Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

B Ayerische M Otoren W Erke a Ktiengesellschaft

Bmw Brilliance Automotive Ltd.

Wolfgang Hundt

Johannes Malotta

Clemens Luchner

Michael Geiger

Ralf Godau

Janus Cogiel

Herbert Klausnitzer

Albert Hoerl

Frank Schnelle

Milan Koch

Angelo De Silva

Juergen Krieger

Michael Borchers

Thomas Saeglitz

Patrick Pastoor

Ne-Hyun Choi

A method determines damage which occurs on the vehicle in the event of an accident between a vehicle and a collision partner. The method analyzes information about an acceleration profile of the vehicle provided by an acceleration sensor. The analysis is performed as to whether the acceleration profile exhibits at least one sudden change or jump. The method generates an output signal which includes an item of information about damage which has occurred on the vehicle in the event of the accident, based on a number of changes or jumps which are identified during the analysis of the acceleration profile.

Method for determining damage which occurs to a vehicle in the event of an accident between a vehicle and a collision partner

In order to detect a vehicle accident in which a vehicle and an object crash into one another, wherein a motion variable assigned to the collision is so low that at least one active occupant protection system provided for accidents in the vehicle is not activated by the crash, it is provided, with respect to the collision event, that signals and/or data formed by sensors of the vehicle are processed in such a manner that the signals and/or data are filtered, feature data are formed based on the filtered signals and/or data, and the collision event is assigned to a classification in a classification database based on the feature data.

Automatic detection and assessment of low-speed crashes

For an arrangement with an electromagnetic actuator for actuation of a gas exchange valve of a combustion engine, for gas exchange valves that are basically aligned with a row of cylinders in the combustion engine, actuators are arranged in a joint, strip-shaped housing, which is split into two parts by notched separation for assembling the actuators.

Electromagnetic assembly actuator for operating gas exchange valves of a combustion engine and method of making same

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Munich, Germany

Wolfgang Hundt