Patents by Inventor Tobias Mech

Tobias Mech 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: 12246515
    Abstract: A glazing device for a vehicle has an illuminated glazing unit and has a flat outer glass element at least partly forming or continuing the outer body skin and a flat inner glass element. A one-piece or multipart elongated carrier profile component is arranged on an edge section of the inner glass element and holds a lighting device such that the lighting device couples light laterally into the inner glass element. The carrier profile component is attached to the inner glass element and/or the outer glass element, and/or the outer glass element covers the inner glass element or projects laterally beyond the inner glass element in such a way that an edge section of the outer glass element can be attached to a vehicle roof frame and is spaced apart from the edge section of the inner glass element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Andreas Rockelmann, Philip Ertle, Tobias Mech, Georg Rossmair, Yannick Theis
  • Publication number: 20240375377
    Abstract: A glazing device for a vehicle has an illuminated glazing unit and has a flat outer glass element at least partly forming or continuing the outer body skin and a flat inner glass element. A one-piece or multipart elongated carrier profile component is arranged on an edge section of the inner glass element and holds a lighting device such that the lighting device couples light laterally into the inner glass element. The carrier profile component is attached to the inner glass element and/or the outer glass element, and/or the outer glass element covers the inner glass element or projects laterally beyond the inner glass element in such a way that an edge section of the outer glass element can be attached to a vehicle roof frame and is spaced apart from the edge section of the inner glass element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas ROCKELMANN, Philip ERTLE, Tobias MECH, Georg ROSSMAIR, Yannick THEIS
  • Publication number: 20230364975
    Abstract: A roller blind arrangement for a vehicle roof of a motor vehicle, having a fixed glass element, two mutually opposite guide rails which extend along a longitudinal direction and are each curved such that a distance between the guide rails changes along the longitudinal direction, a roller blind web which is displaceably guided in the guide rails along the longitudinal direction, wherein a guide rail has a receiving channel for receiving part of the roller blind web, an insertion element is arranged on the fixed glass element and extends along the receiving channel, the roller blind web is guided between the receiving channel and the insertion element, wherein the insertion element has an extent which changes along the longitudinal direction such that a greater or lesser amount of the roller blind web is received in the receiving channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas ROCKELMANN, Georg ROSSMAIR, Tobias Mech
  • Patent number: 8590963
    Abstract: A wind deflector arrangement for a roof opening, which can be closed and opened up by way of a cover, in a roof panel of a vehicle. The wind deflector can have a frame which is designed to at least partially surround the roof opening, a wind deflector hoop which is coupled to the frame such that the wind deflector hoop is rotatable relative to the frame and the roof panel about a first axis of rotation, a support element which is coupled to the wind deflector hoop and to the frame such that the support element can rotate about a second axis of rotation during a first segment of the movement of the wind deflector hoop relative to the frame and can rotate about a third axis of rotation, which differs from the second axis of rotation, during a further segment of the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Tobias Nowack, Alexander Kirsch, Tobias Mech, Norbert Elbs
  • Publication number: 20130187414
    Abstract: A wind deflector arrangement for a roof opening, which can be closed and opened up by way of a cover, in a roof panel of a vehicle. The wind deflector can have a frame which is designed to at least partially surround the roof opening, a wind deflector hoop which is coupled to the frame such that the wind deflector hoop is rotatable relative to the frame and the roof panel about a first axis of rotation, a support element which is coupled to the wind deflector hoop and to the frame such that the support element can rotate about a second axis of rotation during a first segment of the movement of the wind deflector hoop relative to the frame and can rotate about a third axis of rotation, which differs from the second axis of rotation, during a further segment of the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Tobias Nowack, Alexander Kirsch, Tobias Mech, Norbert Elbs