Patents by Inventor Stefan Lummitsch

Stefan Lummitsch 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: 9139071
    Abstract: An installation aid is provided for a ventilation nozzle and a ventilation duct of a motor vehicle, which are connected to during the installation, the installation arranged on the ventilation nozzle or the ventilation duct and having a material section, which protrudes forward in the installation direction beyond the ventilation nozzle or the ventilation duct when the installation aid is fastened on the ventilation nozzle or the ventilation duct and is at least partially insertable into the ventilation duct or the ventilation nozzle. Before the installation of ventilation nozzle and ventilation duct against one another, with the installation aid fastened on the ventilation nozzle, the material section is fixed in motion with respect to the ventilation nozzle or, if the installation aid is fastened on the ventilation duct, the material section is fixed in motion with respect to the ventilation duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Lummitsch, Helmut Nitzsche
  • Publication number: 20150221903
    Abstract: An insert for covering a battery is disclosed in which the insert is arranged below a load surface in a motor vehicle. In installation position in the motor vehicle, the insert has a flat carrier surface on its top side for a load surface cover to be arranged thereon. The insert on its bottom side facing away from the top side has at least one integrated air duct structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Lummitsch, Wolfgang Back, Fabian De Luca
  • Patent number: 8777301
    Abstract: An instrument panel arrangement for a motor vehicle is provided. The instrument panel arrangement includes an instrument panel and a ventilation duct housing connected to the instrument panel. A middle region of the ventilation duct housing has, in an impact direction, a flexibility that is at least as great as 0.8 times a flexibility of the instrument panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Lummitsch, Andreas Marutschke
  • Publication number: 20120280538
    Abstract: An instrument panel arrangement for a motor vehicle is provided. The instrument panel arrangement includes an instrument panel and a ventilation duct housing connected to the instrument panel. A middle region of the ventilation duct housing has, in an impact direction, a flexibility that is at least as great as 0.8 times a flexibility of the instrument panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan LUMMITSCH, Andreas MARUTSCHKE
  • Publication number: 20120192395
    Abstract: An installation aid is provided for a ventilation nozzle and a ventilation duct of a motor vehicle, which are connected to during the installation, the installation arranged on the ventilation nozzle or the ventilation duct and having a material section, which protrudes forward in the installation direction beyond the ventilation nozzle or the ventilation duct when the installation aid is fastened on the ventilation nozzle or the ventilation duct and is at least partially insertable into the ventilation duct or the ventilation nozzle. Before the installation of ventilation nozzle and ventilation duct against one another, with the installation aid fastened on the ventilation nozzle, the material section is fixed in motion with respect to the ventilation nozzle or, if the installation aid is fastened on the ventilation duct, the material section is fixed in motion with respect to the ventilation duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan LUMMITSCH, Helmut NITZSCHE
  • Publication number: 20100199699
    Abstract: A discharge hose system is provided for a motor vehicle air conditioning unit. The discharge hose system includes, but is not limited to a discharge hose and a vent line. The discharge hose and the vent line are designed as a single piece together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Stefan LUMMITSCH, Norbert RANKER
  • Publication number: 20100173577
    Abstract: A blower is provided for the fresh air supply into the interior of a motor vehicle, with a housing of at least two housing parts, which via their housing splits can be sealed to the outside. The first housing part is assigned a first air suction or air outlet opening and the second housing part a second air suction or air blow-out opening. The housing splits allow a sealing connection of the two housing parts in a first relative position (A) and in at least a further relative position (B, C) to one another, with fastening means for connecting the two housing parts in the first relative position (A) of the housing split and with additional fastening means for their connecting in the further relative position (B, C). The additional fastening means upon a connection in the first relative position remains unutilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Stefan Lummitsch, Dirk Matthias Wexel