Patents by Inventor Werner Krauth
Werner Krauth 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).
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Publication number: 20240116100Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a bulkhead of a motor vehicle body and method for the manufacture of bulkheads of motor vehicle bodies of different types of motor vehicles. The front wheel arches of the motor vehicle body are at least partly formed by the bulkhead of the motor vehicle. A component with a spatial structure is manufactured from a two-dimensional metallic semi-finished product by forming, wherein the component forms at least part of the bulkhead. The component manufactured by the forming forms at least a large part of the bulkhead in relation to the area of the projection of the bulkhead in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle and extends at least over sections of both front wheel arches of the motor vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian SCHWERING, Thomas PAULSEN, Werner KRAUTH
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Publication number: 20240116586Abstract: A method for assembling a motor vehicle body, wherein the motor vehicle body has a front end structure with a bulkhead and a body area arranged in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle behind the bulkhead. The front end structure is pre-assembled separate from the body area before connecting the front end structure to the body area located behind the bulkhead. The separation between the pre-assembled front end structure and the body area is immediately in front of or behind the bulkhead.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian SCHWERING, Thomas PAULSEN, Werner KRAUTH
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Patent number: 11858331Abstract: An electric vehicle body structure includes an installation space being downwardly open and upwardly delimited by a floor body-panel profile section. A traction battery is inserted into the space from below, a battery housing flange under the profile section is screwed from below to the profile section at a screw connection having a vertical screw bolt penetrating a housing flange passage and screw hole in the profile section and screwed to a weld nut at a flange housing opposite side of the profile section. The flange is clamped between screw bolt head and profile section. A crash displaces the battery until an inner passage wall presses screw bolt against screw hole edge, subjecting the screw bolt to shear load reduced by an elongated weld nut shaft projecting into the screw hole. The screw bolt presses against the screw hole edge, with the weld nut shaft in intermediate position.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventor: Werner Krauth
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Patent number: 11718136Abstract: A bearing arrangement for a damper bearing of a shock absorber in a wheelhouse of a vehicle. A damper receptacle is formed in a wheelhouse sheet metal part delimiting the wheelhouse. A threaded bolt is guided through a damper bearing screw hole and through a screw hole of the damper receptacle and the bolt tip of the threaded bolt is screwed together with an internal thread of a reinforcement element which is arranged on the side of the damper receptacle. A positioning aid is associated with the damper receptacle, via which positioning aid the damper bearing of the shock absorber can be pre-positioned in an assembly process up to an installation position in which the screw hole of the damper bearing, the screw hole of the damper receptacle, and the reinforcement element internal thread are oriented flush with respect to each other in a screw direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Schilling, Werner Krauth, Nicole Wallmann
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Patent number: 11661115Abstract: A body structure for an electrically operated vehicle, having an installation space for a traction battery, which space is open toward the vehicle bottom in the vertical vehicle direction, is delimited toward the vehicle top by a floor pan part that forms the vehicle floor, and is delimited on both sides in the transverse vehicle direction by a rocker panel that delimits a side-door opening toward the vehicle bottom, wherein a front body longitudinal member that transitions into the respective rocker panel toward the rear of the vehicle in the longitudinal vehicle direction extends on each vehicle side in the front-end region, and wherein the relevant front corner of the traction battery is enclosed by an interior corner region, in particular right-angled interior corner region, that stretches between the rocker panel and the front battery cross member.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stephan Rose, Werner Krauth
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Publication number: 20220144347Abstract: A body structure for an electrically operated vehicle, having an installation space for a traction battery, which space is open toward the vehicle bottom in the vertical vehicle direction, is delimited toward the vehicle top by a floor pan part that forms the vehicle floor, and is delimited on both sides in the transverse vehicle direction by a rocker panel that delimits a side-door opening toward the vehicle bottom, wherein a front body longitudinal member that transitions into the respective rocker panel toward the rear of the vehicle in the longitudinal vehicle direction extends on each vehicle side in the front-end region, and wherein the relevant front corner of the traction battery is enclosed by an interior corner region, in particular right-angled interior corner region, that stretches between the rocker panel and the front battery cross member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stephan ROSE, Werner KRAUTH
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Publication number: 20220144061Abstract: An electric vehicle body structure includes an installation space being downwardly open and upwardly delimited by a floor body-panel profile section. A traction battery is inserted into the space from below, a battery housing flange under the profile section is screwed from below to the profile section at a screw connection having a vertical screw bolt penetrating a housing flange passage and screw hole in the profile section and screwed to a weld nut at a flange housing opposite side of the profile section. The flange is clamped between screw bolt head and profile section. A crash displaces the battery until an inner passage wall presses screw bolt against screw hole edge, subjecting the screw bolt to shear load reduced by an elongated weld nut shaft projecting into the screw hole. The screw bolt presses against the screw hole edge, with the weld nut shaft in intermediate position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventor: WERNER KRAUTH
