Patents by Inventor Thomas BETTZUEGE

Thomas BETTZUEGE 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: 11142122
    Abstract: A gripping device for a vehicle, including a housing element with a user-accessible contact surface and a user-inaccessible inner surface and at least one light conducting element for providing an ambience illumination at the gripping device, the light conducting element being fastened to the housing element. For this purpose, it is provided according to the invention that a groove for accommodating the light conducting element is formed on the contact surface of the housing element in such a way that a user-accessible contact side of the light conducting element completes the contact surface in a flush and uninterrupted manner in an opening area of the groove on the contact surface of the housing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Bettzuege, Christian Jachmann
  • Publication number: 20210061169
    Abstract: A gripping device for a vehicle, including a housing element with a user-accessible contact surface and a user-inaccessible inner surface and at least one light conducting element for providing an ambience illumination at the gripping device, the light conducting element being fastened to the housing element. For this purpose, it is provided according to the invention that a groove for accommodating the light conducting element is formed on the contact surface of the housing element in such a way that a user-accessible contact side of the light conducting element completes the contact surface in a flush and uninterrupted manner in an opening area of the groove on the contact surface of the housing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas BETTZUEGE, Christian JACHMANN
  • Patent number: 9682664
    Abstract: A pocket formed by an open-topped compartment. At least one receiving compartment for holding a flat, portable electronic video display unit, particularly a tablet computer is formed in the container. Further, at least one elastic pretensioning element is located in the at least one receiving compartment, the pretensioning element whose direction of action is directed against the flat, portable electronic video display unit, particularly against the tablet computer transverse to the insertion direction of the flat, portable electronic video display unit, particularly of the tablet computer in the receiving compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Bettzuege, Toralf Keydel, Andreas Markhardt
  • Publication number: 20160229354
    Abstract: A pocket formed by an open-topped compartment. At least one receiving compartment for holding a flat, portable electronic video display unit, particularly a tablet computer is formed in the container. Further, at least one elastic pretensioning element is located in the at least one receiving compartment, the pretensioning element whose direction of action is directed against the flat, portable electronic video display unit, particularly against the tablet computer transverse to the insertion direction of the flat, portable electronic video display unit, particularly of the tablet computer in the receiving compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas BETTZUEGE, Toralf KEYDEL, Andreas MARKHARDT