Patents by Inventor Josip DURMIS

Josip DURMIS 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: 12134435
    Abstract: In order to produce different motor vehicles of a vehicle type, which have the different drive concepts of an internal combustion engine, electric motor or a combination of an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, two different floor pan assemblies and two different luggage compartment floor subassemblies are provided. The two subassemblies are each produced using different deep-drawing dies. A combination of one of the two floor pan subassemblies with one of the two luggage compartment floor subassemblies allows the production of motor vehicles for all three drive concepts. The first of these two floor pan subassemblies, when installed in the vehicle, has a higher position than the second floor pan subassembly. The higher floor pan subassembly is used to produce both the electric-drive motor vehicles and hybrid-drive motor vehicles. A large-area installation space below the floor pan subassembly is also made available for the hybrid-drive motor vehicles for housing at least one pack-type battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Breu, Josip Durmis, Wolfram Haug, Joerg Kutzschbach
  • Publication number: 20240158012
    Abstract: A motor vehicle body for an electrically drivable motor vehicle includes: a vehicle floor element, which transitions, at the front end of a passenger compartment, into a firewall; longitudinal members of a front-end structure, the rear ends of the longitudinal members being fastened to the firewall and, at a point of connection, to the vehicle floor element; and a stored energy source, which is located below the vehicle floor element and a front end of which is located below the rear ends of the longitudinal members. In order to provide a motor vehicle body with favorable characteristics in a frontal collision with an obstacle or a vehicle, the vehicle floor element has, behind the points of connection to the rear ends of the longitudinal members, respective embossed portions formed upward in the vehicle vertical direction, and/or the points of connection of the rear ends of the longitudinal members to the vehicle floor element have deliberately weakened portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Josip DURMIS, Lorenz KRIEGLER, Sebastian ZECH
  • Publication number: 20230331323
    Abstract: In a group of motor vehicles of one vehicle type with three different drive concepts (“internal combustion drive”, “electric drive” or “hybrid drive”), the architecture of the motor vehicles having an electric drive is used to produce the motor vehicles of all three drive concepts. Irrespective of the drive concept, two variations of an elevated floor panel assembly are used, each of the two floor panel assemblies having a frame-like supporting structure. The first floor panel assembly is provided for the vehicles having an electric drive. Here, the battery is used as a supporting structural component and significantly takes over the reinforcement of the frame-like floor panel assembly. A second floor panel assembly is provided for the vehicles having a hybrid drive and having an internal combustion drive. In the second floor panel assembly, at least one reinforcing additional component is provided in order to provide sufficient structural rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Wolfram HAUG, Joerg KUTZSCHBACH, Thomas BREU, Josip DURMIS
  • Publication number: 20220281543
    Abstract: In order to produce different motor vehicles of a vehicle type, which have the different drive concepts of an internal combustion engine, electric motor or a combination of an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, two different floor pan assemblies and two different luggage compartment floor subassemblies are provided. The two subassemblies are each produced using different deep-drawing dies. A combination of one of the two floor pan subassemblies with one of the two luggage compartment floor subassemblies allows the production of motor vehicles for all three drive concepts. The first of these two floor pan subassemblies, when installed in the vehicle, has a higher position than the second floor pan subassembly. The higher floor pan subassembly is used to produce both the electric-drive motor vehicles and hybrid-drive motor vehicles. A large-area installation space below the floor pan subassembly is also made available for the hybrid-drive motor vehicles for housing at least one pack-type battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas BREU, Josip DURMIS, Wolfram HAUG, Joerg KUTZSCHBACH
  • Publication number: 20220281542
    Abstract: In a group of motor vehicles of one vehicle type, hybrid-drive motor vehicles are derived from the electric-drive motor vehicles. By using the architecture of electric-drive motor vehicles for the hybrid-drive motor vehicles, the architecture has a floor pan subassembly that sits in a higher position in comparison to that in motor vehicles having an internal combustion engine drive. An installation space for housing a battery on the underside of the floor pan subassembly is made available, which, in comparison to the motor vehicle in the prior art, allows significantly larger batteries to be housed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas BREU, Josip DURMIS, Wolfram HAUG, Joerg KUTZSCHBACH