Patents by Inventor Thomas Boernchen

Thomas Boernchen 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: 7276009
    Abstract: The invention relates to a servo drive comprising an electromechanical energy converter, which has a rotatably mounted disc rotor for generating a torque and a stepping up mechanism that is connected downstream of the disc rotor, for coupling the disc rotor to an output element and for stepping up the torque that acts on the disc rotor and comprising a locking mechanism that locks a rotational displacement of the output element, when a torque is introduced on the output side. According to the invention, the locking mechanism comprises a coil spring which can be radially expanded and compressed and which extends around the outer periphery of the stepping up mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co Kg, Coburg
    Inventors: Thomas Börnchen, Michael Eisentraudt, Uwe Klippert, Thomas Salhoff, Helmut Sesselmann, Uwe Sommer, Werner Stammberger, Manfred Stenzel, Joachim Müller
  • Patent number: 6905163
    Abstract: An armrest assembly for a motor vehicle door provides an armrest that may be positionally adjusted by a drive unit and a transfer member which may be displaced along an adjustment direction on activating the drive unit. The armrest may be connected to the drive unit. The position of the armrest in the motor vehicle door may be adjusted in the vehicle longitudinal direction and/or in a direction perpendicular to the vehicle longitudinal direction and perpendicular to the adjusting direction of the armrest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Thomas Börnchen, Michael Eisentraudt, Martin Schlechtriemen, Werner Stammberger, Frank Wagner
  • Patent number: 6837544
    Abstract: An adjuster mechanism for setting the height of an armrest on a motor vehicle door includes a drive unit and an adjuster gear arranged after the drive unit, which, on activating the drive unit, performs an adjusting movement for setting the height of the armrest. The adjuster gear for setting the height of the armrest executes a tilting movement of the armrest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Thomas Börnchen, Martin Schlechtriemen, Werner Stammberger, Frank Wagner
  • Patent number: 6796601
    Abstract: An armrest subassembly for a motor vehicle is provided, which includes an arm support adjustable along a vertical vehicle axis, and a guide device through which the arm support is guided. According to one embodiment of the invention, the guide device has just one guide element which entends longitudinally along the adjustment direction with which the arm support is guided in the adjustment direction so that forces acting on the arm support in the vehicle longitudinal direction are introduced through the guide element into the supporting door element and movement of the arm support in the vehicle longitudinal direction is substantially prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co., KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Thomas Börnchen, Michael Eisentraudt, Eckart Listl, Martin Schlechtriemen, Werner Stammberger, Thomas Pohl, Frank Wagner, Sandro Wartzack
  • Publication number: 20020012249
    Abstract: The invention concerns a headlamp for vehicles having a reflector, a light source arranged in a central zone of the reflector and an adjustment apparatus to adjust the reflector about a vertical pivot axis relative to a holding part into a predetermined curve-illumination operational position; with the reflector being in engagement with a shaft of the adjusting apparatus which is oriented parallel to the vertical pivot axis via a curved element rigidly coupled to the reflector and extending perpendicular to the vertical pivot axis, and with the reflector being mounted to be rotatable relative to the holding part by a coupling having a pretensioned centering spring element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Reinhold Brummel, Detlef Korff, Matthias Knoche, Joerg Plotzitzka, Thomas Boernchen