Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Suck

Wolfgang Suck 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: 9579992
    Abstract: A longitudinal guide for vehicle seats including two elongate rails, each including a lower rail, an upper rail supported on the lower rail and displaceable longitudinally, two bearing areas for guiding means, the bearing areas lying diagonally opposite to and being biased against each other, each upper rail and lower rail having an L-shaped region, if viewed in profile, formed by a base leg and an L-leg that protrudes from the base leg substantially perpendicularly, and two end regions, which adjoin the L-shaped region, each end region of the upper or lower rail together with the end region of the associated lower or upper rail forming an embracing area by mutually hooking, end regions of the upper rail forming bearing areas with opposite portions of the associated lower rail, and a plurality of balls are supported in a first bearing area on the end region having a circular arc-shaped profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Wolfgang Suck, Nick Röhnert, Karsten Hartleb, Andreas Prause, Bernd Griebel
  • Patent number: 9387778
    Abstract: A longitudinal guide for vehicle seats, comprising a lower rail, an upper rail supported thereon to be displaceable in a longitudinal direction, wherein each upper rail and lower rail has an L-shaped region, if viewed in profile, formed by a base leg and an L-leg projecting from the base leg substantially perpendicularly, and two end regions respectively connected to the L-shaped region. Each elongate rail includes a first bearing area and a second bearing area for guiding means, which are biased to each other and formed by opposite end portions of the respective upper rail and portions of the associated lower rail. Embossments are formed at both ends of the base leg of the upper rail by cold work forming, with a smaller radius of curvature to effect higher stiffness of the longitudinal rail, particularly in event of a crash. Further embossments may be provided for an even higher stiffness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Wolfgang Suck, Nick Röhnert, Karsten Hartleb, Andreas Prause, Bernd Griebel
  • Patent number: 9371012
    Abstract: A spindle drive for longitudinally adjusting a motor vehicle seat is provided. The spindle drive comprising an adjustment rail that can be longitudinally adjusted relative to a body mounted rail and an adjusting mechanism that includes a driving worm connected to a driving device as well as a spindle nut, the external teeth of which mesh with the external teeth of the driving worm, and the internal teeth of which mesh with the external thread of a spindle. The spindle nut is formed by a hybrid spindle nut that has a functional part, which is located in the force flux between the driving worm and the spindle, and at least one strengthening part, deflecting crash forces from the adjustment rail into the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Stefan Bosecker, Wolfgang Suck, Florian Lipp, Andrea Bauersachs, Sebastian Eichhorn
  • Publication number: 20150336476
    Abstract: A spindle drive for longitudinally adjusting a motor vehicle seat is provided. The spindle drive comprising an adjustment rail that can be longitudinally adjusted relative to a body mounted rail and an adjusting mechanism that includes a driving worm connected to a driving device as well as a spindle nut, the external teeth of which mesh with the external teeth of the driving worm, and the internal teeth of which mesh with the external thread of a spindle. The spindle nut is formed by a hybrid spindle nut that has a functional part, which is located in the force flux between the driving worm and the spindle, and at least one strengthening part, deflecting crash forces from the adjustment rail into the spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Bosecker, Wolfgang Suck, Florian Lipp, Andrea Bauersachs, Sebastian Eichhorn
  • Publication number: 20150314704
    Abstract: A longitudinal guide for vehicle seats including two elongate rails, each including a lower rail, an upper rail supported on the lower rail and displaceable longitudinally, two bearing areas for guiding means, the bearing areas lying diagonally opposite to and being biased against each other, each upper rail and lower rail having an L-shaped region, if viewed in profile, formed by a base leg and an L-leg that protrudes from the base leg substantially perpendicularly, and two end regions, which adjoin the L-shaped region, each end region of the upper or lower rail together with the end region of the associated lower or upper rail forming an embracing area by mutually hooking, end regions of the upper rail forming bearing areas with opposite portions of the associated lower rail, and a plurality of balls are supported in a first bearing area on the end region having a circular arc-shaped profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Wolfgang Suck, Nick Röhnert, Karsten Hartleb, Andreas Prause, Bernd Griebel
