Patents by Inventor Thomas Krieger

Thomas Krieger 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: 20260009278
    Abstract: A window lifter assembly for a motor vehicle, comprising an electric-motor-powered cable drive having a housing, and comprising a guide rail to which the cable drive is connected via a screw fastening. The guide rail has at least one passage opening for a screw element having a screw head, which passage opening is aligned with a screw opening of the cable drive and/or of its housing. At least one contact lug for contact with the screw head extends out of the guide rail in a region of the passage opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Thomas KRIEGER, Julian SCHMITT, Georg SIEDERSLEBEN, Simon HERBST
  • Patent number: 12371939
    Abstract: A window lift for a motor vehicle contains a functional support for at least one guide rail, which slidably guides a rail slider for retaining a vehicle window, and a cable drive device. The cable drive device has an actuating drive and a cable drive housing, into which a cable drum, which can be coupled to the actuating drive and can be rotated about an axis of rotation, is or can be received, around which cable drum a pull cable is or can be wrapped. The cable drive housing has a bottom plate and a number of cylindrical wall elements for receiving the cable drum. The functional support has, at the periphery of a through-opening for the coupling of the cable drum to the actuating drive, a joining contour for establishing a form-locking connection to the cable drum housing when the cable drum is inserted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugtelle SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Lubos Licko, Thomas Krieger, Martin Janos
  • Publication number: 20230349221
    Abstract: A window lift for a motor vehicle contains a functional support for at least one guide rail, which slidably guides a rail slider for retaining a vehicle window, and a cable drive device. The cable drive device has an actuating drive and a cable drive housing, into which a cable drum, which can be coupled to the actuating drive and can be rotated about an axis of rotation, is or can be received, around which cable drum a pull cable is or can be wrapped. The cable drive housing has a bottom plate and a number of cylindrical wall elements for receiving the cable drum. The functional support has, at the periphery of a through-opening for the coupling of the cable drum to the actuating drive, a joining contour for establishing a form-locking connection to the cable drum housing when the cable drum is inserted therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Lubos Licko, Thomas Krieger, Martin Janos
  • Patent number: 11708964
    Abstract: A light puck that attaches to a wire rope tension grid has a top cover with a plurality of slots to receive wire ropes therein and a corresponding bottom cover. There is also a light fixture having a plurality of LEDs disposed between the top cover and the bottom cover, the light fixture aligned with an opening in the bottom cover. A biasing plate is positioned between the light fixture and the top cover and has adjustment screw associated therewith to bias the biasing plate relative to the top cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: INTERAMERICA STAGE, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Krieger
  • Patent number: 11674348
    Abstract: A cable drive device of an adjustment system of a motor vehicle has an actuating drive and a cable drive housing in which a cable drum that is rotatably coupled to the actuating drive and has a traction cable wound thereon is received. The cable drum, for receiving a cable nipple fastened to the traction cable, on at least one end side has a nipple chamber having a chamber opening and mutually spaced apart chamber walls. The nipple chamber on at least one of the chamber walls has a delimiting element. The cable nipple when introduced into the nipple chamber by way of the chamber opening engaging below the delimiting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Thomas Krieger, Lubos Licko, Udo Taubmann, Michael Wendrich
  • Publication number: 20220186544
    Abstract: A cable drive device of an adjustment system of a motor vehicle has an actuating drive and a cable drive housing in which a cable drum that is rotatably coupled to the actuating drive and has a traction cable wound thereon is received. The cable drum, for receiving a cable nipple fastened to the traction cable, on at least one end side has a nipple chamber having a chamber opening and mutually spaced apart chamber walls. The nipple chamber on at least one of the chamber walls has a delimiting element. The cable nipple when introduced into the nipple chamber by way of the chamber opening engaging below the delimiting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Krieger, Lubos Licko, Udo Taubmann, Michael Wendrich
  • Publication number: 20200400289
    Abstract: A light puck that attaches to a wire rope tension grid has a top cover with a plurality of slots to receive wire ropes therein and a corresponding bottom cover. There is also a light fixture having a plurality of LEDs disposed between the top cover and the bottom cover, the light fixture aligned with an opening in the bottom cover. A biasing plate is positioned between the light fixture and the top cover and has adjustment screw associated therewith to bias the biasing plate relative to the top cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas Krieger
  • Patent number: 10760777
    Abstract: A light puck that attaches to a wire rope tension grid has a top cover with a plurality of slots to receive wire ropes therein and a corresponding bottom cover. There is also a light fixture having a plurality of LEDs disposed between the top cover and the bottom cover, the light fixture aligned with an opening in the bottom cover. A biasing plate is positioned between the light fixture and the top cover and has adjustment screw associated therewith to bias the biasing plate relative to the top cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: InterAmerica Stage, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Krieger
  • Publication number: 20180259167
    Abstract: A light puck that attaches to a wire rope tension grid has a top cover with a plurality of slots to receive wire ropes therein and a corresponding bottom cover. There is also a light fixture having a plurality of LEDs disposed between the top cover and the bottom cover, the light fixture aligned with an opening in the bottom cover. A biasing plate is positioned between the light fixture and the top cover and has adjustment screw associated therewith to bias the biasing plate relative to the top cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Krieger
  • Publication number: 20070131395
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a refrigerator unit has a plurality of fins arranged essentially parallel to one another. At least some of the fins are not smooth in part and smooth in part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Tino Braumer, Thomas Krieger, Uwe Neumann, Andreas Rehklan