Patents by Inventor Josef Appel
Josef Appel 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: 11879284Abstract: A device for configuring a jamming detection system having an adjusting device including an electric motor for closing at least one opening in a vehicle, such as a sliding roof. The device is provided with a processor which reads measured parameters of the electric motor and parameters of the jamming detection system, calculates individual correlation variables from the measured parameters of the electric motor and of the jamming detection system, and stores the calculated individual correlation variables in a motor controller of the adjusting device, wherein the calculated individual correlation variables are used to configure the jamming detection system.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventor: Josef Appel
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Patent number: 11660938Abstract: A shading device for a vehicle roof includes at least one shading length that can be rolled up for shading a light-permeable and/or open area of the vehicle roof, a tension bow that is movably mounted in a direction of travel (V), to which the shading length-is fastened, a drive mechanism that can be operated by a drive motor to move the tension and a control unit for activating the drive motor. The shading device includes at least one opposing force element for restricting a traveling movement of the tension bow, and the control unit is designed to activate the drive motor based on an opposing force when the tension bow reaches an end position (P1, P2) defined by the stop element.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventor: Josef Appel
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Publication number: 20210170836Abstract: A shading device for a vehicle roof includes at least one shading length that can be rolled up for shading a light-permeable and/or open area of the vehicle roof, a tension bow that is movably mounted in a direction of travel (V), to which the shading length-is fastened, a drive mechanism that can be operated by a drive motor to move the tension and a control unit for activating the drive motor. The shading device includes at least one opposing force element for restricting a traveling movement of the tension bow, and the control unit is designed to activate the drive motor based on an opposing force when the tension bow reaches an end position (P1, P2) defined by the stop element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventor: Josef Appel
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Publication number: 20200392777Abstract: A device for configuring a jamming detection system having an adjusting device comprising an electric motor for closing at least one opening in a vehicle, such as a sliding roof. The device is provided with means for measuring parameters of the electric motor and parameters of the jamming detection system, means for calculating individual correlation variables from the measured parameters of the electric motor and of the jamming detection system, and means for storing the calculated individual correlation variables in a motor controller of the adjusting device, wherein the calculated individual correlation variables are used to configure the jamming detection system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventor: Josef APPEL
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Patent number: 8033052Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-jamming device in the field of motor vehicles, which is used for preventing an object from getting caught. Said anti-jamming device comprises an actuating means (1) which can be coupled to a body part (3) of a vehicle and can be moved relative to said body part (3) by resting the same against the object, and an apparatus for detecting a relative movement between the actuating means (1) and the body part (3).Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2006Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Webasto AGInventors: Thomas Kraus, Jurgen Klingenberg, Josef Appel
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Publication number: 20090265989Abstract: A device for opening and/or closing a pivoting body piece (14), especially a rear hatch, of a motor vehicle (10). The device has an electric motor drive (20) which drives a motor shaft which drives the pivotable body piece (14) via a gearing (22). In order to enable the device to have a clutch-free structure, the electric motor drive (20) is provided, in accordance with the invention, with an electronic isolation means (24) which can be activated depending on a signal from a sensor means (30) which recognizes manual actuation of the pivoting body piece (14).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2005Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: WEBASTO AGInventors: Tobias Mueller, Anton Joehl, Josef Appel, Thomas Kraus
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Publication number: 20090211156Abstract: Anti-pinching means for vehicles with at least two sensor arrangements (16, 16n, 17, 17n) for detecting the danger of pinching by at least one vehicle part (10, 10a, 10b) which can be moved by a driving means (12, 13, 14, 14a, 14b), and for delivery of pinching danger signals to an evaluation means (18) which is assigned jointly to the two sensor arrangements. The evaluation device (18) is designed such that it switches the driving means into an operating mode which prevents pinching via a drive control (15) when the pinching danger signals of the two sensor arrangements differ by a predetermined minimum value from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2005Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: Webasto AGInventor: Josef Appel
