Patents by Inventor Alwin Macht
Alwin Macht 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: 11168770Abstract: A drive mechanism for adjusting a position of a vehicle closure, with respect to a vehicle body, is provided. The drive mechanism may include a linear drive and a telescoping arrangement. The linear drive may include a spindle and a spindle nut and the telescoping arrangement may be coupled to the spindle nut and include a pair of gears coupled to one another. As the spindle rotates, the pair of gears may rotate to extend and retract translating portions of the telescoping arrangement in a telescoping manner such that the position of the vehicle closure may be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, BambergInventors: Kim Taylor, Andrew Lakerdas, Mark Farrugia, Alwin Macht, Michael Kuiper
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Publication number: 20210040785Abstract: A drive apparatus for a closure element of a motor vehicle, including a tube defining an axis, a spindle disposed within the tube and configured to translate along the axis from an extended position to a first retracted position and a second retracted position, a spindle nut disposed within the tube and operatively engaged to the spindle, a stop nut fixed to the spindle, and a damping element disposed between the spindle nut and the stop nut. The tube defines a first end stop face and the stop nut defines a second end stop face, and when the spindle is in the first retracted position, the damping element engages the first end stop face and is spaced apart from the stop nut.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, BambergInventors: Michael WITTELSBÜRGER, Thomas STÖHR, Rainer JARAND, Marco SCHRAMM, Andreas WEIGAND, Alwin MACHT, Harald KRÜGER, Mattias FISCHER
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Patent number: 10876341Abstract: A door drive assembly including: a drive arm including a first end configured to be rotatably coupled to the body and a second end configured to be rotatably coupled to the door. The door drive assembly also includes a drive mechanism coupled to the drive arm and configured to rotate the drive arm between an open position and a closed position. The door drive assembly also includes a control arm including a first end configured to be rotatably coupled to a vehicle body and a second end configured to be rotatably coupled to the door. The door drive assembly also includes a race configured to be disposed between the body and the first end of the control arm where the first end of control arm is configured to translate by a first distance along the race as the drive arm rotates between the open and closed positions.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, BambergInventors: Kim Taylor, Andrew Lakerdas, Mark Farrugia, Alwin Macht, Anil Bhat, Arnd Herwig, Michael Kidd, Travis Briggs
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Publication number: 20200370629Abstract: A drive mechanism for adjusting a position of a vehicle closure, with respect to a vehicle body, is provided. The drive mechanism may include a linear drive and a telescoping arrangement. The linear drive may include a spindle and a spindle nut and the telescoping arrangement may be coupled to the spindle nut and include a pair of gears coupled to one another. As the spindle rotates, the pair of gears may rotate to extend and retract translating portions of the telescoping arrangement in a telescoping manner such that the position of the vehicle closure may be adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Kim TAYLOR, Andrew LAKERDAS, Mark FARRUGIA, Alwin MACHT, Michael KUIPER
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Publication number: 20200032569Abstract: A door drive assembly including: a drive arm including a first end configured to be rotatably coupled to the body and a second end configured to be rotatably coupled to the door. The door drive assembly also includes a drive mechanism coupled to the drive arm and configured to rotate the drive arm between an open position and a closed position. The door drive assembly also includes a control arm including a first end configured to be rotatably coupled to a vehicle body and a second end configured to be rotatably coupled to the door. The door drive assembly also includes a race configured to be disposed between the body and the first end of the control arm where the first end of control arm is configured to translate by a first distance along the race as the drive arm rotates between the open and closed positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Kim TAYLOR, Andrew LAKERDAS, Mark FARRUGIA, Alwin MACHT, Anil BHAT, Arnd HERWIG, Michael KIDD, Travis BRIGGS
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Patent number: 9791026Abstract: The invention concerns a spindle drive for the motorized adjustment of an adjusting element of a vehicle, comprising a drive motor with a motor shaft, a speed reduction gear mechanism, and a feed gear mechanism, the speed reduction gear mechanism having a planetary gear mechanism and the feed gear mechanism being designed as a spindle/spindle nut gear mechanism, the planetary gear mechanism having a rotatable sun gear and coaxially in relation thereto a rotatable planet-gear carrier and a fixed or fixable ring gear, and the planet-gear carrier carrying at least one rotatable planet gear, which is in axially parallel engagement with the sun gear on the one hand and the ring gear on the other hand, the drive motor, the speed reduction gear mechanism and the feed gear mechanism being accommodated one behind the other in a substantially elongate drive housing and aligned with a common longitudinal drive axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, HallstadtInventors: Christian Saxstetter, Alwin Macht, Andreas Diemar
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Patent number: 9590467Abstract: The invention relates to a drive arrangement for an adjusting element of a motor vehicle, a clutch arrangement which is connected into the drive train with a drive connection and a driven connection, the clutch arrangement at any rate forwarding a movement which is introduced on the drive side to the driven connection and having a braking arrangement for braking a movement which is introduced on the output side. The braking arrangement has a braking element which can be adjusted counter to a braking force, in that, between the output connection and the braking element, the clutch arrangement has a freewheel arrangement comprising at least one freewheel pair of clamping body freewheels which operate in opposite directions, in that a movement which is introduced on the output side always brings about the blocking of at least one clamping body freewheel and is correspondingly braked via the braking arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, CoburgInventors: Sebastian Heinze, Alwin Macht
