Patents by Inventor Ulrich Billert
Ulrich Billert 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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Patent number: 10272648Abstract: A fire-resistant pane including at least one float glass pane with a tin bath side, at least one protective layer that is arranged on the tin bath side in a planar manner, and at least one fire-resistant layer that is arranged on the protective layer in a planar manner, wherein the protective layer contains metal oxide, metal nitride, metal silicide, and/or mixtures or layered compounds thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Anais Renier, Philippe Letocart, Andreas Kasper, Udo Gelderie, Norbert Schwankhaus, Ulrich Billert
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Patent number: 9359807Abstract: A transparent panel is described. The transparent panel has at least one transparent substrate and at least one electrically conductive coating on at least one surface of the transparent substrate. The electrically conductive coating has at least two functional layers which are arranged one above the other, and each functional layer has at least an optically highly refractive material layer, which has a refractive index greater than or equal to 2.1, and a smoothing layer, which is above the optically highly refractive material layer. The smoothing layer contains at least one non-crystalline oxide, a first matching layer, which is above the smoothing layer, an electrically conductive layer, which is above the first matching layer, and a second matching layer, which is above the electrically conductive layers. The total thickness of all the electrically conductive layers is between 40 nm and 75 nm, and the electrically conductive coating has a low ohm/square sheet resistance.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Christoph Schmitz, Klaus Fischer, Sebastian Janzyk, Marcus Neander, Ulrich Billert, David Luxembourg
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Publication number: 20150344357Abstract: A fire-resistant pane including at least one float glass pane with a tin bath side, at least one protective layer that is arranged on the tin bath side in a planar manner, and at least one fire-resistant layer that is arranged on the protective layer in a planar manner, wherein the protective layer contains metal oxide, metal nitride, metal silicide, and/or mixtures or layered compounds thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Anais Renier, Philippe Letocart, Andreas Kasper, Udo Gelderie, Norbert Schwankhaus, Ulrich Billert
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Publication number: 20150310448Abstract: A method and system for identifying defects in glass are provided. The method includes identifying, using an identifier device, each of a plurality of sheets of glass with an identifier; generating, using a mapping device, a map of glass attributes for each of the plurality of sheets of glass; associating, using a computer system, the map of attributes of each of the plurality of sheets of glass with the identifier of a corresponding each of the plurality of sheets of glass; storing the map of glass attributes of each of the sheets of glass in a database; and providing a customer with a level of access to information in the database so as to allow the customer to retrieve at least part of the map of attributes of sheets of glass acquired by the customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventors: Laurent VILAIN, Ulrich BILLERT, Antoine PEYRUDE
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Patent number: 9102565Abstract: The subject of the invention is a material comprising a glass substrate coated on at least one of its faces with a thin-film multilayer comprising, starting from said substrate, at least one lower dielectric layer, at least one functional layer made of a metal or metal nitride, at least one upper dielectric layer and at least one layer of titanium oxide at least partially crystallized in the anatase form, said metal or metal nitride being based on Nb, NbN, W, WN, Ta, TaN or any of their alloys or solid solutions.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2010Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Anne Durandeau, Andriy Kharchenko, Bruno Mauvernay, Emilie Thollas, Etienne Sandre-Chardonnal, Pierre-Alain Gillet, Ulrich Billert
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Patent number: 9073781Abstract: One subject of the invention is a process for the treatment of at least one thin continuous film deposited on a first side of a substrate, characterized in that said at least one thin film is raised to a temperature of at least 300° C. while maintaining a temperature not exceeding 150° C. on the opposite side of said substrate to said first side, so as to increase the degree of crystallization of said thin film while keeping it continuous and without a step of melting said thin film. Another subject of the invention is the material that can be obtained by this process.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2008Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Nicolas Nadaud, Andriy Kharchenko, Ulrich Billert, Rene Gy
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Patent number: 8883277Abstract: A multiple glazing unit with at least three substrates which are held together by a frame structure, in which at least two intermediate gas-filled cavities lie each between two substrates, at least one substrate has, on at least one face in contact with an intermediate gas-filled cavity, an antireflection film which is in a face-to-face relationship relative to said intermediate gas-filled cavity, with an insulating film having reflection properties for infrared and/or in solar radiation.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass FranceInventors: David Janssen, Marcus Neander, Vincent Reymond, Ulrich Billert
