Patents by Inventor Werner Schlecht

Werner Schlecht 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: 7934533
    Abstract: A window shade for motor vehicles having a shade of approximately trapezoidal shape. An extension profile or pull rod of the shade, the ends of which are guided in guide rails, is arranged on the shortest transverse edge of the shade. In order to compensate for a varying distance between the guide rails, the extension profile is divided into a center section, on which the shade is fixed, and two end sections that move in the guide rails. Centering devices are provided in order to prevent transverse creases in the shade when it is completely extended. The centering devices, which are effective when the shade is completely extended, act upon the center section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner Schlecht
  • Patent number: 7896057
    Abstract: A roller blind for motor vehicle windows which includes a roller blind body movable between a retracted stored posited and an extended position over the window with which it is used. The roller blind body has a width greater than at least portions of the rear window, with the excess portions of the roller blind body being movable into receptacles mounted in the vehicle body, thus preventing any possible light gap between the roller blind body and the side edges of the of window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner Schlecht
  • Patent number: 7828041
    Abstract: A roll-up sunroof shade is provided that has two guide rails in addition to the tensioned shade element. A push element runs in each guide rail. Each push element is driven with a positive fit via a separate drive gear. For manual activation of the shade element, the rotational movement of the wind-up shade is transferred to the drive gears, and thus to the push elements, via a gear arrangement. In contrast, during retraction, the force acts from the push elements onto the wind-up shaft via the drive gears in order to generate the necessary rotational movement of the wind-up shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Patent number: 7621577
    Abstract: A cargo compartment cover is provided that includes guide rail arrangements on either side of the cover sheet in order to bring the cover sheet into a intermediate position starting from the closed position. To transfer the cover sheet between these two positions, two separate gear motors are provided which are not synchronized together. The gear motors run completely independently of one another electrically and mechanically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Patent number: 7473085
    Abstract: A drywall finisher's flat box is disclosed, having an adjustable pressure plate spring, independent suspension for guide wheels on the back plate, and a wiper configured so that the pressure plate can be pushed flat against the back plate, thus expelling nearly all of the drywall compound from the flat box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Cinta Tools LLC
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Patent number: 7458634
    Abstract: A center armrest for rear seat backs of cars that comprises an armrest upper part and an armrest lower part that are joined together by means of a hinge located at an end face of the armrest. Within a hollow central portion of the armrest, a control mechanism is provided by which the thickness of the armrest is automatically adjusted when the armrest is swiveled down from an out-of-use position where it functions as part of the seat back into the armrest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Schlecht, Jürgen Salewski, Hartmut Bohlke, Wolfgang Sitzler, Olaf Büschgens
  • Publication number: 20080284203
    Abstract: 1. Drawing-out profile for a window blind of a vehicle. 2.1. The invention relates to a drawing-out profile (30) for a window blind of a vehicle, with two profile sections (40, 50) which extend in a main direction of extent (2) and can be connected to each other enclosing a preferably flexible sheetlike structure (20) of the window blind, wherein contact surfaces (40a, 50a) of the two profile sections (40, 50) bound an accommodating space for accommodating an end section of the flexible sheetlike structure (20). 2.2. According to the invention, the profile sections (40, 50) can be joined together in a form-fitting or frictional manner via associated connecting means (42, 46, 49, 52, 54, 59). 2.3. Use as a drawing-out profile which can easily be fitted. 3. FIG. 2a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Melf Hansen, Abdoul Coulibaly, Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20080088145
    Abstract: A cargo compartment cover is provided that includes guide rail arrangements on either side of the cover sheet in order to bring the cover sheet into a intermediate position starting from the closed position. To transfer the cover sheet between these two positions, two separate gear motors are provided which are not synchronized together. The gear motors run completely independently of one another electrically and mechanically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20080073040
    Abstract: A roller blind for motor vehicles is provided that includes guide rails at the sides of the deployed blind sheet. These guide rails contain guide grooves without undercuts. Strip-like actuators are used to transfer the forces between the pull rod and the driving device. The actuators are prevented from buckling perpendicularly to the plane of the blind sheet by the guide rails. Due to their shape, the actuators are prevented inherently, i.e. without external assistance, from buckling parallel to the plane of the blind sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20080073035
    Abstract: A roll-up sunroof shade is provided that has two guide rails in addition to the tensioned shade element. A push element runs in each guide rail. Each push element is driven with a positive fit via a separate drive gear. For manual activation of the shade element, the rotational movement of the wind-up shade is transferred to the drive gears, and thus to the push elements, via a gear arrangement. In contrast, during retraction, the force acts from the push elements onto the wind-up shaft via the drive gears in order to generate the necessary rotational movement of the wind-up shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Patent number: 7316443
