Patents Assigned to Saint-Gobain
  • Patent number: 6409052
    Abstract: The dispensing system for a remote operation includes a trigger sprayer assembly removably mounted to a container of liquid to be sprayed, the assembly being mounted within a cutout section provided at the upper end of the container as part of a through opening forming the carrying handle of the container. The trigger sprayer assembly has a flexible delivery tube which may be coiled and stored within a hollow gripper handle provided on the trigger sprayer, and may extend outwardly from the gripper handle to function as a resilient element for mounting the trigger sprayer in place. A one-piece adaptor is non-removably connected to a distal end of the delivery tube and connects to the container by mounting directly to an external dip tube of the container or by mounting in a closure cap of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Calmar Inc.
    Inventors: Jacques J. Barriac, Joseph Krestine, Steven L. Sweeton
  • Patent number: 6408981
    Abstract: A monolithic earplug being compressible or deformable. The earplug is fabricated from an extruded, elastomeric thermoplastic in order that it may be rapidly and efficiently produced, and then the extrudate is cut at the die face, as it emerges therefrom, into discrete pieces to form earplugs having convex end portions and a skin extending over its entire outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: James C. Smith, Gary L. Wood
  • Patent number: 6410120
    Abstract: A curved, transparent laminated glazing is made of at least two fixed panes and of a multilayer laminate placed between them. The laminate includes at least one support film provided with a thin layer and with external adhesive layers, as well as with a marginal strip of an opaque material for delimiting the viewing area of the laminated glazing on at least one side. The support film, which extends over the viewing area, is cut to size according to the invention in such a way that its cut edge is still just covered by the marginal strip at least in a direction of viewing in transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage
    Inventors: Thorsten Frost, Hasso Gien, Manfred Jansen, Franz Kr{overscore (a)}mling, Michael Labrot, Udo Matzerath, Heinz Schilde
  • Patent number: 6407390
    Abstract: A scintillation detector having reduced temperature sensitivity is provided by having two circuits for temperature compensation. The two circuits may be a thermistor in parallel with both a resistive element and a switching element. The switching element can be various devices including a zener diode, a Schottky barrier diode or an MIM. The temperature compensation circuit may be included in the circuit of a photo-detector such as a photomultiplier tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Industrial Ceramics, Inc.
    Inventor: Csaba M. Rozsa
  • Publication number: 20020071956
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a glass-, ceramic- or vitroceramic-based substrate (1) provided on at least part of at least one of its faces with a coating (3) with a photocatalytic property containing at least partially crystalline titanium oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Philippe Boire, Xavier Talpaert
  • Patent number: 6402054
    Abstract: An airless squeeze bottle sprayer comprised of a tube retainer, an orifice cup and a closure. The tube retainer has a product outlet port, a post, and at least one tangential apertures through which fluid is expelled from within the container. The orifice cup has an annular mixing or turbulence chamber wherein the fluid from within the container is mixed up before being expelled out of the orifice cup through a discharge orifice. A dip tube depends from the tube retainer and defines a path for the fluid from the bottom of the container to the annular mixing chamber. When the container is squeezed, fluid is forced up through the dip tube into the mixing chamber and out of the container through the discharge orifice in the orifice cup. Any air that is introduced into the container and expelled out of the container is done so through the same path as the fluid, the sprayer lacks any distinct or separate air ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Calmar Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Prueter, Steven L. Sweeton
  • Patent number: 6403155
    Abstract: This invention is a high strength, thermal shock resistant, high purity siliconized silicon carbide material made from siliconizing a converted graphite SiC body having at least 71 vol % silicon carbide therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominique Dubots, Andrew Haerle
  • Patent number: 6402604
    Abstract: The invention provides individually made abrasive discs with the primary abrasive surface around the periphery of the disc where the bulk of the abrading action occurs when the disc is in use. The invention also provides a process by which these discs can be made using a unique grain feeding technique which is capable of depositing abrasive grain on a backing surface accurately and in annular patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasive Technology Company
    Inventor: Olivier Léon-Marie Fernand Guiselin
  • Publication number: 20020068177
