Patents by Inventor Thomas Seeg

Thomas Seeg 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: 9175878
    Abstract: A solar module retention unit for clamping retention of a solar module has a base retention unit that is attachable at the mounting site, an intermediate element, and a clamping element, a clamping surface for the clamping element, with a counter-clamping surface of the base retention unit, forming a retention clip for the solar module, and the intermediate element being held on the base retention unit, displaceable transverse to the clamping direction of the retention clip, and the clamping element being mechanically linked to the intermediate element by a screw connection having a rotational axis. The clamping element is guided on the intermediate element rotation-fast by an anti-rotation element with respect to the rotational axis of the screw connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: K2 SYSTEMS GmbH
    Inventors: David Kemmer, Melanie Wiggers, Thomas Seeg
  • Publication number: 20130299656
    Abstract: A solar module retention unit for clamping retention of a solar module has a base retention unit that is attachable at the mounting site, an intermediate element, and a clamping element, a clamping surface for the clamping element, with a counter-clamping surface of the base retention unit, forming a retention clip for the solar module, and the intermediate element being held on the base retention unit, displaceable transverse to the clamping direction of the retention clip, and the clamping element being mechanically linked to the intermediate element by a screw connection having a rotational axis. The clamping element is guided on the intermediate element rotation-fast by an anti-rotation element with respect to the rotational axis of the screw connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: K2 Systems GmbH
    Inventors: David KEMMER, Melanie WIGGERS, Thomas SEEG
  • Patent number: 7900987
    Abstract: A covering system for a rear storage space of a vehicle, with two guide rails running parallel and arranged on both sides of the rear storage space, includes a largely dimensionally stable closing surface element which has guide devices on both sides. The guide devices are arranged movably within the guide rails and make it possible for the largely dimensionally stable closing surface element to be movable along the guide rails between a lower and an upper end position. At least one pivoting section of the closing surface element is designed such that it can be pivoted downward at least in the upper end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Seeg
  • Patent number: 7731461
    Abstract: A load-bearing rail is provided for the cargo space of a motor vehicle, which is used for accommodating a load-bearing eyelet that can be guided therein in a movable and lockable manner. To provide a load-bearing rail for the cargo space of a motor vehicle, which may assume additional functions in order to both keep the weight low and to reduce the number of parts and thus to lower the cost of production, the load-bearing rail is provided with a bracket, which sticks out laterally and which serves as a support for a floor of the cargo space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignees: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Stoeckl, Werner P. Schlecht, Thomas Seeg, Henning Sparrer
  • Patent number: 7628437
    Abstract: A functional unit for a vehicle interior, which is used for loading-space coverings in passenger vehicles, has a dimensionally stable functional profile including two mutually opposite end regions which are arranged in a longitudinally movable manner along profiled guide structures arranged in the vehicle interior. Each end region is provided with at least one rolling element, which is mounted on the end region in a manner such that it can rotate about at least one axis of rotation. During a longitudinal movement of the end region, the rolling element rolls along at least one surface region of the associated profiled guide structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Zaiser, Peter Seidl, Thomas Seeg
  • Publication number: 20090033115
    Abstract: A functional unit for a vehicle interior has a dimensionally stable functional profile including two mutually opposite end regions which are arranged in a longitudinally movable manner along profiled guide structures arranged in the vehicle interior. Provision is made for each end region to be provided with at least one rolling element, which is mounted on the end region in a manner such that it can rotate about at least one axis of rotation such that, during a longitudinal movement of the end region, the rolling element rolls along at least one surface region of the associated profiled guide structure. The functional unit is used for loading-space coverings in passenger vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Markus Zaiser, Peter Seidl, Thomas Seeg
  • Publication number: 20080272620
    Abstract: A covering system for a rear storage space of a vehicle, with two guide rails running parallel and arranged on both sides of the rear storage space, includes a largely dimensionally stable closing surface element which has guide devices on both sides. The guide devices are arranged movably within the guide rails and make it possible for the largely dimensionally stable closing surface element to be movable along the guide rails between a lower and an upper end position. At least one pivoting section of the closing surface element is designed such that it can be pivoted downward at least in the upper end position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventor: Thomas Seeg
  • Patent number: 7445262
    Abstract: A functional unit for a vehicle interior has a dimensionally stable functional profile including two mutually opposite end regions which are arranged in a longitudinally movable manner along profiled guide structures arranged in the vehicle interior. Provision is made for each end region to be provided with at least one rolling element, which is mounted on the end region in a manner such that it can rotate about at least one axis of rotation such that, during a longitudinal movement of the end region, the rolling element rolls along at least one surface region of the associated profiled guide structure. The functional unit is used for loading-space coverings in passenger vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Zaiser, Peter Seidl, Thomas Seeg
  • Patent number: 7316440
    Abstract: A protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area has a flexible flat article, which is movably mounted between a compact, deposited protection position and at least one extracted protection position. There are at least two parallel, spaced functional shafts to which the flat article is connected. The position of the flat article is detected and a controller, as a function of the detected position, controls the functional shafts in such a way that the flat article in a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position has a first, light-proof surface structural portion and in a second, vertically extracted protection position a second, light-transmitting surface structural portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner P. Schlecht, Henning Sparrer, Marina Ehrenberger, Thomas Seeg
  • Publication number: 20070194584
