Patents by Inventor Karl Pfahler
Karl Pfahler 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: 6786545Abstract: A wind protection device for an open motor vehicle includes a passenger cell that has at least one car seat with a backrest. There is on a level with the top area of the backrest at least one air outflow opening of an air supply system. Thereby, the head, shoulder and neck area of the seat occupant is impinged on with an air stream that can be regulated to avoid an undesired air draft. The air supply system has at least one sensor to measure a parameter value, whereby the air stream, issuing from the air outflow opening, is regulated as a function of the parameter value by way of a regulating unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2001Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Claudio Bargheer, Peter Nordberg, Vasilios Orizaris, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner
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Patent number: 6761399Abstract: In a motor vehicle seat for an open motor vehicle, with an air supply device integrated in its backrest and/or head restraint, the device including an air outlet duct having an outlet opening arranged on the front side of the head restraint, for supplying the head, neck and shoulder region of the vehicle occupant with hot air, and an air inlet duct having an inlet opening, with a heating element being assigned to the air supply device. The inlet opening of the air supply device is arranged on the rear side of the backrest or of the head restraint and approximately level with or above a rear end wall edge of the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Claudio Bargheer, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner
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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
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Patent number: 6682140Abstract: In a motor vehicle seat having a backrest, the padding of which includes a ventilation layer through which air can flow with the aid of a fan of a ventilation device, the backrest provided on its rear side with a soft trim part from which at least one air inlet opening for the ventilation device has been left open. The air inlet opening is arranged in the upper region of the soft trim part of the backrest and in the region of overlap with the associated fan of the ventilation device, the air inlet opening covered by a covering arranged on the soft trim part.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Karl-Heinz Minuth, Karl Pfahler
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Publication number: 20030230913Abstract: A motor vehicle seat includes padding which is assigned to a backrest or a seat cushion and includes a lower padding part, a ventilation layer which rests on the lower padding part and through which air may flow, and an air-permeable, upper padding layer arranged above the latter, the padding covered by upholstery and provided with stitching along which the upholstery is connected to the upper padding layer via fastening device(s), and the ventilation layer extending into side parts of the padding and having a virtually unchanged thickness in the region of the stitching.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2003Publication date: December 18, 2003Inventors: Henning Buss, Karl-Heinz Minuth, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner
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Patent number: 6644735Abstract: An automobile seat for a convertible motor vehicle has a seat back with an appropriate headrest. At least one air outflow opening of an air supply system is arranged in an upper area of the seat back in order to reduce undesirable drafts. At least one additional air outflow opening of the air supply system is provided in the seat surface facing the seat occupant for seat ventilation and/or seat heating purposes.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2001Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Claudio Bargheer, Peter Nordberg, Vasilios Orizaris, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner
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Patent number: 6629725Abstract: A seat part for a vehicle seat having a seat cushion which is covered over by an air-permeable cushion cover, can be actively ventilated and on the top surface of which there are formed, by stitched-down seams, a central and a front level seat surface and two border beads which bound the level seat surfaces laterally. The seat having a heating mat which is arranged between the seat cushion and cushion cover and belongs to an electric seat heater. In order to ensure that the seat cushion has good through-ventilation and is dimensionally stable over a long period of time, the heating mat is perforated, and the perforations of the heating mat are designed to be considerably sparser in the region of the central level seat surface than in the region of the front level seat surface and the border beads.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2000Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Joachim Kunkel, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner
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Patent number: 6626488Abstract: A cushion for a motor vehicle seat includes a layer of ventilation fabric, through which air can flow, and miniature fans integrated into the cushion to blow air into the ventilation layer. The air is received in sleeves installed in ventilation channels which penetrate the cushion from a cushion bottom side and extend to an upper side of the ventilation layer. To achieve adequate cushion ventilation with low fan noise even when using thin fabric ventilation layers made of relatively hard material, the sleeves are closed on their upper end with a flange and are provided directly below the flange with oblong holes which extend in the circumferential direction and have a width measured in the axial direction which is equal to or less than the thickness of the layer of fabric.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2001Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventor: Karl Pfahler
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Patent number: 6619737Abstract: A seat module intended for a vehicle seat is designed as a seat cushion or backrest and can be actively ventilated. The seat module includes a cushion which has a lower foam layer impermeable to air, a central air-guiding layer made from a knitted fabric, and an air-permeable upper foam layer. The cushion is covered with a cushion cover and is divided by tacking into a face area and two side areas, which extend in the longitudinal direction. A cushion carrier accommodates the cushion. To improve the quality of the module for sitting comfort and long-term stability while achieving low manufacturing costs, the air-guiding layer rests on the lower foam layer in the face area of the cushion and directly on the cushion carrier in the side area of the cushion.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2001Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Joachim Kunkel, Karl Pfahler
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Publication number: 20030160479Abstract: In a motor vehicle seat having a backrest, the padding of which includes a ventilation layer through which air can flow with the aid of a fan of a ventilation device, the backrest provided on its rear side with a soft trim part from which at least one air inlet opening for the ventilation device has been left open.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: Karl-Heinz Minuth, Karl Pfahler
