Patents by Inventor Juergen Schrader
Juergen Schrader 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: 20100156135Abstract: A folding top for a motor vehicle is provided. The folding top includes a rear roof part which delimits a window opening for a rear window and which is displaceable about a main pivot axis in order to transfer the folding top from a closed position into a storage position. The rear window is pivotable relative to the rear roof part about a window pivot axis which extends at a distance from the main pivot axis. The rear window bears against the rear roof part from the outside when the folding top is in the closed position and, after the folding top has been transferred into its storage position, is moved at least by way of a partial region through the window opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2007Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Martin Guckel, Bernhard Schenk, Juergen Schrader
-
Publication number: 20100133799Abstract: A convertible motor vehicle with at least two vehicle seating rows and with at least two side doors is provided. A respectively associated door column is arranged in between the doors, and an active rollover protection system is provided in the region thereof. The door columns end upwards in the region of an associated waistline of the motor vehicle, and the rollover protection system is at least substantially arranged below the waistline of the motor vehicle in a retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2007Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Jan Gaertner, Thomas Meier, Juergen Schrader, Andreas Zygan
-
Patent number: 7533934Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion having seat upholstery and a seat back having a seat back upholstery which are held in a seat framework that is anchored to a vehicle floor in a longitudinally shiftable manner, and includes at least one swivelable holding bracket, for the detachable fastening of a child's seat, set upon the seat cushion, on the seat framework, which is swivelable from a covered, non-use position into a functional position, in which it is accessible, all the way through, between seat back upholstery and seat upholstery. For the creation of a vehicle seat, e.g., having electromotive seat adjustment for longitudinal seat adjustment, seat cushion vertical setting and seat cushion depth setting, in a longitudinal shifting position of the seat upholstery which is determined so that the seat upholstery is moved out of the swivel path of the holding bracket, the swivel motion of the holding bracket is derived from the vertical adjustment motion of the seat cushion.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2007Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Daimlerchrysler AGInventors: Thomas Foelster, Thomas Heckmann, Marcus Scheu, Juergen Schrader, Peter Scott
-
Publication number: 20080315640Abstract: In a vehicle seat with a backrest arranged on a mount and on which at least one head restraint is arranged, an intermediate space formed between a lower delimitation of the head restraint and an upper delimitation the backrest can be covered by a cover device. To reduce a disadvantageous effect on exchangeability, the novel cover device is to be as universally useable as possible and is to readily follow the vertical movement of the head restraint. Accordingly, the present cover device is firstly connected in terms of action to the head restraint and secondly to the backrest in such a manner that, upon a height adjustment of the backrest and/or of the head restraint, an adjustment of the cover device takes place.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2006Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Claudio Bargheer, Thomas Heckmann, Juergen Schrader
-
Patent number: 7431399Abstract: A headrest of a motor vehicle seat can be folded down into an inoperative position. The headrest has a headrest body and a headrest bracket which are mechanically connected in such a manner, via a bearing part having a sliding bearing and a pivot bearing that a vertical displacement and a pivoting about a horizontal pivot axis arranged perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle are achievable.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2004Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Christoph Kern, Oswald Kriessler, Bernd Schmidt, Juergen Schrader, Wolfgang Schramm
-
Publication number: 20080012403Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion having seat upholstery and a seat back having a seat back upholstery which are held in a seat framework that is anchored to a vehicle floor in a longitudinally shiftable manner, and includes at least one swivelable holding bracket, for the detachable fastening of a child's seat, set upon the seat cushion, on the seat framework, which is swivelable from a covered, non-use position into a functional position, in which it is accessible, all the way through, between seat back upholstery and seat upholstery. For the creation of a vehicle seat, e.g., having electromotive seat adjustment for longitudinal seat adjustment, seat cushion vertical setting and seat cushion depth setting, in a longitudinal shifting position of the seat upholstery which is determined so that the seat upholstery is moved out of the swivel path of the holding bracket, the swivel motion of the holding bracket is derived from the vertical adjustment motion of the seat cushion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: Thomas Foelster, Thomas Heckmann, Marcus Scheu, Juergen Schrader, Peter Scott
