Patents by Inventor Gunter Leopold

Gunter Leopold 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: 11850920
    Abstract: A cage that can be rotated about a longitudinal axis and has a lattice tube shape is disposed in a tubular air channel of an air vent, serving as a carrier of an air guide device and an air volume control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20230399885
    Abstract: A system comprising a cover for closing a charging opening of an electric vehicle in which a charging socket for charging a driving battery of the electric vehicle is located. The cover is mounted laterally next to the charging opening, on an inner side of the body part, so as to be pivotable about a first pivot axis by way of a hinge arm and can be pivoted by way of an electromechanical actuator. For activating the actuator, the invention provides a pivotable transfer body, which multiplies a path of the cover and activates the actuator by way of a push button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Ulf-Lothar Bastian, Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20230100725
    Abstract: Two parallel blades are disposed at a distance behind one another, in a flow direction, in an air vent for a motor vehicle, which are jointly pivoted in a manner opposite one another by way of a coupling device, and disposing, between the two blades, a louver comprising blades, which are disposed next to one another and can be jointly pivoted parallel to one another, perpendicularly to the two other blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Patent number: 11590825
    Abstract: A gear system for pivoting blades of an air vent, which is releasable or disengageable. For this purpose, one embodiment provides a rack and pinion gear system comprising helical pinions, which engage with a toothed rack as a result of an axial force due to a helical spline when rotational driving, and thereby establish a drive connection with the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20220396124
    Abstract: A cage that can be rotated about a longitudinal axis and has a lattice tube shape is disposed in a tubular air channel of an air vent, serving as a carrier of an air guide device and an air volume control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Patent number: 11285858
    Abstract: A holder for a beverage container, for example a beverage can, which is provided for holding the beverage container in a tilt-proof manner in a motor vehicle. Supports are designed so as to laterally support the beverage container by way of a supporting element, which is pivotably mounted at a support carrier and urged by a preloaded support spring into the holder. An electric motor pivots the support carriers inwardly, so that the supporting elements are laterally pushed by the support springs from the outside against the beverage container placed into the holder, in order to hold the beverage container in a tilt-proof manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20220032738
    Abstract: Provided are damping swivel and pivot bearings of an operating element of an air vent for a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, for example, individually and independently of one another by way of an elastic friction element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventor: Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Patent number: 11167622
    Abstract: An air vent for ventilating a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, which is divided into two air channels, wherein pivotable rudders for air guidance are disposed in each air channel. The rudders are provided with pinion segments and pivoted by way of toothed racks, which are integral with one another by way of a web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Flothmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20210323382
    Abstract: A gear system for pivoting blades of an air vent, which is releasable or disengageable. For this purpose, one embodiment provides a rack and pinion gear system comprising helical pinions, which engage with a toothed rack as a result of an axial force due to a helical spline when rotational driving, and thereby establish a drive connection with the blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Publication number: 20210276470
    Abstract: A holder for a beverage container, for example a beverage can, which is provided for holding the beverage container in a tilt-proof manner in a motor vehicle. Supports are designed so as to laterally support the beverage container by way of a supporting element, which is pivotably mounted at a support carrier and urged by a preloaded support spring into the holder. An electric motor pivots the support carriers inwardly, so that the supporting elements are laterally pushed by the support springs from the outside against the beverage container placed into the holder, in order to hold the beverage container in a tilt-proof manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventor: Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Publication number: 20200164721
    Abstract: An air vent for ventilating a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, which is divided into two air channels, wherein pivotable rudders for air guidance are disposed in each air channel. The rudders are provided with pinion segments and pivoted by way of toothed racks, which are integral with one another by way of a web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Jõrg Flothmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 10632929
    Abstract: A blind for closing an opening of a storage compartment in a central console of a motor vehicle is provided. In order that a linear guide means of the blind has a small curve radius, the invention proposes to construct the blind with chain members onto which slats are snapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jorg Flothmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 10316563
    Abstract: An opening and closing mechanism includes a dead-center spring element for a swivelable part, and a control curve is provided on a side wall of the swivelable part, and the dead-center spring element engages the control curve via a swivelable control lever to control an opening and closing force progression with the aid of the control curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Flothmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 10308187
    Abstract: A storage compartment including a roll top, which is trapezoidal from the front, and pivotable panels disposed next to the roll top. The panels are driven mechanically by way of radial cams, which are rotationally fixed to drive wheels around which the roll top runs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Flothmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20180155973
    Abstract: An opening and closing mechanism includes a dead-center spring element for, for example, a swivel compartment, and proposes that a control curve be provided on a side wall of the swivel compartment, at which the dead-center spring element engages via a swivelable control lever. The opening and closing force progression can be controlled with the aid of the control curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Jörg Flothmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 9987992
    Abstract: A blind for closing a storage compartment in a motor vehicle is provided. The blind has slats arranged on rod-shaped guide elements which are slidably guided in guideways. According to the invention, each slat covers two guide elements and is attached to one of the guide elements and rests on the other guide element. The invention enables slats to be long in a sliding direction of the blind while the guideways have a small radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: FISCHER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jorg Flothmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 9925926
    Abstract: A blind for closing a storage compartment in a central console of a motor vehicle is provided. The blind has rod-shaped guide elements which are slidably guided in lateral grooves. Slats are clipped onto the guide elements, which slats project laterally and become wider in a longitudinal direction of the blind, so that in a closed position of the blind they completely cover an intermediate space between two obliquely diverging side walls of the central console.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jorg Flothmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 9919634
    Abstract: The invention relates to a storage compartment for a center console of a motor vehicle, having a partial cylinder shell-shaped compartment divider, which is movable on a circular path, in order to separate a storage region from the storage compartment in order to store a beverage container. For the purpose of supporting a stored beverage container in a tilt-free manner, the invention provides a spring-loaded support element on the compartment divider, the movement of which is synchronized with fixed support elements on a circumference of the storage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Flothmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20170368997
    Abstract: A storage compartment including a roll top, which is trapezoidal from the front, and pivotable panels disposed next to the roll top. The panels are driven mechanically by way of radial cams, which are rotationally fixed to drive wheels around which the roll top runs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Jörg FLOTHMANN, Gunter LEOPOLD
  • Publication number: 20170320644
    Abstract: A receptacle including a safety locking mechanism in a motor vehicle. A lever is providing including a mass, which is held by a snap-fit device releasably in a non-deflected basic position or in a deflected locking position. In the deflected locking position, the lever, by way of a head, holds a closing element of a lock in a closed position. The lock can be opened in a non-deflected position of the lever. During opening, the lock restores the lever to the basic position, whereby the receptacle can be opened after an accident. The lever is deflected by accelerations that occur in the event of an accident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Gunter LEOPOLD