Patents by Inventor Peter Meilwes

Peter Meilwes 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: 12025174
    Abstract: A tolerance compensation element that compensates for tolerances in the distance between first and second components, includes a thread bolt having a first drive feature, a first thread of a first thread direction and a second thread of a second thread direction. Between the first and the second thread, a protrusion extends from the thread bolt radially to the outside. The element includes a first plastic overmold in the portion of the first thread, which provides a fastening structure for the fastening to the first component, and a second plastic overmold around the protrusion which extends radially to the outside, to provide an abutment portion abutting the second component when in use. A distance of the second plastic overmold to the first plastic overmold is changeable after overcoming a start-up torque between the first plastic overmold and the first thread in longitudinal direction of the thread bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Norman Kratzsch, Peter Meilwes, Michaela Mücke, Michael Kahre
  • Publication number: 20230250841
    Abstract: A multipart socket-like glue-in retainer which is fastenable in a component opening in an adhesive manner in a component opening and which is configured in at least two parts and thus in an opening manner in radial direction due to an axial separation, so that only before a gluing-in of the glue-in retainer in a component opening, a functional insert is arrangeable in the glue-in retainer and after the gluing-in of the glue-in retainer in the component opening, the functional insert is retained inseparably in the glue-in retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Martin Jodeleit, Franz Drüke, Jörg Matthes, Peter Meilwes
  • Publication number: 20220412384
    Abstract: A tolerance compensation element that compensates for tolerances in the distance between first and second components, includes a thread bolt having a first drive feature, a first thread of a first thread direction and a second thread of a second thread direction. Between the first and the second thread, a protrusion extends from the thread bolt radially to the outside. The element includes a first plastic overmold in the portion of the first thread, which provides a fastening structure for the fastening to the first component, and a second plastic overmold around the protrusion which extends radially to the outside, to provide an abutment portion abutting the second component when in use. A distance of the second plastic overmold to the first plastic overmold is changeable after overcoming a start-up torque between the first plastic overmold and the first thread in longitudinal direction of the thread bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jan Norman Kratzsch, Peter Meilwes, Michaela Mücke, Michael Kahre