Patents Assigned to Volkswagen AG
  • Patent number: 10488862
    Abstract: A method for communicating between an operating point, which externally controls an automatically driving vehicle, and a further road user. The method includes identifying the further road user and setting up a communication connection between the operating point and the further road user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Teodor Buburuzan, Bernd Rech, Bernd Lehmann, Monique Engel, Sandra Kleinau, Stefan Gläser, Hendrik-Jörn Günther, Johannes Hartog
  • Patent number: 10483563
    Abstract: A cathode supply (30) for a fuel cell (10) of a fuel cell unit (1) for a fuel cell system is provided, the cathode supply (30) including a cathode supply path (31) and a cathode exhaust gas path (32) and at least two fluid pumping devices (33, 133) for pumping a cathode operating medium (5) for the fuel cell (10) are fluido-mechanically coupled into the cathode supply path (31), at least one first fluid pumping device (133) of the at least two fluid pumping devices (33, 133) being drivable only on the basis of an enthalpy in a cathode exhaust gas (6) of the fuel cell (10). A fuel cell unit for a vehicle, in particular, an electric vehicle, a fuel cell system for a vehicle, in particular, an electric vehicle, or a vehicle in particular an electric vehicle, the fuel cell unit, the fuel cell system, or the vehicle including a cathode supply (30) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG
    Inventors: Daniel Grundei, Christian Schlitzberger, Christian Lucas, Hannes Scholz, Jan-Philipp Brinkmeier
  • Patent number: 10484360
    Abstract: A method for providing an authenticated connection between at least two communication partners and to a communication system. The method includes setting up an anonymous signal-conducting connection between the at least two communication partners; checking the authenticity of a signed certificate used by a first communication partner of the at least two communication partners by a second communication partner of the at least two communication partners; reproducing an authentication code by the second communication partner after the check of the authenticity of the signed certificate used by the first communication partner has been carried out; and confirming the authentication code reproduced by the second communication partner by a user by the first communication partner. The method provides a possibility which increases the security of a certificate-based authentication of a communication connection between at least two communication partners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Timo Winkelvos, Alexander Tschache, Martin Wuschke
  • Patent number: 10477346
    Abstract: A method for passive access control including a mobile device serving as key and an interaction unit, the mobile device and the interaction unit having in each case at least one data communication facility for exchanging authorization information. Operations are provided for carrying out an electronic distance measurement between the mobile device and the interaction unit and for permitting an access and/or an interaction only if the distance of the mobile device from the interaction unit is within a permitted distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Brückner
  • Patent number: 10466064
    Abstract: A method for determining a location of a motor vehicle, wherein a respective rotational position signal is received from a respective wheel sensor of at least one wheel, and a steering angle signal is received from a steering angle sensor of a steering device, and a wheel-based location estimation is determined, the respective rotational position signal and geometric data of the at least one wheel. A respective relative location of the motor vehicle with respect to at least one object arranged in the surroundings is detected, and a respective relative change in location with respect to the at least one object is determined during a movement of the motor vehicle, and a surroundings-based location estimation is determined, and a combined location estimation of the location is determined from the wheel-based and the surroundings-based location estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Kristian Weiß, Sascha Bauer, Mehmet Eylem Kirlangic, Andreas Wege, Robert Konnopka, Lars Krüger, Jesko Klandt, Christian Tendyck
  • Patent number: 10462843
    Abstract: A method for the digital transmission of data blocks from a transmitting station to a receiving station, wherein delta information is generated at the transmitting end which indicates the positions at which a further data block differs from the preceding data block. The delta information is provided with error protection and is added to the further data block and is transmitted. The received first and the at least one extended further data block are stored in the receiving station. The delta information of the at least one extended further data block is then retrieved and applied to the stored preceding data block. It is thereby made comparable with the at least one further data block. A soft combining of the received further data block and the transformed preceding data block is then carried out. The payload of the further data block is retrieved from the combined data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventor: Thorsten Hehn
  • Patent number: 10455578
    Abstract: Apparatuses, a method, and a computer program for influencing the selection of a frequency band for wireless communication with a mobile station. Disclosed is an apparatus, method, and computer program for controlling a frequency band selection for wireless communication with a mobile station in a wireless local area network—WLAN—, wherein at least a first and a second frequency band are selectable, the first and second frequency bands each having multiple transmission channels; and having a transmission circuit for transmitting at least one command to the mobile station that asks the mobile station to change from the first to the second frequency band, or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Matthias Mohaupt, Sascha Jurthe
