Patents by Inventor Ulf-Lothar Bastian

Ulf-Lothar Bastian 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: 20230399885
    Abstract: A system comprising a cover for closing a charging opening of an electric vehicle in which a charging socket for charging a driving battery of the electric vehicle is located. The cover is mounted laterally next to the charging opening, on an inner side of the body part, so as to be pivotable about a first pivot axis by way of a hinge arm and can be pivoted by way of an electromechanical actuator. For activating the actuator, the invention provides a pivotable transfer body, which multiplies a path of the cover and activates the actuator by way of a push button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Ulf-Lothar Bastian, Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 11628707
    Abstract: An air vent for ventilating a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. So as to laterally deflect an air current through the air vent, the air vent includes two louvers including non-pivotable blades, which are oriented obliquely to a flow-through direction through the air vent and which can be moved obliquely to the flow-through direction into an air channel of the air vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ulf-Lothar Bastian
  • Publication number: 20220363180
    Abstract: So as to releasably fasten, in an accident-proof manner, a receptacle, which is, for example, cup-shaped, in a depression of a center console of a motor vehicle, serving as a seat for the receptacle, the invention provides a coupling including two detent elements which face away from one another and are disposed opposite one another, and which are urged apart by a spring element, catch lugs of which, projecting outwardly, extend over an edge of a rectangular fastening opening in a bottom of the receptacle. By rotating the receptacle by 30° to 45°, opposing corners of the fastening opening find their way beneath the catch lugs so that the receptacle can be removed from the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventor: Ulf-Lothar Bastian
  • Patent number: 11458815
    Abstract: Two disks are consecutively disposed transversely to a flow direction in an air vent for a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, serving as air deflection elements that include mutually intersecting slots, through which a rod that is pivotably mounted in a ball and socket joint passes, so that the air deflection elements can be moved transversely in the air vent by way of the rod. By moving the air deflection elements, an air current through the air vent can be guided to the side, and thus air flowing out of the air vent can be guided obliquely to the side in any arbitrary direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: fischer automotive systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulf-Lothar Bastian, Falk Schaal
  • Publication number: 20210061069
    Abstract: An air vent for ventilating a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. So as to laterally deflect an air current through the air vent, the air vent includes two louvers including non-pivotable blades, which are oriented obliquely to a flow-through direction through the air vent and which can be moved obliquely to the flow-through direction into an air channel of the air vent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventor: Ulf-Lothar BASTIAN
  • Publication number: 20210001694
    Abstract: Two disks are consecutively disposed transversely to a flow direction in an air vent for a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, serving as air deflection elements that include mutually intersecting slots, through which a rod that is pivotably mounted in a ball and socket joint passes, so that the air deflection elements can be moved transversely in the air vent by way of the rod. By moving the air deflection elements, an air current through the air vent can be guided to the side, and thus air flowing out of the air vent can be guided obliquely to the side in any arbitrary direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ulf-Lothar BASTIAN, Falk SCHAAL
  • Publication number: 20180334850
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roll top for a storage compartment in a center console of a motor vehicle and proposes to injection mold lamellae of the roll top in two layers from a hard plastic, and to subsequently mold joints made of an elastomer onto one of the two layers. A distance between a layer of the lamellae and the joints prevents the soft plastic of the joints, which is liquid during injection molding, from flowing onto this layer. As a result, a visible side of the roll top can be kept free of the soft plastic of the joints, and the soft plastic is prevented from flowing beneath a decorative layer applied by way of in-mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventor: Ulf-Lothar Bastian
  • Publication number: 20180319255
    Abstract: An air vent for ventilating a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, including a rectangular housing and a rectangular air outlet opening. So as to guide an air current and so as to control an air volume, a flow-around body is proposed that can be displaced longitudinally and transversely in the housing and also be used to close the air outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Ulf-Lothar Bastian, Falk Schaal
  • Publication number: 20110045758
    Abstract: A ventilation nozzle for the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, having an air-guiding device, for example a spoiler. In order to be able to demould the air-guiding device after its production by injection-moulding, the air-guiding device may be pivotally connected by way of a film hinge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventor: Ulf-Lothar BASTIAN
  • Publication number: 20090152284
    Abstract: In a holder for insertion of a beverage container, such as, for example, a can or a bottle, in order to compensate for the diameter, three pivotable flaps form compensating elements, of which one compensating element is mounted on the holder so as to be pivotable about a horizontal pivot axis and the other two compensating elements project from the one compensating element in both peripheral directions and are mounted on the one compensating element to be pivotable about vertical pivot axes. All three compensating elements are urged by spring-loading into a container receptacle of the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventor: Ulf-Lothar Bastian
  • Patent number: 6837470
    Abstract: A holder for beverage containers has a container receptacle for a beverage container, a clamping device provided in the container receptacle, the clamping device including at least one semi-circular retaining clip which is mounted in an upper region of the container receptacle, two radially opposite hinges mounting the at least one semi-circular retaining clip in the upper region of the container receptacle on a circumference so that the at least one semi-circular retaining clip is mounted resiliently and pivotally, the at least one semi-circular retaining clip pivoting out of the container receptacle by a spring action opposite to an insertion direction of a beverage container, and stop members limiting a pivoting angle in both directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Fischer Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Pacher, Ulf-Lothar Bastian, Rolf Schaeuffele, Wolf-Dieter Benz
  • Publication number: 20030226945
    Abstract: A holder for beverage containers has a container receptacle for a beverage container, a clamping device provided in the container receptacle, the clamping device including at least one semi-circular retaining clip which is mounted in an upper region of the container receptacle, two radially opposite hinges mounting the at least one semi-circular retaining clip in the upper region of the container receptacle on a circumference so that the at least one semi-circular retaining clip is mounted resiliently and pivotally, the at least one semi-circular retaining clip pivoting out of the container receptacle by a spring action opposite to an insertion direction of a beverage container, and stop members limiting a pivoting angle in both directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas Pacher, Ulf-Lothar Bastian, Rolf Schaeuffele, Wolf-Dieter Benz