Patents by Inventor Burckhard Becker

Burckhard Becker 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).

  • Publication number: 20080148517
    Abstract: A detent mount bracket for an adjusting device in a motor vehicle seat includes first and second hinge parts that are adjustable with respect to each other about a hinge axis. A stopper part is slidably disposed between a detent position and a release position on the first hinge part, and comprises an outer toothed surface and a first control region. An adjusting part is connected to a shaft and comprises a second control region cooperating with the first control region. An elastic means biases the stopper part in the detent position. On the second hinge part defines an inner toothed surface, which mates with the outer toothed surface. The stopper part is axially slidably disposed on the first hinge part, is substantially non-rotatably disposed, and is spaced an additional axial distance apart from the first hinge part in the detent position than in the release position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Vitantonio Rosato, Oliver Renner, Wilfried Beneker, Burckhard Becker
  • Publication number: 20080150340
    Abstract: The invention relates to a backrest unit for a motor vehicle seat, in particular a rear seat comprising a backrest and support connected thereto. A guide rail is arranges on the rear surface of the backrest on an x-z plane. A slide is movably mounted on the guide rail and is lockable therein in different positions. When a control device associated with the slide is actuated, it brings the slide from a normally locking position into a released position. A support comprises a near end which is hinged on the slide and a distant end which is fixable to a bodywork part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Jorg Sokolla, Andre Dick, Lutz Jonas, Andreas Muller, Burckhard Becker
  • Publication number: 20080122242
    Abstract: The invention relates to a foldable vehicle seat comprising a base structure, a cushion support member, front support arms, which are each hinged to the cushion support member on the one side and at a front hinge to the base structure on the other side, a carrier member, which is hinged at an upper hinge point to the base structure and at a lower hinge point to the cushion support member, and with a seat back, which is pivotally hinged to the base structure, more specifically, to the upper hinge point. The carrier member comprises a control region having a front flank and a rear flank. A projection is formed on the seat back that extends into the control region, while fitting against the front flank in the normal position and coming to bear against the rear flank when the seat back is tilted forward a first angle; further, the projection pivots together with the carrier member when the seat back is tilted farther forward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Dirk Overbeck
  • Patent number: 7374244
    Abstract: A vehicle seat has a seat part, a seat back and an underframe. The seat part is connected to the underframe by a front guide member. The seat back is hinged to the underframe by a seat back hinge. A stop device comprising a release lever is associated with the seat back hinge. There is provided a connecting rod that is hinged to the seat part by a front connecting rod joint and to the seat back by a rear connecting rod joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: C. Rob. Hammerstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Wilfried Beneker
  • Patent number: 7367630
    Abstract: The invention relates to an integral seat of an automotive vehicle having an underframe, a seat pan carried by underframe, a seat back and a seat belt mechanism, where the seat belt mechanism includes a seat belt with a tongue member that divides the seat belt in a shoulder belt and a lap belt, the seat belt having an upper end formed by the shoulder belt and a lower end formed by the lap belt, a primary automatic belt tensioner that is disposed on the underframe and in which there is secured the lower end of the seat belt and a secondary automatic belt tensioner that is disposed in the seat back and in which there is secured the upper end of the seat belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: C. Rob Hammerstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Robert Houston, Jörg May Wölfel
  • Publication number: 20080047377
    Abstract: An actuator for a motor vehicle with an electric motor having an output shaft, a gearbox that is connected to the output shaft that includes a spindle nut, and a spindle that engages the spindle nut. The spindle nut comprises one main portion and at least one axial socket. The axial socket: (a) is solidly connected to the main portion, more specifically is integral with the main portion, (b) comprises an internal thread cooperating with the spindle and (c) is configured to be radially elastic. An elastic element is provided which fits against the axial socket and pushes the internal thread thereof into engagement with the spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Thomas Amdt
  • Publication number: 20080042036
    Abstract: The seat adjuster device, for setting a first part of a seat in a motor vehicle relative to a second part, comprises a curved piece (40), connected to the first piece, having a centre (46) and a regular front face (48), a support piece (52), connected to the second part, mounted to rotate about the centre (46), with a first clamping bevel (60) and a second clamping bevel (62), a first clamping body (68), arranged between a first clamping bevel (60) and the front face (48), a second clamping body (68), arranged between a second clamping bevel (70) and the front face (48) and two elastic means, of which one is arranged between the first clamping body (68) and the support piece (52). The first clamping body (68) is tensioned in a first rotational direction such as to be pressed into the corresponding clamping gap in a clamped position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Alexander Mishuris, Wilfried Beneker
  • Patent number: 7322257
