Patents by Inventor Robert Wolfgang Kissel
Robert Wolfgang Kissel 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).
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Patent number: 10043589Abstract: A display device has a scale in the shape of a circular arc. On an axis driving an indicator axis, a rotatably mounted gear wheel is arranged in a rotatably fixed manner, in the teeth of which the toothing of a wobble gear ring partially engages. The wobble gear ring is mounted about the axis of the rotatably mounted gear wheel such that the wobble gear ring can wobble, is acted upon by spring forces distributed around the periphery of the wobble gear ring in the direction of engagement of the toothing of the wobble gear ring in the teeth of the rotatably mounted gear wheel, and is fixedly connected to a ferromagnetic ring extending in the direction of rotation of the wobble gear ring. At least two pole shoes project through independently energizable coils to the outer circumferential surface of the ferromagnetic ring.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Thorsten Alexander Kern, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Ingo Zoller
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Patent number: 9817234Abstract: A head-up display positioning device includes a combiner configured to reflect a generated image to create a virtual image for viewing by an occupant of a vehicle. A housing is provided for stowing the combiner. A mechanism includes a motor and is configured to the move the combiner between a stowed position wherein the combiner is located fully within the housing and a display position wherein the combiner is at least partially located outside of the housing and viewable by the occupant. A cover is configured to close over the housing when the combiner is in the stowed position, and the cover is movable to allow the combiner to move into the display position. The mechanism is configured to automatically stow the combiner under certain conditions.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventors: Luis Ernesto Quiroz de la Mora, Robert Wolfgang Kissel
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Patent number: 9746847Abstract: An operator control device includes an operator control element configured to provide haptic feedback to an operator. The operator control element is activatable by an input member of the operator and has: a first planar component; and a second planar component oriented in parallel with the first planar component, the first and second planar components being movable relative to one another. The first and second planar components are guidable between a position of rest and an activation position while maintaining their parallel orientation with respect to one another. In the activation position the distance between the first and second planar components is smaller than in the position of rest. The first and second planar components are spring loaded in the position of rest.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Uwe Gutermuth, Thorsten Alexander Kern, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Sabine Vorberg, Ingo Zoller
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Publication number: 20170123205Abstract: A head-up display positioning device includes a combiner configured to reflect a generated image to create a virtual image for viewing by an occupant of a vehicle. A housing is provided for stowing the combiner. A mechanism includes a motor and is configured to the move the combiner between a stowed position wherein the combiner is located fully within the housing and a display position wherein the combiner is at least partially located outside of the housing and viewable by the occupant. A cover is configured to close over the housing when the combiner is in the stowed position, and the cover is movable to allow the combiner to move into the display position. The mechanism is configured to automatically stow the combiner under certain conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: LUIS ENRNESTO QUIROZ DE LA MORA, ROBERT WOLFGANG KISSEL
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Publication number: 20160307648Abstract: A display device has a scale in the shape of a circular arc. On an axis driving an indicator axis, a rotatably mounted gear wheel is arranged in a rotatably fixed manner, in the teeth of which the toothing of a wobble gear ring partially engages. The wobble gear ring is mounted about the axis of the rotatably mounted gear wheel such that the wobble gear ring can wobble, is acted upon by spring forces distributed around the periphery of the wobble gear ring in the direction of engagement of the toothing of the wobble gear ring in the teeth of the rotatably mounted gear wheel, and is fixedly connected to a ferromagnetic ring extending in the direction of rotation of the wobble gear ring. At least two pole shoes project through independently energizable coils to the outer circumferential surface of the ferromagnetic ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2014Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Thorsten Alexander KERN, Robert Wolfgang KISSEL, Ingo ZOLLER
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Patent number: 8970806Abstract: A display unit having a display module, which has a display having a rear display wall with bosses having support surfaces. A housing covers the of the display has support bosses through which fastening screws are guided and can be screwed into holes of the screw bosses to brace the display module against the housing. A spacer is arranged between each screw and support. The surface of the spacer extends parallel to the rear display wall. The spacer is supported on the support boss. The spacer surface and the supporting surface of the support boss rise helically in opposite directions and are concentric to a through-hole. The threaded shaft of the fastening screw protrudes through a spacer through-opening and is frictionally locked to the inner wall of the spacer through-opening to a certain torque.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Klaus Karl, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Hans-Joachim Lück
