Patents by Inventor Dirk Legler

Dirk Legler 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: 11951913
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle has a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof module has at least one environment sensor, and the environment sensor being configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals for detecting the vehicle environment, and the panel component being made of a material which is impermeable to the electromagnetic signals of the environment sensor. The panel component has at least one cutout through which the electromagnetic signals of the environment sensor can pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Cèdric Langlais, Michael Mailhamer, Juraj Lehotsky, Dirk Legler, Michael Deppe, Max Huber
  • Patent number: 11851106
    Abstract: A roof module for a motor vehicle may have a roof skin, a roof frame on a vehicle body and have at least one transverse frame part extending in the transverse roof direction and a longitudinal frame part extending in the longitudinal roof direction on either side of a longitudinal center roof plane, and a roof opening system having a lid element configured to be displaced on guide rails, which are part of the longitudinal frame parts of the roof frame, in the longitudinal roof direction relative to the roof frame, and/or a solid roof element having a transparent see-through portion and being rigidly connected to the roof frame, having a sensor system comprising at least one sensor module which has at least one environmental sensor and is located outside of the roof opening and/or outside of the transparent see-through portions and is covered by a cover element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Johannes Thannheimer, Dirk Legler, Max Huber, Thomas Lindner, Michael Deppe, Thomas Rudolph, Cedric Langlais, Michael Mailhamer, Juraj Lehotsky, Achim Holzwarth, Michael Respondek, Alexander Kilias
  • Publication number: 20230399058
    Abstract: A vehicle roof having a roof skin assembly, a roof substructure, which is disposed below the roof skin assembly, and at least one sensor module having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment, the environment sensor being disposed in a sensor housing having a sensor window. The roof skin assembly has a sensor cutout accommodating the sensor housing in a circumferentially sealing manner with the result that the sensor window forms a visible outer roof surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Michael HUELSEN, Michael RESPONDEK, Dirk LEGLER, Sascha DIETRICH, Johannes THANNHEIMER, Thomas COLUMBUS, Andrea KRAMER, Michael DEPPE
  • Publication number: 20230339545
    Abstract: A vehicle roof, in particular of a passenger car, having a roof cladding arrangement and a roof substructure, which is at least partially covered by the roof cladding arrangement, and at least one environment sensor for charting a vehicle environment and another electrical installation for emitting and/or receiving electromagnetic radiation, characterized in that the roof cladding arrangement comprises a visor which has a groove-free outer visible surface, in that the environment sensor and the other electrical installation are disposed beside each other or above one another behind and/or below the visor and in that the visor has a first transmission area having a first transmission behavior for the environment sensor and a second transmission area having a second transmission behavior for the other electrical installation, the second transmission behavior differing from the first transmission behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Andrea KRAMER, Alexander KILIAS, Bernhard SCHIEDER, Dirk LEGLER, Michael DEPPE
  • Patent number: 11685135
    Abstract: A vehicle sandwich component with a layered construction having a honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structure may have a first lower honeycomb layer and a second upper honeycomb layer, the first lower honeycomb layer has at least one edge portion protruding laterally in the transverse direction beyond the second upper honeycomb layer, and a central honeycomb layer region or compression region which has a reduced thickness, achieved by compression, in relation to the edge portion and on which the second upper honeycomb layer is provided. Also, method for producing a vehicle-sandwich component of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Matthias Baumann, Frank Kiesewetter, Dirk Legler, Jan Wokoeck
  • Publication number: 20220289301
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle has a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof module has at least one environment sensor, and the environment sensor being configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals for detecting the vehicle environment, and the panel component being made of a material which is impermeable to the electromagnetic signals of the environment sensor. The panel component has at least one cutout through which the electromagnetic signals of the environment sensor can pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Michael HUELSEN, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael MAILHAMER, Juraj LEHOTSKY, Dirk LEGLER, Michael DEPPE, Max HUBER
  • Publication number: 20220289006
    Abstract: A roof module for connection to a motor vehicle having a transparent solid roof portion, which forms a see-through roof area and which is immobile relative to the vehicle body when the roof module is in the installed position, and/or a roof opening system having a mobile lid element, by means of which a roof opening can be opened or closed at will, and a closed roof skin, which forms the see-through roof area and/or is adjacent to the roof opening and forms a roof cover outside of the see-through roof area and/or the roof opening. At least one sensor module can be provided having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment and is disposed outside of the see-through roof area and/or the roof opening and is covered by the roof skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Michael HUELSEN, Dirk LEGLER, Michael DEPPE, Johannes THANNHEIMER, Thomas RUDOLPH, Thomas LINDNER
  • Publication number: 20220266917
    Abstract: A roof module of a motor vehicle having a roof substructure, a roof cladding, which forms an outer visible surface of the roof module, and at least one sensor module having an environment sensor for sensing a vehicle environment, the roof cladding having a central section having a curved surface and at least one edge section, which adjoins the central section and whose incline is larger than the incline of the central section and which is transparent to the environment sensor at least in the area of a signal cone of the environment sensor. The environment sensor being at least partially disposed below a roof surface defined by the roof cladding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Michael HUELSEN, Dirk LEGLER, Max HUBER, Thomas LINDNER
