Patents Assigned to Kommanditgesellschaft
  • Patent number: 12384248
    Abstract: A method for actuating a motor-driven flap assembly of a vehicle. A control assembly is provided for actuating a motor drive assembly which is paired with the flap assembly, and a distance sensor which is coupled to the control assembly is also provided. Sensor signals are detected by the distance sensor in order to detect an operator action carried out by an operator of the vehicle, wherein the sensor signals are analyzed by the control assembly in an analysis routine in order to detect a specified operator action, and the chive assembly is actuated by the control assembly upon detecting the specified operator action. In some embodiments, when a specified charging criterion is satisfied, the analysis routine is carried out by the control assembly in a specified charging mode, in which the analysis of the sensor signals is modified on the basis of an analysis during a normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventor: Sebastian Schoedel
  • Publication number: 20250253734
    Abstract: An electric motor having a housing with a partition wall between an electronics compartment and a motor compartment for accommodating a stator with a stator winding and a rotor which is shaft-mounted on a motor shaft. The partition wall has a central shaft or bearing opening for the motor shaft and a number of apertures for phase connections for electrical contacting of the stator winding with an electronic system. A cover element spanning the partition wall is arranged in the electronics compartment, which cover element has passage openings for the phase connections corresponding to the apertures in the partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Christoph EHEHALT-BOEHM, Kevin KOCH
  • Patent number: 12381462
    Abstract: An actuator includes an electric motor having a stator and a rotor that can be rotated relative to the stator about an axis of rotation (D). The stator comprises an inner stator part, a first outer stator part and a second outer stator part, wherein the inner stator part, the first outer stator part and the second outer stator part are aligned with one another along the axis of rotation (D) and the inner stator part forms an arrangement of first inner stator poles on a first side axially facing the first outer stator part, and forms an arrangement of second inner stator poles on a second side axially facing the second outer stator part, wherein the first inner stator poles and the second inner stator poles are integrally connected to one another as a single piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, COBURG
    Inventors: Timo Witzel, Dominik Brietz, Alexander Kifer, Helmut Pfalzgraf, Uwe Sommer, Thomas Susemihl, Christian Mergl
  • Patent number: 12371939
    Abstract: A window lift for a motor vehicle contains a functional support for at least one guide rail, which slidably guides a rail slider for retaining a vehicle window, and a cable drive device. The cable drive device has an actuating drive and a cable drive housing, into which a cable drum, which can be coupled to the actuating drive and can be rotated about an axis of rotation, is or can be received, around which cable drum a pull cable is or can be wrapped. The cable drive housing has a bottom plate and a number of cylindrical wall elements for receiving the cable drum. The functional support has, at the periphery of a through-opening for the coupling of the cable drum to the actuating drive, a joining contour for establishing a form-locking connection to the cable drum housing when the cable drum is inserted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugtelle SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Lubos Licko, Thomas Krieger, Martin Janos
  • Patent number: 12368339
    Abstract: A contact apparatus of a stator has an annular interconnection housing which receives a number of busbars for interconnecting coil ends of a stator winding to a number of phase connections. The interconnection housing has an annularly encircling base section and a number of carrier sections that correspond to the number of phase connections. The carrier sections extend axially starting from the base section, wherein the respective phase connection has an axially extending contact section and a connecting section that runs orthogonally to the axially extending contact section. The respective phase connection is inserted into the associated carrier section in such a way that an axial movement of the contact section of the respective phase connection is blocked in the direction of the base section and is permitted in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Marco Grimm, Stefan Wuest
  • Patent number: 12368350
    Abstract: An electric-motor drive, more particularly a fan drive, is provided for a motor vehicle. The drive contains an electric motor which has a rotatably mounted rotor and a stator having a laminated core. The laminated core forms a stator yoke and stator teeth of the stator, the stator teeth are directed radially from the stator yoke, and a stator winding is supported on the stator teeth. An electrically conductive covering part is provided for influencing and/or screening electromagnetic interference fields produced during the electric-motor operation. The covering part has a sleeve-type lateral wall and a circular-ring-shaped cover surface, which protrudes radially inward from an end of the lateral wall. The lateral wall is placed onto an outer periphery of the stator yoke. The cover surface axially covers the stator winding at least partly, and the lateral wall has a number of venting openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Eugen Hermann
