Patents Assigned to Saint-Gobain Glass France
  • Patent number: 11524919
    Abstract: A material includes one or more transparent substrates comprising two main faces, wherein one of the faces of one of the substrates is coated with a functional coating which can have an effect on solar radiation and/or infrared radiation, and a face not coated with the functional coating of one of the substrates includes a reflective color-adjustment coating comprising at least one dielectric layer including a reflective dielectric layer with a thickness of between 2 and 100 nm, all the dielectric layers of the reflective color-adjustment coating have a thickness of less than 100 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Nisita Wanakule, Cyril Jean, Paul Jacquet
  • Patent number: 11526009
    Abstract: A projection arrangement for a head-up display, including a composite pane, including an outer pane and an inner pane, which are joined to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer, having an upper edge and a lower edge and an HUD region; an electrically conductive coating on the surface of the outer pane or the inner pane facing the intermediate layer or provided within the intermediate layer; and a projector that is aimed at the HUD region; wherein the light of the projector has at least one p-polarised portion and wherein the electrically conductive coating has, in the spectral range from 400 nm to 650 nm, only a single local reflection maximum for p-polarised light, with this maximum in the range from 510 nm to 550 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Klaus Fischer, Dagmar Schaefer, Roberto Zimmermann, Valentin Schulz
  • Patent number: 11524558
    Abstract: A glass structure includes a glass body; a modulating unit coupled to the glass body to modulate optical characteristics of the glass structure; an interaction unit coupled to the glass body to provide an adjusting signal indicating an execution of adjusting the optical characteristics of the glass structure; and a control unit coupled to the modulating unit and the interaction unit respectively, the control unit being configured to receive the adjusting signal from the interaction unit and to control the modulating unit to modulate the optical characteristics of a target region of the glass structure in response to the adjusting signal. The interaction unit and the modulating unit are isolated from each other by a filling material having a transmittance equal to or greater than about 50%, a relative permittivity equal to or less than about 10, and a thickness equal to or greater than about 50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Guo, Siteng Ma
  • Patent number: 11524916
    Abstract: A method for producing a coated and printed glass panel, includes a) providing a glass substrate having a metal-containing coating on a first surface and a polymeric protective layer with a thickness d arranged on this metal-containing coating, b) removing the polymeric protective layer in a first region using a carbon dioxide laser, c) removing the metal-containing coating within the first region only in a second region using a solid-state laser such that an edge region is created, in which the metal-containing coating is intact and in which the polymeric protective layer was removed in step b), d) applying a ceramic ink only in the first region, e) heat treating the glass panel at >600° C., wherein the polymeric protective layer is removed on the entire first surface, in the edge region, the metal-containing coating is dissolved by the ceramic ink lying above it, and the ceramic ink is fired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Hans-Werner Kuster, Sebastian Janzyk, Li-Ya Yeh, Stephane Auvray
  • Patent number: 11511526
    Abstract: A method for producing laminated glass or a precursor thereof using a first glass pane with a thickness of at least 1.4 mm and a second glass pane with a thickness of not more than 1.0 mm, the first and second glass panes differing in curvature and/or locally in shape, includes aligning an arrangement including the first and second glass panes and a laminating film by positioning a side edge of the arrangement against a stop element; pre-fixing the aligned arrangement at at least two locations on the positioned side edge of the arrangement by one or more fixing elements and heating, after which the fixing element or elements are removed again; and forming a fixed arrangement by passing the pre-fixed arrangement through a roller arrangement with the pre-fixed side edge of the arrangement ahead. The arrangement is heated in sections during passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Nikolai Borchmann, Stefan Lücke, Simon Breuer, Nino Tings
  • Patent number: 11510288
    Abstract: A glazing includes at least one glass sheet provided on one of the faces with an electrical network having resistance strips and collector strips, in which at least one portion of one face includes at least one strip obtained from an electrically conductive composition including a silver paste, the strip being in contact with another strip obtained from an electrically conductive composition including a copper paste, the other strip obtained from an electrically conductive composition including a copper paste being completely covered with a protective enamel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Simon Rano, Clément Briquet, André Beyrle
