Patents Assigned to DaimlerChrysler AG
  • Vehicle occupant restraint system
    Patent number: 7364201
    Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint system comprises a safety belt arrangement with a belt webbing, a belt buckle and one of an end- and deflection fitting. The restraint system further comprises two tracks with which a vehicle seat is connected and which, for displacement of the vehicle seat, are constructed for engagement into counter-tracks fixed to a floor of the vehicle. An elongated, rigid fastening element is provided which extends beneath the seat between the tracks and which is connected with both of the tracks. At least one belt tensioner is mounted to the fastening element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Lutz, Ralf Strobel
  • Motor Vehicle Door
    Publication number: 20080092453
    Abstract: A motor vehicle door includes an outer module and an inner module. The inner module has a supporting structure that includes a metallic frame which is joined to a plastic base support to form a metal-plastic hybrid component. A fastening web which serves to receive a door seal is molded onto the plastic base support of the hybrid component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: Daimlerchrysler AG
    Inventor: Michael Fuetterer
  • Display Device for Displaying a Theft Attempt and Method for Operating Said Device
    Publication number: 20080094191
    Abstract: In an indicator device for indicating an attempted theft of objects which are detachably fixed to a vehicle, at least one piezoelectric sensor is arranged in a recess between the vehicle and the object and is placed under pressure in an installation position of the object to be secured. In addition, a method for operating an indicator device for indicating an attempted theft of detachably fixed objects is proposed, in which method the piezoelectric sensor is kept under pressure. When the object is removed from the recess, the pressure acting on the piezoelectric sensor changes, as a result of which a transmission antenna which is connected to the sensor emits a signal in order to activate an alarm system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Helmut GRICKSCHEIT, Dirk Hassert
  • Motor Vehicle Seat
    Publication number: 20080093899
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat has a seat height adjustment device for adjusting a first part of the motor vehicle seat in relation to a second part. At least one crash element is arranged between the first part and the second part, which in the event of a collision, prevents or at least hinders movement of the first part relative to the second part. According to the invention, the crash element comprises a piston-cylinder unit, with the piston being connected to the first part of the motor vehicle seat, and the cylinder connected to the second part. An opening is provided in a cylinder wall of the piston-cylinder unit through which a toothed blocking element can be engaged in a blocking manner with a toothing formed on the piston, at least in the event of a collision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Gerd Stueckle
  • Energy Absorbing Device
    Publication number: 20080093888
    Abstract: An energy absorbing device for the interior of a motor vehicle of the specification is described. The device includes two elements which are arranged movably relative to one another, having at least one actuator which is arranged between these elements and at least one receiving apparatus on the elements for fastening the actuator. The energy absorbing device is simple to manufacture and takes up a small amount of installation space, it uses a receiving apparatus shaped as a recess which is made in the elements and encloses the actuator at least partially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Baumann
  • Exhaust gas purification unit with reducing agent supply
    Patent number: 7361320
    Abstract: The invention proposes an exhaust-gas purification unit for purifying the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine which is preferably operated in lean-burn mode, in particular a diesel engine used in motor vehicles, in which a particulate filter and a SCR catalytic converter are arranged in the exhaust pipe in succession in the direction of flow, and having a reducing-agent supply, it being possible for ammonia to be added to the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine on the entry side of the SCR catalytic converter by the reducing-agent supply. According to the invention, the exhaust-gas purification unit includes a hydrogen-generating unit for enriching the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine with the hydrogen which it generates. Use in motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Frank Duvinage, Christian Goerigk, Arno Nolte, Markus Paule, Henning Sander
  • Method for Coating a Substrate Using a Paint Intensifier and Method for Bonding Coated Parts
    Publication number: 20080087377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coating a substrate by means of a paint system, said system comprising at least two paint layers, which are applied in succession to the substrate. After said application, a paint enhancer or strengthener is applied to the surface of at least one of the two applied paint layers. The method permits a substrate to be coated in such a way that at least some sections of the paint system (where the paint intensifier has been applied) have an improved mechanical load-bearing capacity, in order to produce e.g. an adhesion point with an improved mechanical stability. The invention also relates to a substrate that is coated with the paint system, to joining methods for a paint system of this type, to joined connections, to the use of bonding mixtures and to multi-ply paint layers comprising areas that have been subsequently cured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicants: DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG, SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Norman Blank, Urs Burckhardt, Peter Gimmnich, Michael Hilt, Gunter Kranz, Stefan Lotz, Josef Michel
  • Steering System
    Publication number: 20080087491
    Abstract: A steering system for a vehicle has a steering wheel that is mechanically connected to the steerable vehicle wheels via a steering column. An actuating device is actuated by a control device to generate an actuating device holding torque that acts in the steering column. The actuating device has two friction elements that can be placed in frictional contact. The actuating device holding torque is variable and depends on the friction force generated between the two friction elements. The reaction torque that acts on the steering wheel when there is steering intervention which is independent of the driver can be reduced or compensated by the actuating device holding torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG
