Abstract: A roof for a motor vehicle, in particular for a passenger car, having a roof skin which is disposed above a roof substructure and having a sensor system which has at least one sensor module having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment. The roof has a cooling device for the sensor module, said cooling device having a compressed-air device by which compressed air is applied to the sensor module.

Abstract: An electric heating device, in particular for mobile applications, having a substrate and a heat conductor layer formed on the substrate. The heat conductor layer is interrupted by at least a first isolating interruption, the first isolating interruption separating at least a first and a second layer portion of the heat conductor layer from one another. The first layer portion is connected at a first end to a first terminal, for example positive pole, and the second layer portion is connected at a first end to a second terminal, for example negative pole. The first layer portion is connected at a second end to the second layer portion and is connected via this second layer portion to the second terminal.

Abstract: A method for working a first component and a second component comprises the following steps: providing the first component, which comprises a thermally sprayed electrically conductive layer, providing the second component, which has a longitudinally extended strip of copper, which at least in a first region has a thickness transversely to the longitudinal direction of more than 0.1 millimeter, arranging the strip and the layer one on top of the other, so that the first region of the strip and the layer have a contact region in common with one another, emitting a laser beam onto the contact region and forming a welded connection, which connects the strip and the layer to one another.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive sensor data providing information about an environment surrounding a vehicle to a first computing system and a second computing system associated with the vehicle, wherein the first computing system and the second computing system are each capable of generating navigation instructions for the vehicle based on the received sensor data. A first planned trajectory is determined based on the sensor data by the first computing system. The vehicle is navigated by the first computing system based on the first planned trajectory. Control of the vehicle is transitioned from the first computing system to the second computing system based on a failure associated with the first computing system. An emulated trajectory is determined based on data describing a current motion of the vehicle by the second computing system. The vehicle is navigated by the second computing system based on the emulated trajectory.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heating device (10), in particular to an electric heating device for a motor vehicle, having a heat exchanger housing (12), heat exchanger core (14) which absorbs heat at a heat input face, and a printed circuit board (20) having electronic components (16, 18) for controlling the heating device (10), wherein the printed circuit board (20) is arranged on an outer side (22) of the heat exchanger housing (12), wherein a temperature sensor (24) is arranged on a side (26) of the printed circuit board (20) which faces the outer side (22) of the heat exchanger housing (12), wherein connecting means (28) are provided which connect the temperature sensor (24) in a heat conducting fashion to the outer side (22) of the heat exchanger housing (12), and wherein the heat input face of the heat exchanger core (14) is connected in a heat-conducting fashion to the heat exchanger housing (12), with the result that a continuous short heat bridge, running through the interior of the heat exchan

Abstract: An apparatus for a heating device for a vehicle comprises a layer stack which, in a stacking direction, has a heating conductor layer, an electrically conductive layer which forms a contact region, wherein a contour in a projection in the stacking direction of the electrically conductive layer is prespecified, in order to prevent a hotspot on the electrically conductive layer, by at least one of a prespecified width of a front side of the electrically conductive layer which faces a central region of the heating conductor layer, a prespecified distance from a joint of the heating conductor layer, and a prespecified curvature of the contour.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive sensor data providing information about an environment surrounding a vehicle to a first computing system and a second computing system associated with the vehicle, wherein the first computing system and the second computing system are each capable of generating navigation instructions for the vehicle based on the received sensor data. A first planned trajectory is determined based on the sensor data by the first computing system. The vehicle is navigated by the first computing system based on the first planned trajectory. Control of the vehicle is transitioned from the first computing system to the second computing system based on a failure associated with the first computing system. An emulated trajectory is determined based on data describing a current motion of the vehicle by the second computing system. The vehicle is navigated by the second computing system based on the emulated trajectory.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a temperature sensor for a vehicle heating device, a heat input surface, an electrical heating element arranged on the heat input surface, and a heat output surface. The temperature sensor is arranged in a depression on the heat output surface.