  • Publication number: 20150314705
    Abstract: A longitudinal guide for vehicle seats, comprising a lower rail, an upper rail supported thereon to be displaceable in a longitudinal direction, wherein each upper rail and lower rail has an L-shaped region, if viewed in profile, formed by a base leg and an L-leg projecting from the base leg substantially perpendicularly, and two end regions respectively connected to the L-shaped region. Each elongate rail includes a first bearing area and a second bearing area for guiding means, which are biased to each other and formed by opposite end portions of the respective upper rail and portions of the associated lower rail. Embossments are formed at both ends of the base leg of the upper rail by cold work forming, with a smaller radius of curvature to effect higher stiffness of the longitudinal rail, particularly in event of a crash. Further embossments may be provided for an even higher stiffness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Wolfgang Suck, Nick Röhnert, Karsten Hartleb, Andreas Prause, Bernd Griebel
  • Patent number: 9145068
    Abstract: An adjusting means for adjusting two vehicle parts relative to each other, in particular for the longitudinal setting of a vehicle seat is provided. The adjusting means comprising an adjusting gear unit arranged on a first vehicle part and a spindle arranged on a second vehicle part, which extends in longitudinal direction, is in engagement with the adjusting gear unit and along which the adjusting gear unit is movable for adjusting the first vehicle part relative to the second vehicle part. There is provided a reinforcement part which supports the adjusting gear unit with respect to the first vehicle part in the longitudinal direction of the spindle such that due to the reinforcement part with forces introduced in the longitudinal direction from the first vehicle part into the adjusting gear unit the adjusting gear unit is supported with respect to the first vehicle part with a higher rigidity than with forces introduced against the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Stefan Bosecker, Wolfgang Suck, Florian Lipp, Andrea Bauersachs, Harald Bätz, Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 9139110
    Abstract: A spindle drive for longitudinally adjusting a motor vehicle seat is provided. The spindle drive comprising an adjustment rail that can be longitudinally adjusted relative to a body mounted rail and an adjusting mechanism that includes a driving worm connected to a driving device as well as a spindle nut, the external teeth of which mesh with the external teeth of the driving worm, and the internal teeth of which mesh with the external thread of a spindle. The spindle nut is formed by a hybrid spindle nut that has a functional part, which is located in the force flux between the driving worm and the spindle, and at least one strengthening part, deflecting crash forces from the adjustment rail into the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Stefan Bosecker, Wolfgang Suck, Florian Lipp, Andrea Bauersachs, Sebastian Eichhorn
  • Patent number: 9108533
    Abstract: A longitudinal guide for vehicle seats, including two elongate rails, each including a lower rail, an upper rail supported on the lower rail and displaceable in a longitudinal direction, and two bearing areas for guiding means, the bearing areas lying diagonally opposite to and biased against each other, each upper rail and lower rail having an L-shaped region, if viewed in profile, formed by a base leg and an L-leg protruding from the base leg substantially perpendicularly, and two end regions adjoining the L-shaped region, each end region of the upper or lower rail together with the end region of the associated lower or upper rail forming an embracing area by mutually hooking, the end regions of the upper rail forming the bearing areas with opposite portions of the associated lower rail, and a plurality of balls being supported in a first bearing area on the end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Wolfgang Suck, Nick Röhnert, Karsten Hartleb, Andreas Prause, Bernd Griebel
  • Patent number: 9050909
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle seat comprising a seat sub-frame adjustable along a rail longitudinal guide to which a backrest is hinged in a pivoting manner and can be folded forward toward a seating surface of the seat sub-frame, a locking device for arresting the rail longitudinal guide in an adjustable seating longitudinal position, an entry aid by means of which the locking device is released, when the backrest is folded forward to the seating surface and a memory arrangement for adjusting and restoring a memory position having a position memory that has an adjustment means for adjusting the memory position in the rail longitudinal direction of the rail longitudinal guide and a locking element that is connected to the adjustment means in a pivoting manner that under the effect of a control element can be pivoted in a locking rail for locking the adjusted memory position and pivoted out of the locking rail for adjusting a memory position and is connected to the adjustment means via a slotted gui
