Patents Assigned to Schott AG
  • Patent number: 10336479
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for packaging a plurality of containers for substances for medical, pharmaceutical or cosmetic applications in a packaging structure. The structure has a box-shaped upper part and a box-shaped lower part, forming a box-shaped receptacle in which the containers are accommodated. The plurality of containers are disposed directly on the bottom of the lower part that the containers are supported vertically on the bottom of the lower part, and the upper part is put onto the upper ends of the containers. The positions of the containers on the lower part are secured using side walls that project vertically from the bottom of the lower part and/or of the upper part, and the upper part and/or the lower part is configured and provided in a way that the containers are in direct contact with each other in the box-shaped receptacle and cannot be displaced relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Gregor Fritz Deutschle, Edgar Pawlowski, Jörn Wassenberg, Isabell Dubrau, Judith Auerbach
  • Publication number: 20190195510
    Abstract: A fitout article or article of equipment for a kitchen or laboratory is provided. The article has a lighting and separating element. The separating element in a region of the lighting element has light transmittance of at least 0.1% and less than 12%. The lighting element in the interior emits light that passes through the separating element and to the exterior. The separating element has a glass or glass-ceramic substrate having a CTE of 0 to 6 ppm/K and has a colour locus in the CIELAB colour space with the coordinates L* of 20 to 40, a* of ?6 to 6 and b* of ?6 to 6. D65 standard illuminant light, after passing through the separating element, is within a white region W1 determined in the chromaticity diagram CIExyY?2° by the following coordinates: White region W1 x y 0.27 0.21 0.22 0.25 0.32 0.37 0.45 0.45 0.47 0.34 0.36 0.29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Evelin Weiss, Matthias Bockmeyer, Birgit Dörk, Friedrich Siebers, Christian Henn
  • Publication number: 20190194062
    Abstract: A sightglass for a stove is provided that has a substrate made of transparent coloured lithium aluminium silicate glass ceramic. The sightglass has a light transmittance of 0.1% to 50%. Standard illuminant D65 light, after passing through the glass ceramic, at a thickness of 4 mm, has a colour locus in the white region W1 determined by the following coordinates in the chromaticity diagram CIExyY-2°: White region W1 x y 0.27 0.21 0.22 0.25 0.32 0.37 0.45 0.45 0.47 0.34 0.36 ?0.29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Matthias WÖLFINGER, Falk GABEL, Friedrich SIEBERS, Evelin WEISS, Matthias BOCKMEYER, Oliver HOCHREIN
  • Publication number: 20190194065
    Abstract: A cover panel for a fitout article or article of equipment for a kitchen or laboratory is provided. The cover panel includes a glass or glass ceramic substrate and a coating on one side of the substrate. The substrate and the coating together have a light transmittance of 1% to 70%. The coating has a colour locus in the CIELAB colour space within the range of coordinates L* of 20 to 65, a* of ?6 to 6 and b* of ?6 to 6. The colour locus of the D65 standard illuminant light, after passing through the substrate and the coating, is within a white region W1 determined in the chromaticity diagram CIExyY-2° by the following coordinates: White region W1 x Y 0.27 0.21 0.22 0.25 0.32 0.37 0.45 0.45 0.47 0.34 0.36 0.29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Christian HENN, Thorsten DAMM, Franziska BACK, Yvonne MENKE-BERG
  • Publication number: 20190194060
    Abstract: A transparent colored glass ceramic, in particular an LAS glass ceramic, suitable for use as a cooking surface is provided. The transparent colored glass ceramic includes high-quartz solid solution (HQ s.s.) as a main crystal phase and exhibits thermal expansion of ?1 to +1 ppm/K in the range from 20° C. to 700° C. The glass ceramic has from 3.0 to 3.6 percent by weight of lithium oxide (Li2O) as constituents and either is colored with 0.003 to 0.05 percent by weight of vanadium oxide (V2O5) or is colored with 0.003 to 0.25 percent by weight of molybdenum oxide (MoO3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Evelin Weiss, Meike Schneider, Oliver Hochrein, Friedrich Siebers, Roland Dudek, Martin Mueller, Matthias Bockmeyer, Birgit Doerk
  • Publication number: 20190194061
    Abstract: A fitout article or article of equipment for a kitchen or laboratory is provided. The article has a display device, a separating element, and a covering. The covering is on an interior side of the separating element and has a cutout at the separating element. The separating element has a light transmittance of at least 5% and at most 70%. The covering has light transmittance of at most 7% and a colour locus in the CIELAB colour space with coordinates L* of 20 to 40, a* of ?6 to 6 and b* of ?6 to 6, and the colour locus of D65 standard illuminant light, after passing through the substrate, is within a white region W1 determined in the chromaticity diagram CIExyY-2° by the coordinates: White region W1 x Y 0.27 0.21 0.22 0.25 0.32 0.37 0.45 0.45 0.47 0.34 0.36 0.29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventors: Evelin WEISS, Matthias Bockmeyer, Birgit Dörk, Friedrich Siebers, Christian Henn
