Patents Assigned to Webasto SE
  • Patent number: 11922920
    Abstract: A roof module for a motor vehicle having a roof skin and a roof substructure as well as a means for autonomous driving or semi-autonomous driving of the motor vehicle. The means having at least one sensor module having at least one environmental sensor for detecting a vehicle environment, the sensor module being covered by the roof skin, having a means for generating sound which are covered by the roof skin and means for recording sound which are covered by the roof skin. The environmental sensor and the means for generating sound and the means for recording sound are connected to a controller which is part of the means for autonomous driving or semi-autonomous driving of the motor vehicle. The means for generating sound and the means for recording sound are part of the means for autonomous driving or semi-autonomous driving of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Oliver Heisel
  • Patent number: 11890915
    Abstract: A HVAC apparatus 10 for a vehicle 12 having a fan unit 14 with a plurality of axial impellers 16 driven by motors 18 mounted in their centers, wherein the axial impellers rotational axis is substantially perpendicular to the fan unit's suction direction, a heat exchanger unit 20 forming an air duct receiving air from the fan unit, and a plate-shaped housing accommodating the fan unit and the heat exchanger unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Charles Massimo Byrd, Roberto Galasso, Marco Brunaldi
  • Patent number: 11894838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for controlling a plurality of semiconductor circuit breakers by means of driver voltages for the synchronous operation of a plurality of loads in the high-voltage range, where the driver voltages can be provided by a transformer. According to the invention, the driver voltages for the semiconductor circuit breakers are tapped from a single secondary winding of the transformer, where electronic voltage level converter circuits are provided to obtain the driver voltages from the secondary winding of the transformer at the required magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Alexander Henne, Hans Rechberger, Karlheinz Fleder
  • Patent number: 11879284
    Abstract: A device for configuring a jamming detection system having an adjusting device including an electric motor for closing at least one opening in a vehicle, such as a sliding roof. The device is provided with a processor which reads measured parameters of the electric motor and parameters of the jamming detection system, calculates individual correlation variables from the measured parameters of the electric motor and of the jamming detection system, and stores the calculated individual correlation variables in a motor controller of the adjusting device, wherein the calculated individual correlation variables are used to configure the jamming detection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Josef Appel
  • Patent number: 11881848
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for checking a semiconductor switch for a fault, wherein the semiconductor switch is driven with a PWM signal with a variable duty cycle. To the benefit of determining faults on the semiconductor switch reliably and cost-effectively, it is provided that if the semiconductor switch is operated with a duty cycle of 100% or 0%, the current measurement of the overall system is evaluated, while if the semiconductor switch is operated with a duty cycle of between 0% and 100%, the generated voltage pulses across the semiconductor switch are evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Philipp Eck
  • Patent number: 11858325
    Abstract: A collapsible deflector member of a sunroof device including a front portion on the front side of an opening and corner portions extending rearward from the front portion, respectively, a lower edge fixed to a lower edge of the deflector and attached to a fore part of a frame structure, an upper edge supporting an upper edge of the deflector, and arms end connected to one of longitudinal ends of the upper edge in a manner that allows the arm end to move. Upper edges of the front portion and the corner portions of the deflector include a bag-shaped fitting portion fitted onto the upper edge, and in the arm, an arc-shaped portion inserted into the corner portion of the deflector is formed at the arm end, and a connecting portion positioned on an end side of the arc-shaped portion and connected to an end of the upper edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Koji Sawahata, Takeshi Mizoguchi, Masaya Kobatake, Shigeru Ueki
  • Patent number: 11851106
    Abstract: A roof module for a motor vehicle may have a roof skin, a roof frame on a vehicle body and have at least one transverse frame part extending in the transverse roof direction and a longitudinal frame part extending in the longitudinal roof direction on either side of a longitudinal center roof plane, and a roof opening system having a lid element configured to be displaced on guide rails, which are part of the longitudinal frame parts of the roof frame, in the longitudinal roof direction relative to the roof frame, and/or a solid roof element having a transparent see-through portion and being rigidly connected to the roof frame, having a sensor system comprising at least one sensor module which has at least one environmental sensor and is located outside of the roof opening and/or outside of the transparent see-through portions and is covered by a cover element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Johannes Thannheimer, Dirk Legler, Max Huber, Thomas Lindner, Michael Deppe, Thomas Rudolph, Cedric Langlais, Michael Mailhamer, Juraj Lehotsky, Achim Holzwarth, Michael Respondek, Alexander Kilias
  • Patent number: 11845323
    Abstract: A vehicle roof having a plate-shaped body-shell element and a shading arrangement which has a shading element and guide rails for laterally guiding the shading element. At least one fixing element is formed integrally on each of the guide rails at an upper side facing the body-shell element, said fixing element being in engagement with at least one molded portion which is molded to the body-shell element and has at least one fixing counterpart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Gioacchino Inzerillo, Gianluca Anedda
  • Patent number: 11840133
    Abstract: A torsion spring installation means for a vehicle sunroof, front frame and vehicle sunroof. The torsion spring may have spring coils, a first torsion arm and a second torsion arm. The torsion spring installation means has a recess, the recess being configured as a cavity having an opening, for the purpose of receiving the spring coils, and having a wall and a recess bottom; a receiving component, the receiving component having an opening part, in order to receive the first torsion arm; wherein a guide block is provided on a first wall face of the wall in a fixed manner, the guide block extending out from the first wall face in such a way that its size gradually diminishes. The present means provides convenience of installation and removal, ease of maintenance and replacement, effective prevention of water penetration, the ability to prevent jumping out and wobbling, an extended service life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Yunquan Bu, Baojia Liu, Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 11843237
