Patents Assigned to Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
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Patent number: 11505266Abstract: The invention relates to a crossmember for motor vehicle construction, having at least two modules that can be arranged one above the other, wherein each module has an inner side wall and an outer side wall, which are connected to one another at their upper ends by an upper wall and at their lower ends by a lower wall, wherein the upper wall of the lower module has, over the longitudinal extent thereof, a raised portion or depression, which engages in a complementary depression or raised portion of the lower wall of the upper module.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Rodscha Drabon, Siegmund Czerr, Hendrik Reineke, Stefan Grottke
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Patent number: 11505147Abstract: A motor vehicle bumper that has a transverse carrier which can be secured transversely relative to the longitudinal carriers of the motor vehicle by crash boxes. The transverse carrier has a shell member which is open toward the front side and which has a rear wall and two outer members which are both adjoined at the end side by an outwardly directed longitudinal flange. The shell member has a central longitudinal portion which is adjoined in the direction toward the two ends of the transverse carrier by a transition portion, an intermediate portion, a crash box connection portion and an end portion. The shell member is closed at least over the majority of the length thereof by a closure plate which forms the front side. In the transition portions, the shell member has a minimum depth which is less than the maximum depth in the central longitudinal portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Andreas Schiller, Elmar Mollemeier
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Patent number: 11492050Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle component 1, in particular a B pillar and similar shaped components. The motor vehicle component 1 has a shaped, in particular hot-formed or cold-formed, base member 2 of sheet steel. The base member 2 has a surface portion 3 which is provided with holes 7. According to the invention, the surface portion 3 has a tensile strength Rm greater than or equal to (?) 1250 MPa. A hole pattern 6 which comprises at least three holes 7 forms a deformation influence zone 8 in the surface portion 3. The surface portion of the holes 7 in the surface portion 3 is between 7% and 60% and the holes 7 have a diameter d of up to 30p mm.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Georg Frost, Martin Schroeter
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Publication number: 20220332174Abstract: A vehicle door includes a window frame and a lower surface portion formed jointly with the window frame in one piece from a hot formed and press hardened sheet metal plate which is made of a steel alloy which includes, in weight-%: Carbon 0.33-0.38, Silicon 0.2-0.7, Manganese 0.7-1.2, Phosphorus max. 0.03, Sulfur max. 0.02, Boron 0.002-0.005, Chromium 0.6-1.0, Copper max. 0.12, Nitrogen max. 0.005, Titanium 0.015-0.025, Nickel 1.5-2.0, Molybdenum 0.2-0.6, Tin max. 0.04, and as optional components Aluminum 0.006-0.08, Niobium 0.02-0.05, with a balance being iron and incidental impurities. At least the lower surface portion has a Brinell hardness of 500 to 600 HB and a yield strength of 1,200 to 1,450 MPa, wherein the lower surface portion and/or the window frame has a wall thickness of at least 6 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: Martin Holzweissig, UDO KLASFAUSEWEH
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Patent number: 11454275Abstract: The disclosure relates to a bearing arrangement for a bearing end of a fastening shackle in a vehicle body of a vehicle that includes an outer sleeve, an inner sleeve and a sleeve-shaped plastic sliding bearing. The inner sleeve is mounted in the outer sleeve so that the inner sleeve is able to slide. The sleeve-shaped plastic sliding bearing surrounds the inner sleeve and is connected to the inner sleeve in a rotationally fixed manner. The sleeve-shaped plastic sliding bearing is also longer than the outer sleeve and is delimited by a first sleeve rim that protrudes beyond the outer sleeve, where the first sleeve rim is configurable to be form-locked and to resist rotation.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: Rodscha Drabon, Dirk Rochell
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Patent number: 11434860Abstract: A fuel distributor which has a pressure accumulator rail for receiving pressurized fuel. The pressure accumulator rail has a forged base body. Mounting supports are joined to the base body by substance bonding. A mounting support is formed by two metal brackets each configured as a sheet-metal formed part. Each metal bracket has a holding portion adapted to the outer contour of the base body, a leg angled relative to the holding portion, and a mounting flange on the free end of the leg and angled away therefrom. A length portion of the base body is received between the holding portions. The holding portions partially surround the base body. The base body and the holding portions are joined by substance bonding. The legs of the two metal brackets lie next to each other at least in regions and are also joined together by substance bonding.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Jan-Philipp Nicolai, Ralf Thiele