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Publication number: 20220144067Abstract: A body structure for an electrically operated vehicle, having an installation space for a traction battery, which space is open toward the vehicle bottom in the vertical vehicle direction, is closed toward the vehicle top by a floor pan part that forms the vehicle floor, and is delimited on both sides in the transverse vehicle direction by a rocker panel that delimits a side-door opening toward the vehicle bottom, wherein a rear body longitudinal member that transitions into the respective rocker panel toward the front of the vehicle in the longitudinal vehicle direction extends on each vehicle side in the rear-end region, and wherein the relevant rear corner of the traction battery is enclosed by an interior corner region, in particular right-angled interior corner region, that stretches between the rocker panel and the front battery cross member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas SCHILLING, Nicole WALLMANN, Ingo LUEKEN, Werner KRAUTH
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Publication number: 20220080797Abstract: A bearing arrangement for a damper bearing of a shock absorber in a wheelhouse of a vehicle. A damper receptacle is formed in a wheelhouse sheet metal part delimiting the wheelhouse. A threaded bolt is guided through a damper bearing screw hole and through a screw hole of the damper receptacle and the bolt tip of the threaded bolt is screwed together with an internal thread of a reinforcement element which is arranged on the side of the damper receptacle. A positioning aid is associated with the damper receptacle, via which positioning aid the damper bearing of the shock absorber can be pre-positioned in an assembly process up to an installation position in which the screw hole of the damper bearing, the screw hole of the damper receptacle, and the reinforcement element internal thread are oriented flush with respect to each other in a screw direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Thomas SCHILLING, Werner KRAUTH, Nicole WALLMANN
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Patent number: 9555835Abstract: The invention relates to a body structure, in particular a floor structure, for a motor vehicle, comprising support components that form defined load paths for crash situations. According to the invention, at least some of the support components located in the region of at least one defined load path, in particular a head-on collision load path and/or a side collision load path and/or a rear collision load path, are formed by high-strength support components, preferably by fully through-hardened or at least partially through-hardened high-strength support components which are made of a hot-formed or shape-hardened sheet steel and which are directly or indirectly, preferably directly, connected to each other, in particular connected to one another non-positively and/or positively and/or by bonding.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Bernard Lohmann, Werner Krauth, Thorben Bösche, Gwendolin Schifferli, Martin Steinrücken, Stefan Thiele, Jürgen Hillmann
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Publication number: 20150239504Abstract: The invention relates to a body structure, in particular a floor structure, for a motor vehicle, comprising support components that form defined load paths for crash situations. According to the invention, at least some of the support components located in the region of at least one defined load path, in particular a head-on collision load path and/or a side collision load path and/or a rear collision load path, are formed by high-strength support components, preferably by fully through-hardened or at least partially through-hardened high-strength support components which are made of a hot-formed or shape-hardened sheet steel and which are directly or indirectly, preferably directly, connected to each other, in particular connected to one another non-positively and/or positively and/or by bonding.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Bernard LOHMANN, Werner KRAUTH, Thorben BÖSCHE, Gwendolin SCHIFFERLI, Martin STEINRÜCKEN, Stefan THIELE, Jürgen HILLMANN
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Patent number: 9056633Abstract: The invention relates to a car body structure, especially a substructure, for a motor vehicle, with beam components that create defined load paths in collision situations. According to the invention, the beam components situated in the area of at least one defined load path—especially a head-on collision load path and/or a side collision load path and/or a rear-end collision load path—at least partially comprise high-strength beam components, preferably completely through-hardened or at least partially through-hardened high-strength beam components, made out of a hot-worked or press-hardened steel sheet, said beam components being joined to each other directly or indirectly, preferably directly, especially being joined to each other positively or non-positively and/or by bonding.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Werner Krauth, Thorben Bösche, Gwendolin Schifferli, Martin Steinrücken, Stefan Thiele, Jürgen Hillmann, Maria-Rita Lohmann
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Patent number: 8702159Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle body comprising at least one longitudinal member (1) and an elastomer bearing (3) arranged thereon for supporting a vehicle component. Said elastomer bearing (3) consists of a first stable bearing part (4) attached to the body and a second stable bearing part (5) connected to the component, and an elastomer body (6) is arranged between the bearing parts. According to the invention, the elastomer bearing (3) is arranged at least partially in a receiving cavity (2) on the longitudinal member (1), and the first bearing part (4) attached to the body spans the receiving cavity (2) in the form of an impact bridge fixed to the edges of the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Werner Krauth, Gwendolin Schifferli, Maria-Rita Lohmann
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Publication number: 20130088047Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle body comprising at least one longitudinal member (1) and an elastomer bearing (3) arranged thereon for supporting a vehicle component. Said elastomer bearing (3) consists of a first stable bearing part (4) attached to the body and a second stable bearing part (5) connected to the component, and an elastomer body (6) is arranged between the bearing parts. According to the invention, the elastomer bearing (3) is arranged at least partially in a receiving cavity (2) on the longitudinal member (1), and the first bearing part (4) attached to the body spans the receiving cavity (2) in the form of an impact bridge fixed to the edges of the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Inventors: Werner Krauth, Gwendolin Schifferli, Maria-Rita Lohmann