Patents by Inventor Mathias Busch
Mathias Busch 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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Publication number: 20240111018Abstract: A radar sensor comprises a radar transmit and receive unit configured to transmit radar waves to an external environment of the vehicle and to receive radar waves from the external environment of the vehicle, and an interface unit attached to the radar transmit and receive unit. One or more design and/or material parameters of the interface unit are adjusted to fit a predetermined installation position at the vehicle with respect to desired characteristics of the transmitted and received radar waves. A corresponding method for integrating a radar sensor in a vehicle is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Aptiv Technologies LimitedInventors: Dennis VOLLBRACHT, Mathias BUSCH, Jairo Escudero TORRES
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Patent number: 11691546Abstract: A seat assembly having a seat back and a mounting bracket assembly. The seat back may have a pivot pin that may be rotatable about an axis. The mounting bracket assembly may be adapted to be mounted to a vehicle and may have a hole that may receive a bushing. The bushing may receive the pivot pin.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Gregory Pistilli, Florian Gerbl, Alexej Niederhaus, Mathias Busch, Tino Schneider, Rajdeep Rajput, Michael Schuhbauer, Arunkumar Boda
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Patent number: 11623552Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly is provided with a seatback frame adapted to be mounted to a vehicle interior. The seatback frame has a front region facing a forward direction, and a rear region. A first bracket is mounted to the front region of the seatback frame. A second bracket is mounted to the first bracket and the rear region of the seatback frame. At least one head restraint post is mounted to the first bracket or the second bracket and spaced apart from the seatback frame so that upon a rear vehicle impact, the second bracket deforms as the at least one head restraint post is translated toward the seatback frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Gregory Pistilli, Florian Gerbl, Marvin Kokott, Tino Schneider, Rajdeep Rajput, Gopal Gangurde, Michael Schuhbauer, Alexej Niederhaus, Arunkumar Boda, Mathias Busch
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Publication number: 20230045388Abstract: A radar antenna assembly for a vehicle includes a feed horn configured to transmit and/or receive radar signals and a metallic component of the vehicle. The metallic component of the vehicle includes a curved or faceted surface portion, and the feed horn is positioned such that the curved or faceted surface portion forms a reflector for the feed horn.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Dennis Vollbracht, Mathias Busch
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Publication number: 20230039021Abstract: Disclosed are aspects of a radar system for a vehicle that includes a first radar antenna assembly connected to at least one radar transmitter for transmitting radar signals into a traffic space and a second radar antenna assembly connected to at least one radar receiver for receiving radar signals reflected by objects present in the traffic space. The first radar antenna assembly is spaced apart from the second radar antenna assembly. The at least one radar transmitter is coupled to the at least one radar receiver by a synchronization line for a bistatic radar operation of the radar system. Further, at least one of the first radar antenna assembly or the second radar antenna assembly includes a feed horn and a reflector for the feed horn.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Dennis Vollbracht, Mathias Busch
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Publication number: 20230037906Abstract: Disclosed are aspects of a radar system for a vehicle that includes a radar circuit for generating and processing radar signals, wherein the radar circuit includes a ground plane connector for an electrical connection with an antenna ground plane. The radar system also includes a radar antenna assembly for transmitting radar signals into a traffic space and for receiving radar signals reflected by objects present in the traffic space. The radar system further includes a component of the vehicle. The ground plane connector is electrically connected to the component of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Dennis Vollbracht, Mathias Busch
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Publication number: 20220185160Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly is provided with a seatback frame adapted to be mounted to a vehicle interior. The seatback frame has a front region facing a forward direction, and a rear region. A first bracket is mounted to the front region of the seatback frame. A second bracket is mounted to the first bracket and the rear region of the seatback frame. At least one head restraint post is mounted to the first bracket or the second bracket and spaced apart from the seatback frame so that upon a rear vehicle impact, the second bracket deforms as the at least one head restraint post is translated toward the seatback frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Gregory PISTILLI, Florian GERBL, Marvin KOKOTT, Tino SCHNEIDER, Rajdeep RAJPUT, Gopal GANGURDE, Michael SCHUHBAUER, Alexej NIEDERHAUS, Arunkumar BODA, Mathias BUSCH
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Patent number: 11318872Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly is provided with a seat back frame. A bracket is provided with a substrate welded to the seat back frame. Two pairs of sidewalls extend from the substrate and are tapered with an enlarged region at an upper distal end. A pair of support plates are each supported by one of the two pairs of sidewalls and spaced apart from the substrate to provide a mounting surface. A pair of spaced apart tubes are each welded to the bracket mounting surface of one of the pair of support plates. A pair of head restraint posts are each received in one of the pair of tubes. A head restraint is supported upon the pair of head restraint posts, so that upon a rear vehicle impact, the bracket deforms as the pair of head restraint posts are translated toward the seat back frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Gregory Pistilli, Florian Gerbl, Mathias Busch, Alexej Niederhaus, Michael Schuhbauer, Arunkumar Boda, Tino Schneider, Rajdeep Rajput
