Patents Assigned to Roechling Automotive SE & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 11584218
    Abstract: An air flap apparatus for a motor vehicle, encompassing: a frame having an air passthrough opening; a first air flap arrangement and a second air flap arrangement respectively encompassing at least one displaceable first and second air flap; a common motion drive system for displacing the first and the second air flap arrangement; a motion coupling for coupling both the first and the second air flap arrangement to the motion drive system, the first air flap arrangement and the second air flap arrangement being respectively displaceable between a blocking position having a greater degree of coverage of the air passthrough opening and a passthrough position having a lesser degree of coverage of the air passthrough opening; the motion coupling the first and the second air flap arrangement to the motion drive system in such a way that the first and the second air flap arrangement are drivable by the motion drive system asynchronously for a displacement motion, the motion coupling encompasses a toggle lever l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Karsten Grebel
  • Patent number: 11444313
    Abstract: A battery module, in particular for a motor vehicle, encompassing at least one battery cell that is received, in a manner impinged upon by compressive force along a spacing axis, between two pressure surfaces arranged with a spacing from one another along the spacing axis and clamped toward one another; at least one interlayer additionally being provided along the spacing axis between the pressure surfaces; the interlayer, constituting an LWRT interlayer, encompasses a porous LWRT material having a thermoplastically bonded fiber tangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dirk Montan, Richard Koehnsen, Karsten Grebel, Rene Falk, Tuncay Idikurt
  • Patent number: 11437670
    Abstract: n a battery module, having a module housing in which a plurality of battery cells are arranged in such a way that a flow space is formed between each two adjacent battery cells and/or between a peripheral battery cell and a wall portion, adjacent to the peripheral battery cell, of the module housing, through which space a cooling fluid can flow for convective cooling of the battery cells, the module housing having an admission opening for admitting cooling fluid into the module housing, and a discharge opening, different from the admission opening, for discharging cooling fluid from the module housing, there is provided, in an inflow region between the admission opening and the plurality of battery cells, a flow-directing configuration that subdivides the inflow region at least locally into different flow regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Schmitt, Rana Muhammad Humza, Juliane Nies
  • Patent number: 11433760
    Abstract: An active apparatus for modifying aerodynamic properties of a vehicle, encompassing: a frame; a movable portion movable relative to the frame along a motion path; a transceiver to emit a transceiver signal and has a specified transceiver position relative to the frame; an antenna to receive the transceiver signal and arranged on the movable portion, an antenna signal, induced by a predetermined transceiver signal, of the antenna exhibiting a predetermined functional dependence dependent on a position of the movable portion along the motion path and on the transceiver position; a signal transmitting unit to emit a unit signal that is associatable with the antenna and carries information regarding the antenna signal, the transceiver configured to receive the unit signal; and a signal evaluation unit, the signal evaluation unit configured to determine the position of the movable portion along the motion path on the basis of the unit signal, the functional dependence, and the transceiver position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Domenico Solazzo, Peter Dill
  • Patent number: 11420864
    Abstract: A filling head, which includes: A filling head housing for conveying operating fluid in a supply sense from a supply-intake region, which is configured for introducing operating fluid into the filling head, to an outlet port, A venting structure which allows the conveying of gas in a venting sense which is opposite to the supply sense, Where the supply-intake region exhibits a hollow plug-in connector extending along a virtual nozzle path with a plug-in orifice through which an intake space connected fluid-mechanically with the outlet port is accessible, Where an inner nozzle wall bordering the intake space exhibits functional formations projecting into the intake space as part of the venting structure, Where on the external side of the plug-in connectors there is provided an active formation which is configured to interact with an internal thread of a supply device for the latter's positional stabilization at the plug-in connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Ganthaler, Dieter Kerschbaumer
  • Patent number: 11370295
    Abstract: An air-flap apparatus, encompassing an air-flap carrier having an air passage opening that is flowthrough-capable for air; at least three air flaps, each of which projects at least into the air passage opening and is received on the air-flap carrier movably between two operating positions with different degrees of coverage of the air passage opening; a coupling apparatus that couples the plurality of air flaps for movement together between their operating positions; and an air-flap drive system having an output member that is coupled to the at least three air flaps; the coupling apparatus includes an inner lever arrangement having at least one first lever, each first lever coupling exactly two air flaps associated with it for movement together between their operating positions; and that the coupling apparatus includes an outer lever arrangement having at least one second lever, each second lever coupling either a first lever and a single air flap not directly connected to the first lever, or two first levers,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jürgen Schneider
  • Patent number: 11346269
    Abstract: A vehicle tank for receiving a liquid medium, encompassing: a tank body having a tank wall; a heat exchanger arranged in an interior of the tank body, the heat exchanger having a first heat-exchanger heat delivery surface that faces toward the tank wall and is spaced away from the tank wall; and an electric heating apparatus that is arranged in the interior of the tank body, the electric heating apparatus being arranged between the first heat-exchanger heat delivery surface and the tank wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefano Dalpez, Davide Monsorno, Ivan De Metri, Francesca Brunori, Fabrizio Chini, Luca Marini, Francesca Sartori
