The invention relates to a heating module for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, said heating module comprising at least one inlet opening and at least one outlet opening by means of which the heating module can be connected to the exhaust gas system, wherein a main line and a secondary line are provided between the inlet opening and the outlet opening to guide an exhaust gas flowing through the heating module, said main line and secondary line being in connection with one another at their upstream ends via a branching section and at their downstream ends via a merging chamber. A control device for controlling the exhaust gas flow flowing through the main line is further provided in the main line. The heating module is characterized in that the heating module comprises an oxidation catalyst that is at least sectionally arranged in the merging chamber. The invention further relates to a corresponding method.
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
B01D 53/94 - Chemical or biological purification of waste gases of engine exhaust gases by catalytic processes
F01N 3/10 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust
A charging voltage converter on a vehicle is equipped with an upstream circuit, which includes at least one working inductor. Furthermore, the converter has a switching unit, which is connected downstream of the upstream circuit. The working inductor connects a first input potential of an input of the voltage converter to the switching unit. A second input potential of the input is connected via a reverse current blocking device of the upstream circuit to the switching unit.
H02M 1/32 - Means for protecting converters other than by automatic disconnection
B60L 53/24 - Using the vehicle's propulsion converter for charging
H02H 3/18 - Emergency protective circuit arrangements for automatic disconnection directly responsive to an undesired change from normal electric working condition, with or without subsequent reconnection responsive to reversal of direct current
H02M 3/158 - Conversion of dc power input into dc power output without intermediate conversion into ac by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a triode or transistor type requiring continuous application of a control signal using semiconductor devices only with automatic control of output voltage or current, e.g. switching regulators including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load
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METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A SOFTWARE MODULE DEFINED BY A NON-INTERLEAVED DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH IN A MULTICORE ENVIRONMENT
An elementary method for implementing a software module defined by an elementary directed acyclic graph, including the following steps: copying the code of the initial sequence, adding a fork function at the end of the initial sequence, copying the code of a parallel sequence, adding a join flag function at the end of said parallel sequence, copying the code of the other parallel sequence, adding a join wait function at the end of the other parallel sequence.
A capacitive proximity sensor (1) comprising a microcontroller (20) which is configured to perform measurements in a repetitive predetermined sequence, said sequence comprising a series of N consecutive measurements, N being a natural integer greater than or equal to three, wherein, with the period between two consecutive analog-to-digital conversions of the first measurement of the series being called a reference period, the period between two analog-to-digital conversions of a measurement m of the series, m being a natural integer comprised between 2 and N, is defined as being equal to the reference period plus the product of (m−1) and a predetermined additional unitary period. The additional unitary period is equal to half the period needed to shift a noise sensitivity peak of the sensor (1) by half its frequency width.
An electric vehicle drive circuit has a first inverter with a first DC port and a second inverter with a second DC port. The first DC port and the second DC port are connected in a series connection. The series connection of the first and the second DC port is connected to a battery interface. The first and the second inverters each have a multiphase AC port. The multiphase AC ports of the first and the second inverters form a multiphase machine interface.
H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
H02K 11/33 - Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics
H02P 27/08 - Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by the kind of supply voltage using variable-frequency supply voltage, e.g. inverter or converter supply voltage using dc to ac converters or inverters with pulse width modulation
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METAL ELEMENT OF A PROTECTIVE CASING OF A COMPUTER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
Disclosed is a metal element, such as a structural support or a cover, of a protective casing of a computer for a motor vehicle, which metal element has a first face, which is intended to be oriented toward the exterior of the protective casing, and a second face, which is intended to be oriented toward the interior of the protective casing, the element including a printed circuit board, characterized in that the element includes at least one deformation that protrudes with respect to the first face, the printed circuit board being attached to the second face by way of a self-tapping screw implanted in the deformation.
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for electrically charging vehicle batteries for a group of member vehicles. The method may include: predicting a total energy requirement for charging batteries for the group in a future time period; predicting a temporal distribution of the charging power requirement for the group over the future time period; calculating a total charging power profile optimized in respect of one or more optimization criteria according to the predicted total energy requirement and the predicted temporal distribution of the charging power requirement; purchasing an amount of energy in accordance with the optimized total charging power profile on a relevant energy market; and chronometrically controlling the charging processes of each member vehicle with a respective charging profile so the sum of the respective charging profiles of the individual member vehicles corresponds to the optimized total profile of the charging power.
The disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method and a control device for controlling a unit of an automotive system. An electrical/electronic architecture of the automotive system includes a first control unit, a second control unit, and the unit to be controlled. The method includes detecting that the control of the unit by a primary software cluster is faulty and/or defective. The method also includes activating the second control unit by the first control unit, whereby the second control unit is transferred to a fail-silent state and does not send any more potentially erroneous data. Additionally, the method includes controlling the unit by a backup software cluster of the first control unit, thereby maintaining the functionality of the unit.
G06F 11/20 - Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements
A device for aftertreatment of exhaust gases, having a flow section which is able to be flowed through by exhaust gas and has at least one honeycomb body, acting as a catalytic converter, and has at least one heating element. The heating element is formed from a ceramic material which is able to be flowed through along a plurality of flow channels from an inflow side to an outflow side. The heating element is electrically conductive along the walls delimiting the flow channels and, by an electrical contact, is connectable to a voltage source, wherein the heating element runs in a meandering manner over a through-flowable cross section of the flow section.
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
Various teachings herein include a method of operating a vehicle comprising a combustion engine, an electric motor, and an electrically heated catalyst. The method includes: simultaneously evaluating energy consumption and emissions due to increasing or decreasing catalyst heating actions and due to increasing or decreasing electric motor torque based on an operating model; and determining an operating mode for each of the combustion engine, electric motor, and electrically heatable catalyst using the operating model to optimize operation based on an optimization goal.
B60W 20/16 - Control strategies specially adapted for achieving a particular effect for reducing engine exhaust emissions
B60W 10/06 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of propulsion units including control of combustion engines
B60W 20/11 - Controlling the power contribution of each of the prime movers to meet required power demand using model predictive control [MPC] strategies, i.e. control methods based on models predicting performance
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POWER SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A POWER SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT
A power semiconductor component includes at least one power semiconductor device disposed within a housing and a heat sink having an area a exposed on a first surface of the housing. A wiring substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface. A heat dissipation region with increased thermal conductivity is disposed on the second main surface. The heat dissipation region has an area A on the second main surface, and a
A method for managing an engine for which segment tasks are initiated at a moment referred to as “segment”, in order to determine setpoint values which must be available before a predetermined angular time, having the following steps: a) executing a segment task; b) determining the difference between the angular starting time for application of the setpoints and the position corresponding to the availability of the setpoint values; c) comparing the difference determined in step b) with a lower difference value and a greater difference value; and d) modifying the segment if the difference determined in step b) is not between the lower and greater difference values, the position of the segment being advanced if the difference determined in b) is less than the lower difference value and the position of the segment being delayed if the difference determined in b) is greater than the greater difference value.
F02D 41/26 - Electrical control of supply of combustible mixture or its constituents characterised by the use of digital means using computer, e.g. microprocessor
F02D 41/06 - Introducing corrections for particular operating conditions for engine starting or warming up
A drum brake with a carrier, a deformation sensor, and at least one brake shoe. The carrier is connected to a supporting bearing for the at least one brake shoe. The deformation sensor is designed to determine a deformation of the carrier. A brake system includes at least one such drum brake, and a vehicle with such a brake system or with at least one such drum brake.
F16D 51/20 - Brakes with outwardly-movable braking members co-operating with the inner surface of a drum or the like shaped as brake-shoes pivoted on a fixed or nearly-fixed axis with two brake-shoes extending in opposite directions from their pivots
B60T 1/06 - Arrangements of braking elements, i.e. of those parts where braking effect occurs acting by retarding wheels acting otherwise than on tread, e.g. employing rim, drum, disc, or transmission
B60T 17/22 - Devices for monitoring or checking brake systems; Signal devices
F16D 66/00 - Arrangements for monitoring working conditions of brakes, e.g. wear or temperature
F16D 51/00 - Brakes with outwardly-movable braking members co-operating with the inner surface of a drum or the like
A sensor for determining a hydrogen concentration in a channel of a fuel cell system, having a sensor housing, a measuring chamber, wherein the measuring chamber is arranged in the sensor housing, and a measuring chamber channel, wherein the measuring chamber channel fluidically connects the measuring chamber to the environment of the sensor, wherein the sensor can be mounted in such a way that the measuring chamber diaphragm is located in the channel. A channel having a sensor of this type and a fuel cell system having a channel of said type.
A method, for a system (9) comprising at least one electronic component (1-3), at least one component temperature sensor (4-6) associated with said at least one electronic component (1-3) and at least one environment temperature sensor (4-7), for calibrating said at least one component temperature sensor (4-6), comprising the following steps:
before or upon starting the system (9), measuring the temperatures of said at least one component temperature sensor (4-6) and said at least one environment temperature sensor (4-7),
determining a reference temperature from the temperatures measured,
calculating, for each component temperature sensor (4-6), an offset such that the temperature measurement of the component temperature sensor (4-6), corrected by the offset, equals the reference temperature,
correcting by applying the offset to each subsequent temperature measurement.
