Patents Assigned to Grammer AG
  • Patent number: 9663001
    Abstract: A commercial vehicle seat with a seat part, a backrest part and a seat substructure to be arranged on a body part of a commercial vehicle is provided. The seat substructure comprises a lateral swinging means with a cross carriage part, which can be swung transversely to the longitudinal extension of the commercial vehicle and by which at least the seat part is mounted, and comprises a locking means for fixing the cross carriage part on the base support part, wherein the locking means has two locking units which are spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal extension of the commercial vehicle and which have a respective locking element which is mounted such that it can swivel about a vertical swivel axis and can be deflected synchronously by an actuating element which is arranged at least in part therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventors: Erwin Haller, Nikolas Haller
  • Patent number: 9604557
    Abstract: A guide device is provided for guiding sliding movement of an armrest of a vehicle seat, the device comprising a guide rail, a sliding rail, and at least one slide, wherein the slide is arranged in an installed deformed state using a first spring element region formed on the slide and a second spring element region located a distance therefrom to contact an inner side of the sliding rail. A third spring element region is formed between the first and the second spring element regions interconnecting the first and second spring element regions. In the installed deformed state, the third region is formed in a curve at a distance from an inner side of the sliding rail and in the non-installed undeformed state, the third region is formed in a straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Konstantin Lorey
  • Patent number: 9579995
    Abstract: The invention relates to a commercial vehicle seat having a seat substructure supporting part and a seat substructure base part each attached underneath a seat part, the seat substructure supporting part being movable and/or height-adjustable relative to the seat substructure base part, where the seat substructure supporting part comprises an upper supporting part joined to the underside of the seat part and a lower supporting part joined to the base part, wherein at least one roller bearing with a roller bearing ring, which extends orbitally about a notional rotary axis running in the vertical direction of said vehicle seat, is arranged between the upper supporting part and the lower supporting part, in order to rotatably support said upper supporting part relative to said lower supporting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Erwin Haller
  • Patent number: 9580115
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat or a vehicle cab with a suspension system comprising an upper closing part and a lower closing part which is deflectable in relation to the upper closing part, which closing parts are connected to each other in a resilient manner by means of a suspension element, and with a damping system for damping vibrations acting on at least one of the two closing parts, wherein the damping system and a distance levelling system for adjusting a distance between the upper closing part and the lower closing part have a common fluid actuator element controlled by compression and tension stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventor: Erwin Haller
  • Patent number: 9566886
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat, comprising a vertically adjustable seat connection arranged between and mechanically interconnecting an upper seat part and a lower seat part. At least one oscillation limiting device is provided to limit a vertical oscillation movement of the upper seat part in a direction away from the lower seat part, is arranged between the lower seat part and the upper seat part, and is rigidly connected to the upper seat part. The oscillation limiting device comprises at least one reel-off element with a presettable reel-off length that determines a maximum deflection height in the vertical direction. The oscillation limiting device limits movement of the upper seat part in the vertical direction, in the direction away from the lower seat part, after reel-off of the presettable reel-off length, without damping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Alexander Lorey
  • Patent number: 9555727
    Abstract: The invention relates to a headrest that is retained on a vehicle seat by at least one support rod (12) and that has at least one adjustment part (13) that can be moved relative to the back rest by at least one drive mechanism (14, 15, 16, 22) having at least one first drive (14, 15) that is fixed to the adjustment part and a second drive (16, 22) that is fixed to the back rest. The special feature is that the drive (14, 15, 16, 22) has an overload safety device (17) that can be moved from a starting position into a release position when a maximum force acting on the adjustment part (13) is exceeded, and, in the release position, the drive (14, 15, 16, 22) is at least partially relieved of the force acting on the adjustment part (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Maximilian Kotz
  • Patent number: 9533607
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat (1) with a framework (2) for fastening the vehicle seat (1) to a vehicle body (6), with a seat part (3), with a backrest (4) and with a head support (5) comprising a head support suspension (9), in which the seat part (3) and the backrest (4) are arranged on the framework (2), in which the head support suspension (9) is formed by the framework (2) or is fastened to the framework (2) and in which the head support suspension (9) has a suspension part (12) on the side towards the framework and a suspension part (13) on the side towards the backrest, wherein the suspension part (13) on the side towards the backrest is arranged outside the backrest (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventors: Roland Uebelacker, Johann Deml, Sergej Schustjew
