Patents by Inventor Darius Wrobel

Darius Wrobel 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: 20230061036
    Abstract: A vehicle seat may have a seat substructure, at least one backrest, and a fastening arrangement for fastening the seat substructure to a base, in particular to a longitudinal adjuster. The seat substructure may have at least two side carriers and a transverse profile, in particular a front transverse tube, connected to the side carriers. The seat substructure may have at least one deformation element for limiting a force acting on the fastening arrangement, in particular a force introduced into the seat substructure via the transverse profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Viktor ENNS, Christian WOLF, Thomas DILL, Darius WROBEL
  • Publication number: 20230028374
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat may have a seat squab, a back rest, and kinematics for moving the vehicle seat from a use position suitable for conveying people to a non-use position or access position. The access position makes accessing a rear row of seats easier. The seat may be moved by a drive device from the use position to the non-use position, and vice versa. The seat may have a rear foot with a locking device that can be locked with a counter-element for securing in the use position. The seat may also have a protection device arranged in the region of the locking device for detecting an obstacle in a movement path of the rear foot when the vehicle seat is moved from the non-use position to the use position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas DILL, Viktor ENNS, Christian WOLF, Darius WROBEL
  • Patent number: 10507786
    Abstract: A gas pressure container for an airbag system of a motor vehicle is disclosed having a tube element with a high bursting resistance when internal pressure is being applied. The tube element includes a steel alloy and a first longitudinal portion of the tube element has a tensile strength Rm,11 higher than (>) 800 MPa, a transition temperature Tu,11 of at least ?40° C., and an outer circumference U1. The tube element also includes at least one second longitudinal portion and/or additional longitudinal portions, which extend axially from the first longitudinal portion. The second longitudinal portion or the additional longitudinal portions and the first longitudinal portion are formed from a seamless or welded single-piece tube made of a uniform material, and more specifically from a hot-rolled or cold-drawn tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: BENTELER STEEL/TUBE GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Tegethoff, Leonhard Rose, Darius Wrobel, Jozef Balun
  • Publication number: 20170341619
    Abstract: A gas pressure container for an airbag system of a motor vehicle is disclosed having a tube element with a high bursting resistance when internal pressure is being applied. The tube element includes a steel alloy and a first longitudinal portion of the tube element has a tensile strength Rm,11 higher than (>) 800 MPa, a transition temperature Tu,11 of at least ?40° C., and an outer circumference U1. The tube element also includes at least one second longitudinal portion and/or additional longitudinal portions, which extend axially from the first longitudinal portion. The second longitudinal portion or the additional longitudinal portions and the first longitudinal portion are formed from a seamless or welded single-piece tube made of a uniform material, and more specifically from a hot-rolled or cold-drawn tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Dirk TEGETHOFF, Leonhard ROSE, Darius WROBEL
  • Patent number: 7152926
    Abstract: In a locking device (1) for a vehicle seat (5), particularly for a motor vehicle seat, having locking elements (21, G) which interact in order to lock the locking device (1) and are moved away from one another to unlock it, and at least one securing element (15, 17) which ensures that the locked locking elements (21, G) do not open, the securing element (15, 17) being moved away from the locking elements (21, G) in order to unlock the locking device (1), a blocking element (25) is provided which blocks the securing element (15, 17), which has been moved away, as long as the locking elements (21, G) are not moved away from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Keiper GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Darius Wrobel
  • Publication number: 20060181087
    Abstract: In a locking device (1) for a vehicle seat (5), particularly for a motor vehicle seat, having locking elements (21, G) which interact in order to lock the locking device (1) and are moved away from one another to unlock it, and at least one securing element (15, 17) which ensures that the locked locking elements (21, G) do not open, the securing element (15, 17) being moved away from the locking elements (21, G) in order to unlock the locking device (1), a blocking element (25) is provided which blocks the securing element (15, 17), which has been moved away, as long as the locking elements (21, G) are not moved away from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventor: Darius Wrobel
  • Patent number: 7070235
    Abstract: In a headrest (1) for a vehicle seat, having a carrier (5), at least one upper and lower linkage (11, 15) linked to the carrier (5), which can be pivoted around horizontal axles (7, 17), a impact element (13) linked to the linkages (11, 15) which forms at least one four-bar linkage (19) with the linkages (11, 15) and the carrier (5), and an energy storage device (25), the energy storage device (25) driving the four-bar linkage (19) in the event of a crash, so that the impact element (13) comes out forward from an original position into a crash position that is locked against a backward movement by a crash lock, the upper linkage (11) and the lower linkage (15) are unparallel with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: KEIPER GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Schilling, Michael Böhmer, Daniel Hippel, Darius Wrobel, Harald Klein, Georg Ruess, Ali Peter Rihlmann
  • Publication number: 20050127726
    Abstract: In a headrest (1) for a vehicle seat, having a carrier (5), at least one upper and lower linkage (11, 15) linked to the carrier (5), which can be pivoted around horizontal axles (7, 17), a impact element (13) linked to the linkages (11, 15) which forms at least one four-bar linkage (19) with the linkages (11, 15) and the carrier (5), and an energy storage device (25), the energy storage device (25) driving the four-bar linkage (19) in the event of a crash, so that the impact element (13) comes out forward from an original position into a crash position that is locked against a backward movement by a crash lock, the upper linkage (11) and the lower linkage (15) are unparallel with respect to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Jurgen Schilling, Michael Bohmer, Daniel Hippel, Darius Wrobel, Harald Klein, Georg Ruess, Ali Rihlmann
  • Patent number: 6761411
    Abstract: In a seat cushion for a vehicle seat, the seat cushion is joined to a frame by a disengageable locking apparatus that has a wire spring engaging behind a mushroom head. The wire spring has two opposite limbs that at their one end are joined to one another and at their other end are open. In order to ensure a secure attachment, the two limbs of the wire spring may have at their open end an eye which engages behind a strut shaped onto the cushion shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Michael Boehmer, Michael Burr, Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Daniel Hippel, Darius Wrobel
  • Publication number: 20030214167
    Abstract: In a seat cushion for a vehicle seat, the seat cushion is joined to a frame by a disengageable locking apparatus that has a wire spring engaging behind a mushroom head. The wire spring has two opposite limbs that at their one end are joined to one another and at their other end are open. In order to ensure a secure attachment, the two limbs of the wire spring may have at their open end an eye which engages behind a strut shaped onto the cushion shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Michael Boehmer, Michael Burr, Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Daniel Hippel, Darius Wrobel