26 results about "Driving motorized vehicles" patented technology

A chassis control system (10) for an active chassis (12) of a motor vehicle is provided, comprising at least one stored chassis profile (22) for a historical chassis different from the active chassis (12), wherein the stored chassis profile (22) has, for mapping the historical driving behavior of the historical chassis, a plurality of measurement points for chassis parameters of the historical chassis at different vehicle parameters in the measured driving situation, an AI (20) for determining chassis parameters (28) on the basis of determined vehicle parameters (26), wherein the AI (20) is trained by determining chassis parameters (28) for the historical chassis of the chassis profile (22) in driving situations different from the stored measurement points and by correcting the chassis parameters (28) of the historical chassis determined by the AI (20) using measured chassis parameters of the historical chassis,and the AI (20) simulates the driving behavior of the historical chassis of the chassis profile (22) based on the current vehicle parameters (26) and certain chassis parameters (28). This enables good comfort and a good driving experience when driving a motor vehicle.

A method (200) for providing a digital key for controlling a security function of a motor vehicle (105) comprises steps of transmitting an identification of a user (120) of the motor vehicle (105) from an operator (110) of the motor vehicle (105) to a registration service (145) for digital keys; providing a digital driving license by the user (120) to the registration service (145); creating and validating a digital key for controlling the security function if the identification of the user (120) matches information in the digital driving license and the driving license for driving the motor vehicle (105) is valid; and providing the key to the user (120).

A vehicle seat (100), in particular for an autonomously driving motor vehicle, comprising a setting kinematics system (140), the setting kinematics system (140) comprising a first gear mechanism member and a second gear mechanism member, which are adjustable relative to one another by means of an actuating drive (170), wherein the actuating drive (170) or one of the two gear mechanism members is connected to a slide (202), wherein a blocking device (210; 220) locks the slide (202) relative to a further component of the vehicle seat (100), and, in the event of an overload acting on the vehicle seat (100), the blocking device (210; 220) enables a relative displacement between the slide (202) and the further component of the vehicle seat (100).

A driver assistance device for supporting the driver of a motor vehicle in a driving situation is described. The driver assistance device is configured to detect at least one object in the vehicle's surroundings based on camera data from at least one surround-view camera and to determine relevance information regarding the detected object's relevance to the driving situation. Furthermore, the driver assistance device is configured to reduce the display of the detected object in a visual representation of the vehicle's surroundings, depending on the relevance information, and to display this visual representation on a screen in the vehicle during the driving situation.

A method for controlling a motor vehicle by utilizing a mobile device includes detecting that a touch-sensitive screen of the mobile device has been disabled due to a low charge status of an energy storage device, detecting an operation of a physical switch of the mobile device, establishing a Bluetooth connection with the motor vehicle and transmitting a request to unlock the motor vehicle via the Bluetooth connection.

Procedure for warning a road user (120, 126) and / or a driver of a motor vehicle (102, 116) with the following steps: - Driving a motor vehicle (102, 116) on a roadway; - Monitoring a first area (101) located next to the roadway and intended not to be driven on by a motor vehicle, by means of at least one sensor (114, 136) arranged in or on the motor vehicle; - Detection of a hazard (122, 124, 130) in the first area (101); - Determine whether - the hazard (122, 124, 130) could cause a road user (120, 126) in the first area (101) to move onto the roadway, - the road user (120, 126) could fall in the first area (101) due to the hazard (122, 124, 130); and / or - the hazard (122, 124, 130) significantly impairs the comfort of the road user in the first area; and - Determining the location and nature of the hazard (122, 124, 130); - Detecting a hazard (118, 134) in a second area (104) located on the roadway on which the motor vehicle (102, 116) is traveling, by means of an optical, electromagnetic and / or acoustic sensor (114, 136) that scans the roadway; - Detection of a hazard (118, 134) in the second area (104) based on a temporary change in the tire diameter (216) and / or a temporary reaction of the chassis (204, 206); - furthermore, exhibiting at least one of the following steps: - Determining the location and nature of the hazard (118, 134) in the second area (104); - furthermore, exhibiting at least one of the following steps: - Storing the location and type of hazard (118, 134) in a database (302) which can be accessed by a plurality of motor vehicles (102, 116); - Sending the location and nature of the hazard (118, 134) to another motor vehicle (102, 116).

