Patents Assigned to Grammer AG
  • Patent number: 9266452
    Abstract: The invention concerns a vehicle vibration device for a vehicle seat or a vehicle cab with a lower part and an upper part sprung mounted in relation to the lower part by at least one damper device, wherein the upper part is mounted suspended on the lower part so that on occurrence of vibrations between the upper part and lower part, the upper part can swivel about a fictitious or real axis arranged below the upper part and extending in the vehicle width direction or vehicle length direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventors: Erwin Haller, Jens Kolb
  • Patent number: 9266453
    Abstract: To refine known vehicle vibration devices, the invention proposes a vehicle vibration device with a horizontal vibration means and with a means to stabilise a horizontal middle position of the horizontal vibration means, in which the horizontal vibration means is arranged horizontally vibratable in the vehicle longitudinal direction and/or in the vehicle width direction, in which the stabilisation means comprises a spring element and in which the stabilisation means is integrated in or on a damper means of a vehicle vibration device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventors: Erwin Haller, Jens Kolb
  • Patent number: 9266447
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle with a seat part, a backrest part, and a side part, particularly an armrest part, for collectively supporting a vehicle operator in his seated position on the vehicle seat, wherein the vehicle seat is characterized in that a supplemental vehicle operator support device that is arranged on the side part of the vehicle seat, and that can be temporarily arranged in an otherwise vehicle seat-free support area, and by means of which a vehicle operator seated on the vehicle seat can be additionally supported when in a laterally or rear-oriented seated working position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventors: Katja Buehlmeyer, Roland Uebelacker, Sergej Schustjew
  • Patent number: 9248768
    Abstract: A vehicle seat having a seat part extending in the vehicle lengthwise direction (X) and in the vehicle width direction (Y) and having a backrest part and a seat substructure for cushioning and/or damping at least the seat part with respect to a body of a vehicle, in which the seat substructure comprises at least one horizontal spring device having a first spring part and a second spring part that is movable relative thereto and a deformable fluid spring element for cushioning the seat part with respect to the body in the vehicle lengthwise direction (X) and/or in the vehicle width direction (Y), the deformable fluid spring element being arranged with a first connecting region to the first spring part and a second connecting region to the second spring part, wherein the deformable fluid spring element is arranged between the first and second spring parts so as to be deformed solely by the first and second spring parts upon relative movement of the first and second spring parts relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Jens Kolb
  • Patent number: 9227538
    Abstract: The invention relates to an armrest for a vehicle seat, comprising an armrest body (11) that together with a base (15) forms a pivot joint and can be pivoted through a pivot angle (?) between a stowed position and a use position, wherein at least one damper (17a, 17b) is provided to damp the motion of the armrest body (11). The invention characterized in that the armrest (10) has a control device (18a, 18b) that actuates the damper (17a, 17b) within at least one portion (?, y) of the pivot angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventors: Joerg Girbinger, Erwin Himmelhuber, Gerhard Delling
  • Patent number: 9227529
    Abstract: The invention relates to a utility vehicle seat with a seat part, with a backrest part and with a seat substructure for arrangement on a bodywork part of a utility vehicle. The seat substructure includes a rotation adjustment device for rotating at least the seat part with respect to the bodywork part with a ball bearing unit, and with a rotating shell part which is rotatable with respect to a stationary shell part. The utility vehicle seat further includes a rotation adjustment device overload protection unit with support elements by means of which the rotating shell part and the stationary shell part are additionally capable of being supported with respect to each other when the carrying capacity of one of the circular ball tracks reaches or exceeds a critical deformation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Erwin Haller
  • Patent number: 9221362
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat comprising a seat part, a backrest and a bearing device for supporting a backrest extension part, in particular an upper backrest part, relative to a lower backrest part of the backrest of the vehicle seat, wherein the bearing device comprises a plurality of plain bearing bush units for supporting elongated transverse elements of the backrest extension part along sliding axes arranged perpendicular to the backrest, wherein the plain bearing bush units are assembled from identically designed asymmetrical bearing bush parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventor: Franz Schneider
  • Patent number: 9211812
