Patents by Inventor Julien Richert

Julien Richert 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: 12337781
    Abstract: An occupant protection device of a vehicle includes a table that is assigned to a vehicle seat. The table is actively movable into an occupant protection position when a collision or a danger of a collision of the vehicle is recognized. In the occupant protection position, an upper body of an occupant of the vehicle seat is supported by the table against a displacement caused by a collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz Group AG
    Inventors: Jochen Feese, Claus Geisler, Julien Richert
  • Publication number: 20250170924
    Abstract: A protection device of a motor car includes a seat system which has a seat and a backrest. A seat belt is assigned to the seat. The seat belt has a belt webbing where a person sitting on the seat is restrainable by the belt webbing. A blocking device is switchable between a released state in which the blocking device allows movement of the belt webbing away from the backrest and a locked state in which the blocking device prevents movement of the belt webbing away from the backrest. The protection device is configured to switch the blocking device from the released state into the blocked state and to move the backrest backwards in a motor car longitudinal direction when an accident involving the motor car has been determined and when an actual position, deviating from a target position, of the person sitting on the seat has been determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventor: Julien RICHERT
  • Publication number: 20240286570
    Abstract: An occupant protection device of a vehicle includes a table that is assigned to a vehicle seat. The table is actively movable into an occupant protection position when a collision or a danger of a collision of the vehicle is recognized. In the occupant protection position, an upper body of an occupant of the vehicle seat is supported by the table against a displacement caused by a collision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jochen FEESE, Claus GEISLER, Julien RICHERT
  • Patent number: 11084444
    Abstract: A method for operating an airbag of an occupant protection device of a vehicle moveable in autonomous driving mode involves positioning the airbag in an active position depending on at least one trigger condition. The airbag is automatically positioned and/or aligned within a vehicle interior depending on a positioning of a vehicle seat assigned to the airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Julien Richert
  • Publication number: 20210024024
    Abstract: A method for operating an airbag of an occupant protection device of a vehicle moveable in autonomous driving mode involves positioning the airbag in an active position depending on at least one trigger condition. The airbag is automatically positioned and/or aligned within a vehicle interior depending on a positioning of a vehicle seat assigned to the airbag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: Julien RICHERT
  • Patent number: 9884644
    Abstract: When a vehicle passenger sitting on a vehicle seat or a body part of the vehicle passenger is moved away from a collision side of the vehicle by a passenger protection mechanism a reaction of a driver of the vehicle following the triggering of the passenger protection mechanism is monitored. If a steering movement implemented in an uncontrolled manner by the driver, resulting from an incorrect triggering of the passenger protection mechanism, is detected at least one intervention correcting the lane is implemented in such a way that the vehicle is guided back into its original lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Julien Richert
  • Publication number: 20160325783
    Abstract: When a vehicle passenger sitting on a vehicle seat or a body part of the vehicle passenger is moved away from a collision side of the vehicle by a passenger protection mechanism a reaction of a driver of the vehicle following the triggering of the passenger protection mechanism is monitored. If a steering movement implemented in an uncontrolled manner by the driver, resulting from an incorrect triggering of the passenger protection mechanism, is detected at least one intervention correcting the lane is implemented in such a way that the vehicle is guided back into its original lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Julien RICHERT
  • Publication number: 20160264088
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling at least one protective element arranged in a vehicle seat for positioning a passenger sitting on the vehicle seat, wherein the at least one protective element is triggered by control of an actuator in the case of a detected imminent collision of the vehicle. After non-detection of an imminent collision of the vehicle and of a subsequently detected occurred collision of the vehicle, the at least one protective element is triggered by control of the irreversibly executed actuator at or after a collision time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Edgar BIHLER, Ralf BOGENRIEDER, Julien RICHERT
  • Publication number: 20080290633
    Abstract: A passenger vehicle restraint system that is capable of being placed in different positions, consisting of an interior defined by a housing and at least one airbag, at least one gas generator for delivering gas to the interior in order to inflate the airbag, at least one controllable outlet provided on the housing which may be closed by a closing element, such that an internal pressure in the interior may be adjusted according to parameters relevant to passenger load during an accident. A restraint system, which is easy to construct and can be manufactured cost-effectively, is provided by an adjustable stop element limiting the opening movement of the closing element, which is coupled to the vehicle seat such that the stop element is displaced according to parameters relevant to passenger load, in order to adjust the outlet cross section defined by the closing element located in its closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Werner Bacher, Walter Eberle, Christian Goetz, Till Heinrich, Simon Kramer, Martin Lanzerath, Albert Reitinger, Julien Richert, Clark Ruedebusch, Matthias Struck