Patents Assigned to BOS GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 7207613
    Abstract: A luggage area protection device includes a flexible flat article movably arranged between a compactly deposited rest position and an extracted functioning position. At the front end in the extraction direction, a dimensionally stable extraction part, extending transversely to the flat article extraction position, is provided. Guides are associated with the extraction part and move the latter between the extracted functioning position and the flat article rest position. The extraction part is lockable in the extracted flat article functioning position. The locking mechanisms, considered in the flat article extraction direction, are positioned approximately at the same height or behind an area portion defining the rest position of the extraction part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner P. Schlecht
  • Patent number: 7188659
    Abstract: A window shade arrangement for motor vehicles that includes plastic injection molded guide rails designed such that they may be formed with injection tools that do not require moveable cores for forming guide grooves therein. In one embodiment, the guide rail includes an outer part (41) formed with a guide groove and a support part (42) made from less deformable material than the outer part for preventing widening of and deforming of the guide groove during usage. In another embodiment, the first and second molded parts are interconnectable to define the guide groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Melf Hansen, Harry Weinbrenner, Herbert Walter, Olaf Bühl, Matthias Maier
  • Publication number: 20070041804
    Abstract: A load-bearing rail is provided for the cargo space of a motor vehicle, which is used for accommodating a load-bearing eyelet that can be guided therein in a movable and lockable manner. To provide a load-bearing rail for the cargo space of a motor vehicle, which may assume additional functions in order to both keep the weight low and to reduce the number of parts and thus to lower the cost of production, the load-bearing rail is provided with a bracket, which sticks out laterally and which serves as a support for a floor of the cargo space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicants: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengessellschaft, BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Stoeckl, Werner Schlecht, Thomas Seeg, Henning Sparrer
  • Publication number: 20070023152
    Abstract: A roller blind assembly for windows of motor vehicles having roller blind and guide rails for guiding movement of the roller blind between extended and retracted positions. Pusher elements with a smooth outer side are protected from bending while being guided in the guide rails. The drive of these pusher elements is effected with the aid of a linear drive which is constructed with belts or cords for quiet operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Starzmann, Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 7163251
    Abstract: A storage compartment for a motor vehicle having a partition has an annular vehicle frame set in the partition, a container set in the vehicle frame and having an open side, a cover fittable over the open side, and a mounting system for releasably securing the cover over the open side and permitting complete separation of the cover from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sitzler, Jürgen Salewski
  • Publication number: 20070000625
    Abstract: A roller blind for motor vehicles in which pulling out movement of the sheet like window shade is effected by means of motor powered thrust elements. In order to limit the movement of the thrust element in an end position if the driving motor remains switched on, an end stop element seated on at least one of the thrust elements comes into contact with a stationary end stop and blocks additional movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Olaf Buhl, Harry Weinbrenner, Melf Hansen, Matthias Maier, Herbert Walter
  • Publication number: 20070000624
    Abstract: A window roller blind assembly for motor vehicles which includes a roller blind that can be drawn from a wind-up shaft by a motor driven driving element engageable with a pull rod of the roller blind. To prevent pinching as a result of the pull rod engaging an obstacle during operation of the roller blind assembly, an electrical system is provided for monitoring operation of the roller blind motor. The system is operable for switching off current to the motor when a preset value is exceed, which is interpreted as a signal that pinching or squeezing of an obstacle is occurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Melf Hansen, Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20060290162
    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: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Patent number: 7140659
    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 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner P. Schlecht, Henning Sparrer, Marina Ehrenberger, Thomas Seeg
  • Publication number: 20060260770
    Abstract: A window roller blind assembly for motor vehicles which includes a roller blind affixed at one end to a wind-up shaft for extended and retracted movement with respect to a window of the motor vehicle. A bearing device is provided for the wind-up shaft that permits selective axial positioning of the wind-up shaft for enabling precise positioning of the roller blind with respect to the window with which the assembly is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jurgen Gradl
  • Publication number: 20060237152