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Patent number: 9260899Abstract: The invention relates to a drive device for a hatch of a motor vehicle, wherein the drive device comprises two drive sections that are linearly moveable relative to each other between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein the drive sections are spring biased against each other into the extended position by a spring arrangement, wherein an end stop is provided to limit the drive motion between the drive sections to the extended position. It is proposed that the end stop comprises a damping arrangement with a deformation zone, wherein during a drive motion into the end stop, depending on the speed of the drive motion, the damping arrangement damps the drive motion mainly based on plastic deformation of the deformation zone.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, HallstadtInventors: Linda Loeffler, Sebastian Heinze, Alwin Macht
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Patent number: 9132788Abstract: The invention relates to a display device in a motor vehicle, comprising an adjustable screen and adjustment kinematics associated with the screen. The adjustment kinematics comprise an adjustment drive having a drive motor for the screen, the screen being adjustable between a parking position and a functional position by means of the adjustment drive. The adjustment drive has a driver and is drive-coupled to the screen via the driver, a displacement guide being provided and the drive being guided by means of the displacement guide. The invention is characterized in that the adjustment drive and the displacement guide form a pre-assembled structural unit which as such can be coupled to the rest of the adjustment kinematics during final assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignees: Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co., KG Coburg, Audi AGInventors: Hans-Ulrich Karsch, Alwin Macht, Daniela Stegner, Steffen Roβ, Sabine Wüst, Hans Possler
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Publication number: 20150069869Abstract: The invention relates to a drive device for a hatch of a motor vehicle, wherein the drive device comprises two drive sections that are linearly moveable relative to each other between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein the drive sections are spring biased against each other into the extended position by a spring arrangement, wherein an end stop is provided to limit the drive motion between the drive sections to the extended position. It is proposed that the end stop comprises a damping arrangement with a deformation zone, wherein during a drive motion into the end stop, depending on the speed of the drive motion, the damping arrangement damps the drive motion mainly based on plastic deformation of the deformation zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Linda Loeffler, Sebastian Heinze, Alwin Macht
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Publication number: 20140230586Abstract: The invention concerns a spindle drive for the motorized adjustment of an adjusting element of a vehicle, comprising a drive motor with a motor shaft, a speed reduction gear mechanism, and a feed gear mechanism, the speed reduction gear mechanism having a planetary gear mechanism and the feed gear mechanism being designed as a spindle/spindle nut gear mechanism, the planetary gear mechanism having a rotatable sun gear and coaxially in relation thereto a rotatable planet-gear carrier and a fixed or fixable ring gear, and the planet-gear carrier carrying at least one rotatable planet gear, which is in axially parallel engagement with the sun gear on the one hand and the ring gear on the other hand, the drive motor, the speed reduction gear mechanism and the feed gear mechanism being accommodated one behind the other in a substantially elongate drive housing and aligned with a common longitudinal drive axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Christian Saxstetter, Alwin Macht, Andreas Diemar
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Publication number: 20140232225Abstract: The invention relates to a drive arrangement for an adjusting element of a motor vehicle, a clutch arrangement which is connected into the drive train with a drive connection and a driven connection, the clutch arrangement at any rate forwarding a movement which is introduced on the drive side to the driven connection and having a braking arrangement for braking a movement which is introduced on the output side. The braking arrangement has a braking element which can be adjusted counter to a braking force, in that, between the output connection and the braking element, the clutch arrangement has a freewheel arrangement comprising at least one freewheel pair of clamping body freewheels which operate in opposite directions, in that a movement which is introduced on the output side always brings about the blocking of at least one clamping body freewheel and is correspondingly braked via the braking arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: BOSE FAHRSEUGTEILE GMBH & CO.KG COBURGInventors: Sebastian Heinze, Alwin Macht
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Patent number: 8806717Abstract: A locking device for securing a motor vehicle component which is displaceable relative to a motor vehicle structure and which may be secured by means of the locking device within a displacement range in a respective position of rest reached by displacement is provided. The locking device comprising at least one first frictional element and at least one second frictional element, which is moved relative to the first frictional element upon displacement of the motor vehicle component and thereby may slide with a friction surface along a friction surface of the first frictional element under sliding friction conditions and which, in a respective position of rest of the motor vehicle component, with its friction surface bears against the friction surface of the second frictional element under static friction conditions. A flowable additional medium is provided which may be brought, upon a relative movement of the frictional elements, between their friction surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Georg Scheck, Alwin Macht, Hans-Ullrich Karsch, Steffen Brosius, Sebastian Heinze, Andre Schade
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Patent number: 8375691Abstract: A synthetic fiber rope with coupling element for transmitting an adjustment force to an adjustable part to be connected to the rope via the coupling element is provided. The coupling element is attached to the rope as an element separate from the rope. The coupling element at least partly engages in the interior of the rope and there engages behind rope components made of synthetic fibers, wherein the coupling element completely reaches through the rope transverse to its local direction of extension and protrudes beyond the outer surface of the rope. A base of the coupling element resting against the outer surface of the rope and extending along a portion of the outer surface of the rope. A succeeding component is attached to the coupling element in that it is press-fitted with the coupling element, such that material of the succeeding component is deformed and rope components being compacted in the region of the coupling element.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, CoburgInventors: Uwe Klippert, Steffen Brosius, Alwin Macht, Hans-Ulrich Karsch, Juergen Schlembach