Abstract: An electrical heating device for mobile applications, includes a substrate and a heat-conducting layer formed on the substrate. The heat-conducting layer has at least one heat-conducting track that is arranged on the substrate, and the heat-conducting track is structured such that a multiplicity of track sections, separated from one another by insulating gaps, is formed. The heat-conducting track has at least one deflection section at which the heat-conducting track is deflected and which is arranged between a first and a second track section, wherein the first and the second track section have a smaller curvature in comparison with the deflection section. The heat-conducting track in the first track section or in the deflection section branches into at least two branch tracks separated from one another by one or more branch insulating gaps. The branch tracks meet up again in the second track section or in the deflection section.

Abstract: An electric heating device includes a substrate and a heat conductor layer formed on the substrate. The heat conductor track includes a plurality of track sections which run adjacently to one another and are separated from one another by insulating interruptions. At least one reversal point is provided at which the heat conductor track is deflected such that inner track sections with opposite flow directions run adjacently and parallel to one another. The spacing between the adjacent inner track sections is locally expanded in the region of the reversal point where the inner track sections protrude outwards to outer track sections, and the width of the track sections is locally reduced in front of and in the outer track sections to compensate for the local expansion on the inner face between the inner track sections and for the protrusion of the inner track sections.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heating device (10) for a vehicle, comprising: a flow path (14, 16, 20, 22, 24) for a liquid heat transfer agent; an electric heating device (34) for generating heat and for releasing generated heat to the heat transfer agent on a heating portion (20) of the flow path; and an electronic controller (26) for controlling a heat output of the heating device. The controller (26) is provided with a heat releasing body in order to release waste heat of the controller (26) to the heat transfer agent on a preheating portion (16) of the flow path upstream of the heating portion (20). The invention likewise relates to a method for cooling the controller.

Abstract: An apparatus for a heating device for a vehicle comprises a layer stack which, in a stacking direction, has a heating conductor layer, an electrically conductive layer which forms a contact region, wherein a contour in a projection in the stacking direction of the electrically conductive layer is prespecified, in order to prevent a hotspot on the electrically conductive layer, by at least one of a prespecified width of a front side of the electrically conductive layer which faces a central region of the heating conductor layer, a prespecified distance from a joint of the heating conductor layer, and a prespecified curvature of the contour.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (10) having a temperature sensor (22) for a vehicle heating device (12), wherein the heat exchanger (10) comprises the temperature sensor (22), a heat input surface (14), an electrical heating element (16) arranged on the heat input surface (14), and a heat output surface (18), said temperature sensor (22) being arranged in a depression (20) on said heat output surface (18).

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric heating device (1) for mobile applications, comprising the following: a substrate and a heat conductor layer formed on the substrate (2). The heat conductor layer has at least one heat conductor track (5) which extends on a main plane on the substrate (2). The heat conductor track (5) is structured such that a plurality of track sections (6) are formed which run adjacently to one another and which are separated from one another by insulating interruptions (7). At least one reversal point (8) is provided at which the heat conductor track (5) is deflected such that inner track sections (6a) with opposite flow directions run adjacently and parallel to one another. The spacing between the adjacent inner track sections (6a) with opposite flow directions is formed in a locally expanded manner in the region of the reversal point (8) on the inner face.

Abstract: A method for working a first component and a second component comprises the following steps: providing the first component, which comprises a thermally sprayed electrically conductive layer, providing the second component, which has a longitudinally extended strip of copper, which at least in a first region has a thickness transversely to the longitudinal direction of more than 0.1 millimeter, arranging the strip and the layer one on top of the other, so that the first region of the strip and the layer have a contact region in common with one another, emitting a laser beam onto the contact region and forming a welded connection, which connects the strip and the layer to one another.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heating device (10), in particular to an electric heating device for a motor vehicle, having a heat exchanger housing (12), heat exchanger core (14) which absorbs heat at a heat input face, and a printed circuit board (20) having electronic components (16, 18) for controlling the heating device (10), wherein the printed circuit board (20) is arranged on an outer side (22) of the heat exchanger housing (12), wherein a temperature sensor (24) is arranged on a side (26) of the printed circuit board (20) which faces the outer side (22) of the heat exchanger housing (12), wherein connecting means (28) are provided which connect the temperature sensor (24) in a heat conducting fashion to the outer side (22) of the heat exchanger housing (12), and wherein the heat input face of the heat exchanger core (14) is connected in a heat-conducting fashion to the heat exchanger housing (12), with the result that a continuous short heat bridge, running through the interior of the heat exchan