Patents Assigned to BOS GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 10173597
    Abstract: Protection device for a vehicle luggage compartment including an accommodation structure, and a winding shaft on which a flexible planar structure is held. The planar structure has a pull-out profile on an end region, and on each of its opposite face sides is connected to a respective entrainer guided for linear movement in a guiding section extending in the longitudinal direction of the luggage compartment of a guiding track fixed to the luggage compartment. The accommodation structure is displaceable in the vertical direction of the luggage compartment, and each guiding track includes a deflection portion and a displacement section extending in the vertical direction of the luggage compartment, along which the entrainer is deflectable and movable in the vertical direction. The accommodation structure includes a coupling device, by which the accommodation structure is displaceable in height together with the entrainer in response to a position of the entrainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Matthias Maier
  • Patent number: 10106016
    Abstract: Roller blind sheet for a protective device of a vehicle interior compartment, including a flexible structure which is displaceable between a pulled-out protective position and compactly stored rest position in a vehicle interior. The structure is associated with lateral reinforcing metal tapes on opposite longitudinal sides thereof, and in the assembled state the tapes are guided in vehicle-related, lengthwise shiftable guiding rails. On the longitudinal sides of the structure, thin connecting strands made of metal are fixed, which are welded to the respective metal tape using a plurality of welding spots spaced along the longitudinal direction of the longitudinal sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Markus Hintennach
  • Patent number: 10065485
    Abstract: A sliding roof system with a guiding rail profile, including a fastening section with a plurality of mounting domes for connecting the guiding rail profile to a vehicle-fixed roof portion. A water drainage section extending in parallel to the fastening section is provided, which water drainage section is adjoined by a guiding section to guide control kinematics for a movable roof part. The fastening section is provided with integrally formed stiffening reinforcements. The stiffening reinforcements are provided in the vicinity of the mounting domes and extend in the transverse direction of the guiding rail profile continuously into the water drainage section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Michael Heidan
  • Patent number: 10040340
    Abstract: A drive system including a guide rail arrangement fixed to a roof module, a drive slide, a front-side lifting arrangement, a rear-side extension mechanism, and a profiled support part. The lifting arrangement and the extension mechanism interact with the profiled support part such that the profiled support part is guided in a force-controlled manner between a closed, ventilating and open positions of the roof part. The coupling device end region remote from the extension mechanism has a coupling slide which is guided in the guide rail arrangement and which comprises a blocking element that can be moved in the vertical direction. A stationary latch recess is provided in the guide rail arrangement, and the drive slide has a receiving area. Depending on the position of the drive slide, the blocking element is moved into the latch recess or into the receiving area in a force-controlled manner by mechanical control contours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Heidan, Hartmut Eberst
  • Patent number: 9975410
    Abstract: Sliding roof system for an automotive vehicle with a movable roof part which is displaceable relative to a vehicle-fixed roof frame module between a closed position, a ventilation position and an open position, and with a drive system including at least one carrier profile for displacing the roof part. A control lever is provided with at least one support roller which is supported on a floor of the guide rail arrangement, and the floor of the guide rail arrangement includes a seat into which the support roller plunges when the latching cam is received in the latching recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Waldemar Stapler
  • Patent number: 9931917
    Abstract: Sliding roof system for an automotive vehicle with a movable roof part, a fixed in location roof portion and an adjustment mechanism positioned within a guide track arrangement in order to displace the roof part between a closed position, a ventilation position and an open position below the roof portion. The adjustment mechanism includes a drive carriage driven by a drive system and a support profile fixedly connected to the roof part and operatively connected to the drive carriage by a slotted guide mechanism. The support profile, on the rear end region thereof, is articulated to a support lever, which lever is longitudinally displaceable within the guide track arrangement by a support carriage. Within the guide track arrangement a support recess is provided and fixed in location, in which a support element of the support lever is supported in response to a position of the support lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Michael Heidan
  • Patent number: 9914342
    Abstract: Shading device for a transparent surface part of a motor vehicle having a flexible shading structure, two non-parallel lateral guide arrangements fixed with respect to the vehicle and having a dimensionally stable pull-out profile displaceable in parallel fashion by in each case one guide carriage in the respective lateral guide arrangement via a drive device, lateral shading structure sections protruding, in a manner dependent on the displacement travel of the shading structure, into lateral receiving spaces fixed with respect to the vehicle. To the lateral shading structure sections, there are fastened in each case two support bodies spaced apart from one another in the pulling-out direction of the shading structure and the thickness of which is greater than a thickness of the respective shading structure sections. The support bodies are guided in transversely supported fashion with play in complementary support channel sections of the receiving spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Maier, Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 9914345
