Patents by Inventor Sabine Vorberg

Sabine Vorberg 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: 9746847
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Gutermuth, Thorsten Alexander Kern, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Sabine Vorberg, Ingo Zoller
  • Publication number: 20140207268
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Uwe Gutermuth, Thorsten Alexander Kern, Robert Wolfgang Kissel, Sabine Vorberg, Ingo Zoller
  • Patent number: 6854416
    Abstract: A display instrument with two illuminated pointers, in which instrument the illuminated pointers (4, 6) are supplied with light via a light splitter (10). The latter has a frustum-shaped depression (21) so that a portion of the light is radiated in the axial direction and passes into the upper illuminated pointer (4). A further portion is scattered radially at the generated surface (24) of the frustum (23) and passes into the lower illuminated pointer (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Herbert Breinich, Bertram Eschenbach, Karl-Heinz Mittenbühler, Sabine Vorberg
  • Patent number: 6534888
    Abstract: In an electric motor intended to be fixed to a printed circuit board, provision is made for it to have at least one expanding dowel (4), for it to be possible for the motor (1) to be fixed to a printed circuit board (6, 32) by the expanding dowel or dowels (4) being expanded, and by it being possible for the expanding dowel or dowels (4) to be secured at least by a pin (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Thomas Vorberg, Markus Keutz, Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Peter Schmidt, Sabine Vorberg, Klaus Kronenberg, Frank Weiand
  • Publication number: 20020108555
    Abstract: A display instrument with two illuminated pointers is described, in which instrument the illuminated pointers (4, 6) are supplied with light via a light splitter (10). The latter has a frustum-shaped depression (21) so that a portion of the light is radiated in the axial direction and passes into the upper illuminated pointer (4), a further portion is scattered radially at the generated surface (24) of the frustum (23) and passes into the lower illuminated pointer (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Herbert Breinich, Bertram Eschenbach, Karl-Heinz Mittenbuhler, Sabine Vorberg
  • Patent number: 6005465
    Abstract: A coil assembly has a coil form on which the coil winding is arranged as well as a method of contacting the coil assembly on a support member. The coil assembly is easy to produce and also permits electrical contacting, namely, the provision of electrical contacts between terminals of the coil and an external circuit in a simple and reliable manner. The coil assembly has a coil form on which two contact feet are arranged, the ends of the coil winding being fastened to the respective contact feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Klaus Kronenberg, Sabine Vorberg, Markus Keutz, Andreas Wilhelm, Frank Weiand, Christian Beckhaus, Thomas Vorberg, Peter Schmidt, Jochen Blume
  • Patent number: 5825115
    Abstract: An electric motor has two exciter windings, independent of each other, on a stator, by which windings a resultant magnetic field can be produced. The motor includes a permanently magnetized rotor which has at least one pair of poles, the rotor changing its position as a function of the magnetic field, and the rotor being arranged axially on a rotor shaft. In the case of an electric motor which is of a small size and easy to manufacture, the stator is developed with several arms, and has an opening present at the center to receive the rotor. The individual arms are arranged around the opening and, there are, two pairs of opposite arms. The opposite arms are so bent towards each other so that, upon their receiving a respective exciter winding, they produce magnetic vectors which are perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Klaus Kronenberg, Sabine Vorberg, Markus Keutz, Andreas Wilhelm, Frank Weiand, Christian Beckhaus, Thomas Vorberg, Peter Schmidt, Jochen Blume