Patents by Inventor Florian SPIRKL

Florian SPIRKL 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: 11806951
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a structural subassembly, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least one first profile component of fiber-reinforced plastic and at least one connecting component for producing a node connection of the first profile component with a further profile component. The method includes the following steps: providing a mold with at least one mold half, which has a cavity that corresponds substantially to the first profile component to be produced and includes at least one integrally molded-on connecting component; introducing a one- or multi-piece textile reinforcing material, in particular a textile semifinished product, into the mold; introducing a flowable plastics material into the mould, in order to impregnate the textile reinforcing material; and curing and/or cooling the plastics material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Staudt, Tobias Preuss, Torsten Flemming, Florian Spirkl
  • Patent number: 11097450
    Abstract: A core system for the production of a fiber composite component includes at least two core elements which are coupled to one another and are displaceable relative to one another. At least one core element has a surface which is oblique to a displacement direction. A method for producing the fiber composite component uses the core system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christoph Eisch, Florian Spirkl
  • Patent number: 10926808
    Abstract: A structural component for a motor vehicle is provided. The structural component includes a closed hollow profile including fiber composite material, with a profile outer casing surrounding a profile volume. The structural component also includes at least one reinforcing bulkhead which is arranged in the profile volume on at least one section of an inner casing surface of the profile outer casing. The height of the at least one reinforcing bulkhead, perpendicularly from the inner casing surface, in at least one position in which the at least one reinforcing bulkhead is arranged on the inner casing surface, is lower than a passage height of the profile volume in this position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniela Horvat, Florian Spirkl, Mathias Hofmann, Michael Kleinknecht, Bernhard Staudt, Thomas Miadowitz
  • Publication number: 20180257717
    Abstract: A structural component for a motor vehicle is provided. The structural component includes a closed hollow profile including fiber composite material, with a profile outer casing surrounding a profile volume. The structural component also includes at least one reinforcing bulkhead which is arranged in the profile volume on at least one section of an inner casing surface of the profile outer casing. The height of the at least one reinforcing bulkhead, perpendicularly from the inner casing surface, in at least one position in which the at least one reinforcing bulkhead is arranged on the inner casing surface, is lower than a passage height of the profile volume in this position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Daniela HORVAT, Florian SPIRKL, Mathias HOFMANN, Michael KLEINKNECHT, Bernhard STAUDT, Thomas MIADOWITZ
  • Publication number: 20180236694
    Abstract: A core system for the production of a fiber composite component includes at least two core elements which are coupled to one another and are displaceable relative to one another. At least one core element has a surface which is oblique to a displacement direction. A method for producing the fiber composite component uses the core system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Christoph EISCH, Florian SPIRKL
  • Publication number: 20170252987
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a structural subassembly, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least one first profile component of fiber-reinforced plastic and at least one connecting component for producing a node connection of the first profile component with a further profile component. The method includes the following steps: providing a mold with at least one mold half, which has a cavity that corresponds substantially to the first profile component to be produced and includes at least one integrally molded-on connecting component; introducing a one- or multi-piece textile reinforcing material, in particular a textile semifinished product, into the mold; introducing a flowable plastics material into the mould, in order to impregnate the textile reinforcing material; and curing and/or cooling the plastics material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Bernhard STAUDT, Tobias PREUSS, Torsten FLEMMING, Florian SPIRKL