    Abstract: A wind protection device having a curved wind deflection member on which a flexible wind protection structure is retained and which has at least one lateral wind deflection arm which can be displaced by means of a guiding mechanism in the vertical direction and in the longitudinal direction of the openable roof portion between a lower rest position and an upwardly deployed operating position. The guiding mechanism includes a linear force guide having a curved guiding path along which the wind deflection arm can be displaced in the longitudinal and vertical direction relative to the roof opening portion. The wind deflection arm is associated with at least one additional supporting surface which is supported on a stationary sliding surface extending in parallel to the guiding path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Heidan, Marc Wendler
  • Patent number: 9849820
    Abstract: Receiving device for at least one food or beverage container in a motor vehicle having a trough-shaped receiving housing which has a base and wall sections, and at least one movable supporting part which, together with a side wall section of the receiving housing, forms a container holder in order to support a food or beverage container. The at least one supporting part is mounted in an infinitely adjustable manner in the receiving housing. At least one tension or compression spring arrangement is provided which continuously exerts a tensile or compressive force in the adjustment direction on the at least one supporting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels, Tanja Pink, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack
  • Patent number: 9845037
    Abstract: Device for holding at least one container in a vehicle interior and armrest unit. The device has a carrier housing which encloses a receiving cavity open towards one end face, and having a carrier slide which is mounted to the carrier housing to be movable between a rest position plunged in the receiving cavity and a functional position moved out of the end face of the receiving cavity, wherein the carrier slide has at least one container recess and at least one bottom support part pivotably mounted to the carrier slide. The bottom support part is designed as a sheet-type component made of a flat material having uniform thickness connected to the carrier slide by at least one articulated hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels, Tanja Pink, Hartmut Heine, Jan Boddenberg
  • Patent number: 9834075
    Abstract: Roof system for an automotive vehicle. A roof system with a roof opening fixed to the vehicle including a movably mounted roof part and at least one deployment and guide mechanism for displacing the roof part, and including a control carriage which is movable by a drive system in a guide track arrangement fixed to the roof, and a front and a rear deployment lever. The control carriage has a front control link, in which a bearing pin of the front deployment lever is guided, wherein the bearing pin projects through the front control link into a lifting slotted link fixed to the roof, which is oriented at least in sections crosswise in relation to the front control link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Heidan, Marius Marquart
  • Patent number: 9764624
    Abstract: Shading device for a transparent surface part of a motor vehicle having a shading structure, two non-parallel lateral guide arrangements fixed with respect to the vehicle and flanking a displacement travel of the shading structure on opposite sides, and a pull-out profile which, at opposite face sides, is displaceable by in each case one guide carriage, lateral shading structure sections protruding, in a manner dependent on the displacement travel of the shading structure, into lateral receiving spaces fixed with respect to the vehicle and assigned to the guide arrangements. Each lateral guide arrangement and the associated receiving space are integrated in one housing structure fixed with respect to the vehicle and having a guide slot for the passage of the guide carriage from the pull-out profile to a drive device the guide slot running along the displacement travel of the shading structure and opening toward the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Maier, Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 9725044
    Abstract: A protective device for a vehicle interior including a flexible structure held on a winding shaft and mounted for movement between a rest position, wound-up on the winding shaft, and a pulled-out protective position. Guiding members are provided in an end face region, which members are connectable to a drive system having a drive motor and a drive transmission connected to the guiding members in order to cause synchronous displacement of both guiding members. The drive transmission includes a revolving pull drive mechanism on one side, which drive mechanism is connected to one guiding member and is driven by the drive motor. The other guiding member is displaceable by a push-pull cord capable of translational movement, which cord is coupled to the revolving pull drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 9649914
    Abstract: Shading device including a shading structure displaceable between a lowered rest position and a deployed shading position in lateral guiding rails fixed to the vehicle. The shading structure is lowered through a passage into an accommodation chamber, wherein the passage is closed by a pivotably mounted lid. A control mechanism transfers the lid, in response to movement of a drive transmission, into an opened position. The control mechanism includes a control slider movably mounted transverse to the direction of displacement of the shading structure and in operative mechanical connection to the lid. The control mechanism includes a deflection device coupling the control slider, upon a movement of the drive transmission, to the drive transmission such that the control slider, upon movement of the drive transmission from the rest position of the shading structure in the direction of the shading position, transfers the closing lid to the opened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Horst Meier