  • Patent number: 11499363
    Abstract: An insulating glazing includes a first pane having on an inner-side surface a coating and two busbars for contacting the coating, a second pane, a spacer, which extends peripherally around the first and second panes, two pane contact surfaces, a glazing interior surface, and an outer surface, wherein the first and second pane rest, respectively, against a first and a second pane contact surface of the spacer, an interior, which is enclosed between the first and the second pane, an outer interpane space adjacent the outer surface, in which an outer seal is inserted, and an electrical connection element for electrically contacting the coating having an outer and an inner end, whose outer end protrudes from the outer seal. The inner end of the connection element and one busbar are electrically connected and are arranged between the spacer and the first pane outside the interior formed peripherally by the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Rino Messere
  • Patent number: 11494605
    Abstract: A laminated glazing includes a first substrate having an outer face and an inner face, one or more interlayers disposed on the inner face of the first substrate, a second substrate disposed on the interlayer and at least one data transponder device. The date transponder device includes an antenna and an integrated circuit that is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate Optionally, one or more heating elements is/are provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and spaced around the data transponder device at a pre-defined distance for rapidly heating the antenna the data transponder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Arunvel Thangamani, Samson Richardson D, Jyothi Latha Tamalapakula, Kasinath N, Robin C Jayaram
  • Patent number: 11492842
    Abstract: An insulating glazing includes at least one first pane element, at least one spacer, and at least one connector. The spacer and the connector are arranged next to each other such that they extend along a common longitudinal axis, wherein the spacer and the connector accommodate and position the first pane element. The connector has at least one first electrically conductive conductor element such that an electrical connection can be established between an external power source and the first pane element via the first conductor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Marcus Neander, Hans-Werner Kuster, Guenael Morvan, Nicholas Koren, Ariane Weissler, Christopher Marjan
  • Patent number: 11485115
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a colored laminated glazing including first and second glass sheets, the two sheets being connected together by a thermoplastic interlayer, includes depositing a stack of layers including functional layer on a face of the first and/or of the second glass sheet, liquid deposition, on a face of the first and/or of the second glass sheet, of a polymer layer including a coloring agent and polymer compounds, drying and optionally curing of the polymer layer, assembling the glass sheet, coated with the colored polymer layer, with a colorless transparent thermoplastic interlayer and with the second glass sheet, so that the colored polymer layer is in direct contact with the interlayer, degassing, and heat treatment under pressure and/or under vacuum of the laminated glass at a temperature of between 100° C. and 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: François Compoint, Marco De Grazia, Cécile Dalle-Ferrier
  • Patent number: 11479023
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a luminous vehicle sunroof that includes a first glazing with first and second main faces, a light-emitting element such as an OLED or QLED and a collimating optical system with one or more optical films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Mathieu Berard, Olivier Delrieu, Pascal Bauerle
  • Patent number: 11479176
    Abstract: A mounting assembly of a vehicle interior mirror or other pane add-on part, includes a pane adhesive element, shaped in a substantially plate-shaped or disc-shaped manner and having a free first surface designed as an adhesive surface for fastening the mounting assembly to the inner-side of a vehicle pane and a second surface and a mirror mount, having a first end face, on which the pane adhesive element is seated with the second surface thereof, and a second end face designed for mounting a housing of the vehicle interior mirror or add-on part, wherein the pane adhesive element has the shape of a flat truncated cone or a flat pyramid such that the second surface is smaller than the free first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Claire Barras, Martin Lakshmanan
  • Patent number: 11472163
    Abstract: A heated glazing includes at least one plastic structural substrate and a heating device and includes at least one transparent and electrically-conductive thin layer. The heated glazing includes, as laminate, at least one first plastic structural substrate, at least one glass sheet equipped with the heating layer, and at least one second plastic structural substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Thomas Tondu
  • Patent number: 11472162
