Patents by Inventor Klaus Menten

Klaus Menten 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: 6070296
    Abstract: A detachable door hinge for motor vehicle doors which includes two hinge halves securable to a door and a door pillar, respectively, two hinge pin stubs fixedly secured in respective gudgeons of one of the two hinge halves and extending, in an attached position of the hinge, into complementary gudgeons of another one of the two hinge halves, with each of the two hinge halves being formed of a folded section of sheet metal and having, at least in a region of a hinge axis, a U-shaped cross-sectional profile, with respective gudgeons being formed in legs of respective hinge halves, and with the hinge further including elements for mutually locking the two hinge halves in their pivotal positions corresponding to both a closed position of the door and a partially open position of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Ed. Scharwachter GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Abeln, Bernd Alfred Klutting, Heinz-Walter Heinemann, Klaus Menten
  • Patent number: 5987703
    Abstract: A detachable door hinge for a motor vehicle door including a hinge pin for connecting two hinge flaps for a pivotal movement relative to each other and supported in a gudgeon of one of the two hinge flaps by maintenance-free bearing sleeve for a free rotation and extending into a gudgeon of another of the two hinge flaps, the hinge pin having a radially extending shoulder engageable between adjacent surfaces of the gudgeons of the two hinge flaps, a cone adjoining the radially extending collar and which tapers toward a free end of the hinge pin and is received in a corresponding conical enlargement of a gudgeon bore of the another hinge flap, and an attachment extending into the gudgeon bore of the another hinge flap and having an outer thread and a diameter which is smaller than a diameter of the gudgeon bore of the another hinge flap and a nut for preventing an automatic lifting off of the another hinge flap, and having a neck portion extendable into the gudgeon bore of the another hinge flap into a space b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: ED. Scharwachter GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd-Alfred Kluting, Klaus Menten, Heinrich Osterkamp