Patents by Inventor Jorg Berghahn

Jorg Berghahn 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: 20180320418
    Abstract: A striker unit for a motor vehicle includes a base plate that can be connected to a body part of the motor vehicle, a retaining bracket, a bracket plate for mounting the retaining bracket, and an elastic element that is arranged between the base plate and the bracket plate. The base plate and the bracket plate can additionally be connected to one another through a second and/or third positive locking and/or frictional connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventor: Jorg Berghahn
  • Patent number: 8303003
    Abstract: The invention relates to a latch that comprises a lock and a closing part that engages with the latter. Said lock comprises a catch (10) and a clink and said catch (10) comprises a receiving element (19) for the closing part and has a stepped profile in the direction of the periphery, said stepped profile having a prestop (13) and a main stop (14) for a locking point on the clink. Said catch (10) can be adjusted at least between three rotational positions which are an open position, a stop position and a main stop position. In order to prevent problems with the latch, the prestop (13) and the main stop (14) are placed on the catch (10) at a radial distance (47, 48), that is different from each other, in relation to the rotational axis (11). A sensor determines the different radial distance that is obtained in the prestop position and the main stop position, and informs the control device. In accordance with the information provided to the sensor, the control device performs the functions defined by vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Berghahn, Hans-Günter Kaiser, Jürgen Moczygemba, Eckart Schuler
  • Patent number: 8186730
    Abstract: The invention relates to a latch that comprises a lock and a closing part (10). Said lock comprises a catch (15), a click (20) equipped with an adjusting arm (21) and a motorised opening aid (30). Said catch (15) comprises a receiving element for the closing part (10) and at least one stop notch (17) for engaging the click (20). The opening aid (30) is equipped with an eccentric (40) that is driven by a motor, whereby the eccentric curve interacts with a lateral adjusting surface of the adjusting arm (21) and ensures that the clink (20) is displaced in a motorised manner from its locked position in the stop notch (17) into an elevated position. In order to prevent problems in the latch, an end segment (42) of the eccentric (40) and/or the adjusting arm (21) of the clink (20) is elastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Berghahn, Dirk Ruppach, Hans-Günter Kaiser, Rolf Kamps, Jürgen Moczygemba, Eckart Schuler
  • Publication number: 20100045051
    Abstract: The invention relates to a latch that comprises a lock and a closing part that engages with the latter. Said lock comprises a catch (10) and a clink and said catch (10) comprises a receiving element (19) for the closing part and has a stepped profile in the direction of the periphery, said stepped profile having a prestop (13) and a main stop (14) for a locking point on the clink. Said catch (10) can be adjusted at least between three rotational positions which are an open position, a stop position and a main stop position. In order to prevent problems with the latch, the prestop (13) and the main stop (14) are placed on the catch (10) at a radial distance (47, 48), that is different from each other, in relation to the rotational axis (11). A sensor determines the different radial distance that is obtained in the prestop position and the main stop position, and informs the control device. In accordance with the information provided to the sensor, the control device performs the functions defined by vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Jörg Berghahn, Hans-Günter Kaiser, Jürgen Moczygemba, Eckart Schuler
  • Publication number: 20100000271
    Abstract: The invention relates to a latch that comprises a lock and a closing part (10). Said lock comprises a catch (15), a click (20) equipped with an adjusting arm (21) and a motorised opening aid (30). Said catch (15) comprises a receiving element for the closing part (10) and at least one stop notch (17) for engaging the click (20). The opening aid (30) is equipped with an eccentric (40) that is driven by a motor, whereby the eccentric curve interacts with a lateral adjusting surface of the adjusting arm (21) and ensures that the clink (20) is displaced in a motorised manner from its locked position in the stop notch (17) into an elevated position. In order to prevent problems in the latch, an end segment (42) of the eccentric (40) and/or the adjusting arm (21) of the clink (20) is elastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Jorg Berghahn, Dirk Ruppach, Hans-Günter Kaiser, Rolf Kamps, Jürgen Moczygemba, Eckart Schuler
