Patents by Inventor Lothar Teske

Lothar Teske 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: 8398138
    Abstract: A body part of a front frame of a motor vehicle has a structural component of plastic arranged in a frame part. The structural component is connected with a cage nut through material connection. Via the cage nut a front axle is screwed to the body part. A carrying part for holding the cage nut is welded to the frame part for this purpose and connected to the structural component via over molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Jürgen Hulbert, Lothar Teske, Lutz Uhlenbruch
  • Patent number: 8342596
    Abstract: A deformation element, a motor vehicle fender bracket with the deformation element, and a method for producing a deformation element are provided. The deformation element serves to receive external impulses introduced into the deformation element and includes, but is not limited to at least two sleeves that are displaceable relative to one another, and a spring-elastic pressure element that is supported in each case on the at least two sleeves that are displaceable relative to one another. In this case, it is provided that at least one of the sleeves has at least one embossing that forms a sliding surface for the other sleeve. The at least one embossing is preferably introduced by electromagnetic pulse forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Lothar Teske, Viet-Hung Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20120261951
    Abstract: A bearing structure arrangement of a motor vehicle body is provided with a side panel structure adjoining a bulkhead, and a linking component secured thereto for accommodating a frame rail section located upstream from the side panel structure in the traveling direction. The linking component facing the frame carrier section includes, but is not limited to an attachment profile corresponding with the profile cross section of the frame rail section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Lothar TESKE
  • Patent number: 8220864
    Abstract: A front structure for a motor vehicle has a front wall with a stiffening element formed at least partially of plastic situated in a crossbeam on the lower half of the front wall. The stiffening element is enclosed between a bulkhead plate coupled to a front frame and the front wall which provides a high level of rigidity of the crossbeam. The front structure additionally has reduced weight due to the plastic stiffening element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Lothar Teske, Thomas Enderich
  • Publication number: 20120126553
    Abstract: A bumper cross member for a motor vehicle includes, but is not limited to a first chamber located in driving direction at the front and a second chamber located in driving direction behind the first chamber. The first and the second chamber are embodied as hollow sheet metal profiles and the first chamber has a higher deformability than the second chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Lothar TESKE
  • Patent number: 8113572
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle body, plates of a rocker panel reinforcement situated inside a rocker panel are led up to a terminus part manufactured from plastic. A front wall of the terminus part is led up almost to a tire envelope curve. In the event of a crash of the motor vehicle, occurring forces are introduced particularly early into the plates of the rocker panel reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Thomas Enderich, Lothar Teske
  • Publication number: 20110277273
    Abstract: A hinge part is provided for the hinge of a flap, engine bonnet or boot lid of a motor vehicle. Provision is made that the hinge part has at least one section embodied in a hybrid construction, which is constructed as an open profile and the opening of which is closed at least partially by at least one cover part. A hinge is also provided for a flap, engine bonnet or boot lid of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Lothar TESKE, Joachim LIEBERS
  • Publication number: 20110133512
    Abstract: A deformation element, a motor vehicle fender bracket with the deformation element, and a method for producing a deformation element are provided. The deformation element serves to receive external impulses introduced into the deformation element and includes, but is not limited to at least two sleeves that are displaceable relative to one another, and a spring-elastic pressure element that is supported in each case on the at least two sleeves that are displaceable relative to one another. In this case, it is provided that at least one of the sleeves has at least one embossing that forms a sliding surface for the other sleeve. The at least one embossing is preferably introduced by electromagnetic pulse forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Lothar TESKE, Viet-Hung NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20110006561
    Abstract: A body part of a front frame of a motor vehicle has a structural component of plastic arranged in a frame part. The structural component is connected with a cage nut through material connection. Via the cage nut a front axle is screwed to the body part. A carrying part for holding the cage nut is welded to the frame part for this purpose and connected to the structural component via over molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Jürgen HULBERT, Lothar TESKE, Lutz UHLENBRUCH
  • Publication number: 20100327630
    Abstract: A side structure of a vehicle is provided with a side part outer frame. The side part outer frame includes, but is not limited to a front pillar and a center pillar with mounting connections for door hinges. The side part outer frame includes, but is not limited to the outer structure starting from a windshield to including a rear fender region and is a one-piece and stable construction and has a greater material thickness than a side part outer skin of a conventional side structure. One of the two pillars or both pillars comprise a reinforcement structure that is fixed within the side part outer frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Stanislaw KLIMEK, Lothar TESKE, Gunther HEIM
  • Publication number: 20100140981
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle body, plates of a rocker panel reinforcement situated inside a rocker panel are led up to a terminus part manufactured from plastic. A front wall of the terminus part is led up almost to a tire envelope curve. In the event of a crash of the motor vehicle, occurring forces are introduced particularly early into the plates of the rocker panel reinforcement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Thomas ENDERICH, Lothar TESKE
  • Publication number: 20100109383
    Abstract: A front structure for a motor vehicle has a stiffening element situated in a crossbeam. The stiffening element is enclosed by a bulkhead plate and a front wall and ensures a high level of rigidity of the crossbeam. The front structure additionally has a low weight in this case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Lothar TESKE, Thomas ENDERICH