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Publication number: 20140094948Abstract: A process for cutting several pieces of glass from at least one glass sheet, includes reading information relating to defects in the at least one glass sheet; and automatically and dynamically generating an optimum cutting layout for each of the at least one glass sheet as a function of at least some of the information relating to the defects.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Antoine Peyrude, Ulrich Billert
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Publication number: 20120177900Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate (10), especially a transparent glass substrate, provided with a thin-film multilayer comprising an alternation of “n” metallic functional layers (40, 80, 120) especially of functional layers based on silver or a metal alloy containing silver, and of “(n+1)” antireflection coatings (20, 60, 100, 140), with n being an integer ?3, each antireflection coating comprising at least one antireflection layer (24, 64, 104, 144), so that each functional layer (40, 80, 120) is positioned between two antireflection coatings (20, 60, 100, 140), characterized in that the thickness ex of each functional layer (80, 120) is less than the thickness of the preceding functional layer in the direction of the substrate (10) and is such that: ex=? ex?1, with: x which is the row of the functional layer starting from the substrate (10), x?1 which is the row of the preceding functional layer in the direction of the substrate (10), ? which is a number such that 0.5??<1, and preferably 0.5???0.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Stephane Laurent, Robert Drese, Ulrich Billert
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Publication number: 20120164443Abstract: The subject of the invention is a material comprising a glass substrate coated on at least one of its faces with a thin-film multilayer comprising, starting from said substrate, at least one lower dielectric layer, at least one functional layer made of a metal or metal nitride, at least one upper dielectric layer and at least one layer of titanium oxide at least partially crystallized in the anatase form, said metal or metal nitride being based on Nb, NbN, W, WN, Ta, TaN or any of their alloys or solid solutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Saint-Gobain Glass FranceInventors: Anne Durandeau, Andriy Kharchenko, Bruno Mauvernay, Emilie Thollas, Etienne Sandre-Chardonnal, Pierre-Alain Gillet, Ulrich Billert
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Publication number: 20110262694Abstract: A multiple glazing unit with at least three substrates which are held together by a frame structure, in which at least two intermediate gas-filled cavities lie each between two substrates, at least one substrate has, on at least one face in contact with an intermediate gas-filled cavity, an antireflection film which is in a face-to-face relationship relative to said intermediate gas-filled cavity, with an insulating film having reflection properties for infrared and/or in solar radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: David Janssen, Marcus Neander, Vincent Reymond, Ulrich Billert
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Publication number: 20110088774Abstract: The invention relates to a photovoltaic cell (1) having an absorbent photovoltaic material, especially a cadmium-based material, said cell comprising a front face substrate (10), especially a transparent glass substrate, having, on a main surface, a transparent electrode coating (100) consisting of a thin-film stack that includes at least one metallic functional layer (40), especially one based on silver, and at least two antireflection coatings (20, 60), said antireflection coatings each comprising at least one antireflection layer (24, 26; 66, 68), said functional layer (40) being placed between the two antireflection coatings (20, 60), characterized in that the antireflection coating (60) placed above the metallic functional layer (40) on the opposite side from the substrate comprises at least two antireflection layers (66, 68), the antireflection layer (68) furthest from the metallic functional layer (40) being more resistive than the antireflection layer (66) closest to the metallic functional layer (40)Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Franck Gromball, Emmanuelle Peter, Stephane Auvray, Eric Mattmann, Ulrich Billert, Nikolas Janke
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Publication number: 20100300519Abstract: The invention relates to a photovoltaic cell having an absorbent photovoltaic material, said cell comprising a front face substrate (10), especially a transparent glass substrate, having, on a main surface, a transparent electrode coating (100) consisting of a thin-film stack that includes a metallic functional layer (40), especially one based on silver, and at least two antireflection coatings (20, 60), characterized in that the antireflection coating (60) placed above the metallic functional layer (40) on the opposite side from the substrate has an optical thickness equal to about four times the optical thickness of the antireflection coating (20) placed beneath the metallic functional layer (40) in the direction of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Eric Mattmann, Ulrich Billert, Nikolas Janke
