Patents by Inventor Thomas SCHMIADY

Thomas SCHMIADY 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: 11987523
    Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schmiady, Thomas Seuthe, Jörg Hessenkemper, Sebastian Leukel, Susanne Krüger
  • Publication number: 20240158284
    Abstract: A glass pane, especially to a glass pane obtained by singularization from a preferably floated glass strip formed by hot forming, is provided. The glass pane is a borosilicate glass with a top side, a bottom side, and a thickness the top and bottom surfaces of at least 1.75 mm and at most 7 mm. The glass pane has a magnitude of the sum total of refractions from the top side and the bottom side within a square area Mb of 500 mm by 500 mm for light incident perpendicularly on the glass pane for a 99.9% quantile of 0 mdpt to less than 1.7 mdpt in at least one direction parallel to the surface of the glass pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: SCHOTT Technical Glass Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Juliane Brandt-Slowik, Thomas Schmiady, Stefan Eberl, Andreas Sprenger, Armin Vogl, Michael Meister, Tommy Schröder, Michael Reinl
  • Publication number: 20240092684
    Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas SCHMIADY, Thomas SEUTHE, Jörg HESSENKEMPER, Sebastian LEUKEL, Susanne KRÜGER
  • Patent number: 11890844
    Abstract: A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity ?1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg ?1(y1)/dPa·s=(lg ?01/dPa·s+a1(y1)) applies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Armin Vogl, Thomas Schmiady, Thilo Zachau, Jochen Alkemper, Michael Meister, Christian Kunert, Lutz Klippe, Rüdiger Dietrich
  • Patent number: 11878939
    Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schmiady, Thomas Seuthe, Jörg Hessenkemper, Sebastian Leukel, Susanne Krüger
  • Patent number: 11745459
    Abstract: Thin glass substrates are provided. Also provided are methods and apparatuses for the production thereof and provides a thin glass substrate of improved optical quality. The method includes, after the melting and before a hot forming process, adjusting the viscosity of the glass that is to be formed or has at least partially been formed is in a defined manner for the thin glass substrate to be obtained. The apparatus includes a device for melting, a device for hot forming, and also a device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate, and the device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate is arranged upstream of the device for hot forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Armin Vogl, Thomas Schmiady, Thilo Zachau, Michael Meister, Jochen Alkemper, Christian Kunert, Lutz Klippe, Rüdiger Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20230191741
    Abstract: A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity ?1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg ?1(y1)/dPa·s=(lg ?01/dPa·s+a1(y1)) applies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Armin VOGL, Thomas SCHMIADY, Thilo ZACHAU, Jochen ALKEMPER, Michael MEISTER, Christian KUNERT, Lutz KLIPPE, Rüdiger DIETRICH
  • Publication number: 20220153629
    Abstract: A chemically toughened or chemically toughenable sheet-like glass article is provided. The glass article includes a glass with a composition having Al2O3, SiO2, Li2O, and B2O3. The glass and/or the glass article includes not more than 7 w t% of B2O3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Inge BURGER, Thomas SEUTHE, Jochen ALKEMPER, Susanne KRÜGER, Oliver HOCHREIN, Rüdiger DIETRICH, Jovana DJORDJEVIC-REISS, Thomas SCHMIADY, Jörg HESSENKEMPER, Sebastian LEUKEL, Julia WEISSHUHN
  • Publication number: 20210039982
    Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schmiady, Thomas Seuthe, Jörg Hessenkemper, Sebastian Leukel, Susanne Krüger
  • Publication number: 20200354253
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a glass substrate for vehicle glazing, in particular for a windscreen of a vehicle, which comprises hot forming of a borosilicate glass, wherein in a hot forming section, at least during stretching of the glass (8) in the flow direction or longitudinal direction of movement of the glass (8), an aging velocity Av of the glass (8) to be hot formed does not exceed 10 mm/s and an aging velocity Av of the glass preferably does not undershoot 3 mm/s, and also relates to glass substrates for vehicle glazing produced by such method as well as to windscreen projection devices and driver assistance systems comprising such glass substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Seuthe, Thilo Zachau, Thomas Schmiady, Sandra von Fintel, Jochen Alkemper
  • Publication number: 20200238664
    Abstract: Thin glass substrates are provided. Also provided are methods and apparatuses for the production thereof and provides a thin glass substrate of improved optical quality. The method includes, after the melting and before a hot forming process, adjusting the viscosity of the glass that is to be formed or has at least partially been formed is in a defined manner for the thin glass substrate to be obtained. The apparatus includes a device for melting, a device for hot forming, and also a device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate, and the device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate is arranged upstream of the device for hot forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Armin VOGL, Thomas SCHMIADY, Thilo ZACHAU, Michael MEISTER, Jochen ALKEMPER, Christian KUNERT, Lutz KLIPPE, Rüdiger DIETRICH
  • Publication number: 20190308900
    Abstract: A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity ?1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg ?1(y1)/dPa·s=(lg ?01/dPa·s+a1(y1)) applies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Armin VOGL, Thomas SCHMIADY, Thilo ZACHAU, Jochen ALKEMPER, Michael MEISTER, Christian KUNERT, Lutz KLIPPE, Rüdiger DIETRICH