  • Patent number: 9527409
    Abstract: A vehicle seat, in particular a utility motor vehicle seat, having a seat part, having a backrest comprising a lower backrest part and an upper backrest part, and having a holding device, by means of which the upper backrest part is mounted displaceably with respect to the lower backrest part, wherein the holding device has a sliding guide device, by means of which the upper backrest part is arranged displaceably with respect to the lower backrest part along a displacement curve so as to mount the upper backrest part displaceably at least in part past the side edge of the lower backrest part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventors: Roland Uebelacker, Erwin Haller, Ralph Nuss, Gerhard Delling
  • Patent number: 9505326
    Abstract: The invention relates to, among others, a headrest-assembly method for securing at least two support rods (12a, 12b) in a headrest to the backrest on a vehicle seat, where each support rod (12a, 12b) is held a guide formation (16a, 16b) of the head box (11). The special feature is that cross bar (13) is engaged in the head box (11) such that it passes through at least one slot (19a, 19b, 19c) of the head box (11), and the cross rod (13) is fastened at its ends (31, 32) ends (27) of the support rods (12a, 12b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventors: Reinhold Groenninger, Bernhard Klar, Willibald Ries
  • Patent number: 9428083
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat with a roller guide. The roller guide includes at least one guide rail, and at least one roller received in the guide rail. A roller cover part of the roller is rollable with a running surface of the roller. The roller cover part is divided into a first circumferential surface-like functional region and a second circumferential surface-like functional region which are arranged one behind the other in a direction of a shaft of the roller. The first region is deformable by pressurization by seat occupation. The first region is in contact with an inner wall on a lower side of the roller and with an inner wall on the upper side of the roller. An outer diameter of the second region has an undersize with respect to a spacing between the inner wall on the upper and lower sides of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventors: Norbert Lehner, Dirk Kaessner
  • Patent number: 9428089
    Abstract: A vehicle headrest has a support rod extending along an axis formed with a plurality of radially open notches, a head support carried above the notches on the support rod, and a guide sleeve mountable in a seat back and slidably receiving the support rod. An actuation element can shift axially on the sleeve between an actuated position and an unactuated position. An elongated and longitudinally incompressible latch element has an outer end shiftable radially and engageable in the notch and an inner end engaging the actuation element and shiftable axially on the sleeve on movement of the actuation element from the actuated position to the unactuated position between a latching position with the outer end engaged radially in one of the notches and securing the rod against movement in the sleeve and a release position with the outer end clear of the notches and permitting such movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Holger Weiland
  • Patent number: 9393891
    Abstract: A vehicle seat has a seat cushion upholstery part and a backrest upholstery part, and the seat cushion upholstery part and/or backrest upholstery part is bordered on each of the left and right sides by a deformable side bolster for 5 supporting a vehicle seat occupant. Further, each side bolster comprises at least one cushion deformable in the seat width direction and at least one upholstery portion into which the at least one cushion is embedded, and a wear-resistant fabric is embedded two-dimensionally into the foam of the at least one foam upholstery portion for its stabilization and at least partially covering the at least one embedded cushion, and, in at least one 10 part of the area covered by the wear-resistant fabric, the fibers of the wear-resistant fabric are oriented at a non-zero-degree angle to the seat width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Beier
  • Patent number: 9381839
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat having a seat part, having a backrest part and having an upholstery part for upholstering the seat part, wherein the upholstery part comprises an upholstery part cover element, a carrier layer element for supporting the upholstery cover element, an upholstery core element, a main upholstery element and a barrier layer, and wherein the main upholstery element is spatially separated by the barrier layer from the carrier layer element, the upholstery core element and the upholstery part cover element, the barrier layer having a seamless barrier layer element, which is arranged continuously as a strip product directly on the main upholstery element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventors: Roland Uebelacker, Gerald Herbst
  • Patent number: 9377074
