Patents by Inventor Bernhard Abels

Bernhard Abels 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: 6693523
    Abstract: In an instrument cluster for motor vehicles with a variable-color display, with which at least two different measured variables and/or operating states of the motor vehicle can be represented in analog and/or digital form, when a value of a measured variable is overshot or a certain operating state of the motor vehicle is entered, the color and/or brightness of representation of more than one measured value displayed and/or operating state displayed are changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Heinrich Noll
  • Publication number: 20030099025
    Abstract: The invention relates to a headup display having an image forming unit 1 for forming an item of image information to be displayed that can be projected as light beams 2 by the image forming unit 1 or via an optical projection system onto a partially reflecting windshield pane 7. The image forming unit 1 has an OLED display 8 for forming the image information be displayed, in front of which there is arranged a light directing element 14 by which the light beams 2 produced by the OLED display 8 can be directed approximately parallel to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Heinrich Noll
  • Publication number: 20030086192
    Abstract: A vehicle mirror has a mirror glass (1) which also forms a substrate for an OLED display (7). This OLED display (7) fully covers the mirror glass (1). A front cover glass (5) forms the second substrate for the OLED display (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Coloman Lenart, Mathias Polz, Heinrich von Holleben, Yorek Biener, Heinrich Noll, Andreas Vollmer
  • Patent number: 5944151
    Abstract: An operating device with haptic response for the manual entering of information into a device comprises a setting member having a position which is variable under the action of an actuating force, and with which there is connected a transducer for producing electric signals which characterize the position of the setting member. There is connected with the setting member a braking element which, under control by the electric signals, exerts a force on the setting member, the value of which force depends on the position of the setting member. The braking element has at least two surfaces which are movable relative to each other and between which there is provided a force transmitting fluid the transmission properties of which can be varied by the electric signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Hasko Jakobs, Heinz Bernhard Abel