Patents Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 11862422
    Abstract: An electrical fuse that includes an electro-pyrotechnic igniter, a separating element, which can be moved by the electro-pyrotechnic igniter, and a busbar with a separating section. A separating element is arranged so that it can move after the electro-pyrotechnic igniter is triggered to separate the busbar. At least one inductive coupler is arranged on the busbar or a high-voltage line. The electrical fuse further includes a control circuit for controlling an ignition current for triggering the electro-pyrotechnic igniter. The control circuit includes at least one semiconductor switch for switching the ignition current provided, at least one capacitor, connected to a control input of the semiconductor switch, and a diode coupled on one side to the at least one inductive coupler and on the other side to the capacitor and a control input of the semiconductor switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Roland Kube
  • Publication number: 20230417205
    Abstract: A method for operating a fuel tank arrangement for a motor vehicle. The fuel tank arrangement has a fuel tank, a hydrocarbon filter and a pump. The fuel tank is fluidically connected via a tank shut-off valve to the hydrocarbon filter and the hydrocarbon filter is fluidically connected, on the one hand, via the pump to an external environment of the fuel tank arrangement and, on the other hand, via a purge valve to an intake tract of an internal combustion engine. A first leakage test mode is carried out when the pressure in the fuel tank is greater than a pressure threshold value, in which a shut-off valve arranged in terms of flow between the pump and the external environment is closed and the tank shut-off valve is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Oliver GRUNWALD, Aleksandar TESIC
  • Publication number: 20230421047
    Abstract: A drive device for a vehicle, including an electric machine having a stator housing, on whose outer circumference a pulse width modulated inverter housing is formed, in which a pulse width modulated inverter having at least one pulse width modulated inverter contact is arranged, which is connected to a stator contact via a contact bridge, an AC filter being assigned to the contact bridge to reduce common mode flows and/or for the purpose of EMC shielding. According to the invention, the AC filter is a component separate from the pulse width modulated inverter and may be mounted in the pulse width modulated inverter housing independently of the pulse width modulated inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, AUDI Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas LENZ, Bjoern HESS, Max POSSEN, Marvin EMDE
  • Patent number: 11855903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for sending a data packet from a first communication unit of a communication system via a transmission channel that is shared with at least one further communication unit. The method comprises determining a current access priority for the shared transmission channel by the first communication unit, wherein the current access priority is directed towards data currently transmitted over the transmission channel. The data packet is segmented into packet segments, wherein the packet segments have a priority value which corresponds to a priority value of the data packet. The method also comprises sending the packet segments from the first communication unit via the shared transmission channel, wherein the packet segments are sent successively depending on the priority value and the current access priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Alexander Meier, Olaf Krieger
  • Patent number: 11850939
    Abstract: A steering column assembly module having an operating device for setting an operating parameter of a motor vehicle comprises a static central element that annularly surrounds a steering axis, and a recess, and has an elongated rotary element with a longitudinal axis, and comprises a grip section, and a bearing section that is fixedly connected to the grip section. In this context, the bearing section of the rotary element is disposed in the recess of the central element at least sectionally, and is mounted in the central element rotatably about the longitudinal axis, wherein a rotation sensor is configured to detect a rotational position of the rotary element, and in dependence upon the detected rotational position, to generate a control signal for setting the operating parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Arne Viohl
  • Patent number: 11853065
    Abstract: A method for assisting a driver of a vehicle with driving of the vehicle is disclosed, in which the surroundings of the vehicle are detected. The detection of the surroundings comprises the course of driving paths as well as movement data relating to other road users. Historic data obtained at least from past driving maneuvers by road users in the detected surroundings are called up for the surroundings, the detected surroundings of the vehicle are analyzed and a traffic situation of the vehicle in relation to at least one second road user of the other detected road users is determined. A likely driving maneuver of the second road user is predicted based on the called-up historic data and the current traffic situation, and a control signal for assisting the driver with driving of the vehicle is generated depending on the predicted driving maneuver of the second road user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Thorben Günzel
  • Patent number: 11845463
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for the improved visualization of a notice in a motor vehicle. A contact-analog head-up display places information in direct contact with the environment. In contrast to conventional head-up displays, the information appears as part of the environment. Some embodiments provide an information container that is placed at a distance x from the vehicle which grows corresponding to the reduction of the distance x, and is placed fixed relative to the environment to produce the effect of a container located in reality. The necessity of an interaction may be communicated by the element remaining stationary. That is, shortly before the position of the information container is reached, it remains immobile in the field of vision and is “pushed” in front of the ego vehicle. This makes it immediately apparent that an operation is needed to acknowledge the pop-up respectively to thereby trigger an action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Nina Jellentrup, Ulrich Wuttke, Adrian Haar, Yannis Tebaibi, Michael Wittkämper, Alexander Kunze, Vitalij Sadovitch, Marco Danneberg, Johanna Sandbrink
  • Publication number: 20230402898
    Abstract: A housing for an electrical machine, which housing is formed with a cylindrical cooling jacket through which coolant is able to flow and which has a plurality of cooling channels that extend in the circumferential direction and an inlet section acting as a distributor and an outlet section acting as a collector, wherein, between the inlet section and the outlet section, there is arranged a partition wall in which a bypass is located, through which gas bubbles present in the inlet section can be diverted directly to the outlet section. The cooling channels extending in the circumferential direction are connected by at least one transversely extending venting channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Claudenê CORREIA
  • Publication number: 20230398873
