Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh&co.kg, Hallstadt

Brose Fahrzeugteile Se & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg

Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh & Co Kg

Motorola Corporation

Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh&co. Kommanditgesellschaft

Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Hallstadt

Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh & Co. Kg, Bamberg

Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh & Co Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg

Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg

Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh &co.

Detlef Russ

Holger Wuerstlein

Roland Kalb

Florian Pohl

Walton L Fehr

Wolfgang Uebel

Marcus Scholz

Udo Geuther

Jovan Knezevic

Markus Schlesiger

Christian Thomann

Sebastian Schoedel

Klaus Wagner

Alex Kromer

Thorsten Fuchs

Thomas Schindhelm

Thomas Schindler

Ralf Daiminger

Guido Naumann

Jürgen Buhlheller

Robert Trask

Ralf Hübner

Stephen Nawrocki

Christoph Straub

Holger Würstlein

Matthias Hering

Markus Wunder

Wolfgang Übel

Juergen Buhlheller

Christoph Brand

Martin Lieb

Alexander Atang

Steffen Bauersachs

Matthias Weidinger

Stefan Diestler

Matthias Buehler

Danilo Mueller

Felix Heckmann

Danilo Müller

The disclosure provides a method for controlling a drive arrangement for a flap of a vehicle by a control arrangement, wherein in a measuring routine a measured movement value is measured by a movement measuring system. It is proposed that in an estimation routine an estimated movement value is estimated, in a movement routine the estimated movement value is determined via the estimation routine and the flap is adjusted according to a set movement value, in a correction routine the estimated movement value is determined from the estimation routine and an estimation error is determined and from the estimated movement value and according to a correction specification the set of model parameters is corrected based on the estimation error and supplied to the estimation routine and in the correction routine the correction of the set of model parameters is performed for a part section of the motorized movement cycle.

Method for controlling a drive arrangement for a flap of a motor vehicle

A center console may include a moving portion, a motor, and a controller. The moving portion may be configured to move between a first position and a second position. The motor may be configured to move the moving portion between the first position and the second position. The controller may be configured to, responsive to moving the moving portion in a first direction towards the first position, a number of motor position increments exceeding a first threshold within a period, and an absence of location data of a position of the moving portion, stop the motor.

Power sliding center console and method of operating same

A method for determining a rotation variable of a rotatably mounted rotor of a mechanically commutated electric motor, having a motor current path formed between two brush elements of the electric motor, and leading via the commutator bars contacted by the brush elements, and via coil windings of the rotor electrically connected to said commutator bars, wherein an oscillating input signal is fed into the motor current path and the rotation variable is determined with the aid of a ripple of a resultant output signal, said ripple being due to the mechanical commutation of the motor current path.

Method and device for determining a rotation variable

The disclosure relates to a method for operating a capacitive sensor arrangement of a motor vehicle, a control unit being provided, the sensor arrangement having at least one electrode and a connection arrangement which is assigned to the electrode and has a connecting line and, on the latter, a connection on the electrode side and a connection on the control unit side, the electrode being controlled during a measurement routine by the control unit and the resulting distance values being determined on the basis of a measurement capacitance formed by the electrode with respect to a reference potential, the electrical connection state of the electrode being checked with respect to the connection to the control unit during a diagnostic routine by the control unit. It is proposed that the connection state is checked during the diagnostic routine by the control unit.

Method for operating a capacitive sensor arrangement of a motor vehicle

The invention relates to a method for detecting an operator control event using a sensor arrangement having at least one proximity sensor and a sensor controller, the operator control event being generated by a user of a vehicle. A first coarse evaluation of the sensor measured values for the occurrence of an operator control sign is carried out, that a predetermined number of the respective last sensor measured values of at least one sensor element are buffered, that the detection of an operator control sign triggers a fine evaluation of the sensor measured values for verifying the occurrence of an operator control event at a triggering time, and that the fine evaluation is based on the buffered sensor measured values and on the temporally subsequent sensor measured values, with the result that sensor measured values both before and after the triggering time are included in the fine evaluation.

Method for generating an operator control message when an operator control event occurs

The present invention relates to a circuit arrangement for detecting a capacitance of a capacitive component and/or a change in the capacitance of a capacitive component, which circuit arrangement comprises, inter alia a monostable flipflop controllable by a control signal and having at least two inputs and one output, wherein a first input of the flipflop is provided for the control signal, and a second input is connected to a capacitive component. The circuit arrangement further comprises a conversion device, which is connected to the output of the monostable flipflop, and an evaluation unit, which is connected to the conversion device in order to evaluate the signal voltage and from this to generate at least one detection value, which indicates the capacitance and/or a change in the capacitance of the capacitive component.

