Patents Assigned to Webasto SE
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Patent number: 12286056Abstract: A vehicle window pane having a window pane body assembly having an outer side, which faces a vehicle environment, and an inner side, which faces a vehicle interior, and having a light-conducting layer; and a light source configured to couple its light into the light-conducting layer. An input coupling element coupling light emitted by the light source into the light-conducting layer is disposed on the inner side of the window pane body assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventor: Robert Pasquarelli
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Patent number: 12270942Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible sensor strip for a motor vehicle, in particular for a tailgate, a movable roof element or a convertible top of a motor vehicle, the flexible sensor strip including: a first continuous portion; a second portion, which is at least partially electrically connected to the first continuous portion, and comprises alternately arranged recesses and mounting portions; where the first continuous portion and the second portion are arranged at an angle to each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Webasto SEInventors: Alexander Hinz, Moritz Pradella
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Patent number: 12246651Abstract: Sensor module for mounting on a motor vehicle panel component having a sensor housing, at least one environment sensor, at least part of which is disposed in the sensor housing, and which is configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals to thus detect a vehicle environment, and a kinematic system having a drive configured to move the sensor housing from a retracted position into at least one deployed position. The kinematic system is configured to move the sensor housing into a first deployed position, which activates the at least one environment sensor to detect the vehicle environment in a portion of its field of view, and to move the sensor housing into a second deployed position, which activates the at least one environment sensor to detect the vehicle environment in its entire field of view.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Magnus Sviberg, Michael Huelsen
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Patent number: 12246581Abstract: A flow-directing element for a heating apparatus, in particular a heating apparatus with an evaporator burner, having a body which comprises a laterally arranged inflow region on an underside of the flow-directing element, having a centrally arranged outflow region, which includes a through-passage from an underside of the flow-directing element to an upper side of the flow-directing element, the upper side being located opposite the underside, and having at least one guide element, which is arranged such that it allows flow to be guided from the inflow region to the outflow region.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Vitali Dell, Christian Schweyer
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Patent number: 12246515Abstract: A glazing device for a vehicle has an illuminated glazing unit and has a flat outer glass element at least partly forming or continuing the outer body skin and a flat inner glass element. A one-piece or multipart elongated carrier profile component is arranged on an edge section of the inner glass element and holds a lighting device such that the lighting device couples light laterally into the inner glass element. The carrier profile component is attached to the inner glass element and/or the outer glass element, and/or the outer glass element covers the inner glass element or projects laterally beyond the inner glass element in such a way that an edge section of the outer glass element can be attached to a vehicle roof frame and is spaced apart from the edge section of the inner glass element.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2024Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Andreas Rockelmann, Philip Ertle, Tobias Mech, Georg Rossmair, Yannick Theis
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Patent number: 12240297Abstract: Vehicle roof having a roof skin which encloses a roof cutout, in which a fixed roof element and a roof opening are formed, by an inner edge and to a roof opening system having a lid element and displacement kinematics. On the inner edge of the roof skin, a weatherstrip arrangement is disposed which has a longitudinal leg and a front transverse leg and a rear transverse leg on either side. Starting from the front transverse leg, the longitudinal legs each comprise a first profile portion and a second profile portion, which interacts with the fixed roof element and is wider than the first profile portion. The longitudinal legs each comprise a third profile portion, which is disposed rearward of the second profile portion. The third profile portion is narrower than the second profile portion and transitions into the rear transverse leg.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventor: Andreas Josef Zunzer
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Patent number: 12240377Abstract: A vehicle window includes a window body assembly having at least one window body, the window body assembly having an outer side facing the vehicle environment and an inner side facing the vehicle interior and a light-conducting layer forming the inner side; an illuminating device configured to couple light into the light-conducting layer; and a light-decoupling device configured to decouple light from the light-conducting layer in the direction of the vehicle interior. The light-decoupling device includes transparent structural elements made of a polymer material and molded or connected to the inner side of the window body assembly by extrusion or foaming or injection molding or gluing.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2024Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Christian Rauch, Stefan Groitl, Stefan Schmuck, Jan Grothe, Rudolf Dietl
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Patent number: 12240528Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module may have a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof module having at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals for detecting the vehicle environment. At least one reflector element at which the electromagnetic signals can be reflected is associated with the environment sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Michael Huelsen, Craig T. Marx
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Patent number: 12233944Abstract: A vehicle roof, in particular for a passenger car, the vehicle roof having a roof skin which forms a visible outer surface of the vehicle roof, and a sensor unit having at least two environment sensors for detecting a vehicle environment, the sensor unit being disposed below the roof skin and attached to a carrier and may have a support for the at least two environment sensors, the support being connected to a thermal management system. An electrical insulation element is disposed between each of the environment sensors and the support, the electrical insulation elements thermally coupling the respective environment sensors and the support.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventor: Juraj Lehotsky
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Patent number: 12233694Abstract: A wind deflector assembly mountable to a sunroof frame having a support arm configured to be rotatable at least relative to a transverse direction of the sunroof frame; a torsion spring mounting seat adapted to be secured to the sunroof frame, the torsion spring mounting seat comprising a limiting shaft and a limiting boss adjacent to the limiting shaft; and a torsion spring having a helical portion, and a short torsion arm and a long torsion arm which are respectively arranged at two ends of the helical portion, the helical portion being adapted to be fitted over the limiting shaft, the short torsion arm being adapted to be attached to the limiting boss, the long torsion arm being adapted to be attached to the support arm, and the limiting boss being adapted to limit a displacement of the helical portion in a vertical direction of the sunroof frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: MingJun Zheng, Bao Jia Liu, Jun Chen
