Patents by Inventor Elmar Konstanzer

Elmar Konstanzer 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).

  • Mounting system with measurement of the weight of the occupant for a seat of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 8119936
    Abstract: Described herein is a mounting system with measurement of the weight of the occupant for a seat of a motor vehicle; the mounting system has a bottom frame rigidly connected to the bodywork of the motor vehicle, a top frame, which supports the seat and is mounted in a floating way on the bottom frame, and a plurality of weight sensors, each of which is set between the bottom frame and the top frame and is connected to the bottom frame or to the top frame by means of a single bolt integrated in the weight sensor itself and locked by a nut; a surface of the nut facing the weight sensor has a spherical shape, and set between the nut and the frame is a washer having a spherical central surface, which reproduces in negative form the shape of the corresponding spherical surface of the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Ferrari S.p.A.
    Inventors: Michela Bruzzone, Elmar Konstanzer, Giovanni Stefani, Mauro Del Monte
  • DETACHABLE-BODY VEHICLE FRAME
    Publication number: 20090294185
    Abstract: Described herein is a mounting system with measurement of the weight of the occupant for a seat of a motor vehicle; the mounting system has a bottom frame rigidly connected to the bodywork of the motor vehicle, a top frame, which supports the seat and is mounted in a floating way on the bottom frame, and a plurality of weight sensors, each of which is set between the bottom frame and the top frame and is connected to the bottom frame or to the top frame by means of a single bolt integrated in the weight sensor itself and locked by a nut; a surface of the nut facing the weight sensor has a spherical shape, and set between the nut and the frame is a washer having a spherical central surface, which reproduces in negative form the shape of the corresponding spherical surface of the nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: FERRARI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Michela Bruzzone, Elmar Konstanzer, Giovanni Stefani, Mauro Del Monte