Patents by Inventor Susanne Lisinski

Susanne Lisinski 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: 10787153
    Abstract: A composite pane is described. The composite pane has a first pane, at least one intermediate layer, a second pane, a transparent, electrically conductive first coating between the intermediate layer and the first pane and/or between the intermediate layer and the second pane, a first busbar and a second busbar, and a transparent, electrically conductive second coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Martin Melcher, Andreas Schlarb
  • Patent number: 10661755
    Abstract: Arrangements for de-icing a transparent window, in particular a vehicle windshield, with an electric heating device, are described. The de-icing a transparent window has the following steps: Step A): Measuring a window temperature before an initial application of a heating voltage; Step B): Measuring the window temperature after a beginning of a heating period; and Step C): Applying a heating voltage of more than 100 volts to a heating device over a heating period of a maximum of 2 minutes, in particular a maximum of 90 seconds, and repeating step B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Andreas Schlarb, Guenther Schall, Marcel Klein, Xavier Fanton
  • Patent number: 10336298
    Abstract: A transparent pane with a conductive coating extending at least over a part of the transparent pane surface, in particular over a visual field of the transparent pane is described. The conductive coating is electrically connected to at least two strip-shaped bus bars such that after application of a supply voltage, a current flows over a heating field formed by the conductive coating. The conductive coating has an electrical resistance such that upon application of a supply voltage in the range from more than 100 volts to 400 volts, a heating output from the heating field is in the range from 300 watt/m2 to 1000 watt/m2. The at least two strip-shaped bus bars have a maximum width of less than 5 mm and are dimensioned such that a maximum electrical power loss per unit of length is 10 watt/m. Moreover, the at least two strip-shaped bus bars have a specific resistivity ranging from 2 ?ohm·cm to 4 ?ohm·cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Martin Melcher, Volkmar Offermann, Andreas Schlarb
  • Patent number: 10124770
    Abstract: A transparent pane with an electrical heating layer extends at least over a part of the pane surface and can be electrically connected to a power source. The transparent pane is electrically connected through a strip-shaped first bus bar and a strip-shaped second bus bar, which are electrically conductively connected directly to the heating layer over the entire strip length. In a method for producing the transparent pane the zone heating element is electrically conductively connected directly to at least one first flat ribbon cable and to at least one second flat ribbon cable in an electrical parallel circuit with respect to the heating field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Bernhard Reul, Susanne Lisinski, Guenther Schall, Sabine Velden
  • Publication number: 20180244242
    Abstract: A composite pane is described. The composite pane has a first pane, at least one intermediate layer, a second pane, a transparent, electrically conductive first coating between the intermediate layer and the first pane and/or between the intermediate layer and the second pane, a first busbar and a second busbar, and a transparent, electrically conductive second coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Susanne LISINSKI, Martin MELCHER, Andreas SCHLARB
  • Patent number: 9981633
    Abstract: A composite pane is described. The composite pane has a first pane, at least one intermediate layer, a second pane, a transparent, electrically conductive first coating between the intermediate layer and the first pane and/or between the intermediate layer and the second pane, a first busbar and a second busbar, and a transparent, electrically conductive second coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Martin Melcher, Andreas Schlarb
  • Publication number: 20170327088
    Abstract: Arrangements for de-icing a transparent window, in particular a vehicle windshield, with an electric heating device, are described. The de-icing a transparent window has the following steps: Step A): Measuring a window temperature before an initial application of a heating voltage; Step B): Measuring the window temperature after a beginning of a heating period; and Step C): Applying a heating voltage of more than 100 volts to a heating device over a heating period of a maximum of 2 minutes, in particular a maximum of 90 seconds, and repeating step B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Susanne LISINSKI, Andreas SCHLARB, Guenther SCHALL, Marcel KLEIN, Xavier FANTON
  • Patent number: 9751498
