Abstract: A battery system, a method of detecting leaks inside a battery system, and a vehicle, the battery system including a housing including a housing frame and a base frame, the housing frame and the base frame enclosing a housing space; a battery module including a plurality of battery cells electrically connected to each other via a bus bar, the battery module being in the housing space; a tray including a tray frame and a tray base; and a battery management system including a liquid detector, wherein the liquid detector is configured to detect a liquid inside the tray, and the liquid detector includes a high-voltage conductor, a first end of the high-voltage conductor being connected to the bus bar and a second end of the high-voltage conductor being between the base frame and the tray base.

Abstract: A relay including a relay coil and a relay switch. The relay coil including a coil beginning and a coil end and being connected to a relay driving circuit. The relay switch being arranged in a load circuit. A first parasitic capacitance between the coil beginning and the relay switch is different than a second parasitic capacitance between the coil end and the relay switch.

Abstract: A battery system, a method of detecting leaks inside a battery system, and a vehicle, the battery system including a housing including a housing frame and a base frame, the housing frame and the base frame enclosing a housing space; a battery module including a plurality of battery cells electrically connected to each other via a bus bar, the battery module being in the housing space; a tray including a tray frame and a tray base; and a battery management system including a liquid detector, wherein the liquid detector is configured to detect a liquid inside the tray, and the liquid detector includes a high-voltage conductor, a first end of the high-voltage conductor being connected to the bus bar and a second end of the high-voltage conductor being between the base frame and the tray base.

Abstract: A relay including a relay coil and a relay switch. The relay coil including a coil beginning and a coil end and being connected to a relay driving circuit. The relay switch being arranged in a load circuit. A first parasitic capacitance between the coil beginning and the relay switch is different than a second parasitic capacitance between the coil end and the relay switch.

Abstract: A method for operating a real-time critical application, having at least two operating modes, on a control unit of a motor vehicle having at least two parallel processor cores or microprocessors, includes: reading out configuration data assigned to a selected operating mode from a memory assigned to the control unit, the configuration data having information concerning (i) the ability of task lists assigned to the selected operating mode to be executed on each of the at least two parallel processor cores or microprocessors, and/or (ii) the processor cores to be used for the operating mode selected; and determining, on the basis of the read configuration data, which of the at least two parallel processor cores or microprocessors is necessary to operate the real-time critical application and which is able to be switched off or operated in an energy-saving mode.

Abstract: A control/evaluation system for a set of sensors, in particular in motor vehicles, has a plurality of areas, each of which has at least one controller and a plurality of sensor devices connected thereto; the controllers may be connected to each other for a common application function.

Abstract: To protect vehicle occupants in dangerous situations, the distance of the vehicle to a roadside object, such as a guardrail, etc., is determined and compared to a critical distance. If the actual distance is less than the critical distance, alarm devices are triggered and/or reversible restraining devices are deployed. The critical distance may be determined as a function of the host vehicle velocity.

Abstract: For an angle-resolving antenna system, only two radar sensors are provided including separate transmitting and receiving antennas. The receiving antennas of the two radar sensors are switchable with reference to their main beam direction as well as to their beam width.

Abstract: A pulse radar system has a high-frequency source, which supplies a continuous high-frequency signal and is connected on the one side with a transmission-side pulse modulator and on the other side with two separately controllable pulse modulators in at least one receive path. Mixers are situated downstream from pulse modulators, respectively. The mixers evaluate a radar pulse reflected by an object together with the signal of the high-frequency source. The pulse radar system allows different modes of operation that may be changed in a simple manner.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for controlling and evaluating at least one sensor device jointly used by a plurality of applications, in particular occupant-assistance/occupant-protection applications in an apparatus of locomotion, having the following steps: the measuring of certain locomotion apparatus parameters by a situation-detection device for determining the situation of the apparatus of locomotion with respect to its surroundings; the querying of the locomotion apparatus situation by a control device connected to the situation-detection device; and the activation of an application corresponding to the locomotion apparatus situation, by the control device.

