Patents by Inventor Hubert Brueckner

Hubert Brueckner 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: 11407150
    Abstract: A trim component for vehicle interior is disclosed. A method for forming the trim component is also disclosed. The trim component comprises a cover material, a base layer, a foamed plastic, and a support element. The base layer is intended to prevent foamed plastic from penetrating into the pores of the cover material. Foamed plastic is injected between the base layer and the support element to form the trim component. The method comprises the steps of producing a base layer, applying and fixing at least part of the cover material to the base layer to form a pre-laminate, introducing the pre-laminate into a foaming mold with the base layer between the cover material and a foam chamber (between the pre-laminate and the support element) within a foaming mold and introducing foamed plastic into the foam chamber to form the trim component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI YANFENG JINQIAO AUTOMOTIVE TRIM SYSTEMS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Peter Thielhorn, Werner Klusmeier, Hubert Brueckner
  • Publication number: 20170043514
    Abstract: A trim component for vehicle interior is disclosed. A method for forming the trim component is also disclosed. The trim component comprises a cover material, a base layer, a foamed plastic, and a support element. The base layer is intended to prevent foamed plastic from penetrating into the pores of the cover material. Foamed plastic is injected between the base layer and the support element to form the trim component. The method comprises the steps of producing a base layer, applying and fixing at least part of the cover material to the base layer to form a pre-laminate, introducing the pre-laminate into a foaming mold with the base layer between the cover material and a foam chamber (between the pre-laminate and the support element) within a foaming mold and introducing foamed plastic into the foam chamber to form the trim component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Thielhorn, Werner Klusmeier, Hubert Brueckner
  • Publication number: 20100234553
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lightfast and hydrolytically resistant molded polyurethane parts with excellent strength properties and a high temperature resistance and colorfastness to light at elevated temperatures for sophisticated applications in the sector of automobile interiors, which products are produced from a reaction mixture of aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic compositions by using a cost-effective reaction injection molding method (RIM) or a casting method that requires only a short mold residence time. To this end, A) a composition composed of A1) an OH-terminated trifunctional prepolymer, A2) a polyol or a polyol combination, A3) at last one di- and/or trifunctional chain-lengthening agent and/or crosslinking agent with amine and/or hydroxyl groups, and A4) a catalyst system, and optionally A5) a stabilizer system, and optionally A6) at least one additive, and B) an isocyanate composition, are reacted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERIORS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Horst Muehlfeld, Thomas Schauber, Hubert Brueckner, Natalie Bogdanov
  • Patent number: 7361293
    Abstract: In a method for producing a trim article (1), the interspace between a sheet-like decorative material (5) and a carrier (3) is foam-filled. There is provision, during foaming, for the decorative material (5) to be pressed sealingingly onto the interior-side surface of the carrier (3) so as to run around the region to be foam-filled. In this case, the discharge of the air to be displaced during foaming can take place through the foam-tight, but, at least in regions, not gas-tight structure of the carrier (3). For this purpose, the carrier (3) can be gas-sealed in regions by the local compression of an intrinsically gas-permeable unprocessed part before introduction into the foaming die. Also disclosed is a trim article capable of being produced according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Johnson Controls GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Wolff, Birgit Budde, Johann-Georg Werner, Hubert Brueckner, Detlef Walter Juerss, Heinz Dieter Wellen
  • Patent number: 7357443
    Abstract: A structural article, in particular an equipment article for the interior of a motor vehicle, includes a first, hard-elastic or plastically deformable carrier structure (2) and of a second, soft-elastic component (6) which is connected in one piece to the latter and which sealingly closes the carrier structure provided with recesses (5). There is provision for the recesses (5) to be essentially filled by the soft-elastic component (6) and consequently to be sealingly closed. A method for producing a structural article of this type is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Johnson Controls GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Wolff, Birgit Budde, Otwald Bruns, Hubert Brueckner
  • Publication number: 20050255306
    Abstract: In a method for producing a trim article (1), the interspace between a sheet-like decorative material (5) and a carrier (3) is foam-filled. There is provision, during foaming, for the decorative material (5) to be pressed sealingingly onto the interior-side surface of the carrier (3) so as to run around the region to be foam-filled. In this case, the discharge of the air to be displaced during foaming can take place through the foam-tight, but, at least in regions, not gas-tight structure of the carrier (3). For this purpose, the carrier (3) can be gas-sealed in regions by the local compression of an intrinsically gas-permeable unprocessed part before introduction into the foaming die. Also disclosed is a trim article capable of being produced according to the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Martin Wolff, Birgit Budde, Johann-Georg Werner, Hubert Brueckner, Detlef Juerss, Heinz Wellen
  • Publication number: 20050168003
    Abstract: A structural article, in particular an equipment article for the interior of a motor vehicle, includes a first, hard-elastic or plastically deformable carrier structure (2) and of a second, soft-elastic component (6) which is connected in one piece to the latter and which sealingly closes the carrier structure provided with recesses (5). There is provision for the recesses (5) to be essentially filled by the soft-elastic component (6) and consequently to be sealingly closed. A method for producing a structural article of this type is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Martin Wolff, Birgit Budde, Otwald Bruns, Hubert Brueckner