Patents by Inventor Sascha Costabel

Sascha Costabel 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: 20230040255
    Abstract: A lightweight-construction fastener (10) having a one-piece clip body (20) made of plastic and a clip nut (40). The clip body has the basic shape of a clamp, having two opposite legs (22, 24) extending in the longitudinal direction and a cage (28) in which the clip nut is floatingly mounted. The clip nut in turn has a nut base (42) which is substantially planar. A main part (44) is structured on the nut base and has a cover surface (41) and a plurality of side walls (51, 51?) which extend between the nut base and the cover surface. The side walls of the main part preferably have a convex curvature and the cage has correspondingly designed concave walls. The sizing is such that the convex-concave surface pairs act as torque supports during use of the lightweight-construction fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: SFS Group International AG
    Inventors: Philipp GENTNER, Sascha COSTABEL
  • Patent number: 11292574
    Abstract: A holding device for a wall module 10 of the cabin lining in an aircraft includes two different clamping devices. The first clamping device 30 has a clamping body 33 having a first clamping jaw 31, which is fixed relative to the clamping body, and a second clamping jaw 32, which is movable relative to the clamping body 33, which in turn is operatively connected or can be temporarily connected to an actuating lever 35. In the closed state, the clamping jaws 31, 32 form a receiving space 36 for the wall module 10. An interlocking device 37 fixes the position of the clamping jaws 31, 32 relative to one another in the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventors: Marc Dibowski, Benjamin Diehl, Sascha Costabel
  • Patent number: 10823217
    Abstract: A fastening arrangement with a clip body, a fastening device and a panel is provided, with the clip body having a retainer for the fastening device, the clip body being fastenable to the panel which has fastening and positioning openings so that the clip body can be positioned on the panel by a stop of a positioning element on an edge of the positioning opening. The positioning opening has a size which allows the clip body with the fastening device held thereon to be passed at least partially therethrough, the positioning element bearing at least partially against the edge of the positioning opening and the positioning element at the same time being or being connected to a locking element which makes contact with the panel on a side facing away from the retainer. The locking element is arranged opposite the retainer. A clip body and clip are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha Costabel
  • Publication number: 20200290720
    Abstract: A holding device for a wall module 10 of the cabin lining in an aircraft includes two different clamping devices. The first clamping device 30 has a clamping body 33 having a first clamping jaw 31, which is fixed relative to the clamping body, and a second clamping jaw 32, which is movable relative to the clamping body 33, which in turn is operatively connected or can be temporarily connected to an actuating lever 35. In the closed state, the clamping jaws 31, 32 form a receiving space 36 for the wall module 10. An interlocking device 37 fixes the position of the clamping jaws 31, 32 relative to one another in the closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventors: Marc DIBOWSKI, Benjamin DIEHL, Sascha COSTABEL
  • Patent number: 10670069
    Abstract: The invention relates to a clip body (10) with a retainer (12) for a fastening device (14), wherein the clip body (10) can be fastened to a panel (18) provided with at least one fastening opening (16), wherein the clip body (10) has two limbs, of which one can be arranged on a first side of the panel (18) and the other can be arranged on a second side of the panel (18), and for this purpose is placed onto an edge of the panel (18), and the clip body (10) has at least one positioning element (20). According to the invention, the at least one positioning element (20) can be guided through the fastening opening (16) in the panel (18), and the clip body (10) can be positioned on the panel (18) by a stop of the at least one positioning element (20) on an edge (22) of the fastening opening (16). The invention also relates to a clip (30) and a fastening arrangement (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha Costabel
  • Patent number: 10473138
    Abstract: A lightweight construction fastener 30 has two basic elements, a clip body 40 including a connected fastening element 32. The clip body 40 has a first leg 41 and a second leg 42, which are arranged located opposite one another and which are connected to one another by a web 45 on one end. The fastening element 32 includes a flat base plate 34 with two protrusions 35, 36, and a cylindrical holding part 33. On its outer side, the second leg 42 has two frames 43, 44 with apertures 46, 47. They are provided to accommodate the protrusions 35, 36 of the fastening element 32, so that the fastening element is held in the clip body 40 with play, but in a captive manner. The frames 43, 44 are substantially arranged at right angles to the longitudinal axis LA, which is why the orientation of the two protrusions 35, 36 is also oriented along the axis LA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha Costabel
  • Patent number: 10473139
    Abstract: A lightweight construction fastener or clip having a clip body and a fastening element 32. The clip body includes a first leg and a second leg, which are connected with each other by a web 45 at one end. The clip body is formed of one piece, but includes at least two volume sections 61, 62, wherein the first section 61 is formed of a first plastic and the second volume section 62 is formed of a second plastic. The properties of the first and second plastics are different from each other with respect to one or more criteria. A method for producing such a clip body includes manufacturing it in one piece in a multi-component injection molding process from at least two plastics. Further the invention includes a method for manufacturing the lightweight construction fastener or clip by placing a fastening element 32 into the injection molding tool; encapsulating the fastening element 32 and overmolding the fastening element 32 in a multi-component injection molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventors: Sascha Costabel, Markus Rottler, Markus Lichtensteiger
