Patents Assigned to BOS GmbH & Co. KG
  • Side window shade with contour part
    Patent number: 7347246
    Abstract: A side window shade for triangular windows contains a strip-shaped shade that is provided with a contour part on its pointed end. The contour part is arranged on a slide in a pivoted fashion and is able to align itself in accordance with the winding shaft when the shade is retracted. In the extracted position, the contour part is forced into a position in which it is pivoted away from the winding shaft by a certain distance in order to cover the window opening as completely as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ekrem Ayran
  • Protection device for a vehicle interior
    Patent number: 7343956
    Abstract: A protection device for a vehicle interior has a flexible sheet-like structure which is arranged movably between a compactly put-away rest position and an extended functional position and which is connected on the end side transversely to the direction of extension over its width to a dimensionally stable profiled part. The sheet-like structure has a sheet-like section which is extended over its width and is connected extensively and cohesively to a sheet-like section of an outer casing of the profiled part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Schleef, Gunter Haebe, Juergen Wurster
  • Side window roller blind
    Publication number: 20080053630
    Abstract: A roller blind for a side window of a motor vehicle. The roller blind has a winding shaft, which is coupled via an articulated or flexible coupling mechanism to a spring drive situated outside the winding shaft. The winding shaft and the spring drive are accommodated inside a vertical window frame segment of a motor vehicle's window. The articulated or flexible coupling between the winding shaft and the spring drive makes it possible to approximate a curved path by means of two normally straight elements of the blind. Furthermore, a very flat characteristic tension curve can be achieved for the spring drive, even when the winding shaft is very short.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jan Lekar
  • Manual window blind with automatic retraction
    Publication number: 20080034667
    Abstract: A window blind for motor vehicle doors including a winding shaft arranged underneath the window's lower edge is provided. One edge of the blind sheet is fastened to the winding shaft and its other edge is attached to a pull bar. The pull bar is connected to at least one support rod that is arranged approximately at a right angle to the pull bar and projects into the body of the door. The support rod is guided is guided in the body of the door and is provided at its inner end with a dog. The dog is designed to cooperate with the lower pane edge, so that the window blind is also opened semiautomatically when the window is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: BOS Gmbh & Co. KG
    Inventor: Erik Fischer
  • Window blind driven by a window lifter
    Publication number: 20080034668
    Abstract: A window blind for motor vehicle doors including a winding shaft arranged underneath the window's lower edge is provided. One edge of the blind sheet is fastened to the winding shaft and its other edge is attached to a pull bar. The pull bar is connected to at least one support rod that is arranged approximately at a right angle to the pull bar and projects into the body of the door. The support rod is guided in the door body and it is provided at its inner end with a dog. The dog is designed to cooperate with a dog driven by the window lifter, so that the window blind is also opened semiautomatically when the window is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Erik Fischer
  • Protective device for a luggage area of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7316440
    Abstract: A protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area has a flexible flat article, which is movably mounted between a compact, deposited protection position and at least one extracted protection position. There are at least two parallel, spaced functional shafts to which the flat article is connected. The position of the flat article is detected and a controller, as a function of the detected position, controls the functional shafts in such a way that the flat article in a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position has a first, light-proof surface structural portion and in a second, vertically extracted protection position a second, light-transmitting surface structural portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner P. Schlecht, Henning Sparrer, Marina Ehrenberger, Thomas Seeg
  • Rear window roller blind with complete split coverage by the pull-out element
    Patent number: 7316443
    Abstract: A rear-window roller blind assembly for motor vehicles in which the roller blind is movable out of a pull-out slit to an extended position through movement of a pull-out element on a free edge thereof. The pull-out element includes a center piece and relatively movable end pieces shaped so that when the pull-out element is in a retracted position the pull-out slit is covered over its entire length by the pull-out element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Manually lockable module box for motor vehicles
    Publication number: 20070296236
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having a module box that is securable against theft. For this purpose, a manually actuatable lock is provided. The lock can be contained either in the module box or in the motor vehicle. Elements in the module box or the mounting arrangement that ensure that the opening mechanism of the module box and also the box's removal from the mounting arrangement are blocked are moved with the aid of a cylinder core of the lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sitzler, Hartmut Bohlke
  • Roller blind with noiseless flat spiral spring drive
    Publication number: 20070272375
    Abstract: A spring motor having a pot shaped housing in which a flat spiral spring is housed. The flat spiral spring is connected at one outer end to the pot-shaped housing while the inner end is coupled to a shaft or axle. To prevent radial vibrations of individual spring layers when the spring motor is wound or unwound, a damping plate is housed in the pot-shaped housing and held in pressed engagement with a side edge of the flat spiral spring. This spring motor can be combined with the wind-up shaft of roller-blind arrangements for motor vehicles, including fixed roller blinds, storage-area covers, or separating screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Melf Hansen
  • Motor-vehicle seat-back storage compartment
    Patent number: 7301758
