6126results about "Vehicle sub-unit features" patented technology

An energy storage floor assembly for a motor vehicle having an electric drive includes an electrical energy storage device accommodated in a storage housing and arranged on the bottom side of a vehicle floor. At least one longitudinal beam is arranged within the storage housing. The front end of the longitudinal beam, viewed in the vehicle direction, is connected at least indirectly to a crossbeam component which is arranged in the region of a front-end structure and to which a front axle carrier is also attached. A load transfer element is installed between a rearward region of the front axle carrier and the front end of the longitudinal beam, which load transfer element has a front support region on the front end thereof and a rear support region on the rear end thereof. In an event of an accident-induced backward movement of the axle carrier as a result of a collision, the axle carrier can be supported on the front support region of the load transfer element, the rear support region of which can be supported at least indirectly on the longitudinal beam.

An electrified fire fighting vehicle includes a chassis, a front axle coupled to the chassis, a rear axle coupled to the chassis, a water pump, an energy storage system, an engine, an electric motor coupled to the engine and the energy storage system, and a power divider positioned between the electric motor, the water pump, and the rear axle. The power divider facilitates selectively driving the water pump and the rear axle with the engine and the electric motor.

A floor structure for a body of a vehicle includes two side sills spaced apart from each other in a transverse direction of the vehicle. A main floor element is disposed between the two side sills. An energy store is disposed under the main floor element. A crossmember element is disposed on an upper side of the main floor element and extends in the transverse direction of the vehicle between the two side sills. A hollow cross section of the crossmember element is delimited upwardly in the vertical direction of the vehicle by an upper flange of the crossmember element and is supplemented by the main floor element to form a closed hollow cross section. A reinforcement element is attached to the main floor element via a first attachment region and is attached to the upper flange via a second attachment region and a third attachment region.

The disclosure relates to an air guide control system with a flap arrangement including flaps which can be rotatably inserted into a joining partner. An actuator drives a damper and a coupling rod transmits the torque of this driven damper to the remaining dampers of the damper arrangement. In the event of a flap fracture of at least one flap, a spring, locks the flap arrangement against further movement, so that error information is reported to the actuator via the coupling rod.

The present disclosure relates to an air flap apparatus for a vehicle, which is improved to prevent an air flap from being rotated by a traveling wind generated when the vehicle travels at a high speed. The air flap apparatus for a vehicle includes a frame disposed behind a grill of a vehicle, an air flap that opens or closes an air inlet formed in the frame, a power transmission unit that is connected to the air flap and rotates the air flap, and a driving unit that is disposed outside the frame and generates power, wherein the power transmission unit includes a link that is connected to the air flap and rotates the air flap, and a loader that is connected to the driving unit, is rotated by the power generate by the driving unit, and stops movement of the link when the air flap closes the air inlet.

A fin arrangement of a cooling air opening with a number of fins. The fins are arranged in a rotatably mounted manner adjacent to the cooling air opening. A drive is directly coupled to a first fin of the fins for directly driving the first fin. The first fin is coupled to at least one second fin of the fins or to a plurality of second fins of the fins for indirectly driving the second fins. A reduction gear or a first coupling mechanism is arranged and connected between the drive and the first fin and / or that a second coupling mechanism is connected between the first directly driven fin and at least one second indirectly driven fin and / or that a third coupling mechanism is connected between at least one second indirectly driven fin and at least one further second indirectly driven fin.

A method is provided for arranging a high-voltage accumulator having a plurality of battery modules on a support structure of a motor vehicle, in which the battery modules are arranged and fastened on a base plate, and the base plate is fastened on a bottom plate of the support structure of the motor vehicle, as a result of which the base plate and the bottom plate provide an accumulator housing which delimits an accumulator interior in which the battery modules are accommodated. At least one connection field is mechanically connected to the support structure. The connection field is able to electrically and / or fluidically connect the high-voltage accumulator to the motor vehicle.

An air guidance control unit having a frame, which surrounds at least one air opening for air flowing along an air flow direction to flow through, a closing device including adjustable flaps, which closing device can be adjusted by means of an adjusting element between an open position in which the air opening is exposed and a closed position in which the air opening is at least partly closed. The invention devises various solutions for especially compact and reliable flap arrangements.

