Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080265555 | Reversible Belt Tensioner - A belt tensioner for a safety-belt restraint system in a vehicle, which can be triggered in the event of a collision or the threat of a collision, includes a device for tensioning a safety belt that is restraining an occupant, by displacing part of the safety-belt restraint system. The belt tensioner has a drive for the displacing the part, which drive comprises a repeatedly chargeable spring-energy store, as well as a spring-energy store charging device for repeatably charging of the spring-energy store once it has been discharged. The spring-energy store charging device transmits to the spring-energy store for the purpose of charging it, a tensile force that is applied to the safety belt to unwind it from a belt winding device in the course of a fastening operation by the occupant. | 10-30-2008 |
20080303325 | Child Seat for Vehicles - A child seat which can be fastened to a vehicle seat of a vehicle by means of a fastening system comprises a child belt system for securing a child sitting on the child seat apparatus for coupling a vehicle seat belt system, which has a belt strap and a belt strap tensioning device, to the belt system of the child seat. The coupling apparatus is designed such that, when the belt strap tensioning device is activated, the child seat belt system is also tensioned. The coupling apparatus has a holder into which the belt strap provided on the vehicle can be hooked. holder is designed and arranged in such a manner that it serves to receive the lap belt section of the vehicle's belt strap. | 12-11-2008 |
20090315369 | Child seat fixing device - The invention relates to a device for fixing a child seat to a support structure ( | 12-24-2009 |
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20080221751 | Checking of Repairs for Electronic Vehicle Systems - The invention relates to a computer-based diagnostic tester which can exchange information with the control devices installed in the motor vehicle using a diagnostic program via a diagnostic interface and via data lines. A method for improved checking of repairs is also presented with the diagnostic tester. The motor vehicle-mounted control devices have program routines for self-diagnostics of the control devices and are capable of storing identified faults in the form of fault codes in reserved memory areas. The diagnostic program which is implemented in the diagnostic tester reads the fault codes out from the reserved memory areas, interprets the fault codes and displays them on a display together with the interpretations. In order to check to what extent repairs which have been performed have been successfully concluded, status polling is carried out using the diagnostic program implemented in the diagnostic tester. During this status polling, the status information of all the fault codes known in the system is interrogated and evaluated. In the process, all the fault codes whose fault setting conditions have either been tested positively or whose test requirements were not present in order to be able to carry out a test are displayed. The fault codes which are to be displayed are firstly stored here in one or more primary first fault memories, read out and then copied into a secondary, second fault memory. This permits the use of the total reset of the primary fault memories which is prescribed in the USA for diagnostic systems without information which is relevant to the checking of repairs in the second fault memory being lost. | 09-11-2008 |
20090132110 | Checking Of Repairs For Electronic Vehicle Systems - The solution is arrived at with a computer-based diagnostic tester which can exchange information with the control devices installed in the motor vehicle using a diagnostic program via a diagnostic interface and via data lines. The motor vehicle-mounted control devices have program routines for self-diagnostics of the control devices and are capable of storing identified faults in the form of fault codes in reserved memory areas. The diagnostic program which is implemented in the diagnostic tester reads the fault codes out from the reserved memory areas, interprets the fault codes and displays them on a display together with the interpretations. In order to check to what extent repairs which have been performed have been successfully concluded, status polling is carried out using the diagnostic program implemented in the diagnostic tester. During this status polling, the status information of all the fault codes known in the system is interrogated and evaluated. In the process, all the fault codes whose fault setting conditions have either been tested positively or whose test requirements were not present in order to be able to carry out a test are displayed. A method for improved checking of repairs is also presented with the diagnostic tester. | 05-21-2009 |
20090177352 | System and Method for Motor Vehicle Diagnosis and Vehicle Reception - A vehicle diagnosis system for ascertaining, storing and transmitting diagnosis data from control units in a motor vehicle to a computer outside of the motor vehicle has components which are inside of the vehicle and components which are outside of the vehicle. The onboard components are capable of autonomously requesting diagnosis data from control units, buffer-storing the diagnosis data and of transmitting the diagnosis data to offboard components. The offboard components can be used to configure the onboard components, to visually display the transmitted data and to forward said data to subsequent systems. Access is effected using a communication module, which is preferably implemented in a diagnosis control unit with a dedicated gateway and which is not the control unit for the central locking. A gateway for diagnosis applications is present in the vehicle in the case of vehicles with a diagnosis CAN bus or with another diagnosis bus. | 07-09-2009 |
20090204287 | Diagnostic System and Diagnostic Test with a WLAN Transmission Module - The invention relates to a motor vehicle diagnostic system for acquiring and storing diagnostic data and transmitting them from control units in a motor vehicle to a computer outside the motor vehicle. The system is composed of components which are located inside the vehicle and of components which are located outside the vehicle. Using a transmission module, in which a short diagnostic test is implemented, diagnostic data from onboard components are interrogated and are transmitted via a WLAN link to the computer system of a service company. The diagnostic data of the onboard components can be further processed using the computer system. The disclosed invention is aimed in particular at assisting a service employee in the vehicle reception of a service workshop. | 08-13-2009 |
20090306849 | SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF MOTOR VEHICLES, AND FOR RECEPTION OF VEHICLES AT A REPAIR FACILITY - In a diagnostic system, messages which have occurred are collected and buffered with a short diagnostic test which is implemented in a control unit onboard the vehicle. The collected data are then transmitted into a memory area of the portable electronic driving authorization record, which therefore always contains the result of a short diagnostic test which has been carried out onboard. The result of this short diagnostic test is read out from the memory of the driving authorization record with a computer system in the customer reception of a servicing workshop, and is processed with a more wide-ranging diagnostic algorithm which builds on the result of the short diagnostic test. | 12-10-2009 |