Patents by Inventor Albert Sbongk
Albert Sbongk has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12247660Abstract: A grommet apparatus for cable passage is provided at a component opening. It includes a radially circumferential connecting portion for connecting the grommet apparatus to an edge region of a component opening in an assembly direction and a cable passage portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Albert Sbongk, Gerit Vollmer
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Patent number: 12247602Abstract: A fastening apparatus for fastening a component to a carrier component includes: a bushing device having a bushing portion that delimits a receiving space for receiving a pin device; a pin device having a pin portion, wherein the bushing device and the pin device are formed from a first plastic component; and an outer casing wall of the bushing portion of the bushing device, the outer casing wall comprising at least one and preferably two diametrically opposed fastening portions for radially abutting against a recess of a carrier component, wherein each of the one or more fastening portions are formed from a second plastic component that is softer in comparison to the first plastic component.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Gerit Vollmer, Melanie Sindel, Albert Sbongk, Jan Müller
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Publication number: 20240209952Abstract: Disclosed is a valve apparatus having a first pressure compensation valve, a first, gas-tight, cap-like membrane device, and a gas-permeable, moisture-permeable, and yet water-impermeable second membrane device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Manuel KELLNER, Jan MÜLLIER, Timo ROHNER, Melanie SINDEL, Albert SBONGK
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Publication number: 20240109603Abstract: Disclosed is a closing plug is provided for closing through-openings in components, such as components of motor vehicles. The closing plug includes a base body made from a hard component with a closing wall for covering a through-opening, and a sealing/fastening device made from a soft component. The soft component is configured to be sealed and connected to a wall of a carrier component that bounds a through-opening. The closing plug can be inserted into a through-opening in an assembly direction that extends orthogonally to a wall of a carrier component that bounds a through-opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Albert SBONGK, Viviane REIBEL, Manuel HUEBNER
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Patent number: 11938844Abstract: A fastening apparatus, for a backseat bench of a motor vehicle, includes a housing installation with a fastening space for receiving a retaining section of a component to be fastened, wherein the housing installation is insertable in an assembly direction into a passage opening of a carrier component, and wherein the housing installation has an abutment section with an abutment surface extending transversely to the assembly direction at an end counter to the assembly direction for abutment on an edge of a carrier component facing counter to the assembly direction. A catching installation is provided with catching elements for connecting the fastening apparatus to a carrier component. The fastening apparatus further has a fastening installation with a catching means for releasably fixing a retaining section of a component to be fastened, wherein the fastening installation is arranged in front of the abutment section in the assembly direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Albert Sbongk, Manuel Hübner
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Patent number: 11897400Abstract: A carrier apparatus (mount) for fastening a water-collecting strip to an A-pillar of a motor vehicle includes a fastening wall having a fastening side and a receiving side, wherein at least one catching device is arranged on the fastening side of the fastening wall for connecting with the A-pillar, which catching device extends in an approximately orthogonal direction from the fastening side, and wherein the catching device is formed for insertion and rearward catching in a through-opening of the A-pillar, and a catching element device arranged opposite the receiving side having at least one catching element for releasably fixing a water-collecting strip in a receiving region, wherein the receiving region is formed between the receiving side of the fastening wall and the catching element.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Melanie Sindel, Jan Müller, Albert Sbongk
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Patent number: 11833646Abstract: Installation system for a box profile (100) for a motor vehicle, wherein the installation system (1) has: —at least one carrier strip (10), which can be pushed into the box profile (100), —at least one nut element (20) for prepositioning on the carrier strip (10), wherein the nut element (20) is designed to be prepositioned in a releasable manner on the carrier strip (10), and the installation system (1) has a positioning strip (30), which can be displaced relative to the carrier strip (10) and is designed to arrange the at least one nut element (20), in the state in which the latter has been prepositioned on the carrier strip (10), on an opening (102) of the box profile (100). Installation method. Nut element.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Florian Düll, Albert Sbongk