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Publication number: 20090171537Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor-controlled anti jamming device for preventing jamming of an object, in particular in or for a motor vehicle. Said device comprises a body part and a motor-actuatable component which is connected in a pivotable manner to the body part, at least one support element which, when the component is in the open state, supports the component against the body part, and at least one capacitive sensor element which is arranged, when the component is open, between said component and the body part, and is configured such that in a closing step, an object can be detected in a predefined jamming area between the component and the body part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Thomas Kraus, Josef Appel, Anton Dietmar Jöhl
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Patent number: 7552965Abstract: An openable motor vehicle roof with a movable roof element which at least partially clears a roof opening bounded by a body-mounted frame component in the area of which a seal element is located and against which the roof element rests when the roof opening is closed. An electric motor drive for moving the roof element is monitored and which is turned off and optionally reversed, when a interfering body is detected between the roof element and the edge area of the roof opening. A stop surface is provided on the roof element for detecting an interfering body, and the motor vehicle roof is made such that, if there is a interfering body between the edge area of the roof opening and the roof element when the roof opening is being closed, the stop surface comes into contact with the interfering body before the roof element engages the seal element.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Webasto AGInventors: Stjepan Radmanic, Josef Appel
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Publication number: 20090044449Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor-operated component, in particular in or for a motor vehicle, which comprises at least in regions a material which is permeable to an electric field, and which comprises a sensor-controlled anti-trapping apparatus which contains at least one electrically conductive first sensor electrode which is arranged in the interior of the component in a region which comprises the material which is permeable to electric fields, and which is inaccessible from outside the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: WEBASTO AGInventors: Josef Appel, Anton Dietmar Johl
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Publication number: 20080236044Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-jamming device in the field of motor vehicles, which is used for preventing an object from getting caught. Said anti-jamming device comprises an actuating means (1) which can be coupled to a body part (3) of a vehicle and can be moved relative to said body part (3) by resting the same against the object, and an apparatus for detecting a relative movement between the actuating means (1) and the body part (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2006Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Thomas Kraus, Jurgen Klingenberg, Josef Appel
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Publication number: 20070200394Abstract: An openable motor vehicle roof with a movable roof element which at least partially clears a roof opening bounded by a body-mounted frame component in the area of which a seal element is located and against which the roof element rests when the roof opening is closed. An electric motor drive for moving the roof element is monitored and which is turned off and optionally reversed, when a interfering body is detected between the roof element and the edge area of the roof opening. A stop surface is provided on the roof element for detecting an interfering body, and the motor vehicle roof is made such that, if there is a interfering body between the edge area of the roof opening and the roof element when the roof opening is being closed, the stop surface comes into contact with the interfering body before the roof element engages the seal element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2005Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicant: WEBASTO AGInventors: Stjepan Radmante, Josef Appel
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Patent number: 7026930Abstract: In a process for adjusting a movable motor vehicle part (33) between at least two positions by means of a drive (42), the monitoring area (13, 30, 31) outside and/or inside the motor vehicle (10) is checked for at least one perturbing object (32). When a perturbing object (32) is detected within the monitoring area (13, 30, 31), the drive (42) is turned off or reversed. In this way, perturbing objects can be detected without contact and can be protected against pinching even before they are actually pinched.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2003Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbHInventors: Josef Appel, Lucas Tragelehn
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Publication number: 20040090203Abstract: In a process for adjusting a movable motor vehicle part (33) between at least two positions by means of a drive (42), the monitoring area (13, 30, 31) outside and/or inside the motor vehicle (10) is checked for at least one perturbing object (32). When a perturbing object (32) is detected within the monitoring area (13, 30, 31), the drive (42) is turned off or reversed. In this way, perturbing objects can be detected without contact and can be protected against pinching even before they are actually pinched.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Applicant: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbHInventors: Josef Appel, Lucas Tragelehn
