Patents by Inventor Roland Och

Roland Och 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: 10794096
    Abstract: A system including a component which can be mounted movably in or on an automobile and an actuating apparatus for the component, the actuating apparatus having a push-push mechanism which interacts with the component, it being possible for the component to be moved out of a closed position by manual exertion of a pressing force counter to the prestress of a spring into an unlocked position in order to unlock the push-push mechanism, out of which unlocked position the component is moved into a partially open position driven by the prestress of the spring, out of which partially open position the component can be moved into an open position by manual exertion of a pulling force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Hamacher, Roland Och, Christian Beck, Andreas Rudolf, Joachim Oberst, Johannes Karlein
  • Publication number: 20200208661
    Abstract: A tolerance compensation fastening apparatus (1) for fastening a first vehicle component (200) to a second vehicle component (300) by way of a bolt (100), the fastening apparatus being set up to compensate for a tolerance within a tolerance compensation range. A fastening system including such a fastening apparatus, as well as to a method for fastening a first vehicle component to a second vehicle component by way of a bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Zsolt WILKE, Roland OCH, Matthias SEUBERT, Johannes KARLEIN, Andreas RUDOLF
  • Publication number: 20200115936
    Abstract: An example door handle system, includes a handle, an actuation lever, a first spring, and an unlocking lever. The handle includes a first mounting section and a second mounting section. The first mounting section is opposite the second mounting section. The actuation lever is pivotably connected to the first mounting section. The first spring is engaged with the actuation lever and the first mounting section to urge the handle to pivot in a first rotational direction relative to the actuation lever. The unlocking lever is pivotably connected to the second mounting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Roland OCH
  • Patent number: 10550611
    Abstract: A door handle, which can be mounted in movable fashion in or on an automobile, and of an actuation device for the door handle, wherein the door handle has a handle section and two mounting sections arranged in the region of opposite ends of the handle section, wherein the actuation device comprises an actuation lever which, by one end thereof, is pivotably connected to a first of the mounting sections and, by the other end thereof, is mounted on a housing section so as to be pivotable between a rest position and an actuated position, wherein, when the actuation lever is in the rest position, the door handle assumes a closed position, and when the actuation lever is in the actuated position, the door handle assumes an actuated position from which the door handle can be pulled manually into an open position in order to unlock a door lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Roland Och
  • Publication number: 20190309547
    Abstract: A door handle arrangement for a vehicle, includes a housing and a handle lever which is mounted on the housing such that it can be moved between a rest position and an actuating position for unlocking and/or opening a vehicle door, it being possible for the housing to be oriented on a vehicle body outer part which forms a part of the outer surface of a vehicle body and has a handle cut-out for the handle lever, first positioning projections being provided on the housing, which first positioning projections are configured to bear against an angled-over edge of the vehicle body outer part, which angled-over edge delimits the handle cut-out of the vehicle body outer part at least in regions, and, as a result, to position the handle lever with the housing in at least one spatial direction in relation to the handle cut-out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Roland OCH, Zsolt WILKE, Andreas RUDOLF
  • Publication number: 20190264473
    Abstract: An arrangement for actuating a component of a vehicle, wherein the component has a manually actuable actuating portion which is mounted on the vehicle so as to be movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein the arrangement comprises a control element and an electric drive which is connected to the control element via an electrical connection, wherein, when the actuating portion moves into its open position, the control element activates the electric drive, and therefore the electric drive actuates the component, wherein a centrifugal weight element is mounted movably on the arrangement, wherein the centrifugal weight element is moved from an inoperative position into an interruption position by a predetermined acceleration acting on the component and moving the actuating portion into the open position, wherein, in the interruption position, the centrifugal weight element interrupts the electrical connection between the control element and the electric drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Zsolt WILKE, Roland OCH, Joachim OBERST, Matthias SEUBERT
  • Publication number: 20190218835
    Abstract: An arrangement, the arrangement being designed for actuating a motor vehicle door, the arrangement having a handle which can be grabbed by a hand, the arrangement having an actuator which is connected to the handle via a coupling, it being possible for the handle to be moved from a rest position into a standby position by means of the actuator, the arrangement being designed to load the handle with a total restoring force which, starting from the standby position to back into the rest position, has an at least partially nonlinear profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Johannes KARLEIN, Roland OCH