An active air flap system mounted in a predetermined portion of a vehicle, includes: a housing, a flap mounted on the housing to be relatively movable, an actuator coupled to the at least one flap and configured to drive the at least one flap, and a power transfer mechanism engaging the actuator and the flip and configured to transfer power from the actuator to the at least one flap so that the at least one flap performs a dual operation of a sliding movement operation and a rotation operation of rotating around a predetermined rotation axis, preventing the occurrence of design heterogeneity and the air resistance caused by forming the space between the at least one flap and the radiator grill, and improving shielding properties.

A battery assembly mounting structure for a vehicle includes: a mounting bushing provided in a battery assembly to internally form a communication space in up and down directions; a fastening bolt installed to penetrate the space formed by the mounting bushing in the up and down directions; and a swappable assembly. The swappable assembly is elastically coupled to the mounting bushing and elastically supports the mounting bushing and the fastening bolt between the mounting bushing and the fastening bolt while elastically allowing the fastening bolt to move in a lengthwise direction.

An active air flap of a vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a frame part which communicates with an outside air inlet of a grill, a flap part including a plurality of flap units which are rotatably connected to the frame part and sequentially open or close the outside air inlet of the grill, a rotary shaft which connects the plurality of flap units to the frame part, and a driven pinion gear connected to the rotary shaft, a driving part which transmits a driving force to the flap part, and a control unit which controls the driving part to be driven.

An automotive body side structure includes: a side sill extending in a vehicle length direction; a battery pack disposed vehicle inside in a vehicle width direction relative to the side sill; and a collision energy absorptive part having a substantially U-shaped cross section, the substantially U-shaped cross section including: a bottom portion substantially parallel to a vehicle height direction; and a pair of side wall portions continuous from an upper end and a lower end of the bottom portion. The collision energy absorptive part is provided in a protruding shape toward vehicle outside in the vehicle width direction on an outer peripheral side in the vehicle width direction of the battery pack facing the side sill. The collision energy absorptive part is made of a steel sheet having a tensile strength of 270 MPa-class to 340 MPa-class and a plate thickness of 1.0 mm to 1.4 mm.

A vehicle motion management, VMM, system for a heavy-duty vehicle has at least one wheel speed sensor to output a wheel speed signal indicative of a rotation speed of a wheel on the vehicle, and at least one torque-generating device to apply torque to the wheel. The VMM system comprises processing circuitry arranged to determine at least the direction of a current applied torque at the wheel, and in preparation for determining wheel speed by the wheel speed signal, to apply a transient amount of torque to the wheel by the torque-generating device during a limited time period in a direction opposite to the direction of the current applied torque at the wheel.

A coaxial rotating automated stepping surface assembly adapted for a vehicle, including, at least one stepping surface portion, single pivot axis, coaxial motor arrangement to pivot axis, and complete system packaging out board of sill structure. The motor is a non back-drivable motor and is capable of operably self-locking in predetermined positions.

A vehicle mounting structure for an electric motor unit includes: a drive unit with a drive motor; and a power generation unit with a power generation motor, wherein: the drive unit and the power generation unit are individually mounted on a vehicle body, the drive unit is fixed to a suspension member of the vehicle body, and the power generation unit is fixed to a side member of the vehicle body, the drive unit is provided behind the power generation unit, the drive unit and the power generation unit include an interference portion lower than a rotation shaft center of the drive motor and a rotation shaft center of the power generation motor, and a clearance between the drive unit and the power generation unit is narrower in the interference portion than in a portion other than the interference portion.

An electric drivetrain having an axial flux electric motor disposed along a drivetrain axis, the axial flux electric motor disposed to rotate a hollow motor output shaft extending along the drivetrain axis, which hollow motor output shaft engages a first planetary gearset. The first planetary gearset may be engaged and disengaged with a second planetary gearset that is coupled to a differential which, in turn, drives first and second main driveshafts, each of which also extends along the drivetrain axis. The first main driveshaft drives a first wheel hub assembly and the second main driveshaft passes coaxially through the planetary gearsets, the hollow motor output shaft and the axial flux electric motor to drive a second wheel hub assembly.

