Patents by Inventor Franz Waldhauser

Franz Waldhauser 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: 6006577
    Abstract: Stackable drawn sheet-metal pieces have spacer knobs which are drawn in a bead-type manner and are integrated in the drawn piece to rise from a wall of the drawn piece. The walls of the drawn piece situated transversely to a stacking direction have a mutual distance such that the walls, which are situated at an acute angle with respect to the stacking direction of the drawn piece, are at most in a loose contact with one another and reliably engage with one another in a no-lock manner. The spacer knobs are arranged in the stack above one another in the same position have a common axis which extends approximately in the center and is situated parallel to the stacking direction. The spacer knobs have the same construction with respect to their dimensions and alignment and that the diameter of the respective knob opening on at least one partial circumferential area is smaller than the diameter of the knob base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Franz Waldhauser, Wolfgang Much
  • Patent number: 5762196
    Abstract: Stackable drawn sheet-metal pieces have spacer knobs which are drawn in a bead-type manner and are integrated in the drawn piece to rise from a wall of the drawn piece. The walls of the drawn piece situated transversely to a stacking direction have a mutual distance such that the walls, which are situated at an acute angle with respect to the stacking direction of the drawn piece, are at most in a loose contact with one another and reliably engage with one another in a no-lock manner. The spacer knobs are arranged in the stack above one another in the same position have a common axis which extends approximately in the center and is situated parallel to the stacking direction. The spacer knobs have the same construction with respect to their dimensions and alignment and that the diameter of the respective knob opening on at least one partial circumferential area is smaller than the diameter of the knob base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Franz Waldhauser, Wolfgang Much
  • Patent number: 5199761
    Abstract: To overcome compensation problems of longitudinal tolerances of the window panes of a motor vehicle side window which is subdivided by a window web if double glass panes are provided and a sealing lip which engages over the outer surface of the window panes is not desired or not possible, it is provided for the sealing and holding profile of the window web facing the fixed window pane to be slidably arranged in a recess thereof and to be constructed as a profile part guided on a guide face provided in the recess. The profile can be mounted in the desired position by a screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Herbert Dannecker, Franz Waldhauser, Gunter Kling