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Patent number: 6604785Abstract: A motor vehicle seat for an open-top motor vehicle has a seat cushion part and a backrest which is provided with a pertaining headrest. In an upper area of the backrest, for reducing undesirable draft phenomena for a seat occupant, at least one air outflow device which has an assigned air outflow nozzle of an air supply device is arranged. The air outflow device is vertically adjustable with respect to the backrest and can be secured in an adjusted vertical position.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Claudio Bargheer, Peter Nordberg, Vasilios Orizaris, Karl Pfahler, Lother Renner
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Publication number: 20030132650Abstract: In a motor vehicle seat for an open motor vehicle, with an air supply device integrated in its backrest and/or head restraint, the device including an air outlet duct having an outlet opening arranged on the front side of the head restraint, for supplying the head, neck and shoulder region of the vehicle occupant with hot air, and an air inlet duct having an inlet opening, with a heating element being assigned to the air supply device. The inlet opening of the air supply device is arranged on the rear side of the backrest or of the head restraint and approximately level with or above a rear end wall edge of the motor vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2002Publication date: July 17, 2003Inventors: Claudio Bargheer, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner
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Patent number: 6541737Abstract: A temperature detector for an air-conditioned vehicle seat with seat heating and/or seat ventilation is disclosed. To ensure accurate temperature measurement for regulation purposes close to the surface of the seat cushion while eliminating purely local temperature peaks, the temperature detector is provided with a flat, extended heat absorption surface, which is preferably formed by a thin, flexible layer of good thermal conductivity in which a temperature sensor in button or disc form is firmly embedded.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1999Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Harun Eksin, Johannes Hummel, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner
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Publication number: 20020067058Abstract: A cushion for a motor vehicle seat which includes a layer of ventilation fabric, through which air can flow, and miniature fans integrated into the cushion to blow air into the ventilation layer. The air is received in sleeves installed in ventilation channels which penetrate the cushion from a cushion bottom side and extend to an upper side of the ventilation layer. To achieve adequate cushion ventilation with low fan noise even when using thin fabric ventilation layers made of relatively hard material, the sleeves are closed on their upper end with a flange and are provided directly below the flange with oblong holes which extend in the circumferential direction and have a width measured in the axial direction which is equal to or less than the thickness of the layer of fabric.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2001Publication date: June 6, 2002Applicant: Daimler Chrysler AG.Inventor: Karl Pfahler
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Publication number: 20020063451Abstract: An automobile seat for a convertible motor vehicle has a seat back with an appropriate headrest. At least one air outflow opening of an air supply system is arranged in an upper area of the seat back in order to reduce undesirable drafts. At least one additional air outflow opening of the air supply system is provided in the seat surface facing the seat occupant for seat ventilation and/or seat heating purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2001Publication date: May 30, 2002Inventors: Claudio Bargheer, Peter Nordberg, Vasilios Orizaris, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner
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Publication number: 20020057005Abstract: A wind protection device for an open motor vehicle includes a passenger cell that has at least one car seat with a backrest. There is on a level with the top area of the backrest at least one air outflow opening of an air supply system. Thereby, the head, shoulder and neck area of the seat occupant is impinged on with an air stream that can be regulated to avoid an undesired air draft. The air supply system has at least one sensor to measure a parameter value, whereby the air stream, issuing from the air outflow opening, is regulated as a function of the parameter value by way of a regulating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: Claudio Bargheer, Peter Nordberg, Vasilios Orizaris, Karl Pfahler, Lothar Renner
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Publication number: 20020057006Abstract: A motor vehicle seat for an open-top motor vehicle has a seat cushion part and a backrest which is provided with a pertaining headrest. In an upper area of the backrest, for reducing undesirable draft phenomena for a seat occupant, at least one air outflow device which has an assigned air outflow nozzle of an air supply device is arranged. The air outflow device is vertically adjustable with respect to the backrest and can be secured in an adjusted vertical position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: Claudio Bargheer, Peter Nordberg, Vasilios Orizaris, Karl Pfahler, Lother Renner
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Publication number: 20020041116Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2001Publication date: April 11, 2002Inventors: Axel Bogisch, Thomas Foelster, Vasilios Orizaris, Karl Pfahler, Juergen Schrader
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Publication number: 20020003363Abstract: A seat module is designed as a seat cushion or backrest and can be actively ventilated. The seat module includes a cushion, which has a cushion pad impermeable to air and an upholstered zone that extends over the latter and through which air can be made to flow and which is covered by an air-permeable cushion cover. A cushion carrier accommodates the cushion. To improve the quality of the module as regards sitting comfort and long-term stability combined with low manufacturing costs, the upholstered zone through which air can be made to flow is composed of three layers and in the manner of a sandwich of two rubberized hair layers and a knitted layer of coarse-mesh knitted spacing fabric in between the hair layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Inventors: Henning Buss, Joachim Kunkel, Karl Pfahler
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Publication number: 20020003362Abstract: A seat module intended for a vehicle seat is designed as a seat cushion or backrest and can be actively ventilated. The seat module includes a cushion which has a lower foam layer impermeable to air, a central air-guiding layer made from a knitted fabric, and an air-permeable upper foam layer. The cushion is covered with a cushion cover and is divided by tacking into a face area and two side areas, which extend in the longitudinal direction. A cushion carrier accommodates the cushion. To improve the quality of the module as regards sitting comfort and long-term stability while achieving low manufacturing costs, the air-guiding layer rests on the lower foam layer in the face area of the cushion and directly on the cushion carrier in the side area of the cushion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Inventors: Joachim Kunkel, Karl Pfahler