Patents by Inventor Robin Advena

Robin Advena 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: 20250136019
    Abstract: An insert unit for insertion into a storage compartment of a center console of a vehicle, having a holding depression for at least partially receiving a portable electronic device such as a cell phone, and two holding portions, between which the holding depression is arranged and which define longitudinal sides of the holding depression. To provide an insert unit which is enhanced in terms of its capacity and its receiving properties, the holding portions each define a common holding plane against which an object can be placed flat, wherein the holding portions are designed in such a way that a spacing between the common holding plane and a planar base of the holding depression is greater than a height of the cell phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Friederike Philipsenburg, Anja Neubert, Martin Erich Huebner, Robin Advena, Tim Klausmann, Marc Bisdorf, Bernd Ottlik
  • Publication number: 20240166135
    Abstract: A center console for a vehicle has an armrest in a rearward region which is pivotable at a rearward end about a pivot axis, extending between a horizontal armrest position and a vertical opening position, an upwardly open storage chamber arranged to be partially forwardly offset in relation to the armrest situated in the horizontal armrest position, a storage insert configured to be at least partially inserted, from above, into the storage chamber, and a securing unit for securing the storage insert within the storage chamber in a vertical direction of the center console. The securing unit has a securing receptacle and a securing projection that engages into the securing receptacle. A forward end portion of the armrest situated in the horizontal armrest position lies on a rearward end portion of the storage insert that has been inserted into the storage chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bernd Ottlik, Robin Advena, Martin Huebner, Tim Klausmann, Marc Bisdorf
  • Publication number: 20240166136
    Abstract: A center console for a vehicle, has at least one storage chamber, laterally delimited on both sides by two side walls, and at least one dividing element, arranged in the storage chamber and which serves for subdividing the storage chamber. In order to provide a center console having a storage chamber which can be adapted to articles that are to be stored, the center console has at least two upwardly open holding slots which are arranged in the storage chamber and are mutually spaced in a transverse direction of the center console and which are arranged mutually oppositely on the side walls such that the dividing element can, at edges, be at least partially inserted into the holding slots from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Huebner, Tim Klausmann, Bernd Ottlik, Marc Bisdorf, Robin Advena
  • Patent number: 10421410
    Abstract: A retention device is provided for fitting a mobile electronic device in a motor vehicle. The retention device has a storage compartment for the insertion of the mobile electronic device. The storage compartment is formed at least by a rear wall and an opposing front wall. At least at the inner side of the front wall facing the rear wall there is formed a retention face on which a large number of protruding retention elements are provided. Furthermore, the spacing between the rear wall and the front wall is less than the width B and/or the length L of the mobile electronic device and the front wall of the storage compartment extends in an inclined manner, wherein the upper edge of the front wall is orientated in the direction toward the rear side of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Pablo Villar Mesa, Thomas Rochulus, Robin Advena, Fabian Maetz, Tim Klausmann
  • Publication number: 20180208128
    Abstract: A retention device is provided for fitting a mobile electronic device in a motor vehicle. The retention device has a storage compartment for the insertion of the mobile electronic device. The storage compartment is formed at least by a rear wall and an opposing front wall. At least at the inner side of the front wall facing the rear wall there is formed a retention face on which a large number of protruding retention elements are provided. Furthermore, the spacing between the rear wall and the front wall is less than the width B and/or the length L of the mobile electronic device and the front wall of the storage compartment extends in an inclined manner, wherein the upper edge of the front wall is orientated in the direction toward the rear side of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Pablo Villar Mesa, Thomas Rochulus, Robin Advena, Fabian Maetz, Tim Klausmann
  • Patent number: 9440558
    Abstract: A hinge mechanism for a vehicle seat includes an actuating lever, a disengaging lever, a main rotary axis, a deflection lever and a deflection rod. It also includes a separate first operating element for folding a backrest over in the direction of a seat part in the case of a fixed seat part, and a separate second operating element for folding over the backrest in the case of a simultaneous or subsequent pivot movement of the seat part. A method is provided for operation of a vehicle seat with a hinge mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: James Abraham, Robin Advena
  • Publication number: 20150123443
    Abstract: A hinge mechanism for a vehicle seat includes an actuating lever, a disengaging lever, a main rotary axis, a deflection lever and a deflection rod. It also includes a separate first operating element for folding a backrest over in the direction of a seat part in the case of a fixed seat part, and a separate second operating element for folding over the backrest in the case of a simultaneous or subsequent pivot movement of the seat part. A method is provided for operation of a vehicle seat with a hinge mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Johnson Controls GmbH
    Inventors: James Abraham, Robin Advena