  • Publication number: 20190194054
    Abstract: A transparent coloured lithium aluminium silicate glass ceramic and method of producing are provided. The glass ceramic has a brightness Y of 0.1% to 80% at thickness 4 mm. The glass ceramic has a D65 standard illuminant light, after passing through the glass ceramic with thickness 4 mm, with a colour locus in a white region W1 determined by coordinates in a chromaticity diagram CIExyY-2°: White region W1 x y 0.27 0.21 0.22 0.25 0.32 0.37 0.45 0.45 0.47 0.34 0.36 0.29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Friedrich SIEBERS, Oliver HOCHREIN
  • Patent number: 10329191
    Abstract: A glass roll, as well as a device and a method for manufacturing the glass roll are provided. The glass roll includes a glass ribbon having a thickness, a length in an x-direction, and a width in a y-direction. The glass ribbon has at least one defect site at a position, as well as at least one error mark disposed on the glass ribbon, and is wound up into a glass roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Andreas Ortner, Andreas Habeck, Clemens Ottermann, Thomas Roßmeier, Frank Macherey, Jürgen Vogt, Rainer Liebald, Thomas Wiegel, Ulrich Battmer, Uwe Wilkens
  • Publication number: 20190187352
    Abstract: A linear light source is provided that includes a light-emitting element and a light guide, which has a core with an end and a longitudinal extension. In the operating state, light from the light emitting element is injected on the end and is guided along the longitudinal extension. The core includes at least one scattering element that changes a propagation direction of the light guided in the core. The light guide having a lateral surface with a light-blocking coating at least partially or in portions thereof. The light-blocking coating being structured so that the light guide has a light-transmissive portion extending along the longitudinal extension and so that the light scattered on the at least one scattering element and striking the light-transmissive portion is able to escape from the light guide, at least partially. The coating having a light transmittance that is lower than a light transmittance of the light-transmissive portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Stephan Schabacker, Bernd Woelfing
  • Patent number: 10321719
    Abstract: A heating element is provided that configured for use in an electronic cigarette. The heating element includes at least one carrier material made of glass or glass ceramic and metallic heating conductor structures. The heating conductor structures are on the carrier material and the carrier material has a thermal conductivity of less than 2 W/K*m, a thermal capacity of less than 1000 J/K*kg, and a roughness Ra of less than 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Peuchert, Fritz Wintersteller, Michael Kluge
  • Publication number: 20190176514
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a decorative panel made of flat glass for electronic household appliances, in particular, for large stationary household appliances. The decorative panel comprises a base body made of thermally tempered flat glass with an operational front and an operational back and has at least one digital print on the operational back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicants: Schott Gemtron Corp., SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Adam O'Ryan, Carsten Schwabe, Grant Mason
  • Patent number: 10315948
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical packaging is provided including a glass, comprising at least the following components (given in mol % on oxide basis): SiO2: 5 9-84, Al2O3: 7-18.5, CaO: 1-25, SrO: 0-6.5, BaO: 0-5, ZrO2: 0-3, TiO2: 0-5, B2O3: 0-1, wherein the ratio (CaO+SrO+BaO)/Al2O3<2.8, wherein the ratio (CaO+SrO+BaO)/SiO2?0.39, wherein the hydrolytic resistance according to DIN ISO 720 is class HGA 1, and wherein the glass, apart from unavoidable contaminations, is free of alkali oxides and magnesium oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Michael Schwall, Christof Kass, Stephan Tratzky, Rainer Eichholz, Peter Nass
  • Patent number: 10317129
    Abstract: A refrigerator shelf is provided that includes a carrier plate and overflow protection. The carrier plate has a top side with a middle region for standing containers, with the overflow protection arranged around the middle region. The overflow protection includes, in a first portion, a hydrophobic layer on the carrier plate and, in a second portion which adjoins the first portion, a frame element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Axel Curdt, Oliver Gros
  • Patent number: 10315276
