Patents by Inventor GEORG FROST

GEORG FROST 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: 20250091647
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an underbody plate of a motor vehicle having a planar floor and a formation in the form of at least one flange on each of two opposite longitudinal sides in the motor vehicle transverse direction, and the underbody plate extends between a front axle and a rear axle of a motor vehicle, wherein the underbody plate is hot-formed and pressed-hardened as a one-piece plate formed component in one press stroke, wherein areas having tensile strength Rm and/or wall thickness different from one another are formed, characterized in that an outwardly protruding flange is provided having screw holes as screwing-on points on a motor vehicle body and that the flange is made soft having a tensile strength Rm less than 1000 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091650
    Abstract: A rear side part of a motor vehicle body, has a C pillar, a D pillar and a wheel housing segment, and is produced as a one piece sheet metal forming part in a press stroke. The C pillar and the D pillar being C-shaped, U-shaped or hat-shaped in cross-section, characterized in that the side part includes adjacent areas with different tensile strengths and/or different wall thicknesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091655
    Abstract: A front wall for a motor vehicle, which has a partition wall to an engine compartment located at the front in the longitudinal direction (x) of the motor vehicle, wherein the partition wall is oriented in the installed state in the vertical direction (z) of the motor vehicle and, connected to it in one piece, has a front region of a footwell metal sheet, wherein the footwell metal sheet runs at least in portions in the longitudinal direction (x) of the motor vehicle, the front wall being produced as a one-piece sheet-metal forming component, in particular in a single press stroke, characterized in that the footwell metal sheet has a greater wall thickness and/or tensile strength than the partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091644
    Abstract: A vehicle floor sheet metal arrangement with a vehicle floor sheet metal as a component of a motor vehicle body, which has a flat floor region and a deformation on two opposite longitudinal sides and two opposite end sides, such that a vehicle floor sheet metal is formed that is arranged between two sills. In the flat floor region, at least one downward-facing molded recess is formed in the vertical direction (Z) of the motor vehicle, and the vehicle floor sheet metal is manufactured in one piece in a single press stroke, with regions of mutually different wall thickness and/or mutually different tensile strength Rm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091658
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rear seat plate of a motor vehicle body, including a rear part of a floor plate and a rear seat support, wherein floor plate and rear seat support are vertically offset in relation to one another in the motor vehicle vertical direction (Z), and a tunnel section is optionally formed in the floor plate, and that floor plate and rear seat support are integrally formed via a connecting section as a sheet-metal formed component, in one press stroke, characterized in that a reinforcing structure is formed, and that different strengths and/or different wall thicknesses from one another are formed in different areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle floor sheet metal arrangement with a vehicle floor sheet metal as a component of a motor vehicle body having a flat floor and, on two opposite longitudinal sides and two opposite end sides, a downward deformation in relation to the vertical direction of the motor vehicle, such that a hood-like body is formed by the vehicle floor sheet metal, characterized in that the vehicle floor sheet metal is produced in one piece from a sheet-metal blank in one press stroke, and in that the vehicle floor sheet metal closes a battery box at the top in the vertical direction of the motor vehicle, the vehicle floor sheet metal optionally having regions with different tensile strength and/or different wall thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091424
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a floor frame for a motor vehicle body, having at least one, two longitudinal members which extend in the longitudinal direction (X) of the motor vehicle and at least two cross members which extend in the transverse direction (Y) of the motor vehicle, wherein the cross members and longitudinal members have a profiled cross-section, characterized in that the floor frame is produced from a one-piece tailored blank in one press stroke and the floor frame has connection holes for a battery support and in that the cross member has a lower tensile strength Rm and/or wall thickness in its end regions relative to the central region of the cross member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250058832
    Abstract: A window and/or roof frame for an automobile, which has at least two bows running transversely to a direction of travel and at least two longitudinal members, wherein the window and/or roof frame is produced as a one-piece sheet metal formed component from a single blank in one press stroke. Different wall thicknesses and/or strengths are formed locally, wherein the wall thicknesses or tensile strengths differ by at least 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Patent number: 12012059
    Abstract: A vehicle component for a vehicle has a component body which extends longitudinally in a longitudinal direction, wherein the component body has deformation zones which are spatially distributed in the longitudinal direction and are formed in the component body of sheet metal material. At least two locally distributed and spaced-apart deformation zones have different tensile strengths configured to influence a deformation course of the component body upon a force acting on the component body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Frost, Andreas Hitz, Mathias Lohberg, Martin Schroeter
  • Publication number: 20230382332
    Abstract: A bumper arrangement, having a crossmember which is coupled via crash boxes to a motor vehicle, the crossmember having end regions, which project laterally beyond the crash boxes in the motor vehicle transverse direction, and attaching regions, in which the crash boxes are coupled to the crossmember, the crossmember being configured in cross section as a closed hollow profile, wherein a first slot which extends in the motor vehicle transverse direction is configured at least in longitudinal portions in the attaching region of a crash box in an upper wall, lower wall or a central bar of the crossmember, an outer end of the upper wall, lower wall and/or central bar being configured in one piece and from the same material continuously in the motor vehicle longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Mathias LOHBERG, Martin SCHROETER
