Patents by Inventor Stanislaw Klimek

Stanislaw Klimek 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: 9929389
    Abstract: A battery device for an at least partially electrically operated vehicle and a method for producing the battery device. The battery device includes a plurality of battery modules, each having at least one battery cell, and a receiving device for receiving the battery modules. In this arrangement, the receiving device includes a dividing wall, which is arranged underneath the battery modules, and a base plate, which is arranged underneath the dividing wall. The dividing wall and the base plate are attached to at least one connecting element and are connected to one another by the connecting element while being spaced apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stanislaw Klimek, Bernd Palmer, Matthias Herntier, Ralf Keller, Florian Scheerer
  • Publication number: 20170025655
    Abstract: A battery device for an at least partially electrically operated vehicle and a method for producing the battery device. The battery device includes a plurality of battery modules, each having at least one battery cell, and a receiving device for receiving the battery modules. In this arrangement, the receiving device includes a dividing wall, which is arranged underneath the battery modules, and a base plate, which is arranged underneath the dividing wall. The dividing wall and the base plate are attached to at least one connecting element and are connected to one another by the connecting element while being spaced apart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Stanislaw Klimek, Bernd Palmer, Matthias Herntier, Ralf Keller, Florian Scheerer
  • Patent number: 9296429
    Abstract: A longitudinal frame for the chassis structure of a motor vehicle is provided. The frame includes at least two longitudinal sections, which are joined together to form a shared longitudinal structure by having the longitudinal sections at least partially overlap each other in an overlap region. One of the longitudinal sections of the frame has a side panel, which in the overlap region exhibits a connecting section for attachment to a floor panel, and the other longitudinal section exhibits a counter-panel in the overlap region that at least partially abuts against the side panel. The abutment of the counter-panel against the side panel remains outside of the connecting section. The frame includes at least one longitudinal structure, and the longitudinal structure and at least one of the longitudinal sections together extend over a longitudinal section of the longitudinal frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATINONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Karsten Bohle, Stanislaw Klimek
  • Patent number: 9108679
    Abstract: A frame structure is provided for a motor vehicle having at least two longitudinal girders, each having a first longitudinal section and a second longitudinal section, which are at an angle to one another, so that in the installed state of the frame structure in a motor vehicle, the first longitudinal section lies essentially horizontally below a floor plate of the vehicle body and the second longitudinal section extends essentially upward and, viewed in the forward travel direction, the first longitudinal section is arranged behind the second longitudinal section. It is provided that beginning in the area of the transition from the second longitudinal section to the first longitudinal section or an area adjacent thereto, the longitudinal girders extend at least partially away from one another in the direction of the first longitudinal section. Furthermore, the invention relates to a rear frame structure and a vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Stanislaw Klimek
  • Patent number: 8926006
    Abstract: An underbody structure for at least two motor vehicles, in particular for at least two passenger cars having a first and a second wheelbase, is provided. The underbody structure comprises a middle underbody structure and a rear underbody structure with laterally arranged side members, between which at least one connecting profile is arranged. The connecting profile is connected to the side members and to a floor of the middle underbody structure to form a first overlap region for the first wheelbase and a second overlap region for the second wheelbase. The first and the second overlap region have an at least approximately same width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Stefan Gloger, Stanislaw Klimek
  • Publication number: 20140138987
    Abstract: A frame structure is provided for a motor vehicle having at least two longitudinal girders, each having a first longitudinal section and a second longitudinal section, which are at an angle to one another, so that in the installed state of the frame structure in a motor vehicle, the first longitudinal section lies essentially horizontally below a floor plate of the vehicle body and the second longitudinal section extends essentially upward and, viewed in the forward travel direction, the first longitudinal section is arranged behind the second longitudinal section. It is provided that beginning in the area of the transition from the second longitudinal section to the first longitudinal section or an area adjacent thereto, the longitudinal girders extend at least partially away from one another in the direction of the first longitudinal section. Furthermore, the invention relates to a rear frame structure and a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Stanislaw KLIMEK