System for determining qualification for insurance, cost of insurance or combinations thereof for a motor vehicle operator. At least one personal monitoring device monitors and communicates information about an operator of the motor vehicle, including at least driving data collected when the operator is operating the motor vehicle without receiving such driving data from vehicle sensors, calculated or derived based on data solely collected by the personal monitoring device without receiving such data from vehicle sensors, or combinations thereof. Application software on the device interfaces with the personal monitoring device hardware for monitoring and communicating, being activated and deactivated based on trigger events. At least one control system collects, processes and communicates at least a portion of the information collected and / or derived by the personal monitoring device used for determining qualification for insurance, cost of insurance or combinations thereof. At least one algorithm determines qualification for insurance, cost of insurance or combinations thereof for the operator based on at least a portion of the information collected by the personal monitoring device.

The invention relates to an instrument cluster (CMB) for a motor vehicle, comprising a system that provides a plurality of functions; the cluster (CMB) comprises a touch-sensitive display screen (ECT) capable of displaying, on what is called a nominal screen page (PEN), according to a first given arrangement, information useful for driving the motor vehicle in its road environment, including information relating to functions that are active from among the plurality of functions; each active function being displayed in the first arrangement, in the form of a given graphical object defining a control touch button capable of controlling, through contact with the touch button, the temporary display of at least one first additional screen page (PPS) that extends substantially over the entire area of the nominal screen page (PEN), overlaid on the nominal screen page (PEN), which is dedicated to displaying the active functions and grouping together all of the graphical objects representing the active functions according to a second given arrangement.

A system for storing and releasing gases for a breathalyzer test is provided. The gas cartridges and containers of the system can store and release various gaseous mixtures including exhaled air samples. The system can be used for testing breathalyzer devices. These devices include, for example, small hand-held units and larger units that are built into vehicles such as automobiles and trucks. The system is particularly suitable for breath alcohol ignition interlock devices that are used to prevent a driver from operating a motor vehicle when their blood alcohol concentration is at a certain level. In yet another embodiment, the container assembly is used when there is a alcohol sensor for the steering wheel in the vehicle as opposed to a breathalyzer device.

The invention relates to a method for managing the driving of a motor vehicle (1) in a driving situation where the vehicle is on a traffic lane (40) that is curving and bordered by a safety feature (41) such as a wall, a low wall, or a barrier. The invention also relates to a computer system implementing such a method, as well as a motor vehicle (1) comprising such a system. Figure for the abstract: 4

Method (13) for automatically improving safety when driving a motor vehicle (1), comprising the procedural steps - Detect whether a driver of the motor vehicle (1) is using a mobile electronic device (9) in the motor vehicle (1) while the motor vehicle (1) is in motion, and - upon detected use, issue a warning signal (27, 28, 29) which warns the driver against using the mobile electronic device (9) while driving, whereby - for detecting - a current speed of the motor vehicle (1) is determined, and - a position (10, 11) of the mobile electronic device (9) within the motor vehicle (1) is determined on the basis of field strength values ​​of at least one electromagnetic field generated by the mobile electronic device (9) measured by means of several spatially distributed sensors of the motor vehicle (1), and - a change in position of the mobile electronic device (9) is monitored by means of a sensor of the mobile electronic device (9), and - the warning signal (27, 28, 29) is only issued if the current speed is greater than a predetermined speed threshold and the specific position (10, 11) of the mobile electronic device (9) is located within a predetermined area (3) of the motor vehicle (1) assigned to a driver's seat of the motor vehicle (1), characterized in that the use is detected when, in at least one predetermined time interval, at least one predetermined number of exceedances of at least one predetermined threshold of an angular change of a position angle of the electronic device (9) with respect to a local gravity vector have been detected,wherein at least one threshold value for the angle change and / or a length of the specified time interval is automatically and dynamically adjusted depending on the nature of a surface currently being traveled on by the motor vehicle (1) and depending on at least one property of the motor vehicle (1) that influences its movement.

The invention relates to a method (16) for operating a screen (5) of a motor vehicle (1) designed as an OLED display and as a touchscreen. Increased user comfort of the touchscreen can be achieved by faster cooling of the screen (5), which is achieved by operating the screen (5) in an energy-saving mode during an initial phase of driving the motor vehicle (1) in order to display content on the screen (5) with an energy-saving color scheme, and by operating the screen (5) in a normal operating mode (NM) during a normal operating phase following the initial phase of driving in order to display content on the screen (5) with a normal operating color scheme, wherein the energy-saving color scheme and the normal operating color scheme are configured such that the screen (5) requires less electrical energy to display the content in energy-saving mode than in normal operating mode (NM).

