Patents Assigned to BOS GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 7052063
    Abstract: 1. Functional device for a motor vehicle luggage area. 2.1 A functional device with a luggage area-side fixable casing unit in which at least one flexible flat article is movably mounted between a compactly deposited rest position and a horizontally extracted functional position is known. 2.2 According to the invention, spaced below the at least one flat article is provided at least one further flat article arrangement, which in a functional position is oriented in a plane parallel to a luggage area floor and which in a rest position is compactly deposited in the vicinity of the casing unit. 2.3 Use for station wagons and stretched limousines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Haspel, Andreas Kobiela
  • Publication number: 20060090863
    Abstract: The cut edge of a roller blind that is fixed on a winding shaft produces an abrupt change in diameter. The radius of curvature of the wound blind abruptly changes at this location. The resulting bend in the roller blind predominantly stabilizes over time on the inner layers of the wound blind. When the roller blind is pulled out, the bend becomes visible in the form of a strip. In order to prevent this bend from forming, the outer surface of the roller blind transitions into a ramp surface in the winding shaft at the fixing point. The ramp surface can be produced by means of grinding, a filler body or use of a correspondingly stepped winding shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Roland Schneider
  • Patent number: 7036189
    Abstract: A fastening means with at least one flexible tension strand, which has a hook element at each of its two opposite ends, where it is provided in accordance with the invention that each end of the minimum of one tension strand is attached to a seating element, on which a hook element is supported with freedom to rotate around its longitudinal center axis. The invention is suitable in particular for the securing of objects in the interior space of passenger vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas C. Steigerwald
  • Publication number: 20060081670
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ski bag having a reinforcing element in at least one region. This reinforcing element prevents the steel edges of the skis from cutting open the ski bag in the event of a crash such that parts cannot be thrown into the passenger compartment through the ski bag or the skis cannot be thrown into the passenger compartment through this opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sitzler, Hartmut Bohlke
  • Patent number: 7028872
    Abstract: A storage device for a motor vehicle, such as a station wagon, including at least one partially flexible storage bag, which can be firmly secured in the cargo space, wherein each of two opposing sides of the storage bag features a dimensionally stable supporting section extending along at least one entire horizontal length of the side to which it corresponds, wherein the opposing fronts of the supporting sections can be secured, in a detachable manner, in a mounting device in the cargo space, and the dimensionally stable supporting sections are connected to one another by a flexible folding structure that protrudes into at least one floor section of the storage bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Mark Lobanoff
  • Patent number: 7021692
    Abstract: A locking device with a holding device for a cover of a motor vehicle trunk is movable in a longitudinal guide and can be held in form-closed manner there by a movable projection. The projection is movable by an operating device and is rotatable about a fulcrum. The operating device includes an electromotive drive and a gear, which can be a non-self-locking gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Laudenbach, Mathias Kötter
  • Patent number: 7017965
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a safety apparatus having an extensible safety net having an outer edge, a rigid end element provided on the outer edge and having a fitting, and a holder on the motor-vehicle body having a seat in which the fitting is engageable when the net is deployed. A latch element is movable in the holder between a holding position extending into the seat and retaining the fitting therein in the deployed condition of the net and a freeing position clear of the seat and permitting the fitting to move into and out of the seat. This latch element has a control edge operable to displace the latch element into the freeing position. An actuator on the end element is engageable with the fitting when the fitting is retained by the latch element in the seat and can displace the latch element into the freeing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sitzler, Jürgen Salewski
  • Patent number: 7014239
    Abstract: A protective device for a motor vehicle cargo area includes at least one winding shaft mounted between two casing side parts coaxially movably associated with one another in the longitudinal direction of a winding axis of the winding shaft and fixable in vehicle-secured holders. At least one casing side part of the device is positively locked in a releasable manner in the longitudinal direction of the winding axis in the corresponding vehicle-secured holder by a mechanical locking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Marina Ehrenberger
  • Publication number: 20060021721
    Abstract: A window shade particularly adapted for use with curved windows of motor vehicles. The window shade comprises a curved winding shaft that includes a tubular axle, a plurality of axially connected shaft sections mounted on the axle for relative rotational movement, and a winding spring supported within the axle having one end fixed to the axle and the other end secured to a shaft section. In this way, assembly of the window shade is facilitated and the spring is supported within the axle without rattling noises.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Melf Hansen
  • Publication number: 20060021723
    Abstract: A roll-up window shade assembly for motor vehicles is provided. The roll-up window shade assembly includes a roll-up window shade element having a transparency that is anisotropic over its surface area. As desired, the transparency can change from the top edge of the window to the bottom edge of the window in the sense that a better transparency is provided in the region of the bottom edge of the window. Alternatively, the transparency can change from the rear edge of the window to the front edge of the window with the best transparency being provided next to the front edge of the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicants: BOS GmbH & Co. KG, rokona Textilwerk GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Schneider, Uwe-Gert Heiner, Joachim Heebaart, Hans Kohn
  • Publication number: 20060000566
    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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Konrad Ganser, Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20050263257
    Abstract: A window shade for motor vehicles is provided that includes a rotatably supported winding shaft with one edge of a shade element fixed thereon. The other edge of the shade element is captured on an extraction rod, the ends of which are guided in guide rails. The distance between the guide rails changes significantly in the moving direction of the shade element, and therefore the length of the extraction rod can be telescopically varied. The extraction rod includes a center piece and two end pieces, with a differential gear ensuring that the center piece always remains centered relative to the end pieces. The position of the differential gear is adjustable in the longitudinal direction of the transverse edge of the shade element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Melf Hansen, Matthias Maier
  • Patent number: 6968887
    Abstract: In connection with a rear window shade, elastomeric profiled strips are assigned to the guide rails in which the pull rod is guided. The profiled strips are capable of holding the respective end of the pull rod in the guide rail in a substantially rattle-free manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Melf Hansen, Matthias Maier
  • Publication number: 20050257903
    Abstract: A window shade arrangement for a motor vehicle is provided that contains a housing in which a winding shaft is rotatably supported. A strip shaped shade element is fixed on the winding shaft. The cover of the window shade housing is formed by a spring housing. A coil spring for tensioning the winding shaft in the wind up direction of the strip shaped shade is seated in the spring housing. The spring housing, the spring seated therein and a coupling shaft form a preassembled unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Danja Schimko, Melf Hansen, Christian Thurnau
  • Patent number: 6966591
    Abstract: A protection device is provided with at least one flat article, which can be alternatively transferred into a roughly vertical protection position or a roughly horizontal position. Means for varying the transmittance of the flat article are provided and are coupled to control means which, as a function of a displacement of the flat article between the protection positions, control the transmittance varying means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventor: Werner P. Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20050194109
    Abstract: A window shade arrangement has holding levers in order to draw the window shade material from the wind-up roller shaft and to hold it in a drawn out or extended position. The holding levers include hinged sliding elements that slide in associated guide grooves in the pull-out element or bar. To ensure stop-free, smooth operation, these sliding elements can be provided with a lubricant reservoir, can have a dumbbell shape, can have a cylindrical shape or some combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Starzmann, Dieter Gassenheimer, Herbert Walter, Klaus Gusewell
  • Patent number: 6930592
    Abstract: A system for protecting the loading space of vehicles, in particular passenger cars, with sensors for sensing loaded material in the loading space, detectors for sensing the state of protective devices in the loading space and being configured for signal generation indicative of the state of the loaded material and as a function of the sensing of loaded material and the sensing of the state of the protective devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Werner P. Schlecht, Andreas Kobiela, Klaus Haspel, Thomas Laudenbach, Thomas Seeg
  • Patent number: 6921119
    Abstract: A luggage compartment for a motor vehicle, comprising a bottom (2) and two opposite-lying flat side trim panels (4), is already known per se. According to the invention, functional tracks (5-7) extending cross-wise and in a longitudinal direction are provided in the region of each side wall. Said tracks are, at least partially, spatially integrated into the side trim panels. The invention is used in passenger vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Haspel, Werner P. Schlecht
  • Patent number: 6918623
    Abstract: A protective device for a motor vehicle comprising a flat sheet which is movably supported between a compactly rolled-up rest position and a pulled-out deployed position, which flat sheet is supported over its pull-out path in guideways in the sides of the vehicle. A drive system is associated with the flat sheet on each side thereof. The two drive systems are connected to one another through a mechanical synchronization gearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Melf Hansen, Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 6913303
    Abstract: A mounting system for a motor vehicle which is connected force-transferringly to at least one vehicle-fixed retaining device by means of at least one locking device. The at least one locking device has at least two locks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Andreas Kobiela, Thomas Seeg, Werner P. Schlecht