Patents by Inventor Andreas GÖBBELS
Andreas GÖBBELS 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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Publication number: 20240116420Abstract: An armrest arrangement for a vehicle seat structure including a supporting structure and a profiled shaft both fixed to the vehicle, an armrest body with a carrier structure, and a bearing device. The armrest body is mounted by the bearing device on the profiled shaft so as to be pivotably movable relative to the supporting structure about a longitudinal axis of the profiled shaft between a resting position and a supporting position. The carrier structure is held on the bearing device so as to be pivotably movable about the longitudinal axis, and a free end portion of the profiled shaft has a rotationally asymmetrical cross section. The bearing device is axially positioned on the free end portion such that the bearing device is positively connected to the profiled shaft about the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventor: Andreas GÖBBELS
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Publication number: 20240101013Abstract: Container receiving apparatus for a vehicle interior having a carrier structure mounted so as to be secured to a vehicle, and a container receiving frame displaceable in height relative to the carrier structure and bordering at least one container receiving member and guided for linear displacement by a linear guiding device in a vertical direction. The apparatus also includes a cover supported on the carrier structure for pivoting movement between a closed position to cover the container receiving frame and an open position to release the container receiving frame for a linear displacement in a vertical direction. For linear displacement of the container receiving frame in a vertical direction between a rest position and a functional position, a rotationally effective, mechanical forced control apparatus is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventor: Andreas GÖBBELS
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Patent number: 11752910Abstract: An armrest arrangement having an armrest structure supported in a pivotably movable manner relative to a fixed carrier structure and having an inclination adjustment device which has at least one rotationally movably supported adjustment element which can be displaced along a fixed guide path. The armrest arrangement has an actuation device for activating the inclination adjustment device which is operationally connected to a mechanical coupling in order to release or to block the adjustment element for a rotational movement. A mechanical forced control device which switches an activation of the coupling by the actuation device for a limited inclination angle range of the armrest structure relative to the carrier structure without effect is associated with the coupling.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Jan Boddenberg, Andreas Göbbels
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Publication number: 20230085810Abstract: An armrest arrangement having a support structure secured to a vehicle and having two carrier arms supported so as to be pivotably movable relative to the support structure about a pivot axis, and having a blocking device acting between the support structure and at least one carrier arm and activated by a mechanical control unit to block a pivot movement of the carrier arm. The control unit cooperates with the blocking device, depending on an acceleration or speed of the pivot movement. The support structure has, for each carrier arm, an axle carrier continuation on which one of the two carrier arms is pivotably moveably supported. The two axle carrier continuations have respective carrier arms spaced apart from each other along the pivot axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventor: Andreas GÖBBELS
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Publication number: 20220371493Abstract: An armrest arrangement having an armrest structure supported in a pivotably movable manner relative to a fixed carrier structure and having an inclination adjustment device which has at least one rotationally movably supported adjustment element which can be displaced along a fixed guide path. The armrest arrangement has an actuation device for activating the inclination adjustment device which is operationally connected to a mechanical coupling in order to release or to block the adjustment element for a rotational movement. A mechanical forced control device which switches an activation of the coupling by the actuation device for a limited inclination angle range of the armrest structure relative to the carrier structure without effect is associated with the coupling.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Jan BODDENBERG, Andreas GÖBBELS
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Patent number: 10889219Abstract: Armrest arrangement for a motor vehicle seat having a positionally fixed carrier structure, an armrest structure shiftable about a pivot axis an inclination adjustment device for the armrest structure and which has an adjustment element supported on the carrier structure, a drive device operatively connected to the adjustment element and a blocking device, operatively connected to the adjustment element. In a release state of the inclination adjustment device, the drive device brings about a driven adjustment movement of the adjustment element along an adjustment axis relative to the armrest structure, and in a blocking state of the inclination adjustment device, the blocking device brings about blocking of the adjustment element along the adjustment axis. In the blocking state, the drive device is operatively connected to the blocking device in a force- and/or torque-transmitting manner such that the drive device reinforces a blocking action of the blocking device.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Jan Boddenberg, Hartmut Bohlke, Andreas Göbbels, Tanja Pink, Wolfgang Sitzler, Bogdan Tutelea