-
Publication number: 20070102984Abstract: A headrest of a motor vehicle seat can be folded down into an inoperative position. The headrest has a headrest body and a headrest bracket which are mechanically connected in such a manner, via a bearing part having a sliding bearing and a pivot bearing that a vertical displacement and a pivoting about a horizontal pivot axis arranged perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle are achievable.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2004Publication date: May 10, 2007Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Christoph Kern, Oswald Kriessler, Bernd Schmidt, Juergen Schrader, Wolfgang Schramm
-
Publication number: 20060113809Abstract: A device for partitioning off a trunk space, in particular of a convertible, which has a folding top (11) which can be retracted below a trunk lid (12). The device includes a fixed partition element (10), which can be displaced by means of at least one lever between an upper position for loading the trunk space, and a lower position for putting the folding top away. The partition element (10) can be removed from the trunk space (13) without any tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2005Publication date: June 1, 2006Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Thomas Heckmann, Juergen Schrader
-
Patent number: 7036784Abstract: A device for holding a drink container, such as a cup, mug or bottle, of different diameters in the interior of a passenger car includes a coupling device, into which a bottle holder or cup holder can be inserted and removed therefrom, on the center console or on a seat. Other containers, such as a refuse container or tray can also be inserted into the coupling device.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2002Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Ralf Peitzmeier, Albert Reinhardt, Juergen Schrader
-
Publication number: 20060049678Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat for a motor vehicle, in which the seat cushion (2) and the seat back (3) are each provided with a plurality of pressurizable elements (4) which can be activated by a controller (5) to obtain different massage effects, the pressurizable elements (4) being cushion-like elements which are small in relation to the surface of the seat contour and can each be activated separately via lines (6) in order to change the seat contour in an essentially punctiform manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2003Publication date: March 9, 2006Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Christoph Kern, Oswald Kriessler, Vasillos Orizaris, Bernd Schmidt, Juergen Schrader, Werner Schwab
-
Patent number: 6936935Abstract: A switch arrangement for adjusting different positional parameters of a motor-vehicle seat, such as, for example, inclination of the backrest, inclination and depth of the cushion, inclination of the arm rests, etc, which can be operated in a particularly convenient and intuitively reliable manner. The switch arrangements relate the relative position of different parts of the motor-vehicle seat transversely to the longitudinal direction to the position of the control elements within a control panel. The switch arrangement can particularly advantageously be fitted at the hand-supporting end of an arm rest.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2001Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Emil Dinkel, Bernd Schmidt, Jürgen Schrader
-
Patent number: 6904995Abstract: An arrangement of operator controls in a vehicle which are arranged in a plurality of operator control arrays in such a way that only one of these operator control arrays is active in an actuation position and it is easily possible to change over between the groups. The operator control arrays are accommodated on a rotatable carrier element in the armrest of a vehicle seat.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Emil Dinkel, Bernd Schmidt, Juergen Schrader
-
Patent number: 6873892Abstract: A method for dynamic adaptation of the support, in particular the lateral support, of a person seated on a vehicle seat includes using an adaptation system, which is integrated in the vehicle seat, to determine the adaptation taking into account the current vehicle velocity. In order to compensate for the inherent inertia of the adaptation system, prediction of the adaptation is performed from stored data over the current road course, onto which data the current vehicle data are projected. The adaptation system is actuated taking into account the adaptation time inherent in the system in such a way that, when the event requiring the adaptation occurs, preferably when a bend is traveled through, at least one adaptation presetting is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2001Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Egon Katz, Klaus-Peter Kuhn, Juergen Schrader, Wolfram Schroeder
-