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Publication number: 20100269900Abstract: The invention relates to a photovoltaic cell (1) having an absorbent photovoltaic material, said cell comprising a front face substrate (10), especially a transparent glass substrate, having, on a main surface, a transparent electrode coating (100) consisting of a thin-film stack that includes a metallic functional layer (40), especially one based on silver, and at least two antireflection coatings (20, 60), characterized in that the antireflection coating (20) placed beneath the metallic functional layer (40) in the direction of the substrate has an optical thickness equal to about one eighth of the maximum absorption wavelength of the photovoltaic material and the antireflection coating (60) placed above the metallic functional layer (40) on the opposite side from the substrate has an optical thickness equal to about one half of the maximum absorption wavelength of the photovoltaic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2008Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Eric Mattmann, Ulrich Billert, Nikolas Janke
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Publication number: 20100096007Abstract: The invention relates to a photovoltaic cell comprising a photovoltaic absorbent material, said cell including a front face substrate (10), particularly a transparent glass substrate. A main surface of the substrate is provided with a transparent electrode coating (100) formed by a stack of thin layers including at least one metal functional layer (40) based, in particular, on silver, and at least two anti-reflective coatings (20, 60). The invention is characterised in that the anti-reflective coating (60) disposed on top of the metal functional layer (40) on the side opposite that of substrate includes a current-conducting layer (66) located farthest from the substrate and having a resistivity ? of between 2.10?4 ?·cm and 10 ?·cm, based, in particular, on TCO.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Eric Mattmann, Ulrich Billert, Nikolas Janke
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Publication number: 20100071810Abstract: One subject of the invention is a process for the treatment of at least one thin continuous film deposited on a first side of a substrate, characterized in that said at least one thin film is raised to a temperature of at least 300° C. while maintaining a temperature not exceeding 150° C. on the opposite side of said substrate to said first side, so as to increase the degree of crystallization of said thin film while keeping it continuous and without a step of melting said thin film. Another subject of the invention is the material that can be obtained by this process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2008Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Nicolas Nadaud, Andriy Kharchenko, Ulrich Billert, Rene Gy
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Publication number: 20060222863Abstract: The invention relates to glazing that comprises at least one transparent substrate S provided with a stack of thin layers comprising an alternation of n functional layers A having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation, especially metal layers, and (n+1) coatings B made of a dielectric, where n?1. The stack satisfies the following criteria: at least one functional layer A is (i) directly in contact with the dielectric coating B placed on top of it and (ii) in contact with the dielectric B placed beneath it via a layer C that absorbs at least in the visible, of the metallic, optionally nitride, type.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2006Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Nicolas Nadaud, Ulrich Billert, Juergen Schutt, Li-Ming Yu
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Patent number: 6924037Abstract: A transparent substrate including an antireflection coating, made from a stack of thin layers of dielectric material having alternately high and low refractive indices. This stack includes a high-index first layer having a refractive index n, of between 1.8 and 2.2 and a geometrical thickness e1 of between 5 and 50 nm, a low-index second layer having a refractive index n2 of between 1.35 and 1.65 and a geometrical thickness e2 of between 5 and 50 nm, a high-index third layer having a refractive index n3 of between 1.8 and 2.2 and a geometrical thickness e3 of between 70 and 120 nm, and a low-index fourth layer having a refractive index n4 of between 1.35 and 1:65 and a geometrical thickness e4 of at least 80 nm.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2000Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass FranceInventors: Laurent Joret, Anne Durandeau, Norbert Huhn, Olaf Stahlschmidt, Ulrich Billert
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Publication number: 20040241406Abstract: The invention relates to glazing that comprises at least one transparent substrate S provided with a stack of thin layers comprising an alternation of n functional layers A having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation, especially metal layers, and (n+1) coatings B made of a dielectric, where n≧1. The stack satisfies the following criteria: at least one functional layer A is (i) directly in contact with the dielectric coating B placed on top of it and (ii) in contact with the dielectric B placed beneath it via a layer C that absorbs at least in the visible, of the metallic, optionally nitride, type.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Applicant: Saint-Gobain Glass FranceInventors: Nicolas Nadaud, Ulrich Billert, Juergen Schutt, Li-Ming Yu