  • Publication number: 20090152896
    Abstract: A reinforcement module is provided for a motor vehicle body. It may be brought into contact on a body part and fastened thereto. The cited body part having multiple fastening points for motor vehicle components to be mounted. In the reinforcement module, at least one fastener fastened or integrated on or partially in the reinforcement module is assigned to each fastening point of the body part for fastening the door panel module to the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Enderich, Stanislaw Klimek, Lothar Teske
  • Patent number: 4921089
    Abstract: A conveyor is used in combination with a supply of bulk material having an outlet of a predetermined relatively great transverse width to move the material from the outlet to an output location longitudinally and horizontally offset from the outlet in a transport direction. This conveyor has a trough itself having an intake of generally the large transverse width and opening upward at the outlet of the supply for receiving bulk material therefrom, a base extending in the direction, and a pair of side walls extending upward from the base and also extending in the direction. The side walls flare upward away from each other at least at the intake and have upper edges spaced transversely apart at the intake by the transverse width and lower edges spaced transversely apart generally along the full length of the trough by a relatively small transverse width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Inventor: Lothar Teske
  • Patent number: 4911558
    Abstract: The screw conveyor has at least one feed and mixing screw having a plurality of vanes extending radially from a shaft arranged in at least one series like a coil or spiral. In particular, the screw conveyor can have at least two substantially equal motorized feed and mixing screws rotating in opposite rotational directions and positioned substantially parallel with each other in a common trough. The screws are located beside each other spaced so that the vanes of one screw engage in the gaps between the vanes of the neighboring screw. To maintain at least as thorough a mixing of bulk materials as was the case heretofore while achieving a reduction in the structural length of the screw conveyor the screws are each provided with more than one helical flight of vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Inventor: Lothar Teske
  • Patent number: 4807740
    Abstract: A conveyor is used in combination with a supply of bulk material having an outlet of a predetermined relatively great transverse width to move the material from the outlet to an output location longitudinally and horizontally offset from the outlet in a transport direction. This conveyor has a trough itself having an intake of generally the large transverse width and opening upward at the outlet of the supply for receiving bulk material therefrom, a base extending in the direction, and a pair of side walls extending upward from the base and also extending in the direction. The side walls flare upward away from each other at least at the intake and have upper edges spaced transversely apart at the intake by the transverse width and lower edges spaced transversely apart generally along the full length of the trough by a relatively small transverse width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Inventor: Lothar Teske
  • Patent number: 4770110
    Abstract: A conveyor used in combination with an incinerator that burns refuse into residue including hard objects has a trough having a lower upstream portion underneath the incinerator and positioned to receive the residue therefrom and an upper downstream portion spaced therefrom in a longitudinal transport direction. A body of quenching liquid fills at least the downstream portion of the trough to a liquid level. Respective upstream and downstream wheels at the upstream and downstream ends of the trough rotatable about generally parallel and horizontal axes transverse of the trough and direction support a chain formed of a succession of linked-together plates and having catenary-like upper and lower sketches both of which are in the upstream portion below the liquid level. Thus residue issuing from the incinerator falls into the liquid, is quenched, and lands on the upper chain stretch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Inventor: Lothar Teske
  • Patent number: 4705443
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding a combustor with viscous bulk material, particularly coal slurry, comprises two silos which are associated with at least one conveyor system, for transporting the bulk material from the silos to a plurality of fuel-feeders in the combustor. Advantageously, two conveyor systems are linked with each other so that bulk material can be distributed uniformly either from both silos or from one of the silos to all the fuel-feeders of the combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Inventor: Lothar Teske
  • Patent number: 4496272
    Abstract: An unloading apparatus comprises a housing vertically spaced from the port in the bin containing the material to be unloaded, a shaft defining and rotatable about an upright axis generally at the port, at least one arm extending at least generally radially from the shaft and being sweepable through the material and over the port on rotation of the shaft, a toothed drive wheel centered on the axis and fixed on the shaft, and first and second pairs of actuators each having an outer end pivoted on the housing and an inner end constituted as a pusher engageable tangentially with the teeth of the wheel. These actuators are generally angularly equispaced around the axis and the actuators of the first pair alternate with those of the second pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Inventor: Lothar Teske
  • Patent number: 4492508
    Abstract: A bulk-storage apparatus has a large hopper adapted to hold a large supply of bulk material and having a floor formed with a central outlet opening centered on a vertical axis and a side wall extending upward from the floor. An upwardly tapered hood generally centered on the axis and open downwardly toward the opening has a lower edge vertically spaced from the floor around the opening. A drive supported in the hood has a rotary output projecting down into the space between the floor and the lower edge above the opening and carries an arm sweepable over the floor around the opening by the drive. The hood is supported in the hopper on at least one tubular traverse having an inner end secured to and opening into the hood and an outer end secured to and opening outside the hopper. This traverse is of a cross-sectional size big enough that a man can crawl between outside the hopper and inside the hood along the traverse. An openable cover closes the traverse between its ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Inventor: Lothar Teske