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Patent number: 10604047Abstract: An arm rest arrangement for a motor vehicle seat with a fixed carrier structure and an arm rest body mounted for pivoting about an axis in relation thereto, and with which an incline adjustment device is associated, allowing a modification of an incline of the arm rest body in relation to the carrier structure. The incline adjustment device includes an actuating member and a blocking device for securing an incline adjustment carried out by the actuating member. The arm rest body include a supporting member adjustable in a linearly movable manner on the arm rest body and supported on the carrier structure. The actuating member and the blocking device are connected to the supporting member such that same can be released by the actuating member for a linear adjustment and can be stopped by the blocking device in an adjusted supporting position.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Bogdan Tutelea, Wolfgang Sitzler, Tanja Pink, Andreas Göbbels, Hartmut Bohlke, Jan Boddenberg
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Publication number: 20200001761Abstract: An armrest assembly and a vehicle seat. The armrest assembly includes an armrest body and a seat-fixed pivot joint in order to pivot the armrest body between a lowered support position and a raised idle position about a seat-fixed pivot axis. A mechanical raising aid is associated with the pivot joint, which raising aid controls a torque-producing device in accordance with pivot travel, which torque-producing device is designed to produce torque on the armrest body in the raising direction. The armrest assembly may be used in passenger vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Bogdan TUTELEA, Wolfgang SITZLER, Tanja PINK, Andreas GÖBBELS, Hartmut BOHLKE, Jan BODDENBERG
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Publication number: 20190389351Abstract: Armrest arrangement for a motor vehicle seat having a positionally fixed carrier structure, an armrest structure shiftable about a pivot axis an inclination adjustment device for the armrest structure and which has an adjustment element supported on the carrier structure, a drive device operatively connected to the adjustment element and a blocking device, operatively connected to the adjustment element. In a release state of the inclination adjustment device, the drive device brings about a driven adjustment movement of the adjustment element along an adjustment axis relative to the armrest structure, and in a blocking state of the inclination adjustment device, the blocking device brings about blocking of the adjustment element along the adjustment axis. In the blocking state, the drive device is operatively connected to the blocking device in a force- and/or torque-transmitting manner such that the drive device reinforces a blocking action of the blocking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Jan BODDENBERG, Hartmut BOHLKE, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA
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Publication number: 20190217761Abstract: Armrest arrangement for a vehicle interior having an armrest, a container-receiving device which is provided for receiving a container and arranged at least partially in a cavity of the armrest, and a guide device by which the container-receiving device is guided relative to the cavity along a pull-out direction between a retracted inoperative position and an extended receiving position. The guide device is formed on a rest carrier structure which is provided for supporting the armrest and mounted securely on the vehicle in the assembled state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Jan BODDENBERG, Hartmut BOHLKE, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA
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Publication number: 20190210499Abstract: Armrest arrangement having a positionally fixed carrier structure, an armrest structure pivotably displaceable relative thereto about a pivot axis between a functional position and a non-use position. An inclination adjusting device is assigned to the armrest structure and has an adjustment element which, in the functional position, is supported indirectly on the carrier structure and which is, with respect to an adjustment axis, movable relative to the armrest structure such that the inclination of the armrest structure relative to the carrier structure in the functional position is adjustable by an adjustment movement of the adjustment element. The adjustment axis is oriented parallel to the pivot axis, wherein the at least one adjustment element is mounted for rotation about the adjustment axis and is supported on a guide track assigned to the carrier structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Jan BODDENBERG, Hartmut BOHLKE, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA
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Patent number: 10308152Abstract: A vehicle seat having a supporting structure, having a seat surface and having a back rest, and having at least one arm rest arrangement which is held on the supporting structure. The arm rest arrangement includes a fixation unit which is capable of being attached to a complementary accommodating unit of the supporting structure or detached from the accommodating unit without a tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Wolfgang Sitzler, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Göbbels, Tanja Pink, Jan Boddenberg
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Publication number: 20190084459Abstract: Covering device for a through-loading opening of a vehicle interior having first and second housing shells joined together to form a substantially rectangular covering cassette, and a reinforcing arrangement formed from two reinforcing elements and arranged between the housing shells. The reinforcing arrangement reinforces the covering cassette and is provided for a pivotable vehicle-mounted connection of the covering cassette to a rear seatback arrangement surrounding the through-loading opening and additionally for the pivotable support of a central rest arrangement. In a fixedly-mounted state of the covering device, the covering cassette is pivotable relative to the rear seatback arrangement between a covering position and a release position. Each reinforcing element is formed as a longitudinal profile, which profiles are joined with the covering cassette while each extending substantially in the longitudinal direction of the covering cassette and being separated from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Jan BODDENBERG, Hartmut BOHLKE, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA
