Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Forgette
Jeffrey Forgette 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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ELECTRO-OPTIC SUB-ASSEMBLIES AND ASSEMBLIES HAVING AN ELECTROCHROMIC GEL LAYER AND METHODS OF MAKING
Publication number: 20200310211Abstract: An electro-optic sub-assembly and method of making that includes a substrate web and an electrically conductive layer disposed on the substrate web. An electroactive gel layer is disposed on the electrically conductive layer and includes an electroactive component dispersed in a polymeric matrix. The electroactive gel layer may include at least one electrochromic component. Also provided is an electro-optic assembly and method of making that includes a cathodic sub-assembly and an anodic sub-assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Garret C. DeNolf, George A. Neuman, Gary J. Dozeman, Zachary J. Petroelje, John S. Anderson, Michael T. Stephenson, Mario F. Saenger Nayver, Sheng Liu, Jeffrey A. Forgette -
Publication number: 20190324341Abstract: An electro-optic element includes a first substantially transparent polymer substrate defining first and second surfaces. The second surface includes a first electrically conductive layer. A first polymer multi-layer film is disposed between the first substrate and the first conductive layer. The first polymer multi-layer film includes a first polymer layer, an inorganic layer, and a second polymer layer. A second substantially transparent substrate defines a third surface and a fourth surface. The third surface includes a second electrically conductive layer. An electrochromic medium is disposed in a cavity defined between the first and second substrates and includes a cathodic material, an anodic material, and at least one solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: William L. Tonar, Garret C. DeNolf, Gary J. Dozeman, George A. Neuman, Mario F. Saenger Nayver, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, Sheng Liu, Yuping Lin
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Patent number: 9701248Abstract: A vehicular rearview assembly with a mirror element having a curved or rounded edge on the first surface that is fully observable from the front of the assembly, a complex peripheral ring, and a user interface with switches and sensors that activate and configure pre-defined function(s) or device(s) of the assembly in response to the user input applied to the user interface. The mirror element is supported by a hybrid carrier co-molded of at least two materials, a portion of which is compressible between the housing shell and an edge of the mirror element. The peripheral ring may include multiple bands. Electrical communications between the electronic circuitry, the mirror element, and the user interface utilize connectors configured to exert a low contact force, onto the mirror element, limited in part by the strength of adhesive affixing the EC element to an element of the housing of the assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventors: George A. Neuman, Jeffrey A. Forgette
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Patent number: 9274394Abstract: A multi-zone reflector having an opaque zone and a transflective zone. The reflector includes a supporting base, a lower reflecting layer disposed adjacent the supporting base, and an upper reflecting layer extending over the opacifying layer and the transflective zone of the reflector. The lower reflecting layer substantially completely covers the transflective zone, and the opacifying layer is disposed substantially outside the transflective zone adjacent to the lower reflecting layer. Over at least a portion of the transflective zone, the upper and lower reflecting layers have a common surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventors: George A. Neuman, Henry A. Luten, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, Jeffrey N. Williams, Lansen M. Perron
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Publication number: 20150329054Abstract: A vehicular rearview assembly with a mirror element having a curved or rounded edge on the first surface that is fully observable from the front of the assembly, a complex peripheral ring, and a user interface with switches and sensors that activate and configure pre-defined function(s) or device(s) of the assembly in response to the user input applied to the user interface. The mirror element is supported by a hybrid carrier co-molded of at least two materials, a portion of which is compressible between the housing shell and an edge of the mirror element. The peripheral ring may include multiple bands. Electrical communications between the electronic circuitry, the mirror element, and the user interface utilize connectors configured to exert a low contact force, onto the mirror element, limited in part by the strength of adhesive affixing the EC element to an element of the housing of the assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: George A. Neuman, Jeffrey A. Forgette