    Abstract: An arrangement and a method for de-icing a transparent window, in particular a vehicle windshield, with an electric heating device, are described. The method has the following steps: Step A): Measuring a window temperature before an initial application of a heating voltage; Step B): Measuring the window temperature after a beginning of a heating period; and Step C): Applying a heating voltage of more than 100 volts to a heating device over a heating period of a maximum of 2 minutes, in particular a maximum of 90 seconds, and repeating step B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Andreas Schlarb, Guenther Schall, Marcel Klein, Xavier Fanton
  • Patent number: 9596719
    Abstract: A composite pane having an electrically heatable coating is described. The composite pane comprises: at least two individual panes; an intermediate layer, which connects the individual panes to one another; at least one transparent, electrically conductive coating on at least one side of at least one of the at least two individual panes, the at least one side faces the intermediate layer; and at least two bus bars, which are connected to the at least one transparent, electrically conductive coating, wherein a first bus bar is electrically connected to a first feed line provided for connection to one pole of a voltage source and a second bus bar is electrically connected to a second feed line provided for connection to the second pole of the voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Volkmar Offermann, Andreas Schlarb, Martin Melcher, Susanne Lisinski
  • Patent number: 9526130
    Abstract: A transparent pane having an electrically heatable coating is described. The transparent pane is electrically connected to at least two first electrodes provided for electrical connection to two terminals of a voltage source. A heating field includes at least one coating-free zone. At least one second electrode is provided for electric connection to one terminal of the voltage source. A method for manufacturing the transparent pane is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Günther Schall, Dang Cuong Phan, Bernhard Reul, Lothar Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9302451
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent pane with a transparent heatable coating, which extends at least over a part of the pane surface, in particular over its visual field. The heatable coating is divided by at least one heatable coating-free zone into at least one first heatable coating zone and a second heatable coating zone, wherein the two heatable coating zones are in each case electrically connected to at least two collecting conductors such that after application of a supply voltage that is provided by a voltage source, in each case a current flows over at least one first heating field formed by the first heatable coating zone and at least one second heating field formed by the second heatable coating zone. At least one heating element is disposed in the heatable coating-free zone, which heating element has an ohmic resistance such that by means of application of the supply voltage to the heating element, the pane is heatable in a surface area containing the heatable coating-free zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Guenther Schall, Dang Cuong Phan, Bernhard Reul, Gunther Vortmeier
  • Patent number: 9100996
    Abstract: A transparent pane with a conductive coating is described. The transparent pane is electrically connected to an electrically heatable coating that extends at least over a part of the area of the pane and to at least two first electrodes provided for electrical connection to the two terminals of a voltage source. The heating field of the transparent pane includes at least one coating-free zone. The transparent pane also has at least one second electrode provided for electric connection to one terminal of the voltage source. The supply section of the transparent pane consists of at least two supply parts separated from each other, and a coupling section, which is electrically connected to the heatable coating. A method for manufacturing the transparent pane is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Dang Cuong Phan, Günther Schall
  • Patent number: 9061656
    Abstract: A panel heating element is described. The panel heating element has at least one substrate with a substrate surface, and an electrical heating layer for heating the substrate, which heating layer extends at least over a part of the substrate surface and is connected to at least two electrodes provided for connection to a voltage source such that a current path for a heating current is formed between the electrodes. The heating layer is electrically divided by separating zones each having at least one free zone end. The current path changes its direction of flow at the free zone ends. A transition zone adjoins the zone end of each separating zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Bastien Royer, Li-Ya Yeh, Susanne Lisinski, Marcel Klein, Dang Cuong Phan
  • Patent number: 8859939
    Abstract: A carrier, in particular a plastic film, comprising an electrical heating layer is described. The heating layer is applied to at least a portion of a carrier surface. The heating layer is electrically divided by one or more first separating zones, each of which is designed such that a current path changes the direction of flow thereof at the free zone ends, and one or more second separating zones, which are designed such that the current path changing the direction of flow thereof at the free zone ends is divided in at least some sections into a plurality of electrically parallel current sub-paths. One or more second separating zones are associated with at least one free zone end of a first separating zone, with the second separating zones arranged in an aligned extension to the first separating zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Dang Cuong Phan, Guenther Schall, Marcel Klein, Sabine Velden