  • Patent number: 8668250
    Abstract: A side structure of a vehicle is provided with a side part outer frame. The side part outer frame includes, but is not limited to a front pillar and a center pillar with mounting connections for door hinges. The side part outer frame includes, but is not limited to the outer structure starting from a windshield to including a rear fender region and is a one-piece and stable construction and has a greater material thickness than a side part outer skin of a conventional side structure. One of the two pillars or both pillars comprise a reinforcement structure that is fixed within the side part outer frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Klimek, Lothar Teske, Gunther Heim
  • Patent number: 8657369
    Abstract: A floor structure of a motor vehicle body is provided. The floor structure has two frame rail arrangements essentially extending in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle body. The arrangements are joined together by a cross member essentially extending in the transverse direction of the motor vehicle body. A floor panel extends between the cross member and the two frame rail arrangements. A diagonal reinforcement is located above the floor panel and abuts against the cross member in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle body. A reinforcing element essentially extends in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle body between the two frame rail arrangements. The diagonal reinforcement abuts against the reinforcing element in the transverse direction of the motor vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Stanislaw Klimek, Karsten Bohle
  • Patent number: 8636314
    Abstract: A frame structure is provided for a motor vehicle having at least two longitudinal girders, each having a first longitudinal section and a second longitudinal section, which are at an angle to one another, so that in the installed state of the frame structure in a motor vehicle, the first longitudinal section lies essentially horizontally below a floor plate of the vehicle body and the second longitudinal section extends essentially upward and, viewed in the forward travel direction, the first longitudinal section is arranged behind the second longitudinal section. It is provided that beginning in the area of the transition from the second longitudinal section to the first longitudinal section or an area adjacent thereto, the longitudinal girders extend at least partially away from one another in the direction of the first longitudinal section. Furthermore, the invention relates to a rear frame structure and a vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Stanislaw Klimek
  • Patent number: 8585132
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided that includes, but is not limited to an energy accumulator in an energy accumulator area. The vehicle also includes, but is not limited to a rear axle area having a rear axle frame and a front axle area having a front axle frame. Furthermore, the vehicle includes, but is not limited to interrupted crash load pathways in the vehicle floor area, which are limited to the vehicle passenger compartment. The energy accumulator is situated on a carrier system in the vehicle floor area, the carrier system closing the interrupted crash load pathways of the vehicle between the rear axle frame and/or the front axle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Klimek, Martin Schwarz
  • Patent number: 8550498
    Abstract: An impact-damping structure with crash boxes is provided with an extension of the ends of the chassis members of a vehicle to a transverse impact member. An extension pipe with a towing lug that aligns flush with the chassis member is arranged in a center of one of the crash boxes. The extension pipe is connected with the end of the chassis member via a spreading device of the crash box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Stanislaw Klimek
  • Patent number: 8517459
    Abstract: A body structure of a motor vehicle is provided that includes, but is not limited to a floor panel, that has an inner side directed toward the motor vehicle interior and an outer side directed toward the motor vehicle exterior, and also includes, but is not limited to a seat mounting for securing a motor vehicle seat. To reduce driving noise and air resistance, it is provided that on the outer side thereof, the floor panel is free from corrugations or stiffening structures running predominantly in the transverse direction of the motor vehicle. A motor vehicle is also provided having a corresponding body structure and a method is provided for the manufacture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Klimek, Andreas Stern
  • Patent number: 8439412
    Abstract: A motor vehicle forward structure is provided with at least two vehicle chassis beams, at least two crash boxes, which are arranged at the front ends of the vehicle chassis beams, and at least one transverse beam structure, which is secured to the crash boxes. The transverse beam structure exhibits two transverse bumper carriers with a first transverse bumper carrier above the crash boxes, and a second transverse bumper carrier below the crash boxes. The crash boxes are fixed in a left and right end area of the transverse beam structure, between the transverse bumper carriers and at the ends of the vehicle chassis beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Stanislaw Klimek
