Patents by Inventor Karsten Grebel
Karsten Grebel 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).
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Patent number: 11851112Abstract: A position-variable motorized vehicle aerodynamics module, having: A flow component which is configured to be subjected to an incident flow or surrounding flow of an airstream, A bracket, which is configured for fixed attachment to a structure fixed to a vehicle, A power unit, which is configured to displace the flow component between at least two different operating positions relative to the bracket under normal operating conditions, A connecting structure, which the flow component connects with the power unit in a force- and movement-transmitting manner, and A guiding arrangement, which guides the displacement movement of the flow component between the at least two operating positions, Where the connecting structure is configured, in the event of a force being transmitted to the flow component through collision with a solid body, to allow through deformation an evasive movement of the flow component relative to the bracket; where the connecting structure is part of the guiding arrangement, and where theType: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Röchling Automotive SEInventors: Karsten Grebel, Patrick Urbach
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Patent number: 11827285Abstract: A diffusor system for a motor vehicle, including a diffuser duct, which extends along a virtual duct path and is traversable by flow in a flow direction, having at least one duct bounding surface which is curved about a diffuser curvature axis, the diffuser curvature axis forming an angle with the duct path, and including a downforce-generating body, which can pivot between two operating positions about a pivot axis, which is orthogonal to the duct path; in a cross-sectional plane, which is orthogonal to the pivot axis, the downforce-generating body having a profile that generates downforce in response to approach flow; in an activation operating position, a leading edge of the downforce-generating body, which is more proximate to the upstream longitudinal end of the diffuser duct, being at a greater distance from the curved duct bounding surface than in an inactivation operating position, which differs from the activation operating position; the pivot axis extends outside of the downforce-generating body.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Röchling Automotive SEInventor: Karsten Grebel
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Patent number: 11584218Abstract: An air flap apparatus for a motor vehicle, encompassing: a frame having an air passthrough opening; a first air flap arrangement and a second air flap arrangement respectively encompassing at least one displaceable first and second air flap; a common motion drive system for displacing the first and the second air flap arrangement; a motion coupling for coupling both the first and the second air flap arrangement to the motion drive system, the first air flap arrangement and the second air flap arrangement being respectively displaceable between a blocking position having a greater degree of coverage of the air passthrough opening and a passthrough position having a lesser degree of coverage of the air passthrough opening; the motion coupling the first and the second air flap arrangement to the motion drive system in such a way that the first and the second air flap arrangement are drivable by the motion drive system asynchronously for a displacement motion, the motion coupling encompasses a toggle lever lType: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KGInventor: Karsten Grebel
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Patent number: 11444313Abstract: A battery module, in particular for a motor vehicle, encompassing at least one battery cell that is received, in a manner impinged upon by compressive force along a spacing axis, between two pressure surfaces arranged with a spacing from one another along the spacing axis and clamped toward one another; at least one interlayer additionally being provided along the spacing axis between the pressure surfaces; the interlayer, constituting an LWRT interlayer, encompasses a porous LWRT material having a thermoplastically bonded fiber tangle.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG, Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dirk Montan, Richard Koehnsen, Karsten Grebel, Rene Falk, Tuncay Idikurt
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Publication number: 20220126930Abstract: The present invention concerns a position-variable motorized vehicle aerodynamics module (12), comprising: A flow component (14) which is configured to be subjected to an incident flow or surrounding flow of an airstream (F), A bracket (22), which is configured for fixed attachment to a structure (20) fixed to a vehicle, A power unit (28), which is configured to displace the flow component (14) between at least two different operating positions relative to the bracket (22) under normal operating conditions, A connecting structure (36), which the flow component (14) connects with the power unit (28) in a force- and movement-transmitting manner, and A guiding arrangement (26), which guides the displacement movement of the flow component (14) between the at least two operating positions, Where the connecting structure (36) is configured, in the event of a force being transmitted to the flow component (14) through collision with a solid body (42), to allow through deformation an evasive movement of the floType: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Karsten Grebel, Patrick Urbach