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Publication number: 20230375027Abstract: Disclosed is a fastening apparatus for fastening a component to a carrier component. The fastening apparatus includes a bushing device having a bushing portion that delimits a receiving space for receiving a pin device, and a pin device having a pin portion, wherein the bushing device and the pin device are formed from a first plastic component. An outer casing wall of the pin portion of the pin device includes at least one and preferably two diametrically opposed fastening portions for radially abutting against a recess of a carrier component. The fastening portions are formed from a second plastic component that is softer in comparison to the first plastic component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Gerit VOLLMER, Melanie SINDEL, Albert SBONGK, Jan MÜLLER
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Publication number: 20230287919Abstract: A fastening apparatus for connecting components of different thicknesses includes a base element for insertion into a contoured passage opening of a component, having a first fastening portion in which at least one bayonet-like fastening device is configured for retentive abutment on contour elements of a first component surface of the component, and a rotary element arranged on the base element, having a second fastening portion, in which at least one abutting device for retentive abutment on a second component surface of a component is configured. The base element and the rotary element are rotatably and axially slidably coupled to one another by a threaded axial displacement device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Albert SBONGK, Jan MÜLLER, Melanie SINDEL
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Publication number: 20230193948Abstract: A ball socket apparatus is provided for bearing a joint head. The apparatus includes a first ball shell element and a second ball shell element, wherein the ball socket apparatus forms a preferably radially circumferential, continuous contact surface for a joint head, and a first and a second housing device in which the ball shell elements are arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Gerit VOLLMER, Albert SBONGK
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Publication number: 20230167843Abstract: A fastening apparatus is provided for fastening components to bolts or to a bolt arranged on a carrier component. A connecting sleeve delimits a connecting space for receiving a bolt. A cup-shaped retaining cap delimits a receiving space for fastening a component, the connecting sleeve arranged in the receiving space. The retaining cap includes a latching device having at least one latching element, which, in a pre-assembly position, engages with a counter-latching edge of the connecting sleeve such that a displacement of the retaining cap in the axial direction away from the connecting sleeve is blocked, and a securing element with at least one securing tab, which, in the pre-assembly position, is arranged in a securing recess such that a displacement of the retaining cap in the axial direction towards the connecting sleeve is blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Alexander LIMPERT, Oscar MEDINA GARCIA, Albert SBONGK
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Publication number: 20230138131Abstract: A sealing plug is provided for closing holes in objects, in particular for closing holes in motor vehicles or in components of motor vehicles. The sealing plug includes a base wall and at least one first circumferential side wall connected thereto, wherein the sealing plug is formed at least in regions from a thermoplastic adhesive material based on styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) such that the material is carbonated at a temperature of up to 600° C. such that the sealing plug remains dimensionally stable and elastic.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Gerit VOLLMER, Jan MÜLLER, Albert SBONGK
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Patent number: 11628799Abstract: A belt guide (2) having a base structure (9) and a bracket part (13), wherein the base structure (9) includes a body contact portion (17) configured to abut a body part (3), wherein the bracket part (13) is connected to the base structure (9) via a connecting structure and includes a belt contact surface (19) facing the base structure (9) to guide a belt between itself and the body part (3) or the base structure (9), wherein the connecting structure is configured to hold the bracket part (13) such that it cannot move relative to the base structure (9) in a normal state and to yield under the action of a predetermined load, in particular a load acting from the direction of the body part (3), to allow the bracket part (13) to move relative to the base structure (9) toward the body contact portion (17) in a release state.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventor: Albert Sbongk
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Patent number: 11560918Abstract: A system for fastening a component on a fastening projection. A fastening device has a fastening element with a holding receptacle with holding means to hold the fastening projection and positive-locking elements. The component or an intermediate element arranged on the component has corresponding positive-locking elements. Prestressing means prestress the mutually corresponding positive-locking elements into positive engagement in a premounted position of the fastening element on the component so that lateral displacement of the fastening element relative to the component along a first direction of movement is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventor: Albert Sbongk
