Patents by Inventor Ansgar Wilbrand

Ansgar Wilbrand has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6701673
    Abstract: Device for restricting or controlling and regulating the movement of remote-controlled parts, more particularly parts of a vehicle bodywork as well as a process for operating the device. The device and process can be used with particular advantage as a collision protection for window winders, sunroofs, doors or flaps, more particularly in connection with electrical displacement devices for motor vehicles. The device is characterized by an actuator and a sensor which are mounted on a cohesive uninterrupted transmission path which is a constituent part of the closing surface area of the remote-controlled part and/or of the fixed part interacting therewith. The arrangement is selected so that a part of the energy supplied by actuator is converted into acoustic surface waves which can scatter over the transmission path and can be received by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Kessler, Peter Hagedorn, Hans Jürgen Salzburger, Ansgar Wilbrand