Patents by Inventor Hubert Bachmann
Hubert Bachmann 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).
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Patent number: 7008009Abstract: A roller blind system for a vehicle roof includes a rotatable coiling body and a roller blind that is attached at one end to the coiling body and at the other end to a vehicle portion in a stationary manner. The coiling body is shiftable in a translational motion, allowing the roller blind to uncoil and coil up while minimizing frictional forces on the roller blind.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: ArvinMeritor GmbHInventors: Rainer Grimm, Thomas Becher, Hubert Bachmann, Horst Bohm
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Patent number: 6913311Abstract: A guide mechanism for a cover of a sliding roof has at least one slotted guide that is coupled to the cover and adapted to be moved between a raised position, an initial position, and a lowered position. To lock the cover against horizontal displacement in the raised position, an extension provided on the slotted guide engages with a positive fit into the profiled rail fixed to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2003Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: ArvinMeritor GmbHInventors: Edgar Weiss, Hubert Bachmann
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Patent number: 6834914Abstract: A wind deflector for a vehicle roof comprises a flexible deflecting element attached between a base element and a raising device. The base element is mountable on a vehicle roof, and the raising device is pivotably connected to the base element to raise and lower the deflecting element. The deflecting element is air-permeable to allow air to flow through it and is flexible enough to be folded when the raising device is lowered. A resilient member biases the raising device in the raised position, stabilizing the flexible deflecting element and holding it taut enough to counteract pressure variations in a vehicle interior near a roof opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: ArvinMeritor GmbHInventors: Horst Böhm, Rainer Grimm, Karl Hörmann, Hubert Bachmann, Christoph Boss, Carmelo Mondello
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Patent number: 6789842Abstract: A guide mechanism for the cover of a sliding/tilting roof has on each of the two sides thereof a slotted guide that is pivotally mounted to raise the cover. Arranged in the area of the rear edge of the cover is a unit that includes a drain gutter and, at each lateral edge, a guide part. In the raised position of the cover, the unit having the slotted guide is fully decoupled from the unit having the drain gutter in the horizontal direction of displacement.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: ArvinMeritor GmbHInventors: Edgard Weiss, Hubert Bachmann
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Patent number: 6779836Abstract: A guide mechanism for a cover of a sliding/tilting roof has at least one lateral profiled rail, at least one bearing part each provided along the profiled rail for shifting the cover and at least one intermediate part which is connected with the bearing part and at least indirectly mechanically coupled to the cover. The intermediate part, for instance a slotted guide or a guiding part, has an extension which projects into the profiled rail, blocking the intermediate part from moving outside the profiled rail. The connection between the bearing part and the intermediate part is therefore additionally locked.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2003Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: ArvinMeritor GmbHInventors: Hubert Bachmann, Edgar Weiss
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Publication number: 20040113467Abstract: A roller blind system for a vehicle roof includes a rotatable coiling body and a roller blind that is attached at one end to the coiling body and at the other end to a vehicle portion in a stationary manner. The coiling body is shiftable in a translational motion, allowing the roller blind to uncoil and coil up while minimizing frictional forces on the roller blind.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Rainer Grimm, Thomas Becher, Hubert Bachmann, Horst Bohm
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Publication number: 20040051349Abstract: A guide mechanism for a cover of a sliding roof has at least one slotted guide that is coupled to the cover and adapted to be moved between a raised position, an initial position, and a lowered position. To lock the cover against horizontal displacement in the raised position, an extension provided on the slotted guide engages with a positive fit into the profiled rail fixed to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Edgar Weiss, Hubert Bachmann
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Publication number: 20040041440Abstract: A guide mechanism for the cover of a sliding/tilting roof has on each of the two sides thereof a slotted guide that is pivotally mounted to raise the cover. Arranged in the area of the rear edge of the cover is a unit that includes a drain gutter and, at each lateral edge, a guide part. In the raised position of the cover, the unit having the slotted guide is fully decoupled from the unit having the drain gutter in the horizontal direction of displacement.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventors: Edgard Weiss, Hubert Bachmann
