7133results 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.

One example provides a chassis for an electric snowmobile including a battery pack. The battery pack includes a battery pack housing defining an enclosure for housing a number of battery modules for powering an electric motor of the electric snowmobile, the battery pack housing having a length extending in a longitudinal direction of the snowmobile, the battery pack housing including a bottom surface. A pair of opposing side panels extends downwardly from and along at least a portion of the length of the battery pack housing, the opposing panels and at least portions of the bottom surface of the battery pack housing together forming a rear structure extending in the longitudinal direction of the electric snowmobile.

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.

Disclosed herein is an active air flap for vehicles, which includes a frame unit having a hollow structure configured to communicate with an outside air inlet of a radiator grill, a flap part connected to the frame unit, and including a flap unit configured to open and close the outside air inlet and a fixing protrusion protruding from both ends of the flap unit, a drive unit configured to provide a driving force to the flap part, a link unit disposed between the flap part and the drive unit to transmit the driving force of the drive unit to the flap part, and a fixing unit configured to restrain the movement of the flap unit closing the outside air inlet on an opening / closing path of the flap unit to prevent the flap part from being pushed or twisted by an external force, wherein the frame unit includes a first guide groove having a straight section and a curved section configured as a single path to guide the opening / closing path of the flap unit, and a second guide groove having a stepped portion spaced from the first guide groove to guide a straight path of the flap unit.

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.

Provided is a method of learning a driving-decision algorithm. The method of learning a driving-decision algorithm for a vehicle includes: receiving a dataset related to driving from a database in which a driving scenario is stored; obtaining a first output by inputting the dataset into a first large language model (LLM), wherein the first output includes an inference of the first LLM based on the dataset; based on the first output, training a decision-trainer and a behavior-and-trajectory planner; generating a second LLM by updating the first LLM based on a result of the training; and generating a third LLM by updating the second LLM based on the trained decision-trainer and based on a selected traffic rule.

Disclosed are a battery frame, a power battery and a vehicle. The battery frame includes a base plate and side beams. The side beams are provided on opposite sides of the base plate, each side beam includes a side beam part, a connecting part provided inside the side beam part and connected to the base plate, and a fixing part provided outside the side beam part and configured to connect to a door sill beam of a vehicle. The side beam part includes a upper side beam and a lower side beam, the upper side beam is provided above the lower side beam, an outer side of the lower side beam is connected to the fixing part, and an inner side of the lower side beam is connected to the connecting part, and a first cavity is provided at the lower side beam.

A vehicle lower body structure includes: a pair of rockers that extend in the vehicle front and rear direction on both outer sides in the vehicle width direction; a crossmember that extends in the vehicle width direction between the pair of rockers and on the vehicle upper side of a battery connected to the pair of rockers, with both end portions of the crossmember in the extension direction thereof being connected to the pair of rockers; and an impact absorption member that is provided inside each of the pair of rockers, disposed so as to overlap the crossmember and the battery as viewed in a vehicle side view, and provided with first guide portions that guide to the crossmember an impact load input from outside in the vehicle width direction.

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.

A vehicle roof having a roof skin arrangement which may have at least one cover element and the vehicle roof having at least one sensor module having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment which is at least partially covered by the cover element, the cover element being limited by an edge gap via which air, in particular cooling air, for the sensor module flows under the cover element.

An electrohydraulic multi-circuit power brake system for autonomous driving. The power brake system includes a piston-cylinder unit for each brake circuit, using which the brake circuits are connected to a common power brake pressure generator. In the event of a failure of the power brake pressure generator, the power brake system can be actuated with a hydraulic pump of a slip control system of the vehicle brake system.

An embodiment vehicle body front structure includes a dash crossmember including a cross portion extending in a width direction of a vehicle and a pair of outrigger portions disposed at both ends of the cross portion, a pair of front side members extending from the pair of outrigger portions toward the front of the vehicle, wherein each outrigger portion of the pair of outrigger portions includes a front connection portion having a cavity capable of receiving a rear portion of the corresponding front side member of the pair of front side members, and a plurality of reinforcing pipes disposed in the rear portion of each front side member of the pair of front side members, each reinforcing pipe of the plurality of reinforcing pipes extending in a width direction of the front side member.

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 carrier is provided with a first and a second oil passage. The first oil passage is formed so as to communicate a first side surface opening that is open to a first carrier side surface with a first outer peripheral opening that is open to an outer peripheral shaft surface, and the second oil passage is formed so as to communicate a second side surface opening that is open to a second carrier side surface with a second outer peripheral opening that is open to the outer peripheral shaft surface. A first oil receiving portion is formed so as to guide oil supplied from an inner side in a carrier radial direction to the first side surface opening, and a second oil receiving portion is formed so as to guide the oil supplied from the inner side in the carrier radial direction to the second side surface opening.

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.

An electric drive for a vehicle comprises a housing, an electric machine with a stator connected to the housing and including stator end-windings, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a driveshaft connected to the rotor and rotatably supported in the housing about an axis of rotation, a transmission to transmit a rotary movement from the driveshaft to drive a driveline of the vehicle, and a hydraulic circuit for circulating a fluid.