    Abstract: A rear-window roller blind assembly for motor vehicles in which the roller blind is movable out of a pull-out slit to an extended position through movement of a pull-out element on a free edge thereof. The pull-out element includes a center piece and relatively movable end pieces shaped so that when the pull-out element is in a retracted position the pull-out slit is covered over its entire length by the pull-out element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20070292196
    Abstract: A drywall finisher's flat box is disclosed, having an adjustable pressure plate spring, independent suspension for guide wheels on the back plate, and a wiper configured so that the pressure plate can be pushed flat against the back plate, thus expelling nearly all of the drywall compound from the flat box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20070205638
    Abstract: A center armrest for rear seat backs of cars that comprises an armrest upper part and an armrest lower part that are joined together by means of a hinge located at an end face of the armrest. Within a hollow central portion of the armrest, a control mechanism is provided by which the thickness of the armrest is automatically adjusted when the armrest is swiveled down from an out-of-use position where it functions as part of the seat back into the armrest position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Schlecht, Jurgen Salewski, Hartmut Bohlke, Wolfgang Sitzler, Olaf Buschgens
  • Publication number: 20070195536
    Abstract: A window shade for motor vehicles having a shade of approximately trapezoidal shape. An extension profile or pull rod of the shade, the ends of which are guided in guide rails, is arranged on the shortest transverse edge of the shade. In order to compensate for a varying distance between the guide rails, the extension profile is divided into a center section, on which the shade is fixed, and two end sections that move in the guide rails. Centering devices are provided in order to prevent transverse creases in the shade when it is completely extended. The centering devices, which are effective when the shade is completely extended, act upon the center section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20070182190
    Abstract: Motor vehicle loading space with a loading space covering. A motor vehicle loading space with a loading space covering which has a flexible sheetlike structure which is mounted in a manner such that it can be wound up and unwound on a winding shaft fixed on the vehicle and which is guided by means of a dimensionally stable extension profile in profiled guide structures, which are arranged on opposite sides of the loading space fixed on the vehicle, is known. According to the invention, a respective screening profile is provided on both sides of the loading space and respectively covers a side edge of the sheetlike structure above an upper side of the sheetlike structure in the approximately horizontally extended functional position thereof. Use for passenger vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Wolfgang Stark, Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20070144689
    Abstract: A roller blind for motor vehicle windows which includes a roller blind body movable between a retracted stored posited and an extended position over the window with which it is used. The roller blind body has a width greater than at least portions of the rear window, with the excess portions of the roller blind body being movable into receptacles mounted in the vehicle body, thus preventing any possible light gap between the roller blind body and the side edges of the of window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20070122301
    Abstract: An improved capacity mud pump is achieved by lengthening the link between the piston and the pump handle in such a way that each stroke of the handle moves the piston farther, thus transferring more mud per stroke. Reconfiguration of the output aperture of the pump by attaching a high filler allows the user to hold the empty tool in a position that affords better leverage in working the pump handle and shaft guides improve the application of vertical force to the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht
  • Publication number: 20070041804
    Abstract: A load-bearing rail is provided for the cargo space of a motor vehicle, which is used for accommodating a load-bearing eyelet that can be guided therein in a movable and lockable manner. To provide a load-bearing rail for the cargo space of a motor vehicle, which may assume additional functions in order to both keep the weight low and to reduce the number of parts and thus to lower the cost of production, the load-bearing rail is provided with a bracket, which sticks out laterally and which serves as a support for a floor of the cargo space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicants: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengessellschaft, BOS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Stoeckl, Werner Schlecht, Thomas Seeg, Henning Sparrer
  • Publication number: 20070035145
    Abstract: A protective device for a motor vehicle luggage area has a flexible flat article, which is movably mounted between a compact, deposited protection position and at least one extracted protection position. There are at least two parallel, spaced functional shafts to which the flat article is connected. The position of the flat article is detected and a controller, as a function of the detected position, controls the functional shafts in such a way that the flat article in a first, roughly horizontally extracted protection position has a first, light-proof surface structural portion and in a second, vertically extracted protection position a second, light-transmitting surface structural portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Herbert Walter, Werner Schlecht, Henning Sparrer, Marina Ehrenberger, Thomas Seeg
  • Publication number: 20070007783
    Abstract: A loading space protection device includes at least one winding shaft which is rotatably mounted between two end caps, the end caps securing the unit composed of the winding shaft and end caps in vehicle-end securing receptacles. The winding shaft is surrounded, in a region between the end caps, by a housing which includes at least one outlet slot for a flexible planar structure which is secured on the winding shaft in such a way that it can be wound on and unwound. The end caps are configured in their end edge region which adjoins the housing in such a way that their external contour merges in an aligned fashion with the external contour of the housing. Plugs are provided at the end edge regions of the end caps and/or at corresponding end sides of the housing and permit the end caps to be attached to the housing in a centered fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventor: Werner Schlecht