Patents by Inventor Siegfried Nothacker

Siegfried Nothacker 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: 5278363
    Abstract: A control device for the control of stepping motors for the adjustment of a motor vehicle seat, including an adjustment of the seat depth, being the distance between the front edge of the seat surface and the backrest, for adaptation to different thigh lengths of the respective passengers. The control device comprises, in a preferred embodiment, at least one actuating element with two parts, that are displaceable independently of but parallel to each other, as well as first and second switches assigned to parts of the actuating element, respectively, wherein the first switches are provided to control at least the seat depth adjustment, while the second switches are provided to control at least the longitudinal seat adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Krieg, Siegfried Klink, Josef Berger, Heinz Baumert, Jurgen Bollman, Siegfried Nothacker, Edgar Pieper
  • Patent number: 4941704
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sun visor for vehicles, having a sun visor body which can bend along its longitudinal extension and can be pivoted out of a rest position into a multiple number of use positions, and which can be held in these positions. In order to ensure that the sun visor body automatically bends in the course of the pivoting process on a bent shaft, the sun visor body is pivotably mounted on a curved through shaft. Between the rotatably mounted end regions of the curved shaft it is guided so as to be rotatable and slideable in the direction of a transverse extension of the sun visor body through an intermediate bearing engaging in bifurcated fashion around an associated longitudinal portion of the curved shaft. The sun visor body is guided so as to be longitudinally displaceable on the curved shaft to allow for correct positioning when the visor body and curved shaft are pivoted to be in front of a side window of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG
    Inventors: Heinz Baumert, Ulrich Bruhnke, Ferdinand Greiner, Siegfried Nothacker
  • Patent number: 4135759
    Abstract: An armrest for passengers of vehicles, especially of motor vehicles, which is constructed so as to be adjustable preferably in the vehicle transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmuth Bott, Siegfried Nothacker