Patents by Inventor Gunter Leopold

Gunter Leopold 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).

  • Publication number: 20170253161
    Abstract: A storage compartment having two holders for a beverage container, such as beverage cans, for a central console of a motor vehicle. In order to support a beverage container in a tilt-proof manner, the invention provides four retaining jaws, which are acted upon by spring force, two of which are fixed and two are disposed on two rotating disks, which are disposed one above the other, and therefore the retaining jaws can be moved into positions, which are offset by 90°, as shown on the right in the figure. When not in use, the two movable retaining jaws can be moved (left) to the side under a cover of the storage compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Jörg FLOTHMANN, Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Publication number: 20170217352
    Abstract: The invention relates to a storage compartment for a center console of a motor vehicle, having a partial cylinder shell-shaped compartment divider, which is movable on a circular path, in order to separate a storage region from the storage compartment in order to store a beverage container. For the purpose of supporting a stored beverage container in a tilt-free manner, the invention provides a spring-loaded support element on the compartment divider, the movement of which is synchronized with fixed support elements on a circumference of the storage region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Jörg FLOTHMANN, Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Publication number: 20170066575
    Abstract: A closure for a vessel is provided, including a first closure part to which a cover is pivotably attached, which can be kept closed by way of a push-push locking mechanism. The invention enables a large-surface-area cover, which does not impair filling and emptying of the vessel. The closure covers a seal of the vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventor: Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Publication number: 20160280141
    Abstract: A blind for closing an opening of a storage compartment in a central console of a motor vehicle is provided. In order that a linear guide means of the blind has a small curve radius, the invention proposes to construct the blind with chain members onto which slats are snapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Jorg FLOTHMANN, Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Publication number: 20160257256
    Abstract: A blind for closing a storage compartment in a central console of a motor vehicle is provided. The blind has rod-shaped guide elements which are slidably guided in lateral grooves. Slats are clipped onto the guide elements, which slats project laterally and become wider in a longitudinal direction of the blind, so that in a closed position of the blind they completely cover an intermediate space between two obliquely diverging side walls of the central console.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Jorg FLOTHMANN, Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Publication number: 20160257257
    Abstract: A blind for closing a storage compartment in a motor vehicle is provided. The blind has slats arranged on rod-shaped guide elements which are slidably guided in guideways. According to the invention, each slat covers two guide elements and is attached to one of the guide elements and rests on the other guide element. The invention enables slats to be long in a sliding direction of the blind while the guideways have a small radius of curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Jorg FLOTHMANN, Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Patent number: 7685901
    Abstract: A device for movable support for an input/output unit, especially a flat screen, which is electromotively pivotable from a lying non-use position into an upright position of use and vice versa and which in the non-use position is covered by a cover. The movement of the cover is coupled with the movement of the input/output unit by means of a cam plate as coupling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Leopold, Armin Stern
  • Patent number: 7399008
    Abstract: A safety locking mechanism includes an engaging device, which holds a mass in a deflected position, and a restoring device effective by applying an overpressure to a receptacle and which directs the mass into a basic position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: fischerwerke GmbH. & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 7288023
    Abstract: A ventilation nozzle for installation in a motor vehicle has a housing, a spherically shaped nozzle head provided with outflow openings, means for rotatably and pivotally mounting the nozzle head in the housing, the mounting means having a spring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Fischer Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20070144853
    Abstract: A device for movable support for an input/output unit, especially a flat screen, which is electromotively pivotable from a lying non-use position into an upright position of use and vice versa and which in the non-use position is covered by a cover. The movement of the cover is coupled_with the movement of the input/output unit by means of a cam plate as coupling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Gunter Leopold, Armin Stern
  • Publication number: 20060261598
    Abstract: A safety locking mechanism includes an engaging device, which holds a mass in a deflected position, and a restoring device effective by applying an overpressure to a receptacle and which directs the mass into a basic position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventor: Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 6969035