    Abstract: A step down gear train for an adjusting device of an automotive vehicle seat which has an input shaft and an output shaft that is connected to a pinion. At least one first cogwheel and one second cogwheel are provided in the path between input shaft and output shaft. A follower wheel is provided, in engagement with the first cogwheel, and is not located in the path between the input shaft and the output shaft. A pusher wheel is provided, that is likewise not located in the path between input shaft and output shaft, and is in engagement with both the follower wheel and the second cogwheel, and is carried so as to be longitudinally slidable. An elastic means is provided, that is associated with the pusher wheel, and which elastically biases said pusher wheel into engagement with the follower wheel and the second cogwheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: C. Rob Hammerstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Wilfried Beneker, Van-Toan Ho
  • Patent number: 7314249
    Abstract: The automotive vehicle seat has a lengthwise adjustment device, a seat carrier and two rear rockers that are disposed between the seat carrier and the lengthwise adjustment device and that are each connected at an upper hinge point to the seat carrier and at a lower hinge point to the lengthwise adjustment device and a seat belt comprising a belt end on one side and a belt buckle on the other side of the seat. A fastening point, to which a respective one of the belt end and the belt buckle is fastened, is provided on at least one of the rear rockers. The fastening point is located in proximity to the lower hinge point and is nearer to the lower hinge point than to the upper hinge point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: C. Rob Hammerstein GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Wilfried Beneker
  • Publication number: 20070170769
    Abstract: In the integrated car seat with a lengthwise adjustment mechanism having two pairs of rails, with a bottom support frame having two front pivotal supports, two rear pivotal supports and two side parts carried on the pivotal supports, with a seat back connected to the side parts by a seat back joint and with a seat belt buckle, the side part is configured in the shape of a shell on the seat side that is turned away from the buckle, the side part having a bottom and a perimeter profile rim. The side part turned away from the buckle is open toward the outside, the outside preferably meaning the outboard side of the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Wilfried Beneker, Burckhard Becker, Jorg-Max Wolfel
  • Patent number: 7235030
    Abstract: A gear train is provided including an output shaft rotatable about an output axis, a housing rotatable relative to the shaft, a toothed washer having a circumferential first toothed surface, an eccentric that is rotatably disposed on the shaft and has an eccentric driving surface offset relative to the axis by an eccentricity, the eccentric comprising a driving region, an annular gear comprising a circumferential second toothed surface, a circumferential third toothed surface and an eccentric driven surface cooperating with the driving surface, a gearwheel comprising a circumferential fourth toothed surface, the first toothed surface of the washer and the second toothed surface of the annular gear meshing together in a first angular position and forming a first nutating gear having the eccentricity and the third toothed surface of the annular gear and the fourth toothed surface of the gearwheel meshing together in a second angular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: C. Rob. Hammerstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Van-Toan Ho, Ulrich Karthaus, Wilfried Beneker
  • Publication number: 20070093355
    Abstract: A hinge mounting for an adjustment device of a motor vehicle seat having a first external gear wheel comprising a first inner toothed surface and a second external gear wheel comprising a second inner toothed surface. At least two planet wheels mesh with both the first and second inner toothed surfaces. A driving toothed sun wheel meshes with the at least two planet wheels. At least one of the planet wheels has a ring-shaped spring forming the toothed surface of the plane wheel that is radially elastically deformable and permanently exert a force onto the sun wheel, the first inner toothed surface and the second inner toothed surface; and/or the sun wheel comprises a ring-shaped spring forming at least a portion of the toothed surface of the sun wheel and configured to be radially elastically deformable and permanently exert a force onto the planet wheels and bias these with force into abutment with the first and second inner toothed surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Wilfried Beneker, Burckhard Becker
  • Publication number: 20070024099
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for fixing a first part (22) of a motor vehicle seat which is adjustable relative to a second part (28), relative to said second part (28), comprising a) an outer piece (20), connected to the first part (22) of the seat, having a toothing (24), b) an inner piece (26), connected to the second part (28), having a toothing (30) engaged in an engaging region (34) with the toothing (24) of the outer piece (20), whereby outer piece (20) and inner piece (26) together form two clamping gaps (38, 40), each of which tapers in countersense, c) two clamping pieces (42, 44), of which one clamping piece (42) is arranged in one of the clamping gaps (38, 40) and d) an elastic means, pre-tensioning each clamping piece (42, 44) in the corresponding clamping gap (38, 40) in a clamped position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Wilfried Beneker
  • Publication number: 20070018492
    Abstract: A vehicle seat has a seat part, a seat back and an underframe. The seat part is connected to the underframe by a front guide member. The seat back is hinged to the underframe by a seat back hinge. A stop device comprising a release lever is associated with the seat back hinge. There is provided a connecting rod that is hinged to the seat part by a front connecting rod joint and to the seat back by a rear connecting rod joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Wilfried Beneker
  • Publication number: 20070012487
