Patents by Inventor Dirk Helwich

Dirk Helwich 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).

  • Method for closing a convertible soft top
    Patent number: 9272609
    Abstract: A method for operating a convertible top of a motor vehicle. The convertible top may be a soft top which may be opened and closed in an electric or hydraulic manner using, in a non-limiting embodiment, a mobile device after the mobile device receives data relating to the monitoring of an interior space and an exterior region of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: MAGNA Car Top Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Helwich, Michael Stahmer, Berthold Klein
  • METHOD FOR CLOSING A CONVERTIBLE SOFT TOP
    Publication number: 20150057842
    Abstract: A method for operating a convertible top of a motor vehicle. The convertible top may be a soft top which may be opened and closed in an electric or hydraulic manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Dirk HELWICH, Michael STAHMER, Berthold KLEIN
  • Roller shade for a transparent vehicle roof section
    Publication number: 20020092630
    Abstract: In a support arrangement of roller shade for a transparent vehicle roof section which is disposed in an opening of a vehicle roof and is movable between a closed and an open position, a shade roller is rotatably supported by the roof element and a shade web is wound onto the shade roller and connected with its free end to a pull bar, the shade roller and the pull bar being both supported at the underside of the roof section so as to be movable relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Uwe Kremer, Alexander Turk, Dirk Helwich, Susanne Schandel