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Patent number: 11400532Abstract: A plate heat exchanger has two metal plates brought into abutment, with a solder material between the plates. The plates are heated up to a first temperature. The plates are placed into a mold, the mold surfaces of which have cavities for envisaged channel structures. Channel structures are formed by local internal pressure forming of at least one plate under pressurization by the tool. The plates are heated up to a second temperature. The plates are solder bonded at the abuted surfaces. A plate heat exchanger has two metal plates, wherein channel structures have been formed in at least one plate and the plates are bonded to one another by soldering away from the channel structures. Eutectic microstructures having a longest extent of less than 50 micrometers are formed in the solder layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Max Boehnke, Ulrich Huschen, Elmar Grussmann, Ulrich Rusche, Jochem Grewe
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Patent number: 11390131Abstract: Chassis arrangement for a motor vehicle for passenger transportation, having two axles which are arranged at a spacing from one another in the motor vehicle longitudinal direction and in each case have wishbones with the incorporation of a spring element for the independent wheel suspension system. A first axle, lying at the front in a driving direction, is lowered from a neutral position by from 5 to 50 mm, 10 to 20 mm, in order to drive in said driving direction, and a second axle, lying at the rear in the driving direction, is raised by from 5 to 50 mm, 10 to 20 mm, in each case by way of adjustment of the spring elements, it being possible for the driving direction to be reversed.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Claudio Fernandes, Alexandre Pinto
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Publication number: 20220212615Abstract: A bumper cross member for a motor vehicle is produced from an extruded hollow profile and has a front side forming an impact side, a rear side in opposition to the front side, end zones configured for connection to the motor vehicle, a central zone extending between the end zones and bent toward the impact side, and top and bottom sides connecting the rear side with the front side. Each of the top and bottom skies has a projecting flange which is separated from the rear side by a separation cut configured to end shy of the end zones so that the flanges are connected with the bumper cross member in the end zones.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicants: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Shimizu, Frode Paulsen, Atsushi Hasegawa, Takayuki Fujii, Norikazu Matsuura, Noriaki Ito
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Patent number: 11376911Abstract: A spring control arm for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle is formed as a single-shell, essentially U-shaped sheet metal part and includes a back, spaced-apart side walls adjoining the back and each having an upper side wall region connected to the back, a lower side wall region distal from the back, and a central side wall region arranged between the upper and lower side wall regions. The spring control arm has first and a second end sections for attachment and a wider spring plate region disposed therebetween. The spring control arm has a substantially omega-shaped cross section in the spring plate region, which is more pronounced in a central longitudinal section due to outwardly projecting upper side wall sections than in an end longitudinal section of the spring plate region.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Dieter Friesen, Oliver Mielke, Stephan Meyer, Jürgen Hummelt, Thomas Klee, Manfred Bürger
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Patent number: 11358198Abstract: An efficient method for producing spring strut forks for motor vehicles is presented. In each case two spring strut forks are produced from a metallic extruded profile as a starting product. The extruded profile has a central, middle main chamber and four longitudinal chambers which are arranged offset with respect to one another over the circumference of the main chamber. Wall portions of the main chamber which are situated between the longitudinal chambers are removed, and the extruded profile is severed into two semifinished parts. Each semifinished part has one cylinder portion and two oppositely situated arm portions which project relative to the cylinder portions. The semifinished parts are subsequently mechanically machined, and one spring strut fork is produced from each semifinished part.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Stephan Meyer, Frode Paulsen
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Patent number: 11352993Abstract: A fuel distributor which has a pressure accumulator pipe for receiving pressurized fuel where the pressure accumulator pipe has a forged main body with a longitudinal cavity. At least one connector flange is configured in one piece from the same material on the main body. The connector flange has an injector connector with a connecting duct to the longitudinal cavity. A cup-shaped injector receptacle is joined to the injector connector. The injector receptacle is a single-piece deep-drawn part or a single-piece extruded part or a single-piece turn-milled part, and is connected to the injector connector by way of a fuel-tight join, or by way of brazing technology.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventor: Markus Mehring
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Patent number: 11338635Abstract: A multi-leg control arm for a wheel suspension in a vehicle, includes first and second control arm legs coupling the multi-leg control arm to an axle carrier, and third and fourth control arm legs coupling the multi-leg control arm to a wheel carrier. The first and/or third control arm leg comprises a first elongated hole, and the second and/or fourth control arm leg comprises a second elongated hole. The first and second elongated holes are aligned with one another and define a movement path of the multi-leg control arm with respect to the axle carrier or the wheel carrier. At least one fastening element penetrates the first and second elongated holes and is adapted to fix the multi-leg control arm with respect to the axle carrier or the wheel carrier in a movement position on the movement path to set a control arm camber or a control arm track.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: Thomas Abram, Geir Linnerud, Frode Paulsen
