Patents by Inventor Johannes KARLEIN

Johannes KARLEIN 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: 11572909
    Abstract: A tolerance compensation fastening apparatus (1) for fastening a first vehicle component (200) to a second vehicle component (300) by way of a bolt (100), the fastening apparatus being set up to compensate for a tolerance within a tolerance compensation range. A fastening system including such a fastening apparatus, as well as to a method for fastening a first vehicle component to a second vehicle component by way of a bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Zsolt Wilke, Roland Och, Matthias Seubert, Johannes Karlein, Andreas Rudolf
  • Patent number: 11332963
    Abstract: An arrangement, the arrangement being designed for actuating a motor vehicle door, the arrangement having a handle which can be grabbed by a hand, the arrangement having an actuator which is connected to the handle via a coupling, it being possible for the handle to be moved from a rest position into a standby position by means of the actuator, the arrangement being designed to load the handle with a total restoring force which, starting from the standby position to back into the rest position, has an at least partially nonlinear profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Johannes Karlein, Roland Och
  • Patent number: 10794096
    Abstract: A system including a component which can be mounted movably in or on an automobile and an actuating apparatus for the component, the actuating apparatus having a push-push mechanism which interacts with the component, it being possible for the component to be moved out of a closed position by manual exertion of a pressing force counter to the prestress of a spring into an unlocked position in order to unlock the push-push mechanism, out of which unlocked position the component is moved into a partially open position driven by the prestress of the spring, out of which partially open position the component can be moved into an open position by manual exertion of a pulling force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Hamacher, Roland Och, Christian Beck, Andreas Rudolf, Joachim Oberst, Johannes Karlein
  • Publication number: 20200208661
    Abstract: A tolerance compensation fastening apparatus (1) for fastening a first vehicle component (200) to a second vehicle component (300) by way of a bolt (100), the fastening apparatus being set up to compensate for a tolerance within a tolerance compensation range. A fastening system including such a fastening apparatus, as well as to a method for fastening a first vehicle component to a second vehicle component by way of a bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Zsolt WILKE, Roland OCH, Matthias SEUBERT, Johannes KARLEIN, Andreas RUDOLF
  • Publication number: 20190218835
    Abstract: An arrangement, the arrangement being designed for actuating a motor vehicle door, the arrangement having a handle which can be grabbed by a hand, the arrangement having an actuator which is connected to the handle via a coupling, it being possible for the handle to be moved from a rest position into a standby position by means of the actuator, the arrangement being designed to load the handle with a total restoring force which, starting from the standby position to back into the rest position, has an at least partially nonlinear profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Johannes KARLEIN, Roland OCH
  • Publication number: 20160290018
    Abstract: A system including a component which can be mounted movably in or on an automobile and an actuating apparatus for the component, the actuating apparatus having a push-push mechanism which interacts with the component, it being possible for the component to be moved out of a closed position by manual exertion of a pressing force counter to the prestress of a spring into an unlocked position in order to unlock the push-push mechanism, out of which unlocked position the component is moved into a partially open position driven by the prestress of the spring, out of which partially open position the component can be moved into an open position by manual exertion of a pulling force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Kai HAMACHER, Roland OCH, Christian BECK, Andreas RUDOLF, Joachim OBERST, Johannes KARLEIN