  • Patent number: 11312429
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having a first portion and a second portion movable relative thereto; the vehicle further includes an actuator arrangement by which the second portion is drivable relative to the first portion; and the vehicle having a control apparatus that is coupled to the actuator arrangement and controls the operation of the actuator arrangement; the actuator arrangement including at least two separate actuators arranged remotely from one another, which are each switchable between an operating state wherein an output member of the actuator outputs a force and/or a motion, and a passive state in which the output member does not, the actuators are synchronously operable in a synchronous operating mode, wherein one actuator, constituting a master actuator, is coupled directly to the control apparatus, and the at least one further actuator is connected to the energy supply of the master actuator only such that the at least one further actuator is supplied with operating energy, and is in the operating state,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Domenico Solazzo, Peter Dill
  • Patent number: 11280300
    Abstract: An air intake device with a variable-length intake duct, comprising: a base duct component with a base duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the base duct component, an extension duct component with an extension duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the extension duct component, a guidance arrangement which guides the extension duct component and the base duct component to relative movement between a first operating position and a second operating position, wherein in the first operating position the base duct and the extension duct form, in mutually prolonging abutment, a continuous duct section, and wherein in the second operating position the extension duct is arranged at a distance from the base duct, and a first centering arrangement which when the duct components approach the first operating position is configured to decrease a radial distance in relation to a virtual base duct path conceived as passing centrally through the base duct between an end section of the base
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marco Barbolini, Alberto Migliorini
  • Patent number: 11230186
    Abstract: A motor vehicle tank subassembly for storing and discharging an operating liquid, encompassing a tank having a tank volume, a filling opening a withdrawal opening, and a conveying pump having intake and delivery sides, the intake side connected to the withdrawal opening, a material that forms a pore volume being received in the tank; the material that forms a pore volume, constituting a porous conveying body having a body volume, occupies only part of the tank volume, the porous conveying body embodied to receive liquid stored in the tank in its pore volume utilizing a capillary effect; the porous conveying body having a discharge portion connected to the withdrawal opening such that the withdrawal vacuum at the withdrawal opening brings about in pores of the discharge portion a discharge vacuum that overcomes the capillary effect occurring there; the remainder of the porous conveying body extending away from the discharge portion and the withdrawal opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Farina, Fabrizio Chini, Mirco Bragagnolo
  • Patent number: 11162626
    Abstract: A preform that is embodied for manufacture of a combined heating and anti-surge apparatus for automotive operating fluid tanks, in particular for automotive reservoir tanks for aqueous urea solution, encompasses a planar plastic component having at least one electrical resistance heating trace provided thereon and having anti-surge baffles embodied integrally with the planar plastic component and standing off therefrom, the planar plastic component including as functional portions a heating portion having at least one electrical resistance heating trace provided thereon and an anti-surge portion, two functional portions of the plastic component being connected to one another movably relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Elmar Pichler, Ivan De Metri, Francesca Brunori, Christoph Ganthaler
  • Patent number: 11161557
    Abstract: A wheel spoiler arrangement, encompassing: a wheel spoiler carrier; a wheel spoiler received displaceably relative to the wheel spoiler carrier between inactive and active positions constituting operating positions; a motion guidance system between the carrier and the spoiler, a drive system to drive the spoiler between its operating positions, and an overload coupling that transfers force in a direction from the spoiler to the drive system up to a predetermined limit load; the overload coupling having a shiftable structure that is shiftable, between an effective position into which the structure is preloaded in a force-transferring engagement and a passive position in which position the force-transferring engagement is not possible; the shiftable structure being shiftable from the effective position into the passive position upon exceedance of the limit load resulting from a force acting on the spoiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Urbach, Peter Dill, Karsten Grebel, Andreas Cierpka
  • Patent number: 11161463
    Abstract: A motor-vehicle underbody liner, encompassing a planar porous open-cell carrier component; the carrier component being embodied for mounting onto a motor-vehicle underbody and for being carried along therewith; the carrier component including an installation side that faces toward the motor-vehicle underbody during operation as intended, and a liner side that faces away from the motor-vehicle underbody during operation as intended; the carrier component being adjusted, by suitable densification of its open-cell material, to a sound absorption behavior having a sound absorption maximum in a frequency range from 800 Hz to 1250 Hz; there being arranged on the installation side of the carrier component an additional absorber component having a sound absorption behavior whose sound absorption maximum is also located in a frequency range from 800 Hz to 1250 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Frank Uhl, Jürgen Küper, Carsten Riewe
  • Patent number: 11077892