  • Patent number: 12365277
    Abstract: A rest device for a vehicle, including a support and an element that adjustable relative to the support. In addition, a drive unit including a drive motor is provided, which can be activated for the motor-driven adjusting of the element relative to the support, the drive unit being designed such that the element can be adjusted relative to the support both manually and using a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg
    Inventors: Christian Mergl, Wojciech Falinski, Marcel Schieber
  • Patent number: 12359474
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lock includes a lock latch, at least one pawl, an electric drive arrangement, and a drive controller. The drive controller controls the drive arrangement to carry out an opening movement that adjusts an adjusting arrangement of the lock from a starting position to a raising position of the adjusting arrangement, in which the adjusting arrangement raises the pawl. A clutch arrangement is arranged between an actuating lever and the pawl, wherein, in an intermediate position, the adjusting arrangement shifts, in the opening movement, the clutch arrangement out of the disengaging state into the engaging state, before the adjusting arrangement raises the pawl when the raising position is reached. In an unlocking routine, the controller controls the drive arrangement to start the opening movement, and, responsive to an intermediate position criterion representative being met, modifies the control such that the adjusting arrangement does not reach the raising position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Schließsysteme GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventors: Ludger Graute, Markus Zillert, Serkan Gülkan, Andreas Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 12359483
    Abstract: A drive apparatus for a closure element of a motor vehicle, including a tube defining an axis, a spindle disposed within the tube and configured to move from an extended position to a first retracted position and a second retracted position, a spindle nut disposed within the tube and operatively engaged to the spindle, a stop nut fixed to the spindle, and a damping element disposed between the spindle nut and the stop nut. The tube defines a first end stop face and the stop nut defines a second end stop face, and when the spindle is in the first retracted position, the damping element engages the first end stop face and is spaced apart from the stop nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Wittelsbürger, Thomas Stöhr, Rainer Jarand, Marco Schramm, Andreas Weigand, Alwin Macht, Harald Krüger, Matthias Fischer
  • Patent number: 12362621
    Abstract: A stator of an electric motor has a number of radially directed stator teeth, onto each of which an insulating coil carrier for a coil of a multiphase rotating field winding is or can be placed. The stator teeth are connected to one another on the outer circumference on a yoke side, forming stator grooves. On the inner circumference, on a pole shoe side, a groove gap is respectively formed between adjacent stator teeth. Stiffening is provided on the inner circumference on the pole shoe side of the stator teeth, in the form of a stiffening element that projects into the or each groove gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Marco Grimm, Stefan Wüst, Alexander May, Daniel Hirsch, Oliver Haupt, Dominik Fenten
  • Patent number: 12351008
    Abstract: A door module for a vehicle door, having at least one region, which is substantially formed by an organosheet. In particular, the door module has at least two different types of organosheet, by means of which different regions of the door module are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Michael Thienel, Eike Ritthaler, André Carl
  • Patent number: 12345085
    Abstract: A drive device for adjusting a vehicle assembly including an electromotive adjustment drive for adjusting the vehicle assembly and a control device for controlling the adjustment drive, the control device is configured to actuate the adjustment drive in a holding mode for holding the vehicle assembly. It is provided that the control device includes a regulation module for regulating a characteristic variable of the adjustment drive and a control module, wherein the regulation module is configured to determine a correcting variable for regulating the characteristic variable of the adjustment drive in the holding mode with reference to a specified setpoint value, and the control module is configured to evaluate a change of the correcting variable to detect an adjustment request for adjusting the vehicle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventor: Alex Kromer
  • Patent number: 12348107
    Abstract: An electric motor has a stator and a rotor which is arranged on a motor shaft in a rotationally fixed manner. The motor shaft is rotatably mounted about a rotational axis in at least one rolling bearing within a motor housing. The rolling bearing is arranged in a bearing shield in a bearing receiving area, the outer ring of the rolling bearing is pretensioned by a spring disc which sits in the bearing receiving area in a fixed manner to the housing, and the spring disc has an opening and a number of spring elements raised axially towards the outer ring in a disc body surrounding the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Kevin Koch, Michael Düncher