The disclosure relates to a method and a device for evaluating a signal. The signal is provided from a signal source via a signal conditioning unit to a microcontroller for signal evaluation. The method includes detecting the signal from the signal source and transmitting the signal to the signal conditioning unit, which has an anti-aliasing filter. The method also includes filtering the signal by the anti-aliasing filter, which is set on the basis of the signal to be detected and providing the filtered signal to the microcontroller. The method also includes processing and evaluating the filtered signal in the microcontroller.
A distributing device D for supplying a pressurized liquid to individual cleaning locations of a vehicle. Here, the distributing device includes a housing with an electric-motor-drivable distributor arranged therein and also includes liquid-receiving and liquid-guiding means. Here, the distributor is rotatably adjustable relative to the housing into individual defined positions in which a feed connection AZ charged with liquid pressure is fluidically connected to one of multiple discharge connections ARSi, ARSi+1 . . . ARSi+n for providing a supply to an associated cleaning location. Here, the distributor, which is of substantially cylindrical form, directs the liquid—according to rotational adjustment—via radially circumferential liquid-receiving and liquid-guiding means to one of the discharge connections ARSi, ARSi+1 . . . ARSi+n. Also proposed are a liquid-distributing actuator with such a distributing device D, and a cleaning device with such a liquid-distributing actuator, a vehicle with such a cleaning device, and an operating method.
The disclosure relates to a method and a device for operating a hybrid vehicle having an internal combustion engine, an electric motor, a fuel tank, an activated carbon filter, an air filter, an intake tract, a purging line arranged between the activated carbon filter and the intake tract, a purge air pump arranged between the activated carbon filter and the intake tract, a tank purge valve arranged between the purge air pump and the intake tract, and a ventilation arranged between the fresh air filter and the activated carbon filter. The hybrid vehicle can be operated in an electric mode in which the electric motor is activated and the internal combustion engine is deactivated. In such a hybrid vehicle, in electric mode the purge air pump is activated and detection of the concentration of hydrocarbons present in the activated carbon filter is performed with the purge air pump activated.
F02M 25/08 - Engine-pertinent apparatus for adding non-fuel substances or small quantities of secondary fuel to combustion-air, main fuel or fuel-air mixture adding fuel vapours drawn from engine fuel reservoir
A busbar assembly contains: an electrical busbar having two end faces, a bottom surface, a top surface, and two side faces connecting the bottom surface and the top surface, and a metallic busbar heatsink having a bottom wall and at least two cooling fins extending from the bottom wall. The cooling fins together with the bottom wall forming a receiving space for receiving the busbar and the busbar is arranged in the receiving space in such a manner that at least one of the two side faces of the busbar is in planar contact with one of the cooling fins.
A method for controlling a variable valve timing system using minimum speed positions. The minimum speed positions allow the movement and the position of the various camshafts to be controlled.
An exhaust gas turbocharger with an integrated catalyst substrate block and a hybrid vehicle having such a turbocharger are described. The exhaust gas turbocharger has a turbine housing, a turbine wheel and upstream ahead of the turbine wheel a hollow body-shaped catalyst substrate block, which is integrated in the exhaust gas ring duct of the turbine housing of the exhaust gas turbocharger. As a result of the upstream disposal of the turbine wheel and the integration in the exhaust gas ring duct of the turbine housing, particularly good emission values of an associated internal combustion engine can be achieved with a compact construction mode.
A vehicle charging circuit is equipped with a rectifier device, at least one intermediate circuit capacitor and at least one precharge/discharge circuit. The rectifier device is connected to the intermediate circuit capacitor via the precharge/discharge circuit. The precharge/discharge circuit has at least one first changeover switch that is configured, in a first position, to connect a first pole of the intermediate circuit capacitor to a first potential of the rectifier device. In a second position, the changeover switch connects the first pole of the intermediate circuit capacitor to the second pole of the intermediate circuit capacitor via a discharge resistor. The changeover switch is configured to adopt the second switching position in the actuation-free state.
B60L 3/00 - Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption
B60L 53/20 - Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles characterised by converters located in the vehicle
H02M 1/32 - Means for protecting converters other than by automatic disconnection
An electromagnetically compatible housing device for a high-voltage battery of a vehicle, having: a first housing part which shields electromagnetic radiation and has an electrically conducting contact face, and a second housing part which is in the form of a spring part and shields electromagnetic radiation and which is connected in an electrically conducting manner to the electrically conducting contact face of the first housing part and is configured to establish electrically conducting contact with a battery housing part of the high-voltage battery.
H05K 9/00 - Screening of apparatus or components against electric or magnetic fields
H01M 50/202 - Casings or frames around the primary casing of a single cell or a single battery
H01M 50/249 - Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders specially adapted for aircraft or vehicles, e.g. cars or trains
H01M 50/24 - Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders characterised by physical properties of casings or racks, e.g. dimensions adapted for protecting batteries from their environment, e.g. from corrosion
H01M 50/296 - Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders characterised by terminals of battery packs
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for heating a catalytic converter arranged in an exhaust-gas tract of an internal combustion engine and comprising an electric heating device. An example method may include: activating the electric heating device with a specified heating power at a time before the internal combustion engine is started; monitoring the catalyst temperature in a region of the catalytic converter adjacent the heating device; before the catalyst temperature has reached a predetermined first threshold value, supplying a secondary air mass flow with a first flow rate is supplied into the exhaust-gas tract upstream of the catalytic converter; and after the catalyst temperature has reached the predetermined first threshold value, increasing the secondary air mass flow to a second flow rate greater than the first flow rate.
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
F01N 3/32 - Arrangements for supply of additional air using air pumps
B01D 53/94 - Chemical or biological purification of waste gases of engine exhaust gases by catalytic processes
F01N 11/00 - Monitoring or diagnostic devices for exhaust-gas treatment apparatus
25.
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR METERING AN AQUEOUS UREA SOLUTION
A method and device for controlling a delivery device for an aqueous urea solution in a motor vehicle, with a tank, with a suction line, with a pump, with a pressure line, and with an injector, wherein the aqueous urea solution can be conveyed from the tank along the suction line, through the pump, through the pressure line, and to the injector. The method performs a rinsing procedure of at least the pressure line, wherein the pump is operated counter to its usual conveying direction during the rinsing procedure and the injector is closed in a first phase of the method, wherein the pump is operated for an operating duration t1 and at a speed of rotation n1 during the first phase of the method.
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
26.
Method And Device For Diagnosing An Internal Combustion Engine Of A Powertrain
The disclosure relates to a method and a device for diagnosing an internal combustion engine of a powertrain. The powertrain includes the internal combustion engine and a transmission unit, and the diagnosis is carried out using a running irregularity signal, where potentially a gear change is actively requested. The method includes ascertaining a diagnostic value of the internal combustion engine during operation using the running irregularity signal of the internal combustion engine. The powertrain is operated using a diagnostic gear of the transmission unit. The method also includes detecting the diagnostic gear which is engaged in the transmission unit while ascertaining the diagnostic value; and comparing the ascertained diagnostic value with a predefined diagnostic threshold value and comparing the diagnostic gear of the transmission unit with at least one predefined gear of the transmission unit.
The disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method and device for the automated update of a communication unit of a control unit of a vehicle. The control unit includes a plurality of software clusters. The method includes providing the control unit of the vehicle, comprising a plurality of software clusters, a communication unit and a Multi Device Connector Routine. The communication unit is designed for handling communication between the software clusters and has a dedicated manifest and a configuration table for this purpose. The method includes updating at least one of the software clusters and executing the Multi Device Connector Routine, where at least the manifest of the updated software cluster is read in; at least one new manifest is generated for the communication unit by way of the read-in manifest; and at least one new configuration table is generated for the communication unit.
A sound compensation apparatus having a working fluid circuit for cooling by a working fluid, a vehicle having such a sound compensation apparatus, a method for sound compensation, and to a method for sound emission. The sound compensation apparatus includes a vibration actuator designed to at least partially compensate for sound waves in the working fluid. The invention also relates to.
G10K 11/175 - Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general using interference effects; Masking sound
B60Q 5/00 - Arrangement or adaptation of acoustic signal devices
G10K 11/16 - Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general
H02K 9/19 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating for machines with closed casing and closed-circuit cooling using a liquid cooling medium, e.g. oil
A device for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, with an exhaust gas line, which is configured to feed the exhaust gas expelled from the internal combustion engine to at least one component for exhaust gas aftertreatment. The at least one adsorber for the temporary storage of hydrocarbons contained in the exhaust gas, a catalytic converter for the catalytic aftertreatment of the exhaust gas, an electrically heatable catalytic converter and a cracking catalytic converter for cracking long-chain hydrocarbons into shorter-chain hydrocarbons are arranged in the exhaust gas line.
F01N 13/00 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus characterised by constructional features
F01N 3/031 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters having means for by-passing filters, e.g. when clogged or during cold engine start
F01N 3/08 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous
F01N 3/10 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
A conveying device for an aqueous urea solution in a motor vehicle, with a tank, with a filter element and with a pump. The aqueous urea solution can be conveyed by the pump from the tank through the filter element into a suction line, wherein the filter element has a filter material and a frame for receiving the filter material, wherein the filter material is connected to the frame by a connection element, wherein the connection element is part of the fluid conveying path from the tank via the filter element to the pump.
