Patents by Inventor Thomas Geisel
Thomas Geisel 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: 7213884Abstract: A vehicle seat has a headrest with a center pad and two side pads that are laterally hinged to the center pad. The side pads are swivellable forward into a resting position and back into a supporting position. The center pad has a variable pad hardness, with a firmer pad hardness in the supporting position than in the resting position.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2003Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Karsten Radonaut, Andreas Schmidt, Andreas Weingart, Guenter Franzmann
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Patent number: 7156461Abstract: A vehicle seat has a backrest which is mounted displaceably in the vehicle by a sliding block guide. In order to enable a vehicle seat of compact configuration to be easily fitted, the backrest has a locking mechanism which secures the backrest releasably in the sliding block guide.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Andreas Bolte, Jochen Diemer, Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Daniel Hippel, Thomas Weber
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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: 20060219699Abstract: In a method for adjusting the temperature of a motor vehicle seat, which includes a seat ventilating system and a seat heater, to a predetermined desired value, in which the temperature of the seat is detected in the region of a seat surface by a first temperature sensor and the outside temperature is detected by a second temperature sensor, the seat ventilating system is switched off below a first temperature threshold for the outside temperature, and the seat heater is switched off above a second temperature threshold for the outside temperature. By these measures, an occupant may be provided with a comfortable micro-climate in the seat region for his/her well-being.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2003Publication date: October 5, 2006Inventors: Thomas Geisel, Achim Gottmann, Vasilios Orizaris, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner, Bernd Schmidt, Dietmar Zwoelfer
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Publication number: 20050225142Abstract: A vehicle seat has a backrest which is mounted displaceably in the vehicle by a sliding block guide. In order to enable a vehicle seat of compact configuration to be easily fitted, the backrest has a locking mechanism which secures the backrest releasably in the sliding block guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2003Publication date: October 13, 2005Inventors: Andreas Bolte, Jochen Diemer, Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Daniel Hippel, Thomas Weber
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Patent number: 6938926Abstract: In order to provide a safety device for a comfortable seat having a seat surface and a backrest which may be transferred from a sitting position into a resting position and vice versa, the safety device being used to increase the safety of vehicle occupants on the comfortable seat, the comfortable seat includes with a seat belt system which includes a belt strap which is fixed in the region of the seat surface via a belt end fitting and is stored on a belt-retracting mechanism arranged in the upper region of the backrest, a belt buckle being provided on that side of the seat surface which is opposite the belt end fitting so as to couple up the belt strap via a belt tongue in accordance with a three-point belt system, and, in the event of an accident, the belt strap being tightened via the belt-retracting mechanism and a pretensioning system engaging on the belt end fitting.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Hans Edrich, Gerhard Flory, Guenter Franzmann, Thomas Geisel, Ralf-Henning Schrom
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Publication number: 20050173948Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a lower leg support fastened pivotably to a seat cushion. The lower leg support may be moved in an infinitely variable manner between a stowaway position and a position of use and may be fixed in a freely selectable position. To provide reliability against incorrect operation, the lower leg support includes an overload safeguard which releases the fixation of the lower leg support in the event of overload, thereby allowing it to give way.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2003Publication date: August 11, 2005Inventors: Michael Boehmer, Gerhard Flory, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Thomas Gundall, Klaus Hassler, Christoph Jung, Rainer Leucht, Andreas Pieper, Thomas Weber, Boris Willems
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Publication number: 20050161993Abstract: A vehicle seat has a headrest which headrest has a center pad and two side pads laterally hinged to the center pad and able to be swiveled forward into a resting position and swiveled back into a supporting position. In order to offer optimal support to the head in the upright and also in the laid-back head carriage position, the center pad has a variable pad hardness, so that the center pad has a firmer pad hardness in the supporting position than in the resting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2003Publication date: July 28, 2005Inventors: Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Karsten Radonaut, Andreas Schmidt, Andreas Weingart
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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: 6820929Abstract: A vehicle seat having a seat surface and a seatback is tiltable about a transversely extending pivot axis. The seatback is arranged to be tiltable from an upright seat position into a tilted resting position. In order to achieve a comfortable setting of the headrest in all seat positions and resting positions, the seatback has an automatically driven height adjustment apparatus and an automatically driven tilt adjustment apparatus, each positioned within the seatback.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2003Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Hans Edrich, Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Andreas Kinzer, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Heiko Utsch, Andreas Weingart
