Patents by Inventor Michael Schreiber
Michael Schreiber 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).
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Patent number: 9355073Abstract: Embodiments provide content attribute adjustment controls that enable the use of a variety of input types when adjusting content attributes such as font sizes, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-based method uses a font size control interface that is configured to accept a variety of input types to adjust font sizes. A handheld device of an embodiment includes at least one application that uses a font size control interface configured with first and second incremental controls, a direct entry control, and/or a scrollable control. Computer storage of an embodiment includes executable instructions that operate to display a font size control interface that accepts inputs via one or more of first and second incremental controls, a direct entry control, and/or a scrollable control. Other embodiments are included.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Han-Yi Shaw, Allen Ussher, Michael Schreiber
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Patent number: 9180806Abstract: A motor vehicle is provided with a cup holder incorporated into a center console, the cup holder including, but not limited to a front wall, a back wall, two side walls and a base wall, which delimit a receiving space for at least one object, a dividing element, able to be fastened at the upper end region of the receiving space in a dividing position, for dividing the receiving space into a first receiving compartment for a first object and into a second receiving compartment for a second object. The dividing element is constructed from a first part dividing element and a second part dividing element and the first and second part dividing elements are connected pivotably with one another by at least one intermediate joint.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Michael Schreiber, Wilhelm Sulzbacher, Michael Graf, Marian Piskon, Ralf Venino, Holger Thums, Stephan Walter
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Publication number: 20150175106Abstract: A method for controlling a lighting brightness of a lit motor vehicle instrument is described in which a viewing direction of a driver is ascertained. From the viewing direction of the driver, a direct field of vision and a peripheral field of vision are ascertained. The lighting brightness of the motor vehicle instrument is increased, if it lies in the direct field of vision of the driver. The method may be implemented in a motor vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Markus Frommann, Michael Schreiber
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Publication number: 20140372949Abstract: Embodiments provide content attribute adjustment controls that enable the use of a variety of input types when adjusting content attributes such as font sizes, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-based method uses a font size control interface that is configured to accept a variety of input types to adjust font sizes. A handheld device of an embodiment includes at least one application that uses a font size control interface configured with first and second incremental controls, a direct entry control, and/or a scrollable control. Computer storage of an embodiment includes executable instructions that operate to display a font size control interface that accepts inputs via one or more of first and second incremental controls, a direct entry control, and/or a scrollable control. Other embodiments are included.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Han-Yi Shaw, Allen Ussher, Michael Schreiber
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Patent number: 8816911Abstract: A multiple resonant antenna unit (AT2) comprises a current feed area (SPI) from which only a single, spiral-like antenna branch (AZI) emanates. The total course of this spiral-like antenna branch (AZI) forms a first resonant antenna structure for a low frequency range and at least one partial section (SE15) inside the total course of this spiral-like antenna structure (AZI) forms a second resonant antenna structure for a higher frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stefan Huber, Michael Schreiber
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Publication number: 20140138977Abstract: A motor vehicle is provided with a cup holder incorporated into a center console, the cup holder including, but not limited to a front wall, a back wall, two side walls and a base wall, which delimit a receiving space for at least one object, a dividing element, able to be fastened at the upper end region of the receiving space in a dividing position, for dividing the receiving space into a first receiving compartment for a first object and into a second receiving compartment for a second object. The dividing element is constructed from a first part dividing element and a second part dividing element and the first and second part dividing elements are connected pivotably with one another by at least one intermediate joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Michael SCHREIBER, Wilhelm SULZBACHER, Michael GRAF, Marian PISKON, Ralf VENINO, Holger THUMS, Stephan WALTER
