Patents by Inventor JEAN-BERNARD LE GRIFFON

JEAN-BERNARD LE GRIFFON 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: 10294701
    Abstract: A cover device, includes a movable cover configured to cover retaining jaws of a retaining jaws module; a retaining cover connected to a side wall frame of a vehicle body and configured to enclose in the shape of a U an insertion end side of a retaining jaws module for insertion of a striker plate module to releasably couple with the retaining jaws module so as to connect a vehicle door with the side wall frame, and adjacent longitudinal sides of the retaining jaws module in transverse direction of the vehicle; and a rubber lip configured to elastically connect the retaining cover to the retaining jaws module and to compensate for tolerance compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Marion Schoch, Jean-Bernard Le Griffon
  • Patent number: 10041276
    Abstract: A vehicle locking apparatus for a vehicle using a coupling device for the separable connection of a vehicle door to a vehicle structure part, includes a first coupling element with two locking wedges mounted so as to be displaceable parallel to one another and having wedge faces. At least one of the locking wedges is formed with a locking nose on the wedge-side end face, and a second coupling element interacts with the first coupling element. The second coupling has two retaining jaws receiving the first coupling element therebetween with wedge grooves having wedge faces. The locking wedges are pushed via a driving device into the wedge grooves by separation of the wedge faces apart from one other and the locking nose is thereby received in a locking opening arranged in a wedge groove of a retaining jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marion Schoch, Jean-Bernard Le Griffon
  • Publication number: 20160053516
    Abstract: A latching system includes a closing wedge module with two closing wedges supported for movement relative to one another and having wedge faces, and a closing wedge holder for movably receiving the closing wedges. A holding jaw module has two holding jaws to receive the closing wedge module there between. The holding jaws have keyways configured to complement a contour of the wedge faces of the closing wedges. A drive unit moves the closing wedges apart to thereby push the wedge faces into the keyways of the holding jaws and to couple a vehicle flap with a structural part of a vehicle body. At least one of the closing wedges has a predetermined breaking point to separate into a keyway-proximal part and a closing-wedge-holder-proximal part, when the closing wedge is pushed into the keyways and a stress resistance of the closing wedge is exceeded by a mechanical load during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marion Schoch, Jean-Bernard Le Griffon
  • Publication number: 20150368941
    Abstract: A cover device, includes a movable cover configured to cover retaining jaws of a retaining jaws module; a retaining cover connected to a side wall frame of a vehicle body and configured to enclose in the shape of a U an insertion end side of a retaining jaws module for insertion of a striker plate module to releasably couple with the retaining jaws module so as to connect a vehicle door with the side wall frame, and adjacent longitudinal sides of the retaining jaws module in transverse direction of the vehicle; and a rubber lip configured to elastically connect the retaining cover to the retaining jaws module and to compensate for tolerance compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: MARION SCHOCH, JEAN-BERNARD LE GRIFFON
  • Publication number: 20150322697
    Abstract: A vehicle locking apparatus for a vehicle using a coupling device for the separable connection of a vehicle door to a vehicle structure part, includes a first coupling element with two locking wedges mounted so as to be displaceable parallel to one another and having wedge faces, wherein at least one of the locking wedges is formed with a locking nose on the wedge-side end face, and a second coupling element interacting with the first coupling element, the second coupling having two retaining jaws receiving the first coupling element therebetween with wedge grooves having wedge faces, wherein the locking wedges are pushed by means of a driving device into the wedge grooves by separation of the wedge faces apart from one other and the locking nose thereby being received in a locking opening arranged in a wedge groove of a retaining jaw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: MARION SCHOCH, JEAN-BERNARD LE GRIFFON