Patents by Inventor Paul Kaupmann

Paul Kaupmann 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: 20250091658
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rear seat plate of a motor vehicle body, including a rear part of a floor plate and a rear seat support, wherein floor plate and rear seat support are vertically offset in relation to one another in the motor vehicle vertical direction (Z), and a tunnel section is optionally formed in the floor plate, and that floor plate and rear seat support are integrally formed via a connecting section as a sheet-metal formed component, in one press stroke, characterized in that a reinforcing structure is formed, and that different strengths and/or different wall thicknesses from one another are formed in different areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091655
    Abstract: A front wall for a motor vehicle, which has a partition wall to an engine compartment located at the front in the longitudinal direction (x) of the motor vehicle, wherein the partition wall is oriented in the installed state in the vertical direction (z) of the motor vehicle and, connected to it in one piece, has a front region of a footwell metal sheet, wherein the footwell metal sheet runs at least in portions in the longitudinal direction (x) of the motor vehicle, the front wall being produced as a one-piece sheet-metal forming component, in particular in a single press stroke, characterized in that the footwell metal sheet has a greater wall thickness and/or tensile strength than the partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091644
    Abstract: A vehicle floor sheet metal arrangement with a vehicle floor sheet metal as a component of a motor vehicle body, which has a flat floor region and a deformation on two opposite longitudinal sides and two opposite end sides, such that a vehicle floor sheet metal is formed that is arranged between two sills. In the flat floor region, at least one downward-facing molded recess is formed in the vertical direction (Z) of the motor vehicle, and the vehicle floor sheet metal is manufactured in one piece in a single press stroke, with regions of mutually different wall thickness and/or mutually different tensile strength Rm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091424
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a floor frame for a motor vehicle body, having at least one, two longitudinal members which extend in the longitudinal direction (X) of the motor vehicle and at least two cross members which extend in the transverse direction (Y) of the motor vehicle, wherein the cross members and longitudinal members have a profiled cross-section, characterized in that the floor frame is produced from a one-piece tailored blank in one press stroke and the floor frame has connection holes for a battery support and in that the cross member has a lower tensile strength Rm and/or wall thickness in its end regions relative to the central region of the cross member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091650
    Abstract: A rear side part of a motor vehicle body, has a C pillar, a D pillar and a wheel housing segment, and is produced as a one piece sheet metal forming part in a press stroke. The C pillar and the D pillar being C-shaped, U-shaped or hat-shaped in cross-section, characterized in that the side part includes adjacent areas with different tensile strengths and/or different wall thicknesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091647
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an underbody plate of a motor vehicle having a planar floor and a formation in the form of at least one flange on each of two opposite longitudinal sides in the motor vehicle transverse direction, and the underbody plate extends between a front axle and a rear axle of a motor vehicle, wherein the underbody plate is hot-formed and pressed-hardened as a one-piece plate formed component in one press stroke, wherein areas having tensile strength Rm and/or wall thickness different from one another are formed, characterized in that an outwardly protruding flange is provided having screw holes as screwing-on points on a motor vehicle body and that the flange is made soft having a tensile strength Rm less than 1000 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250091423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle floor sheet metal arrangement with a vehicle floor sheet metal as a component of a motor vehicle body having a flat floor and, on two opposite longitudinal sides and two opposite end sides, a downward deformation in relation to the vertical direction of the motor vehicle, such that a hood-like body is formed by the vehicle floor sheet metal, characterized in that the vehicle floor sheet metal is produced in one piece from a sheet-metal blank in one press stroke, and in that the vehicle floor sheet metal closes a battery box at the top in the vertical direction of the motor vehicle, the vehicle floor sheet metal optionally having regions with different tensile strength and/or different wall thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Publication number: 20250058832
    Abstract: A window and/or roof frame for an automobile, which has at least two bows running transversely to a direction of travel and at least two longitudinal members, wherein the window and/or roof frame is produced as a one-piece sheet metal formed component from a single blank in one press stroke. Different wall thicknesses and/or strengths are formed locally, wherein the wall thicknesses or tensile strengths differ by at least 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Georg FROST, Christian HIELSCHER, Andreas HITZ, Paul KAUPMANN, Mathias LOHBERG, Joern TOELLE
  • Patent number: 9802235
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a torsional profile from a blank. The torsional profile has torsionally rigid tubular end sections, a torsionally flexible U-shaped middle longitudinal section and, between the middle longitudinal section and the end sections, transition sections which change from the U-shaped cross section to the tubular cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Dieter Friesen, Paul Kaupmann, Jan Krull, Norbert Niggemeyer, Eugen Seibel
  • Publication number: 20160008863
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a torsional profile from a blank. The torsional profile has torsionally rigid tubular end sections, a torsionally flexible U-shaped middle longitudinal section and, between the middle longitudinal section and the end sections, transition sections which change from the U-shaped cross section to the tubular cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Dieter FRIESEN, Paul KAUPMANN, Jan KRULL, Norbert NIGGEMEYER, Eugen SEIBEL
  • Publication number: 20120060982
    Abstract: In a method, a blank of unhardened steel sheet is subjected in a press tool to a hot forming and press-hardening process to produce a structural part. After press-hardening, at least one linear zone of the structural part is heat treated in order to increase ductility and reduce strength in the linear zone in relation to adjacent regions of the structural part. After heat treatment, a bending or cutting operation is carried out on the structural part along the linear zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Bohner, Otto Buschsieweke, Ulrich Huschen, Paul Kaupmann
  • Patent number: 6582843
    Abstract: A fuel cell section system has a media-cooled fuel cell with an anode space and a cathode space. A common delivery device is provided for introducing cooling medium into both the fuel cell and a condenser for condensation of water from outgoing cathode air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Ballard Power Systems AG
    Inventors: Ralf Heuser, Lars Kaufmann, Paul Kaupmann