Patents by Inventor Albrecht Kruger-Eppstein

Albrecht Kruger-Eppstein 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).

  • Method for Producing Tailor-Made Sheet Strips
    Publication number: 20120061453
    Abstract: A method for producing tailor-made sheet metal strips, in particular steel strips, in which at least two sheet metal strips of different material quality and/or sheet metal thickness are welded to one another along the longitudinal edge in a continuous process. In order for the sheet metal strips produced by such a method to exhibit a relatively high level of weld seam strength, uncoated sheet metal strips are used in accordance with the invention as sheet metal strips to be welded. The tailor-made sheet metal strip formed of the uncoated sheet metal strips as a result of welding is then coated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP TAILORED BLANKS GMBH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Vogt, Albrecht Krüger-Eppstein
  • Transverse-member module for a front or rear side end region of a motor vehicle and method of making same
    Patent number: 6439650
    Abstract: A transverse-member module for a front or rear end of a motor vehicle has a box-shaped flexible member from which protrude two deformation units which are spaced apart and parallel to each other and are intended for connection to a respective longitudinal member of a body-supporting structure of the motor vehicle. The flexible member is formed by two vertical profiles arranged spaced apart and parallel one behind the other in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and by at least two horizontal profiles which extend between the vertical profiles and are arranged spaced apart and parallel one above another in the vertical direction of the vehicle, the horizontal profiles being of structurally identical design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Bernd Artner, Albrecht Krüger-Eppstein
  • Transverse-member module for a front or rear side end region of a motor vehicle and method of making same
    Publication number: 20010011833
    Abstract: A transverse-member module for a front or rear end of a motor vehicle has a box-shaped flexible member from which protrude two deformation units which are spaced apart and parallel to each other and are intended for connection to a respective longitudinal member of a body-supporting structure of the motor vehicle. The flexible member is formed by two vertical profiles arranged spaced apart and parallel one behind the other in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and by at least two horizontal profiles which extend between the vertical profiles and are arranged spaced apart and parallel one above another in the vertical direction of the vehicle, the horizontal profiles being of structurally identical design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Inventors: Bernd Artner, Albrecht Kruger-Eppstein