Patent number: 6851755Abstract: Padding for seats, in particular vehicle seats, has a padded body predetermining the contour of the padded surface, which can be changed. In order to adjust the padded surface contour to support the body of a seated person in an individual and orthopaedically correct manner, avoiding hardening of the padded surface which has an adverse effect on the seat comfort, the padded body is composed, at least in subregions, of a plurality of individual padded segments which are arranged next to one another and can be displaced relative to one another in the direction of the normal of the padded surface. Adjusting elements can displace the padded elements individually.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Emil Dinkel, Ewald Guenther, Juergen Schrader
-
Patent number: 6746076Abstract: A windbreak device is provided for an open motor vehicle, in whose passenger cell at least one vehicle seat having a backrest and associated head restraint is arranged. Air outflow openings of the air-distributing device are provided level with an upper region of the backrest in order to avoid undesirable draughts for the vehicle occupant. The air-distributing device is integrated in the backrest and is supported directly by the latter.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2001Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Axel Bogisch, Thomas Foelster, Vasilios Orizaris, Karl Pfahler, Juergen Schrader
-
Publication number: 20040031667Abstract: For an arrangement of operator controls in a vehicle it is proposed to arrange said operator controls in a plurality of operator control arrays in such a way that only one of these operator control arrays is active in an actuation position and it is easily possible to change over between the groups. It is particularly advantageous that the operator control arrays are accommodated on a rotatable carrier element in the armrest of a vehicle seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2003Publication date: February 19, 2004Inventors: Emil Dinkel, Bernd Schmidt, Juergen Schrader
-
Patent number: 6688669Abstract: A motor vehicle has a folding roof which can be opened and lowered into a rear storage space. Partitioning of the rear storage space into a folding-top space and a residual luggage space is provided by a separating arrangement which includes a dimensionally stable covering element that can be shifted vertically from a use position into a non-use position when the folding top is stored. The covering element extends over a rear sub-length of the separating arrangement and can be displaced forwards into the non-use position shortening the length of the separating arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Thomas Foelster, Juergen Schrader, Reiner Wesenick
-
Patent number: 6629718Abstract: A motor vehicle having a fixed roof is provided which can be opened and has a front and a rear roof part which are connected to each other in an articulated manner and, controlled by a main link arrangement, can be shifted between a closing position and a storage position in a rear storage space, having a fixed rear window which is mounted pivotably on lateral roof pillars and the pivot axis of which runs in the central region of the rear window in the transverse direction of the vehicle. The rear window is driven in a rotational manner relative to the roof pillars during the opening and closing movement of the fixed roof, and the rear window, after reaching the closing position of the fixed roof, is pressed via the rotational drive against a sealing seat interacting with the rear window.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2002Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Ulrich Bauer, Thomas Baessler, Michael Koch, Stefan Orth, Juergen Schrader
-
Patent number: 6604774Abstract: A cover device for a folding top compartment of a vehicle with a lowerable roof structure. It being possible to pivot the roof structure into the folding top compartment which is arranged behind a rear region in a back part of the vehicle bodywork and which can be closed with a folding top compartment lid. A cover unit closes, with a front cover part and a rear cover part, a free space which is formed between the closed folding top compartment lid and the rear region. The rear cover part is mounted in a pivotably adjustable fashion on the front cover part, and can be adjusted between an active position, in which the rear cover part closes a gap between the front cover part and the folding top compartment lid, and a passive position, in which the rear cover part clears the gap.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChysler AGInventors: Michael Koch, Juergen Schrader
-
Publication number: 20030071500Abstract: Padding for seats, in particular vehicle seats, has a padded body predetermining the contour of the padded surface, which can be changed. In order to adjust the padded surface contour to support the body of a seated person in an individual and orthopaedically correct manner, avoiding hardening of the padded surface which has an adverse effect on the seat comfort, the padded body is composed, at least in subregions, of a plurality of individual padded segments which are arranged next to one another and can be displaced relative to one another in the direction of the normal of the padded surface. Adjusting elements can displace the padded elements individually.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2002Publication date: April 17, 2003Inventors: Emil Dinkel, Ewald Guenther, Juergen Schrader