    Abstract: A window roller blind assembly for motor vehicles which includes a roller blind that can be drawn from a wind-up shaft by a motor driven driving element engageable with a pull rod of the roller blind. The pull rod, which is guided for movement in guide rails, has a braking device that causes at least part of the driving force necessary for moving the window shade to be fed into the guide rail to brake further movement of the roller blind when the pull rod bumps into an obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: BOS GmbH Co. KG
    Inventors: Melf Hansen, Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20060219372
    Abstract: A side window roll-up shade for a passenger car has bearing arrangement on both ends. One of the two bearing arrangements is provided with a threaded stem that extends over only a short distance of the wind-up shaft and which is anchored either in the wind-up shaft or the car body. Therefore, the assembly is limited to those parts responsible for axial movement on the associated wind-up shaft end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Melf Hansen
  • Patent number: 7097401
    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 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Haspel
  • Patent number: 7089992
    Abstract: A window shade assembly for motor vehicles which has a pivotable cover provided on the slot through which the window shade is extendable and retractable. The cover is prestressed into an open position by an opening spring for enabling extraction of the window shade. The cover is closed by excess travel of a window shade actuating element that serves for moving a tension rod of the window shade to the extracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Melf Hansen
  • Patent number: 7086678
    Abstract: A separating device for a vehicle interior, with at least one dimensionally stable flat structure, is positioned upright in a protection position. At least one transparent disk element is associated with the flat structure and is mounted so as to move in translatory manner parallel to the flat structure. In a protection position, it extends the flat structure in the vehicle height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner P. Schlecht
  • Patent number: 7082983
    Abstract: A window shade component group which includes a window shade supporting windup shaft with bearing devices for rotatably supporting opposite ends of the windup shaft. At least one of the bearing devices is provided with a blocking device, which is effective for maintaining a spring drive of the windup shaft in the wound position after assembly of the windup shaft. Following installation of the window shade component group in a motor vehicle or appropriate housing, the blocking device is releasable as an incident to actuation of the windup shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Abdoul Coulibaly, Bouaziz Belibel, Christoph Binder
  • Patent number: 7080866
    Abstract: A through-seat holder for a motor vehicle has a vehicle frame having generally parallel longitudinal members and transverse side members interconnecting ends of the longitudinal members and defining therewith a throughgoing opening. The longitudinal members are spaced apart by a predetermined transverse distance and form a pair of parallel outwardly facing guide faces flanking the opening and spaced apart by a predetermined transverse dimension greater than the transverse distance. A device frame fittable in the opening of the vehicle frame has generally parallel longitudinal members and transverse side members interconnecting ends of the respective longitudinal members. One of the device-frame transverse members is formed with a rim having a transverse width equal substantially to the dimension so that the rim cannot pass through the opening when extending transversely. The rim forms a pair of transversely spaced contact points engageable with the faces and defining a transversely extending pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Reisinger, Jürgen Salewski, Wolfgang Sitzler, Hartmut Bohlke
  • Patent number: 7073836
    Abstract: A carrying structure is provided, which is supported on one wall of the loading space with the freedom to move between a rest position and at least one carrying position, where the carrying structure, when in the rest position, fits closely against the wall of the loading space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Haspel
  • Publication number: 20060118254
    Abstract: A window shade arrangement having a manually operated window shade web whose movement between open and closed positions is guided by guide rails at each side. A pull rode having oblong sliding blocks travels in the two guide rails. The sliding blocks, together with the pull rod, can swivel about an axis parallel to the pull rod. In this way, the sliding blocks can become secured in corresponding locking pockets in the guide rails. The locking can be released by manual turning of the pull rod in the opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Thumm
  • Patent number: 7055877
    Abstract: Protection device for a motor vehicle interior includes a flexible flat article that is movably mounted between a compact, deposited rest position and at least one extracted protection position through the use of a guidance device. The guidance device is designed so that the flat article can be moved between a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position and a second, roughly vertically extracted protection position. The device is generally used in a luggage area of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Henning Sparrer, Thomas Seeg, Matthias Lechner, Siegfried Stoeckl