  • Patent number: 11761069
    Abstract: An automotive component is produced by hot forming and press hardening a hardenable steel alloy having a tensile strength of at least 1700 MPa. The hardenable steel alloy, in addition to a balance made up of iron and melting-related impurities, has the following alloy elements carbon, niobium, and titanium. The automotive component is coated by a thermal coating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Georg Frost, Andreas Frehn, Karsten Bake, Martin Holzweissig, Rainer Lapsien
  • Patent number: 11519047
    Abstract: A motor vehicle component and a method of manufacturing thereof is disclosed having at least regionally high-strength and at the same time ductile properties, including providing a sheet metal blank composed of a hardenable steel alloy with at least 0.25% carbon fraction, at least partially heating the sheet metal blank to above austenitizing temperature, in less than 20 seconds, hot-forming and press-hardening the sheet metal blank, in the process, setting a tensile strength Rm of greater than 1800 MPa and an elongation at break A20 of greater than 6%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Holzweissig, Georg Frost, Ruediger Erhardt
  • Patent number: 11492050
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle component 1, in particular a B pillar and similar shaped components. The motor vehicle component 1 has a shaped, in particular hot-formed or cold-formed, base member 2 of sheet steel. The base member 2 has a surface portion 3 which is provided with holes 7. According to the invention, the surface portion 3 has a tensile strength Rm greater than or equal to (?) 1250 MPa. A hole pattern 6 which comprises at least three holes 7 forms a deformation influence zone 8 in the surface portion 3. The surface portion of the holes 7 in the surface portion 3 is between 7% and 60% and the holes 7 have a diameter d of up to 30p mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Georg Frost, Martin Schroeter
  • Publication number: 20220063530
    Abstract: A vehicle component for a vehicle has a component body which extends longitudinally in a longitudinal direction, wherein the component body has deformation zones which are spatially distributed in the longitudinal direction and are formed in the component body of sheet metal material. At least two locally distributed and spaced-apart deformation zones have different tensile strengths configured to influence a deformation course of the component body upon a force acting on the component body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Georg Frost, Andreas Hitz, Mathias Lohberg, Martin Schroeter
  • Patent number: 11186183
    Abstract: Battery carrier for an electric motor vehicle, having a trough formed by a base and a peripheral frame coupled to the base, wherein the frame is formed from extruded hollow profiles and a cover is arranged on the frame. In the installation position, the frame has a web protruding in each case in relation to its upper side and/or lower side in such a manner that a defined gap with respect to the base and/or with respect to the cover is produced, with a sealant and/or adhesive being incorporated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Georg Frost, Thomas Guenther, Christian Handing, Frank Rabe, Peter Summerauer, Ludger Gehringhoff
  • Patent number: 11167705
    Abstract: A vehicle component for a vehicle has a component body which is formed from a core material. The component body has a localized deformation zone which extends flat in the core material, and the deformation zone has a locally variable tensile strength according to a predetermined tensile strength profile configured to influence a deformation profile of the component body upon a force acting on the component body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Frost, Mathias Lohberg
  • Patent number: 11161468
    Abstract: A vehicle component for a vehicle has a component body which extends longitudinally in a longitudinal direction, wherein the component body has deformation zones which are spatially distributed in the longitudinal direction and are formed in the component body of sheet metal material. At least two locally distributed and spaced-apart deformation zones have different tensile strengths configured to influence a deformation course of the component body upon a force acting on the component body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Frost, Andreas Hitz, Mathias Lohberg, Martin Schroeter
  • Publication number: 20210323614
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle component 1, in particular a B pillar and similar shaped components. The motor vehicle component 1 has a shaped, in particular hot-formed or cold-formed, base member 2 of sheet steel. The base member 2 has a surface portion 3 which is provided with holes 7. According to the invention, the surface portion 3 has a tensile strength Rm greater than or equal to (?) 1250 MPa. A hole pattern 6 which comprises at least three holes 7 forms a deformation influence zone 8 in the surface portion 3. The surface portion of the holes 7 in the surface portion 3 is between 7% and 60% and the holes 7 have a diameter d of up to 30 p mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Georg Frost, Martin Schroeter
  • Patent number: 11027325
    Abstract: A hot-formed metal sheet has a tensile strength Rm>1300 megapascal (MPa) and includes an opening which is produced by high-speed punching at a speed of a punch of more than 6 m/s in the absence of a counter holder of a contour matching a contour of the punch, with a smooth cut proportion of the cutting surface of the opening amounting to more than 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Kettler, Georg Frost, Frank Rabe, Karsten Bake
  • Publication number: 20210156000
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sheet-metal formed component and a method or producing the sheet-metal formed component, produced by hot-working and press-quenching from a quenchable, unitary and materially uniform steel alloy, wherein the sheet-metal formed component has multiple superposed martensite layers, wherein a respectively outer martensite layer of the sheet-metal formed component has higher ductility than an underlying martensite layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas TOMITZ, Anastasia Viviana HOEHNE, Karin SCHRADER, Markus KETTLER, Karsten BAKE, Georg FROST