The invention relates to a method for assisting a driver when driving a motor vehicle (2) which has a steering wheel (4), a sensor device (6), a data processing unit (8), an actuator device (10) and an output device (12), wherein an assistance function which can be activated and deactivated is provided by means of an environment sensor unit (14) of the sensor device (6), by means of the data processing unit (8) and by means of the actuator device (10), wherein when the assistance function is activated, an at least partially automated guidance of the motor vehicle (2) takes place and wherein when the assistance function is activated, it is determined by means of an interior sensor unit (16) of the sensor device (6) and by means of the data processing unit (8) whether the driver is touching the steering wheel (4).

Method for Assisting Driver Guidance in a Motor Vehicle and System. In this method for assisting driver guidance in a motor vehicle (2), data is transmitted between a communication device (8) located outside the vehicle and the vehicle. The communication device sends the vehicle a request for vehicle-specific data. The vehicle sends the vehicle-specific data in encrypted form to the communication device. The vehicle-specific data sent by the vehicle is received by the communication device and evaluated. Response data is sent to the vehicle, received, and evaluated. Signaling is performed to a vehicle user. Application to vehicle driver guidance systems 1 2. Figure for the abstract: Figure 1

A method (20) for the, in particular autonomous and / or assisted, driving of a motor vehicle (10) is provided, in which sensor data are supplied to a driver assistance system, a possible driving intervention (36, 38) is determined on the basis of the sensor data, wherein for the determination of the driving intervention (36, 38) several measurement series (24) of vehicle data are taken into account with the aid of a MLLM (22), wherein for a training of the MLLM (22) such measurement series (24) of vehicle data were linked with a physical model for driving stability, the MLLM (22) plausibilizes the driving intervention (36, 38) determined on the basis of the taken measurement series (22) of vehicle data with the aid of the physical model used in the training and in the case that the plausibility check with the aid of the physical model does not determine sufficient driving stability, the driving intervention (36, 38) is corrected untiluntil the plausibility check using the physical model confirms sufficient driving stability. By learning the mandatory physical boundary conditions of the MLLM (22) used, correct intervention by a driver assistance system is enabled.

Method (14) for assisting the guidance of a motor vehicle (6) along a section of road (1), wherein automatically - Swarm data (15) for the track section (1) are recorded and a drivable path (13) leading through the track section (1) is determined from it, - during the operation of the motor vehicle (6) by means of an environmental sensor (8) of the motor vehicle (6) a course of a lane (2) traveled by the motor vehicle (6) in the section of the route (1) is detected, - if the course of the drivable path (13) and the detected course of the lane (2) differ from each other, the curvature of the track segment (1) ahead in the direction of travel of the motor vehicle (6) is determined and compared with a predetermined curvature threshold value, and - it is decided that the driving of the motor vehicle (6) - along the drivable path (13) if the preceding curvature is greater than the curvature threshold, and - along the detected lane (2) if the determined preceding curvature is less than the curvature threshold.

The invention relates to a method and a corresponding safety system (6) for reducing or preventing driver (2) distractions while driving a motor vehicle (1). In the method, a screen (4, 5) arranged in the driver's (2) field of vision is continuously and automatically monitored by a camera (10). Based on corresponding camera data, the content displayed on the screen (4, 5) is continuously monitored for a predefined prohibition criterion. If content is detected that meets the predefined prohibition criterion, a control signal is automatically generated, rendering this content unreadable. The invention also relates to a correspondingly equipped and configured motor vehicle (1).

For at least partially autonomously driving the motor vehicle, a (second) large language model is interposed to a used artificial intelligence (formed as a first large language model). In this manner, it is possible, to pose queries to the user, who can actively change driving of the motor vehicle via the second large language model. Herein, it can be provided that the artificial intelligence (the first large language model) is exactly not retrained.

A routing system for automatically routing a motor vehicle is designed to record a drive trajectory for a routing maneuver in a parking area in a recording mode on the basis of a route being traversed by a driver by means of the motor vehicle in a manual driving operation, said parking area having multiple levels. The routing system is additionally designed to store first level information for describing a level of the parking area in which the traversed route is arranged in combination with the recorded travel trajectory. Furthermore, the routing system is designed to use the recorded travel trajectory and the first level information for an automated routing maneuver in an automated mode.

