Patents Assigned to Volkswagen
  • Patent number: 11968060
    Abstract: A data switching device comprises at least one interface designed to communicate with a first plurality of vehicle components of the vehicle, and to communicate with a second plurality of vehicle components of the vehicle. The data switching device includes a control circuit designed to communicate with the first plurality of vehicle components based on at least one first data format, and with the second plurality of vehicle components based on at least one second data format. The control circuit is designed to provide a communication interface for the communication between the first plurality of vehicle components and the second plurality of vehicle components. The control circuit is designed to provide access to the first data of the first plurality of vehicle components by providing second data for the second plurality of vehicle components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jonas Rox, Razvan Racu, Johann Heyen, Steffen Stein
  • Patent number: 11964615
    Abstract: A fastening device, configured for interlocking attachment in a through-opening of a structural element, wherein the fastening device comprises a contact surface for contact on a first side of the structural element delimiting the through-opening as well as at least one first latching tab and at least one second latching tab, wherein the latching tabs each have at least one latching projection, wherein the latching projections are configured to engage behind the through-opening on a second side of the structural element delimiting the through-opening, wherein the distance of the latching projection of the second latching tab from the contact surface is greater than the corresponding distance in the case of the first latching tab. The fastening device can be, in particular, part of a container, for example of a coolant expansion tank, of a motor vehicle and the structural element part of a body of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mathias Diedrich, Mirko Arndt, Joerg Ohlhoff
  • Patent number: 11962445
    Abstract: A method for detecting OTFS pilot interference including receiving delay-Doppler-domain samples of a received OTFS delay-Doppler frame, wherein the delay-Doppler domain samples are derived by a two-dimensional symplectic Fourier transformation of time-frequency domain samples resulting from sampling a time-varying received OFTS coded signal; summing the squares of the amplitudes of the delay-Doppler domain samples of the delay-Doppler grid positions evaluated for the channel estimation to establish the received non-interfering pilot power; summing the squares of the amplitudes of all the delay-Doppler domain samples of the complete delay-Doppler grid to establish the total received frame power; comparing a pilot power ratio derived by dividing the non-interfering pilot power by the total received frame power with a guard space ratio derived by dividing the sum of the number of guard and pilot grid spaces in the transmitted OTFS frame by the total number of grid spaces of the transmitted OTFS frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Pfadler, Guillaume Jornod
  • Patent number: 11958496
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for recognizing an intention of a driver for a lane change assistant in an at least partially autonomous motor vehicle, a corresponding system, and a method and computer program. It is provided that steering of a driver does not directly cause lateral acceleration, as is currently the case, but rather serves the vehicle as an input medium for the intention of the driver to imminently initiate lateral acceleration, for example a turn-off procedure or a change of travel lane. As a result of the signal from the control element, a safe, drivable trajectory that will subsequently be traveled automatically by the vehicle is calculated. This may also include more complex driving maneuvers, such as a change of multiple travel lanes. As a result, driving is made more convenient and safer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Gläser, Monique Engel
  • Patent number: 11960627
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for anonymizing vehicle data. A data set is created on the basis of captured vehicle data and includes information regarding the location and/or time of the data capture. The information may be anonymized on the basis of traffic flow data by locally concealing the information regarding the location of the data capture and/or by temporally concealing the information regarding the time of the data capture. The traffic flow data may be based on group information received by the vehicle providing the vehicle data via vehicle-to-vehicle communication from other vehicles. A related motor vehicle and a network server directed to the anonymization is also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Martin Wegner
  • Patent number: 11958477
    Abstract: The invention relates to a driver assistance system (11) for an at least partially automatically driving motor vehicle (10), wherein the driver assistance system (11) comprises at least one environment detection means (13) which is designed to detect at least one area of an environment (U) of the motor vehicle (10), an evaluation device (14) which is designed to determine a target trajectory (T) to be traveled by the motor vehicle (10) according to the detected at least one area of the environment (U), and a control device (18) which is designed to adjust the target trajectory (T) determined by the evaluation device (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jens Hoedt, Ulrich Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11961985
    Abstract: A high-voltage battery, in the battery housing of which a number of cell modules are arranged, wherein combustion gas emitted in the event of a thermal battery cell event in a battery cell of one of the cell modules flows freely to an emergency degassing outlet of the battery housing via an installation gap inside the battery. A number of separate heat shield material portions are arranged in the installation gap inside the battery between the cell module top and the housing cover, each of which is associated with a cell module and has at least one elastically resilient pressing element which pushes the heat shield material portion with a pressing force such that the heat shield material portion is in pressed contact with the top of the cell module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Udo Schriever, Jonathan Häde, Christoph Hagedorn
