Patents by Inventor Till Kiewning

Till Kiewning 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: 10278253
    Abstract: An illumination arrangement of a passenger cabin for a passenger aircraft contains a control line with a connected lamp arrangement and operating unit having operating elements for selecting light scenarios of the lamp arrangement by transmitting dedicated control signals of the operating elements from the operating unit to the lamp arrangement via the control line, the lamp arrangement has a first decoder for allocating a sequence of control signals to a prescribed one of the light scenarios, the first decoder has a decoding instruction in a menu structure, the selection of menu elements of the menu structure is effected by the control signals, the illumination arrangement contains an add-on display which is connected to the control line, the add-on display contains a second decoder with the same decoding instruction, according to which a respectively received control signal is assigned a graphic representation of the menu element that is in each case currently selected by the control signals, the graphic re
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk-Achim Schevardo, Till Kiewning, Stefan Dobler
  • Publication number: 20190069369
    Abstract: An illumination arrangement of a passenger cabin for a passenger aircraft contains a control line with a connected lamp arrangement and operating unit having operating elements for selecting light scenarios of the lamp arrangement by transmitting dedicated control signals of the operating elements from the operating unit to the lamp arrangement via the control line, the lamp arrangement has a first decoder for allocating a sequence of control signals to a prescribed one of the light scenarios, the first decoder has a decoding instruction in a menu structure, the selection of menu elements of the menu structure is effected by the control signals, the illumination arrangement contains an add-on display which is connected to the control line, the add-on display contains a second decoder with the same decoding instruction, according to which a respectively received control signal is assigned a graphic representation of the menu element that is in each case currently selected by the control signals, the graphic re
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk-Achim SCHEVARDO, Till KIEWNING, Stefan DOBLER
  • Patent number: 8115416
    Abstract: A method for avoiding physiological phenomena such as color separation or stroboscopic effects that occur under boundary conditions in the case of intermittent feeding in particular of light-emitting diodes, for additive superposition to form color-locus-variable mixed light, whereby the emission brightness that can be represented by a periodic duty ratio of a pulse-time-modulated constant current feeding—preferably within the respective period—is realized by changeover to other or between different constant current intensities in such a way that a brightness equivalent, namely once again the current-time integral of the predetermined, brightness-determining duty ratio, arises in the current area sum, which now preferably no longer exhibits gaps over the period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Diehl Aerospace GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Steffen, Till Kiewning
  • Patent number: 7952784
    Abstract: In order to avoid firstly decidedly periodic loading of an output-buffered constant current power supply unit (17) and secondly physiological loading as a result of only intermittently appearing primary colors (R, G, B) when activating mixed light color loci, primary color light sources (11R, 11G, 11B) are energized in pulse-width-modulated fashion periodically in a temporally offset manner, but in addition in each instance, in time-parallel fashion with respect thereto, also those primary color light sources of further primary color light sources (11R, 11G, 11B) whose primary colors in the cyclic activation are not being energized at that time are likewise energized in a pulse-width-modulated manner (FIG. 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Diehl Aerospace GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Steffen, Till Kiewning
  • Publication number: 20090121658
    Abstract: A method for avoiding physiological phenomena such as color separation or stroboscopic effects that occur under boundry conditions in the case of intermittent feeding in particular of light-emitting diodes, for additive superposition to form color-locus-variable mixed light, whereby the emission brightness that can be represented by a periodic duty ratio of a pulse-time-modulated constant current feeding—preferably within the respective period—is realized by changeover to other or between different constant current intensities in such a way that a brightness equivalent, namely once again the current-time integral of the predetermined, brightness-determining duty ratio, arises in the current area sum, which now preferably no longer exhibits gaps over the period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Eckhard Steffen, Till Kiewning
  • Publication number: 20090067168
    Abstract: In order to avoid firstly decidedly periodic loading of an output-buffered constant current power supply unit (17) and secondly physiological loading as a result of only intermittently appearing primary colors (R, G, B) when activating mixed light color loci, primary color light sources (11R, 11G, 11B) are energized in pulse-width-modulated fashion periodically in a temporally offset manner, but in addition in each instance, in time-parallel fashion with respect thereto, also those primary color light sources of further primary color light sources (11R, 11G, 11B) whose primary colors in the cyclic activation are not being energized at that time are likewise energized in a pulse-width-modulated manner (FIG. 2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Diehl Aerospace GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Steffen, Till Kiewning