Patents by Inventor Bastien Grandgirard

Bastien Grandgirard 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).

  • Publication number: 20130086855
    Abstract: A glazing unit including a pane, a profiled seal portion, and at least one insert having an overmolded part located in the profiled seal portion and a protruding part located outside the profiled seal portion. The insert includes a baseplate that supports a base having a central axis and having a free face, and also a pressure element firmly attached to the insert in at least one bonding region and that extends between the baseplate and the pane, bearing on the pane. The pressure element is also applied against the baseplate or against the base in at least one bearing region located beneath the base, between the base and the pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Bastien Grandgirard, Loic Froissard, Romain Gonnet
  • Publication number: 20130033894
    Abstract: A luminous vehicle glazing containing: a first sheet having a first and a second main face; a peripheral light source, the emitting face facing an injection side, which is a side of the second face; a surface diffusion extractor, which extracts the guided light via the first and/or the second main face, or a volume diffusion extractor in the first sheet; a fluid-tight cap, which covers the peripheral light source and is impermeable to liquid water or water vapor, wherein the cap is a facial cap, faces the second face, joined by a fastening element, and associated with an interfacial sealing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Christophe Kleo, Bastien Grandgirard, Alexandre Richard, Adele Verrat-Debailleul
  • Publication number: 20120320621
    Abstract: A luminous vehicle glazing, containing: a first sheet containing a mineral or an organic glass having a first main face, a second main face, and an injection edge; a peripheral light source with an emitting face, which faces the injection edge; a guided-light extracting element; a peripheral functional element, bonded to the first sheet, which is fluid-tight, including a cavity for placing the peripheral light source; a covering element, which covers the cavity and the peripheral light source, which is fluid-tight, and which is selected from i) a cap combined with an interfacial element, for interfacial fluid-tightness or ii) a fluid-tight sealing mastic covering the peripheral light source and sealing the peripheral functional element. In addition, a method of manufacturing the luminous vehicle glazing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Christophe Kleo, Bastien Grandgirard, Alexandre Richard, Adele Verrat-Debailleul