Patents Assigned to Webasto A
  • ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE EXTERIOR PANEL
    Publication number: 20190077240
    Abstract: A weather strip 5 is attached to a peripheral edge of an opening 4a of a vehicle body 1?, and a deck cover 18 includes a resin outer panel 21 and an inner panel 23 joined onto a rear side of the outer panel 21. A spacer 35 is interposed between the outer panel 21 and the inner panel 23 such that a portion of the deck cover 18 provided with the spacer 35 makes contact with the weather strip 5 when the deck cover 18 is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: WEBASTO JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji SAWAHATA, Akio YAMADA, Syuji YOSHIDA, Masato SHINKAWA, Takuya NISHIBAYASHI
  • COVER ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20190077237
    Abstract: Disclosed is a structure of a cover which allows a first link 25 to be pivotally coupled to a front roof panel via a stepped rivet 27, and a cover 31 to be pivotally coupled to the stepped rivet 27 via a first stepped screw 33. An overhang portion 27e of the stepped rivet 27 is joined to the front roof panel with a periphery of a front attachment hole 23c of the front roof panel being sandwiched between the overhang portion 27e and a large diameter portion 27c inserted in an insertion hole 25a of the first link 25 to pivotally support the first link 25. The first stepped screw 33 has a threaded portion 33d fastened into a fastening hole 27f of the stepped rivet 27, and a base end 33c inserted in a first through hole 31b of the cover 31 to pivotally support the cover 31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: WEBASTO JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji SAWAHATA, Takeshi MIZOGUCHI
  • VEHICLE RETRACTABLE ROOF
    Publication number: 20190077238
    Abstract: If a roof member 12 of a vehicle retractable roof 11 is made of aluminum, a roof side stopper 65 is fixed to a reinforcing plate 50 together with a roof bracket 55, a contact surface 65 coming into contact with a vehicle side stopper 60 is disposed at a position except for a sealing surface 67 provided on the roof member 12. Then, the deformation of the roof member 12 can be reduced, the interference with the sealing surface can be avoided, and the weight of the roof side stopper 65 can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: WEBASTO JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Syuji YOSHIDA
  • METHOD FOR REDUCING OPENING/CLOSING TIME OF OPENING/CLOSING-TYPE ROOF
    Publication number: 20190070942
    Abstract: A second step of opening a closed openable/closable roof starts before a first step of opening a closed storage compartment cover finishes, so that a distance between portions of the storage compartment cover and the openable/closable roof facing each other is shorter at a point in time when the storage compartment cover is fully opened in the first step than at any other point in time. A fifth step of closing the open openable/closable roof starts before a fourth step of opening the closed storage compartment cover finishes, so that a distance between portions of the storage compartment cover and the openable/closable roof facing each other is shorter at a point in time when the storage compartment cover is fully opened in the fourth step than at any other point in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: WEBASTO JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji KAWAHARA
  • ROOF LOCK DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190070941
    Abstract: A roof lock device includes a driver 60 having an electric motor 61, a drive gear 62 driven to rotate by the electric motor 61, and a link member 70 coupling the drive gear 62 and the hook member 80 together, and allowing the hook member 80 to reciprocate longitudinally along with the rotation of the drive gear 62. the driver 60 further has a manually operable gear 99 disposed to mesh with the drive gear 62 and is able to be rotated by a certain tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: WEBASTO JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu YOSHIDA
  • Top of a vehicle comprising locking means
    Patent number: 10220689
    Abstract: A top for a convertible vehicle, displaceable between a closed position to cover a vehicle interior, and an open storage position, the top having a top linkage, which has a link arrangement on both sides with respect to the top vertical longitudinal center plane, each link arrangement pivotably mounted on a main bearing, which is fixed to the vehicle, a top element, which can be displaced between a lifted operating position and a lowered storage position by means of the top linkage, and a locking means on both sides of the vertical longitudinal center plane of the top, each locking means being height-adjustable together with the top element and comprising a locking hook arrangement, which is displaceable between a locked position and a release position and which secures the top element, both in the operating and storage position, to at least one component fixed to the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Magnus Sviberg
  • DUAL TILT SUNROOF STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20190061493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual tilt sunroof structure. A dual tilt sunroof structure for tilting a dual sunroof according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a front glass panel and a rear glass panel disposed in a roof panel; front sleds and rear sleds moving on guide rails disposed at both sides of the roof panel; and front carriages and rear carriages fixed to both ends of the front and rear glass panels, respectively, to integrally move with the glass panels, in which when the dual sunroof is tilted, the front sleds and the rear sleds are moved backward to respectively come in contact with front supports formed at first ends of the front carriages and rear supports formed at first ends of the rear carriages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA Motors Corporation, Webasto Donghee Holdings