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Publication number: 20210387685Abstract: A diffusor system for a motor vehicle, including a diffuser duct, which extends along a virtual duct path and is traversable by flow in a flow direction, having at least one duct bounding surface which is curved about a diffuser curvature axis, the diffuser curvature axis forming an angle with the duct path, and including a downforce-generating body, which can pivot between two operating positions about a pivot axis, which is orthogonal to the duct path; in a cross-sectional plane, which is orthogonal to the pivot axis, the downforce-generating body having a profile that generates downforce in response to approach flow; in an activation operating position, a leading edge of the downforce-generating body, which is more proximate to the upstream longitudinal end of the diffuser duct, being at a greater distance from the curved duct bounding surface than in an inactivation operating position, which differs from the activation operating position; the pivot axis extends outside of the downforce-generating body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventor: Karsten Grebel
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Patent number: 11161557Abstract: A wheel spoiler arrangement, encompassing: a wheel spoiler carrier; a wheel spoiler received displaceably relative to the wheel spoiler carrier between inactive and active positions constituting operating positions; a motion guidance system between the carrier and the spoiler, a drive system to drive the spoiler between its operating positions, and an overload coupling that transfers force in a direction from the spoiler to the drive system up to a predetermined limit load; the overload coupling having a shiftable structure that is shiftable, between an effective position into which the structure is preloaded in a force-transferring engagement and a passive position in which position the force-transferring engagement is not possible; the shiftable structure being shiftable from the effective position into the passive position upon exceedance of the limit load resulting from a force acting on the spoiler.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KGInventors: Patrick Urbach, Peter Dill, Karsten Grebel, Andreas Cierpka
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Publication number: 20210284011Abstract: An air flap apparatus for a motor vehicle, encompassing: a frame having an air passthrough opening; a first air flap arrangement and a second air flap arrangement respectively encompassing at least one displaceable first and second air flap; a common motion drive system for displacing the first and the second air flap arrangement; a motion coupling for coupling both the first and the second air flap arrangement to the motion drive system, the first air flap arrangement and the second air flap arrangement being respectively displaceable between a blocking position having a greater degree of coverage of the air passthrough opening and a passthrough position having a lesser degree of coverage of the air passthrough opening; the motion coupling coupling the first and the second air flap arrangement to the motion drive system in such a way that the first and the second air flap arrangement are drivable by the motion drive system asynchronously for a displacement motion, the motion coupling encompasses a toggleType: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventor: Karsten Grebel
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Patent number: 11077892Abstract: A wheel spoiler arrangement, encompassing: a wheel spoiler carrier; a wheel spoiler received displaceably relative to the spoiler carrier between inactive and active positions constituting operating positions; a motion guide arranged between the spoiler carrier and the wheel spoiler and guides the displacement of the wheel spoiler between its operating positions; a displacement drive system which is coupled motion-transferringly to the wheel spoiler by a coupling member that drives the wheel spoiler relative to the spoiler carrier to perform a displacement motion between its operating positions; the coupling member is a reversibly deformable component arrangement which has a first predetermined conformation under an operational load that does not exceed a predetermined limit load and which is embodied to deform into a second conformation, different from the first conformation, under an extraordinary load that exceeds a predetermined limit load, the reversibly deformable component arrangement being deformableType: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KGInventor: Karsten Grebel
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Patent number: 10953933Abstract: A wheel spoiler apparatus encompassing a flow impingement body, a displacement drive system, and a displacement guidance system, the flow impingement body being displaceable between a retracted inactive position and an extended active position, the displacement guidance system comprising a vehicle connection region in which it is connectable to a vehicle body, and comprising a flow impingement body connection region in which it is connected to the flow impingement body, the displacement guidance system encompasses two four-joint linkages coupled to one another via a common pivot joint.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Schmitt, Karsten Grebel, Juliane Nies, Peter Dill, Virgil-Catalin Petrisor, Patrick Urbach, Nagaraj Koppad
