Patents by Inventor Hans Benda

Hans Benda 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: 6079771
    Abstract: A cover of an openable motor vehicle roof includes a cover plate which is surrounded by a plastic frame formed by foaming or injection, and which connects at least one attachment part to the cover plate. The plastic frame includes at least one sensor element which is located on one wall of the attachment part and which signals pinching of a body part or article when the closes on an object by partial deformation of the plastic frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignees: Webasto Systemkomponenten GmbH, Daimler Benz AG
    Inventors: Hans Brandner, Hans Jardin, Thomas Schroferl, Volker Petri, Reinhold Mickeler, Werner Herlemann, Hans Benda
  • Patent number: 6076886
    Abstract: A cover (2) of an openable motor vehicle roof (1) has a cover plate (3) which is surrounded in at least one edge area by a foamed-on or injected-on plastic frame (4) which, at the same time, is used to connect at least one attachment part (inside cover sheet 6) of the cover. At least one sensor element (8) is integrated into the plastic frame (4) and it signals pinching of a body part or an article (11) by means of partial deformation of the plastic frame (4) when cover (2) is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignees: IEE International Electronics & Engineering S.A.R.L., Webasto Karosseriesysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Petri, Reinhold Mickeler, Werner Herlemann, Hans Benda, Hans Gunter Lehnen, Roland Lorig, Stefan Schmitt, Johann Hertel, Walter Schatzler, Hans Brandner, Thomas Schroferl
  • Patent number: 4664439
    Abstract: Sliding and lifting roof for vehicles, having a rigid cover which in its closed position covers a roof opening in a fixed roof surface. The cover is mounted on guide rails extending in a direction parallel to the side edges of the roof opening, and can be selectively tilted so as to lift its rear edge above the fixed roof surface, or rearwardly slidably displaced below the fixed roof surface, after lowering of its rear end below the fixed roof surface. A vertically adjustable rain gutter is provided which is elevated when the cover is in its tilted and close positions, which rain gutter underlies the rear edge of the roof opening and, upon lowering, can be rearwardly displaced together with the cover. The rain gutter is connected with a tilting device which, when the cover is raised, causes the rain gutter to assume an inclined position such that the forward edge of the rain gutter forms a splashboard which projects upwardly above the rear edge of the roof opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignees: Webasto-Werk W. Baier GmbH & Co., Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Schaetzler, Werner Herlemann, Horst Lux, Hans Benda
  • Patent number: 4105230
    Abstract: A lock for pivotal flaps, covers, or the like, especially for glove compartments in motor vehicles, with a curved locking member preferably rotatably supported at a pivotal part against the force of a spring, which in the locking position cooperates with its free end with a fixed locking member. The cooperating ends of the two locking members, as a result of an approximately rectangularly bent-off configuration in the form of an "L" or "U" effect a horizontal and vertical inter-engagement so that a mutual support in these two directions does not permit a disengagement of the ends of the locking members either in the upward or an opening direction of the pivotal flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Amann, Hans Benda, Albert Dietterle