Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Sitzler

Wolfgang Sitzler 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: 10889219
    Abstract: Armrest arrangement for a motor vehicle seat having a positionally fixed carrier structure, an armrest structure shiftable about a pivot axis an inclination adjustment device for the armrest structure and which has an adjustment element supported on the carrier structure, a drive device operatively connected to the adjustment element and a blocking device, operatively connected to the adjustment element. In a release state of the inclination adjustment device, the drive device brings about a driven adjustment movement of the adjustment element along an adjustment axis relative to the armrest structure, and in a blocking state of the inclination adjustment device, the blocking device brings about blocking of the adjustment element along the adjustment axis. In the blocking state, the drive device is operatively connected to the blocking device in a force- and/or torque-transmitting manner such that the drive device reinforces a blocking action of the blocking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jan Boddenberg, Hartmut Bohlke, Andreas Göbbels, Tanja Pink, Wolfgang Sitzler, Bogdan Tutelea
  • Patent number: 10604047
    Abstract: An arm rest arrangement for a motor vehicle seat with a fixed carrier structure and an arm rest body mounted for pivoting about an axis in relation thereto, and with which an incline adjustment device is associated, allowing a modification of an incline of the arm rest body in relation to the carrier structure. The incline adjustment device includes an actuating member and a blocking device for securing an incline adjustment carried out by the actuating member. The arm rest body include a supporting member adjustable in a linearly movable manner on the arm rest body and supported on the carrier structure. The actuating member and the blocking device are connected to the supporting member such that same can be released by the actuating member for a linear adjustment and can be stopped by the blocking device in an adjusted supporting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bogdan Tutelea, Wolfgang Sitzler, Tanja Pink, Andreas Göbbels, Hartmut Bohlke, Jan Boddenberg
  • Publication number: 20200001761
    Abstract: An armrest assembly and a vehicle seat. The armrest assembly includes an armrest body and a seat-fixed pivot joint in order to pivot the armrest body between a lowered support position and a raised idle position about a seat-fixed pivot axis. A mechanical raising aid is associated with the pivot joint, which raising aid controls a torque-producing device in accordance with pivot travel, which torque-producing device is designed to produce torque on the armrest body in the raising direction. The armrest assembly may be used in passenger vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Bogdan TUTELEA, Wolfgang SITZLER, Tanja PINK, Andreas GÖBBELS, Hartmut BOHLKE, Jan BODDENBERG
  • Publication number: 20190389351
    Abstract: Armrest arrangement for a motor vehicle seat having a positionally fixed carrier structure, an armrest structure shiftable about a pivot axis an inclination adjustment device for the armrest structure and which has an adjustment element supported on the carrier structure, a drive device operatively connected to the adjustment element and a blocking device, operatively connected to the adjustment element. In a release state of the inclination adjustment device, the drive device brings about a driven adjustment movement of the adjustment element along an adjustment axis relative to the armrest structure, and in a blocking state of the inclination adjustment device, the blocking device brings about blocking of the adjustment element along the adjustment axis. In the blocking state, the drive device is operatively connected to the blocking device in a force- and/or torque-transmitting manner such that the drive device reinforces a blocking action of the blocking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Jan BODDENBERG, Hartmut BOHLKE, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA
  • Publication number: 20190217761
    Abstract: Armrest arrangement for a vehicle interior having an armrest, a container-receiving device which is provided for receiving a container and arranged at least partially in a cavity of the armrest, and a guide device by which the container-receiving device is guided relative to the cavity along a pull-out direction between a retracted inoperative position and an extended receiving position. The guide device is formed on a rest carrier structure which is provided for supporting the armrest and mounted securely on the vehicle in the assembled state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Jan BODDENBERG, Hartmut BOHLKE, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA
  • Publication number: 20190210499
    Abstract: Armrest arrangement having a positionally fixed carrier structure, an armrest structure pivotably displaceable relative thereto about a pivot axis between a functional position and a non-use position. An inclination adjusting device is assigned to the armrest structure and has an adjustment element which, in the functional position, is supported indirectly on the carrier structure and which is, with respect to an adjustment axis, movable relative to the armrest structure such that the inclination of the armrest structure relative to the carrier structure in the functional position is adjustable by an adjustment movement of the adjustment element. The adjustment axis is oriented parallel to the pivot axis, wherein the at least one adjustment element is mounted for rotation about the adjustment axis and is supported on a guide track assigned to the carrier structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Jan BODDENBERG, Hartmut BOHLKE, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA