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Patent number: 12227063Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle sunroof comprising an energized sunroof glass and to a vehicle. The energized sunroof glass comprises a rear glass and a front glass being slidable relative to the rear glass, wherein one of the rear glass and the front glass is electrically connected to a main wire harness of the sunroof, and wherein the vehicle sunroof further comprises an intermediate electrical connection structure configured to electrically connect the front glass to the rear glass when the front glass slides relative to the rear glass to a predetermined position. The vehicle sunroof saves the number of wire harnesses, has a simple structure and high integration, and is easy to control.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Xiong Liu, Jerry Hu, Daniel Schuller, Zhu Sulzer
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Patent number: 12222888Abstract: A control system for use in a bus system having at least two transmission lines, having a first control device which has a first termination path and a first terminating resistor connected to the first termination path, a second control device which has a second termination path and a second terminating resistor connected to the second termination path, a first connector which is adapted to connect the first control device to the transmission lines and therefore to integrate the first control device in the bus system, a second connector which is adapted to connect the second control device to the transmission lines and therefore to integrate the second control device in the bus system, wherein the first connector and the second connector are different to one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Webasto SEInventors: Michael Zeilbeck, Sergej Hermann, Patrick Assmann
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Patent number: 12202403Abstract: A vehicle window pane includes a light guide layer and a lighting device which introduces light from a lamp into the light guide layer via a light-incoupling unit arranged on the light guide layer. The lamp is mounted on a support plate and a fastening device keeps the support plate fixed in such a position on the light-incoupling unit in which the lamp is correctly positioned to radiate light into the light-incoupling unit. The fastening device comprises at least one fastening dome which protrudes from the light-incoupling unit and projects into a fastening cutout in the support plate. The substantially deformation-resistant support plate comprises at least one soft region which delimits the fastening cutout. A spreading portion of the fastening dome spreads the fastening cutout by elastically deforming the soft region.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2024Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Webasto SEInventor: Julian Knöpfle
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Patent number: 12194928Abstract: A roof module for forming a motor vehicle roof, 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 environment sensor is disposed, the environment sensor being configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals for detecting the vehicle environment. The at least one environment sensor is displaceable between a retracted position and a deployed position. A weather strip is disposed circumferentially at the opening, and the at least one environment sensor may have a cover which is in contact with the weather strip when the at least one environment sensor is in the retracted position to seal the opening, and a contact surface which is in contact with the weather strip when the at least one environment sensor is in the deployed position to seal the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventor: Cédric Langlais
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Patent number: 12187109Abstract: A wind deflector for an openable vehicle roof having a displaceable cover element, the wind deflector may have a deployable deflector element which is made of a planar flexible material and forms a windward surface, the deflector element being attached to a pivotable deploying bow at its upper edge area and to a vehicle-attached base at its lower edge area and comprising a warp-knitted fabric having meshes. The warp-knitted fabric is a one-piece warp-knitted fabric. The windward surface is a curved surface whose curvature is defined by the interknitted meshes of the warp-knitted fabric.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Rudolf Wimmer, Uwe-Gert Heiner
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Patent number: 12187242Abstract: A roof module for a motor vehicle, in particular a passenger car, is proposed, the roof module having a roof cladding, which forms an outer visible surface of the roof module, and at least one sensor module having an environment sensor for sensing a vehicle environment during an autonomous or partially autonomous operation of the motor vehicle. A viewing area can be formed in the roof cladding for the environment sensor and the viewing area can be provided with a cleaning element.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Michael Huelsen, Johannes Thannheimer, Max Huber
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Patent number: 12172504Abstract: A winding shaft bearing of a winding shaft for a vehicle roller blind having a roller blind web, wherein the winding shaft bearing has a guide unit which guides a roller blind edge strip of the unwound roller blind web to a guide rail adjoining the winding shaft bearing. According to the invention: the guide unit has a guide front portion facing the winding shaft and a guide main portion facing the guide rail; a guide contact surface of the guide main portion guiding the roller blind edge strip to the guide rail is elevated with respect to a guide contact surface of the guide front portion guiding the roller blind edge strip from or to the winding shaft; and the winding shaft bearing is formed integrally with the guide front portion and the guide main portion of the guide unit as a plastic injection-moulded part in an injection-moulding tool.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Marian Riegger, Bernhard Braun
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Patent number: 12172604Abstract: A vehicle roof having a support on the vehicle body shell, a roof module disposed on the support and having a roof skin, and a sensor system having at least one sensor module having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment, the environment sensor being disposed in a lateral edge area of the roof module associated with a lateral roof edge and being covered by the roof skin, the roof skin having a sensor see-through area for the environment sensor, the sensor see-through area being oriented in the transverse roof direction and being situated higher than the associated roof edge or an adjacent area of the associated roof edge and/or being located above the associated roof edge.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Michael Huelsen, Engelbert Hirschvogel
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Patent number: 12172503Abstract: A roof module for connection to a motor vehicle having a transparent solid roof portion, which forms a see-through roof area and which is immobile relative to the vehicle body when the roof module is in the installed position, and/or a roof opening system having a mobile lid element, by means of which a roof opening can be opened or closed at will, and a closed roof skin, which forms the see-through roof area and/or is adjacent to the roof opening and forms a roof cover outside of the see-through roof area and/or the roof opening. At least one sensor module can be provided having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment and is disposed outside of the see-through roof area and/or the roof opening and is covered by the roof skin.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Michael Huelsen, Dirk Legler, Michael Deppe, Johannes Thannheimer, Thomas Rudolph, Thomas Lindner
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Patent number: D1067849Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Webasto SEInventors: Juraj Lehotsky, Maximilian Ehrmann, Grzegorz Wolyniak, Thomas Podolski, Fabian Will, Bernhard Schieder, Magnus Sviberg, Cédric Langlais, Michael Hülsen, Alexander Schaule, Nikolaus Linner