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Patent number: 6592178Abstract: An openable motor vehicle roof including a closing element adapted for movement into a position that closes or at least partially clears an opening in a fixed roof skin of the motor vehicle, and a cover element adapted to be positioned underneath the roof opening for movement into a position that conceals or at least partially clears the closing element or the roof opening with respect to an interior area of the motor vehicle. At least one drive mechanism is provided for selectively and adjustably moving the closing element and the closing mechanism. Also provided is a controller for controlling the drive mechanism, the controller adapted to control the drive mechanism such that movement of the closing element into a closed position is not initiated until the cover element is moved at least into a position which covers an area of the roof opening that is not covered by the closing mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbHInventors: Stefan Schober, Josef Appel, Ferdinand Hahn
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Patent number: 6541500Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures, comprising as active components a) a compound of the formula I its N-oxide or one of its salts where: R1, R2, R3, R4 independently of one another are: hydrogen, hydroxyl, nitro, halogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, C1-C4-alkylthio, C1-C4-haloalkylthio; R5, R6, R7 independently of one another are: hydrogen, hydroxyl, cyano, nitro, halogen, C1-C7-alkyl, C1-C7-haloalkyl, C1-C7-alkoxy, C1-C7-haloalkoxy, C1-C7-alkylthio, C1-C7-haloalkylthio, C1-C7-hydroxyalkyl, C2-C4-acyl, aryl, aryloxy, where the radicals with aryl may for their part carry one to three of the following groups: cyano, nitro, halogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, C1-C4-alkylthio and C1-C4-haloalkylthio, and b) carbamates of the formula II, in which T is CH or N, n is 0, 1 or 2 and R is halogen, C1-C4-alkyl or C1-C4-haloalkyl, where the radicals R may be different if n is 2, in a synergistically effective amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Klaus Schelberger, Maria Scherer, Reinhold Saur, Josef Appel, Joachim Leyendecker, Eberhard Ammermann, Thomas Grote, Gisela Lorenz, Siegfried Strathmann
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Publication number: 20020101098Abstract: An openable motor vehicle roof including a closing element adapted for movement into a position that closes or at least partially clears an opening in a fixed roof skin of the motor vehicle, and a cover element adapted to be positioned underneath the roof opening for movement into a position that conceals or at least partially clears the closing element or the roof opening with respect to an interior area of the motor vehicle. At least one drive mechanism is provided for selectively and adjustably moving the closing element and the closing mechanism. Also provided is a controller for controlling the drive mechanism, the controller adapted to control the drive mechanism such that movement of the closing element into a closed position is not initiated until the cover element is moved at least into a position which covers an area of the roof opening that is not covered by the closing mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: August 1, 2002Inventors: Stefan Schober, Josef Appel, Ferdinand Hahn
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Patent number: 6252382Abstract: An arrangement for supplying power to a motor vehicle electrical system (3) by means of a motor driven vehicle generator (1) and a solar generator (2). To efficiently save fuel, for power generation the arrangement compares the output or energy balance of the solar generator (2) relative to the vehicle generator (1) and reduces the vehicle generator output in proportion to the solar current supplied when a positive energy balance exist in favor of the vehicle generator (1) and separates the vehicle generator (1) from the vehicle engine (13) when a positive energy balance exists in favor of the solar generator (2).Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Webasto Karosseriesysteme GmbHInventors: Thomas Ganz, Josef Appel
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Patent number: 5456408Abstract: A motor vehicle heating device which is operable independent of an engine of the motor vehicle and has a burner, a pump or other fuel delivery device for supplying fuel to the burner and an electric motor driven blower by which combustion air is delivered to the burner. In contrast to conventional heating devices in which the fuel-air ratio is set and corrected via a mechanically adjustable bypass screw on the combustion air blower, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a correction value is sent to a control device which contains a nonvolatile data storage and a microprocessor; the correction value is stored in the data storage and changes the output signals of the control device to the fuel feed means and/or to the combustion air blower. Thus, adjustment and correction are easily enabled via an electronic change of the speed or cycle frequency of these assemblies, so that mechanical adjustment devices can be omitted.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1994Date of Patent: October 10, 1995Assignee: Webasto Thermosysteme GmbHInventor: Josef Appel