    Inventors: Dieter Ammon, Michael Decker
  • Arrangement for vibration damping in a vehicle
    Patent number: 7357402
    Abstract: In an arrangement for vibration damping in a vehicle, including a vehicle body with an auxiliary frame and support bearings for supporting a component on the auxiliary frame, wheels supported on the auxiliary frame by links and a spring-and-damper strut or a spring and damper supporting the vehicle body, a connecting device is provided in such a manner that a force flux circuit is formed wherein forces which are introduced into the vehicle by vibratory movements caused by the upward motions and the rebounding of the wheels are substantially absorbed in the force flux circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Berghus, Alexander Ender, Achim Weber, Thomas Wergula
  • Method for actuating a reversible vehicle occupant protection means in a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7353905
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for actuating a reversible vehicle occupant protection means in a motor vehicle having a driving state sensor system and a reversible vehicle occupant protection means. The reversible vehicle occupant protection means can be triggered before the collision time and as a result moved into an effective position. For this purpose, the driving state data are monitored with respect to a state of emergency braking, and when the state of emergency braking is detected the vehicle occupant protection system is actuated. In addition, a state of oversteering and a state of understeering are determined by the data processing device. The reversible vehicle occupant protection system is actuated when the data processing device detects the state of emergency braking and/or the state of oversteering and/or the state of understeering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Walter Eberle, Wolfgang Hinrichs, Rainer Justen, Bernd Mammel, Hans Roehm, Guido Villino, Markus Woldrich
  • Method for operating an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7353799
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for operating an internal combustion engine, wherein fuel is injected in a pre-injection and main injection process. According to the invention, pre-injection occurs in the intermediate compression stroke of the internal combustion engine. Main injection is carried out in an intake synchronous manner. The invention can be used for internal combustion engines, particularly for passenger cars and commercial vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Goetz Brachert, Ruediger Herweg, Kai Kanning, Matthias Pfau, Jochen Schaeflein, Hans-Juergen Weimann
  • Vehicle transmission with selectively-engageable electric motor
    Patent number: 7353895
    Abstract: A vehicle having a transmission for transmitting a torque from a drive machine to drive wheels, with the transmission having an transmission output shaft and a transmission input shaft, in which the torque can be transmitted from the drive machine to the transmission output shaft, and having an electrical machine which has a rotor and a stator, which means being provided in order to connect the electric-motor torque of the electrical machine optionally to the transmission input shaft or to the transmission output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Otmar Bitsche, Karl-Ernst Noreikat, Tobias Ostertag, Alfons Rennefeld, Wolfgang Schwienbacher, Sven Stephan, Lars Weinschenker
  • Angular camshaft position adjustment drive
    Patent number: 7353789
    Abstract: In an adjusting mechanism having an adjusting device for adjusting a phase position of a camshaft in relation to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, and a drive gear driven by the crankshaft, for driving the camshaft, a four-shaft transmission configured as an epicyclic summing gear train for the adjustment of the phase position of the camshaft is provided in a housing from which four shafts extend and two of them are concentric for connection to corresponding shafts of a control motor capable of applying different braking torques to the two concentric shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Mathias Gregor, Jens Meintschel, Thomas Stolk, Alexander Von Gaisberg-Helfenberg
  • Hot-and cold-formed aluminum alloy
    Publication number: 20080078480
    Abstract: A component or semi-finished piece is made from a hot-form aluminium alloy of the following composition in wt. %: silicon 0.9-1.3, magnesium 0.7-1.2, manganese 0.5-1.0, copper less than 0.1, iron less than 0.5, chromium less than 0.25, titanium less than 0.1, zinc less than 0.2, zirconium and/or hafnium 0.05-0.2 and further unavoidable impurities, whereby the total amount of chromium and manganese and zirconium and/or hafnium is at least 0.4 by weight. The aluminium/silicon mixed crystals are present in addition to magnesium silicide precipitates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Andreas BARTH, Patrick LAEVERS, Arne MULKERS
  • Suppression of multipath effects in the transmission of analog TV signals
    Patent number: 7352408
    Abstract: A method for compensating for multipath effects when receiving a vestigial sideband modulated TV signal, one portion of the spectrum of the undistorted TV signal being symmetrical with respect to a video carrier frequency, and deviations from the symmetry of the relevant portion of the spectrum that exists in the undistorted state being analyzed in order to suppress the multipath effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Ronald Heuthe, Karl Strohm, Thomas Mueller, Tobias Kiefer, Marcus Windisch
  • Surface configuration of a front bumper for a vehicle
    Patent number: D566016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Peter Pfeiffer
  • Surface configuration of a rear bumper for a vehicle
    Patent number: D566017
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Peter Pfeiffer
  • Front face of a vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D566642
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Armin Scheu
  • Headlight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D566864
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Peter Pfeiffer
  • Headlight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D566865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Peter Pfeiffer