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Patent number: 11292374Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly is provided with a seat back frame with an upper crossbar. A deformable member is welded to the seat back frame. A pair of tubes is welded to the deformable member. A pair of head restraint posts are each received in one of the pair of tubes to support a head restraint. A pair of spaced apart limit bracket bases is welded to the upper crossbar and extend away from the seat back frame to support a pair of limit bracket contact portions. A pair of contact target plates are each welded to one of the pair of tubes, spaced apart from and aligned with one of the pair of limit bracket contact portions so that the deformable member deforms under a rear vehicle impact until the contact target plates contact the contact portions of the limit brackets.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Mathias Busch, Florian Gerbl, Tino Schneider, Gregory Pistilli, Alexej Niederhaus, Rajdeep Rajput, Michael Schuhbauer, Arunkumar Boda
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Patent number: 11110828Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly, a biasing mechanism, and a method of installing a vehicle seat assembly are provided. A first end region of a torsion spring is for fixed connection to a vehicle frame bracket mount such that the seat back rotates relative to the first end region of the spring about a transverse axis. A second end region of the torsion spring is offset from the transverse axis. A support bracket is connected to the seat back, with the intermediate region of the torsion spring supported for rotation by the support bracket. A block supported by the support bracket and offset from the transverse axis, with the block contacting the second end region of the torsion spring to bias the spring when the seat back is in a first, use position.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Gregory Pistilli, Florian Gerbl, Alexej Niederhaus, Mathias Busch, Tino Schneider, Rajdeep Rajput, Michael Schuhbauer, Arunkumar Boda
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Publication number: 20210188142Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly is provided with a seat back frame with an upper crossbar. A deformable member is welded to the seat back frame. A pair of tubes is welded to the deformable member. A pair of head restraint posts are each received in one of the pair of tubes to support a head restraint. A pair of spaced apart limit bracket bases is welded to the upper crossbar and extend away from the seat back frame to support a pair of limit bracket contact portions. A pair of contact target plates are each welded to one of the pair of tubes, spaced apart from and aligned with one of the pair of limit bracket contact portions so that the deformable member deforms under a rear vehicle impact until the contact target plates contact the contact portions of the limit brackets.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Mathias Busch, Florian Gerbl, Tino Schneider, Gregory Pistilli, Alexej Niederhaus, Rajdeep Rajput, Michael Schuhbauer, Arunkumar Boda
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Publication number: 20210188143Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly is provided with a seat back frame. A bracket is provided with a substrate welded to the seat back frame. Two pairs of sidewalls extend from the substrate and are tapered with an enlarged region at an upper distal end. A pair of support plates are each supported by one of the two pairs of sidewalls and spaced apart from the substrate to provide a mounting surface. A pair of spaced apart tubes are each welded to the bracket mounting surface of one of the pair of support plates. A pair of head restraint posts are each received in one of the pair of tubes. A head restraint is supported upon the pair of head restraint posts, so that upon a rear vehicle impact, the bracket deforms as the pair of head restraint posts are translated toward the seat back frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Gregory PISTILLI, Florian GERBL, Mathias BUSCH, Alexej NIEDERHAUS, Michael SCHUHBAUER, Arunkumar BODA, Tino SCHNEIDER, Rajdeep RAJPUT
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Publication number: 20210129727Abstract: A hinge assembly for integration into a seat release system includes a pivot stud having a shaft section and a first head section and an outer hinge component attached to the first head section of the pivot stud. The shaft section is adapted to be connected to a spring element of the pivot stud. The first head section has a rounded star-shaped cross-section with three or more protrusions converging in a direction outward from a center of the rounded star-shaped cross-section with at least one flat-ended protrusion. The outer hinge component defines a top wall and a sidewall. The top wall is adapted to be attached to a vehicle body structural component. Characteristically, the sidewall defines an opening into which the first head section of the pivot stud is positioned. A vehicle seat release system incorporating the hinge assembly is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Gregory PISTILLI, Florian GERBL, Alexej NIEDERHAUS, Mathias BUSCH, Tino SCHNEIDER, Rajdeep RAJPUT, Michael SCHUHBAUER, Arunkumar BODA
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Publication number: 20210095735Abstract: A bushing having a bearing wall that extends partially around an axis. The bearing wall may include a first end surface, a second end surface, and an inner side that may extend from the first end surface to the second end surface. The inner side may define the bushing opening having an elliptical configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Gregory Pistilli, Florian Gerbl, Alexej Niederhaus, Mathias Busch, Tino Schneider, Rajdeep Rajput, Michael Schuhbauer, Arunkumar Boda
