Patents by Inventor Bernd Loper

Bernd Loper 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: 4533184
    Abstract: Wheel for motor vehicles of the type which is cast or forged in one piece and composed of a light metal alloy and possessing a rim and a wheel disc with a radial clearance between the rim and the periphery of the wheel disc. Ventilation apertures are defined by the radial clearance and radially extending connecting webs bridging same. In order to provide an outer appearance which is aesthetically pleasing and to limit soiling of the wheel by brake friction material while facilitating a strong light weight construction the ventilation apertures extend radially so they are not visible as open windows from the front, a stiffening ring at the wheel disc forms a connection base for the connecting webs, which ring is severed at spaced locations during manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alf Muller, Hermann Schobbe, Bernd Loper, Hartmut Binnewies
  • Patent number: 4531786
    Abstract: A wheel cover for wheels of a passenger motor vehicle which includes a wire ring with outwardly bent lug-shaped members distributed along the circumference thereof, which are adapted to engage in an annular recess in the wheel rim for holding the wheel cover in place; the lug-shaped members are held in radial and axial directions within a guide structure at the wheel cover; each guide structure is provided with an internal radial abutment in such a manner that the wire ring, in the non-mounted condition of the wheel cover, is under prestress; covers elastically connected to the wheel cover are associated with the guide structures on the outside thereof whereby the covers extend over at least a portion of the radially outermost area of each lug-shaped member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1985
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Renz, Bernd Loper
  • Patent number: 4512614
    Abstract: A wheel cover with a retainment arrangement that includes several U-shaped retaining springs clipped onto a circumferential ring; the retaining springs engage thereby with one leg in a groove-shaped recess provided in the wheel rim while the circumferential ring consists of a separate essentially non-springy support ring; the wheel cover is thereby supported at the support ring while the retaining springs are clipped onto the support ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz A.G.
    Inventor: Bernd Loper
  • Patent number: 4438979
    Abstract: A wheel cover which includes a mounting comprising several retaining springs detachably arranged at the wheel cover. Each of the retaining springs has a U-shaped configuration and includes a bent-over section with two legs adjoining the bent-over section and resiliently engaging into a channel-like indentation in a rim of a wheel. Each of the retaining springs are pretensionable to a specific predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Renz, Bernd Loper
  • Patent number: 4361359
    Abstract: A wheel cover for wheels of a passenger motor vehicle which includes a mounting arrangement formed of several retaining elements located on the wheel cover. The retaining elements are adapted to engage in groove-shaped recesses in a wheel rim by means of flexible locking elements. The retaining elements are provided with opposite bearing portions that are associated with each of the locking elements, with the opposite bearing portion supporting themselves at a dish of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz A.G.
    Inventors: Hartmut Binnewies, Bernd Loper
  • Patent number: 4299425
    Abstract: A central locking mechanism for web disk wheels having a central guide bushing which is provided with a central receiving bore for accommodating a wheel carrier pin with radial centering of the web disk wheel with respect to the wheel carrier pin and with a central threaded connection between the web disk wheel and the wheel carrier pin by way of a nut which is adapted to be screwed onto the wheel carrier pin. The nut is guided rotatably and axially displaceable with respect to the guide bushing and is captively joined thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1981
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Renz, Hermann Schobbe, Bernd Loper
  • Patent number: 4219241
    Abstract: A wheel cover for solid wheels which include air suction openings provided in a wheel pan. The wheel cover includes a cover plate which terminates in a region of the wheel flange and defines with the wheel flange an annular air outlet opening. A plurality of more or less radially extending ventilator fins are disposed on a backside of the cover plate and the cover plate is provided in a radially inner zone of the ventilator fins with additional air suction openings. The ventilator fins are integrally formed with the cover plate and terminate radially outwardly about a periphery of the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alf Muller, Bernd Loper
  • Patent number: 4037134
    Abstract: An installation for the automatic control of the light projection distance of motor vehicle headlights in dependence on the positional change of the vehicle body, in which in case of a positional change of the vehicle body toward one side when driving through a curve, an analogous control of the light projection distance of the headlight takes place in such a manner that, for example, with right-hand traffic and when driving through a right-hand curve, the light projection distance is decreased and vice versa is increased in a left-hand curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1977
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernd Loper
  • Patent number: D262015
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1981
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alf Mu/ller, Dieter Renz, Bernd Loper, Andreas Langenbeck, Stefan Heiliger