    Abstract: The invention relates to a soundproofing window in which an intermediate film provides for damping of vibrations transmitted in particular by structure-borne conduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Vitrage
    Inventors: Gilles Garnier, Marc Rehfeld, Franz Kraemling
  • Publication number: 20020065187
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a glass sheet intended to be thermally toughened, the matrix of which is of the silica-soda-lime type, having an expansion coefficient &agr; of greater than 100×10−7 K−1, a Young's modulus E of greater than 60 GPa and a thermal conductivity k of less than 0.9 W/m.K.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Frederic Bordeaux, Lucas Duffrene
  • Patent number: 6396026
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laminated pane (1), in particular heating or aerial pane, having electrically conductive wires (2) which are embedded in a thermoplastic adhesion layer (3) and are in electrical contact in particular with at least one connection element, and is distinguished by the fact that the wires (2) comprise at least two conductive material layers, one of which consists of a metal which can withstand high mechanical loads and the other of which consists of a metal of higher electrical conductivity and good solderability. In a particularly advantageous embodiment of the laminated pane (1), there are electrically conductive wires (2) which have a core which is made from a metal which can withstand mechanical loads and is sheathed by a metal of higher conductivity and good solderability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Manfred Gillner, Eberhard Heermann
  • Patent number: 6395044
    Abstract: The invention provides coated abrasives with an engineered surface that releases a pleasing fragrance when used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasives Technology Company
    Inventors: Gwo Shin Swei, Thomas G. Kinisky, Americo Geza Denes
  • Patent number: 6394888
    Abstract: Abrasive tools containing high concentrations of hollow filler materials in a resin bond are suitable for polishing and backgrinding of hard materials, such as ceramic wafers and components requiring a controlled amount of surface defects. These highly porous abrasive tools comprise fine grit abrasive grain, such as diamond abrasive, along with the hollow filler material and resin bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasive Technology Company
    Inventors: Dean Matsumoto, William F. Waslaske, Bethany L. Sale
  • Patent number: 6395819
    Abstract: A sizing composition which is a phenol-formaldehyde resin substantially free of urea or of a urea derivative and which has reduced emissions of isocyanates upon heating. Insulation products based on mineral wool, especially glass wool or rock wool, which are suitable for mass-produced thermal appliances and contain the sizing composition have reduced organic emissions during manufacturing and when used in thermal appliances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Isover
    Inventors: Philippe Espiard, Bruno Mahieuxe, Serge Tetart, Jean-Louis Mallier
  • Patent number: 6390906
    Abstract: Providing an abrasive belt with a pattern of holes through the abrasive-containing layer greatly increases the flexibility of the belt and reducing the need for flexing to generate a pattern of potentially destructive cracks in the abrasive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasives Technology Company
    Inventor: Krishnamoorthy Subramanian
  • Patent number: 6391072
    Abstract: Alpha alumina abrasive grits which are particularly well-suited to medium to low pressure grinding applications wherein the grits comprise uniformly dispersed microvoids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Industrial Ceramics, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajay K. Garg
  • Patent number: 6391442
    Abstract: A thermal interface material (A) transfers heat from a heat source (12), such as a microprocessor, to a heat sink (14) for maintaining the microprocessor at a safe operating temperature. The interface material includes thermally conductive filler particles dispersed in a phase change material. The phase change material softens and flows at the operating temperature of the heat source, thereby providing good thermal contact with uneven surfaces of the heat source and heat sink, without excessive exudation and loss of the interface material. The phase change material includes a polymer component, such as an elastomer, and a melting point component, which adjusts the softening temperature of the phase change material to the operating temperature of the heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Duvall, Steve Bergerson, Charles Balian, Arthur H. Rogove
  • Patent number: D458948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasives Technology Company
    Inventors: Francois Chianese, Da Silva Carvalho Rui, Eric Jankowski
  • Patent number: D459375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasives Technology Company
    Inventors: Francois Chianese, Da Silva Carvalho Rui, Eric Jankowski
  • Patent number: D459376
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasives Technology Company
    Inventors: Francois Chianese, Da Silva Carvalho Rui, Eric Jankowski