A vehicle electrical system is equipped with at least one high-voltage consumer, a DC charging connection a rechargeable battery, a rectifier and a changeover switch. The high-voltage consumer is connected to the rechargeable battery by the changeover switch via a first switching device in a first switching position of the changeover switch and is connected to the rechargeable battery by the changeover switch in a second switching position of the changeover switch via a second switching device, wherein the DC charging connection is connected to the rechargeable battery via the first switching device.
A method for operating a conveying device for an aqueous urea solution in a motor vehicle, having a pump for conveying the aqueous urea solution, wherein the aqueous urea solution is conveyed from a tank along a pressure line to an injector, wherein the injector is arranged on an exhaust gas line and is designed to inject the aqueous urea solution into the exhaust gas line. The conveying speed of the pump is controlled depending on the opening operations and closing operations of the injector and/or the pressure conditions resulting therefrom in the conveying section between the pump and the injector.
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
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CHARGING CIRCUIT HAVING A DIRECT-CURRENT TERMINAL AND AN ALTERNATING-CURRENT TERMINAL, AND VEHICLE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM HAVING A CHARGING CIRCUIT
A charging circuit is equipped with a storage battery terminal, a direct-current terminal and an alternating-current terminal, which is connected to an alternating-current side of a rectifier of the charging circuit. The direct-current side of the rectifier is connected via a changeover switch to a first side of a DC-to-DC converter, wherein the changeover switch connects the first side of the DC-to-DC converter either to the direct-current terminal or to a first potential of the direct-current side of the rectifier. A second potential of the direct-current side of the rectifier is connected to the direct-current terminal via a diode. The reverse direction of the diode points toward the direct-current terminal. A second side of the DC-to-DC converter is connected to the storage battery terminal, to which the direct-current terminal is connected via an isolating switch. A vehicle electrical system having the charging circuit is also described.
The invention relates to a method and a device for pressure sensor diagnosis in a tank venting system of a motor vehicle operated by an internal combustion engine, wherein the tank venting system comprises an activated carbon filter, a purge line arranged between the activated carbon filter and an intake tract of the motor vehicle, a tank venting valve arranged in the purge line and a pressure sensor arranged in the purge line, and wherein the method comprises the following steps:
measuring a pressure prevailing in the purge line by means of the pressure sensor to determine a starting pressure,
classifying the starting pressure into one of a plurality of pressure ranges depending on the amplitude of the starting pressure,
carrying out a pressure sensor diagnosis using a diagnosis algorithm which is associated with the pressure range in which the starting pressure lies.
G01L 27/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure
F02M 25/08 - Engine-pertinent apparatus for adding non-fuel substances or small quantities of secondary fuel to combustion-air, main fuel or fuel-air mixture adding fuel vapours drawn from engine fuel reservoir
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Method For Changing From Electrical Operation To Hybrid Operation In A Vehicle Hybrid Drive And Vehicle Hybrid Drive
A method for changing from electrical operation to hybrid operation in a vehicle hybrid drive is provided. The method includes detecting an increase in a target traction power and starting the internal combustion engine. When the internal combustion engine starts, the method includes outputting a positive torque by generating an increasing generator power. The generator power is used together with an electrical power of a storage unit for generating electrical traction power. The generator power is generated while the internal combustion engine is not yet fully coupled to an output. The method includes fully coupling the internal combustion engine to the output after the generation of the increasing generator power has begun. After the internal combustion engine has been fully coupled, the method includes reducing the electrical power of the storage unit to a non-positive value and adjusting the generator power in accordance with a predetermined energy balance.
B60W 20/13 - Controlling the power contribution of each of the prime movers to meet required power demand in order to prevent overcharging or battery depletion
B60W 20/19 - Control strategies specially adapted for achieving a particular effect for achieving enhanced acceleration
B60W 20/40 - Controlling the engagement or disengagement of prime movers, e.g. for transition between prime movers
B60W 10/06 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of propulsion units including control of combustion engines
B60W 10/08 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of propulsion units including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
B60W 10/02 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of driveline clutches
B60W 10/26 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of energy storage means for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
A method for determining the length of a heated pressure line for a conveying device for an aqueous urea solution in a motor vehicle from a tank to an injector, wherein the pressure line is electrically heatable and is heated, using ohmic resistance, by the application of a voltage to an electrical conductor led on the pressure line, wherein the length of the pressure line is calculated by the following formula:
A method for determining the length of a heated pressure line for a conveying device for an aqueous urea solution in a motor vehicle from a tank to an injector, wherein the pressure line is electrically heatable and is heated, using ohmic resistance, by the application of a voltage to an electrical conductor led on the pressure line, wherein the length of the pressure line is calculated by the following formula:
l
pressure
line
=
R
heating
conductor
×
A
ρ
A method for determining the length of a heated pressure line for a conveying device for an aqueous urea solution in a motor vehicle from a tank to an injector, wherein the pressure line is electrically heatable and is heated, using ohmic resistance, by the application of a voltage to an electrical conductor led on the pressure line, wherein the length of the pressure line is calculated by the following formula:
l
pressure
line
=
R
heating
conductor
×
A
ρ
where A designates the cross section of the electrical conductor and p the specific electrical resistance of the electrical conductor and Rheating conductor the electrical resistance of the electrical conductor used to heat the pressure line.
The disclosure provides a vehicle electrical system equipped with a high-voltage branch and a first low-voltage branch, which is galvanically isolated from the high-voltage branch by insulation. The low-voltage branch has at least one low-voltage line, which leads to the high-voltage branch. The low-voltage branch has a voltmeter. The voltmeter is connected in a signal-transmitting manner to the at least one low-voltage line. Furthermore, the voltmeter is set up to detect whether an absolute voltage value of the at least one low-voltage line with respect to a ground potential of the vehicle electrical system lies above a voltage limit. The voltage limit defines an absolute voltage value which is greater than the absolute value of a maximum signal voltage of the low-voltage line, which the low-voltage line has during fault-free operation.
B60L 3/00 - Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption
G01R 27/02 - Measuring real or complex resistance, reactance, impedance, or other two-pole characteristics derived therefrom, e.g. time constant
B60L 50/51 - Electric propulsion with power supplied within the vehicle using propulsion power supplied by batteries or fuel cells characterised by AC-motors
38.
EMERGENCY ACCESS DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE OPENABLE LEAF
Emergency access device for a vehicle opening leaf, including:—a graspable pull rod that is movable between a retracted position and a deployed position;—a retention needle that is movable transversely to the pull rod between a position for blocking the pull rod in its retracted position and a position for releasing the pull rod;—an electric ejector designed to release the pull rod;—a mechanical ejector designed to release the pull rod; the pull rod including an oblique path designed to cause the retention needle to move from its blocking position to its releasing position during a movement of the pull rod in translation.
E05B 81/90 - Manual override in case of power failure
E05B 81/08 - Electrical using electromagnets or solenoids
E05B 81/78 - Detection of handle operation; Detection of a user approaching a handle; Electrical switching actions performed by handles as part of a hands-free locking or unlocking operation
E05B 79/20 - Connections between movable lock parts using flexible connections, e.g. Bowden cables
E05B 77/12 - Automatic locking or unlocking at the moment of collision
39.
Method and Device for Determining an Ambient Pressure
The disclosure relates to a method and a device for determining an ambient pressure that prevails around a control unit. The control unit includes a housing, which has an opening, and a membrane having a particular permeability, which covers the opening. A pressure sensor is arranged inside the housing. The method includes: recording a pressure measurement value with the pressure sensor, the pressure measurement value being characteristic of an internal pressure inside the housing; determining a correction value, which includes a constant and a variable; and determining the ambient pressure by way of the pressure measurement value that has been determined and the correction value that has been determined.
G01L 7/08 - Measuring the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by mechanical or fluid pressure-sensitive elements in the form of elastically-deformable gauges of the flexible-diaphragm type
G01D 3/036 - Measuring arrangements with provision for the special purposes referred to in the subgroups of this group mitigating undesired influences, e.g. temperature, pressure on measuring arrangements themselves
40.
Device of Exhaust Gas Treatment and Method for Production Thereof
In a device for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases from an emission source, in particular an internal combustion engine, with an exhaust tract through which an exhaust gas can flow in a direction of flow, with at least one catalytic converter, the catalytic converter having a ceramic honeycomb body has: a catalytically active surface coating, and with an electrically heatable heater, the heater having a metallic electrical conductor, the honeycomb body further having a plurality of flow channels which can be flowed through from a gas inlet side to a gas outlet side, wherein the conductor is integrated in the ceramic honeycomb body, and is arranged downstream of the gas inlet side and upstream of the gas outlet side, as viewed in the direction of flow.
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
Disclosed is a method for controlling combustion in an internal combustion engine including, on the one hand, an air inlet pipe provided with an air flow regulator in the pipe and, on the other hand, a single cylinder associated with the regulator, and including the following steps: determining the engine speed and/or load; and when the speed is below a predetermined value and/or the engine load is below a predetermined value, the air flow regulator in the inlet pipe is operated in such a way that the air flow is temporarily reduced during the engine cycle compared with the position that the butterfly-type throttle valve occupies during the other strokes of the engine cycle, while an intake valve that lets air from the inlet pipe into the corresponding cylinder is open.
