Patents Assigned to Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbH
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Publication number: 20160241949Abstract: A motor vehicle combined instrument panel has a front housing directed towards a vehicle occupant and a plate which is provided on the housing and has a loudspeaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS GMBHInventors: Engelhard HESS, Marcus WEBER
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Patent number: 9376020Abstract: A combination display instrument in a vehicle has a plurality of display elements and/or display scales inserted into or attached onto a common base. A polarizing film, which is designed to correspond to the base, is arranged in the line of vision of an observer in front of the base. The polarizing film is held in position on the base in a form-fitting and/or force-fitting manner in an assembled state of the combination display instrument by corresponding molded sections in or on a housing of the combination display instrument.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventors: Manfred Süss, Isabel Hoffmann, Gerhard Kammerer, Heinrich Behrends, Martin Mayer, Nicolas Mehl, Peter Langer
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Publication number: 20160161741Abstract: A display element includes a projection screen for a head-up display and a pivot apparatus for adjusting an inclination of the projection screen about a horizontal inclination axis. The pivot apparatus includes an eccentric unit for adjusting the inclination. The eccentric unit is mechanically coupled directly to the projection screen. The eccentric unit includes a first gearwheel and an eccentric element which is formed eccentrically with respect to the first gearwheel and is fastened on the first gearwheel. The eccentric element is in the form of a disk and an area of a narrow side of the disk-shaped eccentric element is arranged eccentrically with respect to the first gearwheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventor: Gerhard PITZ
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Patent number: 9139087Abstract: A method for monitoring the alertness of the driver of a vehicle, includes continuously detecting and evaluating at least one physical parameter of the driver while the vehicle is in motion, and transmitting a periodic audio signal with a predetermined frequency into a vehicle interior within a predetermined time period if the evaluated physical parameter is in a critical range, whereby the critical range indicates an appropriate level of fatigue of the driver. An apparatus for monitoring the alertness includes a monitoring unit with a sensor unit, which detects at least one physical parameter of the driver, and an evaluation unit, which evaluates the detected physical parameter while the vehicle is in motion. The evaluation unit is coupled to an audio device, which transmits a periodic audio signal into a vehicle interior within a predetermined time if the evaluated physical parameter is in a critical range.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventor: Jordan Tuzsuzov
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Publication number: 20150217531Abstract: A cover panel, for at least partially transparently covering at least one display instrument in a vehicle, has a microstructure applied on at least one surface. The microstructure is suitable for scattering visible light which is incident on the cover panel. The at least one window region of the cover panel is cutout from the microstructure. A method for manufacturing such a cover panel uses a molding tool with an applied microstructure matrix for forming a microstructure on a part of the molding tool which is assigned to a surface of a molded cover panel. The parts of the molding tool which are assigned to window regions are cut out from the microstructure matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2015Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS GMBHInventors: Manfred SUESS, Martin MAYER, Michael HERTWECK, Eckard UNSELD, Philip RUDNIK, Wolfgang TAUSCH
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Publication number: 20150185908Abstract: A capacitive sensor arrangement has at least one capacitive sensor and a coating applied to a front side of the at least one capacitive sensor. The coating includes a multiple layer structure, which is formed from capacitive layers, which are arranged in plies and electrically connected in series.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventors: Thomas Reinle, Manfred Süss
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Publication number: 20140167968Abstract: A method for monitoring the alertness of the driver of a vehicle, includes continuously detecting and evaluating at least one physical parameter of the driver while the vehicle is in motion, and transmitting a periodic audio signal with a predetermined frequency into a vehicle interior within a predetermined time period if the evaluated physical parameter is in a critical range, whereby the critical range indicates an appropriate level of fatigue of the driver. An apparatus for monitoring the alertness includes a monitoring unit with a sensor unit, which detects at least one physical parameter of the driver, and an evaluation unit, which evaluates the detected physical parameter while the vehicle is in motion. The evaluation unit is coupled to an audio device, which transmits a periodic audio signal into a vehicle interior within a predetermined time if the evaluated physical parameter is in a critical range.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventor: Jordan Tuzsuzov
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Patent number: 8528495Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes a front panel and a front frame. The front frame has a front side facing a viewer, and an opposite rear side. The front panel is connected to the front frame. The front frame on the front side and in an encircling fashion in the edge region of the front panel has an aperture edge, the aperture edge being provided substantially parallel to the extent of the front panel. The front panel is connected to the front frame on that side of the aperture edge facing the rear side of the front frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2008Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventors: Manfred Süss, Martin Mayer
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Publication number: 20130050822Abstract: The invention relates to a display element for a display unit of a vehicle, said display element being formed from a substrate and a polarizing film. The display element may be backlit by means of a light source. The substrate may be imprinted with graphic symbols. The polarizing film may be a circular polarizing film.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventors: Manfred Suss, Isabel Hoffmann, Gerhard Kammerer, Heinrich Behrends, Martin Mayer, Nicolas Mehl, Peter Langer
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Publication number: 20120264102Abstract: An indicating instrument has a pointer rotatable about a pointer axle. A coupling part, a pointer vane and at least one pointer section are arranged between the pointer and the axle. Between the pointer coupling part and the pointer vane at least one pointer section is held in a base structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2010Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventors: Bernd Ludewig, Jean-Yves Daurelle
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Patent number: 8172439Abstract: Disclosed is a display device for a motor vehicle, particularly for a combined instrument of a motor vehicle. The display device comprises a display area and an illumination means that is provided with a light emission area and a light source. The display area has a visible face and a rear face. The illumination means is disposed on the rear face of the display area. A light beam that is emitted from the light emission area is incident directly on the rear face of the display area. The light beam has an angle of spread of less than about 20°.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventors: Manfred Süss, Gerhard Kammerer, Manfred Schwarz
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Patent number: 7905612Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle display device comprising a display area oriented in a viewing direction, wherein a swiveling indicator rotatable about an axis of rotation is provided in the viewing direction behind the displaying area, a printed circuit board, which is provided with a first lighting device arranged thereon, is positioned in the viewing direction behind the swiveling indicator and a first optical wave guide area enables a first light emitted by the first lighting device to be transmitted to the display area further the swiveling indicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2006Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventors: Manfred Suess, Heinrich Behrends, Isabel Witzemann
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Publication number: 20100066520Abstract: The display and/or lighting for the interior of a vehicle comprising at least two stacked layers each comprising at least one OLED.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2006Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS GMBHInventors: Gerhard Kammerer, Manfred Suss, Cedric Cheveau, Jöel Fournier
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Publication number: 20100058976Abstract: The invention provides a display instrument, particularly for a motor vehicle, having an indicator that is rotatable about a rotational axis, wherein the indicator has an inner first region that is radial with regard to the rotational axis and that is not visible to a user, and an outer second region that is radial with regard to the rotational axis and that is visible to a user, wherein at a radial distance from the rotational axis an additional mounting of the indicator and/or a stop for receiving tilting moments positioned substantially perpendicular on the rotational axis are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics GmbHInventors: Martin Mayer, Kristian Engel, Manfred Süss