Patents by Inventor Joerg Kolitsch

Joerg Kolitsch 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).

  • Device for providing a vehicle user with information
    Patent number: 8159475
    Abstract: In a device for providing information to a vehicle user about various functional elements using a display screen system, having an overview image to display the functional elements, having a rotating actuator, which is assigned to the functional elements, rotatable arbitrarily around its axis for the individual selection of the functional elements, and having the property of displaying further information about the particular functional element using an axial movement of the actuator, the functional elements are marked in the overview image. The functional elements are individually selectable by a rotational movement of the actuator and an enlarged detail of the overview image containing the particular functional element is displayable as the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Julien Simon, Timo Gnugesser, Joerg Kolitsch
  • Device for Providing a Vehicle User With Information
    Publication number: 20080094313
    Abstract: In a device for providing information to a vehicle user about various functional elements using a display screen system, having an overview image to display the functional elements, having a rotating actuator, which is assigned to the functional elements, rotatable arbitrarily around its axis for the individual selection of the functional elements, and having the property of displaying further information about the particular functional element using an axial movement of the actuator, the functional elements are marked in the overview image. The functional elements are individually selectable by a rotational movement of the actuator and an enlarged detail of the overview image containing the particular functional element is displayable as the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Julien SIMON, Timo GNUGESSER, Joerg KOLITSCH