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Publication number: 20190001852Abstract: An arm rest arrangement for a motor vehicle seat with a fixed carrier structure and an arm rest body mounted for pivoting about an axis in relation thereto, and with which an incline adjustment device is associated, allowing a modification of an incline of the arm rest body in relation to the carrier structure. The incline adjustment device includes an actuating member and a blocking device for securing an incline adjustment carried out by actuating member. The arm rest body includes a supporting member adjustable in a linearly movable manner on the arm rest body and supported on the carrier structure. The actuating member and the blocking device are connected to the supporting member such that same can be released by the actuating member for a linear adjustment and can be stopped by the blocking device in an adjusted supporting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2017Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Bogdan TUTELEA, Wolfgang SITZLER, Tanja PINK, Andreas GÖBBELS, Hartmut BOHLKE, Jan BODDENBERG
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Publication number: 20180170237Abstract: Device for securing loaded material in a loading space of a motor vehicle with at least one load rail which can be anchored fixedly to the vehicle on a loading space floor and is configured as a hollow profile with a longitudinal groove which is open toward the loading space, and with at least one load-receiving module which has a carrier body, which is displaceable and lockable in the load rail, and a load eye which is mounted movably on the carrier body between an inoperative position lowered into the load rail and a functional position protruding upward over the load rail. The carrier body has an oblique supporting plane, along which the load eye is guided in a shiftable manner between the inoperative position and the functional position, and in which the load eye is deposited in the inoperative position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Wolfram ZUMMACK, Bogdan TUTELEA, Wolfgang SITZLER, Tanja PINK, Andreas GÖBBELS, Hartmut BOHLKE, Jan BODDENBERG
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Publication number: 20180162251Abstract: A pivotable rest arrangement for a vehicle interior, and method for producing the rest arrangement. The rest arrangement has a rest body with a cover and a receptacle for a housing shell which is configured for holding at least one drinking vessel, the housing shell having an encircling collar. The collar in the mounted state covers the cover in the region of an edge of the receptacle, and the collar is connected to the cover in a form-fitting, integrally bonded or force-fitting manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Hartmut BOHLKE, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Jan BODDENBERG
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Publication number: 20180072200Abstract: A vehicle seat having a supporting structure, having a seat surface and having a back rest, and having at least one arm rest arrangement which is held on the supporting structure. The arm rest arrangement includes a fixation unit which is capable of being attached to a complementary accommodating unit of the supporting structure or detached from the accommodating unit without a tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Hartmut BOHLKE, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Jan BODDENBERG
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Patent number: 9849820Abstract: Receiving device for at least one food or beverage container in a motor vehicle having a trough-shaped receiving housing which has a base and wall sections, and at least one movable supporting part which, together with a side wall section of the receiving housing, forms a container holder in order to support a food or beverage container. The at least one supporting part is mounted in an infinitely adjustable manner in the receiving housing. At least one tension or compression spring arrangement is provided which continuously exerts a tensile or compressive force in the adjustment direction on the at least one supporting part.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels, Tanja Pink, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack
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Patent number: 9845037Abstract: Device for holding at least one container in a vehicle interior and armrest unit. The device has a carrier housing which encloses a receiving cavity open towards one end face, and having a carrier slide which is mounted to the carrier housing to be movable between a rest position plunged in the receiving cavity and a functional position moved out of the end face of the receiving cavity, wherein the carrier slide has at least one container recess and at least one bottom support part pivotably mounted to the carrier slide. The bottom support part is designed as a sheet-type component made of a flat material having uniform thickness connected to the carrier slide by at least one articulated hinge.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels, Tanja Pink, Hartmut Heine, Jan Boddenberg
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Publication number: 20160362030Abstract: Device for holding at least one container in a vehicle interior and armrest unit. The device has a carrier housing which encloses a receiving cavity open towards one end face, and having a carrier slide which is mounted to the carrier housing to be movable between a rest position plunged in the receiving cavity and a functional position moved out of the end face of the receiving cavity, wherein the carrier slide has at least one container recess and at least one bottom support part pivotably mounted to the carrier slide. The bottom support part is designed as a sheet-type component made of a flat material having uniform thickness connected to the carrier slide by at least one articulated hinge.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Inventors: Hartmut BOHLKE, Wolfgang SITZLER, Wolfram ZUMMACK, Bogdan TUTELEA, Andreas GOEBBELS, Tanja PINK, Hartmut HEINE, Jan BODDENBERG