Patents Assigned to Webasto SE
  • Patent number: 12780114
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof of a motor vehicle, the roof module having a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof, and an opening in which at least one environmental sensor is disposed, the environmental sensor being configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals for detecting the vehicle environment. The at least one environmental sensor is configured to be displaced between a retracted position and a deployed position, and a set of weatherstrips surrounding the opening and has at least one drain is configured to collect liquid entering through the opening at the at least one drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignees: Webasto SE, Webasto Shanghai Ltd.
    Inventors: Heinrich Wüllrich, Alexander Haimerl, Eric Lei, Jerry Hu, Xinying Wang
  • Patent number: 12785204
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery housing for receiving a battery module in its housing interior so as to form a traction battery for a motor vehicle, comprising a housing section for in part delimiting a housing interior, wherein the housing section comprises an exhaust gas duct that is integrated into said housing section so as to divert into the environment media that in the case of a defect of a battery module escape from said battery module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventor: Jochen Haussmann
  • Patent number: 12780151
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle. The roof module may have a panel component which at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface of the roof module; at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through a see-through area for detecting a vehicle environment; and at least one cleaning nozzle configured to clean the see-through area. At least one flow guide element is disposed on the panel component, the flow guide element being configured to focus headwind onto at least part of the see-through area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Maximilian Ehrmann, Dirk Auerswald, Alexander Kilias
  • Patent number: 12769169
    Abstract: A functional layer includes a first backing film having a first electrically conductive coating, a second backing film having a second electrically conductive coating, and a liquid crystal array disposed between the two electrically conductive coatings. The first electrically conductive coating is exposed in a surface area and removed in the exposed surface area to form an insulation area to form at least a first segment and a second segment of the first electrically conductive coating, the first segment being electrically insulated from the second segment by the insulation area. A first electrically conductive conductor path extends from the first segment in the insulation area to a contact area. A first insulation layer is applied to the first electrically conductive conductor path and at least one second electrically conductive conductor path, which is applied to the first insulation layer, extends from the second segment to the contact area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Yannik Gschwender
  • Patent number: 12759506
    Abstract: A roof assembly for forming a vehicle roof of a motor vehicle. The roof assembly may have a panel component at least partially forming a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface, at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through a see-through area to detect a vehicle environment, and at least one cleaning feature. The cleaning feature may have a window wiper assembly having two wiper elements which have a common pivot axis, the one wiper element being configured to clean a windshield or a rear window and the other wiper element being configured to clean the see-through area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Maximilian Ehrmann, Magnus Sviberg, Cédric Langlais, Michael Hülsen
  • Patent number: 12761322
    Abstract: A vehicle sensor assembly having at least one sensor element emitting and/or detecting electromagnetic radiation in at least one measuring direction to determine a measuring signal, a cover element in front of the sensor element in the at least one measuring direction being an injection-molded plastic part having at least one layer transparent to the electromagnetic radiation, and a heating feature having a plurality of conductor paths applied to a backing film molded to the cover element, the backing film including the conductor paths thus forming an insert of the injection-molded cover element, the conductor paths being at least partially located on the side of the backing film facing the sensor element. The conductor paths are connected together by at least two bus bars that each at least partially form an electrical connecting element protruding from the cover element and being exposed for electrical contact with the electrical connecting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Thomas Podolski
  • Patent number: 12746741
    Abstract: A glass pane of a vehicle glazing, wherein the glass pane has a print containing scattering particles that scatter light, and wherein light coupled in at the side of the glass pane is coupled out via the print by means of the scattering particles. According to the invention, the glass pane has a curvature or a critical curvature which excludes reversible deformation of the glass pane into a planar configuration, and wherein the print formed with a printing ink in a digital printing process is situated over part of the surface, or the entire surface, of the outer curvature or the inner curvature of the glass pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Henner Fischer, Alois Müller
  • Patent number: 12746804
    Abstract: An arrangement for a vehicle roof with a roof opening has a deployment lever with a displacement slider which is pivotable relative to a guide rail. The deployment lever has a first coupling to the guide rail and a second coupling to the guide rail. The second coupling has a lever slotted track in the deployment lever and a sliding pin on the guide rail which is guided in the lever slotted track. The second coupling is arranged between the first coupling and the displacement slider in the longitudinal direction (X).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Richard Seidl, Jan Rolwes, Julian Knöpfle, Maciej Kaczmarek, Ludwig Stigler
  • Patent number: 12746803
    Abstract: A fixed roof element for a vehicle roof, said fixed roof element having a panel to the underside of which at least one guide rail of a shading system is joined via a plastic moulded portion. The plastic moulded portion receives a clamping unit, which keeps the guide rail at the panel and which is formed by at least one insert part of the plastic moulded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Schreiber, Julian Knöpfle, Ludwig Stigler, Johann Lang, Maciej Kaczmarek, Moritz Pradella, Eva Huttner
  • Patent number: 12741516
    Abstract: A roller blind arrangement for a vehicle roof of a motor vehicle, having a fixed glass element, two mutually opposite guide rails which extend along a longitudinal direction and are each curved such that a distance between the guide rails changes along the longitudinal direction, a roller blind web which is displaceably guided in the guide rails along the longitudinal direction, wherein a guide rail has a receiving channel for receiving part of the roller blind web, an insertion element is arranged on the fixed glass element and extends along the receiving channel, the roller blind web is guided between the receiving channel and the insertion element, wherein the insertion element has an extent which changes along the longitudinal direction such that a greater or lesser amount of the roller blind web is received in the receiving channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Andreas Rockelmann, Georg Rossmair, Tobias Mech
  • Patent number: 12741614
