Patents Assigned to Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
  • Patent number: 12252183
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a motor vehicle structural component from an extruded multichamber hollow profile. The method includes providing an extruded profile with at least two precursor hollow chambers which are separated from one another by an inner wall, wherein in at least one outer wall of at least one precursor hollow chamber in cross-section perpendicularly to a longitudinal extent of the extruded profile has a region with non-linear course. The extruded profile is formed in at least one of its end regions into the motor vehicle structural component, wherein at least the region with non-linear course of the at least one outer wall of the at least one precursor hollow chamber, with non-linear course in cross-section, is at least partially straightened, with a change in cross-section of the respective precursor hollow chamber into the cross-section of the corresponding hollow chamber of the motor vehicle structural component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Gaurav Ahuja, Vijay Michael, Per Ivar Stemnes, Jochem Grewe
  • Publication number: 20250058729
    Abstract: A crash box for a bumper arrangement of a motor vehicle. The crash box includes at least one outer hollow chamber, at least one inner hollow chamber, a vehicle-side end portion, and a bumper-side front portion. The at least one outer hollow chamber is connected to the at least one inner hollow chamber to form a closed multi-chamber profile in the vehicle-side end portion. The at least one outer hollow chamber is separated and spaced apart from the at least one inner hollow chamber in the bumper-side front portion. In the vehicle-side end portion, the at least one outer hollow chamber and the at least one inner hollow chamber each have a partition which delimits the at least one outer hollow chamber and the at least one inner hollow chamber on an inner side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: TOBIAS SVANTESSON KAVIK
  • Patent number: 12172394
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of a fiber composite part, with a fibrous blank (6) being inserted into a mold (1) and the mold (1) being closed, and a matrix being injected into the closed mold (1), which is characterized in that at least sectionally an intermediate fibrous layer (15) is arranged locally fixed between the outer shell surface (7) of the fibrous material blank (6) and the inner shell surface (5) of the mold (1), so that the flow rate of the resin is reduced due to the randomly arranged fibers (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Dominik Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20240410677
    Abstract: A method for producing a protective element which is formed of individual profiles for armoring a motor vehicle. The method includes providing the individual profiles from a same steel alloy or from different steel alloys, welding the individual profiles to provide a preform, heating the preform to a temperature which is higher than an austenitizing temperature of the steel alloy or, if the individual profiles are provided from different steel alloys, to a temperature of the steel alloy having a highest austenitizing temperature, inserting the preform into a hot-forming mold, subjecting the preform to a final shaping in the hot-forming mold to provide the protective element, and hardening the protective element in the hot-forming mold. The welding is performed with a formation of at least two weld seams. A first weld seam is thereby located further away from a strike-facing side of the individual profiles than a second well seam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: CHRISTIAN RUESING, Dennis Schomberg, Frank Hoecker
  • Publication number: 20240387904
    Abstract: A temperature control arrangement includes a battery housing for accommodating battery modules for an electrically powered vehicle, and a temperature control plate which includes a fluid channel having a channel opening and which includes a connection opening. The temperature control is welded circumferentially to the battery housing via a first weld seam which is located on a side of the temperature control plate facing away from the battery housing. A cap is welded to the temperature control plate in a fluid-tight manner via a second weld seam such that the first weld seam and the second weld seam intersect. The cap partially covers the first weld seam and includes an overflow channel to connect the channel opening and the connection opening in a fluid-conducting manner, with the temperature control plate and the cap lying opposite to one another at least in one section in the overflow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Conrad Frischkorn, Lars Landermann
  • Publication number: 20240367728
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a motor vehicle structural component from an extruded multichamber hollow profile. The method includes providing an extruded profile with at least two precursor hollow chambers which are separated from one another by an inner wall, wherein in at least one outer wall of at least one precursor hollow chamber in cross-section perpendicularly to a longitudinal extent of the extruded profile has a region with non-linear course. The extruded profile is formed in at least one of its end regions into the motor vehicle structural component, wherein at least the region with non-linear course of the at least one outer wall of the at least one precursor hollow chamber, with non-linear course in cross-section, is at least partially straightened, with a change in cross-section of the respective precursor hollow chamber into the cross-section of the corresponding hollow chamber of the motor vehicle structural component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Gaurav Ahuja, Vijay Michael, Per Ivar Stemnes, Jochem Grewe
