Patents Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 11881100
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for determining a cluster-based stopping point for a motor vehicle for a predefined reason for stopping in a lane of a road. The individual stopping points of a plurality of vehicles may be determined for the reason for stopping in the lane, wherein the vehicles are controlled by individual drivers. A distribution of the individual stopping points in the lane at least in the direction of travel of the vehicles may be determined. The maximum of the distribution may be determined and stored as a cluster-based stopping point. The cluster-based stopping point determined in this way may be applied to autonomous driving technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Thomas Günterberg, Timur Aminev, Peter Baumann
  • Patent number: 11878752
    Abstract: A method for operating a steering system includes providing an electromechanical steering assistance having several redundant control paths. Each control path includes a control unit, a power unit and a winding circuit of a servomotor. A correcting-variable unit is provided in each control unit in order to make a correcting variable available, depending on input variables. The correcting variables of all of the correcting-variable units are averaged. A set correcting variable is made available by each control unit, depending on the averaged correcting variable. A device for operating a steering system and a steering system for steering wheels of a motor vehicle, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lars Stoltze, Yevgen Sklyarenko, Constantin Matthes, Hendrik Fricke
  • Patent number: 11879937
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for monitoring the reliability of an electronic system having one or more electronic components. A transmission quality of signals transmitted to or from the electronic system over a wired electrical signal transmission path are measured at different measurement times and according to a predetermined transmission quality measure. For each of the measurement times, the associated measured transmission quality is compared with a respective associated transmission quality reference value previously determined according to the transmission quality measure. A value of a reliability indicator associated with the respective measurement time is determined in dependence on the result of the associated comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Aal, Hosea Busse
  • Patent number: 11878571
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a climate-control system (12) for a vehicle (10). According to the invention, total energy efficiencies are determined for a group of operating strategies for the air-conditioning system (12) and an operating strategy with the greatest total efficiency that fulfills the heating output requirement (44) that has been determined, is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jan-Christoph Albrecht, Jochen Westhäuser, Carsten Wachsmuth
  • Patent number: 11878710
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for performing a correction of a direction of travel by a driver assistance system in a motor vehicle. The disclosure provides that a need for correcting a direction of travel is recognized by a control device of the driver assistance system in order to continue operating the motor vehicle within a currently traveled lane, at least one display symbol is output by an output apparatus to display the correction of the direction of travel to be performed and being performed, and the correction of the direction of travel is performed by controlling steering of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Robert Jan Wyszka, Daniel Morales Fernandez, Adrian Haar, Michael Wittkämper, Pia Kodalle
  • Patent number: 11878667
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for decelerating a motor vehicle during emergency braking, wherein the entire emergency braking is automatically carried out by a longitudinal dynamics system of the motor vehicle, wherein, for emergency braking, a total braking torque is automatically generated by the longitudinal dynamics system of the motor vehicle, and, for this purpose, a first braking torque is generated at least as a proportion of the total braking torque by an electric motor of an electric drive of the motor vehicle in a time interval beginning with the automatic initiation of the emergency braking and shorter than the total duration of the emergency braking, in which time interval the total braking torque cannot yet be generated solely by a service brake system of the longitudinal dynamics system. The invention also relates to a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Bastian Witte
  • Patent number: 11872917
    Abstract: A vehicle seat with a ventilation device which is paired with at least two fans. It is provided that only one of the at least two fans is provided with a bus signal as an input signal which is converted into a PWM signal for the at least one other fan in a signal converter wherein the signal converter has at least one output which provides the PWM signal, generated for the at least one fan, to an input of the at least one further fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Sascha Alexander Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 11872954
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for deactivating a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle comprises a deactivation system having a plurality of bus subscribers each having a deactivation function, said method comprising: selecting, on the basis of a random number, a set of bus subscribers from a plurality of bus subscribers having the deactivation function in order to provide the deactivation of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Marc Neubauer
  • Patent number: 11872654
    Abstract: A device for structuring a surface of a through opening in a component, in particular a cylinder opening of a cylinder crankcase for an internal combustion engine. The device comprises a lance, which can be moved into the through opening by a displacement device. The lance has means for emitting a laser beam from a laser light source in the direction of the surface of the through opening. A preferably plate-shaped cover is provided, which is designed for placement on an end face of the component. The cover forms a passage opening which is dimensioned such that the lance can be moved through it. A compressed gas feed is integrated into the cover and comprises a connector for connecting to a compressed gas source and forms one or more outlet openings at the edge of the passage opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Laser Zentrum Hannover EV
    Inventors: Stefan Richter, Joachim Woehle, Mike Hirschfeldt, Marius Lammers, Joerg Hermsdorf
  • Publication number: 20240011783
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling the range of a motor vehicle. The method comprises the identification of a navigation destination. The method also comprises the identification of a target residual range to be achieved at the navigation destination. A navigation route to the navigation destination via at least one charging stopover is determined, wherein furthermore minimum states of charge of a battery to be achieved at the at least one charging stopover are determined in such a way that the motor vehicle has a residual range upon arrival at the navigation destination which corresponds at least to the identified target residual range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Struhs, Markus Neumann, Wjatscheslaw Krieger, Ann-Kathrin Eisner, Christian Wurm
  • Patent number: 11866102