  • Patent number: 10449929
    Abstract: A system for automatic control of entry and/or motor starting authorization of a user for a vehicle. A control device or a computation device associated with the control device uses at least one statistical computation method to compute a probability of misuse for obtaining an entry and/or motor starting authorization for the vehicle. If the computed probability of misuse reaches or exceeds a prescribable threshold value, a control signal at least for unlocking the vehicle doors and/or for enabling of the motor control device is/are stopped or produced by the control device only if at least one additional authentication criterion has been satisfied; and/or the system for control of entry and/or motor starting authorization is deactivated if it is established that the vehicle is parking in an environment where the probability of future misuse of the electronic key reaches or exceeds a prescribable threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Florian Pflug, Hendrik Decke
  • Patent number: 10452228
    Abstract: A method and a device for displaying information and for operating an electronic device in a vehicle, wherein a plurality of list elements are displayed on a display surface with a touch-sensitive surface; a contact of a list element on the touch-sensitive surface with an actuating object or an approach of the actuating object to the list element is detected, whereupon the list element is activated, and after the activation of the list element, a first swiping movement of the actuating object on or in the vicinity of the touch-sensitive surface is detected, and with or after the detection of the first swiping movement of the actuating object, at least the list elements which are not activated are removed from the display surface and a multimedia additional element associated with the activated list element is inserted into the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Mathias Kuhn, Jan Michaelis, Alexander Hahn
  • Patent number: 10455625
    Abstract: The configuration of a wireless communication link between a mobile device and a vehicle including authentication of the mobile device, automatic adjustment of a configuration of the mobile device for the wireless communication link on the basis of the authentication, and automatic adjustment of a configuration of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventor: Burak Simsek
  • Patent number: 10455592
    Abstract: A method, a device, and computer program for a mobile device for reducing interference between a first mobile communication system and a second mobile communication system and a vehicle including the disclosed device. The method for the mobile device receives information about a location of one or more transmitters of the first mobile communication system and information about a used communication resource of the one or more transmitters of the first mobile communication system, determines a position of the mobile device, and adapts the communication of the mobile device via the second mobile communication system for the position of the mobile device based on the information about the location of the one or more transmitters of the first mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventor: Teodor Buburuzan
  • Patent number: 10449859
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell vehicle (200), in which the driver has more influence on the consumption and the dynamic of the vehicle (200). This is achieved by the fuel cell vehicle (200) comprising at least one sensor for detecting a first driver input and a control unit (60). The control unit (60) is configured to operate the fuel cell vehicle (200) in one of a plurality of operating modes depending on the first driver input, wherein a power consumption PAC of the air-conditioning system (70), an operating range of the fuel cell stack (10), and a transfer function for determining the power demand PEM from the second driver input are varied depending on the selected operating mode. It is provided that the driver has at least five different operating modes available, which differ in particular with respect to the available driving dynamic, the fuel consumption, and the adjustable comfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Nils Brandau, Christian Schröder
  • Patent number: 10449999
    Abstract: A method for adapting an actual steering wheel angle of a steering wheel and an actual wheel steering angle of a wheel steering system in a motor vehicle after an automated driving maneuver has been executed. The method includes detecting the actual steering wheel angle by a steering wheel angle-detection device and the actual wheel steering angle by a wheel steering angle-detection device, adapting the actual steering wheel angle by a steering wheel-actuation device and/or the actual wheel steering angle by a wheel steering-actuation device based on a transfer strategy within a predefined transfer time. Also disclosed is an associated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Michael Düring, Kai Franke, Daniel Töpfer, Omar El Mikati
  • Patent number: 10452066
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transitioning a motor vehicle from a manual operating mode to an automated or assisting operating mode for driving along a saved trajectory including a memory, in which the trajectory and a tolerance region of the trajectory are saved; a mechanism for ascertaining the location of the motor vehicle relative to the saved trajectory; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured so that, if a predetermined criterion is met, a transition trajectory from a current instantaneous position to the saved trajectory is calculated and a steering torque is generated that steers the motor vehicle in the direction of the calculated transition trajectory, wherein the at least one criterion is a distance threshold value with respect to the saved trajectory, wherein the distance threshold value is selected so it is outside the tolerance region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Sascha Bauer, Sönke Freter, Stephan Max, Kristian Weiß