Abstract: Transmitted and received radar pulses are correlated in a receiver-side mixer for the measurement of the clearance distance and the speed of objects, using radar pulses. In a control device for specifying range gates, transmitter-side radar pulses that are able to be supplied to the mixer are continuously changed increasingly and/or decreasingly with respect to their pulse delay. Using a switchover device, one may switch over to the Doppler frequency measuring operation or reset to the clearance distance measuring operation.

Abstract: For an angle-resolving antenna system, only two radar sensors are provided including separate transmitting and receiving antennas. The receiving antennas of the two radar sensors are switchable with reference to their main beam direction as well as to their beam width.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for operating a radar sensor system with a number of adjacent individual sensors (3, 4, 5, 6), extensively synchronized with one another, for determining the position of a target object (15) are proposed. In one measurement cycle, the transit time of the radar signal emitted from one individual sensor and reflected by the target object to this individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (direct echo (13, 14)) and to a different individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (cross echo (16)) is evaluated. From the evaluation of the direct and cross echoes (13, 14, 16), at least the position of the target object (15) is determined, and a detection quality signal (Q) is ascertained, and once a predetermined amount of the detection quality signal (Q) is reached for a target object (15), a calibration is performed.

Abstract: To protect vehicle occupants in dangerous situations, the distance of the vehicle to a roadside object, such as a guardrail, etc., is determined and compared to a critical distance. If the actual distance is less than the critical distance, alarm devices are triggered and/or reversible restraining devices are deployed. The critical distance may be determined as a function of the host vehicle velocity.

Abstract: A pulse radar system has a high-frequency source, which supplies a continuous high-frequency signal and is connected on the one side with a transmission-side pulse modulator and on the other side with two separately controllable pulse modulators in at least one receive path. Mixers are situated downstream from pulse modulators, respectively. The mixers evaluate a radar pulse reflected by an object together with the signal of the high-frequency source. The pulse radar system allows different modes of operation that may be changed in a simple manner.

Abstract: Proposed is a method for measuring distance, which improves the resolution and the selectivity in an echo method, using propagation-time measurement. In this context, a received signal is sampled without first having to smooth the signal.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for operating a radar sensor system with a number of adjacent individual sensors (3, 4, 5, 6), extensively synchronized with one another, for determining the position of a target object (15) are proposed. In one measurement cycle, the transit time of the radar signal emitted from one individual sensor and reflected by the target object to this individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (direct echo (13, 14)) and to a different individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (cross echo (16)) is evaluated. From the evaluation of the direct and cross echoes (13, 14, 16), at least the position of the target object (15) is determined, and a detection quality signal (Q) is ascertained, and once a predetermined amount of the detection quality signal (Q) is reached for a target object (15), a calibration is performed.

Abstract: A device for outputting parameter values and a method of providing parameter values which pertain to the relative kinematic behavior of an object, in particular a first vehicle, and a target object, in particular a second vehicle, a conclusion is drawn based on the parameter values as to whether the object and the target object will probably collide. The method involves providing a sensor system on the object, the sensor system being provided for transmitting and receiving signals to determine measured values ri, vr,i for target object distance r and/or for relative radial velocity vr between the object and the target object, determining measured values ri, vr,i and analyzing measured values ri, vr,i thus determined and providing the parameter values based on the signals received by a receiver.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for controlling and evaluating at least one sensor device 4 jointly used by a plurality of applications, in particular occupant-assistance/occupant-protection applications in means of locomotion, having the following steps: the measuring of certain locomotion-means parameters 3 by a situation-detection device 2 for determining the situation of the means of locomotion with respect to its surroundings; the querying of the locomotion-means situation by a control device 1 connected to the situation-detection device 2; and the activation of an application corresponding to the locomotion-means situation, by the control device 1.

Abstract: A control/evaluation system 1 for a set of sensors, in particular in motor vehicles 11, has a plurality of areas 2, 3, 4, each of which has at least one controller 5 and a plurality of sensor devices 6 connected thereto; the controllers 5 may be connected to each other for a common application function.