Patents by Inventor Rainer Tiefenbacher
Rainer Tiefenbacher 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: 7147280Abstract: A holding receptacle for vehicles, which, when installed, is integrated in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, has two side walls which are connected to each other in the region of their ends by transverse walls and a bottom to form an upwardly open box which can be used as a storage space. The suitability for a design which is advantageous with regard to weight is improved. It is proposed that a lightweight supporting frame having side wall structures and at least one crossmember structure is provided as the load-bearing structure of the holding receptacle, with a box-shaped insert containing the storage space being held by the supporting frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2002Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Bernhard Duerr, Frank Emhardt, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Rainer Leucht, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Rainer Tiefenbacher
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Publication number: 20050062320Abstract: In order to provide a holding receptacle for vehicles, which, when installed, is integrated in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, having two side walls which are connected to each other in the region of their ends by transverse walls and a bottom to form an upwardly open box which can be used as a storage space; in which, inter alia, the suitability for a design which is advantageous with regard to weight is improved, it is proposed that a lightweight supporting frame having side wall structures and at least one crossmember structure is provided as the load-bearing structure of the holding receptacle, with a box-shaped insert containing the storage space being held by the supporting frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2002Publication date: March 24, 2005Inventors: Bernhard Duerr, Frand Emhardt, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Rainer Leucht, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Rainer Tiefenbacher
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Patent number: 6793281Abstract: A folding-table arrangement is assigned to a vehicle seat and has tabletop arrangement with at least one tabletop being accommodated in a receiving housing which is arranged laterally next to the vehicle seat. Each tabletop of the tabletop arrangement can be pulled out upwards and folded down into an approximately horizontal in-use position in which the tabletop arrangement is held by the receiving housing by a support. The tabletop arrangement together with its hinge pin which connects it to the receiving housing is guided in a sliding manner between its pulled-out and its pushed-in position in a guide shaft of the receiving housing. The concomitantly moved hinge pin of the tabletop arrangement is fixed on a guide slide which runs in the guide shaft of the receiving housing and, in the in-use position of the tabletop arrangement, is displaced into an upper end position in the guide shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2001Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Bernhard Duerr, Frank Emhardt, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Rainer Leucht, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Rainer Tiefenbacher
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Patent number: 6695271Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Fischer Automotive Systems GmbHInventors: Torsten Bieck, Gunter Leopold, Juergen Koerber, Bernhard Duerr, Frank Emhardt, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Christoph Jung, Rainer Leucht, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Rainer Tiefenbacher
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Publication number: 20030062459Abstract: The invention relates to a holder (10) for a beverage container, which is provided in the construction of a motor vehicle. The invention proposes that the holder (10) 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: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventors: Torsten Bieck, Gunter Leopold, Juergen Koerber, Bernhard Duerr, Frank Emhardt, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Christoph Jung, Rainer Leucht, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Rainer Tiefenbacher
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Patent number: 6438982Abstract: A cooling container for vehicles arranged in use laterally next to a seat cushion of a vehicle seat. The cooling container has a cooling compartment accessible from the top through a container opening after a lid is opened, the cooling compartment being sufficient at least for accommodating one commercially available drinks bottle stored lengthways in it, and being of a depth which clearly exceeds the bottle diameter. The cooling compartment is sufficient at least for accommodating a commercially available drinks bottle stored lengthways in it, but is of a depth which is too small to accommodate an upright drinks bottle below the closed lid. Retaining structure is arranged in the cooling compartment of the cooling container in order to secure the drinks bottle below the closed lid in a ready-to-hand storage position in which the drinks bottle extends obliquely upwards with its bottle neck towards an end region of the cooling compartment, which end region is arranged so that the bottle can be readily grasped.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2001Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Bernhard Duerr, Frank Emhardt, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Thomsa Geisel, Rainer Tiefenbacher, Rainer Leucht, Hermann Gaus
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Patent number: 6378932Abstract: A motor vehicle has an outer contour around which the headwind flows when driving has associated with it flow-influencing structure to reduce the air resistance of the motor vehicle is known. The flow-influencing structure are movably mounted in a vicinity of the outer contour and can be activated periodically with the aid of drive devices in order to introduce suitably time-dependent disturbances into the flow of the headwind in the vicinity of the flow-influencing structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2000Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Hermann Fasel, Albert Hack, Ralf Rossmanith, Jörg Russow, Volker Schwarz, Rainer Tiefenbacher
