Patents Assigned to Mannesmann VDO AG
  • Patent number: 6563416
    Abstract: A locking device for a coach (13) has a control device (20) for detecting a position of a portable transmitter (21). The control device (20) drives, in dependence on the position of the transmitter (21), locks (24, 25) that locks doors (22, 23) of the coach (13) which are provided exclusively for this position. As a result of this, unrequired doors (22, 23) do not have to be monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Albert Zintler
  • Patent number: 6552903
    Abstract: In an electronic module having an electronic component which is arranged within an electromagnetic shielding, a thermally conductive element which is connected in a thermally conductive fashion to a shield frame of the shield rests simultaneously on the component. As a result, the heat from the component penetrates the shield, with the result that the latter is capable of carrying out the function of a thermal exchange surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Joachim Sprattle, Jörg Reinhardt, Thomas Pfifferling
  • Patent number: 6548930
    Abstract: An electric motor for a fuel pump wherein fuel flows through the pump, includes spring elements provided for holding magnetic shells in the stator have a face which points toward a rotor and is flush with the magnetic shells. Turbulence in the flow of the fuel within the electric motor are thereby kept particularly low. The pressure loss during the flow through the electric motor thus becomes lower. The pump according to the invention consequently has high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Peter Marx, Bernd Jäger, Hans-Dieter Wilhelm, Michael Bämpfer
  • Patent number: 6543283
    Abstract: A sensor for determining the level and temperature of a liquid, in particular in a motor vehicle, has an elongate housing (1), in which all the components required for temperature measurement and level measurement are accommodated. This housing (1) consists of two half shells (2, 3) which rest one on the other and of which one half shell (3) has all the components required for level measurement and the wiring and resistance wire (21) necessary for this purpose and the other half shell (2) has all the components required for temperature measurement and the wiring necessary for this purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Joachim Acht, Ralf Schimmel, Manfred Rother, Rudolf Stiller
  • Patent number: 6543904
    Abstract: A display instrument, in particular for a vehicle, with a printed circuit board, at least one illuminable display area and at least one illuminating element which has an LED and can be fastened on the printed circuit board by a contact socket. To simplify the production of the display instrument, the contact socket has a support component for activation electronics for activating the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: José Martinez-Gottschalk, Winfried Möll
  • Patent number: 6545662
    Abstract: In an operating device having an actuator (1) with at least two adjustment degrees of freedom, provision is made for said device to have a device (3, 5, 6) for evaluating the position of the actuator (1) optically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Heinrich Noll, Herbert Breinich
  • Publication number: 20030062982
    Abstract: The invention relates to a strain-sensitive resistor, comprising a resistance layer arranged on a support element and an electromechanical transducer produced with this resistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Arthur Schafert, Jurgen Irion, Zlatko Penzar, Wolfgang Porth
  • Patent number: 6542807
    Abstract: A device for representing on a display device a control situation determined by a motor vehicle distance control device, the distance control device being connected to a sensor which detects the coordinates and the relative speed of the obstacles located ahead of the motor vehicle and relays them to the distance control device, which determines the expected lane of the motor vehicle, the distance control device determining from these data a control object with reference to which the distance of the motor vehicle is controlled. Referring lso a device referring the multiplicity of the data required for distance control in a motor vehicle can be checked in a simple way for their correctness, the distance control device (3) is connected to a display control device (14) which converts the data detected by the sensor (9) and calculated by the distance control device (10) into an approximately true-to-scale plan view of the control situation ahead of the vehicle (1), which is displayed on the display device (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Robert Bienias, Sascha Heinrichs-Bartscher
  • Patent number: 6542145
    Abstract: A invention relates to a self-illuminating LCD display device containing an LCD module with a first polarizer layer (1), a first transparent substrate (2), a first transparent electrode layer (3), a liquid crystal layer (4), a second transparent electrode layer (5), a second transparent substrate (6) and a second polarizer layer (7), and containing an LED module for illuminating the LCD module, having a third transparent electrode layer (9), a layer (10) containing organic light-emitting materials, a fourth electrode layer (11) and a substrate (12) as well as, if appropriate, further layers contained between the third and fourth electrode layer. A self-illuminating LCD display device according to the invention which is particularly easy to produce is distinguished in that one of the polarizer layers or, when the polarizer layer is arranged between the substrate and electrode layer, the substrate carrying it, is the substrate for the third transparent electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Achim Reisinger, Christoph Rupp
  • Patent number: 6540269
    Abstract: A locking mechanism (10) is produced for holding a sliding door in the open position and has a Bowden cable (22) which acts on its locking element (20), a moving-carriage support (14) and a moving carriage (18), which move relative to one another during the closing of the door. In order to disengage the door handles from the locking mechanism when the sliding door is closed and therefore in order to reduce the actuating forces for unlocking the door lock, the moving-carriage support (14), during the closing movement, shifts a driver (34) which is guided on the moving carriage (14) and carries along the locking element (20) in the direction of its unlocking position. By this, the Bowden cable (22) is moved in its actuating direction, thereby enabling the door handles to be disengaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Mathias Würges, Martin Roos
