Patents by Inventor Volker Wilhelmi

Volker Wilhelmi 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: 9821636
    Abstract: A guide rail for a window lifter for raising and lowering a window pane or door system for a vehicle door having a carrier and at least two guide rails disposed on the carrier. The guide rails include a guide profile that can be twisted or bent for guiding an adjusting part of the window lifter coupled to the window pane along an adjusting direction predetermined by the guide rails and the guide profile includes a base and two legs protruding at obtuse draft angles from the ends of the base, such that the size of the draft angles is proportional to the bending or twisting of the guide rails prescribed by the kinematics of the retraction of the window pane over the adjusting travel of the window pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Hallstadt
    Inventors: Olaf Kriese, Martin Schlechtriemen, Volker Wilhelmi gen. Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20150352927
    Abstract: A guide rail for a window lifter for raising and lowering a window pane or door system for a vehicle door having a carrier and at least two guide rails disposed on the carrier. The guide rails comprise a guide profile that can be twisted or bent for guiding an adjusting part of the window lifter coupled to the window pane along an adjusting direction predetermined by the guide rails and the guide profile comprises a base and two legs protruding at obtuse draft angles from the ends of the base, such that the size of the draft angles is proportional to the bending or twisting of the guide rails prescribed by the kinematics of the retraction of the window pane over the adjusting travel of the window pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Olaf Kriese, Martin Schlechtriemen, Volker Wilhelmi gen. Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20130199098
    Abstract: A guide rail for a window lifter for raising and lowering a window pane or door system for a vehicle door having a carrier and at least two guide rails disposed on the carrier. The guide rails comprise a guide profile that can be twisted or bent for guiding an adjusting part of the window lifter coupled to the window pane along an adjusting direction predetermined by the guide rails and the guide profile comprises a base and two legs protruding at obtuse draft angles from the ends of the base, such that the size of the draft angles is proportional to the bending or twisting of the guide rails prescribed by the kinematics of the retraction of the window pane over the adjusting travel of the window pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Olaf Kriese, Martin Schlechtriemen, Volker Wilhelmi Hofmann
  • Patent number: 6710579
    Abstract: A device with a starter-generator for internal combustion engines, the combustion engine having a centrifugal mass for stabilizing its smoothness of running, with at least one first nonpositive clutch and a flywheel generator, which can be actuated by means of an electrical energy source and is in effective connection with a selectable gearbox, the nonpositive clutch being provided between the flywheel generator, which can be actuated by means of an electrical energy source, and the combustion engine, and the flywheel generator forming the centrifugal mass of the combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Peter Ebel, Andreas Schwarzhaupt, Gernot Spiegelberg, Volker Wilhelmi, Joerg Zuern
  • Publication number: 20020125861
    Abstract: A device with a starter-generator for internal combustion engines, the combustion engine having a centrifugal mass for stabilizing its smoothness of running, with at least one first nonpositive clutch and a flywheel generator, which can be actuated by means of an electrical energy source and is in effective connection with a selectable gearbox, the nonpositive clutch being provided between the flywheel generator, which can be actuated by means of an electrical energy source, and the combustion engine, and the flywheel generator forming the centrifugal mass of the combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Peter Ebel, Andreas Schwarzhaupt, Gernot Spiegelberg, Volker Wilhelmi, Joerg Zuern
  • Patent number: 5889472
    Abstract: A vehicle key with an installed electronic system is used, for example, for wireless communication with the vehicle for controlling a vehicle locking system or a drive-away blocking system. The electronic vehicle key has a voice memory, a voice output unit, a control unit with a voice system function a radio call receiving device, a radio call information output unit and a control unit. By means of the voice system function, for example, the parking site of a vehicle can be stored in the key and can be emitted again in voice form. A key equipped with the radio call receiving function permits the transmission of radio call messages to the owner of the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Nagel, Jurgen Setzer, Volker Wilhelmi
  • Patent number: 5640056
    Abstract: An adjusting device having a multi-function operating switch is provided. The function elements which can be controlled by the operating switch can be selected in a variable manner on the user side from a totality of function elements. In a motor vehicle, the operating switch may, for example, have the configuration of a tunnel driving switch by which function elements that can be selected by the user, such as window lifting mechanisms, low-beam and interior-light units, etc. can be controlled into function positions which can also be predetermined by the user for driving through tunnels. This implements a high operating comfort for the individual and situation-adapted adjustment of a condition which can be influenced by a totality of function elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Juergen Setzer, Volker Wilhelmi, Gerhard Nagel
  • Patent number: 5602425
    Abstract: The invention provides a seat-occupancy-detection device in a motor vehicle, by means of which seat functions can be actuated dependent on the load acting on the seat, which device is configured such that it can be utilized and implemented in a more versatile manner. By using a data bus in the vehicle, which provides the functions connected to the data bus with items of information throughout the vehicle, the area around a seating position is automatically adapted based on seat occupancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Volker Wilhelmi, Ernst Maier