Abstract: A drive train for a vehicle includes a drive shaft, a transmission, a differential, and a wheel drive shaft. An axle drive gear wheel of the differential and a gear wheel of the transmission, which mesh with one another are at least partially in the oil sump in a splashing fashion. An end plate has a bearing retainer for receiving a bearing. The efficiency of the drive train is increased and splashing losses are avoided by the end plate, which has a flange-like circumferential region extending radially in the direction of the oil sump. At least one of the end plate or the circumferential region is or are formed to divide the oil sump into a first and a second oil sump region.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder that has a main combustion chamber for burning a fuel/air mixture or a fuel/air/exhaust gas mixture and has a flushed prechamber connected to the main combustion chamber via at least one overflow duct on the fluid side. At least one exhaust gas turbocharger is provided that has a turbine for the expansion of the at exhaust gas leaving the at least one cylinder and a compressor for compressing fresh air or a fresh air/exhaust gas mixture to be supplied to the at least one cylinder as compressed charge-air. In a charge-air line downstream of the compressor, an extraction point is formed from which a flushing line branches off, via which a partial amount of charge-air of the compressed charge-air for flushing the at least one prechamber can be extracted.

Abstract: A method for operating an autonomously operable motor vehicle comprising: receiving location data relating to a planned location of a motor vehicle; determining whether the motor vehicle is authorized to approach the planned location according to the location data by using at least one of the following: a) personal data about at least one person using the motor vehicle; b) a number of persons using the motor vehicle; c) load data about a load that is being or is to be transported by the motor vehicle.

Abstract: An internal resistance value of a vehicle battery is determined from a measured ripple current. An actual energy content of the vehicle battery is determined from the internal resistance value and a predetermined battery characteristic curve. A temperature value of the vehicle battery is measured and an available amount of energy of the vehicle battery for an emergency pulse is determined based on the actual energy content, an actual discharge current of the vehicle battery and the measured temperature value.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a charging station comprising a charging cable, or a charging socket for receiving a charging cable, and a memory with a list of IDs that are authorized to use the charging station. The charging station is configured to receive an ID via the charging cable and to compare it with the IDs on the list. A charging process is or is not authorized depending on the comparison. The charging station is furthermore configured to receive an enabling code, wherein after the charging station confirms the enabling code, a subsequently received ID of an electric or hybrid vehicle is saved in the list.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor assembly and a method for a vehicle for detecting distance information, wherein the detection information is detected based on strip-shaped areas and distance histograms formed therefor, more precisely, with reference to intersecting areas of these strip-shaped areas. It is provided that the detected strip-shaped areas of a scene each correspond to strip-shaped areas of a sensor of the sensor assembly, and for a plurality of the corresponding strip-shaped areas, the light received therein is determined simultaneously.

Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment system for an internal combustion engine, which comprises an exhaust system which can be connected to the outlet of an internal combustion engine. A catalytic converter close to the engine and a second catalytic converter arranged downstream of the catalytic converter in an underbody of a motor vehicle are provided in the flow direction of an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine flowing through an exhaust gas duct of the exhaust system. An inlet point for secondary air, an exhaust gas burner, and a fuel injector for introducing fuel into the exhaust gas duct are arranged downstream of the catalytic converter close to the engine and upstream of the second catalytic converter. According to the invention, the exhaust gas burner is activated immediately after the internal combustion engine is started in order to heat the second catalytic converter to its light-off temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for checking an AI-based information processing system used in the partially automated or fully automated control of a vehicle, wherein at least one sensor of the vehicle provides sensor data, the captured sensor data are evaluated by an AI-based information processing system arranged in a first control circuit of the vehicle and, from the evaluated sensor data, at least one output for controlling the vehicle is generated. The AI-based information processing system is checked by a testing circuit arranged in a second control circuit of the vehicle using at least one testing method, and wherein a test result of the at least one testing method is stored, with a reference to the tested AI-based information processing system and to the at least one testing method used, in a multi-dimensional data structure in a database arranged in the vehicle.

Abstract: An emergency reporting device in a motor vehicle for manually and/or automatically reporting an emergency to a report center is provided. A hands-free communication apparatus, consisting of at least one microphone and at least one loudspeaker, can be used to communicate with the report center. The microphone is arranged in a first vertical plane extending perpendicularly to a longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle, and the loudspeaker is arranged separate from the microphone in a second vertical plane extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle. Furthermore, the microphone and the loudspeaker are additionally arranged in a central region of the motor vehicle containing a vertical longitudinal center plane.