A method provides a circuit carrier arrangement that includes: a cooling plate (1) which has spacer and fastening elements (3) for connection to a printed circuit board (2) in a spaced-apart manner; a printed circuit board (2) which has bores (4) for receiving spring element sleeves (9); at least one power semiconductor component (10) which is connected by a soldered connection to the printed circuit board (2) and fastening elements (3) in the state in which it is fitted with the cooling plate (1) by means of plug-in connections (11) of spring-action configuration; and at least one spring element (5) having at least two spring element sleeves (9) between which a web (6) that is connected to the spring element sleeves (9) extends, and supporting elements (7) arranged on either side of said web and at least one spring plate (8) being arranged on said web.
H01L 23/40 - Mountings or securing means for detachable cooling or heating arrangements
H01L 25/11 - Assemblies consisting of a plurality of individual semiconductor or other solid state devices all the devices being of a type provided for in the same subgroup of groups , or in a single subclass of , , e.g. assemblies of rectifier diodes the devices having separate containers the devices being of a type provided for in group
H05K 1/18 - Printed circuits structurally associated with non-printed electric components
A device includes an exhaust gas turbocharger and an annular catalytic converter, which is mounted downstream of the turbocharger in the flow direction, wherein the annular catalytic converter has a first tubular flow section, a deflecting region, and a second annular flow section, wherein the tubular flow section is formed by an inner tube, and the annular flow section is formed between an outer tube, running substantially parallel to the inner tube, and the inner tube, and the deflecting region is designed to deflect the exhaust gas flow out of the tubular flow section into the annular flow section, wherein the tubular flow section of the annular catalytic converter comprises the same components as the gas outlet of the turbocharger mounted upstream in the flow direction.
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
F02B 37/18 - Control of the pumps by bypassing exhaust
44.
FUEL CELL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FUEL CELL ASSEMBLY
A fuel cell stack, having fuel cells stacked in a stacking direction, each of which has a plate-shaped form extending in a first and second transverse directions, as viewed orthogonally in relation to the stacking direction. The fuel cells have a stack of: an anode-side bipolar half-plate with a fuel channel structure for conducting fuel; an anode-side gas diffusion layer; a membrane-electrode unit, having electrolyte membrane and electrode layers arranged on either side of the electrolyte membrane forming an anode and cathode for electrochemical reaction of the fuel with an oxidizing agent; a cathode-side gas diffusion layer; a cathode-side bipolar half-plate with an oxidizing agent channel structure for conducting the oxidizing agent; and end plates at either end of the stack in the stacking direction. On the side of the stack, belt receptacles are mounted on the end plates, and belts are mounted over the belt receptacles clamping the stack.
A fuel cell arrangement and a production method for a fuel cell stack which is stacked in a stacking direction and composed of a plurality of plate-shaped components stacked in a stacking direction, wherein the fuel cell has at least one end plate composed of a plurality of segments.
A combustion engine throttle body includes an air circulation duct with a throttle valve rotationally mounted therein, a DC electric motor opening or closing of the throttle valve and includes a rotor having a cogging torque that oscillates with a predefined period. A position sensor measures the throttle valve position. An electronic control unit receives the position values of the throttle valve, calculates a throttle valve compensation angle value between zero and the value of the predefined period of the cogging torque from the measured opening angle of the throttle valve, from the predefined period value of the cogging torque, and from the predetermined angle correction value for the throttle valve, determines a command signal value for the electric motor from a predetermined correspondence table and from the calculated compensation angle value for the throttle valve, and commands the electric motor based on the determined command signal value.
A connecting device (10) for connecting a printed circuit board (14) to a busbar (12) is provided, having: a printed circuit board (14) and a busbar connecting element (16) which has a base body (18) with a first side (20) for bearing on the busbar (12), and a second side (22), situated opposite the first side (20), for contacting the printed circuit board (14), wherein the busbar connecting element (16) moreover has at least two anti-twist sections (24) which are connected to the base body (18) on the second side (22) of the base body (18), extend from the second side (22) of the base body (18) into a respective recess (26) formed in the printed circuit board (14), and engage in the respective recess (26) in such a way that the busbar connecting element (16) and the printed circuit board (14) are held non-rotatably relative to each other.
H05K 3/34 - Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor electrically connecting electric components or wires to printed circuits by soldering
H05K 1/18 - Printed circuits structurally associated with non-printed electric components
The invention relates to a tensioning and holding apparatus (6) having at least one tensioning means (12a, 12b, 13a, 13b) for a cubic or cuboidal object (1) of variable geometry and/or dimensions that can be fixed by pretensioning, wherein the object has a respective end plate (4, 5) at two opposite ends. According to the object of the invention, this tensioning and holding apparatus should be able to be mounted particularly easily and be produced cost-effectively. To that end, it is provided that, at least at one of the end plates, two laterally opposite
The invention relates to a tensioning and holding apparatus (6) having at least one tensioning means (12a, 12b, 13a, 13b) for a cubic or cuboidal object (1) of variable geometry and/or dimensions that can be fixed by pretensioning, wherein the object has a respective end plate (4, 5) at two opposite ends. According to the object of the invention, this tensioning and holding apparatus should be able to be mounted particularly easily and be produced cost-effectively. To that end, it is provided that, at least at one of the end plates, two laterally opposite
attachments (7, 8; 14, 15) that extend perpendicularly to the stacking and pretensioning direction (3) and parallel to one another and are intended to receive a respective associated holding rod (19, 20; 21, 22) are arranged or formed, that the attachments laterally protrude from the respective end plate, that the attachments, in their longitudinal direction, have cutouts (10a, 10b, 11a, 11b; 17a, 17b; 18a, 18b) for guiding one or more tensioning means (12a, 12b; 13a, 13b) that wrap around the holding rods and are in the form of endless elastic bands, that the holding rods are in force-fitting engagement with the respective attachments (7, 8; 14, 15) in the pretensioned state of the object (1), and that the end plates (4, 5) are braced against one another by means of the at least one tensioning means (12a, 12b; 13a, 13b).
H01M 8/248 - Means for compression of the fuel cell stacks
F16B 2/08 - Clamps, i.e. with gripping action effected by positive means other than the inherent resistance to deformation of the material of the fastening external, i.e. with contracting action using bands
A current feedthrough for an electrically heatable catalytic converter, which has inside it at least one electrical conductor that can be electrically contacted by the current feedthrough, a central electrically conductive inner conductor, which is guided from the interior of the catalytic converter through the outer housing wall thereof, an electrical insulation layer, which surrounds the electrically conductive inner conductor on the radially outer surface thereof, and a metallic outer tube, in which the electrically conductive inner conductor and the electrical insulation layer are accommodated.
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
H01B 3/12 - Insulators or insulating bodies characterised by the insulating materials; Selection of materials for their insulating or dielectric properties mainly consisting of inorganic substances ceramics
A method for operating an electromotive drive train for a vehicle is disclose. The electromotive drive train has an electric machine for driving at least one wheel of the vehicle, a traction battery of the vehicle, which can be charged by the electric machine via recuperation, and a clutch device arranged between the electric machine and the at least one wheel. The method has the following steps: ascertaining a maximum permitted recuperation power of the electric machine to be fed into the traction battery by the electric machine during a braking procedure of the vehicle; and setting a slip state of the clutch device such that the recuperation power generated by the electric machine during the slip operation of the clutch device does not exceed the maximum permitted recuperation power.
A control device for controlling a DC-DC converter of an electric charger for an electric or hybrid motor vehicle, including in particular a corrective controller, a harmonic compensator and a control unit configured so as, when the control device starts, to periodically send to the corrective controller and to the harmonic compensator a lower operating limit and an upper operating limit, each having an initial value imposing an output current of the DC-DC converter whose intensity is close to zero and less than 500 mA, and a ramp increase to control the oscillations of the control signal supplied by the control device to the DC-DC converter.
The present invention relates to a method for predictive maintenance of a component (11) of a road vehicle (10) and a predictive maintenance device configured to implement said method. The method is implemented by at least one calculator (12) connected to the component (11) and comprises the following steps:
a. collecting a data set of the vehicle (S200) comprising:
i. first data relating to the use of first predetermined combinations of usage parameters of said component (CP1(1), . . . , CP1(N)),
ii. second data relating to the use of second predetermined combinations of usage parameters of said vehicle (CP2(1), . . . , CP2(M)),
iii. third data for establishing the course of at least one control parameter of the component representative of wear of the component (P3) as a function of the number of kilometers traveled by the vehicle,
b. as a function of the first and second data of the vehicle, selecting (S300), from a plurality of pre-established classes of vehicles (C1,1, . . . , C5,5) having similar first data and second data, a class for which the first data and second data of the vehicle are similar to those of the vehicles of the class selected,
c. comparing the third data of the vehicle with reference data of the class selected (S400), the reference data being obtained from data on the course of said control parameter representative of wear of the component of each of the vehicles of the class selected,
d. deducing, according to the result of the comparison, a future behavior of the component (S500).