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Nick Röhnert, Wolfgang Suck, Marco GleiβBerg, Oliver Steffen, Guido Neumann
  • Publication number: 20130075571
    Abstract: A longitudinal guide for vehicle seats, including two elongate rails, each including a lower rail, an upper rail supported on the lower rail and displaceable in a longitudinal direction, and two bearing areas for guiding means, the bearing areas lying diagonally opposite to and biased against each other, each upper rail and lower rail having an L-shaped region, if viewed in profile, formed by a base leg and an L-leg protruding from the base leg substantially perpendicularly, and two end regions adjoining the L-shaped region, each end region of the upper or lower rail together with the end region of the associated lower or upper rail forming an embracing area by mutually hooking, the end regions of the upper rail forming the bearing areas with opposite portions of the associated lower rail, and a plurality of balls being supported in a first bearing area on the end region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG, COBURG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Suck, Nick Röhnert, Karsten Hartleb, Andreas Prause, Bernd Griebel
  • Publication number: 20120325033
    Abstract: An adjusting means for adjusting two vehicle parts relative to each other, in particular for the longitudinal setting of a vehicle seat is provided. The adjusting means comprising an adjusting gear unit arranged on a first vehicle part and a spindle arranged on a second vehicle part, which extends in longitudinal direction, is in engagement with the adjusting gear unit and along which the adjusting gear unit is movable for adjusting the first vehicle part relative to the second vehicle part. There is provided a reinforcement part which supports the adjusting gear unit with respect to the first vehicle part in the longitudinal direction of the spindle such that due to the reinforcement part with forces introduced in the longitudinal direction from the first vehicle part into the adjusting gear unit the adjusting gear unit is supported with respect to the first vehicle part with a higher rigidity than with forces introduced against the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Stefan Bosecker, Wolfgang Suck, Florian Lipp, Andrea Bauersachs, Harald Bätz, Sven Fischer
  • Publication number: 20120019037
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle seat comprising a seat sub-frame adjustable along a rail longitudinal guide to which a backrest is hinged in a pivoting manner and can be folded forward toward a seating surface of the seat sub-frame, a locking device for arresting the rail longitudinal guide in an adjustable seating longitudinal position, an entry aid by means of which the locking device is released, when the backrest is folded forward to the seating surface and a memory arrangement for adjusting and restoring a memory position having a position memory that has an adjustment means for adjusting the memory position in the rail longitudinal direction of the rail longitudinal guide and a locking element that is connected to the adjustment means in a pivoting manner that under the effect of a control element can be pivoted in a locking rail for locking the adjusted memory position and pivoted out of the locking rail for adjusting a memory position and is connected to the adjustment means via a slotted gui
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Nick Röhnert, Wolfgang Suck, Marco GleissBerg, Oliver Steffen, Guido Neumann
  • Publication number: 20110308340
    Abstract: A spindle drive for longitudinally adjusting a motor vehicle seat is provided. The spindle drive comprising an adjustment rail that can be longitudinally adjusted relative to a body mounted rail and an adjusting mechanism that includes a driving worm connected to a driving device as well as a spindle nut, the external teeth of which mesh with the external teeth of the driving worm, and the internal teeth of which mesh with the external thread of a spindle. The spindle nut is formed by a hybrid spindle nut that has a functional part, which is located in the force flux between the driving worm and the spindle, and at least one strengthening part, deflecting crash forces from the adjustment rail into the spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Stefan Bosecker, Wolfgang Suck, Andrea Bauersachs, Sebastian Eichhorn, Florian Lipp
  • Patent number: 7600816
    Abstract: A memory device, for a rail longitudinal guide for a motor vehicle seat, comprising two longitudinal guide rails displaceable towards each other, for the setting of the longitudinal seat position, a first memory module, which may be displaced along one of the two guide rails to set a memory position, a locking device for locking a set memory position, a second memory module, arranged on the second of the guide rails and a stop which, on reaching a relative position of the two guide rail corresponding to one of the memory positions, engages with a counter stop on the first memory module. The second memory module comprises a base body made from plastic, by which the latter is fixed to the second guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Andrea Bauersachs, Andreas Prause, Gregor Kröner, Wolfgang Suck, Alwin Macht