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device comprising a suspension system, which suspension system comprises a first part to which a mass is applied, a second part and an air spring arranged between said first part and said second part, at least one additional volume means for air being provided, the volume of which can be connected in a controlled manner, and a control means for connecting the volume of the additional volume means, wherein, via the control means, a pressure accumulator and the additional volume means are in fluid communication with the air spring such that a force/displacement characteristic line of the air spring can itself be modified depending on a deflection displacement and/or rebound displacement and/or speed and/or acceleration of the first part in a presettable manner, by connecting the additional volume and/or the pressure accumulator by means of the control means during the deflection and/or rebound of the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Konstantin Lorey
  • Patent number: 9376042
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle oscillation apparatus with a horizontal springing device which is arranged between a vehicle seat and/or a driver's cab and a base element of a vehicle and which is suitable for the horizontal springing and/or damping of the vehicle seat and/or the driver's cab with respect to the base element, wherein the horizontal springing device is arranged substantially parallel to a surface of the base element and comprises an elastomer spring element which has a characteristic spring curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventor: Jens Kolb
  • Patent number: 9371882
    Abstract: A shock absorber is provided having a housing, an inner tube, a piston rod, a piston which divides the interior of the inner tube into a lower chamber and an upper chamber, a first valve arrangement on the piston, a second valve arrangement at the upper end of the inner tube, and a third valve arrangement at the lower end of the inner tube. The shock absorber includes a first connection element on the lower chamber of the inner tube and a second connection element on the upper chamber of the inner tube, to connect a means for controlling the flow resistance of the working medium in the first valve arrangement and an ascending pipe which projects into the working medium received in the housing and by which working medium can be transferred from the housing acting as a tank into the upper chamber of the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventor: Erwin Haller
  • Patent number: 9315128
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat with a seat part, with a backrest and with a height-adjustable armrest, in which the height-adjustable armrest has an arm support part and a lever mechanism to lift or lower the arm support part with a stationary base component, with one or two pivot lever parts articulated to the base component and with a height-adjustable lower component articulated to the pivot lever parts to carry the arm support part, wherein the height-adjustable armrest is distinguished by a locking device to lock the lever mechanism with a first locking part arranged on the side of the base component and having a first locking tooth system, with a second locking part arranged on the side of the lower component and having a further locking tooth system , and with locking means, which are displaceably arranged in relation to the two locking parts by means of an actuating element in such a way that counter-locking tooth systems of the locking means can engage in the locking tooth systems of the loc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Konstantin Lorey
  • Patent number: 9315129
    Abstract: A vehicle interior fixture has first and second elements movable relative to each other by an adjuster that is carried on the first element and that has at least one passage and a row or string of solid bodies in contact with one another, guided in and extending along the passage, and movable relative to the passage. At least one of the solid bodies bears on the second element. A drive element engaging the row or string of solid bodies at a location offset from the one body bearing on the second element is movable for pushing the row or string and thereby transmitting force by compression through the row or string to the one body and the second element to displace same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Maximilian Kotz
  • Patent number: 9296321
    Abstract: The invention concerns a vehicle damping device for a vehicle seat (1)/vehicle cabin with a fixed lower part (5) and an upper part (4) vibrating in relation to the lower part (5) and at least one damper (9) arranged in between, where in a damping force-speed diagram, with rising speed (11) of the vibrating upper part (4) in relation to the fixed lower part (5), a damping force (10) of the damper (9) develops such that the damping force (10) in a first speed range (15) has a substantially linear first course (12) with a first gradient and in the second speed range (16, 18) a second course (14, 19) with a second gradient steeper than the first gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventor: Erwin Haller
  • Patent number: 9283871
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat, in particular a utility motor vehicle seat, having a seat part, having a backrest comprising a lower backrest part and an upper backrest part, and having a holding device, by means of which the upper backrest part is mounted displaceably with respect to the lower backrest part, wherein the holding device comprises a guide device, by means of which the upper backrest part can be linearly displaced along a displacement curve laterally past at least one side edge of the lower backrest part in such a way that the upper backrest part can also be rotated about the displacement curve and/or about a transverse axis extending in a transverse manner to the displacement curve during the lateral displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Roland Uebelacker