Patents by Inventor Heinz-Bernhard Abel

Heinz-Bernhard Abel 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: 9446665
    Abstract: A display and operator control system for a motor vehicle includes: an instrument cluster configured to display operating parameters of the motor vehicle, the instrument cluster having a plurality of displays adhesively bonded under a common covering pane, the plurality of displays including: (i) a first display configured to display the speed of the motor vehicle, and (ii) a second display embodied as a touchscreen for representing and activating operator control functions; and an operator control system configured to control devices of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Günter Urlaub
  • Publication number: 20140210605
    Abstract: A display and operator control system for a motor vehicle includes: an instrument cluster configured to display operating parameters of the motor vehicle, the instrument cluster having a plurality of displays adhesively bonded under a common covering pane, the plurality of displays including: (i) a first display configured to display the speed of the motor vehicle, and (ii) a second display embodied as a touchscreen for representing and activating operator control functions; and an operator control system configured to control devices of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Günter Urlaub
  • Publication number: 20090153662
    Abstract: In a night-vision system, an area surrounding a motor vehicle is recorded by a recording apparatus and information about recorded objects is displayed on a display. The recording apparatus has a laser light source and a laser detection apparatus, with the laser light source transmitting laser pulses which scan the area in front of the motor vehicle. The laser detection apparatus uses the laser pulses reflected from objects to detect the position and/or movement direction of the objects. The position of those objects whose position and/or movement direction is relevant for the motor vehicle is displayed in an emphasized form on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Hubert Adamietz, Hans-Peter Kreipe
  • Publication number: 20090051516
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assistance system for assisting a driver of a motor vehicle having a plurality of external and internal view sensors (video sources) which supply traffic-related, visual data items, an object detection unit which is connected downstream of the external and internal view sensors, an evaluation logic for evaluating the output variable of the object detection unit and having output channels whose output signals inform the driver by means of a man/machine interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Hubert Adamietz, Jens Arras, Hans-Peter Kreipe, Bettina Leuchtenberg
  • Patent number: 6910779
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Coloman Lenart, Mathias Polz, Heinrich von Holleben, Yorek Biener, Heinrich Noll, Andreas Vollmer
  • Patent number: 6886971
    Abstract: A headup display having an image forming unit 1 f or 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 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: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Heinrich Noll
  • Publication number: 20040183656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display unit comprising a first display (3) with a dial face (4) and a pointer (5). In front of said first display (3), on the side facing the observer, a second display (7) is disposed and is transparent when not activated. Said second display is adapted to display information and is configured as a self-emitting display with negative representation. The second display (7) is a structural component that comprises an organic light-emitting substance (OLED).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Heinrich Noll
  • 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