Method (10) for adjusting a seat (16) of a motor vehicle (12) comprising the steps: - Detection of an actuation action on an actuation element (32', 32") of the motor vehicle (12) by means of a detection device of the motor vehicle (12); - Adjusting a seating position of the seat (16) of the motor vehicle (12) depending on the operating action by means of an adjustment device (40); - Detecting the actuation action at the actuation element (32', 32") which is arranged on a steering wheel (20) of the motor vehicle (12), or detecting the actuation action at the actuation element (32', 32") which is arranged at a predetermined distance to the steering wheel (20) at which an operating action at the steering wheel (20) of the motor vehicle (12) for driving the motor vehicle (12) by a vehicle occupant (14) can be carried out, - Actuating the adjustment device (40) for adjusting the seat position of the seat (16) depending on the actuation action by means of a control device (42), when the actuation action is detected by the detection device at the actuation element (32', 32") on or at the predetermined distance to the steering wheel (20); and - Actuation of the adjustment device (40) to stop the adjustment of the seat position by means of the control device (42) when the detection device detects that the actuation action is stopped depending on the seat position at the actuating element (32', 32"), characterized by - Detecting a further operating action on a further means of transport (46) for driving the motor vehicle (12) by means of the detection device, wherein the further means of transport (46) in particular comprises at least one pedal of the motor vehicle (12), and - Controlling the adjustment device (40) for adjusting the seat position of the seat (16) depending on the actuation action by means of the control device (42), if the detection device simultaneously detects the further operating action on the further means of transport (46) for driving the motor vehicle (12) and - Actuation of the adjustment device (40) to stop the adjustment of the seat position by means of the control device (42) when the detection device detects that the further operating action on the further means of transport (46) is to be stopped, and / or that the detection device comprises a camera (48) directed towards an interior (50) of the motor vehicle (12), wherein the camera (48) monitors the position of the eyes (54) of the vehicle occupant (14) who is on the seat (16) to be adjusted when the seat position is being adjusted, wherein the control device (42) controls the adjustment device (40) to stop the adjustment of the seat position when the camera (48) detects that a field of vision (52) of the eyes (54) of the vehicle occupant (14) is outside a windscreen (56) of the motor vehicle (12).

The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle (1) on roads with a spatially resolved salt content which is used in route planning of a navigation system. In order to functionally improve the operation of the motor vehicle (1), a driver (2) of the motor vehicle (1) is offered a route option (5) “salt-free route” with the navigation system.

A method for navigating a motor vehicle in a navigation system is described, wherein navigation instructions are calculated and made available to a driver of the motor vehicle, wherein an area is defined, wherein a route network consisting of a plurality of known routes is retrieved from at least one database within the area, and wherein a route is calculated within the area by combining routes and route segments from a current location of the motor vehicle in such a way that the multiple traversal of a route or route segment is avoided where possible.

Entertainment system (8) for a motor vehicle (4), for providing an entertainment function to a user (12) of the motor vehicle (4), wherein the entertainment system (8) - a detection device for detecting use of the motor vehicle (4) by the user (12), which does not require any operating action by the user (12) to drive the motor vehicle (4), and - is configured to automatically provide the entertainment function to the user (12) upon detection of such use, wherein the entertainment system (8) is configured to - automatically unlock hidden entertainment content (24) if a previous use of the motor vehicle (4) by the user (12) fulfills at least one predefined location-, time- and / or usage-intensity-dependent condition, and - to make the hidden entertainment content (24) available via the entertainment function only when it is unlocked, characterized in that - the entertainment system (8) is configured to detect the use of a charging of a battery (7) of the motor vehicle (4) at a charging station (3) during a stopover along a current route of the motor vehicle (4), and - further hidden entertainment content (24) is provided which the user (12) can gradually unlock by continuing to use the motor vehicle (4).

Technologies and techniques for generating and transmitting control commands for an autonomously driving motor vehicle. A device receives at least surroundings data and vehicle status data, calculates a trajectory on the basis of said data, calculates the control commands required for the implementation of the trajectory and transmits them to at least one actuator. The device includes four sub-systems, wherein a first and a third sub-system operate as master and a second and a fourth sub-system operate as slave. Each of the first / second sub-system receives at least surroundings data and vehicle status data and the third / fourth sub-system transmit at least the control commands to at least one actuator. At least the first / third sub-system are designed to be fail-silent; if individual faults occur in a sub-system, at least one control command is to be generated and transmitted in order to bring the motor vehicle into a safe state.

Instrument cluster (IC) for a motor vehicle comprising a system offering a plurality of functions; said cluster (IC) comprising a touch display screen (TDC) capable of displaying, in a screen page called nominal (NP), according to a first determined arrangement, information useful for driving the motor vehicle in its road environment including information relating to activated functions among the plurality of functions;Each activated function, in the first arrangement, is presented as a specific graphical object defining a touch control button capable of controlling, by contact of the touch button, the temporary display of at least one additional first screen page (PPS) extending substantially over the entire surface of the nominal screen page (PEN), superimposed on the nominal screen page (PEN), dedicated to the display of the activated functions and grouping all the graphical objects representing the activated functions according to a second specific arrangement. (Figure 4);