  • Patent number: 8398158
    Abstract: A floor structure of a motor vehicle body is provided that has two side member arrangements substantially extending in vehicle longitudinal direction, which are interconnected by way of at least one front cross member and one rear cross member, and with a floor panel arranged above the cross members, which is provided with a reinforcing element substantially extending in vehicle longitudinal direction and arranged above the floor panel, which is structurally connected to at least one front cross member and to one rear cross member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Karsten Bohle, Stanislaw Klimek
  • Patent number: 8317227
    Abstract: A car body is provided for a motor vehicle that includes, but is not limited to a structural unit including a rear frame structure with a rear axle and mountings for a fuel tank or an electric accumulator. The structural unit is fixed on a bottom plate of the car body. A correspondingly designed rear frame structure makes it possible to selectively equip the motor vehicle for drives with an internal combustion or purely electric drives or hybrid drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Klimek, Martin Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20120274100
    Abstract: A floor structure of a motor vehicle body is provided. The floor structure has two frame rail arrangements essentially extending in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle body. The arrangements are joined together by a cross member essentially extending in the transverse direction of the motor vehicle body. A floor panel extends between the cross member and the two frame rail arrangements. A diagonal reinforcement is located above the floor panel and abuts against the cross member in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle body. A reinforcing element essentially extends in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle body between the two frame rail arrangements. The diagonal reinforcement abuts against the reinforcing element in the transverse direction of the motor vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Stanislaw KLIMEK, Karsten BOHLE
  • Publication number: 20120248822
    Abstract: A floor structure of a motor vehicle body is provided that has two side member arrangements substantially extending in vehicle longitudinal direction, which are interconnected by way of at least one front cross member and one rear cross member, and with a floor panel arranged above the cross members, which is provided with a reinforcing element substantially extending in vehicle longitudinal direction and arranged above the floor panel, which is structurally connected to at least one front cross member and to one rear cross member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Karsten BOHLE, Stanislaw KLIMEK
  • Publication number: 20120139297
    Abstract: A frame structure is provided for a motor vehicle having at least two longitudinal girders, each having a first longitudinal section and a second longitudinal section, which are at an angle to one another, so that in the installed state of the frame structure in a motor vehicle, the first longitudinal section lies essentially horizontally below a floor plate of the vehicle body and the second longitudinal section extends essentially upward and, viewed in the forward travel direction, the first longitudinal section is arranged behind the second longitudinal section. It is provided that beginning in the area of the transition from the second longitudinal section to the first longitudinal section or an area adjacent thereto, the longitudinal girders extend at least partially away from one another in the direction of the first longitudinal section. Furthermore, the invention relates to a rear frame structure and a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Stanislaw KLIMEK
  • Publication number: 20120119545
    Abstract: A floor structure is provided for an automobile body that includes, but is not limited to a floor panel and a seat support structure disposed underneath the floor panel. The floor panel includes, but is not limited to at least two floor sections that adjoin one another in the vehicle longitudinal direction and are configured to be substantially flat, which are disposed offset with respect to one another in relation to the vehicle vertical direction. The seat support structure has at least one transverse structure stabilizing the floor section at least in the area of the higher floor section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Stanislaw KLIMEK, Karsten BOHLE
  • Publication number: 20120119544
    Abstract: A car body is provided with a longitudinal beam structure that extends in essentially the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a front longitudinal beam, a rear longitudinal beam, and an intermediate piece that structurally connects the rear longitudinal beam to the front longitudinal beam. The longitudinal beam structure is connected to a reinforcing structure that bridges the intermediate piece and, referred to in the lateral direction of the vehicle, is arranged laterally offset to the longitudinal beam structure at least in certain areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo MILDNER, Stanislaw KLIMEK