended drive operation, and the inverter may include a radio interference suppression filter to reduce grid-bound interferences. In an example, at least the inverter may be electrically disconnected from the on-board power supply in a charging operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicants: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Georg Dobmeier, Tobias Grassl, Kai Marschall, Cornelius Rettner, Bjarne Wirsen
  • Patent number: 12009526
    Abstract: A method for the production of an electrode for a fuel cell is provided that comprises providing a multitude of catalyst particles carried on at least one electrically conductive particle carrier, and depositing one or more atomic or molecular layers of an ionomer from the gas phase on the catalyst particles and/or the at least one particle carrier, thereby forming a proton-conducting ionomer coating. Furthermore, an electrode for a fuel cell is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schladt, Lasse Schmidt, Tanja Graf, Gerold Hübner, Jonathan Edward Müller
  • Patent number: 11936249
    Abstract: A measurement system for an electrical machine includes a position sensor device arranged on a rotor of the electrical machine, a carrier connected to the position sensor device, and a temperature sensor device fastened to the carrier. The position sensor device is configured to ascertain an item of information about an orientation of the rotor. The temperature sensor is configured to ascertain a temperature of a stator of the electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity India Private Limited, TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Volkswagen AG, TE Connectivity Begium BV
    Inventors: Bram Embo, Dirk Pillu, Rainer Schindel, Sebastian Wiechert, Mathias Dohmann, Manivasakan Ravinthiran
  • Publication number: 20240068523
    Abstract: A shaft-hub connection includes a shaft and a hub which engage with one another for conjoint rotation about an axis of rotation via a first toothing and a second toothing. The first toothing has a first toothing region and a second toothing region, wherein the first toothing region and the second toothing region are, as viewed in the circumferential direction (u), arranged offset by a dimension (d) in such a way that the first toothing region engages with the second toothing via front tooth flanks as viewed in the circumferential direction (u), and the second toothing region engages with the second toothing via rear tooth flanks as viewed in the circumferential direction (u).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: AUDI AG, Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Michael FRISCH, Johannes ALBL, Wolfgang HEISE
  • Patent number: 11885463
    Abstract: A pressurized gas accumulator has a hollow body which extends along a longitudinal axis and at least one connection piece. The hollow body has at least one layer of a weave structure with a plurality of warp threads running next to one another and a weft thread woven with the warp threads and oriented perpendicular thereto. The warp threads are oriented essentially parallel or essentially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the hollow body. A method for producing a pressurised gas accumulator and to a device for carrying out said method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Audi AG, Volkswagen AG
    Inventor: Maik Kraus
  • Patent number: 11888178
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a battery cell component including providing a current collector foil and placing separators onto the current collector foil at spaced intervals. A battery cell component, battery and electric or hybrid vehicle is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Mirko Herrmann, Angela Speidel
  • Patent number: 11874370
    Abstract: A method for acquiring information in the spatial environment of a vehicle, comprising: providing at least two radar sensors arranged at different positions at the vehicle; transmitting radar signals by the radar sensors, the radar signals being assigned to the radar sensors; receiving reflected components of the radar signals assigned to the radar sensors at the respective radar sensors and further processing these reflected components of the radar signals as reception information; assigning time information to the reception information obtained from the respective radar sensors, the time information forming a time reference for the reception information; assigning location information to the reception information obtained from the respective radar sensors, the location information forming a location reference for the reception information; and processing the reception information obtained from the at least two radar sensors into common environment information by taking into account the time information and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Andreas Löffler, Fabian Harrer, Thomas Gisder, Marc-Michael Meinecke, Thorsten Bagdonat
  • Patent number: 11876272
    Abstract: A fuel-cell stack has a first end plate and a second end plate and a plurality of fuel cells arranged between the end plates. At least one elastic tensioning element is tensioned in the stack direction between the end plates. Furthermore, a re-tensioning element is arranged between the tensioning element and a surface section of the fuel-cell stack. The re-tensioning element has a tensioning body and at least one adjusting element arranged between the tensioning body and the surface section. A distance between the tensioning body and the surface section can be variably adjusted and fixed by the at least one adjusting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Adel Jilani, Siva Sankar Voosani Krishna
  • Patent number: 11870028
    Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series, each battery cell having a cathode, an anode, and a separator separating the cathode and the anode, and a bipolar current collector; a plurality of polymer frames, each having a window to receive part of the one of the plurality of battery cells; two of the plurality of polymer frames defining a compartment; and electrolyte filling the compartment for one of the plurality of battery cells. A method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Mirko Herrmann, Angela Speidel
  • Patent number: 11862826
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining the compressive tensile force acting on a fuel cell stack due to at least one tensioning element. Thereby, the compressive tensile force is the overall tensile force compressing the fuel cell stack. This is determined according to the invention by means of acoustic measurements on vibratable sections of the tensioning elements. The subject matter of the invention also includes a data processing program for carrying out the method according to the invention along with the use of a smartphone for carrying out the method according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG
    Inventors: Ian Stewart, Tegan Harrower, Matej Kusy
  • Patent number: 11855310
    Abstract: A flow-field plate is provided for distributing a reactant to an electrode or a gas diffusion layer of a fuel cell, the flow-field plate having a gas inlet, and having a plurality of channels defining a flow field. A pressure gradient is present between the gas inlet and the flow field given a state of throughflow, which leads to an intake of exhaust gas flowing in the channels in the direction of the gas inlet. Furthermore, there is a water/gas separator which is fluidically connected to the gas inlet for separating liquid water and/or water vapor from a gas which is connected to the flow field in order to supply the gas separated in the water/gas separator to the flow field. A flow cross-section at the gas inlet or at the gas inlet region is smaller than the flow cross-section at or in the region of the water/gas separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG
    Inventor: Rune Staeck