Patents Assigned to Volkswagen AG
  • Patent number: 10846428
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium having instructions for processing data captured by a motor vehicle. In a first operation, a datum captured by a motor vehicle is received. Subsequently, location-oriented or time-oriented masking is applied to the received datum. Alternatively or additionally, the received datum is separated from other data captured by the motor vehicle. The masked or separated datum is forwarded for evaluation. The location-oriented or time-oriented masking or the separating of the received datum from other data captured by the motor vehicle is effected inside the motor vehicle or in a reception system with a connection to the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Toralf Hessel
  • Patent number: 10836422
    Abstract: A method for operating an electric power steering system of a motor vehicle, wherein a steering wheel angle is specified by a steering handle as a measurement for a desired wheel steering angle for at least one steerable wheel of the motor vehicle, wherein an electric servo drive having an electric motor provides steering assistance, and wherein an additional restoring force is provided to compensate for increased internal friction in the power steering system based upon temperature, wherein the additional restoring force is reduced based upon a desired steering direction that is detected at the steering handle. Also disclosed is an associated electric power steering system, an associated computer program, and an associated control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Jens Zientek, Johannes Maria Schäfer
  • Patent number: 10839696
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for a local platooning controller and a global platooning controller and a platooning system. The apparatus for a local platooning controller of a transportation vehicle includes a transceiver module which receives information related to a control command from a global platooning controller and transmits feedback information to the global platooning controller. The apparatus includes a control module which controls the transceiver module. The control module determines information related to a deviation between control information received with information related to the control command from the global platooning controller and an actual state of the transportation vehicle, and effects transmission of feedback information based on the information related to the deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Guillaume Jornod, Thorsten Hehn, Daniel Reimann, Roman Alieiev
  • Patent number: 10838604
    Abstract: Disclosed are a user interface, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a transportation vehicle and a method for the multiple use of a display unit of a user interface included in a transportation vehicle. Said method may comprise the steps: displaying, on a first display unit, display elements representing a range of information; detecting the approach of a user, and in response thereto, displaying control elements representing a range of functions in place of the display elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Holger Wild, Nils Kötter
  • Patent number: 10821925
    Abstract: A device and method for providing support to a user prior to activating a switch to electromotively adjust a component of a transportation means is disclosed. The transportation means and a device and a method for assisting a user prior to an activating of a switch for electric motor adjustment of a component of a transportation means are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of recognizing of an approach of the user to a first switch and in response displaying of a prompt to a function coordinated with the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Holger Wild, Nils Kotter
  • Patent number: 10823222
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for securing a fastening element to a first component, wherein the first component has a passage opening for a shaft of the fastening element, said assembly comprising a securing element, which reaches around the shaft of the fastening element, wherein a head part of the fastening element and the securing element are arranged on opposite sides of the first component and the shaft of the fastening element engages in a receptacle of a second component for the frictional and/or interlocking connection of the two components. According to the invention, the securing element is pre-fastened to the second component before a first connection of the first component to the second component and is separated from the second component and reaches around the shaft of the fastening element after a first release of the connection between the first component and the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, BÖLLHOFF VERBINDUNGSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Torsten Hübner, Martin Jodeleit, Michael Kahre, Sandra Steffenfauseweh
  • Patent number: 10812257
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methodologies for generating a vehicle identification hash value and verifying the integrity of the vehicle. The vehicle identification hash value is generated based on hashes provided by each vehicle component. The generated overall vehicle identification hash value may be dynamic and reflects changes that occur to the vehicle at the component level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Porsche AG
    Inventors: Liang Kong, Payton White
  • Publication number: 20200326380
    Abstract: A method for determining an ageing parameter KSOH of a rechargeable battery, especially a lithium rechargeable battery, featuring the steps (a) detecting an impedance Z of the rechargeable battery at different frequencies f, so that a Nyquist plot and a real part path, which plots a real part of the impedance Z against the frequency f, are obtained, determining at least one of the following SOH parameters, which can be selected from a predetermined list, establishing an SOH row vector {right arrow over (PSOH)} from the SOH parameters and all mixed terms of the form pSOH,m·pSOH,n, m=1, . . . , 11, n=1, . . . , m. The invention provides for the multiplication of the SOH row vector {right arrow over (PSOH)} by a saved calibration vector {right arrow over (ASOH)}, thereby obtaining the ageing parameter KSOH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicants: Volkswagen AG, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vertreten durch das Bundesministeriumfuer Wirtschaft und Energie, dieses
    Inventors: Gerd WUEBBELER, Rainer FUESSLER, Clemens ELSTER, Steffen SEITZ, Martin WUENSCH
  • Patent number: 10804556
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell stack, a fuel cell system, and a vehicle having such a fuel cell system. The fuel cell stack comprises a stack of membrane electrode assemblies and bipolar plates arranged in alternation between two end plates and comprises main supply channels for supplying and discharging operating media for the fuel cell stack which main supply channels extend through the stack in the stacking direction of the stack. It is provided that means for retaining particles be provided in at least one of the main supply channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Peter Bach, Ingo Drescher
  • Patent number: 10800365