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a glass ceramic element with a patterned coating is provided. The method includes: providing a glass ceramic element with a coating which is at least partially light-blocking and preferably opaque in the visible spectral range; irradiating the glass ceramic element with a pulsed laser beam on the face provided with the coating so that the coating is removed by ablation; during irradiating the laser beam is directed over the surface of the glass ceramic element so that a portion of the coating is removed which has a greater lateral extent than the diameter of the laser beam; and once the coating has been removed, irradiating the glass ceramic with the laser in the region where the coating has been removed, thereby optically modifying the glass ceramic in the irradiated region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Fabian Wagner, Holger Waldschmidt
  • Publication number: 20190173130
    Abstract: A lithium-ion-conducting composite material and process of producing are provided. The composite material includes at least one polymer and lithium-ion-conducting particles. The particles have a sphericity ? of at least 0.7. The composite material includes at least 20 vol % of the particles for a polydispersity index PI of the particle size distribution of <0.7 or are present in at least 30 vol % of the composite material for the polydispersity index in a range from 0.7 to <1.2, or are present in at least 40 vol % of the composite material for the polydispersity index of >1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Jörg Schuhmacher, Philipp Treis, Jochen Drewke, Hans-Joachim Schmitt, Rolf Samsinger, Andreas Roters, Meike Schneider, Yvonne Menke-Berg
  • Publication number: 20190169473
    Abstract: A composite material is provided that includes at least one first material and particles. The particles have a negative coefficient of thermal expansion and the particles have a sphericity ? of at least 0.7. The composite material includes at least 30 vol % of the particles at a particle size of d50?1.0 ?m or at least 40 vol % of the composite material at a particle size d50>1.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Jörg Schuhmacher, Philipp Treis, Jochen Drewke, Hans-Joachim Schmitt, Martun Hovhannisyan, Friedrich Siebers, Yvonne Menke-Berg
  • Patent number: 10308545
    Abstract: Glass sheets with high refractive indexes (nd), layer composite assemblies including the glass sheets, methods for manufacturing the glass sheets, and methods of using the glass sheets are all provided. The glass sheets can be processed in a glass sheet manufacturing process and nevertheless have the optical properties of a classical optical glass. The glass sheets of the are highly transparent, resistant to crystallization, chemically resistant and highly refractive. The glass sheets have a viscosity-temperature behavior that is adapted to the manufacturing procedure with glass sheet manufacturing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Silke Wolff, Simone Ritter, Gunther Paulus, Ute Wölfel, Peter Brix
  • Patent number: 10308548
    Abstract: Glass or glass ceramic substrates are provided that have a decorative coating. Methods for coating a glass or glass ceramic substrate with a decorative coating are also provided. In the method, a first, textured layer is applied which is filled with a further layer, so that a layer material of graded composition is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Silke Knoche, Angelina Milanovska, Lutz Klippe, Ulf Hoffmann, Ella Ruhl
  • Publication number: 20190166708
    Abstract: A feedthrough assembly includes a housing part having at least two openings, respectively through which at least one conductor embedded in a glass or a glass ceramic material is fed. The conductor, in the region of a glazing area, has a substantially round cross section, and in a first and/or second region above and/or below the glazing area has a substantially rectangular cross section to form a part of a flat conductor having rectangular regions. The parts of the flat conductor arranged above and/or below the glazing area are joined adjacent to one another, resulting in a cumulative flat conductor having a rectangular common cross section with a total width expansion that extends over the at least two openings. The diameter of the openings is smaller than a width of the rectangular regions of the respective part of the flat conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Patent number: 10301212
    Abstract: The amorphous, or at least partially crystalline, glass-based joining material is suitable for high-temperature applications, particularly in fuel cells and/or sensors. In addition to SiO2 and B2O3 as glass formers, the joining material similarly contains BaO and CaO, whereby the amount of Al2O3 is limited. The joining material has a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of at least 7.0·10?6 K?1 in a range of 20° C. to 300° C. The joining material can be used for joining ferritic high-grade steels and/or chromium-containing alloys and/or ceramics, such as stabilized zirconium oxide and/or aluminium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ulf Dahlmann, Sabine Pichler-Wilhelm, Jens Suffner