  • Publication number: 20190003216
    Abstract: A door handle arrangement for a vehicle includes a housing which is fastenable to a body part of a vehicle body, and a handle lever which is mounted in a handle cutout of the housing so as to be movable between an inoperative position and an actuating position in order to unlock and/or open a vehicle door. The handle lever is mounted with play in the housing. At least one compensating element is provided which is designed to be fastened to at least one fastening portion of the body part. The compensating element forms at least one contact portion for the handle lever. The handle lever is pretensioned into its inoperative position against the at least one contact portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Zsolt WILKE, Matthias SEUBERT, Roland OCH
  • Publication number: 20180274271
    Abstract: Door handle assembly for a vehicle has a handle (10) mounted on a handle support (60) and one or more rest positions and at least one release position. The assembly has at least three different positions, —a flush or retracted position, in which the handle (10) is flush or retracted with respect to an outer door surface, —a deployed position, in which the handle (10) protrudes or protrudes to a greater extent than in the retracted position, —and the at least one release position. The handle (10) is connected to the handle support (60) via two links (21, 22) and rotational joints wherein one joint (22.1) also has a translational degree of freedom wherein a movement of the joint (22.1) along the translational degree of freedom is configured to mechanically actuate the door lock (120) or door lock (120) function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Roland OCH, Zsolt WILKE, Matthias SEUBERT, Joachim OBERST
  • Patent number: 10017969
    Abstract: A door handle assembly for an automobile comprising a grab section being manually actuatable from the outside or the inside of the door of an automobile, which grab section is moveably mounted between a resting position and an opening position on a bearing component to be mounted on the door, and which is connected to an actuating lever, which is also moveably mounted on the bearing component such that the actuating lever upon a movement of the grab section between its resting position and its opening position is also moved between a resting position and an opening position, wherein the grab section is biased into its resting position and wherein the grab section or the actuating lever can be coupled with a lock of the door such that the lock is opened when the grab section is moved from its resting position into its opening position, further comprising a fly weight which is moveably mounted between a releasing position in which it allows a movement of the grab section into its opening position and at least o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Roland Och, Andreas Rudolf
  • Publication number: 20180148957
    Abstract: A door lock operator (1) for a motor vehicle door (100) includes a first switch (10) and a first pivot arm (30) mounted so as to be pivotable about a first rotation axis (21. 1) of a first articulation (21) along a first degree of freedom (31), wherein the first pivot arm (30) has a further degree of freedom (32) which is substantially perpendicular to the first rotation axis (21. 1), and the first switch (10) is operable by way of movement of the first pivot arm (30) along a first direction of the further degree of freedom (32), wherein the first switch (10) is provided to be connected by way of a signal line (110) to an electric door lock (120) such that the electric door lock (120) is operable by the first switch (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Roland OCH, Zsolt WILKE, Andreas RUDOLF, Martin WEID
  • Publication number: 20170306662
    Abstract: Push button device for a motor vehicle, has: a mechanical and/or electric function controller with a first control state and a second control state; a push button element pressable from a disengaged state into a pressed state, wherein the function controller has the first control state when the push button element is in the disengaged state and the second control state when the push button element is in the pressed state, the push button element connected to the function controller by a first pivot arm mounted rotatably about a first axis of rotation and by a second pivot arm mounted rotatably about a different axis of rotation spaced apart from the first axis of rotation, wherein the first pivot arm and the second pivot arm are designed to be pivoted in an identical direction of rotation as a consequence of a movement of the push button element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Och, Zsolt Wilke, Kai Hamacher
  • Publication number: 20170254124
    Abstract: A side door of a motor vehicle has a door lock actuator for a door lock, and a pivoting lever pivotable about a rotational axis of a joint. The pivoting lever has a coupling section coupled to a mechanical actuating member of the door lock in the installed state. An interior door pull handle has one or more fastening regions and at least one handle region having an axial extent. The pivoting lever is integrated into the handle region of the interior door pull handle. The rotational axis is oriented substantially transversely with respect to the axial extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Zsolt WILKE, Roland OCH, Matthias SEUBERT