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Publication number: 20140207268Abstract: An operator control device includes an operator control element configured to provide haptic feedback to an operator. The operator control element is activatable by an input member of the operator and has: a first planar component; and a second planar component oriented in parallel with the first planar component, the first and second planar components being movable relative to one another. The first and second planar components are guidable between a position of rest and an activation position while maintaining their parallel orientation with respect to one another. In the activation position the distance between the first and second planar components is smaller than in the position of rest. The first and second planar components are spring loaded in the position of rest.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Inventors: Uwe Gutermuth, Thorsten Alexander Kern, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Sabine Vorberg, Ingo Zoller
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Patent number: 8674585Abstract: A microstepper motor which comprises two electromechanical drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other. These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. The actuators are non-radially hinged to the drive ring via an approximately square shear-flexible and torsion-proof frame structure, the drive ring being arranged inside said frame. The drive according to the invention is compact, the frame and the drive ring being configured as a single injection-molded drive module.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Karl-Heinz Mittenbühler, Tim Schwebel, Carsten Wallenhauer
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Patent number: 8664831Abstract: A motor which includes two drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other. These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. Diagonally opposite securing elements are provided on the drive ring and are used to flexibly suspend the drive ring via respective articulated corner elements on respective fixing elements that are diagonally opposite the respective securing elements. The drive according to the invention is compact, having actuators that are non-radially hinged to the drive ring.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Karl-Heinz Mittenbühler, Tim Schwebel, Carsten Wallenhauer
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Patent number: 8618716Abstract: A microstepper motor which comprises two electromechanical drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other. These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. The actuators are non-radially hinged to the drive ring via a torsion-proof, nested frame-type complex structure (drive module) including an interior drive ring, a frame and a U-shaped outer frame. The drive is compact and, the drive module is configured as a single injection-molded structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Karl-Heinz Mittenbühler, Tim Schwebel, Carsten Wallenhauer
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Publication number: 20130314639Abstract: A display unit having a display module, which has a display having a rear display wall with bosses having support surfaces. A housing covers the of the display has support bosses through which fastening screws are guided and can be screwed into holes of the screw bosses to brace the display module against the housing. A spacer is arranged between each screw and support. The surface of the spacer extends parallel to the rear display wall. The spacer is supported on the support boss. The spacer surface and the supporting surface of the support boss rise helically in opposite directions and are concentric to a through-hole. The threaded shaft of the fastening screw protrudes through a spacer through-opening and is frictionally locked to the inner wall of the spacer through-opening to a certain torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Klaus Karl, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Hans-Joachim Lück
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Patent number: 8459603Abstract: A motor vehicle screen device having a screen that can be driven by a driving mechanism between an inactive position within a cavity of a dashboard and an approximately vertical active position outside the cavity and from the active position into the inactive position. The screen is provided with spaced-apart guiding elements which are guided within guides that run nearly horizontal, perpendicular to the movement path of the screen. The monitor can be driven such that the guiding elements thereof are movable within the guides. At least one of the guiding elements is locked at the active position end of the guide by a locking mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Andreas Baudisch, Klaus Karl, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Georg Nehm, Marcel Rigorth, Günter Urlaub
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Patent number: 8385074Abstract: A display unit for displaying information including a housing having an opening and a display unit with a display, moveable between a rest position in which the display unit is completely retracted into the housing and a display position in which the display unit is extended from the housing. A cover is moveably driven between a cover position that covers the housing opening and a release position releasing the housing opening. The display unit and the cover can be moveably driven by way of a coupling assembly by a rotary drive. The coupling assembly couples the motion of the display unit and the cover. The coupling assembly includes a first coupler that can rotate about a fixed first axis of rotation with a free end of hinged to the cover. The display unit is hinged to a free end of a second coupler by a second linkage at the cover and at distances from the first linkage and the second linkage by a third linkage.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Klaus Karl, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Georg Nehm