  • Patent number: 10308152
    Abstract: A vehicle seat having a supporting structure, having a seat surface and having a back rest, and having at least one arm rest arrangement which is held on the supporting structure. The arm rest arrangement includes a fixation unit which is capable of being attached to a complementary accommodating unit of the supporting structure or detached from the accommodating unit without a tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Wolfgang Sitzler, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Göbbels, Tanja Pink, Jan Boddenberg
  • Publication number: 20190084459
    Abstract: Covering device for a through-loading opening of a vehicle interior having first and second housing shells joined together to form a substantially rectangular covering cassette, and a reinforcing arrangement formed from two reinforcing elements and arranged between the housing shells. The reinforcing arrangement reinforces the covering cassette and is provided for a pivotable vehicle-mounted connection of the covering cassette to a rear seatback arrangement surrounding the through-loading opening and additionally for the pivotable support of a central rest arrangement. In a fixedly-mounted state of the covering device, the covering cassette is pivotable relative to the rear seatback arrangement between a covering position and a release position. Each reinforcing element is formed as a longitudinal profile, which profiles are joined with the covering cassette while each extending substantially in the longitudinal direction of the covering cassette and being separated from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Jan BODDENBERG, Hartmut BOHLKE, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA
  • Publication number: 20190001852
    Abstract: An arm rest arrangement for a motor vehicle seat with a fixed carrier structure and an arm rest body mounted for pivoting about an axis in relation thereto, and with which an incline adjustment device is associated, allowing a modification of an incline of the arm rest body in relation to the carrier structure. The incline adjustment device includes an actuating member and a blocking device for securing an incline adjustment carried out by actuating member. The arm rest body includes a supporting member adjustable in a linearly movable manner on the arm rest body and supported on the carrier structure. The actuating member and the blocking device are connected to the supporting member such that same can be released by the actuating member for a linear adjustment and can be stopped by the blocking device in an adjusted supporting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Bogdan TUTELEA, Wolfgang SITZLER, Tanja PINK, Andreas GÖBBELS, Hartmut BOHLKE, Jan BODDENBERG
  • Publication number: 20180170237
    Abstract: Device for securing loaded material in a loading space of a motor vehicle with at least one load rail which can be anchored fixedly to the vehicle on a loading space floor and is configured as a hollow profile with a longitudinal groove which is open toward the loading space, and with at least one load-receiving module which has a carrier body, which is displaceable and lockable in the load rail, and a load eye which is mounted movably on the carrier body between an inoperative position lowered into the load rail and a functional position protruding upward over the load rail. The carrier body has an oblique supporting plane, along which the load eye is guided in a shiftable manner between the inoperative position and the functional position, and in which the load eye is deposited in the inoperative position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Wolfram ZUMMACK, Bogdan TUTELEA, Wolfgang SITZLER, Tanja PINK, Andreas GÖBBELS, Hartmut BOHLKE, Jan BODDENBERG
  • Publication number: 20180162251
    Abstract: A pivotable rest arrangement for a vehicle interior, and method for producing the rest arrangement. The rest arrangement has a rest body with a cover and a receptacle for a housing shell which is configured for holding at least one drinking vessel, the housing shell having an encircling collar. The collar in the mounted state covers the cover in the region of an edge of the receptacle, and the collar is connected to the cover in a form-fitting, integrally bonded or force-fitting manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Hartmut BOHLKE, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Jan BODDENBERG
  • Publication number: 20180072200
    Abstract: A vehicle seat having a supporting structure, having a seat surface and having a back rest, and having at least one arm rest arrangement which is held on the supporting structure. The arm rest arrangement includes a fixation unit which is capable of being attached to a complementary accommodating unit of the supporting structure or detached from the accommodating unit without a tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Hartmut BOHLKE, Wolfgang SITZLER, Bogdan TUTELEA, Andreas GÖBBELS, Tanja PINK, Jan BODDENBERG
  • Patent number: 9849820
    Abstract: Receiving device for at least one food or beverage container in a motor vehicle having a trough-shaped receiving housing which has a base and wall sections, and at least one movable supporting part which, together with a side wall section of the receiving housing, forms a container holder in order to support a food or beverage container. The at least one supporting part is mounted in an infinitely adjustable manner in the receiving housing. At least one tension or compression spring arrangement is provided which continuously exerts a tensile or compressive force in the adjustment direction on the at least one supporting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels, Tanja Pink, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack