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Patent number: 11331710Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle component with at least two regions of different strengths and a protective layer, consisting of the following process steps: —providing precoated blanks made of a steel alloy, which can be hardened, —homogeneously heating to a heating temperature, which is at least greater than or equal to the AC1 temperature, preferably greater than or equal to the AC3 temperature, —holding the heating temperature, so that the precoating alloys with the blank, —homogeneously intercooling the alloyed blank to an intercooling temperature between 450 deg. C. and 700 deg. C.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Christian Hielscher, Simon Werneke, Stefan Horn, Borek Dvorak, Radovan Kout, Martin Schaele
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Patent number: 11331994Abstract: The disclosure relates to a coupling element for connecting vehicle components of an underfloor arrangement of a battery-powered motor vehicle, wherein the underfloor arrangement having a battery holder and at least one axle arrangement, the coupling element having at least one first connecting portion for fastening on the axle arrangement, and having at least one planar attachment surface for fastening on the battery holder, wherein the coupling element is designed in the form of an extruded multichamber profile. The disclosure also relates to an underfloor arrangement, for a motor vehicle, having two axle arrangements and a battery holder, arranged between the axle arrangements, wherein the battery holder has a side wall which delimits the battery holder in the outward direction, wherein at least one coupling element according to one of the preceding claims is provided, and connects at least one axle arrangement and the battery holder in a load-directing manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Christian Handing, Jochem Grewe, Stefan Schmitz
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Patent number: 11325452Abstract: The disclosure relates to a battery holder for the receiving of a plurality of battery modules in an electrically driven vehicle. The battery holder may include a plurality of juxtaposed module receptacles, wherein each module receptacle is configured to receive the battery module, and a profile wall that defines the plurality of module receptacles, wherein a heat exchanger is configured to temper the battery modules is formed in the side wall, wherein the heat exchanger comprises a plurality of hollow channels that extend along the module receptacles.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: Martin Pohl, Christian Handing, Frank Rabe, Tobias Duepmeier, Konstantin Tatarinov, Edvin List Clausen
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Publication number: 20220062965Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Frode PAULSEN, Christian HANDING
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Patent number: 11260715Abstract: The invention relates to a chassis component having a base face which extends in a base face plane and an aperture for the introduction of a fixing means and two retention elements which are arranged at opposite sides of the aperture for retaining an eccentric element, wherein the retention elements are formed integrally and in a materially engaging manner from the base face of the chassis component, wherein the retention elements are displaced out of the base face by mechanical processing. The chassis component affords a simple ability to be produced and an increased service life during operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Christian Ruesing, Aloys Schroeder, Guenter Fortmeier, Jens Sander
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Publication number: 20220048455Abstract: A bumper arrangement includes a cross member and two deformation elements for arrangement between end regions of the cross member and longitudinal members of a motor vehicle. The cross member is hollow with a front and rear walls and upper and lower walls. The front wall has a depression extending in longitudinal direction of the cross member. The depression has a deepest region extending at a distance from the rear wall. The upper and lower walls of the cross member each have in the end regions a further depression which extends in longitudinal direction of the cross member, so that the upper wall and the lower wall are more corrugated in the end regions than in a central region of the cross member, so that the distance between the front wall and the rear wall in the end regions is smaller than in a central region of the cross member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventor: Johannes Aalberg
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Patent number: 11247521Abstract: The disclosure relates to a bumper arrangement on a motor vehicle, having a crossmember and crash boxes, by means of which the crossmember is coupled to a motor vehicle, wherein a receptacle for a towing eye is formed in the bumper arrangement and the receptacle is produced in the form of an extruded profile component, wherein the receptacle is inserted into the crossmember and/or into a crash box and is fixed by clinching.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Lucas Adamski, Konstantin Tatarinov, Gero Muellers, Joern Toelle, Christian Handing