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Publication number: 20210094449Abstract: A seat assembly having a seat back and a mounting bracket assembly. The seat back may have a pivot pin that may be rotatable about an axis. The mounting bracket assembly may be adapted to be mounted to a vehicle and may have a hole that may receive a bushing. The bushing may receive the pivot pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Gregory Pistilli, Florian Gerbl, Alexej Niederhaus, Mathias Busch, Tino Schneider, Rajdeep Rajput, Michael Schuhbauer, Arunkumar Boda
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Publication number: 20210061141Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly, a biasing mechanism, and a method of installing a vehicle seat assembly are provided. A first end region of a torsion spring is for fixed connection to a vehicle frame bracket mount such that the seat back rotates relative to the first end region of the spring about a transverse axis. A second end region of the torsion spring is offset from the transverse axis. A support bracket is connected to the seat back, with the intermediate region of the torsion spring supported for rotation by the support bracket. A block supported by the support bracket and offset from the transverse axis, with the block contacting the second end region of the torsion spring to bias the spring when the seat back is in a first, use position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Gregory PISTILLI, Florian GERBL, Alexej NIEDERHAUS, Mathias BUSCH, Tino SCHNEIDER, Rajdeep RAJPUT, Michael SCHUHBAUER, Arunkumar BODA
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Patent number: 10632918Abstract: A method for determining a location of a vehicle feature of a vehicle relative to an environmental feature located in an environmental zone of the vehicle feature includes: arranging a camera at the vehicle with a fixed orientation relative to the vehicle such that the vehicle feature and an environmental zone of the vehicle feature are disposed in the field of view of the camera; generating an index in the environmental zone of the vehicle feature for determining the location of the vehicle feature relative to an environmental feature located in the environmental zone; taking a measurement image that includes the vehicle feature, the index and an environmental feature located in the environmental zone of the vehicle feature; and determining the location of the vehicle feature relative to the environmental feature with reference to the position of the environmental feature relative to the index in the measurement image.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Aptiv Technologies LimitedInventors: Volker S. Kalms, Mathias Busch, Peter Egbert, Wolfgang Vorwerk
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Publication number: 20190111846Abstract: A method for determining a location of a vehicle feature of a vehicle relative to an environmental feature located in an environmental zone of the vehicle feature includes: arranging a camera at the vehicle with a fixed orientation relative to the vehicle such that the vehicle feature and an environmental zone of the vehicle feature are disposed in the field of view of the camera; generating an index in the environmental zone of the vehicle feature for determining the location of the vehicle feature relative to an environmental feature located in the environmental zone; taking a measurement image that includes the vehicle feature, the index and an environmental feature located in the environmental zone of the vehicle feature; and determining the location of the vehicle feature relative to the environmental feature with reference to the position of the environmental feature relative to the index in the measurement image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Volker S. Kalms, Mathias Busch, Peter Egbert, Wolfgang Vorwerk
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Patent number: 10207644Abstract: A method for determining a location of a vehicle feature of a vehicle relative to an environmental feature located in an environmental zone of the vehicle feature includes: arranging a camera at the vehicle with a fixed orientation relative to the vehicle such that the vehicle feature and an environmental zone of the vehicle feature are disposed in the field of view of the camera; generating an index in the environmental zone of the vehicle feature for determining the location of the vehicle feature relative to an environmental feature located in the environmental zone; taking a measurement image that includes the vehicle feature, the index and an environmental feature located in the environmental zone of the vehicle feature; and determining the location of the vehicle feature relative to the environmental feature with reference to the position of the environmental feature relative to the index in the measurement image.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Aptiv Technologies LimitedInventors: Volker S. Kalms, Mathias Busch, Peter Egbert, Wolfgang Vorwerk
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Publication number: 20160207461Abstract: A method for determining a location of a vehicle feature of a vehicle relative to an environmental feature located in an environmental zone of the vehicle feature includes: arranging a camera at the vehicle with a fixed orientation relative to the vehicle such that the vehicle feature and an environmental zone of the vehicle feature are disposed in the field of view of the camera; generating an index in the environmental zone of the vehicle feature for determining the location of the vehicle feature relative to an environmental feature located in the environmental zone; taking a measurement image that includes the vehicle feature, the index and an environmental feature located in the environmental zone of the vehicle feature; and determining the location of the vehicle feature relative to the environmental feature with reference to the position of the environmental feature relative to the index in the measurement image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2016Publication date: July 21, 2016Inventors: Volker S. Kalms, Mathias Busch, Peter Egbert, Wolfgang Vorwerk