Patents by Inventor Melanie SINDEL

Melanie SINDEL 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).

  • Publication number: 20240170798
    Abstract: Disclosed is a valve apparatus, in particular for a battery housing of an electric vehicle, is provided. It includes a base body formed from a soft component and having a first sealing portion for sealing against a first component and a connecting-sealing portion for sealing and connecting to a second component, and wherein the base body bounds a passageway and includes a covering side and a connecting side, a valve element, wherein the valve element is arranged in the region of the passageway of the base body, and a securing element formed from a hard component and having a latch portion, wherein, in a final assembly position, the latch portion is received in the base body so as to limit at least a movement of the connecting-sealing portion of the base body radially inwards in order to thereby secure the final assembly position of the valve apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Melanie SINDEL, Jan MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20240093799
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus, in particular a valve apparatus, for sealingly connecting to an opening of a carrier component. The apparatus includes a base body made of a hard component for the connection to an edge of a carrier component delimiting an opening, and a sealing device made of a soft component. The base body comprises at least one connection passageway configured as an undercut for the form-fit connection to a correspondingly configured element of the soft component, and a lid element for covering the connecting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Melanie SINDEL, Jan MÜLLER, Manuel KELLNER
  • Patent number: 11897400
    Abstract: A carrier apparatus (mount) for fastening a water-collecting strip to an A-pillar of a motor vehicle includes a fastening wall having a fastening side and a receiving side, wherein at least one catching device is arranged on the fastening side of the fastening wall for connecting with the A-pillar, which catching device extends in an approximately orthogonal direction from the fastening side, and wherein the catching device is formed for insertion and rearward catching in a through-opening of the A-pillar, and a catching element device arranged opposite the receiving side having at least one catching element for releasably fixing a water-collecting strip in a receiving region, wherein the receiving region is formed between the receiving side of the fastening wall and the catching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Melanie Sindel, Jan Müller, Albert Sbongk
  • Publication number: 20230375027
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fastening apparatus for fastening a component to a carrier component. The fastening apparatus includes a bushing device having a bushing portion that delimits a receiving space for receiving a pin device, and a pin device having a pin portion, wherein the bushing device and the pin device are formed from a first plastic component. An outer casing wall of the pin portion of the pin device includes at least one and preferably two diametrically opposed fastening portions for radially abutting against a recess of a carrier component. The fastening portions are formed from a second plastic component that is softer in comparison to the first plastic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Gerit VOLLMER, Melanie SINDEL, Albert SBONGK, Jan MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20230323973
    Abstract: An emergency degassing apparatus is provided, comprising a base body, an emergency degassing valve having an emergency degassing opening and a pressure cap for closing the emergency degassing opening, and a pressure compensation element (DAE) having a first and a second pressure compensation valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Christian Pfeiffer, Melanie Sindel, Bernhard Aberle
  • Publication number: 20230287919
    Abstract: A fastening apparatus for connecting components of different thicknesses includes a base element for insertion into a contoured passage opening of a component, having a first fastening portion in which at least one bayonet-like fastening device is configured for retentive abutment on contour elements of a first component surface of the component, and a rotary element arranged on the base element, having a second fastening portion, in which at least one abutting device for retentive abutment on a second component surface of a component is configured. The base element and the rotary element are rotatably and axially slidably coupled to one another by a threaded axial displacement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Albert SBONGK, Jan MÜLLER, Melanie SINDEL
  • Publication number: 20220281394
    Abstract: A carrier apparatus (mount) for fastening a water-collecting strip to an A-pillar of a motor vehicle includes a fastening wall having a fastening side and a receiving side, wherein at least one catching device is arranged on the fastening side of the fastening wall for connecting with the A-pillar, which catching device extends in an approximately orthogonal direction from the fastening side, and wherein the catching device is formed for insertion and rearward catching in a through-opening of the A-pillar, and a catching element device arranged opposite the receiving side having at least one catching element for releasably fixing a water-collecting strip in a receiving region, wherein the receiving region is formed between the receiving side of the fastening wall and the catching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Melanie SINDEL (nee MIHALOVSCHI), Jan MÜLLER, Albert SBONGK