Patents Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
  • Publication number: 20210129623
    Abstract: An air vent assembly, in particular for a motor vehicle, with an air vent, which has a housing having an air duct and at least one air deflector blade assigned to the air duct with a trailing edge and a leading edge. Leading edge of the air deflector blade is mounted to be pivotable about an axis of rotation assigned to the trailing edge, and has a decorative device which has at least one fixed decorative blade with a visible edge extending in extension of the trailing edge of the air deflector blade. The air deflector blade is mounted to be pivotable about the axis of rotation by means of a pivot pin on the decorative blade. The decorative blade has a radially open bearing receptacle for the pivot pin, and the housing has a bearing projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Steffen ZIMMER, Tomasz LANGE, Richard HARDERS
  • Patent number: 10997282
    Abstract: A method for triggering a security-relevant function of a system by a terminal including generating or selecting an input pattern by the system; inputting a request to carry out the function by the terminal; transmitting the input pattern to the terminal; displaying the input pattern on a display and user interface of the terminal, which pattern must be input by a user; capturing and storing an input by a user on the display and user interface by the terminal; transmitting the captured and stored input from the terminal to the system; receiving the captured and stored input by the system; comparing the received input with the transmitted input pattern in the system; and carrying out the function by the system in response to the received input matching the input pattern within a predefined extent. Also disclosed is an associated system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Juri Remele, Mirko Mrowczynski, Hendrik Frank
  • Patent number: 10995645
    Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment system for an internal combustion engine has an exhaust system having at least one three-way catalyst near the engine, wherein a particulate filter is arranged downstream from the three-way catalyst, preferably in an underbody installation in a motor vehicle. A heated catalyst, which has at least one heating stage that can be heated by means of an electric heating element, is provided upstream from the at least one three-way catalyst and downstream from the particulate filter. The at least one electrically heatable heating stage is supplied with electric power directly from a generator that is operatively connected to the internal combustion engine, so that heating of the heated catalyst takes place essentially independently of the charge status of the vehicle battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Paukner, Falk-Christian Baron Von Ceumern-Lindenstjerna, Michael Manz
  • Patent number: 10995531
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having at least one side door opening formed in the body of the same and having a sliding door closing the same, wherein the side door opening has a sill structure for supporting and movably guiding the sliding door, wherein the sill structure has a hollow profile oriented in the vehicle longitudinal direction (x-direction) and formed as a welded part, and wherein the hollow profile on the vehicle exterior has a welding flange, extending along the sill structure and oriented in the vehicle vertical direction (z-direction), as a mounting flange for a door seal, which delimits an indentation formed in an upper section of the outer contour of the hollow profile. It is provided advantageously that a recess having at least one guide rail for a roller guide of the sliding door is disposed above the indentation, which recess is detachably secured to the sill structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilfried Rodermund, Markus Thomitzek
  • Publication number: 20210126472
    Abstract: A control arrangement for a high-voltage battery in a motor vehicle, encompasses at least a high-voltage battery having an electric first connection in order to provide a first supply voltage for a motor vehicle as well as a control unit for the high-voltage battery which, in the control arrangement of the motor vehicle, is connected exclusively to the high-voltage battery via an electric second connection in order to provide a second supply voltage for the control unit, whereby the second connection comprises a switching element that can be switched by the control unit in order to establish and disconnect the second connection. Moreover, a method for operating a control arrangement for a high-voltage battery in a motor vehicle is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Florian QUANTMEYER, Florian KÜHNLENZ
  • Patent number: 10989300
    Abstract: The invention relates to an operating method for an automatic transmission, particularly for an automatic variable-speed transmission and/or dual-clutch transmission, for a motor vehicle. The automatic transmission can be operated in a cost-effective manner, particularly with reduced component wear and increased service life, and/or the driving comfort of the vehicle can be improved such that when lifting of at least one driven vehicle wheel off the roadway during braking is detected by the operating method, then for the length of said braking process, in the event of an incomplete gear change into a gear of the transmission, the engagement of a gear is prevented and/or the beginning of a gear change into a gear of the transmission is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Rainer Hofmann, Axel Schamscha
  • Patent number: 10989104
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine and to a method for operating the internal combustion engine, which has at least one cylinder having a combustion chamber, the combustion chamber being bounded by a cylinder roof, a cylinder wall and a movable cylinder piston, a multi-hole injection nozzle and a spark plug being arranged in a central position in the cylinder roof, the multi-hole injection nozzle injecting fuel into the combustion chamber at injection pressures of >/=300 bar by means of a plurality of injection jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Uwe Reisch, Mario Campe
  • Publication number: 20210115840
    Abstract: A combustion engine having at least one cylinder, wherein the at least one cylinder 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, and comprises at least one exhaust gas turbocharger which 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. For the supply of the combustion chamber, a combustion chamber charge-air line is disposed in a charge-air line downstream of the compressor and for the supply of the prechamber, a prechamber flushing line branching off at an extraction point is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Karsten MICHELS
  • Publication number: 20210115880
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karsten MICHELS, Dirk HAGELSTEIN
  • Patent number: 10981548
    Abstract: A method for compensating for excessively low actuating dynamics of a mechanical brake of a transportation vehicle, wherein a dividing unit receives a predefinition for a target overall retardation of the transportation vehicle and determines a mechanical target braking torque based on the target overall retardation and signals the same to the mechanical brake. The dividing unit predicts a mechanical actual braking torque of the brake by a model of the brake actuator and, based on the predicted mechanical actual braking torque, by activating at least one predetermined transportation vehicle component that is different from the mechanical brake, to generate a compensation torque, by which a control deviation which results when adjusting the mechanical actual braking torque to the mechanical target braking torque is compensated and the target overall retardation results in the transportation vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Oliver Busse, Frank Hausdörfer