  • Patent number: 12339354
    Abstract: A method for identifying and classifying objects in the surroundings of a motor vehicle, which method uses merely a single sensor for object detection. The method is characterized in that this single sensor moves in space while the object is being detected. In this case, during the measurement, the single sensor would act to a certain extent like a second sensor. The echo signals, reflected by the object, of different measurement cycles can be used to determine the differential speed, distance and angle. The method provides the possibility of being able to classify, by means of a single sensor, objects and items in the surroundings of a motor vehicle in terms of their size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Christopher Trenkle, Carsten Topf, Julian Adametz, Benjamin Grünewald, Wolfgang Uebel
  • Publication number: 20250198217
    Abstract: An adjustment device for a motor vehicle, comprising a window lifter for adjusting a functionalized window pane, and a guide system for a cable which is connected to the functionalized window pane and serves to conduct current to and/or to control the window pane. The guide system has a flexible component, which receives the cable, and a sliding element, which is coupled to the window pane and is guided on a rail-like guide element separated from the window lifter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Andre CARL, Mark WAGNER, Thorsten KUHNEN
  • Patent number: 12325937
    Abstract: A round sling for raising loads, consisting of a load-carrying inner nonwoven fabric, which inner nonwoven fabric is formed from a continuous roll of a plurality of supporting threads running substantially parallel to one another and a protective sleeve in the form of a textile protective tube surrounding the inner nonwoven fabric with a radial degree of freedom, the protective tube being a textile fabric woven from warp and weft threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Span Set Gesellschaft Für Transportsysteme Und Technische Bänder Mit Beschränkter Haftung & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventor: Volker Hombach
  • Patent number: 12320394
    Abstract: A drive system for a tailgate and including a drive unit having a first coupler supported for rotation about a first longitudinal axis and defining a receptacle. A second coupler including a first side and a second side configured to engage with a hinge component of a vehicle and defining a second longitudinal axis. A driveshaft extends between the first and second couplers at an angled orientation relative to the first and second axes via wobble connections formed between a first end of the driveshaft and the first coupler and between a second end of the driveshaft and the first side of the second coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Shane Alexander, Michael Kidd, Andrew Lakerdas
  • Publication number: 20250170885
    Abstract: A radiator module of a motor vehicle, comprising a radiator that includes two water tanks between which a radiator mesh structure is located. The radiator module has a reinforcing assembly connected to the radiator for absorbing and/or diverting forces during a crash. A region of a motor vehicle is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Anand PATEL, Lutz WULF
  • Patent number: 12311749
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling an electrically driven or driveable motor vehicle, having a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger, having an air-guiding channel which connects the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and which has two diametrically oppositely situated passage openings which are reversibly closable by means of a first air guide and by means of a second air guide, and having a cooler fan which is arranged downstream of the second heat exchanger in terms of flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Nils Springer, Thomas Dreesen
  • Patent number: 12313133
    Abstract: Disk brake including a brake caliper and an application device arranged therein for applying force to the brake pads of the disk brake, wherein a component of the application device is a brake lever which can be actuated by a force element and preferably by a pressure cylinder and is composed of a lever arm against which the force element is supported and an application shaft. The application shaft is supported, on one side, against a pressure piece operating in the direction of the brake pads and, on the other side, with the interposition of a shell, against a channel arranged on the inside of the brake caliper, wherein the curvature of the shell is complementary to the curvature of the channel. In order to develop the disk brake and the shell assembly by constructive measures so as to prevent the shell assembly from moving out of the original position even in the case of long-term use and under frequent load caused by braking, an opening of a bore is located in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: BPW Bergische Achesen Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Pehle, Thomas Klaas, Andreas Steffen