Patents by Inventor Rainer Konzmann

Rainer Konzmann 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: 7021701
    Abstract: In order to provide a comfortable rest zone with an easy chair and reclining surface for a driver, even in a confined space, provision is made for a driver's cab for an individual driver to have an easy chair which can be converted into a bed. In this arrangement, a mattress runs over the armrest having an armrest cushion of the easy chair. The armrest cushion cushions the reclining surface, so that the mattress is of as space-saving a design as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Frank Hoernle, Bernd Kohlbecker, Rainer Konzmann, Markus Mattedi, Andreas Zygan
  • Patent number: 6996462
    Abstract: In a method of controlling at least one autonomously driven vehicle, such a vehicle is driven on a restricted traffic surface. For this purpose, the autonomous vehicle has a driving device for implementing driving commands on the basis of fed signals. The driving commands relate to the driving direction as well as to the driving speed. The vehicle detects its actual position by means of a position indicating device, and transmits its position to an operations management center. In the operations management center, a route profile to be driven is determined from position signals by means of definable criteria and is transmitted to the driving device of the vehicle. Driving commands required for driving the route profile are generated in the vehicle by the driving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Harro Heilmann, Rainer Konzmann, Andreas Schwarzhaupt, Gernot Spiegelberg, Armin Sulzmann, Christof M. Weber
  • Publication number: 20040199306
    Abstract: In a method of controlling at least one autonomously driven vehicle, such a vehicle is driven on a restricted traffic surface. For this purpose, the autonomous vehicle has a driving device for implementing driving commands on the basis of fed signals. The driving commands relate to the driving direction as well as to the driving speed. The vehicle detects its actual position by means of a position indicating device, and transmits its position to an operations management center. In the operations management center, a route profile to be driven is determined from position signals by means of definable criteria and is transmitted to the driving device of the vehicle. Driving commands required for driving the route profile are generated in the vehicle by the driving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Harro Heilmann, Rainer Konzmann, Andreas Schwarzhaupt, Gernot Spiegelberg, Armin Sulzmann, Christof M. Weber
  • Patent number: 4886317
    Abstract: In a motor car seat with a variable-angle backrest and having an arm support retained on the frame of the backrest which is foldable down from an essentially vertical erect non-use position in line with the backrest into a lower substantially horizontal use position. While in the use position of the arm support, the backrest maintains its alignment at least during the changing of the backrest during normal driver seat back inclination adjustment, in order to prevent the arm support from striking operating parts of the vehicle; and wherein, when the backrest is folded forwards such as to allow a passenger to exit from a rear seat, the arm support is guided to maintain its position substantially horizontal and above the shift lever arranged on the central console.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Konzmann, Otto Ohlhausen, Joachim Schmitt, Antonin Koucky, Josef Klink