    Abstract: A spoiler apparatus for a vehicle has a spoiler blade that is pivotally mounted about a transverse vehicle axis. An electric motor moves the spoiler blade between operating positions. The spoiler blade has a first mounting location on each end and is pivotally mounted there on the spoiler housing by way of a hinge. The hinges are advantageously each formed by an arched hinge lever, the hinge lever being rotatably mounted on one end on the spoiler housing fixed to the vehicle and mounted on the other end on the spoiler blade for conjoint rotation. Viewed transversely to the direction of the vehicle, the electric motor is fixed on the spoiler housing between the first mounting locations and, by way of a toggle lever mechanism, is operatively connected thereto in a second mounting location of the spoiler blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andre Hofmann, Marcel Klopp, Ingo Lanfer
  • Patent number: 11866036
    Abstract: The invention relates to a driver assistance system for a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle and a method for operating same. In some embodiments, an obstacle is detected based on environmental data and a risk of collision is determined in consideration of driving state data. Further, an evasion trajectory for preventing a collision of the motor vehicle with the obstacle is determined. The driver assistance system is configured to detect another oncoming vehicle for which the risk of collision is greater than a predefined first threshold value as the obstacle. Further, the driver assistance system is configured to check whether a control action of a driver of the motor vehicle is guiding same along the determined evasion trajectory and, if this is not the case, to modify the control action of the driver automatically such that the motor vehicle is guided along the determined evasion trajectory by the modified control action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Timo Klingemann, Bastian Schmidt, Maike Wall, Michael Wonke, Jörn Fauck
  • Publication number: 20240001927
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a lane change assistance system, in which a detection apparatus, which is provided on a front corner of the motor vehicle, monitors an adjacent lane in front and to the side, and in which the detection apparatus detects an object on the adjacent lane and, when the detected object is evaluated by way of an electronic computing apparatus, at least one characterizing parameter of the object is determined, wherein at least one function unit detects an intention of a user of the motor vehicle to change lane and a differential speed between the motor vehicle and the object is determined as a characterizing parameter and the electronic computing apparatus generates at least one control signal for at least one further function unit on the basis of the intention to change lane and the differential speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Michael Schlichte
  • Patent number: 11861407
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for a mobile end device to offload computing from the mobile end device to at least one edge computer and/or at least one cloud computer. Resource information may be obtained from the at least one edge computer and/or at least one cloud computer. Application information may be obtained from at least one system application in the mobile end device, and A computing capacity may be assigned for the at least one system application in the mobile end device to the at least one edge computer and/or the at least one cloud computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sebastian Gehrling, Steffen Schmitz, Jens Kampermann, Karthik Satyanarayana
  • Patent number: 11858436
    Abstract: A method for predicting immanent damage to a connecting point between two electrical conductors in a motor vehicle electrical system is disclosed, wherein a value of an electrical variable is ascertained that is at least related to an electrical resistance of the connecting point, and wherein the prediction of the immanent damage is made depending on the value of the electric variable. The value of the electrical variable is repeatedly determined while the motor vehicle electrical system is in operation while an operating current of specified operating current strength flows through the connection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Nima Eslami, Alexander Harms, Daniel Keil
  • Patent number: 11863345
    Abstract: Embodiments create methods and computer programs for a monitoring entity and a communication component, a monitoring entity, a communication component, a system and a vehicle. The method (10) for a monitoring entity (30) for monitoring at least one communication component (40), wherein the communication component (40) is configured to communicate with one or more other communication components (50) in an event-based manner via a data bus (70), comprises regularly checking (12) the function of the communication component (40) using the monitoring entity. The method further includes cyclically communicating (14) with at least one other monitoring entity (60) assigned to another communication component (50) in order to monitor the function of the communication component (30), the function of the other communication component (50) and the function of the data bus (70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Marc Blumentritt
  • Patent number: 11858331
    Abstract: An electric vehicle body structure includes an installation space being downwardly open and upwardly delimited by a floor body-panel profile section. A traction battery is inserted into the space from below, a battery housing flange under the profile section is screwed from below to the profile section at a screw connection having a vertical screw bolt penetrating a housing flange passage and screw hole in the profile section and screwed to a weld nut at a flange housing opposite side of the profile section. The flange is clamped between screw bolt head and profile section. A crash displaces the battery until an inner passage wall presses screw bolt against screw hole edge, subjecting the screw bolt to shear load reduced by an elongated weld nut shaft projecting into the screw hole. The screw bolt presses against the screw hole edge, with the weld nut shaft in intermediate position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Werner Krauth
  • Patent number: 11858313
    Abstract: A device for temperature control for a motor vehicle, includes a diffractive optical element disposed on a surface of the motor vehicle, and a radiator. The diffractive optical element couples in incident radiation and conducts the coupled-in incident radiation away from an area of the motor vehicle to be cooled. The radiator includes an absorber to absorb the coupled-in incident radiation which is conducted to the absorber from the diffractive optical element. The radiator releases energy based on the coupled-in incident radiation absorbed by the absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Mark Bennemann, Tobias Moll
  • Patent number: 11858334
    Abstract: A mounting arrangement for a motor vehicle, at least having at least one heat exchanger and a protective element for the at least one heat exchanger, which with a grid structure through which a fluid may flow at least partially covers a surface, over which the fluid may flow, of the at least one heat exchanger, wherein the protective element is a component that is manufactured by an injection molding process, and has at least one sealing element, integrally formed on the protective element in a multicomponent method, for conducting flow of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jörg Ohlhoff, Robert Stelzner
  • Patent number: D1010510
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jozef Kaban, Akos Szaz, Felipe Montoya Bueloni