G07C 5/08 - Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle, or waiting time
53.
SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND SECURITY CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP
A semiconductor chip with functions implemented thereon in circuitry has a first region, in which a first group of safety-relevant base functions are implemented in circuitry, and a second region, which is separated from the first region using technological safety measures and in which a first group of monitoring functions that monitor the base functions are implemented in circuitry. It also contains a third region, which is formed on the semiconductor chip and is separated from the other regions using technological safety measures and in which a second group of monitoring functions that monitor the base functions are implemented in circuitry.
A method for controlling an electric drive system for an electric vehicle, the electric drive system being subdivided in an electric machine subsystem having a first electric machine and a second electric machine and in a remaining subsystem having at least an electric storage device. The method includes: determining an allowable remaining system power range for the remaining system; determining an allowable first machine power range for the first electric machine and an allowable second machine power range for the second electric machine; and determining an allowable first machine torque range. The method also includes: determining an allowable second machine torque range; determining a first machine torque setpoint for the first electric machine and determining a second machine torque setpoint for the second electric machine; and operating first electric machine to realize first machine torque setpoint and operating second electric machine to realize second machine torque setpoint.
B60L 15/20 - Methods, circuits or devices for controlling the propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles, e.g. their traction-motor speed, to achieve a desired performance; Adaptation of control equipment on electrically-propelled vehicles for remote actuation from a stationary place, from alternative parts of the vehicle or from alternative vehicles of the same vehicle train for control of the vehicle or its driving motor to achieve a desired performance, e.g. speed, torque, programmed variation of speed
B60L 50/70 - Electric propulsion with power supplied within the vehicle using propulsion power supplied by batteries or fuel cells using power supplied by fuel cells
B60L 1/00 - Supplying electric power to auxiliary equipment of electrically-propelled vehicles
The disclosure relates to a tank ventilation apparatus for a motor vehicle which has a scavenging line which is arranged between an activated-carbon container and an intake line of the motor vehicle and in which an electrically driven scavenging pump is arranged. Furthermore, an electrically controllable directional control valve is provided in the scavenging line between the activated-carbon container and the electrically driven scavenging pump.
A computer for a vehicle, the vehicle including a heat engine, a depollution system configured to depollute the exhaust gases originating from the engine, a first probe placed between the outlet of the heat engine and the inlet of the depollution system and configured to measure a first parameter relating to the oxygen level in the exhaust gases exiting the heat engine, a second probe placed at the outlet of the depollution system and configured to measure a second parameter relating to the oxygen level in the exhaust gases exiting the depollution system. The computer being configured to receive the values measured by the first probe and by the second probe over a predefined measurement time interval and to diagnose clogging of the first probe.
A method for automatically detecting a sensor coupled to an electronic computer including steps of detecting the sensor and steps of configuring a hardware interface.
A method for controlling an electromotive drive of a motor vehicle. At least one of the motor vehicle wheels can be driven by an electric motor of the electromotive drive and the electromotive drive has at least one energy source for the electric motor. The method includes: identifying a request for applying a deceleration torque to the vehicle wheel, identifying status of the electromotive drive, selecting an operating mode of the electric motor according to the identified status, and controlling the electric motor in the selected operating mode for applying the deceleration torque. In a first operating mode, the electric motor is controlled such that the rotational energy of the vehicle wheel is converted at a first efficiency into electrical energy. In a second operating mode, the electric motor is controlled such that the rotational energy of the vehicle wheel is converted at a second efficiency into electrical energy.
B60L 15/20 - Methods, circuits or devices for controlling the propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles, e.g. their traction-motor speed, to achieve a desired performance; Adaptation of control equipment on electrically-propelled vehicles for remote actuation from a stationary place, from alternative parts of the vehicle or from alternative vehicles of the same vehicle train for control of the vehicle or its driving motor to achieve a desired performance, e.g. speed, torque, programmed variation of speed
B60L 58/12 - Methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells, specially adapted for electric vehicles for monitoring or controlling batteries responding to state of charge [SoC]
59.
Method, program product and computer for estimating the static flow rate of a piezoelectric injector
Disclosed is a method for determining a static flow rate of a piezo-electric injector of an injection system. The piezo-electric injector includes a needle and a piezo-electric actuator designed to control a valve of the injector. The injection system includes an electric generator designed to send electric current pulses to the piezo-electric actuator of the injector, and a voltage sensor designed to measure voltage values at the terminals of the piezo-electric actuator. The method includes the following steps: sending during a phase of closure of the needle of an electric current pulse such that the piezo-electric actuator is positioned in contact with the valve, without giving rise to the opening thereof; measurement of a plurality of voltage values of the piezo-electric actuator; and determining a static flow rate of the piezo-electric injector on the basis of a plurality of voltage values measured of the piezo-electric actuator.
F02D 41/20 - Output circuits, e.g. for controlling currents in command coils
F02D 41/24 - Electrical control of supply of combustible mixture or its constituents characterised by the use of digital means
F02M 47/02 - Fuel-injection apparatus operated cyclically with fuel-injection valves actuated by fluid pressure of accumulator-injector type, i.e. having fuel pressure of accumulator tending to open, and fuel pressure in other chamber tending to close, injection valves, and having means for periodically releasing that closing pressure
F02M 63/00 - SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF - Details, component parts or accessories of fuel-injection apparatus, not provided for in, or of interest apart from, the apparatus of groups or
F02M 65/00 - Testing fuel-injection apparatus, e.g. testing injection timing
60.
METHOD FOR DETECTING AN INSULATION FAULT IN A VEHICLE ON-BOARD ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT
A method for detecting an insulation fault in a vehicle on-board electrical system having an HV and LV on-board electrical system branches. The LV branch has at least one first LV potential and a second LV potential that differs therefrom and corresponds to a ground potential of the vehicle on-board electrical system. The HV branch has positive HV negative HV potentials. These HV potentials are DC-isolated from the LV branch potentials. An insulation fault between at least one of the HV potentials and the first LV potential is detected by identifying a current flow. The current flow runs through a voltage limiting circuit connected between the ground potential and the first LV potential. This circuit connects the first LV potential, via a plurality of diodes, to a voltage limiting element connected to the ground potential of the vehicle on-board electrical system. A vehicle overvoltage protective circuit is also described.
B60L 3/00 - Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption
B60R 16/03 - Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems
Disclosed is a method for establishing an engine maintenance diagnosis. The engine includes a throttle which regulates air access into an air intake system of the engine, a position sensor which measures the position of the throttle, a manifold in fluidic communication with the throttle, a pressure sensor which measures the pressure in the manifold, at least one intake valve, a richness probe which measures an oxygen level and a richness controller for modifying the proportions of air and fuel in the air-fuel mixture. The method uses two air flow measurements in order to identify a problem in the throttle or the play at the valves.
A method for determining the load of a fuel vapor retention filter in a fuel evaporation retention system of an internal combustion engine. The fuel evaporation retention system includes: a fuel supply container for storing fuel, a connection line which couples the fuel supply container to the fuel vapor retention filter, a regeneration line which couples the fuel vapor retention filter to an intake tract of the internal combustion engine and in which an electrically controllable flow control valve is arranged, a ventilation line which couples the fuel vapor retention filter to the atmosphere, an electrically controllable purging air pump arranged in the regeneration line, such that purging air can be directed through the fuel vapor retention filter and supplied to the intake tract in order to regenerate the fuel vapor retention filter.
A valve device for a heat-pump system, having an electrical actuator arranged in or on the valve-device housing a first valve body and a second valve body are arranged in the valve-device housing of the valve device, and a heat-pump-system having such a valve device, and to a building having such a heat-pump system or such a valve device.
F25B 41/22 - Disposition of valves, e.g. of on-off valves or flow control valves between evaporator and compressor
F16K 11/24 - Multiple-way valves, e.g. mixing valves; Pipe fittings incorporating such valves; Arrangement of valves and flow lines specially adapted for mixing fluid with two or more closure members not moving as a unit operated by separate actuating members with an electromagnetically-operated valve, e.g. for washing machines
F16K 31/04 - Operating means; Releasing devices magnetic using a motor
F16K 31/42 - Operating means; Releasing devices actuated by fluid by means of electrically-actuated members in the supply or discharge conduits of the fluid motor
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DETERMINING THE ANGULAR POSITION BY MEANS OF AN X+1-TOOTH CAMSHAFT SENSOR
Disclosed is a method for determining the angular position of a shaft by a sensor including a toothed wheel including p teeth distributed at equal angles and an additional tooth and a sensitive element that is able to detect a tooth, including the following steps: receiving a tooth signal and the date thereof; shifting the preceding time intervals: Tn-3←Tn-2, Tn-2←Tn-1, Tn-1←Tn; determining the current time interval according to the formula Tn=tn−tn-1; calculating a ratio according to the formula Rn=(Tn*Tn-3)/(Tn-1*Tn-2); and comparing the ratio with a threshold, if the ratio is greater than the threshold, the current tooth signal corresponds to the second tooth immediately following the first tooth, itself immediately following the additional tooth.