  • Patent number: 11961398
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for quality determination for a traffic system. First traffic parameter data is acquired from the traffic system, indicative of a parameter of the traffic system. Second traffic parameter data is acquired, indicative of another parameter of the traffic system, wherein the second traffic parameter data originate from a plurality of traffic participants. The parameter from the first traffic parameter data and second traffic parameter are obtained, wherein the parameter obtained from the first traffic parameter data is compared to the parameter obtained from the second traffic parameter data in order to determine the quality of the first traffic parameter data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sven Klomp, Stephan Max, Kai Franke, Peter Baumann, Christian Jördens
  • Publication number: 20240116456
    Abstract: A component assembly for a vehicle. The component assembly has at least one retaining element for the direct or indirect connection of at least two components to a load-bearing vehicle structure, wherein the retaining element has a recess. The first component has at least one mounting aid inserted into the recess. The second component has at least one external projection facing the retaining element, which is mounted in the same recess of the retaining element in the mounted state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Zafer YILMAZ
  • Publication number: 20240116468
    Abstract: A component assembly for power electronics, having at least one power module, at least one separate connection module, a separate control circuit carrier, and a housing. The at least one power module, the at least one connection module, and the separate control circuit carrier are arranged in a specified manner in the housing. The at least one power module is connected via first electrical signal lines to the at least one connection module and the at least one connection module is connected to the control circuit carrier via second electrical signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Samy ARNAOUT, Jan SCHMAELING, Oliver RANG
  • Publication number: 20240116100
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a bulkhead of a motor vehicle body and method for the manufacture of bulkheads of motor vehicle bodies of different types of motor vehicles. The front wheel arches of the motor vehicle body are at least partly formed by the bulkhead of the motor vehicle. A component with a spatial structure is manufactured from a two-dimensional metallic semi-finished product by forming, wherein the component forms at least part of the bulkhead. The component manufactured by the forming forms at least a large part of the bulkhead in relation to the area of the projection of the bulkhead in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle and extends at least over sections of both front wheel arches of the motor vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian SCHWERING, Thomas PAULSEN, Werner KRAUTH
  • Publication number: 20240116460
    Abstract: A fastening clamp for fastening a molded headliner to a vehicle roof, in particular a panoramic or sliding roof, having a base element which is formed plate-shaped. Two support elements are arranged opposite one another and extend away from the base element and at least substantially towards one another. A latching element projects from the support element and is arranged on each support element for latching the fastening clamp to the molded headliner or to the vehicle roof. The respective latching element has, spaced from the base element, a latching lug for engaging behind an edge section of the molded headliner or of the vehicle roof, and the respective latching lug projects from the outer side of the support element, which side faces away from the opposite support element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicants: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, A. RAYMOND & Cie
    Inventors: Michaela GROBE, Felix WAHLANDT, Michael DE JONG
  • Publication number: 20240116586
    Abstract: A method for assembling a motor vehicle body, wherein the motor vehicle body has a front end structure with a bulkhead and a body area arranged in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle behind the bulkhead. The front end structure is pre-assembled separate from the body area before connecting the front end structure to the body area located behind the bulkhead. The separation between the pre-assembled front end structure and the body area is immediately in front of or behind the bulkhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian SCHWERING, Thomas PAULSEN, Werner KRAUTH
  • Patent number: 11952041
    Abstract: A cockpit for a vehicle, wherein the cockpit comprises a first module with a support and a second module with a support. The support of the second module is arranged in a first direction behind the support of the first module and higher than the support of the first module, so that the support of the first module slides at least partially under the support of the second module in the first direction in a crash case with a force acting on the first module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marcus Schweer, Franz-Josef Schulte, Ali Jamal Eddine
  • Patent number: 11951495
    Abstract: A process for coating a carrier material with an active material for production of an electrode foil of a battery cell with a Laval nozzle, wherein the Laval nozzle has at least one converging first portion, one second portion having a smallest flow cross section, and one diverging third portion arranged one after the other along a flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Kartik Jamadar, Bastian Westphal, Sven Schopf, Priyanka Gangurde
  • Patent number: 11952955
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle, wherein fuel is injected in a fuel injection device in a plurality of time-spaced partial injections per duty cycle directly into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Haase, Lasse Fruehling, Mario Beyer, Rene Matschenz
  • Patent number: D1022815
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Felipe Montoya Bueloni, Sachar Skipor
  • Patent number: D1022819
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Felipe Montoya Bueloni, Sachar Skipor
  • Patent number: D1022820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Tibor Juhasz
  • Patent number: D1022821
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Tibor Juhasz