PROGRESS-WERK OBERKIRCH AG Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130068062 | STEERING COLUMN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A motor vehicle steering column having an energy-absorbing device that includes a first element and a second element which engages the first element and moves with respect thereto during a vehicle impact to carry out mechanical deformation that absorbs energy. The first element is an elongated metal plate which extends in the longitudinal direction of the steering column and the second element has at least one guide element which is guided along the first element during a relative movement of the first and second elements and in so doing deforms the first element. The guide element is guided along an outer side of one of the longitudinal edges of the metal plate and engages therewith, which longitudinal edges extend in the longitudinal direction of the steering column. | 03-21-2013 |
20130008283 | POT-SHAPED HOUSING PART, ESPECIALLY FOR A HUB PART OF A HYBRID DRIVE - A pot-shaped housing part, especially for a hub part of a hybrid drive. The housing part has a bottom and a wall extending axially away from the bottom, and an outer face of the wall extending at least approximately up to an outer face of the bottom, which outer face of the bottom faces away from a free edge of the wall. The wall and the bottom are configured as one piece. The outer face of the wall also has a projecting portion that projects axially beyond the outer face of the bottom and is produced from material of the wall. | 01-10-2013 |
20120279799 | SOUND-ABSORBING SHIELDING ELEMENT - A sound-absorbing shielding element, in particular for fitting into a motor vehicle, comprises a layered construction which has a support plate, an acoustically effective porous absorber layer and at least one acoustically effective first microperforated sheet which is arranged on a first side of the absorber layer. An acoustically effective second microperforated sheet is arranged on the first side of the absorber layer. | 11-08-2012 |
20120217370 | DEVICE FOR LOCKING A VEHICLE SEAT - A device for locking a vehicle seat comprises a locking pawl which may be pivoted about a first pivot between a closed position in which it engages a fitting part and an open position free of the fitting part. A locking element pivots about a second pivot axis to lock the pawl in its closed position by engagement of a first bearing surface of the locking element with a second bearing surface of the locking pawl. The locking element may further be pivoted about a third pivot axis to move it into a clamping position in which the locking element comes to bear with a first bearing point against the second bearing surface and comes to bear with a second bearing point spaced apart from the first bearing point against a third bearing surface of the locking pawl. | 08-30-2012 |
20120213574 | METHOD OF FASTENING ARRANGEMENT FOR THE POSITIONALLY CORRECT FASTENING OF A DEVICE TO A STRUCTURAL PART OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - In a fastening arrangement for the positionally correct fastening of a device to a structural part of a motor vehicle, the at least one screw means is arranged on a tolerance-compensating part, wherein the tolerance-compensating part is fixed to the structural part by means of a joining material which is selected from an adhesive or a plastic liquefied by ultrasonic welding, and wherein the tolerance-compensating part is adjusted in position relative to the structural part. A method for the positionally correct fastening of a device to the structural part of a motor vehicle makes use of a tolerance-compensating part which is joined to the structural part by making use of a joining process in which a joining material is used, the joining process being selected from the group consisting of: adhesive bonding with an adhesive as the joining material, ultrasonic welding with a plastic as the joining material. The tolerance-compensating part is positionally adjusted relative to the structural part during the joining process through the joining material, and the device is fastened to the tolerance-compensating part via at least one screw. | 08-23-2012 |
20100270455 | Device for Locking a Vehicle Seat - A device for locking a vehicle seat comprises a locking pawl which may be pivoted about a first pivot axis, and which is in engagement with a fitting part in a closed position and is released from the fitting part in an open position, and a locking element which may be pivoted about a second pivot axis, the locking element, in a first pivoted position being in contact with the locking pawl and clamping said locking pawl into the closed position, and in a second pivoted position releasing the locking pawl, so that the locking pawl may adopt its open position. The locking element is additionally movable in a translatory manner, and a clamping element is associated with the locking element, which moves the locking element in the first pivoted position thereof in a translatory manner increasingly against the locking pawl until the locking pawl is clamped into the closed position. | 10-28-2010 |
20100104781 | Method for Working a Tube Made from a Metallic Material, and Such a Tube - In the case of a method for working a tube made from a metallic material, wherein at least one punching is made in a tube wall of the tube at at least one first circumferential location of the tube wall, the tube wall is provided, at at least one second circumferential location, which faces away from the first circumferential location in the circumferential direction, with at least one forming selected from the group that consists of at least one depression of the tube wall, at least one throughhole in the tube wall. | 04-29-2010 |
20100052366 | Tube Arrangement and Crossbeam Having Such a Tube Arrangement - A tube arrangement comprises a first tube and at least one second tube, the first tube and the second tube being arranged in relation to one another with an offset transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the tubes and with a partial overlap region in the longitudinal direction of the tubes, so that a first end of the first tube is arranged at a side of the second tube and a second end of the second tube is arranged at a side of the first tube. The tube arrangement has, further, at least one connection element which fixedly connects the first tube and the second tube to one another in the overlap region. The connection element has a first end wall and a second end wall spaced apart from the first end wall in the longitudinal direction of the tubes, which end walls extend, in the overlap region, between the tubes transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the latter and are fixedly connected to these, and two longitudinal walls which are spaced apart from one another transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction and which extend in the longitudinal direction of the tubes from the first end wall to the second end wall and are fixedly connected to these. | 03-04-2010 |
20100032228 | Crossbeam for a Motor Vehicle - A crossbeam for a motor vehicle comprises a crossbeam body and at least one attachment device for attaching at least one vehicle component of the motor vehicle to the crossbeam, the attachment device having an attachment body which is fastened to the crossbeam body and extends in the longitudinal direction of the crossbeam body over a partial length of the crossbeam body and away from the crossbeam body in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of attachment elements being present on the attachment body. The attachment body is built up from a plurality of individual blanks which are fastened to the crossbeam body in a distributed manner over the partial length and which each extend with their longitudinal direction and with their blank area transversely to the longitudinal direction of the crossbeam body. | 02-11-2010 |