Patents by Inventor Torsten FLEMMING

Torsten FLEMMING 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).

  • Method for producing a structural subassembly and structural subassembly
    Patent number: 11806951
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a structural subassembly, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least one first profile component of fiber-reinforced plastic and at least one connecting component for producing a node connection of the first profile component with a further profile component. The method includes the following steps: providing a mold with at least one mold half, which has a cavity that corresponds substantially to the first profile component to be produced and includes at least one integrally molded-on connecting component; introducing a one- or multi-piece textile reinforcing material, in particular a textile semifinished product, into the mold; introducing a flowable plastics material into the mould, in order to impregnate the textile reinforcing material; and curing and/or cooling the plastics material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Staudt, Tobias Preuss, Torsten Flemming, Florian Spirkl
  • Method for Producing a Structural Subassembly and Structural Subassembly
    Publication number: 20170252987
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a structural subassembly, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least one first profile component of fiber-reinforced plastic and at least one connecting component for producing a node connection of the first profile component with a further profile component. The method includes the following steps: providing a mold with at least one mold half, which has a cavity that corresponds substantially to the first profile component to be produced and includes at least one integrally molded-on connecting component; introducing a one- or multi-piece textile reinforcing material, in particular a textile semifinished product, into the mold; introducing a flowable plastics material into the mould, in order to impregnate the textile reinforcing material; and curing and/or cooling the plastics material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Bernhard STAUDT, Tobias PREUSS, Torsten FLEMMING, Florian SPIRKL