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Publication number: 20020023452Abstract: A cooling container for vehicles arranged in use laterally next to a seat cushion of a vehicle seat. The cooling container has a cooling compartment accessible from the top through a container opening after a lid is opened, the cooling compartment being sufficient at least for accommodating one commercially available drinks bottle stored lengthways in it, and being of a depth which clearly exceeds the bottle diameter. The cooling compartment is sufficient at least for accommodating a commercially available drinks bottle stored lengthways in it, but is of a depth which is too small to accommodate an upright drinks bottle below the closed lid. Retaining structure is arranged in the cooling compartment of the cooling container in order to secure the drinks bottle below the closed lid in a ready-to-hand storage position in which the drinks bottle extends obliquely upwards with its bottle neck towards an end region of the cooling compartment, which end region is arranged so that the bottle can be readily grasped.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2001Publication date: February 28, 2002Inventors: Bernhard Duerr, Frank Emhardt, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Thomsa Geisel, Rainer Tiefenbacher, Rainer Leucht, Hermann Gaus
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Publication number: 20020003361Abstract: A folding-table arrangement is assigned to a vehicle seat and has tabletop arrangement with at least one tabletop being accommodated in a receiving housing which is arranged laterally next to the vehicle seat. Each tabletop of the tabletop arrangement can be pulled out upwards and folded down into an approximately horizontal in-use position in which the tabletop arrangement is held by the receiving housing by supporting means. The tabletop arrangement together with its hinge pin which connects it to the receiving housing is guided in a sliding manner between its pulled-out and its pushed-in position in a guide shaft of the receiving housing. The concomitantly moved hinge pin of the tabletop arrangement is fixed on a guide slide which runs in the guide shaft of the receiving housing and, in the in-use position of the tabletop arrangement, is displaced into an upper end position in the guide shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Inventors: Bernhard Duerr, Frank Emhardt, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Rainer Leucht, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Rainer Tiefenbacher
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Patent number: 5621570Abstract: A mirror housing for an exterior rear-view mirror on a vehicle exhibits a mirror face received in an opening and directed towards the vehicle tail. The mirror housing also exhibits a water channel which runs around the mirror housing adjacent to the opening, which water channel is integrated into the mirror housing opposite the housing surface with side walls sunk in with respect to said housing surface, and by means of which water which impinges in a drive mode is collected before it reaches the opening and is channelled in the direction of the lower housing edge. The mirror housing terminates, between the lower opening border and the water channel, in a strip which is oriented, at an angle with respect to the housing surface, in the direction of the tail and downwards.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1995Date of Patent: April 15, 1997Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AGInventors: Albert Hack, Rainer Tiefenbacher, Roland Borgwardt, Volker Nickel, Robert Schwed, Jorg-Uwe Koske, Richard Merz
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Patent number: 5511847Abstract: A front end covering for a motor vehicle has air conducting paths which extend adjacent to the roadway on both sides from the vehicle front in the direction of the front wheels. The air conducting paths extend next to one another and are curved in the vertical direction of the vehicle, one air conducting path ending in front of the front wheel and the other air conducting path being constructed as a groove directed towards the interior side of the wheel which has a cross-section open towards the roadway. The other air conducting path is constructed on the bottom with an upwardly extending guiding surface which is curved in front of the front wheel in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle convexly with respect to the roadway.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1994Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AGInventors: Hans Weisbarth, Albert Hack, Rainer Tiefenbacher
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Patent number: 5119673Abstract: An apparatus for determining crosswind effects on motor vehicles has arranged on the vehicle two differential pressure sensors which are each connected via two conduits to two openings at the outside of the vehicle and record the pressure difference which occurs between the connected conduits or the associated openings. From this, it is possible for the angle of incidence and the dynamic pressure of the crosswind to be determined by a computer.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1990Date of Patent: June 9, 1992Assignee: Daimler-Benz AGInventors: Van T. Tran, Jens Desens, Rainer Tiefenbacher, Karl-Heinz Blume
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Patent number: 4995447Abstract: In an air ducting system for cooling air in an air duct in the front end of a motor vehicle, which is positioned with the air outlet at the underside of the front end in front of a capsule surrounding the engine compartment of the motor vehicle, a plurality of aerodynamically shaped hollow guide vanes internally traversed by a cooling medium which divide the air duct into a plurality of subducts is arranged as far as the air outlet opening at the underside of the front end in order to improve the airflow in the air duct and to cool the cooling medium.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1990Date of Patent: February 26, 1991Assignee: Daimler-Benz AGInventors: Werner Weidmann, Rainer Tiefenbacher