Patents by Inventor Dirk Wustenbecker

Dirk Wustenbecker 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).

  • Capacitive operating element
    Patent number: 8173925
    Abstract: An operating element having an actuating element disposed on a linear moving carrier element. The actuating element has a plate-like touch panel that is made of an electrically nonconductive material, which cooperates with a switching element, and wherein an electrically conductive sensor element of a capacitative proximity sensor is disposed. The sensor element is disposed on or in the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Wüstenbecker
  • Control element with proximity sensor
    Patent number: 7977596
    Abstract: A control element includes a switching element, an operating element for operating the switching element, a printed circuit board, and an electrically conductive sensor element of a capacitive proximity sensor integrated in the operating element. The electrically conductive sensor element is designed to be electrically conductively connected to the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Born, Norbert Mankel, Joerg Reinhardt, Stefan Schaefer, Dirk Wüstenbecker
  • Operating element with a proximity sensor and shield
    Patent number: 7564247
    Abstract: An operating element, in particular for a motor vehicle component, includes an actuating element that is movably supported in a carrier element and acts, in particular, on a switch element. To detect an approach of a user to the operating element, but at the same time to prevent a misdetection by a movable component, an electrically conductive sensor element of a capacitive proximity sensor and at least one shielding element are arranged in an interior space of the actuating element, the sensor element and the shielding element being connected to a printed circuit board in an electrically conducting fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Born, Norbert Mankel, Joerg Reinhardt, Stefan Schaefer, Dirk Wüstenbecker
  • Operating element with a proximity sensor and shield
    Publication number: 20060290359
    Abstract: An operating element, in particular for a motor vehicle component, includes an actuating element that is movably supported in a carrier element and acts, in particular, on a switch element. To detect an approach of a user to the operating element, but at the same time to prevent a misdetection by a movable component, an electrically conductive sensor element of a capacitive proximity sensor and at least one shielding element are arranged in an interior space of the actuating element, the sensor element and the shielding element being connected to a printed circuit board in an electrically conducting fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Frank Born, Norbert Mankel, Joerg Reinhardt, Stefan Schaefer, Dirk Wustenbecker
  • Control element with proximity sensor
    Publication number: 20060289286
    Abstract: A control element includes a switching element, an operating element for operating the switching element, a printed circuit board, and an electrically conductive sensor element of a capacitive proximity sensor integrated in the operating element. The electrically conductive sensor element is designed to be electrically conductively connected to the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Frank Born, Norbert Mankel, Joerg Reinhardt, Stefan Schaefer, Dirk Wustenbecker