Abstract: Technologies and techniques for requesting, analyzing and transmitting data from driver assistance systems (DAS) on a vehicle to an external user. Sensors of the vehicle's DAS determine DAS data, and save the DAS data and summary in a vehicle-side swarm data aggregator. The summary of the DAS data may be transmitted to a swarm memory of an external backend computer, and an analysis device analyzes the summary of the DAS data. The analysis device requests the DAS data saved in the swarm data aggregator if the analysis of the summary shows that relevant DAS data is present in the swarm data aggregator. The DAS data is transmitted from the swarm data aggregator on the vehicle to the swarm memory of the backend computer on the basis of the request. The DAS data may then be transferred from the swarm memory to the external user for further use.

Abstract: In a method for reducing risks in road traffic, using a motor vehicle an information signal is generated and transmitted to an analysis unit. The information signal contains a position of the corresponding motor vehicle and an associated hazard level. Using the analysis unit, the position is assigned to a route section and a risk characteristic value is determined as a function of the hazard level. Using the analysis unit, a risk signal is generated based on the risk characteristic value and provided to at least one traffic participant.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for regenerating a particulate filter in the exhaust gas channel of a motor vehicle with a hybrid drive consisting of an electric motor and an internal combustion engine. In this context, the internal combustion engine is lugged by the electric motor in order to regenerate the particulate filter. The internal combustion engine transports oxygen-rich air into the exhaust gas channel, a process in which the soot retained in the particulate filter is oxidized by the oxygen and the particulate filter can thus be regenerated. In this process, during the regeneration of the particulate filter, the quantity of air is controlled by a throttle valve in the air supply means of the internal combustion engine in order to allow the particulate filter to be regenerated as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing wirelessly incoming messages on a device, or messages generated by a unit of the device, wherein such an incoming message, or message generated by a unit of the device, is checked according to a predetermined criterion for relevance to a particular person, and wherein the message is only output when relevance is thereby established and, when irrelevance is thereby established, instead the mere presence of the message is signaled.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing position data of at least one entrance to a navigation destination. The method comprises the following: receiving respective vehicle data from a plurality of vehicles by means of an external server device, the vehicle data characterizing the current state and/or the environment of the vehicle in question; checking if, for the navigation destination, position data of at least one entrance to the navigation destination are known; if this is not the case: determining the position data by means of evaluation of the vehicle data that were provided by vehicles when said vehicles stopped in the area of the navigation destination, and by means of map data associated with the navigation destination; associating the determined position data with the navigation destination such that the navigation system determines a driving route over the entrance to the navigation destination when the navigation destination is selected.

Abstract: The invention relates to a safety container for galvanic cells, comprising an outer container and at least one inner container, wherein the inner container forms the transportation space for the galvanic cells, wherein a cavity is formed between the inner container and outer container, wherein the inner container and the cavity between the inner container and outer container are provided with inert filling material, wherein the cavity is designed to be gas-tight in relation to the inner container and gas-tight in relation to the exterior surroundings of the safety container, wherein the inner container is connected to the exterior surroundings via at least one tube through the cavity, wherein a pressure valve and/or a connection to an exhaust-air system is arranged at the outer end of the tube.

Abstract: The invention relates to a steer-by-wire system, that includes a steering mechanism, a sensor for detecting a driver request, a steering control device, power electronics, an electric servomotor, a steering rack that can be moved by the servomotor and an actor for generating a feedback torque (MFF) at the steering mechanism as a function of a steering rack position, wherein the steering control unit is configured in such a way so as to subtract, based on the feedback torque (MFF), at least a portion from a driver request determined based on sensor data, and a method for operating a steer-by-wire system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising several touch-sensitive control elements that are arranged next to each other. It is provided that the control elements are able to communicate with each other via a voltage-controlled peer-to-peer line and determine when a particular control element should actively respond to touches or is deactivated.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data from a sensor to a receiver by means of an analog interface, whereby, during a first period of time, the sensor transmits identifier data for identifying the type of the sensor and/or for identifying the type of a component associated with the sensor, and measurement signals of the sensor are only transmitted after the first period of time. In this context, it is also provided that the transmission of the identifier data serves to identify a specific sensor from a group of multiple sensors and/or a specific component that is associated with the sensor from a group of multiple components, whereby the multiple sensors of the appertaining group and/or the multiple components of the appertaining group have mechanically identical interfaces and consequently can fundamentally be employed alternatingly.

Abstract: Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for generating assisted driving test and evaluation data. According to one embodiment, video and non-video data are collected asynchronously through video and non-video data interface from an image acquisition device and a non-video data source collocated with the vehicle. Timing information received with the data is used to synchronize the video and non-video data into synchronized vehicle data. Specific labels indicating ground truths are identified to be applied to the synchronized vehicle data. Labeled vehicular data is generated from the synchronized vehicle data and the specific labels. At least a portion of the labeled vehicular data is to be used to test and evaluate assisted driving functionality.