Patents by Inventor Sebastian ZECH

Sebastian ZECH 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).

  • Publication number: 20240158012
    Abstract: A motor vehicle body for an electrically drivable motor vehicle includes: a vehicle floor element, which transitions, at the front end of a passenger compartment, into a firewall; longitudinal members of a front-end structure, the rear ends of the longitudinal members being fastened to the firewall and, at a point of connection, to the vehicle floor element; and a stored energy source, which is located below the vehicle floor element and a front end of which is located below the rear ends of the longitudinal members. In order to provide a motor vehicle body with favorable characteristics in a frontal collision with an obstacle or a vehicle, the vehicle floor element has, behind the points of connection to the rear ends of the longitudinal members, respective embossed portions formed upward in the vehicle vertical direction, and/or the points of connection of the rear ends of the longitudinal members to the vehicle floor element have deliberately weakened portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Josip DURMIS, Lorenz KRIEGLER, Sebastian ZECH
  • Publication number: 20230173905
    Abstract: A fastening arrangement of an energy store on a floor of a body for a motor vehicle is provided. The energy store is fastened to the floor of the body, wherein the floor has a central tunnel in which at least a partial region of an exhaust gas system for the motor vehicle runs. A respective storage device of the energy store is arranged on each side of the central tunnel and of the exhaust gas system in the transverse direction of the vehicle. The respective storage device of the energy store is fastened to the floor by means of at least one respective fixing device in such a manner that, as a result of an accident-induced application of force running in the transverse direction of the vehicle, the fastening of at least one of the storage devices is releasable in a targeted manner and the at least one storage device is thereby shiftable inwards in the transverse direction of the vehicle relative to the floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Niklas EBERLE, Christian HUBER, Olaf KNOPP, Liudmila LAUER, Matthias SAGERER, Paul WINKLER, Sebastian ZECH
  • Patent number: 9855978
    Abstract: A component connection is provided. The component connection has a first component, at least a first male fixing element projecting from the first component, and a second component, the second component has at least a female fixing element, into which the male fixing element is fitted. At least the first component consists of a fiber-reinforced plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Lankenau, Eva Vietze, Johann Van Niekerk, Sebastian Zech
  • Publication number: 20150003899
    Abstract: A component connection is provided. The component connection has a first component, at least a first male fixing element projecting from the first component, and a second component, the second component has at least a female fixing element, into which the male fixing element is fitted. At least the first component consists of a fiber-reinforced plastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Carsten LANKENAU, Eva VIETZE, Johann VAN NIEKERK, Sebastian ZECH