Patents Assigned to BOS GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 6486631
    Abstract: A drive system for a covering device, which can be rolled up or folded, for motor vehicles is equipped with a control device. The control device has a current sensor for detecting the current applied to an electric motor of the drive system in the course of moving the covering device. The control system measures a current parameter at the start of the movement of the covering device and switches off the current to the motor as soon as switch-off criteria derived from the current values measured at the start of the movement have been reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner P. Schlecht, Holger Seel, Thomas Laudenbach
  • Patent number: 6427751
    Abstract: An automobile rear window shade 9 having a windup roller (15) rotatably seated in a housing (13) in the automobile. The windup roller (15) is pre-stressed in the wind-up direction of the window shade web (17) by a spring (16). Two pivot levers (19, 21), which are pivotably seated on the housing (13), are provided for unrolling the window shade web (17). Couplings (31) between the pivot levers (19, 21) and a gear motor (29) are provided for operating the pivot levers (19, 21). The couplings (31) are flexible over sections of their length, and to prevent kinking of the flexible sections kink-protection structures 44 are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner P. Schlecht, Holger Seel, Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 6416103
    Abstract: A protective device for the interior of a motor vehicle has a protective structure which has a planar shape in a protective position and which is seated for movement by a drive mechanism between at least two positions. The protective structure is connected with at least one guide element that can be entrained by at least one coupling member with transfer structure to the drive mechanism. The at least one coupling member is provided with at least one picking-up element that acts in transverse direction to the direction of movement of the coupling member and that entrains, releases or picks up the guide element with limited entraining force during movement of the coupling member. The protective device is usable for cargo area coverings, cargo area dividers and sun-protection roller blinds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Laudenbach, Holger Seel, Werner P. Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20020074960
    Abstract: A drive system for a covering device, which can be rolled up or folded, for motor vehicles is equipped with a control device. The control device has a current sensor for detecting the current applied to an electric motor of the drive system in the course of moving the covering device. The control system measures a current parameter at the start of the movement of the covering device and switches off the current to the motor as soon as switch-off criteria derived from the current values measured at the start of the movement have been reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner P. Schlecht, Holger Seel, Thomas Laudenbach
  • Publication number: 20020033616
    Abstract: A motor vehicle is equipped with a protective sun shade 13, whose essential mechanical elements are housed in a roof interior space 6, above the headliner 5. The protective sun shade 13 is free of guide rails. Either the sun shade web 14 is sufficiently rigid, or its front edge is supported with the aid of guided guide and push rods 42, 43 in such a way that its front or lower edge 21 is held in contact with the respective pane 8. A gear motor 25 is provided for operating, i.e. retracting and extending the window shade web 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Schlecht, Herbert Walter
  • Publication number: 20020023727
    Abstract: A automobile rear window shade 9 having a windup roller (15) rotatably seated in a housing (13) in the automobile. The windup roller (15) is pre-stressed in the wind-up direction of the window shade web (17) by a spring (16). Two pivot levers (19, 21), which are pivotably seated on the housing (13), are provided for unrolling the window shade web (17). Couplings (31) between the pivot levers (19, 21) and a gear motor (29) are provided for operating the pivot levers (19, 21). The couplings (31) are flexible over sections of their length, and to prevent kinking of the flexible sections kink-protection structures 44 are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Applicant: BOS GMbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner P. Schlecht, Holger Seel, Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 6349986
    Abstract: A cargo area divider for a vehicle is provided which can be automatically transferred into an operative position or a non-operative position by a motor drive. Monitors for locking mechanisms of the operative position serve to dynamically block a roller blind shaft for the divider. Also, it is provided to monitor a loading level of the cargo area and to trigger an automatic transfer of a divider net or a partition wall into the operating position in response to the loading level exceeding a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Holger Seel, Werner P. Schlecht
  • Patent number: 6347825
    Abstract: A side window blind is integrated in the bodywork of a motor vehicle. The blind can be retracted into the hollow space between the inner lining and the outer skin of the vehicle. The blind passes out through a slot in the window embrasure. In order to close this slot when the side window blind is not in use, a flexible cover strip is connected with the reinforcing strip on the front edge of the blind material, which in the driven-out state comes to lie against the contour of the reinforcing strip. In the driven-in or drawn in state, the cover strip is lifted off sectionwise from the reinforcing strip and lies, closely to the slot, on at least one of the slot edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Holger Seel, Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 6325436
    Abstract: A cargo area divider for a motor vehicle has a flexible planar structure that is equipped in a front end region with a pull-out profile that has retaining elements for detachably securing the pull-out profile on vehicle-mounted retainers in a roof region of the motor vehicle. When the planar structure is in the pulled-out functional state, the retaining elements project upward beyond an upper edge of the pull-out profile; and the corresponding vehicle-mounted retainers are positioned, in order to receive the retaining elements, in a horizontal headliner region at a distance from lateral roof frame elements of the roof region of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marina Ehrenberger, Holger Seel
  • Patent number: 6312036
    Abstract: A hat holding piece piece (19) is composed of three sections, a middle section (31) and two corner pieces (32, 33) which are laterally hinged on the middle section (31). The corner pieces (32, 33) can be swung with the aid of the hinge so that in the region of the corner pieces (32, 33) the width of the hat holding piece (19) can be reduced by the swinging downward of these corner pieces (32, 33). In this manner the different clear width of the automobile body is taken into account, which as a rule is greater below the side windows than at a place located nearer to the roof. A cargo space covering has a molded part which likewise consists of three sections, a middle piece and two corner pieces. The corner pieces are likewise joined opposite hinges with the middle piece by means of hinges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marina Ehrenberger, Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 6183028
    Abstract: A safety net arrangement is provided with a load-indicating arrangement (25) in order to signal to the user that forces have acted on the safety net which possibly can lead to a prior damage. The load-indicating arrangement (25) cooperates with the anchoring members (21) with which the front edge of the safety net is to be anchored in the vehicle. For the load-indicating arrangement (25), the deformation of these anchoring members (21) is utilized in such manner that a deformation of the anchoring members (21), regardless of whether it is permanent or elastic, going beyond a certain measure blasts the signaling member (42) out of its rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eduard Ament, Marina Ehrenberger, Holger Seel
  • Patent number: 6125908
    Abstract: A rolling cover has two end caps movable toward one another. The movability of the end caps toward one another and/or away from one another serves to make it possible to easily lock the rolling cover in corresponding vehicle-side receiving pockets or to remove the rolling cover therefrom. An actuating mechanism is present to which the two end caps are additionally joined. This actuating member permits the end caps to be moved in an ergonomically favorable manner by a single hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eduard Ament, Holger Seel, Marina Ehrenberger