  • Patent number: 12065093
    Abstract: A bumper arrangement relating to a motor vehicle, having an upper main crossmember, which is able to be coupled to the motor vehicle by way of crash boxes, and a lower auxiliary crossmember wherein the main crossmember and the auxiliary crossmember are coupled to one another by way of vertical struts, wherein the bumper arrangement extends over at least 70% of the vehicle width, and in that the main crossmember and the auxiliary crossmember have end portions which protrude laterally in the motor vehicle transverse direction with respect to the crash boxes. A vertically oriented hollow profile is arranged in an outer portion of the end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Patrick Orzelek, Stephan Rabl, Mirko Paare
  • Patent number: 12065012
    Abstract: A chassis link has a link body, a ball joint socket being arranged at one link end of the link body. The ball joint socket has a cylindrical portion and an outwardly directed flange which is formed from the same material as and in one piece with the cylindrical portion. The ball joint socket is joined by way of the flange to a first web of the link body. A second lower web of the link body is joined to the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Abram, Olga Kasper, Stephan Meyer, Vojtech Drtina
  • Patent number: 12053833
    Abstract: A hot-forming die has a heatable lower die and a heatable upper die. The lower die and the upper die have spacer elements to permit flexing. A plate stack including two plate elements is inside the hot-forming die. The plate stack is on the spacer elements in the lower die. The lower die and the upper die are displaced relative to each other when the hot-forming die is closed. The spacer elements of the upper die come into contact with the plate stack. As the closing movement continues, the spacer elements, are displaced into the lower die and the upper die, respectively, and the plate stack is clamped between the lower die and the upper die. The plate stack is then heated by the lower die and the upper die and an internal pressure is applied to an intermediate space between the plate elements by feeding in an active medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Dupmeier, Guenter Fortmeier
  • Patent number: 12030448
    Abstract: A bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle, having an upper main cross member, which is able to be coupled via crash boxes to the motor vehicle, and a lower auxiliary cross member, wherein the main cross member and auxiliary cross member are coupled together via vertical struts. The main cross member and/or the auxiliary cross member and/or the vertical element are supported on the crash box and/or on a longitudinal member via at least one additional support element oriented in the direction of the motor vehicle, wherein the support element is configured in one piece and in a single material with the main cross member or the auxiliary cross member or the vertical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Karl Kristian Berger, Jens Chr. Haker, Christian Handing, Andreas Hitz, Frode Paulsen, Frank Rabe, Odd Perry Sovik
  • Patent number: 12017490
    Abstract: A bumper assembly for a motor vehicle has a cross member and crash boxes. The cross member has a front side open profile with a rear wall and an upper leg and a lower leg. Furthermore, a tow bushing is provided. The tow bushing is able to be arranged above the upper leg or below the lower leg and is able to be arranged laterally offset next to a crash box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Schiller, Elmar Mollemeier
  • Patent number: 12012059
    Abstract: A vehicle component for a vehicle has a component body which extends longitudinally in a longitudinal direction, wherein the component body has deformation zones which are spatially distributed in the longitudinal direction and are formed in the component body of sheet metal material. At least two locally distributed and spaced-apart deformation zones have different tensile strengths configured to influence a deformation course of the component body upon a force acting on the component body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Frost, Andreas Hitz, Mathias Lohberg, Martin Schroeter
  • Patent number: 11999413
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for manufacturing a motor vehicle structural component (1) from an extruded multichamber hollow profile, with the following steps: a) provision of an extruded profile (2) with at least two precursor hollow chambers (8, 9) which are separated from one another by an inner wall (7), wherein at least one outer wall (3, 4) of at least one precursor hollow chamber (8, 9), in cross-section perpendicularly to the longitudinal extent of the extruded profile (2), has a region (16) with non-linear course, b) forming of the extruded profile (2) in at least one of its end regions into the motor vehicle structural component (1), wherein at least the region (16) with non-linear course of the at least one outer wall (3, 4) of the at least one precursor hollow chamber (8, 9), with non-linear course in cross-section, is at least partially straightened, with a change in cross-section of the respective precursor hollow chamber (8, 9) into the cross-section of the corresponding hollow chamber (1