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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: 6773074Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a lower-leg support, transferable from a stowed position into a utilization position, and a footrest. To achieve comfortable support with easy operation, the footrest has a footplate that may be folded out and that is located in the stowed position approximately parallel, and in the utilization position approximately perpendicular, to the lower-leg support, and coacts with an energy storage device.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2003Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Gerhard Flory, Guenter Franzmann, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Klaus Hassler, Christoph Jung, Rainer Leucht, Heiko Utsch, Erik Weber, Norman Windham
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Patent number: 6761411Abstract: In a seat cushion for a vehicle seat, the seat cushion is joined to a frame by a disengageable locking apparatus that has a wire spring engaging behind a mushroom head. The wire spring has two opposite limbs that at their one end are joined to one another and at their other end are open. In order to ensure a secure attachment, the two limbs of the wire spring may have at their open end an eye which engages behind a strut shaped onto the cushion shell.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Michael Boehmer, Michael Burr, Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Daniel Hippel, Darius Wrobel
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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: 20040026964Abstract: A vehicle seat having a seat surface and a seatback is tiltable about a transversely extending pivot axis. The seatback is arranged to be tiltable from an upright seat position into a tilted resting position. In order to achieve a comfortable setting of the headrest in all seat positions and resting positions, the seatback has an automatically driven height adjustment apparatus and an automatically driven tilt adjustment apparatus, each positioned within the seatback.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Hans Edrich, Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Andreas Kinzer, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Heiko Utsch, Andreas Weingart
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Publication number: 20030214167Abstract: In a seat cushion for a vehicle seat, the seat cushion is joined to a frame by a disengageable locking apparatus that has a wire spring engaging behind a mushroom head. The wire spring has two opposite limbs that at their one end are joined to one another and at their other end are open. In order to ensure a secure attachment, the two limbs of the wire spring may have at their open end an eye which engages behind a strut shaped onto the cushion shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2003Publication date: November 20, 2003Inventors: Michael Boehmer, Michael Burr, Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Daniel Hippel, Darius Wrobel
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Publication number: 20030209933Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a lower-leg support, transferable from a stowed position into a utilization position, and a footrest. To achieve comfortable support with easy operation, the footrest has a footplate that may be folded out and that is located in the stowed position approximately parallel, and in the utilization position approximately perpendicular, to the lower-leg support, and coacts with an energy storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2003Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventors: Gerhard Flory, Guenter Franzmann, Hermann Gaus, Thomas Geisel, Klaus Hassler, Christoph Jung, Rainer Leucht, Heiko Utsch, Erik Weber, Norman Windham
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Publication number: 20030164610Abstract: In order to provide a safety device for a comfortable seat having a seat surface and a backrest which may be transferred from a sitting position into a resting position and vice versa, the safety device being used to increase the safety of vehicle occupants on the comfortable seat, the comfortable seat includes with a seat belt system which includes a belt strap which is fixed in the region of the seat surface via a belt end fitting and is stored on a belt-retracting mechanism arranged in the upper region of the backrest, a belt buckle being provided on that side of the seat surface which is opposite the belt end fitting so as to couple up the belt strap via a belt tongue in accordance with a three-point belt system, and, in the event of an accident, the belt strap being tightened via the belt-retracting mechanism and a pretensioning system engaging on the belt end fitting.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2003Publication date: September 4, 2003Inventors: Hans Edrich, Gerhard Flory, Guenter Franzmann, Thomas Geisel, Ralf-Henning Schrom
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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: 6367859Abstract: A motor vehicle's rear bench seat has a back seat structure acting as a reclining back and at least one cam plate for guiding the seat back structure relative to a part affixed to the car structure. An element is provided for the absorption of energy, acting in case of a collision, between the cam plate and the part affixed to the car structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Ralf-Henning Schrom, Michael Böhmer, Hans Edrich, Andreas Kinzer, Thomas Weber