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Patent number: 11560916Abstract: A bolt fastener includes a plurality of fixing structures that are arranged radially around a receiving space for a bolt and are axially pivotable, wherein the fixing structures have, in the direction of an axial receiving space for a fastening bolt, engagement faces for engagement with a bolt and have, at diametrically opposite ends, bearing faces with which the fixing structures are supported counter to an outward movement, wherein bearing structures for the bearing faces are also provided, which cooperate in a supporting manner with the bearing faces, wherein the bearing face and bearing structure are dimensioned such that they disengage when the fixing structures are pivoted counter to the insertion direction of the bolt, wherein the radial spacing between the bearing structures and a bolt mounted in the receiving space is smaller than the entire extent of the fixing structures.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Viviane Reibel, Albert Sbongk
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Publication number: 20220281394Abstract: A carrier apparatus (mount) for fastening a water-collecting strip to an A-pillar of a motor vehicle includes a fastening wall having a fastening side and a receiving side, wherein at least one catching device is arranged on the fastening side of the fastening wall for connecting with the A-pillar, which catching device extends in an approximately orthogonal direction from the fastening side, and wherein the catching device is formed for insertion and rearward catching in a through-opening of the A-pillar, and a catching element device arranged opposite the receiving side having at least one catching element for releasably fixing a water-collecting strip in a receiving region, wherein the receiving region is formed between the receiving side of the fastening wall and the catching element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Melanie SINDEL (nee MIHALOVSCHI), Jan MÜLLER, Albert SBONGK
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Patent number: 11365780Abstract: A spacer (1) for vibration-damped fastening of a mounting part (2) to a carrier part (3), wherein the spacer has a base body (4) with a first flange region (5) and a second flange region (6) which is opposite viewed in the longitudinal direction (L) of the base body and with a passage (7) in which a fastener (8) which is connected to the carrier part, can be received at least sectionally. The base body has an at least two-part design with a first body part (9) and at least a further, second body part (10), wherein the body parts can be detachable connected to one another to create the base body and wherein, in the connected state, a gap region (11) is provided between the first and second flange region, by which the border of a fastening hole (18) configured in the mounting part can be received.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Florian Düll, Albert Sbongk, Torsten Klein
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Publication number: 20220118885Abstract: A fastening apparatus, for a backseat bench of a motor vehicle, includes a housing installation with a fastening space for receiving a retaining section of a component to be fastened, wherein the housing installation is insertable in an assembly direction into a passage opening of a carrier component, and wherein the housing installation has an abutment section with an abutment surface extending transversely to the assembly direction at an end counter to the assembly direction for abutment on an edge of a carrier component facing counter to the assembly direction. A catching installation is provided with catching elements for connecting the fastening apparatus to a carrier component. The fastening apparatus further has a fastening installation with a catching means for releasably fixing a retaining section of a component to be fastened, wherein the fastening installation is arranged in front of the abutment section in the assembly direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Albert SBONGK, Manuel HÜBNER
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Publication number: 20220090707Abstract: A grommet apparatus for cable passage is provided at a component opening. It includes a radially circumferential connecting portion for connecting the grommet apparatus to an edge region of a component opening in an assembly direction and a cable passage portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Albert SBONGK, Gerit VOLLMER
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Publication number: 20220055571Abstract: A belt guide (2) having a base structure (9) and a bracket part (13), wherein the base structure (9) includes a body contact portion (17) configured to abut a body part (3), wherein the bracket part (13) is connected to the base structure (9) via a connecting structure and includes a belt contact surface (19) facing the base structure (9) to guide a belt between itself and the body part (3) or the base structure (9), wherein the connecting structure is configured to hold the bracket part (13) such that it cannot move relative to the base structure (9) in a normal state and to yield under the action of a predetermined load, in particular a load acting from the direction of the body part (3), to allow the bracket part (13) to move relative to the base structure (9) toward the body contact portion (17) in a release state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventor: Albert SBONGK