Patents by Inventor Dirk Ullmann

Dirk Ullmann 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: 9405430
    Abstract: A method and program that improves the efficiency of menu tree visualization and navigation in graphical user interfaces. Menu items are displayed as call-out shaped objects each made up of a call-out bubble and its leading arm. The leading arm connects the call-out bubble with the higher level menu item, the context-menu reference point or any other reference point on the user-interface screen. Menu lists are displayed as sets of similar-sized call-out shapes, which can be arranged in a variety of ways. A menu item can be selected by selecting either the leading arm or the call-out bubble of a call-out shape. The selection of a menu item through the selection of its leading arm significantly reduces the distance over which the pointer has to be moved for menu tree navigation. This is because the leading arm of each of the call-out shapes in any menu item list is close to the pointer's position immediately following the preceding selection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Inventor: Kay Dirk Ullmann
  • Publication number: 20140223362
    Abstract: A method and program that improves the efficiency of menu tree visualisation and navigation in graphical user interfaces. Menu items are displayed as call-out shaped objects each made up of a call-out bubble and its leading arm. The leading arm connects the call-out bubble with the higher level menu item, the context-menu reference point or any other reference point on the user-interface screen. Menu lists are displayed as sets of similar-sized call-out shapes, which can be arranged in a variety of ways. A menu item can be selected by selecting either the leading arm or the call-out bubble of a call-out shape. The selection of a menu item through the selection of its leading arm significantly reduces the distance over which the pointer has to be moved for menu tree navigation. This is because the leading arm of each of the call-out shapes in any menu item list is close to the pointer's position immediately following the preceding selection process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventor: Kay Dirk Ullmann
  • Patent number: 8756529
    Abstract: A method and program that improves the efficiency of menu tree visualization and navigation in graphical user interfaces. Menu items are displayed as call-out shaped objects each made up of a call-out bubble and its leading arm. The leading arm connects the call-out bubble with the higher level menu item, the context-menu reference point or any other reference point on the user-interface screen. Menu lists are displayed as sets of similar-sized call-out shapes, which can be arranged in a variety of ways. A menu item can be selected by selecting either the leading arm or the call-out bubble of a call-out shape. The selection of a menu item through the selection of its leading arm significantly reduces the distance over which the pointer has to be moved for menu tree navigation. This is because the leading arm of each of the call-out shapes in any menu item list is close to the pointer's position immediately following the preceding selection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Inventor: Kay Dirk Ullmann
  • Patent number: 8646331
    Abstract: A sensor device includes an outer casing, a first sensor module and a second sensor module. The outer casing encloses the first sensor module and the second sensor module at least partially. The first sensor module is enclosed at least partially by a first medium, and the second sensor module is enclosed at least partially by a second medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Ohl, Dirk Ullmann
  • Publication number: 20120125097
    Abstract: A sensor device includes an outer casing, a first sensor module and a second sensor module. The outer casing encloses the first sensor module and the second sensor module at least partially. The first sensor module is enclosed at least partially by a first medium, and the second sensor module is enclosed at least partially by a second medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Christian OHL, Dirk Ullmann
  • Publication number: 20120066647
    Abstract: A method and program that improves the efficiency of menu tree visualisation and navigation in graphical user interfaces. Menu items are displayed as call-out shaped objects each made up of a call-out bubble and its leading arm. The leading arm connects the call-out bubble with the higher level menu item, the context-menu reference point or any other reference point on the user-interface screen. Menu lists are displayed as sets of similar-sized call-out shapes, which can be arranged in a variety of ways. A menu item can be selected by selecting either the leading arm or the call-out bubble of a call-out shape. The selection of a menu item through the selection of its leading arm significantly reduces the distance over which the pointer has to be moved for menu tree navigation. This is because the leading arm of each of the call-out shapes in any menu item list is close to the pointer's position immediately following the preceding selection process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventor: Kay Dirk Ullmann
  • Publication number: 20090193891
    Abstract: A sensor, a sensor component and a method for manufacturing a sensor are provided, in which sensors for measuring absolute values are inserted into cost-effective and technically simple plastic housings of the usual construction type, without having negative effects on the long-term stability of the absolute measuring values supplied by such sensors. In particular, parameter drifts and offsets in the parameters are induced by arranging a sensor element above an application-specific semiconductor element which evaluates the sensor's signals, and is connected to it via a flip-chip connection. Mechanical, thermal and moisture stresses are prevented and compensated for by introducing a suitable quantity of gel into the plastic housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Dirk Ullmann, Harald Emmerich