    Abstract: A functional unit for a vehicle interior has a dimensionally stable functional profile including two mutually opposite end regions which are arranged in a longitudinally movable manner along profiled guide structures arranged in the vehicle interior. Provision is made for each end region to be provided with at least one rolling element, which is mounted on the end region in a manner such that it can rotate about at least one axis of rotation such that, during a longitudinal movement of the end region, the rolling element rolls along at least one surface region of the associated profiled guide structure. The functional unit is used for loading-space coverings in passenger vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Markus Zaiser, Peter Seidl, Thomas Seeg
  • Publication number: 20070041804
    Abstract: A load-bearing rail is provided for the cargo space of a motor vehicle, which is used for accommodating a load-bearing eyelet that can be guided therein in a movable and lockable manner. To provide a load-bearing rail for the cargo space of a motor vehicle, which may assume additional functions in order to both keep the weight low and to reduce the number of parts and thus to lower the cost of production, the load-bearing rail is provided with a bracket, which sticks out laterally and which serves as a support for a floor of the cargo space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicants: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengessellschaft, BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Stoeckl, Werner Schlecht, Thomas Seeg, Henning Sparrer
  • Publication number: 20070035145
    Abstract: A protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area has a flexible flat article, which is movably mounted between a compact, deposited protection position and at least one extracted protection position. There are at least two parallel, spaced functional shafts to which the flat article is connected. The position of the flat article is detected and a controller, as a function of the detected position, controls the functional shafts in such a way that the flat article in a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position has a first, light-proof surface structural portion and in a second, vertically extracted protection position a second, light-transmitting surface structural portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner Schlecht, Henning Sparrer, Marina Ehrenberger, Thomas Seeg
  • Patent number: 7140659
    Abstract: A protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area has a flexible flat article, which is movably mounted between a compact, deposited protection position and at least one extracted protection position. There are at least two parallel, spaced functional shafts to which the flat article is connected. The position of the flat article is detected and a controller, as a function of the detected position, controls the functional shafts in such a way that the flat article in a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position has a first, light-proof surface structural portion and in a second, vertically extracted protection position a second, light-transmitting surface structural portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner P. Schlecht, Henning Sparrer, Marina Ehrenberger, Thomas Seeg
  • Patent number: 7055877
    Abstract: Protection device for a motor vehicle interior includes a flexible flat article that is movably mounted between a compact, deposited rest position and at least one extracted protection position through the use of a guidance device. The guidance device is designed so that the flat article can be moved between a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position and a second, roughly vertically extracted protection position. The device is generally used in a luggage area of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Henning Sparrer, Thomas Seeg, Matthias Lechner, Siegfried Stoeckl
  • Publication number: 20050179275
    Abstract: A functional unit for a vehicle interior has a dimensionally stable functional profile including two mutually opposite end regions which are arranged in a longitudinally movable manner along profiled guide structures arranged in the vehicle interior. Provision is made for each end region to be provided with at least one rolling element, which is mounted on the end region in a manner such that it can rotate about at least one axis of rotation such that, during a longitudinal movement of the end region, the rolling element rolls along at least one surface region of the associated profiled guide structure. The functional unit is used for loading-space coverings in passenger vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Markus Zaiser, Peter Seidl, Thomas Seeg
  • Patent number: 6930592
    Abstract: A system for protecting the loading space of vehicles, in particular passenger cars, with sensors for sensing loaded material in the loading space, detectors for sensing the state of protective devices in the loading space and being configured for signal generation indicative of the state of the loaded material and as a function of the sensing of loaded material and the sensing of the state of the protective devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Werner P. Schlecht, Andreas Kobiela, Klaus Haspel, Thomas Laudenbach, Thomas Seeg
  • Patent number: 6913303
    Abstract: A mounting system for a motor vehicle which is connected force-transferringly to at least one vehicle-fixed retaining device by means of at least one locking device. The at least one locking device has at least two locks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Andreas Kobiela, Thomas Seeg, Werner P. Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20050082859
    Abstract: 1. Protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area. 2.1. The invention relates to a protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area (1) with a flexible flat article (7), which is movably mounted between a compact, deposited protection position and at least one extracted protection position. 2.2. According to the invention, there are at least two parallel, spaced functional shafts (6a, 6b) to which the flat article (7) is connected, together with means for detecting the position of the flat article (7) and control means which, as a function of the detected positions, control the functional shafts (6a, 6b) in such a way that the flat article (7) in a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position has a first, light-proof surface structural portion (7a) and in a second, vertically extracted protection position a second, light-transmitting surface structural portion (7b). 2.3. Use e.g. for motor vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner Schlecht, Henning Sparrer, Marina Ehrenberger, Thomas Seeg
  • Publication number: 20050012352
    Abstract: Protection device for a motor vehicle interior. A protection device with a flexible flat article, which is movably mounted between a compact, deposited rest position and at least one extracted protection position through the use of guidance means is known. According to the invention, the guidance means are designed in such a way that the flat article can be moved between a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position and a second, roughly vertically extracted protection position. Use for cars with a luggage area function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Henning Sparrer, Thomas Seeg, Matthias Lechner, Siegfried Stoeckl
  • Patent number: 6832799
    Abstract: A loading compartment comprising a loading compartment base (2), in addition to two opposing lateral walls (3) is known in prior art. According to the invention, at least one lateral wall (3) comprising at least one dimensionally stable functional module (4a-4d) is provided. Said module is detachably mounted to the bodywork and has an open or closed receiving compartment for at least one functional element (5a-5d). The invention can used in estate vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kalus Haspel, Thomas Seeg, Werner P. Schlecht