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Patent number: 9022583Abstract: A single-substrate mirror element defined by a transflective metal layer—non-metal layer—metal layer coating disposed on the first surface of the substrate and enabled to meet the requirements of operation in an exterior rearview assembly and to provide for stealthy appearance of a light source of the assembly disposed behind the mirror element. The appearance of the mirror element, defined in parameters of the CIELAB color system, is substantially color-neutral, while tuning of reflectance and transmittance characteristics can be achieved substantially independently from one another. Reflectance value and measure of color content of light specularly reflected by the mirror at non-zero angles remains substantially stable within wide range of angles.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Gentex CorporationInventors: George A. Neuman, Jeffrey A. Forgette
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Patent number: 8873127Abstract: Electro-optic elements are becoming commonplace in a number of vehicular and architectural applications. Various electro-optic element configurations provide variable transmittance and or variable reflectance for windows and mirrors. The present invention relates to various thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Gentex CorporationInventors: George A. Neuman, William L. Tonar, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, David J. Cammenga, Henry A. Luten, Scott D. Frasher
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Publication number: 20140211492Abstract: A single-substrate mirror element defined by a transflective metal layer—non-metal layer—metal layer coating disposed on the first surface of the substrate and enabled to meet the requirements of operation in an exterior rearview assembly and to provide for stealthy appearance of a light source of the assembly disposed behind the mirror element. The appearance of the mirror element, defined in parameters of the CIELAB color system, is substantially color-neutral, while tuning of reflectance and transmittance characteristics can be achieved substantially independently from one another. Reflectance value and measure of color content of light specularly reflected by the mirror at non-zero angles remains substantially stable within wide range of angles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventors: George A. Neuman, Jeffrey A. Forgette
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Patent number: 8730551Abstract: The present invention relates to improved electro-optic rearview mirror elements and assemblies incorporating the same. Area of the effective field of view of the electro-optic mirror element substantially equals to that defined by the outermost perimeter of the element.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2013Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Gentex CorporationInventors: George A. Neuman, William L. Tonar, John S. Anderson, Henry A. Luten, David J. Cammenga, Juan C. Lara, Jeffrey A. Forgette
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Publication number: 20140126036Abstract: A multi-zone reflector having an opaque zone and a transflective zone. The reflector includes a supporting base, a lower reflecting layer disposed adjacent the supporting base, and an upper reflecting layer extending over the opacifying layer and the transflective zone of the reflector. The lower reflecting layer substantially completely covers the transflective zone, and the opacifying layer is disposed substantially outside the transflective zone adjacent to the lower reflecting layer. Over at least a portion of the transflective zone, the upper and lower reflecting layers have a common surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventors: George A. Neuman, Henry A. Luten, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, Jeffrey N. Williams, Lansen M. Perron
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Publication number: 20140071513Abstract: Electro-optic elements are becoming commonplace in a number of vehicular and architectural applications. Various electro-optic element configurations provide variable transmittance and or variable reflectance for windows and mirrors. The present invention relates to various thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Gentex CorporationInventors: George A. Neuman, William L. Tonar, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, David J. Cammenga, Henry A. Luten, Scott D. Frasher
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Patent number: 8649083Abstract: A multi-zone reflector having an opaque zone and a transflective zone. The reflector includes a supporting base, a lower reflecting layer disposed adjacent the supporting base, and an upper reflecting layer extending over the opacifying layer and the transflective zone of the reflector. The lower reflecting layer substantially completely covers the transflective zone, and the opacifying layer is disposed substantially outside the transflective zone adjacent to the lower reflecting layer. Over at least a portion of the transflective zone, the upper and lower reflecting layers have a common surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Gentex CorporationInventors: Henry A Luten, John S Anderson, George A Neuman, Jeffrey A Forgette, Jeffrey N Williams, Lansen M Perron
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Publication number: 20140036337Abstract: The present invention relates to improved electro-optic rearview mirror elements and assemblies incorporating the same. Area of the effective field of view of the electro-optic mirror element substantially equals to that defined by the outermost perimeter of the element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: Gentex CorporationInventors: George A. Neuman, William L. Tonar, John S. Anderson, Henry A. Luten, David J. Cammenga, Juan C. Lara, Jeffrey A. Forgette