    Abstract: A laminated glazing includes a first sheet of a colored glass and a second sheet of a clear glass which are joined together by a lamination interlayer, the first sheet having a thickness el ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 mm, the second sheet having a thickness e2 ranging from 0.4 to 1.9 mm, the ratio R=e2/e12 being at most 0.40 mm?1, the glazing having a light transmission of at least 70% and a direct solar transmission of at most 55%, the colored glass having a chemical composition including a weight content of total iron, expressed in the form Fe2O3, ranging from 1.1 to 2.0%, with a redox ratio, defined as the ratio between the weight content of ferrous iron, expressed in the form FeO, and the weight content of total iron, expressed in the form Fe2O3, ranging from 0.23 to 0.32.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Octavio Cintora Gonzalez, Vincent Sauvinet, Adèle Verrat Debailleul
  • Patent number: 11465934
    Abstract: A process for obtaining a material including a textured glass substrate coated, on at least one of its textured faces, with an antireflective coating of sol-gel type based on porous silica, includes a stage of application, to the at least one textured face of the substrate, of a solution containing at least one silica precursor and at least one pore-forming agent, then a heat treatment stage targeted at consolidating the antireflective coating. Before the application stage, the glass substrate is subjected to a preheating stage, so that the at least one textured face intended to be coated with the antireflective coating has a temperature within a range extending from 30° C. to 100° C. immediately before the application stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Guillaume Lequippe, Xiaolin Pardal, Servane Haller
  • Patent number: 11465935
    Abstract: An article includes a glass substrate including two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges and a temporary protective layer comprising an organic polymer matrix deposited on at least one portion of a main surface of the glass substrate, wherein the temporary protective layer has a rough surface defined by a surface roughness parameter Sa, corresponding to the arithmetic mean height of the profile of the surface, of greater than 0.2 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Lucie Devys, François Guillemot
  • Patent number: 11459269
    Abstract: A transparent substrate, in particular made of glass, provided with a stack of thin layers acting on solar radiation, includes at least one functional layer, this functional layer being combined with at least one barrier underlayer, wherein this barrier underlayer is a layer of silicon dioxide having a thickness of between 15 and 25 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Carole Braley
  • Patent number: 11458557
    Abstract: An apparatus for soldering a terminal to which a solder alloy is attached on window glass for a vehicle, includes a terminal to which the solder alloy is attached; a coil unit including a coil which generates induction heat; a gripper which grips and releases the terminal and is configured to be movable upward and downward relative to the coil unit in a state of gripping the terminal; and a ferrite core unit including a ferrite core which is configured to be surrounded by the coil unit to receive the induction heat, and is configured to be movable upward and downward relative to the coil unit, wherein the solder alloy attached to the terminal, in a state of being in contact with the window glass, is melted by the induction heat from the coil unit and the ferrite core unit such that the terminal is attached to the window glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Un Haeng Heo
  • Patent number: 11456546
    Abstract: A pane, includes a substrate, an electrically conductive structure on a region of the substrate, a layer of a solder material on a region of the electrically conductive structure, and at least two soldering points of the at least one electrical connection element on the solder material, wherein the at least two soldering points form at least one contact surface between the at least one electrical connection element and the electrically conductive structure, and a shape of the at least one contact surface has at least one segment of an oval, an ellipse, or a circle with a central angle ? of at least 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Christoph Degen, Bernhard Reul, Mitja Rateiczak, Andreas Schlarb, Lothar Lesmeister
  • Patent number: 11441351
    Abstract: An insulating glazing includes a first a second pane, a spacer between the first and second pane that is fixedly connected to the first and second pane in a water-vapor-tight manner in each case, which spacer has two parallel pane contact walls, an outer wall, and a glazing interior wall and an interior, and a water-tight sealant strip running around the outer wall between the first and second pane. A pressure-equalizing element is inserted into the sealant strip and the spacer, which pressure-equalizing element is open to the surrounding atmosphere and to the interior of the spacer or to the glazing interior between the first and the second pane and is implemented such that it provides a gas connection having a pressure-equalizing function between the atmosphere and the interior of the spacer or the glazing interior which gas connection is temporally limited due to aging and/or atmospheric influences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Dirk Nüsser, Florian Carre, Walter Schreiber