  • Publication number: 20180216650
    Abstract: A fastening arrangement (50) with a clip body (10), a fastening device (14) and a panel (18) is provided, with the clip body (10) having a retainer (12) for the fastening device (14), the clip body (10) being fastenable to the panel (18) provided with at least one fastening opening (16), the panel having a positioning opening (80) in addition to the fastening opening so that the clip body (10) can be positioned on the panel (18) by a stop of at least one positioning element (20) on an edge (22) of the positioning opening (80). The positioning opening (80) has a size which allows the clip body (10) with the fastening device (14) held thereon to be passed at least partially therethrough, the positioning element (20) bearing at least partially against the edge (22) of the positioning opening (80) and the positioning element (20) at the same time being or being connected to a locking element which makes contact with the panel on a side facing away from the retainer (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha COSTABEL
  • Publication number: 20180180086
    Abstract: The invention relates to a clip body (10) with a retainer (12) for a fastening device (14), wherein the clip body (10) can be fastened to a panel (18) provided with at least one fastening opening (16), wherein the clip body (10) has two limbs, of which one can be arranged on a first side of the panel (18) and the other can be arranged on a second side of the panel (18), and for this purpose is placed onto an edge of the panel (18), and the clip body (10) has at least one positioning element (20). According to the invention, the at least one positioning element (20) can be guided through the fastening opening (16) in the panel (18), and the clip body (10) can be positioned on the panel (18) by a stop of the at least one positioning element (20) on an edge (22) of the fastening opening (16). The invention also relates to a clip (30) and a fastening arrangement (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha Costabel
  • Publication number: 20180094670
    Abstract: A lightweight construction fastener 30 has two basic elements, a clip body 40 including a connected fastening element 32. The clip body 40 has a first leg 41 and a second leg 42, which are arranged located opposite one another and which are connected to one another by a web 45 on one end. The fastening element 32 includes a flat base plate 34 with two protrusions 35, 36, and a cylindrical holding part 33. On its outer side, the second leg 42 has two frames 43, 44 with apertures 46, 47. They are provided to accommodate the protrusions 35, 36 of the fastening element 32, so that the fastening element is held in the clip body 40 with play, but in a captive manner. The frames 43, 44 are substantially arranged at right angles to the longitudinal axis LA, which is why the orientation of the two protrusions 35, 36 is also oriented along the axis LA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha Costabel
  • Publication number: 20180094671
    Abstract: A lightweight construction fastener or clip having a clip body and a fastening element 32. The clip body includes a first leg and a second leg, which are connected with each other by a web 45 at one end. The clip body is formed of one piece, but includes at least two volume sections 61, 62, wherein the first section 61 is formed of a first plastic and the second volume section 62 is formed of a second plastic. The properties of the first and second plastics are different from each other with respect to one or more criteria. A method for producing such a clip body includes manufacturing it in one piece in a multi-component injection moulding process from at least two plastics. Further the invention includes a method for manufacturing the lightweight construction fastener or clip by placing a fastening element 32 into the injection moulding tool; encapsulating the fastening element 32 and overmoulding the fastening element 32 in a multi-component injection moulding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventors: Sascha Costabel, Markus Rottler, Markus Lichtensteiger
  • Publication number: 20180003211
    Abstract: A lightweight fastener includes a threaded body with at least one torque support, a housing, which receives the threaded body at least in part, and a counter support for at least one torque support. In accordance with the invention a wire nut or threaded wire nut is used as thread body. A lightweight fastener of this type is used in clips or inserts, i.e. fastening elements that are used in particular in the interior design of vehicles and aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha Costabel
  • Patent number: 9816547
    Abstract: A clip nut, including a clip. The clip has a first retaining device, a second retaining device, and a connecting device, which connects the first retaining device to the second retaining device. The distance between the retaining devices is variable. The extension of the first and second retaining devices substantially define an x axis and the extension of the connecting device substantially defines a z axis. A y axis is perpendicular to the x axis and the z axis. The clip nut also includes a nut, which is arranged on the second retaining device such that an axis of the nut is aligned parallel to the z axis and/or perpendicular to the x axis. The axis of the nut is pivotable from the position of the axis of the nut parallel to the z axis and/or perpendicular to the x axis about the axis in an xz plane such that the parallelism of the axis of the nut with respect to the z axis and/or the perpendicular position of the axis of the nut with respect to the x axis is abandoned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventors: Sascha Costabel, Thomas Klose
  • Publication number: 20160223009