  • Patent number: 9616733
    Abstract: A shading device for a rear window arrangement of a motor vehicle having a shading structure arranged so as to be shiftable relative to the rear window arrangement between a compactly stored inoperative position and an extended shading position, and with a dimensionally stable extension profile arranged on an end region, at the front in the extension direction, of the shading structure, the extension profile being guided so as to be shiftable in parallel in vehicle-mounted, lateral guide arrangements. The extension profile having two different visible contours positionable into different functional positions by rotation about a longitudinal axis of the extension profile, is known. The extension profile is mounted on opposite end sides by respective ball and socket joint so as to be pivotable about the longitudinal axis relative to lateral guide elements guided in the lateral guide arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Matthias Maier
  • Patent number: 9511733
    Abstract: Protective device with a flexible sheet-like structure movable between a compactly stored position and at least one two-dimensionally extended functional position and which is provided, on an end region thereof with a dimensionally stable extension profile which, at opposite ends, has retaining profile sections mounted so as to be displaceable telescopically to a limited extent in the extension profile and acted upon outwardly in the longitudinal direction of the extension profile by a spring arrangement. Each retaining profile section is assigned a second spring arrangement which acts on the retaining profile section in the opposite direction to the first spring arrangement. The retaining profile section, in an unloaded non-operational position, is held on the extension profile in a central position, from which the retaining profile section can be shifted inward or outward in opposite longitudinal directions relative to the extension profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Maier, Huan Tran, Wolfgang Schaller, Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 9493059
    Abstract: A drive system for a movable roof part of a motor vehicle roof module having at least one support bar fastened to the roof part, at least one control carriage movable linearly via a drive arrangement in a guide track running laterally along the roof part, at least one deployment mechanism which pivots, raises and lowers the support bar and the roof part, and a stationary roof region arranged behind the movable roof part. The movable roof part is pivotable from a closed position into a lifted position, is lowerable into an open position and is movable rearward under the roof region. The support bar is mounted so as to be pivotable about a pivot joint on a compensating element which, depending on the movement position of the roof part, is shiftable relative to a front guide arrangement of the deployment mechanism into different positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Heidan, Hartmut Eberst, Waldemar Stapler
  • Patent number: 9481275
    Abstract: Armrest device having an armrest part swivellably movable between an armrest position and a not-in-use position, having a base part arranged fixed in the vehicle and on which the armrest part is mounted swivellably movable about a swivel axis, and having a locking device for supporting the armrest part in at least one swivel position relative to the base part. The swivel axis is axially split into a base axis section and an armrest axis section, and the locking device includes a wrap spring brake which interacts with the base axis section and the armrest axis section in order to release the armrest part during a swivel movement in the direction of the not-in-use position and to lock it during a reverse swivel movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Juergen Salewski, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels
  • Patent number: 9481229
    Abstract: A protection device for a vehicle interior having a flexible planar formation movable between stored rest and tensioned protection positions. The formation is provided at a front end region in a tensioning direction with a dimensionally stable draw-out profile member guided between the rest and protection positions by at least one guide arrangement. The draw-out profile member includes a longitudinal compensator to compensate for deviations between movement directions of the guide arrangement and the draw-out profile member. The guide arrangement has at least one linearly guided carrier element, and the draw-out profile member includes an undercut compensation groove which extends in the longitudinal direction of the draw-out profile member and which is open towards the carrier. The carrier comprises a longitudinally displaceable sliding or rolling element which is retained in a positive-locking manner in the receiving groove in the opening direction of the compensation groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Christoph Beutel, Danja Sperr, Nina Roeschinger, Darren Ketteringham
  • Patent number: 9475417
    Abstract: Container receiving apparatus for a vehicle interior having an upper supporting frame and a lower support base, the supporting frame being mounted in a receiving housing such that it can be moved linearly between a retracted rest position and an extended receiving position. The support base is mounted for movement between a supporting functional position and a rest position. A blocking device is provided and is active so as to limit movement or force in such a way that the support base is secured in its functional position against unintentional upward pivoting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Juergen Salewski, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels