Patents by Inventor Tim Klausmann

Tim Klausmann 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: 12611992
    Abstract: A center console for a vehicle has an armrest in a rearward region which is pivotable at a rearward end about a pivot axis, extending between a horizontal armrest position and a vertical opening position, an upwardly open storage chamber arranged to be partially forwardly offset in relation to the armrest situated in the horizontal armrest position, a storage insert configured to be at least partially inserted, from above, into the storage chamber, and a securing unit for securing the storage insert within the storage chamber in a vertical direction of the center console. The securing unit has a securing receptacle and a securing projection that engages into the securing receptacle. A forward end portion of the armrest situated in the horizontal armrest position lies on a rearward end portion of the storage insert that has been inserted into the storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bernd Ottlik, Robin Advena, Martin Erich Huebner, Tim Klausmann, Marc Bisdorf
  • Publication number: 20250136019
    Abstract: An insert unit for insertion into a storage compartment of a center console of a vehicle, having a holding depression for at least partially receiving a portable electronic device such as a cell phone, and two holding portions, between which the holding depression is arranged and which define longitudinal sides of the holding depression. To provide an insert unit which is enhanced in terms of its capacity and its receiving properties, the holding portions each define a common holding plane against which an object can be placed flat, wherein the holding portions are designed in such a way that a spacing between the common holding plane and a planar base of the holding depression is greater than a height of the cell phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Friederike Philipsenburg, Anja Neubert, Martin Erich Huebner, Robin Advena, Tim Klausmann, Marc Bisdorf, Bernd Ottlik
  • Publication number: 20240166135
    Abstract: A center console for a vehicle has an armrest in a rearward region which is pivotable at a rearward end about a pivot axis, extending between a horizontal armrest position and a vertical opening position, an upwardly open storage chamber arranged to be partially forwardly offset in relation to the armrest situated in the horizontal armrest position, a storage insert configured to be at least partially inserted, from above, into the storage chamber, and a securing unit for securing the storage insert within the storage chamber in a vertical direction of the center console. The securing unit has a securing receptacle and a securing projection that engages into the securing receptacle. A forward end portion of the armrest situated in the horizontal armrest position lies on a rearward end portion of the storage insert that has been inserted into the storage chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bernd Ottlik, Robin Advena, Martin Huebner, Tim Klausmann, Marc Bisdorf
  • Publication number: 20240166136
    Abstract: A center console for a vehicle, has at least one storage chamber, laterally delimited on both sides by two side walls, and at least one dividing element, arranged in the storage chamber and which serves for subdividing the storage chamber. In order to provide a center console having a storage chamber which can be adapted to articles that are to be stored, the center console has at least two upwardly open holding slots which are arranged in the storage chamber and are mutually spaced in a transverse direction of the center console and which are arranged mutually oppositely on the side walls such that the dividing element can, at edges, be at least partially inserted into the holding slots from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Huebner, Tim Klausmann, Bernd Ottlik, Marc Bisdorf, Robin Advena
  • Patent number: 11065992
    Abstract: An armrest for a motor vehicle has a housing body and an arm support fitted pivotably on the housing body. A rotatably mounted bolt is provided on the arm support with a bolt tongue which, in a locking position, interacts with a striker plate on the housing body, as a result of which a pivoting of the arm support away from the housing body is blocked. A U-shaped support bracket is fitted on the arm support and has, upon application of a force for pivoting of the arm support away from the housing body in the locking position of the bolt, contact with the bolt tongue on the side which faces away from the arm support. A support force is thus exerted in the direction of the arm support on the bolt. The support bracket in the locking position of the bolt, engages around at least the bolt tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ralf Nothroff, Simon Higgins, Franz W. Rosnick, Tim Klausmann
  • Patent number: 10421410
    Abstract: A retention device is provided for fitting a mobile electronic device in a motor vehicle. The retention device has a storage compartment for the insertion of the mobile electronic device. The storage compartment is formed at least by a rear wall and an opposing front wall. At least at the inner side of the front wall facing the rear wall there is formed a retention face on which a large number of protruding retention elements are provided. Furthermore, the spacing between the rear wall and the front wall is less than the width B and/or the length L of the mobile electronic device and the front wall of the storage compartment extends in an inclined manner, wherein the upper edge of the front wall is orientated in the direction toward the rear side of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Pablo Villar Mesa, Thomas Rochulus, Robin Advena, Fabian Maetz, Tim Klausmann
  • Publication number: 20180222371
    Abstract: An armrest for a motor vehicle has a housing body and an arm support fitted pivotably on the housing body. A rotatably mounted bolt is provided on the arm support with a bolt tongue which, in a locking position, interacts with a striker plate on the housing body, as a result of which a pivoting of the arm support away from the housing body is blocked. A U-shaped support bracket is fitted on the arm support and has, upon application of a force for pivoting of the arm support away from the housing body in the locking position of the bolt, contact with the bolt tongue on the side which faces away from the arm support. A support force is thus exerted in the direction of the arm support on the bolt. The support bracket in the locking position of the bolt, engages around at least the bolt tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ralf Nothroff, Simon Higgins, Franz W. Rosnick, Tim Klausmann
  • Publication number: 20180208128
    Abstract: A retention device is provided for fitting a mobile electronic device in a motor vehicle. The retention device has a storage compartment for the insertion of the mobile electronic device. The storage compartment is formed at least by a rear wall and an opposing front wall. At least at the inner side of the front wall facing the rear wall there is formed a retention face on which a large number of protruding retention elements are provided. Furthermore, the spacing between the rear wall and the front wall is less than the width B and/or the length L of the mobile electronic device and the front wall of the storage compartment extends in an inclined manner, wherein the upper edge of the front wall is orientated in the direction toward the rear side of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Pablo Villar Mesa, Thomas Rochulus, Robin Advena, Fabian Maetz, Tim Klausmann
  • Patent number: 10029617
    Abstract: A cover is provided for covering a gap between a rear seat backrest of a vehicle and a luggage space cover of the vehicle, which cover extends in the transverse direction of the vehicle. The cover has a surface element which can be pulled out of a housing of the luggage space cover. Arranged on the surface element is at least one support element which, when pulled out of the housing, can be moved from a first stable position into a second stable position, wherein in the housing there is arranged at least one forced guide which at least at the output side thereof has a curved configuration so that the support element is forced into the second stable position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Tim Klausmann, Robert Wagschal, Frank Schneider
  • Publication number: 20180001826
    Abstract: A cover is provided for covering a gap between a rear seat backrest of a vehicle and a luggage space cover of the vehicle, which cover extends in the transverse direction of the vehicle. The cover has a surface element which can be pulled out of a housing of the luggage space cover. Arranged on the surface element is at least one support element which, when pulled out of the housing, can be moved from a first stable position into a second stable position, wherein in the housing there is arranged at least one forced guide which at least at the output side thereof has a curved configuration so that the support element is forced into the second stable position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Tim Klausmann, Robert Wagschal, Frank Schneider