Patents Assigned to Webasto SE
  • Patent number: 12643382
    Abstract: A convertible arrangement having a convertible top box lid arrangement, which has a lid element, a support frame on which the lid element is mounted, and a kinematics unit on each of both sides with respect to a vertical longitudinal lid center plane, the kinematics unit pivoting the lid element together with the support frame between a closed position closing a convertible top storage space and an open position exposing the convertible top storage space. The kinematics units each have an adjustment-link arrangement, which is driven by a drive element, and a seven-joint-linkage arrangement, which has two supporting links, which articulate with a support bearing attached to the vehicle, and two guiding control links, which articulate with the support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Heinrich Wüllrich, Alexander Haimerl
  • Patent number: 12629999
    Abstract: An openable vehicle roof having a fixed roof element and a roof opening system having a movable lid, the fixed roof element having with a weather-strip assembly at its front and lateral edges, a rear edge of the lid element being adjacent to a transverse leg of the weather-strip assembly of the fixed roof element when in the closed position, and the kinematic mechanism having a kinematic unit on either side of the roof plane, each kinematic unit having a deployment lever which slides on an associated longitudinal leg of the weather-strip assembly when the lid element is moved, the longitudinal legs of the weather-strip assembly each being connected to the transverse leg via a corner piece. The corner piece has at least one fixing base on its underside, the fixing base engaging a corresponding geometry formed on a molded portion with which the fixed roof element is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Stefan Schäufler, Andreas Josef Zunzer
  • Patent number: 12629991
    Abstract: A device for producing a roller blind web of a motor vehicle, the device having an application table having a continuously flat support surface for a fabric; and an extruder configured to apply a plastic material to the fabric from above along at least one extrusion track. A tensioner tensions the fabric in the direction of the extrusion track. Moreover, a method for producing a roller blind web is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Nathalie Albersmeyer
  • Patent number: 12618278
    Abstract: A method for detecting a pinching situation when moving an adjustable component for closing an opening by means of an electric motor in a vehicle comprises the following steps: providing a trigger threshold for a closing force exerted by the electric motor on the component or a physical variable on which it is based, with which the electric motor is operated, for at least one movement position of the component within a travel path available to it for the movement; moving the component into the movement position; determining a current value of the closing force or of the physical variable on which it is based for the at least one movement position; comparing the current value and the trigger threshold; and outputting a trigger signal which indicates the pinching situation dependent from the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Verena Bachschneider, Julian T. Dittrich, Lorenz Casper
  • Patent number: 12600415
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having a vehicle body, a windshield and/or a rear window, and a roof module disposed on the vehicle body as a structural unit and at least partially forming a vehicle roof of the motor vehicle, the roof module having a see-through area, a panel component which at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface, and at least two environment sensors for detecting a vehicle environment. One of the at least two environment sensors is attached to the roof module and configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through the windshield or the rear window in detect a vehicle environment, and another one of the at least two environment sensors is attached to the roof module and configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through the see-through area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Magnus Sviberg, Maximilian Ehrmann, Cédric Langlais, Michael Huelsen
  • Patent number: 12589808
    Abstract: 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 at least one electrical and/or electronic and/or electromagnetic component. The roof module may have at least one vehicle body rail configured to form at least part of a vehicle body roof frame when the roof module is disposed on a vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Magnus Sviberg, Maximilian Ehrmann, Cèdric Langlais, Michael Huelsen
  • Patent number: 12576796
    Abstract: A device for adjusting a display arrangement for a vehicle roof includes a lever mechanism for pivoting open and in, and for moving the display arrangement with movable guide sliders and pivot levers which are coupled to one another, a spring element with two spring arms, a fixed spring guide element with a guide portion and a first end stop, wherein an end portion of the first spring arm engages in the guide portion and can be moved inside the guide portion along the guide rail, and a rotatably mounted locking element which is coupled to the second guide slider. The locking element can be transferred by means of the first guide slider and the spring element from a first state in which the display arrangement is folded in and locked, into a second state in which the display arrangement is unlocked and can be pivoted open or pivoted in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Ingo Teufel
  • Patent number: 12565087
    Abstract: A roof assembly for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof assembly has a panel component which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of the vehicle roof, the roof cladding acting as an outer sealing surface, and a roof opening system having a lid part which is configured to selectively open or close a roof opening provided in the panel component, and at least one electric and/or electronic and/or electromagnetic component and an air conditioner, via which waste heat released by the electronic component and/or heat introduced from outside are able to be dissipated, wherein the roof opening system has at least one water gutter via which at least one cooling channel of the air conditioner is formed, the waste heat of the component and/or the heat introduced from outside being able to be dissipated from the roof assembly via cooling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Magnus Sviberg, Maximilian Ehrmann, Cédric Langlais, Michael Hülsen, Juraj Lehotsky, Fabian Will, Thomas Podolski
  • Patent number: 12565156
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module having a panel component, which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of the vehicle roof, and having an opening in which at least one environment sensor is disposed within a casing, the environment sensor being able to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic signals for charting the vehicle environment and being displaceable between a retracted position and an extracted position, wherein the roof module may have a sealing assembly which surrounds the opening and has a sealing area which extends in a movably flexible manner between the panel component and at least one section of the casing and is injection-molded on one side on the panel component and/or the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Lorenz Müller, Giedrius Mikutis, Cédric Langlais, Nikolaus Linner