  • Publication number: 20220169314
    Abstract: A roof module for a motor vehicle may have a roof skin, a roof frame on a vehicle body and have at least one transverse frame part extending in the transverse roof direction and a longitudinal frame part extending in the longitudinal roof direction on either side of a longitudinal center roof plane, and a roof opening system having a lid element configured to be displaced on guide rails, which are part of the longitudinal frame parts of the roof frame, in the longitudinal roof direction relative to the roof frame, and/or a solid roof element having a transparent see-through portion and being rigidly connected to the roof frame, having a sensor system comprising at least one sensor module which has at least one environmental sensor and is located outside of the roof opening and/or outside of the transparent see-through portions and is covered by a cover element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Michael HUELSEN, Johannes THANNHEIMER, Dirk LEGLER, Max HUBER, Thomas LINDNER, Michael DEPPE, Thomas RUDOLPH, Cedric LANGLAIS, Michael MAILHAMER, Juraj LEHOTSKY, Achim HOLZWARTH, Michael RESPONDEK
  • Publication number: 20220161868
    Abstract: A vehicle roof comprising a base structure and a rigid roof panel which is attached to the base structure and which is a composite component having at least one structural layer, which is a fiber matrix layer, and a design paint, which forms a visible surface on an outer side of the structural layer, the composite component having a machining edge provided with a sealing paint covered by the design paint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Dirk Legler, Michael Deppe, Theodor Striegl
  • Publication number: 20210239795
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement of a motor vehicle, the sensor arrangement having a sensor element emitting electromagnetic radiation in a measuring direction to determine a measurement signal, and a cover element disposed in front of the sensor element in the measuring direction and being an injection-molded plastic part permeable to the electro-magnetic radiation and having an outer side facing a vehicle environment and an inner side facing the sensor element, and a heating means comprising conductor tracks. The conductor tracks can be applied to a film formed to the inner side of the cover element during production of the cover element by injection-molding, the film with the conductor tracks thus forming an insert of the injection-molded cover element, the conductor tracks being located on the side of the film facing away from the sensor element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander KILIAS, Andrea KRAMER, Dirk LEGLER
  • Publication number: 20200361176
    Abstract: A vehicle sandwich component with a layered construction having a honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structure may have a first lower honeycomb layer and a second upper honeycomb layer, the first lower honeycomb layer has at least one edge portion protruding laterally in the transverse direction beyond the second upper honeycomb layer, and a central honeycomb layer region or compression region which has a reduced thickness, achieved by compression, in relation to the edge portion and on which the second upper honeycomb layer is provided. Also, method for producing a vehicle-sandwich component of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Matthias BAUMANN, Frank KIESEWETTER, Dirk LEGLER, Jan WOKOECK
  • Publication number: 20200148278
    Abstract: A vehicle external surface component is disclosed having a layer structure having an SMC layer forming an outer skin layer and having a reinforcing structure connected to the SMC layer and having a core layer, wherein, according to some embodiments, the SMC layer has a reduced thickness of, for example, less than 2 mm, in particular 1.5 mm to 2.0 mm and particularly preferably 1.5 mm to 1.8 mm and/or has a reduced density of less than 1.3 kg/dm3, in particular between 1.2 kg/dm3 and 1.0 kg/dm3. The disclosure further relates to a method for producing such a vehicle external surface component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Matthias BAUMANN, Frank KIESEWETTER, Dirk LEGLER, Jan WOKOECK, Magnus SVIBERG
  • Patent number: 9758024
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roof frame component of a roof opening system of a vehicle, wherein, according to the invention, said roof frame component is made of at least one organic sheet or has at least one organic sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Frank Kiesewetter, Dirk Legler, Martin Pollak
  • Patent number: 9327471
    Abstract: A flat composite component, in particular a vehicle body part, comprising a material composite having an outer layer, a barrier layer adjoining the outer layer and a carrier structure on which the barrier layer is arranged and which comprises a core which has a first cover layer on the side facing the barrier layer and a second cover layer on the side facing away from the barrier layer. According to the invention, the barrier layer and the carrier structure have thermal expansion coefficients which are selected such that a deformation of the material composite in the case of a temperature change at least largely stops in a range between ?50° C. and +80° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Dirk Legler, Adam Wagner, Frank Kiesewetter, Michael Koelbl, Thomas Peter, Jan Wokoeck
  • Publication number: 20160052377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roof frame component of a roof opening system of a vehicle, wherein, according to the invention, said roof frame component is made of at least one organic sheet or has at least one organic sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Frank Kiesewetter, Dirk Legler, Martin Pollack
  • Patent number: 8511742
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle component made of plastic, in particular a vehicle body shell component, with at least one supporting layer, with at least one outer skin and with at least one tear-resistant splinter protection layer. According to the invention, the splinter protection layer is formed as a splinter protection fabric and is embedded in the at least one supporting layer, in particular in the edge region thereof, or between two adjacent layers. The splinter protection fabric has the effect of avoiding sharp-edged breaks of the vehicle component in an accident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Webasto AG
    Inventors: Dirk Legler, Jan Woköck, Adam Wagner, Thomas Peter, Michael Kölbl, Thomas Stemmer, Petra Heuser, Detlev Mies, Hans-Jürgen Liebig
  • Patent number: D947096
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Thomas Rudolph, Michael Huelsen, Dirk Legler
  • Patent number: D951849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Dirk Legler, Thomas Rudolph
  • Patent number: D1005920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Thomas Rudolph, Michael Huelsen, Dirk Legler