Patents by Inventor Bernhard Schenk
Bernhard Schenk 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: 6270144Abstract: A device for opening and closing a pivotable tailgate which covers a folding-top compartment into which a pivotable roof structure for a cabriolet, hardtop vehicle can be deposited, is provided with an auxiliary frame on the tailgate in order to carry out the pivoting movement. At least one hydraulic cylinder is arranged on the auxiliary frame. The hydraulic cylinder is mounted by a slot and is provided with a sheathed cable which enables a locking wedge, which is arranged on the auxiliary frame, to be locked in a receiving part fixed on the body in a closed position of the tailgate. In this arrangement, the locking wedge can be released in a first movement phase of the hydraulic cylinder, which movement phase is provided for opening the tailgate.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2000Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventor: Bernhard Schenk
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Patent number: 6257648Abstract: A hard-top vehicle has a front-roof part, a rear-roof part, which is provided with a fixed rear window, lateral main links for moving the front-roof part and rear-roof part, and lateral vehicle pillars which are connected to the main links. The rear window is provided with a frame so that it can be pivoted relative to the vehicle pillars. The frame is provided laterally in each case, in its top region and its bottom region, with arresting elements. For arresting purposes and for a clamping connection of the rear window to the vehicle pillars, clamping elements act on the arresting elements. The clamping elements are arranged on the vehicle pillars or on parts which are connected to the vehicle pillars. The clamping elements are provided with actuating devices arranged on the vehicle pillars or on parts which are connected to the vehicle pillars.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventor: Bernhard Schenk
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Patent number: 6123381Abstract: Hardtop vehicle provided with a front roof part, a rear roof part having a fixed rear window, with lateral main links to move the front and rear roof parts, and with lateral vehicle pillars connected with the main links. The rear window is provided with at least one lateral frame that is articulated by lateral levers connected with the frame by a joint on the vehicle pillar, with the rear window being pivotable relative to the vehicle pillar during the stowing movement of the roof parts and being capable of being stowed with its convexity in the same direction as the front roof part in the rear vehicle area.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1998Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventor: Bernhard Schenk
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Patent number: 5944375Abstract: A movable roof construction for an open or convertible passenger car with a two-part foldable hardtop. To prevent the occurrence of wind noises in the area of the bordering of the two hardtop parts, a locking mechanism is provided between the two parallelogram control arms on each side of the parallelogram linkage. The locking mechanism is restrictedly coupled by transmission devices to the locking device of the forward roof part on the windshield cross member. Thereby, for a release of the parallelogram control arms, the locking mechanism can be unlocked together with an unlocking of the locking device.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: August 31, 1999Assignee: Daimler-Benz AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernhard Schenk, Juergen Schrader, Eckart Schuler
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Patent number: 5839778Abstract: A locking arrangement for the releasable fastening of a vehicle roof on an immovable vehicle body which part has at least one hook lock whose locking hook is displaceable between its unlocked and its locked position in the longitudinal direction. A transverse displacement of the hook end takes place during the longitudinal displacement of the locking hook causing the hook end to move between its hooked and unhooked position. Devices are provided which control the transverse displacement of the hook end which have interacting positioning devices arranged on the vehicle roof and on the vehicle body part. The transverse displacement of the hook end is controlled by a slidable guiding of the locking hook.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1996Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AGInventors: Kurt Schaible, Eckart Schuler, Bernhard Schenk, Ralf Mertin, Gunter Ellenbeck, Holger Seel
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Patent number: 5823606Abstract: A hard-top vehicle is provided with a roof structure which includes at least one roof part and a rear-window part and which can be pivoted, via a positive-control device supported such that it is fixed to the bodywork, from a closed position in which it bears in the region of the front windscreen frame and covers the rear-passenger-compartment region into an open position, towards the tail-end region of the vehicle. In the open position, the roof structure can be lowered into a folding-top compartment in the region of a tail gate supported via a pivot pin. The tail gate is articulated via its pivot pin, on an auxiliary frame. For its part, the auxiliary frame is supported, via a pivot pin, on the bodywork in the lower vehicle end region.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1995Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AGInventors: Bernhard Schenk, Holger Seel, Wolfgang Fussnegger, Kurt Schaible, Roland Tegeler
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Patent number: 5746470Abstract: A hard-top vehicle is provided with a roof structure which includes a roof part and a rear-window part connected pivotably thereto. The roof structure is lowered from a closed position, in which it bears in the region of a front windscreen frame and covers the rear-passenger-compartment region, into an open position, towards the tail-end region of the vehicle, via a positive-control device. The positive control device is supported in the tail-end region of the vehicle bodywork and can be pivoted about a tail-end pivot pin fixed to the vehicle, into a folding-top compartment. The positive-control device includes at least one control element which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the roof part in the region of a roof pivot pin. In this arrangement, the control element is designed as a linkage which acts on a guide part, in the region of the roof pivot pin, with a guide rod and a main guide rod.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1995Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AGInventors: Holger Seel, Kurt Schaible, Bernhard Schenk
