Patents by Inventor Florian KUNZLER

Florian KUNZLER 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: 20240157909
    Abstract: A seatbelt retractor having a toothed control disk on a belt shaft and an electrically actuatable blocking device and a blocking lever mounted in a pivot bearing, wherein the electrically actuatable blocking device stops the control disk with respect to the belt shaft and, as a result, the belt shaft is blocked in the pull-out direction, wherein the blocking lever has a lever arm upon which a first spring acts, which spring preloads into position the blocking lever having an arranged blocking tip so that this blocking tip engages in the toothing of the control disk, and an electromagnet that is arranged in the housing, wherein the blocking tip is retracted from the toothing of the control disk, wherein a second spring rests with its blocking arm against the second spring and is loaded by the blocking arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Philip RINGS, Florian KUNZLER
  • Publication number: 20220332280
    Abstract: A belt retractor having an electrically actuatable locking device comprising a housing with a base plate and an upright first limb, a locking lever mounted pivotably on the upright first limb with a steel plate which is spring-loaded, and an electromagnet arranged in the housing and having a coil with a through opening, a first iron core which is arranged in the through opening, when a voltage is applied to the coil, exerts a magnetic force on the locking lever via the steel plate and actuates the locking lever for triggering a locking or unlocking movement against the force of the spring. The movement of the locking lever is enforced by a first magnetic circuit formed by the first iron core, the upright first limb and the portions of the base plate and of the locking lever between the first iron core and the upright first limb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Antto-Christian GLAESSER, Florian KUNZLER, Philip RINGS
  • Publication number: 20210394709
    Abstract: A seat belt retractor, with a belt shaft mounted rotatably in a frame, a blocking device for blocking the belt shaft in an extension direction of the seat belt, a control device having a control disc with a toothing for activating the blocking device, an electric actuator with a first blocking lever, which is spring-loaded into the toothing of the control disc in an engagement direction, an ECL blocking lever which, in a first position, blocks the first blocking lever of the actuator during a first belt band extension in a position in which said blocking lever does not engage in the toothing of the control disc, and an LC blocking lever which, in a first position, blocks the first blocking lever of the actuator when a predetermined belt band extension length is fallen short of in a first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Antto-Christian GLÄSSER, Markus HUEG, Florian KÜNZLER