Patents by Inventor Rudi Kolle

Rudi Kolle 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: 20040129040
    Abstract: In said devices the operation of the handle serves to open the door when the lock is in the unlocked position. The handle operation is achieved by means of an operating lever (30) and the rotation of the lock cylinder (60) is transferred to a carrier (45). According to the invention, the construction may be simplified and rendered flexible, whereby a control member (50) is used, which transmits the movement of the carrier (45) to the operating lever (30) of the handle. The operating lever (30) has an adjustable bearing position (31, 11 or 32, 12), which is determined in relation to the rotational position of the lock cylinder (60) by the control member (50). The transfer ratios (34.1 to 33.1 or 34.2 to 33.2) on the operating lever (30) are thus altered relative to a connector (40) leading to the lock. Although an identical operation of the handle occurs, differing working strokes (36) occur at the connector (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Reinhold Mathofer, Mirko Alexander Rohring, Rudi Kolle, Martin Lindmayer, Ralf Lennhoff, Udo Babatz
  • Patent number: 6237987
    Abstract: An opening system for a movable passenger motor vehicle body part, such as a door, has lock which is arranged on an inner shell of the vehicle body part and can be operated by an outside handle arrangement, which is fixed on an outer shell of the vehicle body part. A deformation-resistant supporting arrangement is provided at the level of the outer handle arrangement on a side of the inner shell of the vehicle body part facing the outside handle arrangement, which supporting arrangement projects toward the outside handle arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Udo Babatz, Rudi Kölle, Martin Lindmayer, Wolfram Schröder, Alfred Stauber
  • Patent number: 6067869
    Abstract: A motor-vehicle door has a latch assembly having a door latch having a release lever displaceable to unlatch the door and a horizontally displaceable outside door handle. A transmission member rotatable about an axis is connected to the handle such that horizontal displacement of the handle rotates the transmission member about the axis. An actuating head is rotationally fixed to the transmission member and a shaft generally coaxial with the transmission member carries a formation axially fittable with the actuating head for rotationally coupling the transmission member to the shaft. A crank extending from the shaft is movable angularly about the axis on rotation of the shaft and a link is connected between the crank and the release lever so that when the handle is displaced horizontally the shaft is rotated about the axis, the crank and link are displaced and in turn displace the release lever, and the latch is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Kiekbert AG
    Inventors: Reinhold Chilla, Hans Deischl, Thomas Heide, Klaus-Jurgen Heimbrodt, Dieter Heise, Rolf Knop, Rudi Kolle, Simone Thiele nee Fischer
  • Patent number: 5421061
    Abstract: The invention relates to a concealed fastening of a door handle on a panelling of a vehicle door, vehicle flap or the like, with a handle plate which rests on the panelling and which has, in a fastening region, a hook arm which projects from its rear side and passes through a clearance in the panelling and which is pushed, with an end region engaging behind, onto a support bearing arranged movably on the rear side of the panelling. The end region is held at a distance from the engaged behind counterface of the support bearing and rests with a spacer means on the counter face of the support bearing, and the distance between a pressure face of the spacer means loading the support bearing and the end region being variably changeable in order to compensate production tolerances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Mercedes Benz AG
    Inventors: Rudi Kolle, Bruno Stenzel, Martin Lindmayer, Peter Kolb
  • Patent number: 4630330
    Abstract: A fastening clip configured for rotation in a housing bore, the clip fashioned to house a beveled terminal region of a linkage of circular cross-section. So that the clip rotates spontaneously into a correct installation position during assembly of the linkage, a plurality of clip orifices are provided and the walls of an associated introductory channel are beveled so that an introductory bevel extends from every point on the edge of the clip to intersect a clip orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Keller, Rudi Kolle, Winfried Schreiber, Klaus Claar