    Abstract: The invention relates to a utility vehicle seat with a seat part, with a backrest part and with a seat substructure for arrangement on a bodywork part of a utility vehicle. The seat substructure including a rotation adjustment device having a roller body bearing unit for rotating at least the seat part about a vertical axis, a longitudinal adjustment device and a transverse adjustment device. The rotation adjustment apparatus is arranged between two longitudinal rail units or transverse rail units, in such a way that a vertical extension of the rotation adjustment apparatus amounts to a maximum of 150% or 100% of a vertical extension of the longitudinal rail units or the transverse rail units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Erwin Haller
  • Patent number: 9180792
    Abstract: The invention relates to a commercial vehicle seat with a seat portion, with a backrest portion and with a seat substructure for mounting on a body portion of a commercial vehicle, wherein said seat substructure has locking means for securing against an unintended rotary movement of a rotary adjustment means for rotating at least the seat portion relative to the body portion, wherein the locking means comprises a locking member that is supported so as to be translationally displaceable along a displacement axis, for fixing the rotary adjustment means, and wherein said locking member comprises a base body member secured against rotation about the displacement axis, the base body height of which base body member is at least two to four times, preferably more than six times smaller than the base body width thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventor: Erwin Haller
  • Patent number: 9174583
    Abstract: A container for a vehicle interior has a base body in which at least one compartment is formed and a lid for at least partially closing the compartment and movable between a closed position and an open position. An actuator biases the lid into the open position and a latch can retain it in the closed position. A first brake associated with the actuator retards movement of the lid during movement of the lid from the closed into the opened position. A second brake further retards movement of the lid in only a limited end portion of its movement into the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Stefan Kuhn
  • Patent number: 9140328
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle vibration device of a vehicle seat or of a vehicle cab, comprising a lower part and an upper part which can be deflected relative to this lower part, in which device the upper part and the lower part are interconnected in a spring-loaded manner by means of at least one suspension apparatus and in which the suspension apparatus comprises a deformable fluid-spring part having a flexible pressure chamber element and a deformation apparatus having deformation elements, the deformable fluid element being deformed at least in part by the deformation elements when the upper part is deflected relative to the lower part, and wherein, according to the invention, an additional anti-abrasion element is arranged between the flexible pressure chamber element and the deformation elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Konstantin Lorey
  • Patent number: 9139111
    Abstract: A vehicle seat, in particular for utility vehicles, is provided with a seat part, a backrest and a lower part, in relation to which an upper part carrying the seat part and the backrest is resiliently mounted, the seat part being rotatably mounted in relation to the upper part by means of a rotary device about a rotational axis, which extends in the height direction of the vehicle seat, for a rotary movement and being resiliently mounted for a horizontal spring movement by means of a horizontal spring device in at least one direction running perpendicularly to the rotational axis, preferably the transverse direction of the vehicle seat, wherein both the rotary device and the horizontal spring device can be locked and unlocked at the same time with respect to the movements carried out with them by means of a common switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Richard Ott
  • Patent number: 9132470
    Abstract: A support tube adapted to carry a motor-vehicle accessory and to slide in a bearing tube provided with a latch element is hollow, cylindrical, centered on an axis, and formed with a plurality of outwardly open notches. These notches are each in turned formed by a flat latch face extending generally perpendicular to the axis, an outwardly open indent adjacent the latch face, a cam face extending from the latch radially outward to an outer surface of the tube, and a flat base face extending generally parallel to the axis from an inner edge of the latch face to an inner edge of the cam face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventors: Friedhelm Pausch, Markus Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 9120405
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat with a seat part and with a seat back part for supporting a driver of the vehicle in the sitting position on the vehicle seat, wherein the vehicle seat is characterized by an additional vehicle driver's torso support device which can be disposed outside the seat part and the seat back part and which can be temporarily disposed at least partially in an otherwise seat-free torso support region at the level of or above the upper third of the seat back part in front of the seat back part and laterally off-center on the seat back part, in order to provide support, laterally off-center of the seat back part, at least at the level of the shoulder or chest region of the driver who is sitting on the vehicle seat when he adopts a seated working posture oriented to the side or backwards, wherein the additional vehicle driver's torso support device is disposed so as to be movable by a moving device from a parked position into an additional torso support position in the otherwise se