    Abstract: A clip nut, including a clip. The clip has a first retaining device, a second retaining device, and a connecting device, which connects the first retaining device to the second retaining device. The distance between the retaining devices is variable. The extension of the first and second retaining devices substantially define an x axis and the extension of the connecting device substantially defines a z axis. A y axis is perpendicular to the x axis and the z axis. The clip nut also includes a nut, which is arranged on the second retaining device such that an axis of the nut is aligned parallel to the z axis and/or perpendicular to the x axis. The axis of the nut is pivotable from the position of the axis of the nut parallel to the z axis and/or perpendicular to the x axis about the axis in an xz plane such that the parallelism of the axis of the nut with respect to the z axis and/or the perpendicular position of the axis of the nut with respect to the x axis is abandoned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventors: Sascha Costabel, Thomas Klose
  • Patent number: 9169019
    Abstract: A fastening system for overhead storage bins on a supporting structure, having at least one pair of suspension eye lugs attached to a supporting structure or the overhead storage bins. The suspension eye lugs are detachably interconnected by a main pin, with receivers for the main pin being in alignment in a mounting position of the overhead storage bin. The main pin is spring-loaded in a main pin guide toward the other suspension eye lug and has, with the overhead storage bin not yet mounted, an end position in which the main pin is deployed from the main pin guide. A portion of the suspension eye lugs has a sloping ramp that allows the main pin to be deployed in the receiver of the other suspension eye lug by action of preload during upward movement of the overhead storage bin and its suspension eye lug into the mounting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha Costabel
  • Patent number: 8939473
    Abstract: A locking mechanism (100) and a lock (110) are provided. The locking mechanism (100) comprises a push-button (148) connected to a freewheel (154) via a traction cable, with the freewheel being connected to a drive device (160) of the lock (110). A baggage compartment in the cabin of an airplane usually comprises two locks (110) of this type which can be unlocked by the push-button (148). A freewheel (154) arranged between the push-button (148) and the lock (110) ensures that the push-button (148) remains in a pushed position as long as each lock (110) allocated to the baggage compartment is not in a correctly locked position. It can be identified from the position of the push-button of the baggage compartment whether both locks of the baggage compartment are correctly snapped in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: SFS Intec Holding AG
    Inventors: Sascha Costabel, Olav Schendel
  • Patent number: 8876171
    Abstract: An aircraft luggage box lock includes a stationary housing and a cover moveable about a rotary axis. The lock includes a locking pin device mountable on the housing, having two parallel locking pins, a catch mountable on the cover having two locking hooks pivotable about a pivot axis for receiving the pins for locking the lock, and a manually actuatable drive device for jointly pivoting the locking hooks away from the locking pins for unlocking the lock. The drive device has a gear rack and a sliding element linearly displaceable against pressure of a spring element. The locking hooks are connected to the gear rack or the sliding element by a knee lever hinged to the closing hook adjacent to the pivot axis thereof in such a way that the lock is openable only by tensile force acting on the hinged point of the knee lever on the locking hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: SFS Intec Holding AG
    Inventors: Olav Schendel, Sascha Costabel
  • Patent number: 8752260
    Abstract: A holding device (10) is provided for use during the installation of a component (60) to be fastened vertically to a support structure (50) such as that of an aircraft, for example a cabin sidewall lining part. The holding device (10) includes a hook (12) and an eyelet (14) receiving the hook, the hook and eyelet being designed so that they can be fastened to the support structure (50) or the component (60). The eyelet (14) has at least one elastically resilient element for the movable mutual support of the eyelet (14) and hook (12). The holding device (10) facilitates the fastening of a perpendicularly installed component (60). The elastically resilient element allows the component (60) to be pre-positioned in a nominal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: SFS Intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha Costabel
  • Patent number: 8453973
    Abstract: A plug mounting (50) is provided as a combination of a plug (10) and a mount (30), for the detachable mounting of an equipment part, such as an inner panel, to a supporting frame, such as an aircraft fuselage. The plug (10) has a mounting pin (12), which has an annular groove (25) on one end, which can be engaged with a slide (34) of the mount (30), which is under spring pretension. The mounting pin (12) can be connected to the foundation by a damping element. The mount (30) is fastened to the housing (32) on the equipment part. The mount (30) has an eccentric lever (42) for unlocking the plug (10) by displacing the slide (34) against the spring pretension. The arrangement is made so that only the mounting pin (12) of the plug (10) needs to be inserted into the opening of the housing of the mount (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventor: Sascha Costabel
  • Patent number: 8435040
    Abstract: A connecting device (10) is provided for releasably connecting a fitting piece, such as an interior lining, to a supporting structure, such as a fuselage. The connecting device (10) includes a plug-in holding mechanism (50) including a bushing piece (52) and a connecting pin (75) that can be releasably locked therein. A bent connecting arm (60), to which the connecting pin is fastened, is releasably fastened to a structural holder (40) mounted on the supporting structure. In one position, the connecting arm (60) is plugged into the structural holder (40) and is releasably locked therein. In a second position (125), in which the connecting arm (60) is rotated 180° about the longitudinal axis thereof, an electrical contact device (90) is additionally inserted between the connecting arm (60) and the bushing piece (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: SFS intec Holding AG
    Inventors: Sascha Costabel, Markus Schmidt