Patents by Inventor Ralf Giese

Ralf Giese 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: 4469352
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle with a vertically adjustable safety belt guide fitting with a hollow component which is located on or in the B-pillar and has a toothed portion of the length of the desired range of adjustment and in which an engagement slide having corresponding teeth is guided and can be engaged in different positions with the toothed portion, the hollow component is designed as a sheet metal profile part (2) made approximately C-shaped in cross-section, in which a separate angular toothed strip (13) is fastened adjacent to its base (3) and the inwardly directed legs of which form guides (5) for a sliding piece (6), H-shaped in cross-section, which receives a fastening bolt (8) about which an eccentric bushing (9) is mounted pivotably. The eccentric bushing (9) has an eccentric disc (10) and a shank (11), the shank (11) possessing flattened portions (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Paul Korner, Heinz Rest, Ralf Giese
  • Patent number: 4454688
    Abstract: A window guide and seal for a lowerable window in a motor vehicle of which the plane of the window is in alignment with the external surface of the bodywork and which is connected at its edges with edge strips forming inward rebounding rims which interact with guideways and sealing strips disposed in the frame opening, the window (4) is firmly connected only at its lateral vertical edges (5 and 6) with guideways (7 and 8) and at its upper inclined and horizontal edge (9) interacts with a sealing strip (10) fixed in the frame opening (3). The guideways (7 and 8) fixed at lateral vertical edges (5 and 6) here have an S shaped profile and encompass with their narrower section (14) the vertical edges (5 and 6) of the window (4) and slide with their wider section (15) on an edge protection guideway (25) or in a sealing and guiding track (18). The guideways (7 and 8) are here preferably clamped at the edges (5 and 6) of the window (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Heinz Rest, Ralf Giese
  • Patent number: 4281871
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat mounted for longitudinal sliding mobility, the seat frame of which is braced by slide blocks fixed to lateral connecting brackets on two parallel, upright, C-shaped guide rails. One of the C-shaped guide rails is fixed to the approximately vertical web surface of the central floor assembly tunnel and is provided with a latch device for determining the desired seat position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Heinz Grittner, Ralf Giese