  • Publication number: 20080315662
    Abstract: An arrester device for an adjustable vehicle seat with at least one locking rail running parallel to an adjusting direction and having periodically arranged locking lugs and locking openings includes a locking unit which includes a plurality of locking pins with a cylindrical shaft. The locking pins are guided independently of one another in a guide device in a locking direction, are displaceable in the locking openings and are pretensioned in the locking direction. The locking pins have a circumferential thread structure at least on the portion of the cylindrical shaft thereof running through a guide portion of the guide device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG, COBURG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Suck, Matthias Baudler
  • Patent number: 7384103
    Abstract: A longitudinal guide rail for a motor vehicle seat. The rail includes two elongated guide rails that engage with one another and are displaceable in relation to one another in the longitudinal direction of the rails, a retaining bracket for a seatbelt buckle, which is fastened to one of the two guide rails, a slot that is provided in one of the guide rails, through which a fixing section of the retaining bracket is guided into a space enclosed by the two guide rails and a fixing point, at which the fixing section of the retaining bracket is connected to one of the guide rails. The fixing section when viewed from the longitudinal direction of the rails, extends beyond the slot and the fixing point, also viewed from the longitudinal direction of the rails, is located at a distance from the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Peter Rausch, Jochen Hofmann, Wolfgang Suck, Christina Schwerdtner, Andrea Bauersachs, Matthias Baudler
  • Patent number: 7204556
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat underframe and a backrest which tips forwards, these being interconnected by an adjustment and tipping axle and which preferably has a backrest inclination adjustment device on both sides. The adjustment device containing an adjustment gear and a part whose angle is adjustable in relation to a side part of the seat underframe. In the use position of the backrest, a stop of the part with an adjustable angle rests on a first stop of a fitting which is fixed in relation to the backrest, while in the tipped-forward position of the backrest, a stop that is provided on a fitting on the seat side rests on a second stop of the fitting that is fixed in relation to the backrest and/or the backrest upholstery rests on the seat cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Christina Schwerdtner, Peter Rausch, Wolfgang Suck
  • Patent number: 7172249
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat. The seat has a seat frame; a seat back pivotally mounted on the seat frame and which can be tilted forward out of its position of use and toward a seat surface of the seat frame; a longitudinal guide with which the seat frame is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the seat in order to adjust the longitudinal position of the seat; a fixing device for fixing the seat frame in a previously adjusted longitudinal position of the seat, an actuating element for releasing the fixing device thereby enabling the seat frame to be displaced in the longitudinal direction of the seat, a coupling mechanism, which acts upon the actuating element and releases the fixing device when the seat back is tilted forward toward the seat surface, and a memory device by means of which the seat frame can be automatically held in a preset longitudinal position of the seat, which is defined as a memory position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG Coburg
    Inventors: Peter Rausch, Christina Schwerdtner, Wolfgang Suck, Andrea Bauersachs, Reinhard Escher, Werner Tsubmann
  • Publication number: 20070001498
    Abstract: A memory device, for a rail longitudinal guide for a motor vehicle seat, comprising two longitudinal guide rails displaceable towards each other, for the setting of the longitudinal seat position, a first memory module, which may be displaced along one of the two guide rails to set a memory position, a locking device for locking a set memory position, a second memory module, arranged on the second of the guide rails and a stop which, on reaching a relative position of the two guide rail corresponding to one of the memory positions, engages with a counter stop on the first memory module. The second memory module comprises a base body made from plastic, by which the latter is fixed to the second guide rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Andrea Bauersachs, Andreas Prause, Gregor Kröner, Wolfgang Suck, Alwin Macht