    Abstract: A wheel spoiler arrangement, encompassing: a wheel spoiler carrier; a wheel spoiler received displaceably relative to the spoiler carrier between inactive and active positions constituting operating positions; a motion guide arranged between the spoiler carrier and the wheel spoiler and guides the displacement of the wheel spoiler between its operating positions; a displacement drive system which is coupled motion-transferringly to the wheel spoiler by a coupling member that drives the wheel spoiler relative to the spoiler carrier to perform a displacement motion between its operating positions; the coupling member is a reversibly deformable component arrangement which has a first predetermined conformation under an operational load that does not exceed a predetermined limit load and which is embodied to deform into a second conformation, different from the first conformation, under an extraordinary load that exceeds a predetermined limit load, the reversibly deformable component arrangement being deformable
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Karsten Grebel
  • Patent number: 11053969
    Abstract: A deformable insertion fastening arrangement for insertion into a planar ply structure and for retention thereon by subsequent deformation, including a retention component having a passthrough opening passing through it along a passthrough axis and having a fastening configuration for fastening a further component thereonto; the retention component having at least two portions that are radially displaceable relative to the notional passthrough axis that passes centrally through the passthrough opening, the retention component, when considered in its undeformed initial state, is embodied segmentedly in a circumferential direction around the passthrough axis; at least two segments, constituting the radially displaceable portions, being connected to one another by at least one connecting configuration deformable in a circumferential direction; at least one segment being displaceable in a radial direction away from the passthrough axis against a shape inertia force of the at least one connecting configuration, ac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jochem Fischer
  • Patent number: 10961953
    Abstract: A water recovery apparatus for a motor vehicle, for recovering water from ambient air, encompasses: a conveying conduit; a condenser device that is embodied to modify the absolute value of at least one dew-relevant state variable of a working gas delivered through the conveying conduit to the condenser device; a water discharge device that is embodied to discharge from the condenser device water condensed out of the working gas by the condenser device, the conveying conduit being embodied to convey ambient air as the working gas to the condenser device, the water recovery apparatus is embodied to deliver working gas continuously to the condenser device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Gloria Paoli
  • Patent number: 10953821
    Abstract: A planar motor vehicle lining component made of a plastic-containing material, having a liner portion of predetermined shape which is embodied to cover, in the completely installed state, a predetermined area on a motor vehicle, the lining component includes at least one reinforcing portion that is connected to the lining portion and is connected by means of a hinge portion to the lining portion foldably in such a way that a supporting surface region of the reinforcing portion is conveyable, by folding over the reinforcing portion, into abutting engagement with an abutting surface region of the lining portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Egon Moos, Liubov Sorochynska
  • Patent number: 10953740
    Abstract: An arrangement of air flaps for a motor vehicle, comprising an air flap frame which surrounds a through-flow opening, as well as at least one air flap which is movably mounted on the air flap frame, for changing the effective through-flow area of said through-flow opening, said at least one air flap at least protruding into the through-flow opening and preferably extending across said opening; said arrangement of air flaps including a Hall effect sensor and a detection section comprising magnetizable or permanently magnetized material and which cooperates in such a manner with a detecting section of the Hall effect sensor, the Hall effector sensor that detects a magnetic field emanating from the detection section, emits a detection signal when the at least one air flap is in a prescribed reference position relative to the air flap frame, which is different from a detection signal emitted by the Hall effect sensor when the at least one air flap is not in the prescribed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Domenico Solazzo, Anton Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 10953933
    Abstract: A wheel spoiler apparatus encompassing a flow impingement body, a displacement drive system, and a displacement guidance system, the flow impingement body being displaceable between a retracted inactive position and an extended active position, the displacement guidance system comprising a vehicle connection region in which it is connectable to a vehicle body, and comprising a flow impingement body connection region in which it is connected to the flow impingement body, the displacement guidance system encompasses two four-joint linkages coupled to one another via a common pivot joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Schmitt, Karsten Grebel, Juliane Nies, Peter Dill, Virgil-Catalin Petrisor, Patrick Urbach, Nagaraj Koppad
  • Patent number: 10892073
    Abstract: A motor vehicle operating liquid tank, in particular for storing aqueous urea solution, with a tank shell surrounding a tank volume and with a tank opening extending through the tank shell, a planar heating device in the tank volume is provided with an electrical resistance heating track arranged sandwiched between two plastic films that oppose one another in a planar manner and encase the resistance heating track, the plastic films opposing one another in a planar manner and each have a layer of compatible, thermoplastic plastics at least on their surfaces facing one another which are connected to one another locally at least along a seam track surrounding the electrical resistance heating track, slot areas are provided inside this seam track in which plastic film sections lie opposite one another in an unconnected manner without the intermediate arrangement of a section of a resistance heating track between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Ivan De Metri, Luca Marini, Francesca Brunori