Patents by Inventor Wulf Thoma

Wulf Thoma 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: 20180015861
    Abstract: An insert mat for motor vehicles for placing onto a sound-absorbing wall-to-wall carpet structure of the motor vehicle, having an at least three-layer structure, in which the structure has a decorative layer, which is oriented toward the interior of the vehicle in the proper position of the insert mat and is attached to a top surface of a support layer, which surface is oriented toward the interior of the vehicle in the proper position, and a gripping layer, which in the proper position of the insert mat, is attached to a bottom surface of the support layer and is embodied to achieve a hooking interaction with a wall-to-wall carpet of a vehicle, in which the entire structure is embodied to be air permeable, wherein the decorative layer is a tuft, the support layer is a nonwoven, and the gripping layer is a tuft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Hubert Röding, Wulf Thoma
  • Publication number: 20150125648
    Abstract: An insert mat for motor vehicles for placing onto a sound-absorbing wall-to-wall carpet structure of the motor vehicle, having an at least three-layer structure, in which the structure has a decorative layer, which is oriented toward the interior of the vehicle in the proper position of the insert mat and is attached to a top surface of a support layer, which surface is oriented toward the interior of the vehicle in the proper position, and a gripping layer, which in the proper position of the insert mat, is attached to a bottom surface of the support layer and is embodied to achieve a hooking interaction with a wall-to-wall carpet of a vehicle, in which the entire structure is embodied to be air permeable, wherein the decorative layer is a tuft, the support layer is a nonwoven, and the gripping layer is a tuft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Hubert Röding, Wulf Thoma
  • Patent number: 6918734
    Abstract: A loading floor for a vehicle having first guide elements for engaging second guide elements of the vehicle, for lifting and extending a loading floor. The first guide elements are provisioned at the sides of the loading floor. A loading apparatus for a vehicle having a loading area with two sidewalls that border the loading area. Guide elements are provided for lifting and extending a loading floor, where the guide elements are provisioned on or in the sidewalls above the vehicle floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Albrecht Nick, Wulf Thoma, Werner Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20050002768
    Abstract: A loading apparatus for a vehicle, with loading floor provisioned in loading area of the vehicle, with a first set of elements for the vertical adjustment of loading floor within loading area, with a second set of elements for the horizontal movement of loading floor, specifically for extending and retracting loading floor out of and into loading area, and with drive elements for driving elements the first set of elements for the vertical adjustment of loading floor, wherein the second set of elements also serve to drive the first set of elements for the horizontal movement of loading floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Applicant: SAI Automotive SAL GmbH
    Inventors: Albrecht Nick, Geisslinger Jurgen, Wulf Thoma
  • Patent number: 6808217
    Abstract: A loading apparatus for a vehicle, with a loading floor provisioned in a loading area of the vehicle, where the loading floor exhibits a spacing element, with guide linkage or channel, where the lower end of the spacing element is configured for engaging the guide linkage. The vehicle has a loading edge, where loading edge exhibits a slant for supporting the loading floor at a second end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Sai Automotive Sal GmbH
    Inventors: Albrecht Nick, Wulf Thoma
  • Publication number: 20040160073
    Abstract: A loading apparatus for a vehicle, with a loading floor provisioned in a loading area of the vehicle, where the loading floor exhibits a spacing element, with guide linkage or channel, where the lower end of the spacing element is configured for engaging the guide linkage. The vehicle has a loading edge, where loading edge exhibits a slant for supporting the loading floor at a second end region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: Albrecht Nick, Wulf Thoma
  • Publication number: 20040151566
    Abstract: A loading floor for a vehicle having first guide elements for engaging second guide elements of the vehicle, for lifting and extending a loading floor. The first guide elements are provisioned at the sides of the loading floor. A loading apparatus for a vehicle having a loading area with two sidewalls that border the loading area. Guide elements are provided for lifting and extending a loading floor, where the guide elements are provisioned on or in the sidewalls above the vehicle floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Albrecht Nick, Wulf Thoma, Werner Schwarz
  • Patent number: 5609816
    Abstract: In a process for preparing a molding from fibers and/or flakes and thermoplastic binder, the material is introduced into a mold, compacted, and bonded by thermal effect. To make it possible to introduce the material rapidly and such that a consistently equal density or a density changing in a defined pattern will be obtained, a filling contour calculated for the given molding is formed by a first mold disk set. After filling the filling contour, a first finished contour mold is positioned against it. A second mold disk set, whose disks are displaceable between the disks of the first mold disk set and form the second finished contour of the molding, is subsequently displaced in the first mold disk set against the first finished contour mold, while the material present in the filling contour is compacted. The material is subsequently fixed by thermal effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Schaeffler Teppichboden GmbH
    Inventors: Wulf Thoma, Ekkehard Labitzke