Circuit arrangement and method for detecting a capacitance and/or a change in a capacitance of a capacitive component

In order to ascertain the actuating position of a vehicle part that is moved by an electric actuating motor via an actuating mechanism, an angle of rotation correlating with the number of motor shaft rotations during the actuation process or a motor signal correlated therewith are ascertained during an actuation process. An actuating position measure for the actuating position of the vehicle part is derived from the angle of rotation or the motor signal correlating therewith. During this process, an unloaded angle of rotation, through which the motor shaft rotates during an initial no-load phase of the actuation process without motion of the vehicle part is compensated by a predetermined correction term. The correction term is changed according to a stored dependency on a characteristic quantity for the age of the actuating mechanism.

Precise ascertainment of actuating position for a motor-driven vehicle part

A method for operating the electrical system of a motor vehicle having a control unit with an operating mode and an energy-saving standby mode is described. A wake-up operator control event is detected by a sensor and has an associated time interval from the preceding wake-up operator control event. The time interval is ascertained when a wake-up operator control event is detected, and the control unit is woken up or not woken up. Each wake-up operator control event has an associated switch-off indicator which is ascertained each time a wake-up operator control event is detected, and the control unit is woken up or not woken up as a function of the level of the switch-off indicator with reference to a switch-off threshold. A change in the current switch-off indicator relative to the preceding switch-off indicator is all the greater the smaller the current time interval.

Method for operating the on-board electrical power system of a motor vehicle

In order to process a motor signal (I, U) of a DC motor (), in particular of an adjustment drive of a motor vehicle, the armature current (I) and the motor voltage (U) of the DC motor () are detected and used for determining the back-emf (E) of the DC motor (), wherein the determined back-emf (E) is used to generate a useful signal (S, S), which is in particular speed-proportional, from the armature current signal (I) for position sensing or for evaluating an excess force limitation.

Method and apparatus for processing a motor signal, having current ripple, of a DC motor

A method for detection of a control event by a sensor arrangement having at least one sensor element and a sensor controller is described. The sensor controller digitizes sensor signals into sensor measured values. An operator control event is produced by a user and a first coarse evaluation for a sign of operator control is performed and a predetermined number of sensor measured values are progressively buffer-stored in a buffer store wherein detection of a sign of operator control initiates a fine evaluation of the sensor measured values to verify the occurrence of an operator control event at an initiation time. The fine evaluation is based on the buffer-stored sensor measured values and on subsequent sensor measured values, so that the fine evaluation includes sensor measured values both before and after the initiation time.

Method for the sensor detection of an operator control event

A method for calibrating a powered actuator for use in a vehicle is provided, with regard to an end position of an actuating element which is easy to achieve and conserves easily damaged mechanical components of the actuator made from plastic, rubber or similar. According to an example embodiement, in a calibrating step, the actuator is operated with recording and analysis of an actuation speed measured parameter such that the actuating element is moved in the direction of the end position and reaching the end position is recognized when the value of the actuation speed measured parameter reaches or drops below a given threshold. A temperature parameter characterizing the temperature of the actuator is evaluated before or during the calibration process. The calibration step is then only carried out if the value of the temperature parameter does not exceed an upper temperature limit. An actuator suitable for carrying out said method is also disclosed.

Adjustment of a motorized positioning device

The present invention relates to a controlling device of a regulating device of a power window. The controlling device includes at least one computer unit to control an actuator of the regulating device. The computer unit is set up to stop or initiate the stop of an adjusting motion of the actuator if a signal correlating to the rotary moment of the actuator exceeds a current response level. The signal correlating to the rotary moment of the actuator may be the driving power and/or its temporal change, the rotary frequency of the actuator and/or its temporal change and/or a power effecting the actuator and/or its change. The current response level is thereby not a fixed threshold value, but a changing value, which is changeable by the computer unit.

Controlling device of a regulating device of a motor vehicle

An automatic power window system (10) includes a motor module (12) and a controller (14) physically remotely located from the motor module. The motor module and the controller are coupled by a first signal link (16) and a second signal link (18). The first signal link is arranged to carry a limited number of high priority communication data at high speed, while the second signal link is arranged to carry virtually any number of low priority communication data at low speed. The high priority communication data may represent an operating condition of the motor during automatic operation. The operating condition is preferably simply and reliably indicated by the presence, absence or transition of a signal on the first signal link. The low speed communication data represents a plurality of operating data each of which are indicated by a plurality of time-multiplexed signals.

Automatic automotive power window system and method of controlling an

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