Patents by Inventor Grant Larson

Grant Larson 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: 8336958
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has at least one vehicle seat (3) and a trim part (1) that extends in the vehicle transverse direction (FQ) behind the vehicle seat (3). A cross member (2) is arranged below and/or behind the trim part (1). The trim part (1) carries a protective element (11) on an end face (6) of the trim part (1) that faces the vehicle seat (3) to protect the trim part (1) from damage caused by contact with the vehicle seat (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josip Vlahovic, Angelo Bronda, Grant Larson, Franziska Schumann, Shuichi Yamashita, Dominik Beierl
  • Patent number: 8297393
    Abstract: A motor vehicle (2) has a roof (3) with two longitudinal roof members (4, 5). Side windows (9) are under longitudinal roof members (4, 5) and fins (12, 13) extend rearward of the longitudinal roof members (4, 5). An outer skin (16) of a rear deck lid (17) is arranged between the fins (12, 13). Air inlet openings (20, 21) are formed in outer sides of the fins (12, 13) adjacent to the side window (9) are connected by a two-channel air duct (23, 24) to an air outlet opening (25, 26) adjacent the outer skin (16) of the lid on the inner side (15) of the fin (12, 13) and to an assembly compartment (RA) for an assembly (AG) of the motor vehicle (2). A rear air deflection device (32) is arranged behind the air outlet opening (25, 26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mathias Froeschle, Grant Larson
  • Patent number: 8172307
    Abstract: A motor vehicle (2) has a roof (3) with two laterally spaced longitudinal roof members (4, 5) and side windows (9) under the longitudinal roof members (4, 5). Fins (4, 5) extend rearward from the longitudinal roof members (4, 5) and an outer skin (16) of a rear deck lid (17) is arranged between the fins (12, 13). Air inlet openings (20, 21) are formed on outer sides (14) of the fins (12, 13) adjacent the side windows (9). An air duct (23, 24) extends from the air inlet opening (20, 21) to an air outlet opening (25, 26) on the inner side (15) of the fin (12, 13). The outer skin (16) has at least one supply air inlet (28, 29) for an assembly of the motor vehicle (2) and a rear air deflection device (32) is arranged behind the supply air inlet (28, 29).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mathias Froeschle, Grant Larson
  • Patent number: 8052197
    Abstract: A cabriolet vehicle has a body structure and a roof structure that can be attached to the body structure (14). The roof structure has a top with a top material. The top material has a main section, which forms the actual roof of the roof structure in the closed state of the top and lateral rear elongation sections. The elongation sections can be threaded into openings (15) of the body structure (14) and attached to tensioning brackets (19) of the body structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Kasperowski, Wolfgang Ramin, Grant Larson, Stefan Eichholz
  • Patent number: D656257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D703597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. H.C. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D704614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. H.C. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D705131
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. H.C. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D709014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D710284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D710285
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D731952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D736674
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D774421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D811982
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D868631
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D872006
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D881075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D885258
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson
  • Patent number: D897250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Grant Larson