Patents by Inventor Joern TOELLE

Joern TOELLE 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).

  • Publication number: 20250091423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle floor sheet metal arrangement with a vehicle floor sheet metal as a component of a motor vehicle body having a flat floor and, on two opposite longitudinal sides and two opposite end sides, a downward deformation in relation to the vertical direction of the motor vehicle, such that a hood-like body is formed by the vehicle floor sheet metal, characterized in that the vehicle floor sheet metal is produced in one piece from a sheet-metal blank in one press stroke, and in that the vehicle floor sheet metal closes a battery box at the top in the vertical direction of the motor vehicle, the vehicle floor sheet metal optionally having regions with different tensile strength and/or different wall thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091647
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an underbody plate of a motor vehicle having a planar floor and a formation in the form of at least one flange on each of two opposite longitudinal sides in the motor vehicle transverse direction, and the underbody plate extends between a front axle and a rear axle of a motor vehicle, wherein the underbody plate is hot-formed and pressed-hardened as a one-piece plate formed component in one press stroke, wherein areas having tensile strength Rm and/or wall thickness different from one another are formed, characterized in that an outwardly protruding flange is provided having screw holes as screwing-on points on a motor vehicle body and that the flange is made soft having a tensile strength Rm less than 1000 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091424
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a floor frame for a motor vehicle body, having at least one, two longitudinal members which extend in the longitudinal direction (X) of the motor vehicle and at least two cross members which extend in the transverse direction (Y) of the motor vehicle, wherein the cross members and longitudinal members have a profiled cross-section, characterized in that the floor frame is produced from a one-piece tailored blank in one press stroke and the floor frame has connection holes for a battery support and in that the cross member has a lower tensile strength Rm and/or wall thickness in its end regions relative to the central region of the cross member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091655
    Abstract: A front wall for a motor vehicle, which has a partition wall to an engine compartment located at the front in the longitudinal direction (x) of the motor vehicle, wherein the partition wall is oriented in the installed state in the vertical direction (z) of the motor vehicle and, connected to it in one piece, has a front region of a footwell metal sheet, wherein the footwell metal sheet runs at least in portions in the longitudinal direction (x) of the motor vehicle, the front wall being produced as a one-piece sheet-metal forming component, in particular in a single press stroke, characterized in that the footwell metal sheet has a greater wall thickness and/or tensile strength than the partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091650
    Abstract: A rear side part of a motor vehicle body, has a C pillar, a D pillar and a wheel housing segment, and is produced as a one piece sheet metal forming part in a press stroke. The C pillar and the D pillar being C-shaped, U-shaped or hat-shaped in cross-section, characterized in that the side part includes adjacent areas with different tensile strengths and/or different wall thicknesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091644
    Abstract: A vehicle floor sheet metal arrangement with a vehicle floor sheet metal as a component of a motor vehicle body, which has a flat floor region and a deformation on two opposite longitudinal sides and two opposite end sides, such that a vehicle floor sheet metal is formed that is arranged between two sills. In the flat floor region, at least one downward-facing molded recess is formed in the vertical direction (Z) of the motor vehicle, and the vehicle floor sheet metal is manufactured in one piece in a single press stroke, with regions of mutually different wall thickness and/or mutually different tensile strength Rm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091658
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rear seat plate of a motor vehicle body, including a rear part of a floor plate and a rear seat support, wherein floor plate and rear seat support are vertically offset in relation to one another in the motor vehicle vertical direction (Z), and a tunnel section is optionally formed in the floor plate, and that floor plate and rear seat support are integrally formed via a connecting section as a sheet-metal formed component, in one press stroke, characterized in that a reinforcing structure is formed, and that different strengths and/or different wall thicknesses from one another are formed in different areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250058832
    Abstract: A window and/or roof frame for an automobile, which has at least two bows running transversely to a direction of travel and at least two longitudinal members, wherein the window and/or roof frame is produced as a one-piece sheet metal formed component from a single blank in one press stroke. Different wall thicknesses and/or strengths are formed locally, wherein the wall thicknesses or tensile strengths differ by at least 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20200317012
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a bumper arrangement on a motor vehicle, having a crossmember and crash boxes, by means of which the crossmember is coupled to a motor vehicle, wherein a receptacle for a towing eye is formed in the bumper arrangement and the receptacle is produced in the form of an extruded profile component, wherein the receptacle is inserted into the crossmember and/or into a crash box and is fixed by clinching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Lucas ADAMSKI, Konstantin TATARINOV, Gero MUELLERS, Joern TOELLE, Christian HANDING