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventors: Katja Buehlmeyer, Erwin Haller, Jens Kolb, Roland Uebelacker, Christian Erker
  • Patent number: 9120409
    Abstract: The invention relates to a seat for a vehicle, in particular for all-terrain vehicles, with at least one seat area extending in the longitudinal direction (X) of the vehicle and in the width-wise direction (Y) of the vehicle for receiving a person, a backrest for supporting the back of the person and a holding device connected in the vertical direction (Z) under the seat area and to the latter for keeping the seat area at a distance from a coupling region for coupling the seat to the vehicle, wherein the holding device has at least one spring device for the movable arrangement at least for a time of at least the seat area with respect to the coupling region in the longitudinal direction (X) of the vehicle and/or in the width-wise direction (Y) of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Grammer AG
    Inventors: Erwin Haller, Jens Kolb
  • Patent number: 9115521
    Abstract: A motor-vehicle accessory having a pivotal element that can pivot about an axis on a generally fixed support element is provided with a mechanism having an extension on one of the elements offset from the axis and projecting angularly of the axis and a brake on the other of the elements. This brake has a pair of brake shoes flanking the extension and shiftable between a clamping position gripping the element and preventing movement of the element relative to the brake in at least one angular direction and a release position permitting movement of the element relative to the brake both in and against the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Ralph Nuss
  • Patent number: 9114744
    Abstract: A vehicle headrest has at least one generally vertical support rod formed with a vertical row of horizontally open notches, a body vertically slidable along the rod, and a latch element shiftable in the body between a first position engaged in one of the notches and impeding sliding of the body along the rod, a second position offset in one direction from the rod, and a third position offset in another direction from the rod. The latch element travels in a first straight line from the first position to the second position and in a second straight line nonparallel to the first straight line from the first position to the third position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventors: Reinhold Groenninger, Thomas Wallinger
  • Patent number: 9108555
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle seat with seat part, backrest, belt restraining system and support structure supporting the seat part and backrest. Belt restraining system comprises belt reversal means and belt lock. Belt reversal means is positioned in an upper corner region of the backrest and belt lock positioned in seat area of seat part. Support structure has asymmetrical framework with main force braces extending substantially vertically. Main force braces converge in junction region and underside of support structure a first, second and third one of main force braces is arranged on the side towards the junction region as a thrust brace guided forwards as far as a front foot; on the side towards the junction region as a tension brace at the rear guided as far as a first rear foot; tension/thrust brace at the rear guided as far as a further rear foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventors: Roland Uebelacker, Johann Deml, Sergej Schustjew
  • Patent number: 9096158
    Abstract: A vehicle seat with a seat part and a backrest having a simple design of a cushion that provides a passive aeration or a passive climate seat while maintaining a visually appealing top side or front side, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Gerald Herbst
  • Patent number: 9085245
    Abstract: A commercial vehicle seat is provided including a seat part, a backrest part and a seat substructure for arrangement on a body part of a commercial vehicle, in which the seat substructure includes a transverse oscillation device comprising a cross slide part which is capable of oscillating transversely to the length of the commercial vehicle and by means of which at least the seat part is mounted so as to be capable of oscillating transversely to the direction of travel on a base carrier part of the seat substructure, and includes a locking device for fixing the cross slide part on the base carrier part, wherein the locking device includes two locking units which are spaced apart along the length of the commercial vehicle and have respective locking elements which are mounted pivotally about vertical pivot axes or displaceably along linear axes and are arranged so as to be synchronously operable in a horizontal plane between two transverse rail units of the transverse oscillation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Erwin Haller