Patents by Inventor Volker DEINHARD

Volker DEINHARD 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: 20230406161
    Abstract: It is provided a fixing apparatus for fixing an object to a fixing face in a vehicle, having at least one fixing element, which is constructed for fixing the object having a fixing portion which for engagement in a fixing opening can be introduced along an adjustment axis into the fixing opening. The fixing element has on an outer covering face of the fixing portion a coupling region which in at least two different adjustment positions of the fixing element, in which the fixing portion can be introduced in each case into the fixing opening, permits an electrical contacting by a counter-element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Volker DEINHARD, Markus BAUERNFEIND, Eike FROEHLICH, Mario WAZANINI, Steffen FOLGER, Susanne KOPF, Markus BISCHOF, Marcel PERLE, Manuel LINSEDER, Christoph NIES
  • Publication number: 20220274509
    Abstract: A vehicle provided with a vehicle interior including an interior surface and at least one interior object provided for arrangement and fixation in the vehicle interior, an electronic detection device is provided, which is adapted to detect a position of the interior object on the interior surface. The at least one interior object includes at least one drive device for a non-mechanically guided displacement of the interior object on the interior surface of the vehicle, and the electronic detection device adapted to detect the reaching of a specified fixing position on the interior surface by the interior object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg
    Inventors: Christian HERRMANN, Matthias GEMPEL, Volker DEINHARD, Eike FRÖHLICH, Markus BAUERNFEIND, Manfred STENZEL, Thomas WEINGÄRTNER, Wolfgang UEBEL
  • Publication number: 20220266722
    Abstract: A fixing device for fixing an object to a fixing surface in a vehicle, including at least one fixing element configured for fixing the object with a fixing portion that is provided for engagement in a fixing opening, the fixing portion can be introduced into the fixing opening along an adjustment axis. At least one adjustable locking element, separate from the fixing element, which by interaction with the fixing portion engaging in the fixing opening locks the fixing element on the fixing opening and blocks the fixing portion against removal from the fixing opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg
    Inventors: Markus BAUERNFEIND, Mario WAZANINI, Fabian LANG, Michael HÖPPEL, Markus TREICHL, Mario STEGERER, Stefan BÄTZ, Volker DEINHARD, Eike FRÖHLICH, Christian HERZOG, Hartmut BEYERSDORFER
  • Publication number: 20200017031
    Abstract: An adjusting device for providing a storage compartment having a storage space the volume of which is variable, including an adjustable part by means of which at least part of a wall delimiting the storage space is defined and which can be adjusted between an initial position and at least one adjustment position, the volume of the storage space in the initial position of the adjustable part being different from that in the adjustment position of the adjustable part. The adjusting device may include at least one link chain with a plurality of chain links and/or the adjustable part can be adjusted to an adjustment position in which an exterior face of the adjustable part, being opposite an interior face of the adjustable part facing the storage space, defines a support surface as part of a table formed by the adjustable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg
    Inventors: Markus BAUERNFEIND, Fabian LANG, Michael HOEPPEL, Volker DEINHARD, Mario Stegerer