  • Publication number: 20190291670
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a crossmember for arranging on a motor vehicle, wherein the crossmember is formed in two parts from a profile, which is open on one side, as seen in cross section, and from a closing panel, each being made of metallic material, and the crossmember and the closing panel are coupled to one another, wherein the closing panel is produced in the form of an extruded light-metal component, wherein an extrusion direction is oriented transversely to the longitudinal extent of the crossmember and, as seen in the longitudinal extent of the crossmember, the closing panel has regions of different wall thicknesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Joern TOELLE, Christian HANDING, Kim-Henning SAUERLAND
  • Publication number: 20190264309
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for producing a formed lightweight metal component from a 6000 series or 7000 series aluminum alloy, having the process steps of heating a sheet metal blank, then homogenizing a solution annealing temperature, quenching the heated blank, and forming the heated blank into a component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Jochen GREWE, Friedrich BOHNER, Joern TOELLE, Ulrich HUSCHEN, Feng JIAO
  • Publication number: 20160107512
    Abstract: A motor vehicle door and a method for producing the motor vehicle door is disclosed having a frame plate coupled to reinforcement components and at least half of all of the reinforcement components are produced as extruded profiles which are subsequently press-formed three-dimensionally. The extruded profiles have different wall thicknesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Edwin LIST CLAUSEN, Jochem GREWE, Joern TOELLE, Dariusz STRAZNIKIEWICZ, Martin SCHROETER, Gero MUELLERS
  • Publication number: 20160107511
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a door impact beam (1) of a vehicle door and a method for its production. The door impact beam (1) according to the present invention is made from a multi-chamber extrusion hollow profile out of a light metal alloy and formed as one-piece and materially uniform component. The door impact beam (1) comprises lengthwise (L) a Y-shaped contour with two protruding arms (2) and a base (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Edvin List CLAUSEN, Jochem GREWE, Joern TOELLE, Martin SCHROETER, Gero MUELLERS, Dariusz STRAZNIKIEWICZ
  • Publication number: 20160053356
    Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle component includes the steps of providing a precipitation-hardenable blank composed of a 6000 or 7000 grade aluminum alloy, solution-annealing the blank at a temperature between 350° C. and 550° C. for a time period of 2 to 30 min., in particular 3 to 20 min. and preferably 5 to 15 min., in particular at a temperature between 440° C. and 480° C. in the case of a 7000 grade aluminum alloy, and in particular at a temperature between 490° C. and 545° C. in the case of a 6000 grade aluminum alloy, subjecting the solution-annealed blank to partially different quenching, a first region being quenched to a temperature between 150° C. and 250° C., and a further region being quenched to a temperature below 150° C., deforming the blank during or after the partially different quenching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Friedrich BOHNER, Jochen DOERR, Jochem GREWE, Christian HIELSCHER, Joern TOELLE, Boris RAUSCHER
  • Publication number: 20150353146
    Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle component is disclosed having the steps of providing a strain-hardened blank composed of a 5000 grade aluminum alloy, partially heating the blank in a first region to a temperature higher than 350° C., in particular higher than 400° C., and in a second region to a temperature between 150° C. and 350° C., preferably to 300° C., in less than 20 s, preferably less than 10 s and in particular in 2 to 5 s, and transferring the blank into a cooling tool, and performing cooling in less than 20 s, preferably less than 10 s and in particular in 2 to 5 s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Friedrich BOHNER, Jochen DOERR, Jochem GREWE, Christian HIELSCHER, Joern TOELLE, Boris RAUSCHER
  • Publication number: 20150354043
    Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle component is disclosed having the steps of providing a strain-hardened blank composed of a 5000 grade aluminum alloy, partially heating the blank in a first region to a temperature higher than 350° C., in particular to 400° C., the blank being kept at a temperature between 15° C. and 30° C., preferably at 20° C., in a second region, and the partial heating being performed in less than 20 s, preferably less than 10 s and in particular in 2 to 5 s, adjusting the temperature of the blank as a whole to between 150 and 350° C. in less than 20 s, preferably less than 10 s and in particular in 2 to 5 s, and deforming the blank to form the motor vehicle component in less than 20 s, preferably less than 10 s and in particular in 2 to 5 s, and cooling the motor vehicle component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Friedrich BOHNER, Jochen DOERR, Jochem GREWE, Christian HIELSCHER, Joern TOELLE, Boris RAUSCHER
  • Publication number: 20150291227
    Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle component, is disclosed having the steps of—providing a blank composed of a 5000 grade naturally hard aluminum alloy with an initial yield strength, completely heating the blank to a forming temperature between 150° C. and 350° C., preferably between 200° C. and 300° C. in less than 20 s, preferably less than 10 s and in particular in 2 to 5 s, and performing forming in a forming tool in less than 20 s, preferably less than 10 s and in particular between 2 and 5 s, the temperature being held between 150° C. and 350° C. in at least one first region of the blank, and cooling to a temperature lower than 250° C., in particular lower than 200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Friedrich BOHNER, Jochen DOERR, Jochem GREWE, Christian HIELSCHER, Joern TOELLE, Boris RAUSCHER