    Abstract: A motor vehicle and method for analyzing the condition of a traction battery of a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle includes an electric or hybrid propulsion system with an electric motor for driving the motor vehicle, power electronics for driving the electric motor, a battery management system with a monitoring device for monitoring the traction battery, and the traction battery. Impedance spectroscopy is performed on the traction battery with an alternating current across multiple alternating current frequencies. At least one battery parameter of the traction battery is determined based on the impedance spectroscopy performed. In the context of impedance spectroscopy, the traction battery is supplied with alternating current at several alternating current frequencies by the power electronics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf PFENNIGWERTH, Christian WICK, Gerd STOEHR
  • Patent number: 11840218
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle assistance or control system with a vehicle and with an in particular autonomously drivable offboard obstacle recognition sensor for recognizing obstacles to the vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes an onboard obstacle recognition sensor for recognizing obstacles to the vehicle, wherein the vehicle assistance or control system includes a synchronization circuit for determining the alignment of the offboard obstacle recognition sensor relative to the vehicle, and/or relative to the onboard obstacle recognition sensor depending on an output signal from the offboard obstacle recognition sensor and an output signal from the onboard obstacle recognition sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Volker Patricio Schomerus
  • Patent number: 11841244
    Abstract: A method for calibrating at least one position sensor in a vehicle, comprising: saving a map in the vehicle with at least one item of virtual location information from the environment of a predefined calibration route, moving the vehicle on the predefined calibration route, detecting at least one item of actual location information via the at least one position sensor while the vehicle moves on the predefined calibration route, carrying out a comparison between the at least one item of virtual location information and the at least one item of actual location information, calculating a map-based movement of the vehicle within the saved map based on the comparison, calculating an odometry-based movement of the vehicle, and calibrating the at least one position sensor based on a comparison between the map-based movement and the odometry-based movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Michael Rohlfs
  • Publication number: 20230391354
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for blocking display and/or operating contexts comprising at least one operating apparatus for detecting user interactions, and an evaluation apparatus, configured to determine a current involvement value at least on the basis of the detected user interactions. The evaluation apparatus is configured to compare the current involvement value with at least one interruption threshold value and to establish a blocking state if the current involvement value reaches the interruption threshold value. The evaluation apparatus blocks or at least restricts at least one operating context of the at least one operating apparatus. The current involvement value is increased for each detected haptic user interaction, insofar as the current involvement value has not reached or exceeded the at least one interruption threshold value and the evaluation apparatus is configured to lower, continuously or in increments of time, the current involvement value by a recovery value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorb Baumgarten, Alice Gross, Thomas Werner, Eric Haller, Julia Kohl
  • Publication number: 20230391253
    Abstract: A method for generating the light function of a direction indicator in a motor vehicle. The light function of the direction indicator is activated when the motor vehicle is in an operational state and an actuating element is actuated in the motor vehicle. In addition to the generation of the light function of the direction indicator, a ground light projection can be generated in the immediate vicinity of the motor vehicle. The ground light projection can be generated, for example, only when an ambient brightness of the motor vehicle falls below a certain limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Christian STUDENY
  • Patent number: 11833907
    Abstract: A powertrain system may determine a power distribution for one or more power sources of a vehicle. The powertrain system may be coupled to a perception system that may provide perception data indicating a scenario, situation, or environment that has been encountered by the vehicle. The powertrain system may include machine learning model that may generate the power distribution based on one or more of the perception data and a power request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Mohak Prafulkumar Bhimani, Elnaz Vahedforough, Mikhail Tetelman
  • Publication number: 20230387470
    Abstract: A monocell and a method for producing a monocell for a battery cell. In this method, a first separator film, an anode film, a second separator film, and a cathode film are stacked in this sequence to form a film layer arrangement and fed to a thermal cutting process. The cutting of the film layer arrangement is accomplished by a thermal cutting method, wherein a first metal coating on the anode film and a second metal coating on the cathode film vaporize in the cut region. The plastic substrate of the anode melts partially and spreads over the cut surface of the first anode layer and electrically insulates the same. The plastic substrate of the cathode melts partially and spreads over the cut surface of the first cathode layer and electrically insulates the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dennis BOEHM, Tobias JANSEN, Christian KLEMT, Alexander TORNOW, Marco JORDAN, Adrian BECKER
  • Patent number: 11830455
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a method, a computer program, and an apparatus for controlling operation of two or more configurable systems of a motor vehicle. The disclosure is further related to a mobile user device and a motor, which make use of such a method or apparatus. In a first step, a user input specifying an operation scenario is received via a user interface of a mobile user device. Operation parameters associated with the specified operation scenario are then retrieved for the two or more configurable systems and the two or more configurable systems are operated in accordance with the operation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: David Schriever, Hyunmin Lee, Eduardo Luiz Vieira
  • Patent number: 11827124
    Abstract: A vehicle seat, including a plurality of actuators that can be activated independently of one another and that are arranged in a matrix-like manner, at least one sensor system for detecting an object on the vehicle seat, and at least one control unit for activating the actuators. The control unit may be configured to activate the actuators as a function of a detected contour of the object, so that the contour of the vehicle seat adapts to the contour of the object, and to a method for adapting a vehicle seat to a vehicle occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mark Bennemann, Malte Lutz, Cedric Heise
  • Patent number: 11826934
    Abstract: A method for continuously molding glass components with the aid of at least one plastic, at least one unshaped glass component being positioned between a first molding tool and a second molding tool, the at least one unshaped glass component being elastically shaped by pressing together the first molding tool and the second molding tool, the at least one elastically shaped glass component being secured in the shaped state by locking slides, and a plastic being applied to at least one side of the shaped glass component at least in areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Wachenschwan, Christine Schuetz, Wilma Dewald
  • Patent number: D1008092
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jozef Kaban, Felipe Montoya Bueloni, Einar Castillo Aranda
  • Patent number: D1009524
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Tung Hoang