  • Patent number: 9845037
    Abstract: Device for holding at least one container in a vehicle interior and armrest unit. The device has a carrier housing which encloses a receiving cavity open towards one end face, and having a carrier slide which is mounted to the carrier housing to be movable between a rest position plunged in the receiving cavity and a functional position moved out of the end face of the receiving cavity, wherein the carrier slide has at least one container recess and at least one bottom support part pivotably mounted to the carrier slide. The bottom support part is designed as a sheet-type component made of a flat material having uniform thickness connected to the carrier slide by at least one articulated hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels, Tanja Pink, Hartmut Heine, Jan Boddenberg
  • Publication number: 20160362030
    Abstract: Device for holding at least one container in a vehicle interior and armrest unit. The device has a carrier housing which encloses a receiving cavity open towards one end face, and having a carrier slide which is mounted to the carrier housing to be movable between a rest position plunged in the receiving cavity and a functional position moved out of the end face of the receiving cavity, wherein the carrier slide has at least one container recess and at least one bottom support part pivotably mounted to the carrier slide. The bottom support part is designed as a sheet-type component made of a flat material having uniform thickness connected to the carrier slide by at least one articulated hinge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hartmut BOHLKE, Wolfgang SITZLER, Wolfram ZUMMACK, Bogdan TUTELEA, Andreas GOEBBELS, Tanja PINK, Hartmut HEINE, Jan BODDENBERG
  • Patent number: 9481275
    Abstract: Armrest device having an armrest part swivellably movable between an armrest position and a not-in-use position, having a base part arranged fixed in the vehicle and on which the armrest part is mounted swivellably movable about a swivel axis, and having a locking device for supporting the armrest part in at least one swivel position relative to the base part. The swivel axis is axially split into a base axis section and an armrest axis section, and the locking device includes a wrap spring brake which interacts with the base axis section and the armrest axis section in order to release the armrest part during a swivel movement in the direction of the not-in-use position and to lock it during a reverse swivel movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Juergen Salewski, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels
  • Patent number: 9475417
    Abstract: Container receiving apparatus for a vehicle interior having an upper supporting frame and a lower support base, the supporting frame being mounted in a receiving housing such that it can be moved linearly between a retracted rest position and an extended receiving position. The support base is mounted for movement between a supporting functional position and a rest position. A blocking device is provided and is active so as to limit movement or force in such a way that the support base is secured in its functional position against unintentional upward pivoting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Juergen Salewski, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels
  • Patent number: 9452698
    Abstract: A center backrest assembly having a main body which is mounted in the vehicle interior so as to be pivotable between an upright backrest position and a lowered functional position. The main body includes a head region which in the backrest position is positioned at the top. The head region on at least one lateral face has a lateral part which is mounted on the main body so as to be movable between a bearing position which bears on the head region and a laterally deployed deployment position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Juergen Salewski, Wolfgang Sitzler, Andreas Goebbels, Bogdan Tutelea, Wolfram Zummack
  • Patent number: 9434288
    Abstract: Receiving device for at least one container in a vehicle interior. A receiving device comprising a receiving frame is known, at least one adjustable cup holder being arranged in said receiving device, said cup holder being able to be displaced along opposing guide tracks of the receiving frame, to which latching means are assigned in order to fix the cup holder in a releasable manner in different positions relative to the opposing guide tracks. Longitudinal synchronization means are assigned to the at least one cup holder in order to achieve a parallel displacement of the cup holder along the opposing guide tracks. Use in the vehicle interior of passenger motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Juergen Salewski, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack, Andreas Goebbels
  • Patent number: 9409509
    Abstract: A device having a securing element which can be blocked in a load rail which is anchored so as to be fixed to a vehicle, the securing element having a base member with a retention region which can be inserted into the load rail in a positive-locking manner, and the base member includes at least one bar member for engagement in a catch bar arrangement of the load rail which is supported so as to be able to be moved relative to the base member. A additional bar is provided which is movably supported parallel with the bar member and independently of the bar member, and which is resiliently loaded in the direction of the blocking position and which can be moved together with the bar member into the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bohlke, Juergen Salewski, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels