Patents Assigned to Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
  • Motor vehicle door entry area
    Patent number: 5902007
    Abstract: Door entry area for a motor vehicle has a cover for a cable duct and a door entry rail joined by metal clamps with a sill flange lengthwise member. The cover for the cable duct has a strip-shaped projection that overlaps the sill flange by force and in a sealing fashion, and the door entry rail is designed as a T-section that has a central retaining member and two shaped legs that project approximately horizontally in the assembled state, with the retaining rib being lockable by means of a latching connection accessible for disassembly in a receiving groove of the cover that abuts the projection and runs along the sill flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Koester, Frank Marx, Lars Matthies
  • Vehicle window air bag curtain
    Patent number: 5899491
    Abstract: An air bag curtain, particularly for a vehicle window, comprises several tube-shaped chambers which are arranged side-by-side. The chambers are spaced from one another and can be filled with gas and have a largely circular cross-section after being filled with gas. In the effective gas-filled position, the air bag curtain extends between two lateral fastening points. The chambers, which are crossed by a tension line connecting the two fastening points with one another, are constructed with a bulge in the crossing area which results in the oval cross-section being oriented approximately in the direction of the tension line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ulrich Tschaeschke
  • Method for controlling a compressor of a motor vehicle air conditioner
    Patent number: 5893272
    Abstract: A method for controlling a compressor of a motor vehicle air conditioner that is designed for variable power draw and is driveable by the vehicle drive. The power draw of the compressor is subject to an upper limit that is set variably as a function of the difference between the maximum drive torque that the vehicle drive can deliver and the drive torque that is required to drive the vehicle. During a vehicle acceleration maneuver, the air conditioning power of the air conditioner is reduced only to the degree required to reach the desired acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Hanselmann, Werner Salzer
  • Ventilation nozzle
    Patent number: 5890958
    Abstract: A ventilation nozzle for vehicle interiors, having a front screen which is visible in the vehicle interior and having a multiplicity of screen openings. An air-guide block, made of elastic material, is arranged upstream, in the air-flow direction, of the front screen, having a multiplicity of parallel air ducts passing longitudinally through it. An adjusting device changes the flow direction of the air flowing out of the front screen. For the purpose of producing diffused ventilation, the air-guide block is placed nonpositively against the front screen and the adjusting device is additionally designed in such a manner that it is able to raise the air-guide block, counter to a biasing force, from the front screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ferdinand Greiner, Josef Wamhoff
  • Container for the interior of a vehicle
    Patent number: 5884799
    Abstract: A container for an installation into the interior of a vehicle, having a box with a box opening situated on top and a closing part covering it. For a compact construction of the container and a simplified installation mounting, the closing part comprises a guide plate, which rests inside the box opening and covers it partially, and a sliding lid which can be displaced in parallel thereto. On its transverse edge, which extends transversely to the sliding direction of the sliding lid, the guide plate is swivellably held on the upper edge of the box and is prestressed by a spring in a swivelling direction pointing away from the box bottom. The sliding lid is, on one side, guided in the sliding direction and with play in each transverse direction thereto on the guide plate and, on the other side, is guided via a connecting link guide on the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jurgen Korber, Tilo Volkmann, Jurgen Chaloupka
  • Marking for painted objects and method of applying the marking
    Patent number: 5876809
    Abstract: This invention relates to a marking for painted objects, preferably motor vehicles, as well as to a method for producing the marking. For this purpose, a paint coat, preferably having several paint layers, is applied to the object and the spectral course of a partial spectrum of the electromagnetic spectrum of the paint coat arranged within an electromagnetic measuring range is changed in a targeted manner such that it has narrow-band extremes of at least 5% relative intensity change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fritz Dannenhauer, Karl Holdik
  • Effect coating material and effect coating system, especially for vehicle bodies, using liquid-crystalline interference pigments
    Patent number: 5876837
    Abstract: An effect coating material and an effect coating, especially for vehicle bodies, containing interference pigments, in which the interference pigments are composed of three-dimensionally crosslinked, liquid-crystalline, main-chain polymers, which include main-chain mesogens having an at least approximately chiral nematic arrangement, and which are formed from at least one esterified cellulose ether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignees: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft, Wacker-Chemie GmbH
    Inventors: Maria-Theresia Sailer, Martin Kirschbaum, Christoph Mueller-Rees
  • Exterior surface configuration of an interior light fixture for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: D405550
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Peter Pfeiffer, Hans-Dieter Futschik
  • Motor vehicle
    Patent number: D406798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Harald Leschke, Olivier Boulay, Shuichi Yamashita, Anthony Lo
  • Steering wheel for vehicle
    Patent number: D406804
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Harald Leschke, Guenter Hoelzel, Michael Kraemer, Christopher Rhoades
  • Steering wheel for vehicle
    Patent number: D406805
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Harald Leschke, Guenter Hoelzel, Michael Kraemer, Christopher Rhoades
  • Exterior surface configuration of a front vehicle headlight
    Patent number: D406911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Harald Leschke, Olivier Boulay, Shuichi Yamashita, Anthony Lo, Wolfgang Muller, Anton Reichel, Werner Heinz
  • Exterior surface configuration of a rear vehicle light
    Patent number: D406912
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Harald Leschke, Olivier Boulay, Shuichi Yamashita, Anthony Lo, Wolfgang Muller, Anton Reichel, Werner Heinz
  • Key for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: D407006
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Peter Pfeiffer
  • Key for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: D407007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Peter Pfeiffer
  • Exterior surface configuration of an interior light fixture for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: D407167
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Peter Pfeiffer, Hans-Dieter Futschik
  • Front surface configuration for a vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D407681
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Peter Pfeiffer
  • Exterior surface configuration of a vehicle
    Patent number: D407997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Peter Pfeiffer
  • Front surface configuration of a vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D408343
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Peter Pfeiffer, Hans-Peter Bildhaeuser
  • Front surface configuration for vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D408776
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Sacco, Peter Pfeiffer, Hans-Dieter Futschik