    Abstract: A storage compartment for a motor-vehicle partition has an annular vehicle frame set in the partition, a container set in the vehicle frame and having an open side, and a mount releasably retaining the container in the vehicle frame. A cover fittable over the open side is adapted to carry a piece of vehicular accessory equipment, e.g. a cup holder, DVD or CD player, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sitzler, Jürgen Salewski, Alexander Reisinger
  • Rear seat back with height-adjustable center armrest
    Publication number: 20070205638
    Abstract: A center armrest for rear seat backs of cars that comprises an armrest upper part and an armrest lower part that are joined together by means of a hinge located at an end face of the armrest. Within a hollow central portion of the armrest, a control mechanism is provided by which the thickness of the armrest is automatically adjusted when the armrest is swiveled down from an out-of-use position where it functions as part of the seat back into the armrest position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Schlecht, Jurgen Salewski, Hartmut Bohlke, Wolfgang Sitzler, Olaf Buschgens
  • Holding device for cargo
    Publication number: 20070207000
    Abstract: A holding device for cargo in the trunk or storage compartment of passenger cars. The holding device includes a base part that can be selectively positioned and retained in a tie-down rail mounted in the storage compartment. Securing means in the form of a pivotable flap is provided which is spring-biased such that stored cargo can be pressed by the flap against a side wall of the trunk or the rear back seat and cannot be slung back or forth due to forces occurring during driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Dirk Gass, Jurgen Salewski, Wolfgang Sitzler, Axel Hubner
  • Fastening device for a vehicle area
    Patent number: 7261504
    Abstract: A fastening device for a vehicle area with at least one reception rail fixed to the vehicle has associated therewith an additional functional profile. The additional functional profile permits the binding of further components to the reception rail. In one embodiment, the functional profile includes a plastic envelope profile surrounding the reception rail. In a further embodiment, a fastening block is placed in the reception rail, and can be secured in the reception rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Haspel
  • Roller blind with centering by stops
    Publication number: 20070195536
    Abstract: A window shade for motor vehicles having a shade of approximately trapezoidal shape. An extension profile or pull rod of the shade, the ends of which are guided in guide rails, is arranged on the shortest transverse edge of the shade. In order to compensate for a varying distance between the guide rails, the extension profile is divided into a center section, on which the shade is fixed, and two end sections that move in the guide rails. Centering devices are provided in order to prevent transverse creases in the shade when it is completely extended. The centering devices, which are effective when the shade is completely extended, act upon the center section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner Schlecht
  • Window shade with conical winding shaft
    Patent number: 7243699
    Abstract: A window shade assembly for motor vehicles is provided. The window shade assembly includes a window shade element that is cut into a trapezoidal shape in order to be optimally adapted to the shape of the corresponding window. The winding shaft for this window shade web resembles a truncated cone that is approximated by means of a cylindrical core with wrappings applied thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Konrad Wilhelm Ganser, Werner P. Schlecht
  • Roller blind for complete shading of a motor vehicle window
    Publication number: 20070144689
    Abstract: A roller blind for motor vehicle windows which includes a roller blind body movable between a retracted stored posited and an extended position over the window with which it is used. The roller blind body has a width greater than at least portions of the rear window, with the excess portions of the roller blind body being movable into receptacles mounted in the vehicle body, thus preventing any possible light gap between the roller blind body and the side edges of the of window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner Schlecht
  • Roller blind with simplified assembly of the wind-up shaft
    Publication number: 20070144690
    Abstract: A window roller blind, especially a sunroof roller blind, having a wind-up shaft which is rotatably supported at one end on a bearing piece. The bearing piece is provided with a flat-sided pin, which is inserted into a slot that is open on one end. Through the force of a spring motor coupled to the bearing piece and used for returning the roller blind to a rolled-up condition, the pin is held against a closed end of the slot permanently and rattle-free.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Isidor Heinrich, Harald Kerzbeck
  • Curved window roller blind for motor vehicles
    Publication number: 20070137803
    Abstract: A rear window roller blind for motor vehicles has a curved extension profile and a curved winding shaft, which corresponds in its profile to the curvature of the extension profile. The winding shaft is composed of several winding shaft beads and is supported on an axle so that it can rotate. The course of the axle follows the curvature of the segmented winding shaft. A spring motor is arranged either within the axle or laterally next to the axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: Bos Gmbh & Co. KG
    Inventors: Melf Hansen, Herbert Walter, Matthias Maier
  • Stowage device for a luggage space of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7229114
    Abstract: A stowage device for a luggage space of a motor vehicle having a container which is mounted such that it is moveable by guide means between a rest position and a stowage position is known. According to the invention, the guide means and the container are arranged on a frame module which can be detachably mounted on a wall section of the luggage space by fastening means which can be operated without tools. Use for passenger vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Haspel
  • Rear-window roller blind without residual open gap
    Publication number: 20070095489
    Abstract: A rear window roller blind for motor vehicles which has a pull rod assembly with a contoured plate. The contoured plate is used to close the segmented residual gap between the straight pull rod assembly and the curved top edge of the rear window. In order for the contoured plate to lie flush with a rear shelf below the rear window when the roller blind is in a retracted position, it is pivotable about a longitudinal axis of the pull rod assembly during movement of the pull rod between its retracted and extended positions. Such rotational movement is controlled by the contour of guide rails within which the pull rod is guided during such pull out movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Thumm, Fekadu Kebede