  • Publication number: 20090100886
    Abstract: A closing mechanism with a lock which contains both a rotatably supported latch and a pivotably supported pawl, which is spring-loaded toward the latch. The latch is in an open position when the door is open, and, when the door is being closed, it moves first into a prelatching position, in which the pawl engages with a prelatching notch on the latch. A closing aid moves the latch from its prelatching position into a main latching position, in which the pawl is supported on the main latching notch of the latch. When the door is opened, before the release or during the release, the closing aid be activated again not in the same direction as the preceding closing movement but rather in the opposite direction. As a result, the same component, namely, the closing aid, is used to move the latch gradually and gently back into its open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Udo Orzech, Rolf Kamps, Hans-Gunter Kaiser, Jorg Berghahn, Dirk Ruppach
  • Patent number: 7380844
    Abstract: In a lock fitted with a rotary latch (30), a detent (40) is provided that can engage inside a preliminary catch and inside a main catch (32) of the rotary latch (30). The rotary latch (30) receives a locking part and can be transferred either manually or by means of a motor between an open position, a preliminary catch position and a main catch position (30.2). The motor-driven displacement ensues via a closing aid or an opening aid. In order to obtain a space-saving design, the invention provides that a locking lever (10) is eccentrically mounted on the rotary latch (30) and is held in a central position by an impulse spring whereby functioning as a closing aid. A stationary, rotationally mounted driving element (50) serves an opening aid, and an opening lever (20) is rotationally mounted on this driving element. This opening lever (20) is also held in a central position by an impulse spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Berghahn, Lothar Schemberg
  • Publication number: 20070205613
    Abstract: In a lock fitted with a rotary latch (30), a detent (40) is provided that can engage inside a preliminary catch and inside a main catch (32) of the rotary latch (30). The rotary latch (30) receives a locking part and can be transferred either manually or by means of a motor between an open position, a preliminary catch position and a main catch position (30.2). The motor-driven displacement ensues via a closing aid or an opening aid. In order to obtain a space-saving design, the invention provides that a locking lever (10) is eccentrically mounted on the rotary latch (30) and is held in a central position by an impulse spring whereby functioning as a closing aid. A stationary, rotationally mounted driving element (50) serves an opening aid, and an opening lever (20) is rotationally mounted on this driving element. This opening lever (20) is also held in a central position by an impulse spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Jorg Berghahn, Lothar Schemberg
  • Patent number: 7210714
    Abstract: A locking device for a movable carbody part has a lock and an interacting locking member. The lock has a rotary latch with pre-catch, main catch, and recess. When closing the carbody part, the locking member moves into the recess and rotates the rotary latch into a pre-catch position in which a pawl drops into the pre-catch. A motor-driven closing aid has a working lever and a control lever that are pivotably supported within the lock and have crossing slider block guides. The same slider block is guided in both slider block guides. When the working lever is pivoted by the motor of the closing aid, a shoulder of the slider block hits a counter shoulder of the rotary latch and rotates the rotary latch from the pre-catch position into a main catch position in which the pawl is supported on the main catch of the rotary latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Berghahn, Dirk Ruppach
  • Publication number: 20060055181
    Abstract: A locking device for a movable carbody part has a lock and an interacting locking member. The lock has a rotary latch with pre-catch, main catch, and recess. When closing the carbody part, the locking member moves into the recess and rotates the rotary latch into a pre-catch position in which a pawl drops into the pre-catch. A motor-driven closing aid has a working lever and a control lever that are pivotably supported within the lock and have crossing slider block guides. The same slider block is guided in both slider block guides. When the working lever is pivoted by the motor of the closing aid, a shoulder of the slider block hits a counter shoulder of the rotary latch and rotates the rotary latch from the pre-catch position into a main catch position in which the pawl is supported on the main catch of the rotary latch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Jorg Berghahn, Dirk Ruppach