A vehicle lower body structure, including a rocker configuring a part of a vehicle lower side of a vehicle side portion, the rocker disposed along a vehicle front-rear direction; and a reinforcement including a body portion provided inside the rocker and a projecting portion that projects in a vehicle up-down direction from the body portion and that is joined to a wall surface of the rocker positioned on a projecting direction side of the projecting portion.

Provided is a display device comprising: a display panel outputting an image on the front thereof; and a drive unit coupled to the back of the display panel and moving the display panel in the vertical direction, wherein the drive unit comprises: a motor providing rotational force; a pinion gear module which rotates by means of receiving the rotational force of the motor and which includes a first pinion gear and a second pinion gear arranged side by side in the vertical direction; and a rack gear located on the back of the display panel, extending in the vertical direction, and maintaining engagement with at least one of the first pinion gear or the second pinion gear.

In a battery case and an electric vehicle structure including the same, the battery case includes a battery side member surrounding a side portion of a battery accommodation space formed by a lower case. The battery side member includes a side wall portion surrounding the side portion of the battery accommodation space, a first-step protrusion protruding outwards from an upper portion of the side wall portion, and a second-step protrusion protruding outwards from an upper portion of the first-step protrusion.

Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for a vehicle and mobile device interface for vehicle occupant assistance. An example method can include determining, based on one or more images of an interior portion of a vehicle, a pose of a mobile device relative to a coordinate system of the vehicle; determine a state of an occupant of the vehicle; and send, to the vehicle, data indicating the state of the occupant and the pose of the mobile device relative to the coordinate system of the vehicle.

Provided is a dashboard panel vehicle-body structure with enhanced load path connectivity, the structure including a transverse member configured in such a manner that a first end portion thereof overlaps at least one portion of a front pillar of a vehicle and extends in a widthwise direction of the vehicle up to a dashboard panel, wherein the transverse member is configured to extend up to an outer edge of the front pillar.

A case body has a first opening that is open along a first direction and through which an inverter device is insertable, a surrounding wall portion disposed along the first direction so as to surround the first opening, and a second opening that is formed in the surrounding wall portion and through which a power cable is insertable. A cover member is fixed to the surrounding wall portion by a plurality of fastening members disposed away from each other along an opening edge of the first opening so as to cover the first opening. A second opening width in a direction orthogonal to the first direction is smaller than an opening width of the second opening in the first direction, and a pair of the fastening members is disposed on both sides across the second opening.

A control method for an electro-mechanical brake including a piston configured to push a brake pad toward a wheel disk through driving of a motor, the control method for an electro-mechanical brake including: detecting positions of the piston and current values of the motor while braking is performed; detecting piston position-based estimated braking force values based on the detected positions of the piston; detecting current-based estimated braking force values based on the detected current values of the motor; determining that a state of the brake pad has changed from an initial state to another state when the piston position-based estimated braking force values and the current-based estimated braking force values are different from each other; determining whether a thickness or physical property of the brake pad has changed when determining that the state of the brake pad has changed from the initial state to the other state; setting a new home position by compensating for a preset home position when determining that the thickness of the brake pad has changed; and detecting an actual braking force value based on a movement distance of the piston from the new home position, wherein the home position refers to a position set so that the piston is disposed at the position at the time of non-braking.

An electric vehicle (EV) battery unit and installation method is provided herein. The EV battery unit includes a modular housing with a central section with batteries positioned therein and a first lateral section with a battery cooler that is designed to reduce a temperature of the batteries and an inverter that is positioned therein and electrically coupled to the batteries. The modular housing further includes a first frame attachment interface profiled to attach to a first longitudinal frame rail in an EV and a second frame attachment interface profiled to attach to a second longitudinal frame rail in the EV, where the batteries are positioned laterally between the first and second frame attachment interfaces.

A battery-module protection structure is configured to protect a battery module accommodated within a vehicle frame of a vehicle from an external impact. The battery-module protection structure includes a rail disposed within the vehicle frame, a pedestal securing the battery module and secured to the rail by using a securing member, and the vehicle frame serving as a housing of the battery module. The pedestal is configured such that, in a case where the vehicle receives the external impact and the securing member breaks, the pedestal moves in an inner direction of the vehicle along the rail while securing the battery module.