Patents by Inventor Denis DUPPER

Denis DUPPER 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: 11794564
    Abstract: A body structure for an electrically operated vehicle has an installation space for a traction battery which is downwardly open in the vehicle vertical direction and upwardly delimited by a floor sheet-metal part forming the vehicle floor. The traction battery is inserted into the installation space from below the vehicle. A free installation gap is formed between a battery ceiling wall and the floor sheet-metal part and a spacer is supported between the battery ceiling wall and the floor sheet-metal part. The spacer is formed in two parts, namely, a buffer made from an elastic, flexible, soft component and a base made of a component-stiff hard component. In an undeformed production state, the installation height of the spacer is greater than the gap size of the installation gap. In an installation position, the spacer is supported between the floor sheet-metal part and the battery ceiling wall, elastically deforming the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Denis Dupper
  • Patent number: 11780336
    Abstract: A battery assembly for installation into a battery structural space of a transportation vehicle body having a battery housing accommodating a number of battery modules, wherein the battery housing has a smaller dimension along a vehicle longitudinal direction than the battery structural space, such that a free space is formed in the battery structural space, and wherein a shear panel element is provided as an areal bridging and stiffening of the free space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Denis Dupper
  • Patent number: 11760180
    Abstract: A battery casing for a transportation vehicle battery having a casing part with a peripheral sealing flange and a casing cover with a seal that extends around the periphery and seals a contact edge formed between the sealing flange and the casing cover, wherein a zero gap region is formed between the casing cover and the sealing flange radially outside with respect to the seal and a liquid seal is introduced into the zero gap region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Denis Dupper
  • Publication number: 20210023926
    Abstract: A battery casing for a transportation vehicle battery having a casing part with a peripheral sealing flange and a casing cover with a seal that extends around the periphery and seals a contact edge formed between the sealing flange and the casing cover, wherein a zero gap region is formed between the casing cover and the sealing flange radially outside with respect to the seal and a liquid seal is introduced into the zero gap region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: Denis DUPPER
  • Publication number: 20200373531
    Abstract: A battery assembly for installation into a battery structural space of a transportation vehicle body having a battery housing accommodating a number of battery modules, wherein the battery housing has a smaller dimension along a vehicle longitudinal direction than the battery structural space, such that a free space is formed in the battery structural space, and wherein a shear panel element is provided as an areal bridging and stiffening of the free space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventor: Denis DUPPER
  • Patent number: 10189508
    Abstract: A two-track vehicle having a chassis on the lower face of which a component is arranged that is sensitive to scraping the road surface, the outer contour jutting out downward from the lower face of the chassis in the direction of the road surface by an offset variable and the component being covered by a base portion of a cover element to protect the component from scraping the road surface. At least one edge portion of the base portion of the cover element is laterally extended in a vehicle transverse direction, the edge portion forming a scraper stop that juts out downward from the cover element base portion in a direction onto the road surface by a vertical offset so that, when the lower face of the vehicle scrapes the road surface, the cover element base portion remains substantially out of contact with an interference contour on the road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Denis Dupper
  • Publication number: 20180086388
    Abstract: A two-track vehicle having a chassis on the lower face of which a component is arranged that is sensitive to scraping the road surface, the outer contour jutting out downward from the lower face of the chassis in the direction of the road surface by an offset variable and the component being covered by a base portion of a cover element to protect the component from scraping the road surface. At least one edge portion of the base portion of the cover element is laterally extended in a vehicle transverse direction, the edge portion forming a scraper stop that juts out downward from the cover element base portion in a direction onto the road surface by a vertical offset so that, when the lower face of the vehicle scrapes the road surface, the cover element base portion remains substantially out of contact with an interference contour on the road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: Denis DUPPER
  • Patent number: 9613606
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having at least one sound generating system for generating an artificial engine noise, which has at least one electrically controllable vibration exciter, wherein the vibration exciter is fastened to a component that is acoustically and/or vibrationally decoupled from a body of the motor vehicle. The component is retained on the motor vehicle by a retaining device, which covers the component at least to a large extent. By means of this measure, the acoustic properties of the sound-generating system can be significantly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Feldhaus, Carsten Lutter, Denis Dupper
  • Publication number: 20150221295
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having at least one sound generating system for generating an artificial engine noise, which has at least one electrically controllable vibration exciter, wherein the vibration exciter is fastened to a component that is acoustically and/or vibrationally decoupled from a body of the motor vehicle. The component is retained on the motor vehicle by a retaining device, which covers the component at least to a large extent. By means of this measure, the acoustic properties of the sound-generating system can be significantly improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens FELDHAUS, Carsten LUTTER, Denis DUPPER