Patents by Inventor Juergen Gimbel

Juergen Gimbel 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: 6758495
    Abstract: A method and system for restraining an occupant on a vehicle seat, the occupant being pulled into the vehicle seat is provided with a force by a belt tensioner when a critical driving state is detected and then held in a pulled-back position on the vehicle seat with a holding force. The holding force selected is lower than the force for pulling the occupant back. A forward-looking detection system for a dangerous driving state and an occupant-position detection system unprovided, in which, when a dangerous driving state is detected, a belt tensioner is subjected to a force and the occupant is thereby pulled into the vehicle seat, and in which the occupant is held in a pulled-back position on the vehicle seat with a holding force which is lower than the force for pulling the occupant back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Luigi Brambilla, Wilfried Bullinger, Walter Eberle, Juergen Gimbel, Markus Hartlieb, Florent Paviot, Frank Zerrweck
  • Publication number: 20010054816
    Abstract: A method and system for restraining an occupant on a vehicle seat, the occupant being pulled into the vehicle seat is provided with a force by a belt tensioner when a critical driving state is detected and then held in a pulled-back position on the vehicle seat with a holding force. The holding force selected is lower than the force for pulling the occupant back. A forward-looking detection system for a dangerous driving state and an occupant-position detection system unprovided, in which, when a dangerous driving state is detected, a belt tensioner is subjected to a force and the occupant is thereby pulled into the vehicle seat, and in which the occupant is held in a pulled-back position on the vehicle seat with a holding force which is lower than the force for pulling the occupant back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventors: Luigi Brambilla, Wilfried Bullinger, Walter Eberle, Juergen Gimbel, Markus Hartlieb, Florent Paviot, Frank Zerrweck
  • Patent number: 4135737
    Abstract: A mechanism accommodated in a hollow bearer of a vehicle for adjusting the height of an upper deflection fitting for the shoulder belt of a belt system, which includes a slide member steplessly displaceable in guidances of the vehicle hollow bearer; one hollow bearer wall is thereby provided with at least one row of teeth or recesses into which the coordinated teeth of a detent member connected with a deflecton fitting and guided in a recess of the slide member, engage against the action of at least one spring force retaining the detent member in its normal position during those occurring tensional belt forces which exceed the tensional forces acting on the belt by the belt user during normal driving operation; a gliding member is thereby arranged in the slide member so as to be displaceable in height, whereby the gliding member cooperates with the detent member and displaces the same up to its engagement at least approximately transversely to its direction of movement during correspondingly occurring tension
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hansjuergen Scholz, Walter Jahn, Juergen Gimbel