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Patent number: 5649733Abstract: In the case of a motor vehicle having a lowerable roof structure, respective roof parts pivoted into an open position, in which they release the rear passenger compartment of the vehicle, can be pivoted at least partially into a folding-top compartment in the tail-end region of the vehicle. In this arrangement, the folding-top compartment region merges directly into a trunk region covered by a tail gate. Provided between the two regions is at least one intermediate wall which can be moved into a closing-off position or open position. The intermediate wall is designed as a roller screen, a folding screen, or the like, which runs in respective lateral guides. In its closed-off position, the intermediate wall extends rearwards forming an upper boundary of the trunk region.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1995Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AGInventors: Holger Seel, Kurt Schaible, Bernhard Schenk
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Patent number: 5209208Abstract: A fuel injection pump designed to deliver an amount of fuel divided into a pilot and a main injection volume, including a surface of a pump plunger which is guided within a pump cylinder, apart from two recesses limited by an inclined control edge, a first horizontal control edge is formed by a frontal shoulder; and on a side opposite the shoulder, it has a fully enclosed transverse groove with a second and third control edge. Two control apertures and an annular groove above them in the wall of the pump cylinder effect the control, in conjunction with the aforementioned control edges, of the precisely determinable pilot injection and, after a delivery interval, determined by the difference (b-a) between the width (b) of the transverse groove and the distance of the annular groove to the control aperture, the subsequent main injection.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1992Date of Patent: May 11, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hans-Joachim Siebert, Hermann Grieshaber, Bernhard Schenk, Walter Egler, Norbert Meissner
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Patent number: 4692102Abstract: A pressure valve is proposed herein which is built into the injection pump, its valve closing body being guided in a valve carrier, and arranged to open in the supply direction of the fuel, counter to the force of a restoring spring. A check valve is built into the pressure valve, its valve seat carrier being secured to the valve closing body and its movable valve closing member is arranged to open counter to the supply direction of the fuel via a spring supported on the base of the valve closing body. For axially securing the valve seat carrier on the valve closing body, the restoring spring simultaneously engages the valve seat carrier. As a result, the satisfactory functioning of the check valve is assured.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1982Date of Patent: September 8, 1987Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Walter Hafele, Bernhard Schenk
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Patent number: 4467767Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having an equal-pressure relief valve, which has a structure requiring little space when installed and is provided with a fastener element. The equal-pressure relief valve comprises a pressure valve body, onto which a beaker-shaped filler piece protruding into the interior of the pressure valve spring is placed. The structural unit comprising the pressure valve body and the filler piece containing the relief valve is held together, even when the pipe connector fitting or the pressure valve spring is removed, by means of the transit fastener element provided with a fastener ring. The invention is applicable both to single and series fuel injection pumps as well as to distributor injection pumps, particularly when space for installation is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1982Date of Patent: August 28, 1984Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gunter Kampichler, Heinz Kuschmierz, Bernhard Schenk
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Patent number: 4459086Abstract: The support of a relief valve in a constant pressure relief valve of the fuel injection pump comprises a bolt and two openings for receiving it in the sheath-like wall of the movable valve closing body. The openings are embodied by a bore drilled through the wall of the valve closing body at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the valve closing body. The bolt receives a spring plate of a spring of the relief valve in a depression and is thereby positioned and secured.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1982Date of Patent: July 10, 1984Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Walter Hafele, Bernhard Schenk
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Patent number: 4286931Abstract: Cylindrical sleeve having a top portion of enlarged diameter which includes a control bore and which is clamped by an annular screw against a shoulder of a reception bore in the pump housing. An annular screw has, in a widened bore portion at least partially surrounding the top portion of the cylindrical sleeve, a pressure shoulder which is recessed relative to the end face of the annular screw presented to the suction chamber and which transmits the clamping force to the cylindrical sleeve. In a further refinement, the annular screw is provided with an annular extension which surrounds the cylindrical sleeve at a distance therefrom in the region of the control bore and whose inner wall forms a protection against impingement of the jet of fuel emerging from the control bore upon the termination of fuel delivery.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1979Date of Patent: September 1, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Walter Hafele, Bernhard Schenk