  • Patent number: 7305874
    Abstract: A micromechanical pressure sensor element, in particular for tire pressure measurement. The device has at least: a layer system having a diaphragm underneath which a cavity is formed, which is separated from an external space outside the pressure sensor element; a measuring device for measuring a deflection of the diaphragm; and a seismic mass formed on, underneath, or in the diaphragm. Furthermore, in a method for using such a pressure sensor element, the pressure sensor element is operatable in a sleep mode having lower power consumption and in an operating mode having higher power consumption; in the sleep mode a change in the measuring signals of the measuring device over time is checked, and if a relevant change in the measuring signals is detected, a position change is inferred and a switchover to the operating mode is performed, in which the measuring signals of the measuring device or the analysis signals formed from the measuring signals are transmitted via a transmitter, for example, an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Ullmann
  • Patent number: 7275434
    Abstract: In order to implement two different sensitivities simultaneously in one component, in particular in an acceleration sensor having a substrate, at least one spring device, and at least one seismic mass, it is proposed that the spring device be designed for an intrinsically nonlinear behavior corresponding to a progressive spring characteristic curve, in which a greater acceleration is associated at least locally with a greater rigidity (spring constant).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Ullmann
  • Publication number: 20060288789
    Abstract: A micromechanical pressure sensor element, in particular for tire pressure measurement. The device has at least: a layer system having a diaphragm underneath which a cavity is formed, which is separated from an external space outside the pressure sensor element; a measuring device for measuring a deflection of the diaphragm; and a seismic mass formed on, underneath, or in the diaphragm. Furthermore, in a method for using such a pressure sensor element, the pressure sensor element is operatable in a sleep mode having lower power consumption and in an operating mode having higher power consumption; in the sleep mode a change in the measuring signals of the measuring device over time is checked, and if a relevant change in the measuring signals is detected, a position change is inferred and a switchover to the operating mode is performed, in which the measuring signals of the measuring device or the analysis signals formed from the measuring signals are transmitted via a transmitter, for example, an antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventor: Dirk Ullmann
  • Publication number: 20060107743
    Abstract: In order to implement two different sensitivities simultaneously in one component, in particular in an acceleration sensor having a substrate, at least one spring device, and at least one seismic mass, it is proposed that the spring device be designed for an intrinsically nonlinear behavior corresponding to a progressive spring characteristic curve, in which a greater acceleration is associated at least locally with a greater rigidity (spring constant).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventor: Dirk Ullmann
  • Patent number: 6943669
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data from at least one sensor to a control unit via an appropriate two-wire line is described. The method is used to identify any sensor at the control unit and to implement a plurality of logical channels via the appropriate two-wire line. The at least one sensor receives the necessary electrical energy from the control unit via the two-wire line and then transmits the sensor-specific data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Otterbach, Christian Ohl, Oliver Kohn, Gerald Nitsche, Jochen Schomacker, Ingbert Gerngross, Dirk Ullmann, Michael Ulmer
  • Publication number: 20030184447
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for transmitting data from at least one sensor to a control unit via an appropriate two-wire line, the method being used to identify any sensor at the control unit and to implement a plurality of logical channels via the appropriate two-wire line. The at least one sensor receives the necessary electrical energy from the control unit via the two-wire line and then transmits the sensor-specific data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Jens Otterbach, Christian Ohl, Oliver Kohn, Gerald Nitsche, Jochen Schomacker, Ingbert Gerngross, Dirk Ullmann, Michael Ulmer
  • Patent number: 5369018
    Abstract: The biocatalytic production of a peptide is carried out with a zymogen instead of the customarily used protease. Since zymogens are proteolytically inactive precursors of proteases, proteolytic side reactions are largely suppressed. Preferably, amino acid esters or peptide esters and C-terminally derivatized amino acids or peptide fragments are coupled to each other. The reaction can also take place in a frozen, aqueous medium. In particular, chymotrypsinogen, trypsinogen, pepsinogen, prorennin or procarboxypeptidase are suitable as zymogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Degussa Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Jakubke, Dirk Ullmann, Karlheinz Drauz, Andreas Bommarius