Patents by Inventor Horst Meier

Horst Meier 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: 9649914
    Abstract: Shading device including a shading structure displaceable between a lowered rest position and a deployed shading position in lateral guiding rails fixed to the vehicle. The shading structure is lowered through a passage into an accommodation chamber, wherein the passage is closed by a pivotably mounted lid. A control mechanism transfers the lid, in response to movement of a drive transmission, into an opened position. The control mechanism includes a control slider movably mounted transverse to the direction of displacement of the shading structure and in operative mechanical connection to the lid. The control mechanism includes a deflection device coupling the control slider, upon a movement of the drive transmission, to the drive transmission such that the control slider, upon movement of the drive transmission from the rest position of the shading structure in the direction of the shading position, transfers the closing lid to the opened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Horst Meier
  • Publication number: 20160325607
    Abstract: Shading device including a shading structure displaceable between a lowered rest position and a deployed shading position in lateral guiding rails fixed to the vehicle. The shading structure is lowered through a passage into an accommodation chamber, wherein the passage is closed by a pivotably mounted lid. A control mechanism transfers the lid, in response to movement of a drive transmission, into an opened position. The control mechanism includes a control slider movably mounted transverse to the direction of displacement of the shading structure and in operative mechanical connection to the lid. The control mechanism includes a deflection device coupling the control slider, upon a movement of the drive transmission, to the drive transmission such that the control slider, upon movement of the drive transmission from the rest position of the shading structure in the direction of the shading position, transfers the closing lid to the opened position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Horst MEIER
  • Patent number: 7497499
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a roof, a compartment, and a lid. A roof kinematic system moves the roof between a closed position and a stored position in which the roof is in the compartment. The lid is movable between a closed position in which the lid covers the compartment and an opened position. First and second locks include respective closing parts movable between locked and unlocked positions. A shared kinematic system connects the closing parts to synchronously move them together. When the roof is in its stored position within the compartment and the lid is in its closed position over the compartment, the shared kinematic system moves the closing parts to their locked position such that the first part interacts with the roof and locks the roof within the compartment and the second part interacts with the lid and locks the lid over the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Magna Car Top Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Halbweiss, Kristian Franz, Horst Meier
  • Publication number: 20070057529
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a roof, a compartment, and a lid. A roof kinematic system moves the roof between a closed position and a stored position in which the roof is in the compartment. The lid is movable between a closed position in which the lid covers the compartment and an opened position. First and second locks include respective closing parts movable between locked and unlocked positions. A shared kinematic system connects the closing parts to synchronously move them together. When the roof is in its stored position within the compartment and the lid is in its closed position over the compartment, the shared kinematic system moves the closing parts to their locked position such that the first part interacts with the roof and locks the roof within the compartment and the second part interacts with the lid and locks the lid over the compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: MAGNA CAR TOP SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Halbweiss, Kristian Franz, Horst Meier
  • Patent number: 4559763
    Abstract: This relates to an apparatus for forcing fill-goods into a container immediately before the lid is applied to the container. There is provided a tamper head which engages the product to force the solids into the container. Associated with the tamper head is a separately axially moved spring-loaded hood having a tapered lower surface which serves first to align a container with the tamper head, then squeeze off any fill-goods which overlies the rim of the container, and then forms a seal with the container rim to prevent liquid fill-goods from overflowing the container as the projecting fill-goods is pressed into the container. The tamper head has a liquid cavity which opens through the lower part of the tamper head and which is controllably opened to the exterior of the tamper head to receive excess liquid during the pressing in of the fill-goods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Inventors: Gunter Bode, Horst Meier, Manfred Engler