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Publication number: 20110094370Abstract: A synthetic fiber rope with coupling element for transmitting an adjustment force to an adjustable part to be connected to the rope via the coupling element is provided. The coupling element is attached to the rope as an element separate from the rope. The coupling element at least partly engages in the interior of the rope and there engages behind rope components made of synthetic fibers, wherein the coupling element completely reaches through the rope transverse to its local direction of extension and protrudes beyond the outer surface of the rope. A base of the coupling element resting against the outer surface of the rope and extending along a portion of the outer surface of the rope. A succeeding component is attached to the coupling element in that it is press-fitted with the coupling element, such that material of the succeeding component is deformed and rope components being compacted in the region of the coupling element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventors: Uwe Klippert, Steffen Brosius, Alwin Macht, Hans-Ulrich Karsch, Juergen Schlembach
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Publication number: 20110063530Abstract: The invention relates to a display device in a motor vehicle, comprising an adjustable screen and adjustment kinematics associated with the screen. The adjustment kinematics comprise an adjustment drive having a drive motor for the screen, the screen being adjustable between a parking position and a functional position by means of the adjustment drive. The adjustment drive has a driver and is drive-coupled to the screen via the driver, a displacement guide being provided and the drive being guided by means of the displacement guide. The invention is characterized in that the adjustment drive and the displacement guide form a pre-assembled structural unit which as such can be coupled to the rest of the adjustment kinematics during final assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2008Publication date: March 17, 2011Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Karsch, Alwin Macht, Daniela Stegner, Steffen Roß, Sabine Wust, Hans Possier
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Patent number: 7823975Abstract: A support with a lumbar adjuster device for a motor vehicle seat includes a front side which, in the installed position, faces a seat user's back and a lumbar adjuster device which is arranged on the front side of the support and is intended for setting the position of the lumbar support perpendicular to the plane of extent of the backrest frame. The lumbar adjuster device has at least one adjuster element to be brought into operative connection with the lumbar support, and at least one slide which is movable with respect to the adjuster element. The slide can be moved, firstly, along a tensioning direction along which it is pretensioned, and, secondly, along a drawing direction along which a drawing force can be transmitted to the slide via a drawing means coupled to the slide.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co KG, CoburgInventors: Andreas Prause, Alwin Macht, Markus Fischer, Klaus Beloch, Michael Flieger
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Patent number: 7798572Abstract: A manual adjustment of a back support on a vehicle seat includes a cable pulley which is selectively rotatable in a drive direction or in a driven direction oriented counter to the drive direction, and a tensile device associated with the cable pulley, which may be rolled up onto the cable pulley by rotating the cable pulley in the drive direction. The tensile device is able to be coupled to a back support of a vehicle seat such that the rotation of the cable pulley in the drive direction and/or driven direction affects an adjustment of the back support. A pretensioning acts on the cable pulley -which produces a torque of the cable pulley in the driven direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co KG, CoburgInventors: Georg Scheck, Alwin Macht, Andreas Prause
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Publication number: 20100192328Abstract: A locking device for securing a motor vehicle component which is displaceable relative to a motor vehicle structure and which may be secured by means of the locking device within a displacement range in a respective position of rest reached by displacement is provided. The locking device comprising at least one first frictional element and at least one second frictional element, which is moved relative to the first frictional element upon displacement of the motor vehicle component and thereby may slide with a friction surface along a friction surface of the first frictional element under sliding friction conditions and which, in a respective position of rest of the motor vehicle component, with its friction surface bears against the friction surface of the second frictional element under static friction conditions. A flowable additional medium is provided which may be brought, upon a relative movement of the frictional elements, between their friction surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Georg Scheck, Alwin Macht, Hans-Ullrich Karsch, Steffen Brosius, Sebastian Heinze, Andre Schade
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Patent number: 7690727Abstract: A motor vehicle seat back structure comprising a backrest support frame which consists of a surface turned towards the seat user's back, a lordosis support which is arranged on the front part of the backrest support frame for supporting the user's back and an adjusting device for vertically adjusting the lordosis support position with respect to the extension plane of said backrest support frame. The adjusting device comprises at least one adjusting element operably connected to the lordosis support and at least one sliding element which is displaceable with respect to said adjusting element and interacts therewith in such a way that when the sliding element moves, the adjusting element is displaced with a directional component perpendicularly to the displacement direction of the sliding element and performs an action on said lordosis support in the direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, CoburgInventors: Markus Fischer, Matthias Hoffmann, Andrea Bauersachs, Michael Forkel, Jochen Hofmann, Alwin Macht, Georg Scheck