G01D 5/245 - Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member; Means for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for converting; Transducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means generating pulses or pulse trains using a variable number of pulses in a train
F02D 41/00 - Electrical control of supply of combustible mixture or its constituents
65.
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SHORT CIRCUIT IN AN H-BRIDGE ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT
Disclosed is a method for detecting a short-circuit in an H-bridge electronic circuit, including: activating a current source on a first test branch; taking a first potential measurement of one of the output terminals; activating, if the first potential measurement is substantially different from the potential of the power supply terminal to which the first test branch is connected, a current source on a second, diametrically opposite test branch; taking a second potential measurement of each output terminal; and signalling the detection of a localized short-circuit in the output terminal having the potential resulting from the second potential measurement that is closest to the potential resulting from the first potential measurement.
Disclosed is a method for estimating a level of corrosion of an injector of an engine, the engine including a reference injector and at least one other injector, each injector including a tip in fluidic communication with a combustion chamber specific to each of the injectors, the respective combustion chamber of each injector also being in fluidic communication with an exhaust system of the engine. The method includes: while the engine is stopped, inhibiting a propagation of the gases from the exhaust system toward the tip of the reference injector; determining a static flow rate of an injector and a static flow rate of the reference injector; and estimating a level of corrosion of the injector by comparing the static flow rate of the injector with the static flow rate of the reference injector.
A method for diagnosing a purge line path of a tank ventilation system of a motor vehicle operated by an internal combustion engine is provided. The purge line path extends between a fuel vapor retention filter and an intake manifold of the motor vehicle, and includes a tank ventilation valve, a pressure sensor, a purge line path region arranged upstream of the pressure sensor, a purge line path region arranged downstream of the pressure sensor, a full load purge path arranged between the tank ventilation valve and the intake manifold, and a part load purge path arranged between the tank ventilation valve and the intake manifold. A plurality of part diagnoses are carried out temporally one after another for diagnosing the purge line path in the case of an active tank ventilation function, and pressure signals measured by the pressure sensor are evaluated within the context of the part diagnoses.
F02M 25/08 - Engine-pertinent apparatus for adding non-fuel substances or small quantities of secondary fuel to combustion-air, main fuel or fuel-air mixture adding fuel vapours drawn from engine fuel reservoir
68.
DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES
A method for automatically detecting a sensor coupled to an electronic computer, including a second step, consisting of passing to a third step when the electronic computer is activated, the third step, consisting of comparing a voltage generated by the sensor coupled to the terminals of the electronic computer with a reference voltage, in the event that the result of the comparison is positive, then passing to a fourth step, and in the event that the result of the comparison is negative, passing to a fifth step, the fourth step, consisting of selecting an impedance matched to the coupling of the voltage-source sensor to the terminals of the electronic computer.
G06F 15/177 - Initialisation or configuration control
G01R 31/00 - Arrangements for testing electric properties; Arrangements for locating electric faults; Arrangements for electrical testing characterised by what is being tested not provided for elsewhere
69.
WELDING METHODS FOR MAKING DIE CAST MOULD PART AND ACTUATOR HOUSING
A welding method includes welding a die cast mould part made of an Al—Mg—Fe alloy in a fluid-tight manner to at least one other metal part. A Mg content of 4% ≤ Mg ≤ 4.6% and an Fe content of 1.31% ≤ Fe ≤ 1.7% are used for the aluminum alloy, as well as an admixture content of additional alloying constituents comprising a maximum of 0.2% Si. A blue diode laser is used for welding. No filler metal is used. The welding method may be used to construct an actuator housing.
A device for diagnosing a particulate filter suitable for: determining a measured pressure time profile, and a theoretical pressure time profile upstream of the filter, implementing, on each profile: low-pass filtering to obtain a first filtered time profile, second low-pass filtering of the first filtered time profile to obtain a second filtered time profile, calculating a difference between the second filtered time profile and the first filtered time profile, obtaining an absolute value of the calculated difference, and calculating an integral of the absolute value, and, from a comparison between the two integrals, a diagnosis of the particulate filter.
A method for automatically detecting a sensor coupled to an electronic computer including steps of detecting the sensor and steps of configuring a hardware interface.
B60W 10/06 - Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function including control of propulsion units including control of combustion engines
G05B 19/042 - Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
72.
DEVICE FOR OPENING/CLOSING AN OPENING ELEMENT BY DETECTING MOVEMENT OF A USER'S LIMB, AND ASSOCIATED OPENING/CLOSING METHOD
Disclosed is a device for opening/closing an opening element of a motor vehicle by detecting movement of a users limb, the device including an approach and/or contact detection sensor including a single electrode and an analyzer for analyzing the variations in capacitance of the electrode, and an opening element opening/closing control unit. The device also includes: a sealed housing including first and second metal surfaces; and a unit for detecting a predetermined form of the variations of the electrode, exhibiting a succession of a predetermined number of peaks of predetermined amplitude within a predetermined period; the first and second surface being separate, and the electrode being located outside the sealed housing, in such a way that the electrode is coupled electrically to the at least one first surface and to the at least one second surface so as to create at least two approach and/or contact detection areas.
A method for discharging a vehicle high-voltage electrical system, which is galvanically isolated from a ground potential, in the presence of a residual current makes provision for the following step: determining whether a residual current flows between a first HV potential of the vehicle high-voltage electrical system and the ground potential or a residual current flows between a second HV potential of the vehicle high-voltage electrical system and the ground potential. The method furthermore makes provision to discharge only that Cy capacitance which exists between the ground potential and that HV potential from which or to which the residual current flows. The discharging is triggered by determining the existence of a residual current. Furthermore, an on-board vehicle electrical system and an insulation monitoring device which are designed for performing the method are described. In addition, a corresponding charging-station high-voltage electrical system is described.
B60L 58/40 - Methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells, specially adapted for electric vehicles for controlling a combination of batteries and fuel cells
G01R 31/00 - Arrangements for testing electric properties; Arrangements for locating electric faults; Arrangements for electrical testing characterised by what is being tested not provided for elsewhere
G01R 31/52 - Testing for short-circuits, leakage current or ground faults
B60L 3/00 - Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption
B60L 53/62 - Monitoring or controlling charging stations in response to charging parameters, e.g. current, voltage or electrical charge
74.
METHOD FOR DETECTING AN INSULATION FAULT IN A VEHICLE ON-BOARD ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
A method for detecting an insulation fault in a vehicle on-board electrical system having an HV on-board electrical system branch and an LV on-board electrical system branch provides for the LV on-board electrical system branch to have a positive supply potential and a negative supply potential that corresponds to a ground potential of the vehicle on-board electrical system. The HV on-board electrical system branch has a positive HV potential and a negative HV potential which are DC-isolated from the potentials of the LV on-board electrical system branch. An insulation fault between at least one of the HV potentials and a positive LV potential is detected by identifying a current flow through a voltage limiting circuit connected between the ground potential and the positive LV potential.
B60L 3/00 - Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption
B60L 58/20 - Methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells, specially adapted for electric vehicles for monitoring or controlling batteries of two or more battery modules having different nominal voltages
G01R 31/52 - Testing for short-circuits, leakage current or ground faults
75.
DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES
A method for automatically detecting a sensor coupled to an electronic computer including steps of detecting said sensor and steps of configuring a hardware interface.
G01R 31/00 - Arrangements for testing electric properties; Arrangements for locating electric faults; Arrangements for electrical testing characterised by what is being tested not provided for elsewhere
76.
Method for estimating the pressure in an intake manifold
A method for estimating pressure in an intake manifold of an indirect injection combustion engine. A pressure sensor measures pressure in the intake manifold, the intake manifold being in fluidic communication with a combustion cylinder, a piston guided in translation in the combustion cylinder and connected to a rotating crankshaft. The method includes: measuring, with the pressure sensor, a maximum pressure corresponding substantially to a maximum pressure in the intake manifold during a preceding cycle of the engine; measuring, with the pressure sensor, a minimum pressure corresponding substantially to a minimum pressure in the intake manifold during the preceding cycle of the engine; determining a pre-calculated average pressure correction factor from a crankshaft angular position and from an engine speed; and estimating the pressure in the intake manifold for the crankshaft angular position of the current engine cycle from the average correction factor and from the minimum and maximum pressures.
An electric heating device for an exhaust gas catalyst, the electric heating device including a sleeve and a heating cellular structure which is heated by a flow of electric current and which is contained in the sleeve. The electric heating device being designed to be positioned in a segment of an exhaust gas pipe upstream of a catalyst, so as to completely occupy a cross section of the segment such that exhaust gases flowing in the pipe pass through the cellular matrix before reaching the catalyst. The heating cellular structure is designed to dissipate an inhomogeneous thermal power in a section perpendicular to the direction of flow of the exhaust gases, such that the temperature of the exhaust gases at the outlet of the heating cellular structure is homogeneous in a section perpendicular to the direction of flow of the exhaust gases.
F01N 3/00 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust
F01N 3/08 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous
F01N 3/10 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust
F01N 3/20 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion
78.
