Patents by Inventor Tomas Barkow

Tomas Barkow 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: 20220009383
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle seat device for motor vehicles, which has a vehicle seat with a seat part and a backrest, associated with the seat part, and at least one actuator which is associated with the seat part and/or the backrest and by means of which the vehicle seat can be brought automatically into a sitting position and into a reclining position, wherein the movement takes place as a function of a desired position that can be specified by a user and of at least one detectable vehicle seat state. It is provided that a current temperature is monitored as the vehicle seat state and that if the monitored temperature falls below a limit temperature, the vehicle seat is brought into a sitting position or left in a current sitting position regardless of the desired position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tomas BARKOW, Christian BUSCH
  • Patent number: 10661683
    Abstract: A seat adjustment mechanism of a seat for facilitating entry and exit of a person into/out of an interior of a motor vehicle, wherein a backrest part is forcibly coupled to a seat part via a rocker arm such that an adjusting movement of the backrest part is transmitted to the seat part. The backrest part and the seat part of the seat are moved from a starting position to an intermediate position by a first predetermined horizontal length by means of a sliding device which is connected to an upper rail of a seat rail, wherein the backrest part is rigidly connected to a backrest release unit of the backrest part via a coupling element, which is pivotable about a first coupling element pivot axis with respect to the sliding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Sitech Sitztechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolas Becker, Tomas Barkow, Michal Niewinowski, Michal Szewczyk, Thorsten Schnettker, Lukasz Pyziak, Stanislaw Klajn, Tomasz Soliwoda
  • Publication number: 20180257516
    Abstract: A seat adjustment mechanism of a seat for facilitating entry and exit of a person into/out of an interior of a motor vehicle, wherein a backrest part is forcibly coupled to a seat part via a rocker arm such that an adjusting movement of the backrest part is transmitted to the seat part. The backrest part and the seat part of the seat are moved from a starting position to an intermediate position by a first predetermined horizontal length by means of a sliding device which is connected to an upper rail of a seat rail, wherein the backrest part is rigidly connected to a backrest release unit of the backrest part via a coupling element, which is pivotable about a first coupling element pivot axis with respect to the sliding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Sitech Sitztechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolas BECKER, Tomas BARKOW, Michal NIEWINOWSKI, Michal SZEWCZYK, Thorsten SCHNETTKER, Lukasz PYZIAK, Stanislaw KLAJN, Tomasz SOLIWODA
  • Patent number: 9238427
    Abstract: A head restraint with a basic structure which serves to adjust the head restraint and to receive a person's head. The basic structure has a holding structure and at least one framework structure, wherein the framework structure has flexurally elastic flanks and deflectable cross struts which lie between the flanks and are arranged on the flanks via an elastic connector, as a result of which a force pulse which acts on the cross struts of the at least one framework structure via a flexurally elastic flank and which acts on a front side of the at least one framework structure from one direction causes a compensating, autoreactive deformation of the at least one framework structure at another point in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sitech Stiztechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Baumgarten, Martin Buchenberger, Damien Devolder, Tomas Barkow, Anne Cordes, Martin Fischer, Thomas Nitsche
  • Publication number: 20140077565
    Abstract: A head restraint with a basic structure which serves to adjust the head restraint and to receive a person's head. The basic structure has a holding structure and at least one framework structure, wherein the framework structure has flexurally elastic flanks and deflectable cross struts which lie between the flanks and are arranged on the flanks via an elastic connector, as a result of which a force pulse which acts on the cross struts of the at least one framework structure via a flexurally elastic flank and which acts on a front side of the at least one framework structure from one direction causes a compensating, autoreactive deformation of the at least one framework structure at another point in the opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: SITECH SITZTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Jens BAUMGARTEN, Martin BUCHENBERGER, Damien DEVOLDER, Tomas BARKOW, Anne CORDES, Martin FISCHER, Thomas NITSCHE
  • Patent number: 8388057
    Abstract: An air-conditioned seat includes a seat area and a backrest, the seat area and/or the backrest being cushioned with foam. For climate-control, a ventilator, in particular a radial ventilator, is provided, which is in operative connection with an air distribution device in the foam of the seat area and/or the backrest, the air distribution device including an air distribution structure on the side (e.g., a B side) facing away from the seated person, as well as air-conducting channels toward the side (e.g., an A side) facing the seated person. The ventilator is to be disposed in the foam itself, on the B side. The air is transported to the A side via the air distribution structure in the form of air trenches introduced into the foam on the B side, and via the air-conducting channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Sitech Sitztechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Tomas Barkow, Heinz Etzmuss, Hans-Georg Kaiser, Bernd Wilhelm, Harald Vogel, Adrian Sievers, Reinhard Mueller
  • Publication number: 20090322124
    Abstract: An air-conditioned seat includes a seat area and a backrest, the seat area and/or the backrest being cushioned with foam. For climate-control, a ventilator, in particular a radial ventilator, is provided, which is in operative connection with an air distribution device in the foam of the seat area and/or the backrest, the air distribution device including an air distribution structure on the side (e.g., a B side) facing away from the seated person, as well as air-conducting channels toward the side (e.g., an A side) facing the seated person. The ventilator is to be disposed in the foam itself, on the B side. The air is transported to the A side via the air distribution structure in the form of air trenches introduced into the foam on the B side, and via the air-conducting channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Tomas Barkow, Heinz Etzmuss, Hans-georg Kaiser, Bernd Wilhelm, Harald Vogel, Adrian Sievers, Reinhard Mueller