  • Patent number: 10982766
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shifting device for the selection of rotationally fixed non-rotational couplings of a plurality of coaxial shafts of a motor-vehicle transmission, comprising a displacement sleeve, which can be axially displaced in relation to a housing and which has internal teeth having two axial toothed sections spaced apart from each other by an axial gap, and which coaxially surrounds a plurality of toothed elements that are arranged axially adjacent to each other and that are each non-rotationally connected to one of the shafts and that each have external teeth corresponding to the internal teeth of the displacement sleeve, wherein the displacement sleeve has a first sleeve part and a second sleeve part that are connected to each other in a manner that is axially fixed and rotationally decoupled, wherein the first sleeve part is a carrier of the first axial toothed section and the second sleeve part is a carrier of the second axial toothed section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Rainer Petersen, Jörg Möckel, Andreas Lutz, Hendrik Schröder, Christian Meissner
  • Publication number: 20210107337
    Abstract: A ventilation device for a motor vehicle, having a first ventilation duct for the throughflow of a first air flow, a second ventilation duct which is separate from the first ventilation duct for the throughflow of a second air flow and an air outlet which is coupled in a fluid-communicating manner to a first duct end of the first ventilation duct and to a second duct end of the second ventilation duct, for releasing an overall air flow into a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle. A first air flow strength of the first air flow and a second air flow strength of the second air flow can be set individually. The air outlet has a first deflecting wall in the direction of flow downstream of the first duct end that is designed for deflecting the first air flow such that the first air flow intersects the second air flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Carsten OTHMER
  • Patent number: 10978760
    Abstract: The invention relates to a structural component for a battery housing of an electrically-driven motor vehicle with a wall that extends from a wall bottom side to a wall top side in a component vertical direction, and from a first end face to a second end face in a component longitudinal direction perpendicular thereto, wherein the wall has a rib arranged on one side of the wall and oriented perpendicular thereto and/or a bead to increase its flexural rigidity, and wherein the rib, or respectively the bead, extends substantially in a component longitudinal direction. Moreover, the invention relates to a battery housing for a battery of an electrically-driven motor vehicle, as well as such a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Carsten Wesche, Stefan Schacht, Henrik Fehner, Robin Gerlach
  • Patent number: 10968958
    Abstract: A ball cage for universal use both in a cross-groove type plunging constant velocity joint and in a cross-groove type fixed constant velocity joint has an external contour with sections of different curvature. Axial edge sections of the external contour are designed as spherical sections located on the circumference of an imaginary sphere, whereas a center section of the external contour located axially between the edge sections runs radially inside the diameter of the imaginary sphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Oliver Clemm
  • Publication number: 20210094421
    Abstract: The invention relates to an on-board network device for supplying at least two electrical loads with an on-board network voltage in a motor vehicle, wherein the on-board network device has a connection device for receiving the on-board network voltage from a voltage source and a first on-board network branch for connecting one or some of the loads and for forwarding the on-board network voltage to each connected load. A second on-board network branch is provided for connecting each remaining load and for forwarding the on-board network voltage to each remaining load and that the connecting device is connected to both the first on-board network branch and the second on-board network branch via at least one switching element and that a control device is configured to electrically connect the connection device in an alternating manner to the first and second on-board network branches by switching the at least one switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Mauterer
  • Patent number: 10965492
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting at least one data packet from a first communication participant via a transfer channel shared with at least one further communication participant, wherein data packets are transmitted by the communication participants according to a Round-Robin method. The method comprises receiving by the first communication participant of at least one data packet from the at least one further communication participant via the shared transfer channel, wherein the further communication participant is configured to transmit data packets of different priority values, and determining a priority value from the data packet assigned to the further communication participant. The method comprises a transmission of the data packet by the first communication participant via the shared transfer channel depending on the priority value. The invention also relates to a controller and a system as well as a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Meier, Olaf Krieger
  • Patent number: 10960738
    Abstract: An arrangement for the transfer of collision forces possibly resulting from a crash event from one body part to another body part of a motor vehicle, with a hollow profile acting as a crash profile, which hollow profile runs in the main direction of travel or transversely to the main direction of travel is loaded on pressure in the case of the crash event, and is frontally supported on each of the body parts. The hollow profile is frontally supported on the respective body part by means of interposition of in each case a load transfer element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helge Herten, Volker Hohm, Tobias Stroehlein, Krino Bornemann, Philipp Hoermann
  • Patent number: 10960898
    Abstract: A recommendation for performing an operation is generated for the interaction with a suggestion system having automated operations. A probability value for the performance of the recommended operation is determined. The recommended operation is automatically performed if a high probability value is determined therefor. Information about the automatically performed operation and an operating element for aborting or reversing the automatically performed operation are displayed. If an actuation of the displayed operating element by a user is detected, the automatically performed operation is aborted or reversed. The information about the automatically performed operation can be displayed on a first display and the operating element for aborting or reversing the automatically performed operation may be displayed on a second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Daniel Palzer, Helge Schäfer
  • Patent number: D915249
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Bischoff, Frank Josef Brüse
  • Patent number: D915957
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Bischoff, Frank Josef Brüse