Patents by Inventor Roland Buhner

Roland Buhner 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: 7588266
    Abstract: A protective device for vehicle occupants of a motor vehicle contains a restraining element and a connecting device for the restraining element in order to be able to connect the latter releasably to the motor vehicle and to be able to hold it in a use position. The connecting device contains for this purpose an upper and lower fastening device. In order, in particular, to optimize the operation of the protective device, the lower fastening device has, on the one hand, a locking device which locks the restraining element in the rest position, and, on the other hand, a clamping device which keeps the restraining element clamped—with respect to the upper fastening device—in the use position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Paul-Dieter Fengel, Roland Bühner
  • Publication number: 20070092690
    Abstract: An interior finishing component, in particular an interior paneling part for a motor vehicle, has a basic body with a foam material and a reinforcing insert within the basic body. For simple fastening of the interior finishing component to the motor vehicle, it is provided that the foam material of the basic body comprises a flexible soft foam part, that at least two reinforcing inserts which are situated at a spacing distance from each other are arranged within the basic body, and that the interior finishing component has at least one engage-behind element for its fastening to the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Helmut Gocht, Roland Buhner, Andrew Wilkinson
  • Publication number: 20070057499
    Abstract: A protective device for vehicle occupants of a motor vehicle contains a restraining element and a connecting device for the restraining element in order to be able to connect the latter releasably to the motor vehicle and to be able to hold it in a use position. The connecting device contains for this purpose an upper and lower fastening device. In order, in particular, to optimize the operation of the protective device, the lower fastening device has, on the one hand, a locking device which locks the restraining element in the rest position, and, on the other hand, a clamping device which keeps the restraining element clamped—with respect to the upper fastening device—in the use position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Paul-Dieter Fengel, Roland Buhner