Fuba Automotive Gmbh

Volkswagen Ag

Fuba Automotive Gmbh & Co Kg

Michael Daginnus

Mehran Aminzadeh

Manfred Burkert

Heinz Lindenmeier

Jochen Hopf

Leopold M Reiter

Lennart Bendewald

Christoph Wäller

Rainer Kronberger

Stefan Schulz

Ralf Bergholz

Meinolf Schafmeister

Wilhelm Probst

Gabriel Schwab

Yongmei Wu

Reinhard Berfelde

Ulrich Dieter Becker

Katja Lemke

Andreas Schwarte

Thorsten Bohnenberger

Georg Rudolph

Shun-Ping Chen

Walter Denn

Christoph Wāller

Georg Bucksch

Karl Rox

Ralf B&ouml;sche

Jörg Lilienthal

The vehicle system, controlled by control inputs, provides functionalities in the motor vehicle () and has an interface () for acquiring the control inputs and outputting data as well as a control device () for controlling the functionalities in accordance with the acquired control inputs. A storage medium () on which instructions explaining the functionalities and/or operation are stored is linked to the control device (). The control device () is designed to retrieve instructions from the storage medium () and output the same as part of the instructions via the interface (). The vehicle system (') can be operated in an assistance mode in which the user inputs are interpreted and evaluated as control inputs for the functionalities while instructions explaining the respective activated functionality and/or other operational options are additionally output at the same time.

Vehicle system comprising an assistance functionality

The invention relates to a diversity reception system for motor vehicles for digitally modulated terrestrial and/or satellite radio signals in the frequency range above 1 GHz. The system includes an antenna arrangement of which the reception signal is supplied to a radio receiver. The antenna arrangement is designed as an antenna system having several individual antennas and several antenna components, and contains a controllable logic switching device. The individual antennas and the several antenna components are positioned on the vehicle so that for discrete switching positions of the controllable logic switch, reception signals that are different in terms of diversity are available at the antenna connection point. A reception level testing device is provided for the comparative determination of the reception level contained in the data flow in the HF-channel with an HF channel bandwidth B. The level testing device is designed so that when initiated by the symbol cycle generated in the receiver and during the simultaneously occurring symbol identification of the received flow of data, the reception level is determined in each case within the shortest possible level testing duration.

Diversity system for receiving digital terrestrial and/or satellite radio signals for motor vehicles

The invention relates to an antenna system for motor vehicles. This system allows mobile reception of television and radio broadcasts and of data of geostationary satellites independently of the operating condition of the vehicle. The system is for an antenna arrangement for the frequency range greater than 10 Ghz with quasi-omni-radiation in the horizontal direction.

Antenna system

A vehicle body has a plurality of flat and rod-shaped synthetic plastic elements, and a plurality of antennas connected with the synthetic plastic elements for reception and transmission of various frequencies, the synthetic plastic elements at least partially being provided with surfaces and tracks of a differently thick metal coating, the metal coating being structured so that a selection of the antennas for identical or different frequencies and ground reference surfaces as well as regions with screening action are provided, and depending on an operational frequency and a required radiation diagram, radiations with various operational principals being produced, and the surfaces which act for one frequency as radiators for other frequencies belonging to a ground potential, the antennas and ground reference surfaces produced by a structuring as well the regions with screening action being distributed over synthetic plastic elements, the synthetic plastic elements for a predetermined antenna principle being metalized in two planes located one behind the other with a distance from one another which is operationally important for a corresponding operational principle.

Motor vehicle body of synthetic plastic with antennas

A frequency diversity system for use in mobile reception of television and RF signals in the meter or decimeter wavelength, such as for use with a mobile television having a first receiver, an additional receiver and a control and analysis circuit. The additional receiver detects all incoming frequencies corresponding to a preset program and switches the main receiver to an incoming frequency of a higher quality. The receiver is able to identify the frequencies corresponding to the desired program through a transmitter identification code, which is added to each signal. This code is usually a VPS identification signal. The control and analysis circuit compares the incoming frequencies to the frequency of the signal transmitted by the television receiver to determine the highest quality signal. In order to accelerate the process, the system processes local position coordinates of the television so that the frequencies analyzed are only those expected within the coverage area of the television.

Frequency diversity system

A flat antenna for mounting on windowpanes of motor vehicles reduces the dimensions of the mass reference area of the mass plane, and the structural height without unfavorably influencing the functions and operating parameters of the antenna. The mass reference area has a trough-like shape, is centrally positioned under an aerial segment, and has conductive coating impermeable to the operating frequency of the antenna. The inside and outside conductors of the coaxial feed cable are connected to the aerial segment and mass reference area shifted to outside the aerial elements and thereby enables a significant reduction in overall dimensions.

Flat antenna

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Braunschweig, Germany

Michael Daginnus