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Patent number: 8222797Abstract: An information converter has at least two material layers having polygonal base surfaces, which are connected to each other in a shear-rigid way, wherein at least in one material layer a change of length can be induced. The polygonal base surface has at least two different interior angles.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Karl-Heinz Mittenbühler, Tim Schwebel, Carsten Wallenhauer
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Publication number: 20120146461Abstract: A microstepper motor which comprises two electromechanical drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other, These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. The actuators are non-radially hinged to the drive ring via an approximately square shear-flexible and torsion-proof frame structure, the drive ring being arranged inside said frame. The drive according to the invention is compact, the frame and the drive ring being configured as a single injection-molded drive module.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2008Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Karl-Heinz Mittenbühler, Tim Schwebel, Carsten Wallenhauer
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Patent number: 8072743Abstract: The invention relates to a monitor device on board for a motor vehicle, with a monitor (4) which can be drive-displaced, by means of a drive mechanism (6), from an inactive position in a recess (1) of a dashboard (2), through an opening (3) of the recess (1), into an active position outside the recess (1), as well as from the active position into the inactive position, wherein a covering (5) closing the opening (3) in the inactive position can furthermore be drive-displaced in a coupled manner by means of the drive mechanism (6) into the active position in which the opening (3) is exposed.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2007Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventor: Robert Wolfgang Kissel
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Publication number: 20110266920Abstract: A motor which includes two drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other. These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. Diagonally opposite securing elements are provided on the drive ring and are used to flexibly suspend the drive ring via respective articulated corner elements on respective fixing elements that are diagonally opposite the respective securing elements. The drive according to the invention is compact, having actuators that are non-radially hinged to the drive ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2008Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Harl-Heinz Mittonbühier, Tim Schwebel, Carsten Wailenhauer
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Publication number: 20110260580Abstract: A microstepper motor which comprises two electromechanical drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other. These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. The actuators are non-radially hinged to the drive ring via a torsion-proof, nested frame-type complex structure (drive module) including an interior drive ring, a frame and a U-shaped outer frame. The drive according to the invention is compact and, the drive module being is configured as a single injection-molded structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Brnhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Karl-Heinz Mittenbühler, Tim Schwebel, Carsten Wallenhauer
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Patent number: 8004149Abstract: A motor which includes two drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other. These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. Two tension-compression bars, which are parallel to an effective direction, are connected to the drive ring, have respective joints at their ends and are connected to the ends of a diagonal bar, relative to which the ring can be displaced in the other effective direction. The diagonal bar itself can be displaced relative to fixing elements to an effective direction via a diagonal suspension. The drive is compact, having actuators that are non-radially hinged to the ring.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Inventors: Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Karl-Heinz Mittenbühler, Tim Schwebel, Carsten Wallenhauer
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Publication number: 20110141702Abstract: A display unit for displaying information including a housing having an opening and a display unit with a display, moveable between a rest position in which the display unit is completely retracted into the housing and a display position in which the display unit is extended from the housing. A cover is moveably driven between a cover position that covers the housing opening and a release position releasing the housing opening. The display unit and the cover can be moveably driven by way of a coupling assembly by a rotary drive. The coupling assembly couples the motion of the display unit and the cover. The coupling assembly includes a first coupler that can rotate about a fixed first axis of rotation with a free end of hinged to the cover. The display unit is hinged to a free end of a second coupler by a second linkage at the cover and at distances from the first linkage and the second linkage by a third linkage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Klaus Karl, Georg Nehm