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Publication number: 20140114099Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing cyclohexane by isomerizing a hydrocarbon mixture (HM1) comprising methylcyclopentane (MCP) in the presence of a catalyst. The catalyst is preferably an acidic ionic liquid. The starting material used is a stream (S1) which originates from a steamcracking process. The hydrocarbon mixture (HM1) obtained from this stream (S1) in an apparatus for aromatics removal has a reduced aromatics content compared to stream (S1), and (HM1) may optionally also be (virtually) free of aromatics. Depending on the type and amount of the aromatics remaining in the hydrocarbon mixture (HM1), especially in the case that benzene is present, the isomerization may additionally be preceded by performance of a hydrogenation of (HM1). In addition, depending on the presence of other components of (HM1), further purification steps may optionally be performed prior to or after the isomerization or hydrogenation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Steffen Tschirschwitz, Kathrin Wissel-Stoll, Jochen Bürkle, Albena Kostova, Markus Schmitt, Veronika Wloka, Stephan Deuerlein, Marco Bosch, Steffen Oehlenschläger, Michael Schreiber, Gauthier Luc Maurice Averlant, Joni Joni, Roman Prochazka, Martin Bock, Alois Kindler, Daniela Malkowsky, Katharina Spuhl, Stefan Bitterlich, Daniel Pfeiffer
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Publication number: 20130328802Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating functions of a vehicle, in particular of a motor vehicle, by means of an operating element. The operating element comprises a touch-sensitive operating surface, wherein via the operating surface a plurality of functions can be operated, and the respective functions are each assigned part regions of the operating surface. The position of the hand of the operator is determined and the respective position of the respective part regions is assigned relative to the position of the hand of the operator. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a corresponding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Michael SCHREIBER
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Patent number: 8581601Abstract: A rotation angle sensor with two or more oscillators which comprises, in each case, striplines fixed on a dielectric support, as sensor elements, such that the oscillators are arrayed in a curve, for angle measurement, or they are arrayed in a straight line, for position measurement. One or more actuating elements, for example eddy-current actuating elements, are passed over the curve or the line to cause relative movement. The striplines are shaped so that the one or more actuating elements (B1, B2) cover more than one oscillator.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventor: Michael Schreiber
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Patent number: 8410327Abstract: A process for isomerizing a saturated, branched and cyclic hydrocarbon, in which a tertiary carbon atom of the hydrocarbon is converted to a secondary carbon atom in the course of isomerization, by performing the isomerization in the presence of a superacidic ionic liquid comprising an organic cation and an inorganic anion, where the anion is a superacidic aluminum trichloride-Lewis base adduct, and of a copper(II) compound.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Steffen Tschirschwitz, Stephan Deuerlein, Jochen Bürkle, Markus Schmitt, Michael Schreiber, Steffen Oehlenschläger
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Publication number: 20120253594Abstract: A control system for a motor vehicle includes at least one command unit, which controls an associated vehicle function, and/or at least one sensor which senses a vehicle parameter. The control system also includes a control unit and a plurality of display devices. The information displayed by the display devices is controlled as a function of actuation of the command unit and/or the parameter sensor. The control unit controls the display device by means of an RFID reader which forms a data exchange connection with an RFID transponder which is connected to each display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: October 4, 2012Inventor: Michael Schreiber
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Patent number: 7999743Abstract: A multiband antenna array for mobile radio equipment that includes a planar pitch antenna having at least two resonances and is provided with a connection to ground and a high-frequency interface and at least two parasitic transmitters which are located marginal to the planar patch antenna and are embodied so as to be free of a high-frequency interface. A particularly compact multiband antenna for several frequency bands is crated as a result of the special arrangement of the planar patch antenna and the parasitic transmitters.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2003Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stefan Huber, Thorsten Kowalski, Michael Schreiber
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Publication number: 20110137097Abstract: A process for isomerizing a saturated, branched and cyclic hydrocarbon, in which a tertiary carbon atom of the hydrocarbon is converted to a secondary carbon atom in the course of isomerization, by performing the isomerization in the presence of a superacidic ionic liquid comprising an organic cation and an inorganic anion, where the anion is a superacidic aluminum trichloride-Lewis base adduct, and of a copper(II) compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: STEFFEN TSCHIRSCHWITZ, Stephan Deuerlein, Jochen Bürkle, Markus Schmitt, Michael Schreiber, Steffen Oehlenschläger
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Patent number: 7804451Abstract: In order to reduce the SAR value in a wireless communication device (MP), an additional, current-conducting corrective element (CE1) is coupled to and configured in relation to the printed circuit board (LP) and the antenna (AT1) such that the amplitude level (IM1, NIM1) and/or the phase angle of electrical currents (I3, I1, I2) on the antenna (AT1), the printed circuit board (LP), and the corrective element (CE1) are adjusted relative to each other in such a way that the SAR distribution resulting from such currents becomes minimal.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2003Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Palm, Inc.Inventors: Wolfgang Glocker, Stefan Huber, Thorsten Kowalski, Martin Oelschläger, Michael Schreiber, Martin Weinberger