    Abstract: A sensor module for being fixed to a vehicle. The sensor module may have at least one environment sensor, a panel component having a viewing area, through which the at least one environment sensor transmits and/or receives electromagnetic signals for charting an environment of the vehicle, and at least one cleaning apparatus, which has at least one cleaning nozzle by which the viewing area is cleaned. The at least one cleaning apparatus may have a guide lever which is rotationally connected to the at least one cleaning nozzle and which guides the at least one cleaning nozzle for an in particular combined longitudinal movement along a movement axis and a rotational movement about a rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Magnus Sviberg
  • Patent number: 12722713
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module having a panel component which at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through a roof see-through area to detect a vehicle environment, and a cooling mechanism having a cooling-air inlet, a filter member and at least one cooling channel, the cooling mechanism being configured to dissipate waste heat emitted by the environment sensor and/or ambient heat introduced from outside from the environment sensor. The filter member has a conical and/or pot-shaped shape and is provided at the cooling-air inlet and is configured to prevent and/or reduce an entry of foreign particles and/or liquid into an interior of the at least one cooling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Antonio Percinic, Juraj Lehotsky
  • Patent number: 12715370
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle comprises a panel component which at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface, a roof opening system having a lid part configured to selectively open and/or close a roof opening, and at least one sensor module having at least one environment sensor. The sensor module is disposed on the roof module in such a manner that it at least partially protrudes in the direction of an opening center of the roof opening. The lid part comprises an indentation surrounding the at least partially protruding part of the sensor module when the lid part is closed, or the lid part at least partially covers the sensor module when the lid part is closed. A motor vehicle can have such a roof module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Magnus Sviberg, Maximilian Ehrmann, Cédric Langlais
  • Patent number: 12715275
    Abstract: A sunroof water drainage member, which is I-shaped and mounted to lie across a sunroof opening, and has a body portion extending the vehicle width, and a pair of water drainage portions on both sides of the body portion in the vehicle width direction. Each water drainage portion may have a main portion connected to the body portion and extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction; a first tip end portion connected to a front end of the main portion in the longitudinal direction; a second tip end portion connected to a rear end of the main portion in the longitudinal direction; and a first wall portion positioned on the opposite side of the main portion to the body portion in the vehicle width direction, and at least a part of the first tip end portion and part of the second tip end portion are each positioned below the main portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Kazuki Kakihara
  • Patent number: 12715272
    Abstract: A glazing arrangement for a vehicle includes a first glazing element, a second glazing element, the second glazing element being coupled with the first glazing element. The glazing arrangement also includes a switchable interlayer, which is arranged in stacking direction between the first glazing element and the second glazing element, a first plastics layer having a first thickness along the stacking direction and a first pigment concentration, the first plastics layer being arranged between the first glazing element and the interlayer, and a second plastics layer having a second thickness along the stacking direction and a second pigment concentration, the second plastics layer being arranged between the second glazing element and the interlayer. The first pigment concentration is higher than the second pigment concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Wladislaw Bronstein
  • Patent number: 12691733
    Abstract: A roof arrangement of a motor vehicle, the roof arrangement having a fixed roof element which is disposed rigidly and so as to not be displaceable with respect to a roof substructure and comprises a flat glass or plastic panel, and the roof arrangement having a headliner having a liner element, which forms an inner viewing area and which is connected to the fixed roof element. The fixed roof element has a mold portion manufactured according to a foaming process or injection molding process which is molded onto the glass or plastic panel and on which a fastening geometry is molded, to which the liner element is fastened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Bernhard Harnischfeger
  • Patent number: 12681233
    Abstract: A pane arrangement for a vehicle roof may have a first pane element which has a first main face and a second main face which is opposite the first main face along a stacking direction, a second pane element which has a third main face and has a fourth main face which is opposite the third main face along the stacking direction, the second pane element being coupled to the first pane element, and the second pane element being embodied as a plate-like light guide element which is coupled to a light source and is configured to guide light fed in from the light source and to provide it for a prescribed lighting of the vehicle interior. The pane arrangement may further have a first plastic layer which is arranged in stacking direction between the first pane element and the second pane element, and a first absorption element which is arranged in stacking direction between the first plastic layer and the second pane element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Markus Walter Pohlen, Olivier Farreyrol
  • Patent number: 12679186
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having a roof module having a panel component, which at least partially forms a roof skin of a vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface of the roof module; and a vehicle body. At least one electrical, electronic and/or electromagnetic component is disposed on the vehicle body, and the roof module comprises at least one functional feature configured to support and/or amplify at least one function of the at least one electrical, electronic and/or electromagnetic component and/or to extend a functional range of the at least one electrical, electronic and/or electromagnetic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Magnus Sviberg, Maximilian Ehrmann, Cèdric Langlais, Michael Huelsen
  • Patent number: 12683231
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery housing for a vehicle battery, comprising at least two wall elements, stacked one above the other in a stacking direction, in order to form in each case a housing wall, wherein each wall element comprises a pair of a through bore and a threaded bore, arranged next to the through bore in a plane perpendicular to the stacking direction, for screwing on a wall element which is directly adjacent in the stacking direction, wherein the threaded bores and through bores are arranged alternately one above the other with reference to the stacking direction; it moreover relates to a vehicle battery with such a battery housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventor: Mario Meyer
  • Patent number: 12663478
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery-monitoring unit, comprising an interface which is configured to receive electrical voltages for each battery group comprising at least two battery cells being connected to each another in parallel and of a battery coupled with the battery-monitoring unit and comprising at least two battery groups, where an evaluation unit is provided which is configured to compare the voltages, received from the interface, of at least two series-connected battery groups with each another and to output a signal based on the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Martin Zoske, Hans Beyer, Jonas Keutmann, Felix König