Patents by Inventor Alexander Emmerling

Alexander Emmerling 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).

  • Patent number: 9574675
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vent valve with a vent opening for venting a liquid tank in a motor vehicle, with a float in a float chamber for closing the vent opening; and a plurality of guide ribs for guiding the float in the float chamber, which guide ribs are formed by a housing of the float chamber and protrude into the interior of the float chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Veritas AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schindler, Alexander Emmerling
  • Publication number: 20150129051
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vent valve with a vent opening for venting a liquid tank in a motor vehicle, with a float in a float chamber for closing the vent opening; and a plurality of guide ribs for guiding the float in the float chamber, which guide ribs are formed by a housing of the float chamber and protrude into the interior of the float chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: VERITAS AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schindler, Alexander Emmerling
  • Patent number: 8851346
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle load carrier box (10) attachable to a surface of a vehicle (13) for transporting a load on the vehicle (13). The vehicle load carrier box (10) comprises a base member (20) defining a storage void, a lid (40) pivotally connected to the base member (20) and moveable between an opened and closed position. A flexible safety material is arranged inside of the vehicle load carrier box (10) and adapted to secure the load inside of the vehicle load carrier box (10) by overlapping the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Thule Sweden AB
    Inventors: Gunther Fritsche, Andreas Blank, Alexander Emmerling
  • Publication number: 20130320056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle load carrier box (10) attachable to a surface of a vehicle (13) for transporting a load on the vehicle (13). The vehicle load carrier box (10) comprises a base member (20) defining a storage void, a lid (40) pivotally connected to the base member (20) and moveable between an opened and closed position. A flexible safety material is arranged inside of the vehicle load carrier box (10) and adapted to secure the load inside of the vehicle load carrier box (10) by over lapping the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: THULE SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Gunther Fritsche, Andreas Blank, Alexander Emmerling
  • Publication number: 20130249209
    Abstract: A plug-in connection arrangement for releasably connecting fluid lines is presented. The plug-in connection arrangement comprises a basic body which has a supply line and an insertion opening, wherein the basic body is connectable to one of the fluid lines, and wherein a connecting piece, which is connectable to a second of the fluid lines, can be plugged onto the supply line in order to form a tight connection with the supply line, having a fixing element which is accommodated in the insertion opening and is fixed in the insertion opening in the axial direction of the supply line in order to secure the connecting piece in a fitting position, and having a connection element which is mounted on the supply line so as to be movable in the axial direction and prestresses the fixing element in the radial direction in an axial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Heribert NETZER, Alexander EMMERLING
  • Patent number: 7637405
    Abstract: A fixing device for fastening a roof box to crossbars fastened to a vehicle roof includes two-armed clamping jaws that extend through the bottom of the roof box and can be braced, the clamping jaws being mounted on a support base fixed in the interior of the roof box in a manner so as to pivot about a stationary swivel axis and interior end sections of the clamping jaws rest against a stop element which is vertically displaced by rotating an actuating element in order to move the clamping jaws between a locked and an unlocked position by a pure swivel motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Thule Sweden AB
    Inventors: Alexander Emmerling, Guenther Fritsche
  • Publication number: 20080093402
    Abstract: Safety locking mechanism for roof containers to prevent the edge of the container tipping up as the result of excessively high wind pressure or of a failure of the normal locking device while the vehicle is moving, for which a locking element at a container part engages a counter element at a different part of the container, the locking element, disposed at a container part and pretensioned elastically in a not engaged position, being constructed and disposed, so that it is swiveled into its locking position by head wind only while the vehicle is moving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Guenther Fritsche, Alexander Emmerling
  • Publication number: 20080034561
    Abstract: A fixing device for fastening a roof box to crossbars fastened to a vehicle roof includes two-armed clamping jaws that extend through the bottom of the roof box and can be braced, the clamping jaws being mounted on a support base fixed in the interior of the roof box in a manner so as to pivot about a stationary swivel axis and interior end sections of the clamping jaws rest against a stop element which is vertically displaced by rotating an actuating element in order to move the clamping jaws between a locked and an unlocked position by a pure swivel motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: THULE SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Alexander Emmerling, Guenther Fritsche