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Patent number: 7717984Abstract: An electrostatic precipitator unit used for the removal of coolant liquid and particles generated by a machine tool includes an electrostatic precipitator cell. The electrostatic precipitator cell includes power and collector ground fins and an ionizer grid positioned below the fins. The lower edges of the power fins are spaced above the collector ground fins to prevent contact of the liquid on the ground fins with the power fins. An electrical contact assembly for supplying electrical current to the ionizer grid and power fins is electrically isolated from all ground contacts by dielectric standoffs which define an insulating air gap. The likelihood of liquid tracking to ground is therefore eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2008Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Inventor: Mark Michael Schreiber
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Patent number: 7719263Abstract: The invention relates to an inductive position measuring device or goniometer having two to no more than five digital oscillators, each of which contains measuring coils or reference coils. Particularly favorable for one application as a transmission sensor is a coil array for three or four oscillators that includes two measuring coils and/or two reference coils. When one plate-shaped measuring element that is sensitive for eddy currents passes through the measuring area, a measuring coil arranged in a planar manner is increasingly covered. One reference coil is arranged such that it does not touch the movement track of the measuring element, but is exposed to the same ambient conditions (temperatures) as the measuring coil. Another reference coil is arranged such that it is covered by the measuring element in the entire measuring area and therefore can compensate the fluctuations in the spacing height between the planar coil array and the measuring element that occur during operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Markus Eissner, Michael Schreiber, Josef Habenschaden
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Publication number: 20100102827Abstract: A rotation angle sensor with two or more oscillators which comprises, in each case, striplines fixed on a dielectric support, as sensor elements, such that the oscillators are arrayed in a curve, for angle measurement, or they are arrayed in a straight line, for position measurement. One or more actuating elements, for example eddy-current actuating elements, are passed over the curve or the line to cause relative movement. The striplines are shaped so that the one or more actuating elements (B1, B2) cover more than one oscillator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventor: Michael Schreiber
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Publication number: 20090219215Abstract: A multiple resonant antenna unit (AT2) comprises a current feed area (SPI) from which only a single, spiral-like antenna branch (AZI) emanates. The total course of this spiral-like antenna branch (AZI) forms a first resonant antenna structure for a low frequency range and at least one partial section (SE15) inside the total course of this spiral-like antenna structure (AZI) forms a second resonant antenna structure for a higher frequency range.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2006Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: BENQ MOBILE GMBH & CO. OHGInventors: Stefan Huber, Michael Schreiber
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Publication number: 20080157756Abstract: The invention relates to an inductive position measuring device or goniometer having two to no more than five digital oscillators, each of which contains measuring coils or reference coils. Particularly favorable for one application as a transmission sensor is a coil array for three or four oscillators that includes two measuring coils and/or two reference coils. When one plate-shaped measuring element that is sensitive for eddy currents passes through the measuring area, a measuring coil arranged in a planar manner is increasingly covered. One reference coil is arranged such that it does not touch the movement track of the measuring element, but is exposed to the same ambient conditions (temperatures) as the measuring coil. Another reference coil is arranged such that it is covered by the measuring element in the entire measuring area and therefore can compensate the fluctuations in the spacing height between the planar coil array and the measuring element that occur during operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2007Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Markus Eissner, Michael Schreiber, Josef Habenschaden
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Patent number: 7327841Abstract: A holder for a mobile communication device comprises a receptacle for optimally reducing the SAR value of a mobile communication device secured within the receptacle. At least one material portion, a patch, causing electromagnetic losses may be placed within the receptacle to optimally reduce exposure to low level radio frequency energy to an individual carrying a mobile telephone secured within the receptacle. The patch formed of electromagnetic field reducing material may be placed in one or more particular areas of the receptacle to attenuate one or more corresponding regions of the mobile telephone in which the SAR value is substantially at a local maximum. This may allow a reduction of the SAR value of a mobile telephone while limiting the performance loss associated with the reduction of the SAR value of the mobile telephone when the mobile telephone is secured within the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2003Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Siemens Communications, Inc.Inventors: Michael Schreiber, Peter Nevermann