    Abstract: The underframe of a motor vehicle seat is equipped with weight sensors for sensing a weight load on the motor vehicle seat. The weight sensors are interposed between a first structure part, such as a seat profile of a longitudinal guide, and a second structure part, such as a console or a seat shell, and sense the weight exerted through the second structure part on the first structure part. The weight sensors are fastened to the first structure part and comprise sensor bolts projecting upward. Holes for the sensor bolts are provided in the second structure part. The sensor bolts extend through the holes and one nut, which forms a surrounding grip around the holes, is associated with each of the sensor bolts. The holes of the second structure part each comprise one hole region that surrounds the holes and is configured as a cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: C. Rob. Hammerstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Michael Weber, Peter Margiciok
  • Publication number: 20060267391
    Abstract: A seat back hinge mounting for a forwardly foldable motor vehicle seat having a first hinge arm and a second hinge arm adapted for relative rotation about a hinge pin. A locking cam is disposed on said second hinge arm and is movable between a locking position and a release position. A first stop flange and a second stop flange are provided on the first hinge arm. The locking cam cooperates with the second stop flange in the locking position and has come free from said second stop flange in the release position. A retainer lug, which is bound by said first stop flange and by said second stop flange in the circumferential direction, is provided on the first hinge arm. A limit stop cooperating with the first stop flange and being spaced the same radial distance apart from the hinge pin as the first stop flange is disposed on the second hinge arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Wilfried Beneker
  • Publication number: 20060250001
    Abstract: The invention relates to a headrest of an automotive vehicle seat, said headrest comprising the following features: a carrier structure comprising at least one bar and being connected to a supporting member, said carrier structure being connected to said supporting member through at least one guide region and said supporting member being movable with respect to said carrier structure along a linear forward path of travel from a normal position of utilization into an accident position in which said supporting member is located both in the x direction and in the z direction in front of the position of utilization, a drive unit being provided, said drive unit comprising a tension spring and a blocking device, said blocking device comprising a first blocking part and a disengagement device, said first blocking part comprising an oblong opening through which engages a driver member of said carrier structure, in the position of utilization the tensile force of said tension spring abutting on said first blocking par
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Rolf Steinmetz, Thomas Thiel
  • Patent number: 7121375
    Abstract: A belt deflector for the seat belt of a front seat in an automotive vehicle, more specifically in a cabriolet or coupé-type automotive vehicle, said belt deflector comprising a movable beam (28) that has a deflection portion (50) for the shoulder belt portion (46) of a seat belt, a base member (30) comprising a) securing means for securing it in the side region (22) of a bodywork, behind a front door and beneath a bodywork line (24) that is defined by the lower edges of the side window recesses, and forming b) a guide for the movable beam (28) so that the movable beam (28) is guided between a lower at-rest position and an upper position in which upper position the deflection portion (50) is located above the bodywork line (24), a drive (36) for the beam (28) which is movable relative to the base member (30), a control unit being associated with the drive (36) and a crash sensor that is responsive to crash acceleration of the automotive vehicle and triggers the control unit so that the drive (36) causes the mo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: C. Rob Hammerstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Wilfried Beneker, Jörg-Max Woelfel
  • Patent number: 7097252
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat with a seat back hinge including a lower hinge arm associated with a seat carrier and an upper hinge arm associated with a seat back. A locking mechanism prevents the seat back tilting forward in a locked position and allows tilting of the seat back in a released position. The locking mechanism includes a handle, and a blocking lever hinged to the seat back that includes a blocking side. The upper hinge arm cooperates with the blocking side and a retaining catch stop. A retaining lever on the seat back forms a retaining lug which abuts the retaining catch stop in the tilted position of the seat back and retains the seat back in position. The blocking lever pivots upon actuation of the handle to abut the retaining lever, which is pivoted as a result, releasing the retaining lug from engagement with the retaining catch stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: C. Rob. Hammerstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Dieter Strasser, Michael Hennicke
  • Publication number: 20060152057
    Abstract: The hinge mounting for an adjustable vehicle seat has a first ring gear, a second ring gear, said two ring gears being rotatable relative to each other about an axis and being centered on said axis, and a driver unit which comprises a) a shaft for initiating an adjusting movement, said shaft being centered on said axis, b) a central, circular recess that is offset a distance e) with respect to the axis, c) a driver member that is located in the recess, fits against said recess and is rotationally joined to the shaft and d) a compensation unit comprising a wedge-shaped piece connected to the shaft, a mating surface cooperating with the wedge-shaped piece and formed on the driver member and an elastic means that biases the driver member in such a manner that the driver member is urged toward the topmost point of the wedge-shaped piece, characterized in that the driver member has a radial cut-out having a basis formed by the mating surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Franz Hari