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Gaurav Ahuja, Vijay Michael, Per Ivar Stemnes, Jochem Grewe
  • Patent number: 11958097
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a metal profile blank configured as a hollow-chamber profile having at least one solid wall. A pressing tool is closed in a main direction about one end region of an element of the profile blank until surfaces of the pressing tool lie against a pair of surfaces of the profile blank to be calibrated, deforming and bending the at least one end region of the element. The pressing tool is closed in a secondary direction perpendicular to the main direction until surfaces of the pressing tool lie against surfaces of the at least one end region, and wedge-like limbs of a drive element of the pressing tool engage wedge-like dies of the pressing tool. The pressing tool is closed further in the secondary direction, subjecting the profile blank to plastic deformation so as to reduce or eliminate the bending of the end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Frode Paulsen, Christian Handing
  • Patent number: 11942648
    Abstract: In order to produce a battery carrier which has a battery tray with a cooling plate, a tray plate and a cooling plate are joined to one another, wherein the cooling plate has at least one preshaped cooling duct. The tray plate jointly with the cooling plate is then formed by folding to produce the battery tray. During the folding of the tray plate and the cooling plate, a cooling duct section is bent around a bottom edge of the battery tray. The cooling duct is provided with connection elements via which a cooling fluid is supplied and discharged. During the course of the finishing, end shape-producing shaping of the cooling duct can also be performed. Internal pressure is applied to the cooling duct in order to restore the shape of the cooling duct which collapsed due to the forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Handing, Tobias Duepmeier
  • Patent number: 11926244
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing a battery carrier for an electric battery module of a vehicle configured to electrically operate, the method may include: providing a material blank with a blank region; providing a heat exchanger structure in the blank region, that comprises hollow channels that are inseparably connected to the material blank, wherein the hollow channels are provided to regulate a temperature of the electric battery module using a fluid; and forming the material blank into a support tray with a tray base configured to support the electric battery module and with sidewalls that delimit the tray base at the sides of the tray base, wherein the tray base is developed from the blank region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Ludger Gehringhoff, Christian Handing
  • Patent number: 11885530
    Abstract: An electric heating device in an exhaust gas system, the device having an outer circumferential, circular, housing, wherein a rib structure is arranged in the housing. The rib structure can be heated by applying an electric current. The rib structure is arranged with rib rows parallel to one another in the housing, wherein the parallel-arranged rib rows are arranged such that they are electrically connected to one another in series or in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Padberg, Sven Przybylski, Ulrich Rusche
  • Patent number: 11794677
    Abstract: A bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle, having a crossmember which is able to be coupled to a motor vehicle by means of crash boxes. The crossmember is designed as a hollow profile which is open on one side. An opening of the hollow profile faces forwards. The crossmember is designed in its end portions to run with an orientation obliquely downwards with respect to the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Umesh Kalekar, Elmar Mollemeier, Mirko Paare, Martin Schroeter
  • Patent number: 11795850
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device for arranging in an exhaust gas section of a motor vehicle that includes a heating disk which is assigned to an exhaust gas aftertreatment component. The heating disk is configured by way of a flat heating element and a holder which is coupled to the former. The holder extends over the cross-sectional area of the heating element, and the holder itself is of disk-shaped configuration. The inner face of the heating disk is configured by way of arcuate spokes which are coupled irregularly to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Elmar Grussmann, Ulrich Rusche
  • Patent number: 11787276
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric vehicle for the transportation of persons and/or loads, having a frame structure and axle modules which are coupled to the frame structure, a front axle module and a rear axle module, to which in each case the wheels are coupled kinematically, at least one of the axle modules having a drive and an energy source. One of the axle modules has four suspension points for the attachment by means of elastic bearings to the frame structure, in each case, two suspension points forming a pair, and the pairs lying at different heights in the motor vehicle vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Rodscha Drabon, Hendrik Reineke, Eiko Schmidtke, Peter Auer, Jonathan Behm, Eugen Lepp, Ivo Kletetzka