Patents by Inventor Marcel Rigorth

Marcel Rigorth 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: 8459603
    Abstract: A motor vehicle screen device having a screen that can be driven by a driving mechanism between an inactive position within a cavity of a dashboard and an approximately vertical active position outside the cavity and from the active position into the inactive position. The screen is provided with spaced-apart guiding elements which are guided within guides that run nearly horizontal, perpendicular to the movement path of the screen. The monitor can be driven such that the guiding elements thereof are movable within the guides. At least one of the guiding elements is locked at the active position end of the guide by a locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Baudisch, Klaus Karl, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Georg Nehm, Marcel Rigorth, Günter Urlaub
  • Patent number: 8454073
    Abstract: The invention relates to a closing screen device for closing an opening (3) by a cover in a motor vehicle component, including a drive mechanism through which a closing screen (5) can be drive-displaced from an uncovered opening position exposing the opening (3) to a closed position closing the opening (3), and in said closing position, the closing screen (5) is located flush to the edge area of the motor vehicle component which surrounds said closing screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Grandel, Georg Nehm, Marcel Rigorth, Günter Urlaub
  • Publication number: 20090272776
    Abstract: A motor vehicle screen device having a screen that can be driven by a driving mechanism between an inactive position within a cavity of a dashboard and an approximately vertical active position outside the cavity and from the active position into the inactive position. The screen is provided with spaced-apart guiding elements which are guided within guides that run nearly horizontal, perpendicular to the movement path of the screen. The monitor can be driven such that the guiding elements thereof are movable within the guides. At least one of the guiding elements is locked at the active position end of the guide by a locking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Baudisch, Klaus Karl, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Georg Nehm, Marcel Rigorth, Günter Urlaub
  • Publication number: 20090101453
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical brake (10), especially for vehicles, which comprises an electrical actuator (18) producing an actuation force and acting upon at least one friction member (21) in order to force said member against a component (21) of the brake to be slowed down, thereby eliciting a frictional force. The invention also comprises a self-energizing system arranged between the friction member (21) and the electrical actuator (18). Said system comprises a wedge arrangement (11) that serves to self-boost the actuation force produced by the electrical actuator (18). The aim of the invention is to simplify said system in terms of design and control technology. For this purpose, the actuator (18) has a single electric motor (24) and the actuation force produced by it is released via a spindle/nut arrangement (30) having a rotationally received, stationary spindle (26) and a rotationally fixed nut (28) that can axially travel on the spindle by rotating the spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Christian Baier-Welt, Monika Blendel, Lars Emmel, Stefan Pfeiffer, Hendrik Powileit, Marcel Rigorth, Mathias Wurges, Heinrich Zuber
  • Publication number: 20090090476
    Abstract: The invention relates to a closing screen device for closing an opening (3) by a cover in a motor vehicle component, including a drive mechanism through which a closing screen (5) can be drive-displaced from an uncovered opening position exposing the opening (3) to a closed position closing the opening (3), and in said closing position, the closing screen (5) is located flush to the edge area of the motor vehicle component which surrounds said closing screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Grandel, Georg Nehm, Marcel Rigorth, Gunter Uriaub
  • Patent number: 6955390
    Abstract: A servo drive for activating a tailgate of a motor vehicle has a drive, a sun wheel driven by the drive and rotatably mounted on a first axle, and a planetary wheel rotatably mounted on a second axle. The sun wheel engages with the planetary wheel. The first and second axles have ends, are movably arranged at their ends facing away from the drive in a common web, and are spaced apart from one another by a constant distance. The planetary wheel engages in a ring gear segment which is fixedly connected to a bodywork, and an end of the web, which faces the ring gear segment, is movably connected to a connecting rod through a third axle. An end of the connecting rod facing away from the third axle is movably connected, via a fourth axle, to an output element which is connected by an end facing away from the fourth axle to the tailgate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marcel Rigorth, Theo Baukholt
  • Publication number: 20050127711
    Abstract: A servo drive for activating a tailgate of a motor vehicle has a drive, a sun wheel driven by the drive and rotatably mounted on a first axle, and a planetary wheel rotatably mounted on a second axle. The sun wheel engages with the planetary wheel. The first and second axles have ends, are movably arranged at their ends facing away from the drive in a common web, and are spaced apart from one another by a constant distance. The planetary wheel engages in a ring gear segment which is fixedly connected to a bodywork, and an end of the web, which faces the ring gear segment, is movably connected to a connecting rod through a third axle. An end of the connecting rod facing away from the third axle is movably connected, via a fourth axle, to an output element which is connected by an end facing away from the fourth axle to the tailgate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Marcel Rigorth, Theo Baukholt
  • Publication number: 20050046290
    Abstract: The actuator comprises a housing which has a longitudinal axis Z and in which an electric motor having a pinion is arranged. The pinion is in engagement in each case with at least one first gearwheel of a planetary gear, the first gearwheel forming, in each case together with a second gearwheel arranged directly adjacent, a uniform double gearwheel. One or more double gearwheels are arranged here. The first gearwheels run in a first toothed ring, which is connected fixedly to the housing. The respective second gearwheels run in a rotatably mounted, second toothed ring, which is connected to the part which is to be driven, with the number of teeth of the first toothed ring not being identical to the number of teeth of the second toothed ring. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the actuator for actuating a parking brake in a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Applicant: SIEMENS AG
    Inventors: Theo Baukholt, Lars Emmel, Erhard Franz, Stefan Pfeiffer, Marcel Rigorth