Positioning device

US8083261B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TRW AUTOMOTIVE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Grau · Mutlangen, DE
• Wolfgang Holbein · Alfdorf, DE
• Karsten Kortschack · Lorch, DE
• Wolfgang Spindler · Durlangen, DE
• Alexander Seibold · Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
• Jonas Mueller · Muttenz, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 5, 2009
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2011
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R22/03
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A positioning device has a deformable load-bearing element (10), a shaped part (12) coupled to the load-bearing element (10), and a holder (24). The load-bearing element (10) is adapted to be shifted from a first position in which the shaped part (12) is held in a first shape by the holder (24), into a second position in which the shaped part (12) is at least partially no longer held by the holder (24) and takes a second shape which is transmitted to the load-bearing element (10).