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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5248278 | Ventilator roof for vehicles Ventilator roof for use in motor vehicles with a roof opening in a fixed roof surface which can be closed by a cover. The cover can be swung by pivoting around a pivoting axis, at, or near its rear edge, into a ventilation position in which the cover fron... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5181891 | Drive device for an adjustable part of a vehicle Drive device for a vehicle part that is displaceable between end positions, with an electric motor connected by a reduction gear to a driving pinion which is connected to the vehicle part so as to drive it, as well as with a switching device for controlli... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5154481 | Vehicle roof with solar power source and contact device Vehicle roof with at least one cover that, alternatively, closes or at least partially opens an opening in a fixed roof surface of the vehicle, carries a solar power source for supplying power to at least one power consuming device that is separately loca... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5150631 | Flexible thermoplastic rack bar Flexible thermoplastic rack bar for meshing with a gear wheel, particularly for the drive of displaceable vehicle elements, like roof elements, sliding windows, and the like, having a series of supported teeth and a pull-resistant reinforcement embedded e... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5149170 | Vehicle roof with water catching headliner Vehicle roof with a cover for, alternatively closing and at least partially opening a roof opening, with a sliding inside roof headliner for, alternatively, closing and at least partially opening a framed opening lying under the roof opening, with a respe... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5137444 | Process for operating a burner fed with liquid fuel A process for operating a burner fed with liquid fuel, in particular a vaporization burner of a heater in which, preferably, a motor vehicle add-on heater is involved. In this operating process, after the burner has been in steady state operation for a pr... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5104178 | Frame for a vehicle sliding roof or a sliding lifting roof and method for forming same A frame for a vehicle roof of the type having a roof opening in a fixed vehicle roof surface and a cover for closing the roof opening and a device for displacing the cover to a position at least partially opening the roof opening by at least one of slidin... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5090767 | Sliding roof and/or sliding and tilting roof for motor vehicles A sliding roof and/or a sliding lifting roof and/or a lifting sliding roof for motor vehicles has a safety device for preventing detachment from the motor vehicle of the cover which is displaceable for closing and at least partially unblocking a roof open... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5088918 | Vaporization burner for a heater operated with liquid fuel A vaporization burner for a heater operated with liquid fuel, in particular an auxiliary vehicle heater with a support that projects into a combustion chamber and on whose front side facing the combustion chamber an absorbent body is located that is suppl... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5085622 | Sliding roof and/or sliding-lifting roof for motor vehicles A sliding roof and/or a sliding-lifting roof for motor vehicles in which an adjustment mechanism is provided that aligns the guide blocks or the mounting mechanism coupled to it in the closed or zero position of the cover of the roof. For this purpose, a ... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5082175 | Heating device, particularly vehicle heating device A heating device (1) is provided with a sleeve member (14) surrounding a burner element (10) of the heating device, such that a combustion air chamber (15), having a predetermined volume coordinated to the respective configuration of the burner, is obtain... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4969681 | Frame arrangement for a vehicle roof A frame arrangement for a vehicle roof that has a roof opening that is closable by a displaceable cover panel that, along with driving and guiding components thereof, is supported on a frame bounding the roof opening which has only the function of a suppo... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4968090 | Frame arrangement for a vehicle roof A frame arrangement for a vehicle roof of the type having a roof opening which can be closed and selectively at least partially opened by displacement of a cover panel by actuating cables, the cover being guided by guide element tracks on the side parts o... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4932833 | Ring channel blower A ring channel blower for combustion air conveyance in heaters, preferably motor vehicle heaters. With this ring channel blower, there is a gradual transition from the pressure area to the discharge opening of a ring channel that is covered at a side of t... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4893869 | Vehicle roof A vehicle roof having a cover which, at its front edge, is displaceably guided in lateral guide rails extending below a fixed roof surface, and which is additionally supported at the guide rails by lifting levers. The lifting levers are connected at one e... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4887426 | Process and device for operating an exhaust gas burner A process for operating an exhaust gas burner that can be used particularly in the regeneration of soot filters or the like, in which the exhaust gas burner is turned on to start the regeneration or the like only if the oxygen content in the exhaust gas h... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4848083 | Exhaust gas unit for multicylinder diesel internal combustion engines An exhaust gas unit, for multicylinder diesel internal combustion engines with at least one particulate filter and a regeneration device, in which at least four particulate filters are placed parallel to one another in branches of at least one exhaust gas... | 07/18/1989 |
