Patents by Inventor Gabriele Brade-Scholz

Gabriele Brade-Scholz 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).

  • Vehicle wheel with a rim carrying sound-absorbing fiber material
    Patent number: 6715842
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel includes a wheel rim having an outside carrying airborne noise-absorbing fiber material in the form of a carrier layer having fibers projecting radially outwardly of an outside of the rim. The rim has an interior tire bead contact area which is spaced from an edge of the fiber material a distance at least equal to the length of the fibers to prevent the latter from entering the tire bead contact area. The fiber material is also preferably located at a depressed area between rim beads and the length of the fibers is preferably between 5 mm and 40 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: HP-Chemie Pelzer Research and Development Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Bopp, Gabriele Brade-Scholz, Olaf Doehring, Martin Herf, Ivo Lorenz