    Abstract: A glass holder for glasses having a narrow neck and a wider base has a vertically movable stand element formed so that a base of a glass is placeable on the stand element, at least two movable holding-down devices which are spaced from one another and in a holding position engage over the base of a glass standing on the stand element, and in a removal position are moved outwards, and a locking mechanism which, when the stand element has been moved downwards locks the holding-down devices against movement from the holding position into the removal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Gunter Leopold, Ulf Bastian, Juergen Koerber
  • Publication number: 20050239390
    Abstract: A ventilation nozzle for installation in a motor vehicle has a housing, a spherically shaped nozzle head provided with outflow openings, means for rotatably and pivotally mounting the nozzle head in the housing, the mounting means having a spring element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventor: Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 6932293
    Abstract: The yarn feeder having a plastic housing, preferably made of two clamshells, with a plastic fastening device for connecting the yarn feeder to a retaining device of a textile machine. The fastening device is made rigid by suitable shaping and without the necessity for metal inlays. The two clamshell halves of the housing each have a bearing for a continuous shaft, which on one end carries a yarn guide drum and on its other end carries pulleys for a drive device. Fasteners serve to hold the two housing parts together in the correct position for enabling easy opening of the housing for maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Memminger-IRO GmbH
    Inventors: Herman Schmodde, Richard Kaufmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20040140685
    Abstract: A storage compartment assembly has a first storage compartment having a housing and an opening, an internal compartment arranged in the first storage compartment and having an access face, the internal compartment being mounted on the housing of the first storage compartment so as to be pivotable between a closed position in which the access face is unaccessible and an open position accessible via the opening of the first storage compartment, a lever mechanism, and a guide track means having a control curve, the lever mechanism and the guide track being formed so to couple the cover, the internal compartment and the housing so that when the first compartment is closed, the internal compartment is likewise pivoted from the open position into the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Torsten Bieck, Gunter Leopold, Tsehaye Gebrehiwet, Hans-Georg Peters, Inge Schierling, Uwe Frederking
  • Publication number: 20040118860
    Abstract: A holder for a beverage container has a container receptacle; a gripping device having holding jaws which are capable of being pressed resiliently away and project into the container receptacle; and sideways by means of which the holding jaws are mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Gunter Leopold, Klaus Kaupp
  • Publication number: 20040108428
    Abstract: A holder for a beverage container has a container receptacle, gripping elements with holding elements capable of being resiliently pressed away radially and project into the container receptacle, each of the holding elements having at least two vertically offset gripping points and being fastened by a spring element, such that each of the holding elements and each of the spring elements form a horizontally tiltable one of the gripping elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventor: Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 6695271
    Abstract: A holder (10) for a beverage container, which is provided in the construction of a motor vehicle, is formed with two extensions (14, 16), which are displaceable from a base position in a housing (12) into a use position extended away from the housing (12). One of the two extensions (14) has a champagne glass holder (28), on which a champagne glass is held in a stabile manner with its foot by means of downwardly pivoting holding-down devices (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Fischer Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Bieck, Gunter Leopold, Juergen Koerber, Bernhard Duerr, Frank Emhardt, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Christoph Jung, Rainer Leucht, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Rainer Tiefenbacher
  • Patent number: 6616079
    Abstract: The yarn feeder of the invention has one or two yarn feeler levers, which monitor the yarn. In order to be able to prevent the monitoring if needed, a feeler barrier is provided. Its actuating device which in the illustrated embodiment is in the form of a handle, is disposed on an outer end of the basic body of the yarn feeder so that it is readily accessible to operators. The position set can also easily be seen from the position of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Memminger-IRO GmbH
    Inventors: Eberhard Leins, Richard Kaufmann, Hermann Schmodde, Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 6578806
    Abstract: A beverage holder for a beverage container for example a can, a cup, or a beaker is provided for installation into a dashboard of a motor vehicle and has a pulled-out portion arranged to be displaceably guided as a drawer and having an insertion opening for a beverage container, wherein the beverage container has a shape of an arc of a circle and is provided with an arcuate slide guide and a support rotatable through 180° for supporting the inserted beverage container securely against tipping over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: fischerwerke Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Juergen Dieringer, Torsten Bieck, Gunter Leopold, Bernd Plocher