  • Patent number: 12560842
    Abstract: A vehicle pane includes a liquid crystal arrangement having a liquid crystal layer and first and second carrier films having, respectively, first and second electrode layers. In a first panel section, the first carrier film is free of the liquid crystal layer and the second carrier film, the first carrier film forming a first contact area with the first electrode layer. In a second panel section, the second carrier film is free of the liquid crystal layer and the first carrier film, the second carrier film forming a second contact area with the second electrode layer. The first and second electrode layers are respectively equipped with an electric contact element in the first contact area and in the second contact area. The second carrier film has a hole in the second contact area, an electric connective material passing through the hole and being in contact with the second contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Jean-Baptiste Pouillon
  • Patent number: 12531282
    Abstract: A battery module for constructing a battery system for a vehicle includes at least one battery cell and a battery management controller (BMC) with a battery management controller interface (BMCS). The battery management controller interface (BMCS) has at least two address contacts for allocating an address to the battery module, and the battery management controller (BMC) is designed and configured to detect the assignment of the address contacts and derive therefrom an address for the battery module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Patrick Assmann, Björn Langhof
  • Patent number: 12515595
    Abstract: A sensor module to be mounted on a motor vehicle in a length-adaptive manner, the sensor module may have a first module component unit, which preferably has at least one first environment sensor, at least one second module component unit, which has at least one second environment sensor, and at least one intermediate element, via which the first module component unit is coupled to the second module component unit, the intermediate element being configured to be adjustable in length as a function of a mounting position on the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Magnus Sviberg, Alexander Kilias, Cédric Langlais
  • Patent number: 12509159
    Abstract: A vehicle roof having a roof skin assembly, a roof substructure, which is disposed below the roof skin assembly, and at least one sensor module having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment, the environment sensor being disposed in a sensor housing having a sensor window. The roof skin assembly has a sensor cutout accommodating the sensor housing in a circumferentially sealing manner with the result that the sensor window forms a visible outer roof surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Michael Respondek, Dirk Legler, Sascha Dietrich, Johannes Thannheimer, Thomas Columbus, Andrea Kramer, Michael Deppe
  • Patent number: 12508887
    Abstract: An edge profile of a glass pane of vehicle glazing, wherein the edge profile may have a plurality of distance pieces, which are arranged at a distance from one another along the edge profile, and that the edge profile attached to a pane edge defines with the distance pieces an installation position of the glass pane relative to a vehicle frame carrying the glass pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Andreas Josef Zunzer
  • Patent number: 12509000
    Abstract: A roof module having a panel component which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of a vehicle roof, which functions as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, and has a viewing area, wherein at least one transmitter and/or receiver apparatus of an environment sensor is disposed directly and without gaps at the viewing area and/or the panel component or is integrated therein and is configured to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic and/or optical signals directly via the viewing area and/or the panel component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Magnus Sviberg, Maximilian Ehrmann, Cèdric Langlais, Michael Huelsen
  • Patent number: 12509160
    Abstract: A vehicle roof, in particular of a passenger car, having a roof cladding arrangement and a roof substructure, which is at least partially covered by the roof cladding arrangement, and at least one environment sensor for charting a vehicle environment and another electrical installation for emitting and/or receiving electromagnetic radiation, characterized in that the roof cladding arrangement comprises a visor which has a groove-free outer visible surface, in that the environment sensor and the other electrical installation are disposed beside each other or above one another behind and/or below the visor and in that the visor has a first transmission area having a first transmission behavior for the environment sensor and a second transmission area having a second transmission behavior for the other electrical installation, the second transmission behavior differing from the first transmission behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Andrea Kramer, Alexander Kilias, Bernhard Schieder, Dirk Legler, Michael Deppe
  • Patent number: 12509001
    Abstract: A roof sensor module having a panel component which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of a vehicle roof, the roof cladding functioning as an outer sealing surface of the roof sensor module, at least one environment sensor for charting a vehicle environment which is connected to at least one cable, and at least one channel-shaped carrier structure. The at least one cable is guided along the channel-shaped carrier structure within a hollow cross section thereof and/or an in particular channel-shaped guide profile is formed at the channel-shaped carrier structure, the at least one cable being guided along the channel-shaped guide profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Magnus Sviberg, Maximilian Ehrmann, Cèdric Langlais, Michael Huelsen
  • Patent number: 12512546
    Abstract: A battery housing for an electric vehicle includes two receiving chambers, which are separated from one another by means of a partition wall, for receiving battery cells, and a conductor sheath that penetrates the partition wall and can receive an electrical connecting element so as to connect in an electrically conductive manner the battery cells that are to be arranged in a different receiving chamber of the two receiving chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Jochen Haussmann
  • Patent number: 12503045
    Abstract: A vehicle pane with a light guiding layer on the inner side of the pane and with a lighting device, which introduces light into the light guiding layer by a light input coupling device. The lighting device has at least two LEDs, and in that each LED is assigned a light input coupling element, via which light from the respective LED is introduced into the light guiding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Georg Rossmair, Marco Hofner, Michael Steigthaler
  • Patent number: 12502934
    Abstract: A heating system, more particularly for heating a motor vehicle, including a fuel-operated heating device and a sensing unit, which is configured to sense the presence of fuel in the heating device at least for a first case in which there is no flame formation, more particularly both for the first case in which there is no flame formation and for a second case in which there is flame formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Mattias Ahnsjö, Drago Komusanac, Thorsten Pannwitz