Battery Unit, Method, and Apparatus for Operating the Battery Unit
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a battery unit comprising a string of battery modules in series. Each battery module includes a plurality of battery cells in series. Each battery module comprises a respective balancing circuit and a respective power electronics unit with a first DC/DC converter. The respective battery modules are connected in series via the respective power electronics unit. In each battery module, the first DC/DC converter comprises: an input port with two input terminals connected to the battery cells; an output port with two output terminals providing an output voltage; and a power supply port receiving power for the first DC/DC converter from the balancing circuit. The first DC/DC converter sets the output voltage of the battery module to a predetermined value. The balancing circuit extracts energy from a selected battery cells and provides it to the first DC/DC converter or the power electronics unit.
H02J 7/00 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
H02M 3/335 - Conversion of dc power input into dc power output with intermediate conversion into ac by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode to produce the intermediate ac using devices of a triode or a transistor type requiring continuous application of a control signal using semiconductor devices only
H01M 10/42 - Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells
B60L 50/60 - Electric propulsion with power supplied within the vehicle using propulsion power supplied by batteries or fuel cells using power supplied by batteries
B60L 58/12 - Methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells, specially adapted for electric vehicles for monitoring or controlling batteries responding to state of charge [SoC]
B60L 58/16 - Methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells, specially adapted for electric vehicles for monitoring or controlling batteries responding to battery ageing, e.g. to the number of charging cycles or the state of health [SoH]
B60L 58/22 - Balancing the charge of battery modules
79.
Method And Device For Ascertaining The Fluid Injection Quantity Of An Injection System
A method and a device for ascertaining a fluid injection quantity of an injection system. The injection system includes a high-pressure pump, a high-pressure region that adjoins the high-pressure pump, a pressure sensor, and an injector that is fed from the high-pressure region. The method includes detecting a measurement signal using the pressure sensor and segmenting a first pressure profile from the measurement signal. The first pressure profile characterizes the pressure profile prior to a fluid injection using the injector. The method also includes segmenting a second pressure profile from the measurement signal. The second pressure profile characterizes the pressure profile after the fluid injection using the injector. The method also includes performing a core density estimation using the first pressure profile and the second pressure profile, ascertaining a pressure difference, and ascertaining the fluid injection quantity using the pressure difference.
G01F 22/02 - Methods or apparatus for measuring volume of fluids or fluent solid material, not otherwise provided for involving measurement of pressure
G05B 19/416 - Numerical control (NC), i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form characterised by control of velocity, acceleration or deceleration
F02D 41/38 - Controlling fuel injection of the high pressure type
80.
EMERGENCY ACCESS DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE OPENING PANEL WITH ROTARY DEPLOYMENT ARM
Emergency access device for a vehicle opening leaf, having: a deployment arm that rotates between a first, retracted angular position and a second, deployed angular position; a graspable pull rod that is connected to a lock actuator and that has an end protruding from the deployment arm, the graspable pull rod being movable between a position attached to the deployment arm and a position detached from the deployment arm; a retention needle; an electric ejector; a mechanical ejector designed to release the deployment arm from its retracted position, the mechanical ejector having a trigger designed to move the retention needle from its blocking position to its releasing position.
A vehicle opening panel emergency access device, having a graspable pull rod that is equipped with a retention strike; a retention lever that pivots relative to the sheath and has a bolt; a pull wire connected to the retention lever and designed to urge the retention lever by pulling it toward its release position; the graspable pull rod being mounted so as to be able to move in translation in the sheath according to three modes: a manual driving-in mode, a controlled driving-in mode, and an ejection mode.
Disclosed is a method for heating liquid in a tank, including: providing at least one heating element of PTC type; providing a pulse width modulation regulator; measuring parameters including the temperature of the liquid and the voltage applied across the terminals of each heating element; heating the liquid without regulation, insofar as the temperature of the liquid is below a first threshold temperature; applying pulse width modulation regulation to the electrical supply to each heating element for which the supply voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold insofar as a measured temperature is above a second threshold temperature determined as a function of measured parameters; and determining a duty cycle for the modulation of the electrical supply to each heating element and transitioning progressively from a duty cycle of 1 to the determined duty cycle.
A device (D) for “hands-free” unlocking/locking of a door of a motor vehicle (V), said device (D) being intended to be placed on board said vehicle (V), and comprising a radiofrequency antenna (A) and radiofrequency transmission/reception means (50) capable of authenticating portable equipment (SD) of a user, at least one capacitive sensor for detecting the approach and/or the contact (C) of a member of the user in a predetermined zone (Z), an electronic unit (40) controlling the unlocking of the door, said device (D) being characterized in that it further comprises an emergency access device (E) comprising:
A device (D) for “hands-free” unlocking/locking of a door of a motor vehicle (V), said device (D) being intended to be placed on board said vehicle (V), and comprising a radiofrequency antenna (A) and radiofrequency transmission/reception means (50) capable of authenticating portable equipment (SD) of a user, at least one capacitive sensor for detecting the approach and/or the contact (C) of a member of the user in a predetermined zone (Z), an electronic unit (40) controlling the unlocking of the door, said device (D) being characterized in that it further comprises an emergency access device (E) comprising:
a) a body (1);
b) a graspable pull member (3) connected to a lock actuator (4) and movable between: a retracted position, in which the pull member (3) is retracted in the body (1); and a deployed position, in which the pull member (3) projects outside the body (1);
c) a retention pin (6) sliding transverse to the pull member (3) and adapted to assume: a blocking position, in which it is disposed against the pull member (3), keeping the pull member (3) in its retracted position, and a position for releasing the pull member (3);
d) an electric ejector (8) adapted to control the sliding of the retention pin (6);
e) a control unit (12) for the electric ejector (8) adapted to control the electric ejector (8) in two modes: an unblocking mode, in which the electric ejector (8) drives the retention pin (6) from its blocking position to its release position; and a vibration mode, in which the electric ejector (8) oscillates the retention pin (6) between its blocking position and an intermediate position between the blocking position and the release position,
the control unit (12) controlling the electric ejector (8) in vibration mode as a function of an authentication status of the equipment of the user, the device (D) comprising a chain (100) for transferring vibrations between the electric ejector (8) and a contact surface (S1) of the member of the user, in order to notify the user of the authentication status.
B60R 25/20 - Means to switch the anti-theft system on or off
B60R 25/24 - Means to switch the anti-theft system on or off using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
E05B 81/78 - Detection of handle operation; Detection of a user approaching a handle; Electrical switching actions performed by handles as part of a hands-free locking or unlocking operation
E05B 81/76 - Detection of handle operation; Detection of a user approaching a handle; Electrical switching actions performed by handles
E05B 81/08 - Electrical using electromagnets or solenoids
Disclosed is a method for diagnosing a speed/position sensor of an internal combustion engine, of the type including a toothed wheel, which rotates as one with a shaft, and a matter detector, which is arranged so as to be fixed opposite the toothed wheel and controls a base of a transistor. The method includes: detecting a short circuit between an output of the speed/position sensor and a power supply; and testing for excess current consumption by a power supply of the speed/position sensor when the transistor is activated. If the test is positive, the short circuit is identified between the power supply of the speed/position sensor and the output of the speed/position sensor. Alternatively, if the test is negative, the short circuit is identified between another power supply and the output of the speed/position sensor.
G01D 5/244 - Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member; Means for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for converting; Transducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means generating pulses or pulse trains
G01P 21/02 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus or devices covered by the other groups of this subclass of speedometers
85.
Method And Device For Diagnosing A Leak In An Evaporation System And In A Tank Ventilation Line Of An Internal Combustion Engine
A method and device for diagnosing a leak in an evaporation system and in a tank ventilation line of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The method includes diagnosing the entire evaporation system using a fresh-air shut-off valve of the evaporation system and a pressure sensor system of the evaporation system. During the check on whether there is a leak in the evaporation system of the internal combustion engine, a separate check of different diagnosis regions of the evaporation system is undertaken, where one of these diagnosis regions is a tank region of the internal combustion engine and a further diagnosis region is a filter region of the internal combustion engine. During the diagnosis of the tank ventilation line, the flow through the tank ventilation line is checked.
F02M 25/08 - Engine-pertinent apparatus for adding non-fuel substances or small quantities of secondary fuel to combustion-air, main fuel or fuel-air mixture adding fuel vapours drawn from engine fuel reservoir
86.
PUMP AND MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING AT LEAST ONE SUCH PUMP
A pump for delivering a liquid, having an electric motor with a stator and a rotor arranged inside the stator. The electric motor is accommodated in an electric motor housing. The stator has two end faces and an outer peripheral surface and there is formed between the electric motor housing and the outer peripheral surface of the stator an outer fluid channel through which the liquid can be delivered. The stator has on at least one of its end faces a connection to the electric motor housing.
H02K 5/20 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
H02K 9/193 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating for machines with closed casing and closed-circuit cooling using a liquid cooling medium, e.g. oil with means for preventing leakage of the cooling medium
87.
Method and Device for Diagnosing a Coated Particulate Filter Arranged in an Exhaust-Gas Duct of a Motor Vehicle
Various embodiments include a method for regenerating a coated particulate filter arranged in an exhaust-gas duct of a motor vehicle. The method may include: detecting a need for particulate filter regeneration; determining a first diagnosis value before initiating particulate filter regeneration; after determining the first diagnosis value, carrying out particulate filter regeneration; determining a second diagnosis value after particulate filter regeneration; determining a difference between the first determined diagnosis value and the second determined diagnosis value; comparing the determined difference with a threshold value; and identifying a particulate filter defect if the determined difference exceeds the threshold value.