  • Patent number: 8809742
    Abstract: A transparent disk that can be electrically heated over a large surface area, comprising: a large-surface-area, electrically conductive, transparent coating, which is applied to a transparent substrate, at least two bus ribbons, which are electrically connected to the electrically conductive transparent coating, at least one locally delimited region free from the coating, wherein at least one heating conductor having two poles is applied inside the free region, and wherein the first pole is electrically connected to the electrically conductive, transparent coating and the second pole is electrically connected to the electrically conductive, transparent coating or a bus ribbon. A method for the production of the disk is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Bernhard Reul, Dang Cuong Phan, Günther Schall, Susanne Lisinski, Jean-Luc Lesage
  • Publication number: 20140151355
    Abstract: A composite pane is described. The composite pane has a first pane, at least one intermediate layer, a second pane, a transparent, electrically conductive first coating between the intermediate layer and the first pane and/or between the intermediate layer and the second pane, a first busbar and a second busbar, and a transparent, electrically conductive second coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Martin Melcher, Andreas Schlarb
  • Publication number: 20140138370
    Abstract: A panel heating element is described. The panel heating element has at least one substrate with a substrate surface, and an electrical heating layer for heating the substrate, which heating layer extends at least over a part of the substrate surface and is connected to at least two electrodes provided for connection to a voltage source such that a current path for a heating current is formed between the electrodes. The heating layer is electrically divided by separating zones each having at least one free zone end. The current path changes its direction of flow at the free zone ends. A transition zone adjoins the zone end of each separating zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventors: Bastien Royer, Li-Ya Yeh, Susanne Lisinski, Marcel Klein, Dang Cuong Phan
  • Publication number: 20140091074
    Abstract: A carrier, in particular a plastic film, comprising an electrical heating layer is described. The heating layer is applied to at least a portion of a carrier surface. The heating layer is electrically divided by one or more first separating zones, each of which is designed such that a current path changes the direction of flow thereof at the free zone ends, and one or more second separating zones, which are designed such that the current path changing the direction of flow thereof at the free zone ends is divided in at least some sections into a plurality of electrically parallel current sub-paths. One or more second separating zones are associated with at least one free zone end of a first separating zone, with the second separating zones arranged in an aligned extension to the first separating zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Dang Cuong Phan, Guenther Schall, Marcel Klein, Sabine Velden
  • Publication number: 20140027434
    Abstract: A transparent pane with an electrical heating layer, which extends at least over a part of the pane surface and can be electrically connected to a power source via connection means is described. The transparent pane has connection means having a strip-shaped first bus bar and a strip-shaped second bus bar, which are electrically conductively connected directly to the heating layer over the entire strip length. A method for producing such a transparent pane is also described. In the method the zone heating element is electrically conductively connected directly to at least one first flat ribbon cable and to at least one second flat ribbon cable in an electrical parallel circuit with respect to the heating field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Bernhard Reul, Susanne Lisinski, Guenther Schall, Sabine Velden
  • Publication number: 20140027433
    Abstract: An arrangement and a method for de-icing a transparent window, in particular a vehicle windshield, with an electric heating device, are described. The method has the following steps: Step A): Measuring a window temperature before an initial application of a heating voltage; Step B): Measuring the window temperature after a beginning of a heating period; and Step C): Applying a heating voltage of more than 100 volts to a heating device over a heating period of a maximum of 2 minutes, in particular a maximum of 90 seconds, and repeating step B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Susanne Lisinski, Andreas Schlarb, Guenther Schall, Marcel Klein, Xavier Fanton