  • Publication number: 20170107744
    Abstract: The invention relates to a door handle for a car, wherein the door handle has a handle section to be gripped manually and a pivoting bearing section, by way of which the door handle can be mounted on a car door such that it can be pivoted about a pivot axis between a closed position and an open position which unlocks the car door, wherein a metal ball, in particular a steel ball, or a metal cylinder, in particular a steel cylinder, is fastened to the door handle, wherein, if a predefined transverse acceleration which acts on the door handle occurs, the metal ball or the metal cylinder counteracts, as a counterweight, an opening force which acts on the handle section on account of the transverse acceleration. Moreover, the invention relates to a corresponding method for producing a door handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Zsolt WILKE, Roland OCH, Elmar FRIES, Massimo TRISORIO
  • Publication number: 20160298366
    Abstract: A door handle, which can be mounted in movable fashion in or on an automobile, and of an actuation device for the door handle, wherein the door handle has a handle section and two mounting sections arranged in the region of opposite ends of the handle section, wherein the actuation device comprises an actuation lever which, by one end thereof, is pivotably connected to a first of the mounting sections and, by the other end thereof, is mounted on a housing section so as to be pivotable between a rest position and an actuated position, wherein, when the actuation lever is in the rest position, the door handle assumes a closed position, and when the actuation lever is in the actuated position, the door handle assumes an actuated position from which the door handle can be pulled manually into an open position in order to unlock a door lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventor: Roland OCH
  • Publication number: 20160290018
    Abstract: A system including a component which can be mounted movably in or on an automobile and an actuating apparatus for the component, the actuating apparatus having a push-push mechanism which interacts with the component, it being possible for the component to be moved out of a closed position by manual exertion of a pressing force counter to the prestress of a spring into an unlocked position in order to unlock the push-push mechanism, out of which unlocked position the component is moved into a partially open position driven by the prestress of the spring, out of which partially open position the component can be moved into an open position by manual exertion of a pulling force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Kai HAMACHER, Roland OCH, Christian BECK, Andreas RUDOLF, Joachim OBERST, Johannes KARLEIN
  • Publication number: 20160053519
    Abstract: A door handle assembly for an automobile comprising a grab section being manually actuatable from the outside or the inside of the door of an automobile, which grab section is moveably mounted between a resting position and an opening position on a bearing component to be mounted on the door, and which is connected to an actuating lever, which is also moveably mounted on the bearing component such that the actuating lever upon a movement of the grab section between its resting position and its opening position is also moved between a resting position and an opening position, wherein the grab section is biased into its resting position and wherein the grab section or the actuating lever can be coupled with a lock of the door such that the lock is opened when the grab section is moved from its resting position into its opening position, further comprising a fly weight which is moveably mounted between a releasing position in which it allows a movement of the grab section into its opening position and at least o
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Roland OCH, Andreas RUDOLF
  • Patent number: 8226166
    Abstract: A seating element has an archable element with a first side to face an occupant of a seat when the seating element is installed in a seat and a second side opposite of the first side. A pneumatic arching element is arranged at the second side of the archable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Schukra Geraetebau GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Petzel, Thomas Preiss, Veit Stoessel, David Anthony Swan, Renato Colja, Roland Och, Werner Steger, Klaus Wieder
  • Publication number: 20110285189
    Abstract: A seating element has an archable element with a first side to face an occupant of a seat when the seating element is installed in a seat and a second side opposite of the first side. A pneumatic arching element is arranged at the second side of the archable element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Jan Petzel, Thomas Preiss, Veit Stoessel, David Anthony Swan, Renato Colja, Roland Och, Werner Steger, Klaus Wieder
  • Patent number: 8011729
    Abstract: A seating element has an archable element with a first side to face an occupant of a seat when the seating element is installed in a seat and a second side opposite of the first side. A pneumatic arching element is arranged at the second side of the archable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Schukra Geratebau AG
    Inventors: Jan Petzel, Thomas Preiss, Veit Stoessel, David Anthony Swan, Renato Colja, Roland Och, Werner Steger, Klaus Wieder