    Inventors: Hoo Sang Park, Seong Min Gwak
  • PANEL STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME
    Publication number: 20190061495
    Abstract: A panel structure 30 includes a panel 40 having a first insertion hole 42, a reinforcement 50 having a second insertion hole 52, and a fixing member 70 having a shaft 71 inserted in the first and second insertion holes 42 and 52, and sandwiching and fixing the panel 40 and the reinforcement 50 in their thickness direction. The panel 40 has a higher thermal expansion coefficient than the reinforcement 50. A diameter of the second insertion hole 52 in a direction of thermal expansion of the panel 40 is larger than a diameter of the first insertion hole 42 in the direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: WEBASTO JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu YOSHIDA
  • EMERGENCY MECHANISM FOR LID KINEMATIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190054810
    Abstract: A linkage for opening and closing a lid through actuation of an electric motor 12 includes a base bracket 21 extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle, and a driving lever 14 having one end pivotally connected to the bracket 21 and the other end connected to the lid. The driving lever is driven via a pinion 22 by a sector gear 31 driven by the electric motor. The sector gear is attached to the bracket 21. The electric motor is fixed to a motor bracket 11 and attached via the motor bracket 11 to the bracket. Loosening a member supporting a lateral end portion of the motor bracket 11 and a bolt 41 fixing the bracket 11 to the bracket 21 allows the pinion and the sector gear to be axially disengaged from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: WEBASTO JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji SAWAHATA, Osamu YOSHIDA
  • Electric vehicle charging station with cable retaining enclosure
    Patent number: 10211658
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an enclosure for a charging station is provided having a peripheral casing configured to retain a charging cable on an upward facing surface of the peripheral casing between a front user interface side and a charging station mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Webasto Charging Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Holden Alexander Bonwit, Greg A. Petrie
  • Shading arrangement of a vehicle roof
    Patent number: 10202073
    Abstract: A shading arrangement of a transparent roof section of a passenger car, having a flat shading element displaceable between a shading position and an uncovering position and having a lower side facing towards a vehicle interior and an upper side facing towards a vehicle environment. An indirect illuminating device can be provided which illuminates the shading element from the upper side and/or the lower side. The shading element can have a lighting effect material that interacts with the illuminating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Thomas Schuett, Andreas Rockelmann, Hubert Boehm, Thorsten Richthofen, Johannes Thannheimer, Steffen Lorenz
  • Vehicle roof module having a roof element and a roller blind apparatus
    Patent number: 10202025
    Abstract: A vehicle roof module having a transparent roof element and a roller blind apparatus arranged under the roof element and having a roller blind track, which is wound on a winding shaft and can be pulled out to cover the underside of the roof element, and which is guided by a drain edge when pulled out from the winding shaft, wherein, according to the invention, foam material attached on or around the roof element contains a drain edge body having the drain edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Guido Bott
  • Top of a convertible vehicle comprising panel bows
    Patent number: 10189341
    Abstract: A convertible top having a top cover and a cover linkage adjustable between a closed position and a storage position and which has a linkage arrangement on each of its two sides linkage arrangement pivotably mounted on a respective main bearing, which is fixed to the vehicle, via a main multi-joint arrangement comprising two main links, a rear bow realized as a panel bow mounted on each of the bilaterally arranged linkage arrangements via a rear link arrangement. The two bilaterally arranged rear link arrangements can each be actuated by a drive lever, which drives the respective rear link arrangement starting from the closed position in a first opening phase while the main multi-joint arrangement is static and drives the respective rear link arrangement in the opposite direction of the respective main multi-joint arrangement in a second opening phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Heinrich Wüllrich, Magnus Sviberg
  • Roof structure of automotive vehicle
    Patent number: 10183561
    Abstract: There are provided a front roof, a rear roof, a glass unit including a rear-window glass, a rear roof support link which openably supports the rear roof at a vehicle body, a front-roof support link mechanism which openably supports the front roof, the front-roof support link mechanism being connected to the rear roof support link such that closed states of both the front roof and the rear roof are achieved by means of the rear roof support link and the front-roof support link mechanism, and a glass-unit support link mechanism which is connected to the rear roof support link and configured to support the glass unit in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignees: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Webasto Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Matsumoto, Koji Sawahata, Yasufumi Kawakami
  • Top of a convertible vehicle comprising panel bows