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a vehicle and a control center for establishing an up-to-dateness of a local user setting. The method for a first information system establishes an up-to-dateness of a local user setting and includes determining a first data word based on the local user setting. The first data word is representable with a smaller volume of data than the local user setting. The method also provides the first data word for comparison with a second data word of a second information system. The second data word is based on a remotely stored user setting. The method further establishes the up-to-dateness of the local user setting if the first data word matches the second data word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventor: Simon Gerlach
  • Patent number: 10797284
    Abstract: A battery component includes a polymer frame having at least one window, the polymer frame having a first planar side and an opposite second planar side, and a window edge between the first and second planar sides. The battery component also has a battery cell component having a separator and bipolar current collector, the battery cell component being attached to the frame, the separator or bipolar current collector being attached to the first planar side or the window edge. A battery stack, a method for handling the battery component as an individual unit are also provided, electric vehicle battery and electric vehicle are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG, DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG
    Inventors: Mirko Herrmann, Angela Speidel
  • Patent number: 10794318
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronically commutated fuel pump with an upstream fuel pump electronics unit of a motor vehicle, wherein the fuel pump is operated at a predefined speed, the method includes detecting a speed irregularity of the electronically commutated fuel pump, the speed irregularity being determined by examining the synchronicity between rotary field and rotor of the fuel pump, and switching over the speed of the electronically commutated fuel pump to a higher speed value than the predefined speed until a stable operation of the fuel pump without loss of synchronicity between rotary field and rotor of the fuel pump is achieved, the switchover of the fuel pump to the higher speed is performed by a predefined speed jump or is performed at predefined speed steps, the speed being increased until stable operation of the fuel pump is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventor: Andreas Kahlert
  • Patent number: 10790515
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a supported catalyst material for a fuel cell. This comprises an electrically conductive, carbon-based carrier material and catalytic structures deposited or grown on the carrier material with a multilayer structure. The core layer comprises an electrically conductive bulk material, with the bulk material in direct contact with the carbon-based carrier material. The thin surface layer has a catalytically active noble metal or an alloy thereof. The preparation is carried out directly onto the carrier material with the deposition of the corresponding starting materials from the gas phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schladt, Tanja Graf
  • Patent number: 10791098
    Abstract: A method for providing an authenticated connection between at least two communication partners and to a communication system. The method includes providing a shared secret key for the at least two communication partners; setting up an anonymous signal-conducting connection between the at least two communication partners, wherein all messages of the connection between the at least two communication partners are encrypted using the shared secret key; and authenticating the connection between the at least two communication partners by a user. The method provides a secure and convenient authentication of a connection between two communication partners, wherein the authentication is effected at the application level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Timo Winkelvos, Alexander Tschache, Martin Wuschke
  • Patent number: 10789495
    Abstract: A system and methodologies for neuromorphic (NM) vision simulate conventional analog NM system functionality and generate digital NM image data that facilitate improved object detection, classification, and tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Porsche AG
    Inventors: Edmund Dawes Zink, Douglas Allen Hauger, Jerramy L. Gipson, Allen Khorasani, Lutz Junge, Nils Kuepper, Andreas Busse, Nikhil J. George
  • Patent number: 10790518
    Abstract: An electrical contact device for the diversion of electrical current from a fuel cell stack can have a plurality of electrically conductive contact regions which are delineated from each other. A plurality of electrically conductive first contact structures connects each, or a plurality of, the contact region(s) to an external load current circuit. Via at least one switching element arranged in a first contact structure, an electrically conductive connection may be disconnected by the first contact structure, in particular between at least one contact region and a load current circuit. In this way it is possible to adjust the overall resistance of the contact structure, and thus the Joule heat produced in the contact regions. Second contact structures that are arranged between the contact regions enable a further increased variability of the overall electrical resistance of the contact device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ian Stewart, Bevan Hoskyn Moss
  • Patent number: 10782845
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transportation vehicle, a user interface, and a method for defining a tile on a displace device of a user interface. The method may include the following steps: displaying a tile grid comprising a number of cells on the display device in an operating mode; detecting a user gesture, in particular a swiping gesture, in contact with a touch-sensitive surface in relation to at least one cell; and, in response, defining a tile on the positions of those cells that have been dialed by the user gesture in a predefined manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventor: Holger Wild
  • Patent number: 10779239
    Abstract: A method, mobile radio station and computer program to perform a change of the mobile radio device category based on the state of the transportation vehicle. When the transportation vehicle is stopped, a lower mobile radio device category is selected, wherein the downlink and/or uplink data rates are reduced. This protects the battery of the transportation vehicle and improves the resource utilization in the mobile radio system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Kwoczek, Teodor Buburuzan, Roman Alieiev, Thorsten Hehn, Ernst Zielinski, Steffen Schmitz
  • Patent number: 10775480
    Abstract: A system, device and method for wireless device localization using a differential evolution algorithm in a continuous trilateration process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, PORSCHE AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Liang Kong, Oleg Tolstov, Andrea Kuklenyik, Florian Rill
  • Patent number: 10766437
    Abstract: Systems, components, and methodologies are provided for improvements in operation of automotive vehicles by enabling monitoring analysis and reaction to subtle sources of information that aid in prediction and response of vehicle control systems across a range of automation levels. Such systems, components, and methodologies include wheel-turn detection equipment for detecting a wheel angle of another vehicle to trigger a vehicle control system to perform an operation based on the detected wheel angle of the other vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Porsche AG
    Inventors: Mirko Herrmann, Angela-Kristina Speidel