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detecting an electric arc in an electronic assembly, having: a transmission unit for generating an output signal, and an evaluation unit for receiving the output signal, where the transmission unit and the evaluation unit are connected to one another, where the transmission unit comprises an oscillator unit that generates an output signal having a frequency and/or an amplitude, and where the evaluation unit is configured to detect deviations, caused by an arc, in the output signal from the transmission unit. There is in particular a provision to implement the oscillator unit by way of a modified Pierce oscillator having an inverter, where the quartz is replaced by a detector coil. The invention furthermore relates to an electronic assembly of a motor vehicle having an apparatus to be controlled, in particular having a heating apparatus and having said device, and to a method for detecting an electric arc in an electronic assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Jürgen Scherschmidt
  • Patent number: 11827083
    Abstract: A roller blind arrangement for a motor vehicle may have a roller blind web which has guiding tapes on its lateral edges on either side of a longitudinal center plane of the roller blind, a winding shaft onto which the roller blind web can be wound or from which the roller blind web can be unwound and which comprises a flexible hollow tube arrangement penetrated by a vehicle-attached mounting beam and comprising a flexible middle tube which is provided with bearing bushes in a co-rotating manner on both ends, each guiding tape of the roller blind web being attached to one bearing bush. At least one of the bearing bushes can shift relative to the middle tube in the longitudinal direction of the hollow tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Daniel Schuller, Tobias Fritz, Sebastian Gering, Ulrich Schreiber, Andreas Rockelmann, Marian Riegger
  • Patent number: 11827276
    Abstract: A glass pane which covers a surface region of a vehicle roof and has an edge protection at a pane edge of the glass pane. The edge protection can be formed by an edge protection strip which covers the glass pane at its pane edge, and a vehicle roof) having such a glass pane, the glass pane being adhesively bonded to a support surface of a roof component of the vehicle roof so as to form a gap between the glass pane and the support surface and the edge protection strip being arranged so as to be contact-free with respect to the support surface and/or contact-free with respect to the adhesive bond of the glass pane to the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Andreas Josef Zunzer, Enrico Müntel, Florian Grosser
  • Patent number: 11820212
    Abstract: A front connecting rod for a sunroof linkage, a sunroof linkage, and a sunroof assembly. The sunroof linkage is configured to drive front glass of a sunroof assembly to slide relative to rear glass, and the front connecting rod is configured to connect a glass-supporting rod of the sunroof linkage to a front slider. The front connecting rod may have an anti-turn-over structure, configured to be matched in shape to a sealing strip disposed on a peripheral edge of the rear glass, so as to prevent the sealing strip from turning over when the sunroof linkage drives the front glass to slide. The front connecting rod for a present sunroof linkage enables a sunroof to open to the maximum extent, and during sliding will not cause the sealing strip of the rear glass to be turned over and folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Jerry Hu, Fisher Yu, Sulzer Zhu, Andreas Zunzer, Maximilian Ehrmann
  • Patent number: 11817568
    Abstract: A temperature-control element for controlling the temperature of an electrical accumulator, in particular for controlling the temperature of a traction battery of a vehicle, includes an extruded profile extending in an extrusion direction which has a temperature-control medium channel for passage of a temperature-control medium. A guide vane is integrally formed with the extruded profile in the temperature-control medium channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Jochen Haussmann
  • Patent number: 11813992
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module having 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 surroundings. The environment sensor can be disposed below the roof skin formed by the panel component, the roof module having at least one support module, and at least two environment sensors being jointly mounted on the support module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Cédric Langlais, Michael Mailhamer, Juraj Lehotsky
  • Patent number: 11794666
    Abstract: A roof for a motor vehicle, in particular for a passenger car, the roof having a support structure, a roof skin at least partially covering the support structure, roof side beams which are part of a vehicle body, and at least one sensor module having an environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment. The sensor module may be disposed on the support structure and is for a large part located below a reference roof indentation plane which is in tangential contact with one of the roof side beams and inclined relative to a horizontal plane by a first angle (?) in the transverse direction of the roof and by a second angle (?) in the longitudinal direction of the roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Michael Huelsen
  • Patent number: 11787274
    Abstract: A top compartment lid assembly of a convertible vehicle includes a lid element, a linkage assembly configured to displace the lid element between an open position and a closed position and comprising a lid link assembly on either side of a vertical longitudinal center plane of the lid, each lid link assembly being mounted in a pivoting manner on a main bearing attached to a vehicle body, and a locking assembly on either side of the longitudinal center plane of the lid, each locking assembly being configured to be moved between a locked position and an unlocked position by a locking link assembly. An electric motor is mounted on each of the bilaterally disposed main bearings, each electric motor driving both the respective lid link assembly and the respective locking link assembly via a drive pinion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Franz Haberl
  • Patent number: D1005920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Thomas Rudolph, Michael Huelsen, Dirk Legler
  • Patent number: D1010782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Peter Neidenberger, Roman Mielke
  • Patent number: D1011493
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Tobias Heimerl, Peter Neidenberger, Roman Mielke