    Patent number: 10173508
    Abstract: A top of a convertible vehicle is proposed, comprising a top cover and a top linkage which can be displaced between a closed position, in which a vehicle interior is covered, and a storage position, in which the vehicle interior is open toward the top, and which has a linkage arrangement on both sides with respect to a vertical longitudinal center plane of the top, each linkage arrangement comprising two main links, which are pivotably mounted on a main bearing fixed to the vehicle and one of which is driven by means of a main drive. Panel bows extend between the bilaterally arranged linkage arrangements, a first one of said panel bows being a front bow, a second one being a front center bow, a third one being a rear center bow and a fourth one being a rear window bow. In the storage position, the rear center bow is arranged below the rear window bow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Heinrich Wüllrich, Magnus Sviberg, Franz Haberl, Alexander Haimerl
  • Roller blind arrangement having driving means for laterally guiding a roller blind web
    Patent number: 10155434
    Abstract: A roller blind for shading a transparent vehicle section having a roller blind web which can be wound up to form a roller blind reel and which is guided in a guide rail at each of its lateral edges on either side of a longitudinal center plane of the roller blind, and two driving means, each of which is guided in a guide track of one of the guide rails. Each driving means is formed by a toothed belt which has a substantially rectangular cross-section and a toothing on at least one side whose teeth run at least approximately parallel to the plane of the unwound roller blind web in the transverse direction of the respective guide rail, the roller blind web being pressed between the toothed belt underside having the toothing and a bottom of the guide track and being deflected in the guide track by the toothed belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Dominik Hoelzel, Andreas Rockelmann
  • Roof attachment and passenger car comprising a removable roof attachment
    Patent number: 10144274
    Abstract: A roof attachment for a passenger car includes at least one roof shell and at least two lateral-wall shells. The lateral-wall roof shells are arranged on opposite sides of the passenger car relative to a vertical longitudinal center plane of the roof and are pivotable between a storage position folded against an inner side of the roof shell and an unfolded usage position. The roof attachment has a cross section shaped like an upside-down U and can be attached onto interfaces of the passenger car via lower edges of the lateral-wall shells facing away from the roof shell. The roof shell and the lateral-wall shells can be brought into contact with a hard-top section and lateral pillars of the passenger car with their frontal edges when in the usage position. Rearward edges of the roof shell and the lateral-wall shells form a continuous edge of the vehicle rear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Magnus Sviberg
  • ROOF STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180334019
    Abstract: There are provided a front roof, a rear roof, a glass unit including a rear-window glass, a rear roof support link which openably supports the rear roof at a vehicle body, a front-roof support link mechanism which openably supports the front roof, the front-roof support link mechanism being connected to the rear roof support link such that closed states of both the front roof and the rear roof are achieved by means of the rear roof support link and the front-roof support link mechanism, and a glass-unit support link mechanism which is connected to the rear roof support link and configured to support the glass unit in a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicants: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Webasto Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi MATSUMOTO, Koji SAWAHATA, Yasufumi KAWAKAMI
  • Roller blind arrangement having lateral guidance
    Patent number: 10118469
    Abstract: A roller blind arrangement for a motor vehicle for shading a transparent vehicle section having a roller blind web which can be wound up to form a roller blind winding and is guided at its lateral edges in relation to a vertical longitudinal center plane of the roller blind in each case in a guide rail, as well as a drive device having a drive pinion which drives two driving means each of which is guided in a guide track of one of the guide rails. The driving means are each designed as a toothed belt which has an essentially rectangular cross section and comprises a toothing on at least one side, the teeth of said toothing extending at least approximately perpendicular to the plane of the unwound roller blind web between a lower side of the toothed belt and an upper side of the toothed belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Dominik Hoelzel, Andreas Rockelmann, Thomas Schuett, Susanne Schandel
  • ELECTRIC SUNSHADE AND SUNROOF STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20180313124
    Abstract: An electric sunshade and sunroof structure may include cable assembly connected to a drive motor via a cable, sliding longitudinally along each of guide slide assemblies disposed on rails provided on both sides of a roof panel of a vehicle, thus opening or closing a sunshade, and moving integrally with the guide slide assembly to open a sunroof glass, a sunshade guide lever provided on the sunshade and selectively coupled with the cable assembly to move the sunshade, and a guide slide lever provided on a rear end portion of the guide slide assembly and selectively coupled with the cable assembly to move the sunroof glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Webasto Donghee Holdings
    Inventors: Jeong Hoon Park, Seong Min Gwak, Su Yun Choi