Patents by Inventor Michael Schoning

Michael Schoning 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: 7384171
    Abstract: The invention relates to a large-surface billboard for outdoors advertising. In order to generate a luminosity of the LCD elements of the billboard, extraneous light is required. In times of insufficient sun light, an artificial lighting device activates the luminosity. The aim of the invention is to prevent the lighting device from casting a shadow onto the billboard during daylight. For this purpose, the lighting device is moved out from its beam path incident on the billboard when there is sufficient solar radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Distec GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Schöning
  • Publication number: 20070165407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a large-surface billboard for outdoors advertising. In order to generate a luminosity of the LCD elements of the billboard, extraneous light is required. In times of insufficient sun light, an artificial lighting device activates the luminosity. The aim of the invention is to prevent the lighting device from casting a shadow onto the billboard during daylight. For this purpose, the lighting device is moved out from its beam path incident on the billboard when there is sufficient solar radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventor: Michael Schoning
  • Publication number: 20040064988
    Abstract: The invention relates to a poster suspension device comprising a poster sheet. Said poster sheet, while under longitudinal tension, can be displaced in a to and fro manner between rollers, which are arranged one above the other at a distance, and from roller to roller in a direction of transport. The poster sheet is comprised of at least two individual posters. The aim of the invention is to enable individual posters to be separated from the sheet or to be placed in the sheet. To this end, connecting means, which can be removed between the poster surfaces themselves as well as in their edge reinforcements, are provided between at least two individual posters that follow one another in the longitudinal direction of the poster sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventor: Michael Schoning
  • Patent number: 6024924
    Abstract: In a biosensor system for detecting trace compounds resulting from a fire or from plants damaged by destructive insects, a live chemoreceptor is provided for sensing the trace compounds, and a semiconductor component is connected to the chemoreceptor for providing sensor signals when the chemoreceptor senses the presence of trace compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Forschungzentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schoning, Stefan Schutz, Armin Riemer, Bernhard Weissbecker, Axel Schwarz, Marion Thust, Claus-Dieter Kohl, Hans Hummel, Peter Kordos, Hans Luth
  • Patent number: 5485693
    Abstract: A display device of the type having a plurality of parallel prisms that rotate intermittently and synchronously to present the surfaces of the different panels of each prism for view to provide different composite advertising designs. All the prisms are identical and each is formed with three identical panels that are rectangular and extend longitudinally of the prism. The panels have hinge sections formed integrally along their edges for meshing with hinge sections of adjacent panels in a piano-hinge-like arrangement. A removable hinge pin is disposed in at least one hinge connection so that upon removal of the hinge pin the adjacent panel can be swung open to allow access to the interior of the prism for changing a burned out illuminating device, such as a fluorescent or neon light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: M & V Reklametechnik Schoning-Krieg
    Inventors: Egbert Frenken, Michael Schoning