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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8091535 | Internal combustion engine with an exhaust-gas recirculation and method for operating an internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine has a high-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line and a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line with a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve. The low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line branches off from the exhaust-gas ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8057268 | Retaining device for cable lugs The invention relates to a holding arrangement for at least two electrical connection elements, such as cable lugs, for example, which each have an electrical connection section and a line section, with a base part and a cover part, which can be connected to the bas... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051842 | Internal combustion engine with an exhaust-gas turbocharger and a charge-air cooler and method for operating an internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine includes an intake manifold in a fresh air system. The intake manifold opens into inlet ports of a cylinder head. An exhaust-gas turbocharger has a turbine and a compressor, which is driven by the turbine. The turbine is disposed in the... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8033105 | Internal combustion engine having a secondary air pump An internal combustion engine includes an exhaust-gas system with n>1 exhaust-gas flow configurations, wherein n is an integer. The exhaust-gas flow configurations are at least partly separated from one another and each of the exhaust-gas flow configurations include... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8020651 | Hybrid motor vehicle and method for controlling operation of a hybrid motor vehicle A method controls an operation of a motor vehicle equipped with a hybrid drive unit having a combustion engine and at least one electric machine that can be selectively operated as a motor or as a generator. The electric machine, when in generator mode, charges an e... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7967397 | Method for operating a hybrid vehicle A hybrid vehicle has an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, in which at least one electric motor converts kinetic energy into electricity in a generator mode and can provide a generator-created braking momentum MG or a respective braking pow... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958869 | Internal combustion engine with mixed camshafts and method for operating an internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine which operates in accordance with an auto-ignition principle includes at least one working cylinder, at least two inlet valves per working cylinder and at least one outlet valve per working cylinder. The internal combustion engine has a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7926871 | Headrest for protecting against whiplash The invention relates to a headrest (10) for a vehicle seat, in particular for a backrest for a motor vehicle seat, said headrest essentially comprising a headrest frame or headrest casing (14) and a foam base body (356) that surrounds the headr... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7921639 | Internal combustion engine having a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation An internal combustion engine includes an exhaust-gas tract and a supply system for combustion air. A compressor of an exhaust-gas turbocharger is disposed in the supply system for combustion air. A turbine of the exhaust-gas turbocharger, a first particulate filter... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7874607 | Vehicle seat configuration A motor vehicle seat has an element formed of expanded polypropylene foam or of a material with comparable properties with respect to its firmness and weight provided between a seat part and a vehicle body floor, wherein the seat part is directly or indirectly conne... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853397 | Method of operating an internal combustion engine A method relates to operating an internal combustion engine in the form of an Otto engine, especially of a motor vehicle. Otto engine fuel (i.e., carburetor fuel, spark ignition engine fuel), such as gasoline or ethanol (E85), are directly injected into at least one... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7832993 | Internal combustion engine having a compressor and a pressure damper An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder crankcase, a mechanically driven compressor for compressing charge air, and a compressor mounting for the compressor. The compressor mounting is provided at the cylinder crankcase and a pressure damper is integrated ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7757489 | Engine configuration including an internal combustion engine An engine configuration includes an internal combustion engine with a plurality of cylinders, at least one turbocharger and a first and a second exhaust gas tract. A turbine of the at least one turbocharger is associated with the first exhaust gas tract. Increased t... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7677636 | Method for controlling a power-operated vehicle accessory, in particular a power-operated folding hardtop roof A motor vehicle configuration includes a folding roof and an electro-hydraulic system for moving the folding roof between a closed position and an open position. A roof actuation request for moving the folding roof from the closed position to the open position is bl... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7649273 | Hybrid drive unit having a low-temperature circuit A hybrid drive unit (10) for a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine (12) and at least one electric machine (14) optionally operable as a motor or as a generator, has a charge air compressor (22) for compression of combustion a... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7624658 | Transmission configuration and method for controlling a transmission A transmission configuration includes an automated dual-clutch transmission having two transmission sections with respective input shafts, respective output shafts and respective motor clutches. The motor clutches are connected, on a motor side thereof, to a drive s... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7605802 | Operator device with haptic feedback The invention relates to a control device (10) with haptic feedback, with at least one actuating element (12), at least one switching apparatus (14), and at least one positioning device (16), and uses of the inventive control device. The ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7593799 | Torque transmission device A torque transfer device in a motor vehicle, used for variable transfer of torque from a first shaft associated with a first wheel pair to a second shaft associated with a second wheel pair. A coupling unit facilitates variable torque-transferring coupling of the fi... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590474 | Method and device for slope and/or pitch recognition of a vehicle In a method and a device for slope and/or pitch recognition in a vehicle (1, 1′, 1″) at least one speed and a transverse and/or longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle are determined and a slope or pitch situation is assumed, when the speed is smaller th... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7562732 | Method for operating a hybrid motor vehicle A method for operating a hybrid motor vehicle which has an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine is provided. When turning off the internal combustion engine and/or when starting the internal combustion engine, a torque characteristic of the e... