Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Tmd Friction Services Gmbh

Thomas Degenstein

Carsten Glaser

Dirk Ehrlich

Lutz Uhlenbruch

Marcus-Andre Reul

Erik Berger

Felice De Rogatis

Andreas Elvenkemper

A method is provided to control a power steering device and an adaptive damping system of a motor vehicle. The power steering device makes available a mechanical steering angle range that is limited by steering stops. The adaptive damping system makes available a variable damping force. The damping force of the adaptive damping system is increased and a maximum achievable steering angle is simultaneously increased in case a steering stop is reached.

Method and control device for controlling a power steering device and an adaptive damping system of a motor vehicle

A motor vehicle includes an adjustable steering assistance. The adjustable steering assistance includes an evaluation unit for evaluating the grip of a road travelled, in which the extent of the steering assistance is variable as a function of the result of the road grip evaluation. The effectiveness of the steering assistance adjustment is due to the fact that the driver is accustom to the hand moment exerted on the steering wheel during steering, conventionally as a fixed relationship to the torque, which for steering the wheels of the motor vehicle has to be exerted thereon. Consequently, the lower the steering resistance the less road grip as a general rule. In that the extent of the steering assistance is varied, a road with less grip can thus be suggested to the driver in order to prompt him to a correspondingly careful driving style.

Motor vehicle with road evaluation device

A method for an electrical limitation of the travel path of a steering gear in a wheeled vehicle, in particular a passenger car, which exhibits a steering drive, is provided. The method includes adjusting the steering gear in a first direction and acquiring a first maximum travel path in the first direction. The method includes prescribing a first limiting value based upon this acquired first maximum travel path and electrically limiting the travel path of the steering gear in the first direction based upon the first limiting value. The first maximum travel path is acquired by the steering drive.

Electrical limitation of a steering gear travel path

An adjusting device for a steering column of a motor vehicle for axial and/or vertical positioning of a steering wheel connected to the steering column is provided. The adjusting device comprises a locking device and an electric switch configured to actuate the locking device.

Adjusting device

A cargo carrier system is presented for a motor vehicle with a supporting frame for accommodating at least one object and with an energy supply device for supplying the object accommodated on the supporting frame with electric energy.

Cargo carrier system for a motor vehicle with integrated energy supply device

A steering gear of a motor vehicle is fastened to a chassis via several bearing points, each of which includes, but is not limited to bolt penetrating eyes of the chassis and the steering gear and an elastic sleeve. The elastic sleeve of at least a first of the bearing points is accommodated in the eye of the chassis.

Motor vehicle

A temperature and/or wear sensor for brake or clutch devices is designed as a thermocouple in which the conductors () that are electrically insulated from each other are arranged inside a friction lining () and can be connected to each other so as to be electrically conductive by means of a rotatably mounted brake element (), clutch element or the like, with which the friction lining can be engaged in order to brake or to depress the clutch (FIG.). The conductors can be coupled to an electric oscillating circuit.

Temperature and wear and tear sensor for brake or clutch devices

A brake or clutch lining () has a friction lining () arranged on a carrier plate (). For purposes of detecting a critical operating temperature, an electrically conductive material () that has a phase-transition temperature that falls within the range of the critical operating temperature of the friction lining to be detected is provided in at least one place in the friction lining ().

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Mainz, Germany

Thomas Degenstein