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Patent number: 8547622Abstract: Electro-optic elements are becoming commonplace in a number of vehicular and architectural applications. Various electro-optic element configurations provide variable transmittance and or variable reflectance for windows and mirrors. The present invention relates to various thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Gentex CorporationInventors: William L. Tonar, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, George A. Neuman, Gary J. Dozeman, David J. Cammenga, Henry A. Luten, G. Bruce Poe, Nelson F. Brummel, Lansen M. Perron
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Patent number: 8368992Abstract: An electrochromic element comprises a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a second substrate in spaced-apart relationship to the first substrate and having a third surface facing the second surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface, and an electrochromic medium located between the first and second substrates, wherein the electrochromic medium has a light transmittance that is variable upon application of an electric field thereto. The electrochromic element further comprises a transparent electrode layer covering at least a portion of at least a select one of the first surface, the second surface, the third surface, and the fourth surface, wherein the transparent electrode layer comprises an insulator/metal/insulator stack.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Gentex CorporationInventors: George A. Neuman, Henry A. Luten, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, Scott W. VanderZwaag
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Patent number: 8274729Abstract: Electro-optic elements are becoming commonplace in a number of vehicular and architectural applications. Various electro-optic element configurations provide variable transmittance and or variable reflectance for windows and mirrors. The present invention relates to various thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Gentex CorporationInventors: Henry A. Luten, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, George A. Neuman
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Publication number: 20120218618Abstract: Electro-optic elements are becoming commonplace in a number of vehicular and architectural applications. Various electro-optic element configurations provide variable transmittance and or variable reflectance for windows and mirrors. The present invention relates to various thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventors: William L. Tonar, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, George A. Neuman, Gary J. Dozeman, David J. Cammenga, Henry A. Luten, G. Bruce Poe, Nelson F. Brummel, Lansen M. Perron
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Patent number: 8169681Abstract: Electro-optic elements are becoming commonplace in a number of vehicular and architectural applications. Various electro-optic element configurations provide variable transmittance and or variable reflectance for windows and mirrors. The present invention relates to various thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Gentex CorporationInventors: William L. Tonar, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, George A. Neuman, Gary J. Dozeman, David J. Cammenga, Henry A. Luten, G. Bruce Poe, Nelson F. Brummel, Lansen M. Perron
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Publication number: 20120026570Abstract: A multi-zone reflector having an opaque zone and a transflective zone. The reflector includes a supporting base, a lower reflecting layer disposed adjacent the supporting base, and an upper reflecting layer extending over the opacifying layer and the transflective zone of the reflector. The lower reflecting layer substantially completely covers the transflective zone, and the opacifying layer is disposed substantially outside the transflective zone adjacent to the lower reflecting layer. Over at least a portion of the transflective zone, the upper and lower reflecting layers have a common surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventors: Henry A. Luten, John S. Anderson, George A. Neuman, Jeffrey A. Forgette, Jeffrey N. Williams, Lansen M. Perron
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Patent number: 8035881Abstract: A multi-zone reflector having an opaque zone and a transflective zone. The reflector includes a supporting base, a lower reflecting layer disposed adjacent the supporting base, and an upper reflecting layer extending over the opacifying layer and the transflective zone of the reflector. The lower reflecting layer substantially completely covers the transflective zone, and the opacifying layer is disposed substantially outside the transflective zone adjacent to the lower reflecting layer. Over at least a portion of the transflective zone, the upper and lower reflecting layers have a common surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2009Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Gentex CorporationInventors: Henry A. Luten, John S. Anderson, George A. Neuman, Jeffrey A. Forgette, Jeffrey N. Williams, Lansen M. Perron