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Publication number: 20200189668Abstract: A wheel spoiler arrangement, encompassing: a wheel spoiler carrier; a wheel spoiler received displaceably relative to the wheel spoiler carrier between inactive and active positions constituting operating positions; a motion guidance system between the carrier and the spoiler, a drive system to drive the spoiler between its operating positions, and an overload coupling that transfers force in a direction from the spoiler to the drive system up to a predetermined limit load; the overload coupling having a shiftable structure that is shiftable, between an effective position into which the structure is preloaded in a force-transferring engagement and a passive position in which position the force-transferring engagement is not possible; the shiftable structure being shiftable from the effective position into the passive position upon exceedance of the limit load resulting from a force acting on the spoiler.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Patrick Urbach, Peter Dill, Karsten Grebel, Andreas Cierpka
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Publication number: 20200094888Abstract: A wheel spoiler arrangement, encompassing: a wheel spoiler carrier; a wheel spoiler received displaceably relative to the spoiler carrier between inactive and active positions constituting operating positions; a motion guide arranged between the spoiler carrier and the wheel spoiler and guides the displacement of the wheel spoiler between its operating positions; a displacement drive system which is coupled motion-transferringly to the wheel spoiler by a coupling member that drives the wheel spoiler relative to the spoiler carrier to perform a displacement motion between its operating positions; the coupling member is a reversibly deformable component arrangement which has a first predetermined conformation under an operational load that does not exceed a predetermined limit load and which is embodied to deform into a second conformation, different from the first conformation, under an extraordinary load that exceeds a predetermined limit load, the reversibly deformable component arrangement being deformableType: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventor: Karsten Grebel
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Publication number: 20200067127Abstract: A battery module, in particular for a motor vehicle, encompassing at least one battery cell that is received, in a manner impinged upon by compressive force along a spacing axis, between two pressure surfaces arranged with a spacing from one another along the spacing axis and clamped toward one another; at least one interlayer additionally being provided along the spacing axis between the pressure surfaces; the interlayer, constituting an LWRT interlayer, encompasses a porous LWRT material having a thermoplastically bonded fiber web.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicants: RÖCHLING AUTOMOTIVE SE & CO. KG, BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Dirk Montan, Richard Koehnsen, Karsten Grebel, Rene Falk, Tuncay Idikurt
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Patent number: 10232895Abstract: A front spoiler arrangement for a motor vehicle, comprising a support component, a flow guiding component, which is positioned on the support component in a movable way between a further retracted position and a further extracted position, a guiding formation, which guides the movement between the two positions and a moving actuator, which is coupled to the flow guiding component by way of a coupling element, the coupling element and at least one component of either the moving actuator and the flow guiding component are coupled to each other through a connection arrangement, which has a surmountable detent formation, which separates from each other two possible relative operating positions between a component and the coupling element, i.e. a normal operating position and an emergency operating position, wherein a retraction movement of the flow guiding component in the direction opposite to the further extracted position beyond a retracted end position is mechanically prevented.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KGInventor: Karsten Grebel
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Publication number: 20190061839Abstract: A wheel spoiler apparatus encompassing a flow impingement body, a displacement drive system, and a displacement guidance system, the flow impingement body being displaceable between a retracted inactive position and an extended active position, the displacement guidance system comprising a vehicle connection region in which it is connectable to a vehicle body, and comprising a flow impingement body connection region in which it is connected to the flow impingement body, the displacement guidance system encompasses two four-joint linkages coupled to one another via a common pivot joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Andreas Schmitt, Karsten Grebel, Juliane Nies, Peter Dill, Virgil-Catalin Petrisor, Patrick Urbach, Nagaraj Koppad
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Publication number: 20170355403Abstract: A front spoiler arrangement for a motor vehicle, comprising a support component, a flow guiding component, which is positioned on the support component in a movable way between a further retracted position and a further extracted position, a guiding formation, which guides the movement between the two positions and a moving actuator, which is coupled to the flow guiding component by way of a coupling element, the coupling element and at least one component of either the moving actuator and the flow guiding component are coupled to each other through a connection arrangement, which has a surmountable detent formation, which separates from each other two possible relative operating positions between a component and the coupling element, i.e. a normal operating position and an emergency operating position, wherein a retraction movement of the flow guiding component in the direction opposite to the further extracted position beyond a retracted end position is mechanically prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventor: Karsten Grebel