F01N 9/00 - Electrical control of exhaust gas treating apparatus
F01N 3/02 - Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust
88.
Method and Device for Determining the Sulphur Content in an Exhaust Gas Channel of a Motor Vehicle in Relation to the Supplied Fuel
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for determining the sulfur content in an exhaust tract of a motor vehicle. The method may include: determining a change in the nitrogen oxide abatement efficiency of a coated particulate filter arranged in the exhaust tract and/or a determined ammonia storage capacity change of a coated particulate filter arranged in the exhaust tract; comparing the determined change to a threshold value; identifying an excessive sulfur content if the comparison shows that the determined change exceeds the threshold value; and undertaking one or more corrective actions in response to identifying an excessive sulfur content.
Method for controlling a battery system that includes a battery with at least one string of battery modules connected in series. Each battery module including a number of battery cells connected in parallel and/or in series. At least a number of battery modules including a power electronics unit connected in series via their respective power electronics unit. The power electronics unit having a DCDC converter operable at least in buck mode, boost mode, and bypass mode. The method includes specifying a DC link voltage for the battery; specifying a first distribution of the set DC link voltage for all modules; determining a state of charge and/or a temperature for all modules; determining a deviation of the state of charge and/or of the temperature of each module from an average value; specifying a second distribution of the set DC link voltage. The set voltage for each module is corrected depending on deviation of state of charge and/or of temperature of each module from the average value.
H01M 50/569 - Constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals
90.
BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A BATTERY SYSTEM
A battery system including a number of first battery modules each including a number of battery cells, and a number of second battery modules each including a number of battery cells. Each second battery module includes a power electronics unit having a DC/DC converter. The first and second battery modules are connected in series. The first battery modules are connected directly in series and the second battery modules are connected via their power electronics units.
G01R 31/396 - Acquisition or processing of data for testing or for monitoring individual cells or groups of cells within a battery
G01R 31/3835 - Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC involving only voltage measurements
G01R 31/374 - Arrangements for testing, measuring or monitoring the electrical condition of accumulators or electric batteries, e.g. capacity or state of charge [SoC] with means for correcting the measurement for temperature or ageing
H02J 7/00 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
B60L 58/12 - Methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells, specially adapted for electric vehicles for monitoring or controlling batteries responding to state of charge [SoC]
B60L 58/22 - Balancing the charge of battery modules
A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board having at least one conductive inner layer and at least one surface. Contact areas or surfaces and electrical and/or electronic components are disposed on the surface and electrically connected to the contact areas. At least two of the contact areas are connected to one another by an electrically conductive strip having ends each being connected to a respective one of the contact areas. The at least two contact areas and the electrically conductive strip have a width of at least 8 mm and the strip has a thickness that is at least double the thickness of the at least one inner layer.
H05K 3/34 - Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor electrically connecting electric components or wires to printed circuits by soldering
H05K 1/18 - Printed circuits structurally associated with non-printed electric components
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for determining a state parameter of an exhaust gas sensor with a sensor element and a heating device arranged in the sensor element for heating the sensor element. The heating device is electrically connected via a first electrical line and a second electrical line to a control device for electrically controlling the heating device. The heating device includes a measuring line electrically connected between the control device and the first electrical line for controlling the temperature-dependent resistance of the heating section. The method may include: determining a measurement voltage dropped between the first electrical line and the measuring line; determining a compensation voltage on the basis of a predetermined reference voltage and the determined measurement voltage; and determining the state parameter of the exhaust gas sensor by assigning the determined compensation voltage to the state parameter.
A heat transfer medium circuit for a motor vehicle has a first partial circuit having at least one heating device and/or at least one cooling device; a second partial circuit having an electric energy store for supplying an electric motor for driving the motor vehicle; and a mixing device, which is switched selectively to at least one first operating state, at least one second operating state, and at least one third operating state. The first partial circuit has at least one passenger compartment heating device for heating a passenger compartment and/or at least one passenger compartment cooling device for cooling a passenger compartment.
A mixing valve has a housing with a first inlet, a second inlet, a first outlet and a second outlet, and has a valve element arranged adjustably in the housing, and which valve element has a first fluid passage which, in a first position of the valve element, connects the first inlet and first outlet, in a second position of the valve element, connects the first inlet and second outlet, and in a third position of the valve element, connects the first inlet to the first outlet and second outlet, and which valve element has a second fluid passage which, in the first position of the valve element, connects the second inlet and second outlet, in the second position of the valve element, connects the second inlet and first outlet, and, in the third position of the valve element, connects the second inlet to the first outlet and second outlet.
F16K 11/087 - Multiple-way valves, e.g. mixing valves; Pipe fittings incorporating such valves; Arrangement of valves and flow lines specially adapted for mixing fluid with all movable sealing faces moving as one unit comprising only taps or cocks with spherical plug
95.
FLUID-CONVEYING DEVICE WITH VALVES FOR CONTROLLING THE FLUID FLOW
A fluid-conveying device for conveying a fluid, such as in particular water, from a tank. The fluid can be conveyed along a dosing line to an injection point by a pump, wherein the dosing line is attached at a pressure side of the pump by a connection plug which is attached to an outlet line. The fluid-conveying device has at least one first valve, which is preloaded by a spring and which is configured to prevent a fluid flow from the dosing line to the outlet line and which is furthermore configured to permit the fluid flow from the outlet line to the dosing line if a predefined minimum pressure p1 is reached on that side of the first valve which faces toward the outlet opening.
Disclosed is a method for calibrating an AC/DC converter with power factor correction, including the following steps: - connecting the input connector of the converter to a predetermined DC voltage power supply, such that this predetermined DC voltage is applied between the terminals of the input connector; - measuring, with a voltage measuring unit, the resulting calibration DC voltage which is delivered by the switching module when the predetermined DC voltage is applied between the terminals of the input connector; and -calibrating the voltage measuring unit by performing a calibration bringing the resulting calibration voltage back to the level of the predetermined DC voltage.
B60L 53/62 - Monitoring or controlling charging stations in response to charging parameters, e.g. current, voltage or electrical charge
H02M 1/42 - Circuits or arrangements for compensating for or adjusting power factor in converters or inverters
H02J 7/02 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
H02M 1/00 - APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF - Details of apparatus for conversion
H02J 7/00 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
B60L 53/30 - Constructional details of charging stations
G01R 35/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus covered by the other groups of this subclass
G01R 19/00 - Arrangements for measuring currents or voltages or for indicating presence or sign thereof
A device capable of processing a pilot control signal having at least two modes: continuous or alternating PWM, and of generating a binary detection signal, the state of which is an indication of the mode, the device having a voltage doubler and a comparator.
H03K 5/24 - Circuits having more than one input and one output for comparing pulses or pulse trains with each other according to input signal characteristics, e.g. slope, integral the characteristic being amplitude
B60L 53/60 - Monitoring or controlling charging stations
98.
METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR, DELIVERY PUMP, MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING A DELIVERY PUMP OF SAID TYPE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM
A method for operating an electric motor that drives a displacement pump stage to deliver a liquid through a hydraulic system to supply the liquid to at least one consumer. A periodically repeating pressure fluctuation of the liquid that occurs during delivery operation is at least partially compensated by virtue of the rotational speed of the electric motor being manipulated in accordance with the periodically repeating pressure fluctuation.
F15B 21/00 - Common features of fluid actuator systems; Fluid-pressure actuator systems or details thereof, not covered by any other group of this subclass
F15B 21/08 - Servomotor systems incorporating electrically- operated control means
99.
DEVICE FOR MANAGING VIBRATIONS OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD
A vibration management device for managing the vibrations of a motor vehicle, the device including an electronic controller> The electronic controller is able to be fixed to a vibrating wall receiving vibrations from a component or set of components of the vehicle, by a fixing device including a vibration sensor, generating a vibration signal. The electronic controller includes a signal processor for processing the signal originating from the sensor, and the electronic controller is connected to a device for managing the vibrations.
G01H 11/08 - Measuring mechanical vibrations or ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves by detecting changes in electric or magnetic properties by electric means using piezoelectric devices
100.
CHARGING AND HEATING CIRCUIT AND VEHICLE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM HAVING A CHARGING AND HEATING CIRCUIT
A charging and heating circuit is equipped with an AC voltage connection, a DC voltage connection and a rectifier. The rectifier is connected between the AC voltage connection and the DC voltage connection. The charging and heating circuit further includes a heating resistor which is connected to the rectifier and the rectifier is thereby set up to supply the heating resistor with current. Also described is a vehicle electrical system which includes the charging and heating circuit in addition to an accumulator.
B60L 53/22 - Constructional details or arrangements of charging converters specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
B60L 58/27 - Methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells, specially adapted for electric vehicles for monitoring or controlling batteries for controlling the temperature of batteries by heating
H02M 7/219 - Conversion of ac power input into dc power output without possibility of reversal by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a triode or transistor type requiring continuous application of a control signal using semiconductor devices only in a bridge configuration
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