  • Patent number: 6538555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a throttle valve comprising a potentiometer with a supporting plate (1) the supporting plate (1) to be mounted on a substrate wherein the supporting plate (1) has an upper side (18) on which the resistance tracks (3, 4), wiper tracks (5, 6) and the conductor tracks (7) are applied on an underside (19) with spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Jörg Fliegner
  • Patent number: 6534888
    Abstract: In an electric motor intended to be fixed to a printed circuit board, provision is made for it to have at least one expanding dowel (4), for it to be possible for the motor (1) to be fixed to a printed circuit board (6, 32) by the expanding dowel or dowels (4) being expanded, and by it being possible for the expanding dowel or dowels (4) to be secured at least by a pin (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Thomas Vorberg, Markus Keutz, Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Peter Schmidt, Sabine Vorberg, Klaus Kronenberg, Frank Weiand
  • Patent number: 6532813
    Abstract: During the determination of a fill level of liquid in a container, a measuring chamber, in which there is initially the same fill level as in the container, is completely filled with liquid. The time required for completely filling the measuring chamber is measured and compared with previously determined values. The fill level in the container is then determined by comparison of the measured values with the known values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Bernd Pauer
  • Patent number: 6531958
    Abstract: An indicating instrument for a vehicle includes an analog indication of the current measured value and has a variable indication of a reference value. An automatic setting device indicates the reference value based on variable data that are significant for the indicated measured variable. The entire indicating instrument is rotated by the setting device so that the pointer is aligned horizontally when the current measured value agrees with the reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Kabatek, Jürgen Leimbach, Lutz-Wolfgang Tiede
  • Patent number: 6527008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ventilation device for fuel tanks, wherein the ventilation device comprises a compensator reservoir arranged in the interior of the fuel tank and at least two ventilation lines. The ventilation lines run from below the upper tank wall to the compensator reservoir and extend in the latter toward an opposite tank wall. The apparatus according to the invention is particularly well suited under all static and dynamic stresses for ventilating fuel tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Knut Meyer, Stefan Fühling, Thomas Zapp, Markus Distelhoff
  • Patent number: 6526844
    Abstract: The module (10) serves for producing a force hysteresis during pivoting of a rotary element (14, 16) which is mounted rotatably in a housing (12) and on which there is secured at least one spring element (20), of which the free end slides, via a friction element (18), on a stationary friction surface (22). In order for it not to be necessary to rely on separate restoring mechanisms, it is proposed that, in all the angled positions of the rotary element (14, 16) relative to the housing (12), the reaction force of the spring element (22) subjects the rotary element (14, 16) to a restoring moment about the rotary spindle (24). Such a module (10), with a compact construction, makes it possible, with the aid of a spring element (20), to produce both the restoring forces and the frictional forces necessary for the hysteresis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Christian Weis
  • Patent number: 6526790
    Abstract: A lock device, in particular for doors of motor vehicles, has lock elements such as at least rotary latch and a pawl, wherein at least a one lock element a pawl can be connected via connecting elements with at least one handle or such connection can be eliminated. An actuator device of the lock device has a cam disk, the connection being made or eliminated as a function of the cam disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Torsten Wegner
  • Patent number: 6527517
    Abstract: A pump for a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a temperature sensor integrated into the pump for detecting the temperature of the fluid flowing into a pump chamber. The temperature sensor is inserted into a recess of a pump casing of the pump. The recess produces a reduced wall thickness (d) in the region proximate the temperature sensor. The reduced wall thickness improves the heat transition through the pump casing from the fluid to the temperature sensor and reduces the outlay in terms of production. Furthermore, the temperature sensor is arranged on a carrier material common to a control of the pump so that the susceptibility of the contacting of the temperature sensor to faults is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Werner Wallrafen, Klaus Bluhm
  • Patent number: 6523864
    Abstract: In a plug-in connection (1), in particular for fluid lines, which comprises a part of the connection (2) to be inserted and a receiving part of the connection (3), between which a seal (10) can be clamped and which are able to be releasably connected to one another by flexible snap-in elements (7, 18) in a snap-in position, the seal (10) can, be clamped between a front portion (4) of the part of the connection (2) to be inserted and an abutment (11) in the receiving part of the connection (3) and the distance of the snap-in elements (7) of the part of the connection (2) to be inserted from the front portion (4) of the latter is dimensioned such that the snap-in position is reached after slight axial compression, and if need be radial compression, of the flexible seal (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Thomas Discher, Sigbert Hauser, Rolf Schlein, Rüdiger Stange
  • Patent number: 6525505
    Abstract: A device for driving an air-conditioning compressor having an electric motor, in particular for motor vehicles, having an arrangement for reducing the difference in pressure between the intake side and delivery side of the air-conditioning compressor during a starting phase of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bay, Michael Henninger