  • Patent number: 10449857
    Abstract: An information reproduction system for a vehicle having an input device that receives a selection signal and a processor that produces a video or control signal, as a result of which a status bar arranged at an edge of a touch-sensitive display panel of a display device and a display area adjoining the status bar are reproduced on the touch-sensitive display panel by the display device on the basis of the video or control signal device. The selection signal has information about a starting point and an end point of a movement by a user that touches the display panel of the display device without interruption. The processor produces the video or control signal on the basis of the selection signal. The information reproduction system also has an output device that provides the video or control signal for a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Holger Wild, Nils Kötter
  • Patent number: 10439244
    Abstract: A membrane for a membrane electrode assembly of a fuel cell has a quadrangular shape with two parallel longitudinal sides and two opposite short sides. The membrane can be produced by providing an endless membrane, wherein edges of the endless membrane form the longitudinal sides of the membrane, and processing the endless membrane by making two cuts: a first cut at a first angle to an extension direction and forming a first cut edge, and a second cut at a second angle to the extension direction and forming a second cut edge. The first cut edge and the second cut edge form the short sides of the membrane and at least one of the first and second angles are different from 90°. At least one angle enclosed by one of the short sides and an adjacent longitudinal side is different from 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventor: Christian Martin Zillich
  • Patent number: 10433133
    Abstract: A method for indicating authorized authentication media for a vehicle including detecting a key authorized for the vehicle via a first interface; ascertaining the authentication media that are authorized for the vehicle; and outputting an indication if, on the one hand, the key authorized for the vehicle was detected previously and if, on the other hand, at least one authentication medium was ascertained in the course of the ascertaining step, wherein the vehicle communicates with the authentication media via a second interface, which differs from the first interface. Also disclosed is a device and vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Alexander Tschache, Gerald Koch
  • Patent number: 10431092
    Abstract: A method for performing a cooperative driving maneuver and a vehicle. The method performs a cooperative driving maneuver which includes determining, by a first vehicle, a driving maneuver to be carried out; receiving maneuver information pertaining to a planned driving maneuver of a second vehicle by the first vehicle receiving surroundings information by the first vehicle, stipulating, by the first vehicle based on the received maneuver information and the received surroundings information, a maneuver trajectory for the driving maneuver to be carried out, and performing the driving maneuver by the first vehicle using the stipulated maneuver trajectory. Also disclosed is a way for vehicles to be better able to interpret received information pertaining to a planned driving maneuver of another vehicle to increase safety for the performance of a cooperative driving maneuver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Teodor Buburuzan, Bernd Lehmann, Bernd Rech, Monique Engel, Sandra Kleinau, Stefan Gläser, Hendrik-Jörn Günther, Johannes Hartog
  • Patent number: 10432431
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for estimating a multi-hop radio channel between a transmitter, one or more relay stations, and a receiver in a mobile communication system. The apparatus includes one or more interfaces to obtain information related to a position and a state of movement of the transmitter and receiver, information related to an environment of the transmitter, the receiver, and the one or more relay stations, information related to channel state feedback of single-hop radio channels between the transmitter, the receiver, and the one or more relay stations, and information related to delays of the channel state feedback. The apparatus also includes a control module to control the one or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Roman Alieiev, Andreas Kwoczek, Thorsten Hehn
  • Patent number: 10431844
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a catalyst coated membrane (19) for a fuel cell (10), wherein the catalyst coated membrane (19) has a membrane (11) and a catalyst layer (12, 13) of a catalytic material arranged on at least one of its flat sides, as well as a nonrectangular active area (20), which is restricted in one direction by two outer sides (30) opposite one another. The method comprises a continuous application of the catalytic material to a membrane material (33) while creating a constant coating width (B) such that an area (35) coated with the catalytic material corresponds to at least the active area (20). A provision is that the membrane material (33) be coated with the catalytic material such that a coating direction (D) has an angle with respect to the opposite outer sides (30) of the active area (20) that is not equal to 90° and not equal to 0°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matej Kusy, Sabina Russell, Alexander Leung