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7549939 | Continuously variable transmission A continuously variable transmission has a drive shaft, a power takeoff shaft and a power branching device disposed therebetween and has a continuously variable power branch containing a variator, and a mechanical power branch parallel thereto. To provide a large ad... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7544132 | Constant-velocity fixed joint A constant-velocity fixed joint includes an outer joint part with ball raceways and an inner joint part with ball raceways which are separated by webs. A cage, which is disposed between the outer joint part and the inner joint part, has windows for holding balls. Th... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7501988 | Antenna device for a motor vehicle and the respective motor vehicle An antenna device (8) for a motor vehicle (10) is disclosed whereby the antenna device (8) includes a dielectric carrier (1) and components mounted on it, including at least one antenna (3; 6) and at least one impedance transformer... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7498768 | Key for a vehicle A key (1, 40) for a vehicle (10, 50), in which the key (1, 40) includes a battery (21) to store electrical power further comprises a generator (23) to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy, wherein the battery (21) ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7475924 | Support bracket for an exterior handle of a vehicle door for motor vehicles A support bracket for an exterior handle of a vehicle door for motor vehicles attaches inside an outer skin of a vehicle door for mounting the exterior handle in a handle recess of the outer skin. Both longitudinally extending ends of the support bracket include a f... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7475534 | Method for controlling fuel injection and a motor vehicle The invention is directed to a method for controlling fuel injection in an internal combustion engine (10) having at least one electric machine (26), wherein a direct injection system (18) for direct injection of fuel into at least one combustio... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7458203 | Hybrid vehicle and method for operating a hybrid vehicle A method for operating a hybrid vehicle is provided. The hybrid vehicle has a combustion engine and an electric motor each providing a torque for operating the hybrid vehicle. The hybrid vehicle has an exhaust gas system with a catalytic converter system for at leas... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7454986 | Device and method for measuring torque in an electromechanical steering system A device and a method for measuring torque for an electromechanical steering system comprises a steering means that is connected in a driving manner to a steering mechanism via a torsion rod which is provided with an input shaft part (101) and an output shaft... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7429233 | Method for shifting from a source gear to a target gear in a twin clutch transmission Gear shifts are carried out from a source gear to a target gear of a twin clutch transmission. The twin clutch transmission has sequentially directly successive gears assigned to different transmission input shafts. In each case one upshift and downshift threshold, ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7419020 | Electrical energy system in a hybrid car An electrical energy system (1) in a hybrid car comprises an electrical motor (3), a capacitor (4) and a battery (5). The capacitor (4) is connected electrically to the electrical motor (3) and the capacitor (4) is sw... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7409359 | Configurator for configuring and displaying the appearance of an article to be configured A configurator and a method of configuring articles has a processor with a memory for storing at least one data record representative of the outward appearance of a type of article and data representative of a plurality of different element designs related with one ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7395659 | Hybrid vehicle and method for operating a hybrid vehicle A hybrid vehicle has an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, each of which can deliver a torque, particularly in order to drive at least one vehicle wheel. An exhaust gas system having a catalytic converter system is assigned to the internal combustion ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7367919 | Transmission configuration and method for controlling a transmission A transmission configuration includes an automated dual-clutch transmission having two transmission sections with respective input shafts, respective output shafts and respective motor clutches. The motor clutches are connected, on a motor side thereof, to a drive s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7358894 | Key for a vehicle A vehicle comprises a base station for wireless transmission of locating support information to support locating, supported on a locating satellite, as well as a key for the vehicle, in which the key includes a locating module to determine the position of the key as... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356988 | Method for controlling the temperature of a catalyst and multicylinder engine comprising a lambda splitting exhaust gas cleaning system The invention is directed to a method for controlling the temperature of at least one catalyst arranged in an exhaust gas cleaning system (12) of a lean-runnable multi-cylinder engine (10), wherein energy is introduced into the exhaust gas cleaning sys... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7292916 | Method for operation of a vehicle and corresponding device An engine (9) of a vehicle (1) is started by first inserting an ignition key (3) into an ignition lock (2) of the vehicle (1). The vehicle (1) can be started by merely pressing the inserted ignition key, whereby said ignitio... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285074 | Method and device for controlling a motor vehicle drive train A method and a device for controlling a motor vehicle drive train determine the direction of rotation of the drive train by evaluating sensor signals of a first sensor unit on the output side of the drive train. The first sensor unit includes a sensor wheel fastened... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278303 | Method for diagnosing an engine control unit and corresponding engine control unit A method for diagnosing an engine control unit (4) conducts an analysis as to whether the signal values from the cylinder pressure sensors (3) are faulty based on at least one characteristic value which is derived from an evaluation of signal values fr... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7273304 | End region of a vehicle with a lid A vehicle assembly includes a vehicle end region having lights and having a pivotable lid for closing a vehicle interior space. The pivotable lid has given regions which cover at least some of the lights when the pivotable lid is in a closed position and the pivotab... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7245205 | Vehicle with control for the automatic adjustment of the transparency of vehicle window panes The invention concerns a vehicle with a window pane, especially a front window, a rear window, a side window or a roof window, for covering of the internal space of the vehicle. The transparency of the window pane is adjustable, and the vehicle includes a control fo... | 07/17/2007 |
