Patents by Inventor Armando Lopes Dos Santos

Armando Lopes Dos Santos 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: 11345417
    Abstract: A modular tail assembly for a motor vehicle can include a tail-side frame element and a tailgate. The frame element is configured to form a part of a tail-side vehicle frame and be detachably fastened to another part of the vehicle frame. A motor vehicle can include the modular tail assembly. The motor vehicle has a vehicle body which is formed so that a cargo tray is arranged in the region of a tail-side vehicle trunk. The modular tail assembly can facilitate easier and quicker tail-side loading of a motor vehicle and can increase the storage space available for loading within a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Lichter, Hauke Weber, Armando Lopes dos Santos, Simone Breuer, Raja Raghava Sreepathy
  • Publication number: 20200369328
    Abstract: A modular tail assembly for a motor vehicle can include a tail-side frame element and a tailgate. The frame element is configured to form a part of a tail-side vehicle frame and be detachably fastened to another part of the vehicle frame. A motor vehicle can include the modular tail assembly. The motor vehicle has a vehicle body which is formed so that a cargo tray is arranged in the region of a tail-side vehicle trunk. The modular tail assembly can facilitate easier and quicker tail-side loading of a motor vehicle and can increase the storage space available for loading within a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Martin Lichter, Hauke Weber, Armando Lopes dos Santos, Simone Breuer, Raja Raghava Sreepathy
  • Patent number: 8303021
    Abstract: A door edge protection device for a motor vehicle door which comprises a door edge protection member guided movably with respect to the door at at least two points lying one behind the other in a longitudinal direction of the door. The door edge protection member is driven via an eccentric lever mounted rotatably in the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Lichter, Thomas Benderoth, Armando Lopes dos Santos
  • Publication number: 20090140534
    Abstract: A door edge protection device for a motor vehicle door which comprises a door edge protection member guided movably with respect to the door at at least two points lying one behind the other in a longitudinal direction of the door. The door edge protection member is driven via an eccentric lever mounted rotatably in the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Martin Lichter, Thomas Benderoth, Armando Lopes dos Santos
  • Patent number: 7527321
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle door system with two vehicle doors, with a vehicle body which encloses a passenger compartment and has a common vehicle door opening for the two vehicle doors, wherein, for closing the door opening, the vehicle doors being movable in a manner such that they move from an open position into a closed position and relative to each other and, in the closed position, each are adjacent to the other in a connecting region via a connecting end side, and with impact protection which has stiffening elements for stiffening the vehicle doors in the vehicle opening, and wherein at least one first stiffening element is arranged in the connecting region of the one vehicle door and at least one stiffening element is arranged in the connecting region of the other vehicle door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Benderoth, Gerhard Klein, Joergen Hilmann, Elvir Vukovic, Armando Lopes Dos Santos, Michael Bickenbach, Brad Staines, Issa Pooloo