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Publication number: 20040041444Abstract: A guide mechanism for a cover of a sliding/tilting roof has at least one lateral profiled rail, at least one bearing part each provided along the profiled rail for shifting the cover and at least one intermediate part which is connected with the bearing part and at least indirectly mechanically coupled to the cover. The intermediate part, for instance a slotted guide or a guiding part, has an extension which projects into the profiled rail, blocking the intermediate part from moving outside the profiled rail. The connection between the bearing part and the intermediate part is therefore additionally locked.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventors: Hubert Bachmann, Edgar Weiss
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Patent number: 6663172Abstract: A frame is provided for vehicle roofs of all usual types, such as sliding sunroofs, slide-and-tilt sunroofs and top ridge sliding sunroofs (spoiler roofs), preferably having a motor drive for the cover that can be moved in relation to a roof opening by means of a cable drive system. The frame assembled from few parts comprises a plastic injection molded front member having cable channels open at the bottom and molded-on corner areas for the fixed attachment of the frame side members guiding the cover on guide rails, the side members preferably being cut to length from continuously cast aluminum profiles. The cable channels open at the bottom, into which the drive cables can easily be laid, are closed by at least one likewise plastic injection molded cover element. A motor mounting plate is provided as separate plastic injection molded part, so that it can be formed with high dimensional accuracy from another plastic particularly suited to the drive requirements.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: ArvinMeritor GmbHInventors: Edgar Weiss, Bardo Imgram, Holger Oechel, Hubert Bachmann
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Publication number: 20030168892Abstract: A wind deflector for a vehicle roof comprises a flexible deflecting element attached between a base element and a raising device. The base element is mountable on a vehicle roof, and the raising device is pivotably connected to the base element to raise and lower the deflecting element. The deflecting element is air-permeable to allow air to flow through it and is flexible enough to be folded when the raising device is lowered. A resilient member biases the raising device in the raised position, stabilizing the flexible deflecting element and holding it taut enough to counteract pressure variations in a vehicle interior near a roof opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2003Publication date: September 11, 2003Inventors: Horst Bohm, Rainer Grimm, Karl Hormann, Hubert Bachmann, Christoph Boss, Carmelo Mondello
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Publication number: 20030047969Abstract: A frame is provided for vehicle roofs of all usual types, such as sliding sunroofs, slide-and-tilt sunroofs and top ridge sliding sunroofs (spoiler roofs), preferably having a motor drive for the cover that can be moved in relation to a roof opening by means of a cable drive system. The frame assembled from few parts comprises a plastic injection molded front member having cable channels open at the bottom and molded-on corner areas for the fixed attachment of the frame side members guiding the cover on guide rails, the side members preferably being cut to length from continuously cast aluminum profiles. The cable channels open at the bottom, into which the drive cables can easily be laid, are closed by at least one likewise plastic injection molded cover element. A motor mounting plate is provided as separate plastic injection molded part, so that it can be formed with high dimensional accuracy from another plastic particularly suited to the drive requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2002Publication date: March 13, 2003Inventors: Edgar Weiss, Bardo Imgram, Holger Oechel, Hubert Bachmann
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Patent number: 5746090Abstract: A drive apparatus (5) is proposed, consisting of a drive casing (12) and a gear casing (19), in which the two casings (12, 19) are screwed to one another in a centered position and to the frame transverse component (2) with the incorporation between them of a plane wall of the front transverse frame portion (2) of a guide frame (1). The drive casing (12), preferably injection moulded in one piece from a wear-resistant, thermoplastics material, guides two drive cables (8, 9) with guide channels (15, 16) slender in the central portion (15) over such a length that the drive cables (8, 9) can emerge at both ends virtually free of lateral pressure from the drive casing (12) and enter the drive cable guides of the frame transverse portion (2). The drive casing (12) makes possible sliding movements of the drive cables guided with low radial clearance without noise caused by joint positions.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1996Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Meritor Automotive GmbHInventors: Christoph Boss, Hubert Bachmann