Patents Assigned to View, Inc.
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Patent number: 9995985Abstract: Methods of manufacturing electrochromic windows are described. Insulated glass units (IGU's) are protected, e.g. during handling and shipping, by a protective bumper. The bumper can be custom made using IGU dimension data received from the IGU fabrication tool. The bumper may be made of environmentally friendly materials. Laser isolation configurations and related methods of patterning and/or configuring an electrochromic device on a substrate are described. Edge deletion is used to ensure a good seal between spacer and glass in an IGU and thus better protection of an electrochromic device sealed in the IGU. Configurations for protecting the electrochromic device edge in the primary seal and maximizing viewable area in an electrochromic pane of an IGU are also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Ronald M. Parker, Robert T. Rozbicki, Yashraj Bhatnagar, Abhishek Anant Dixit, Anshu A. Pradhan
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Patent number: 9962170Abstract: Systems and methods for treating spinal stenosis include endoscopic access devices and bone removal devices used to perform a foraminotomy or other bone removal procedures. Some of the bone removal devices include expandable members which may be used to control the forced exerted and/or position of the bone removal mechanism, and to protect neurovascular structures and other soft tissue structures from the bone removal mechanism. Other bone removal devices include a trephine with a viewing window and a guide wire lumen used to position the trephine at a target tissue site using an anchored wire. The viewing window may be used to monitor structures or tissues adjacent to the target tissue site.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Spine View, Inc.Inventors: Lex P. Jansen, John W. Davis, John T. To, Singfatt Chin, Myra I. L. Fabro
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Patent number: 9958750Abstract: Methods of manufacturing electrochromic windows are described. Insulated glass units (IGU's) are protected, e.g. during handling and shipping, by a protective bumper. The bumper can be custom made using IGU dimension data received from the IGU fabrication tool. The bumper may be made of environmentally friendly materials. Laser isolation configurations and related methods of patterning and/or configuring an electrochromic device on a substrate are described. Edge deletion is used to ensure a good seal between spacer and glass in an IGU and thus better protection of an electrochromic device sealed in the IGU. Configurations for protecting the electrochromic device edge in the primary seal and maximizing viewable area in an electrochromic pane of an IGU are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Ronald M. Parker, Robert T. Rozbicki, Yashraj Bhatnagar, Abhishek Anant Dixit, Anshu A. Pradhan
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Patent number: 9952481Abstract: Embodiments described include bus bars for electrochromic or other optical state changing devices. The bus bars are configured to color match and/or provide minimal optical contrast with their surrounding environment in the optical device. Such bus bars may be transparent bus bars.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Robert T. Rozbicki, Gordon Jack, Disha Mehtani
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Patent number: 9946138Abstract: Onboard EC window controllers are described. The controllers are configured in close proximity to the EC window, for example, within the IGU. The controller may be part of a window assembly, which includes an IGU having one or more EC panes, and thus does not have to be matched with the EC window, and installed, in the field. The window controllers described herein have a number of advantages because they are matched to the IGU containing one or more EC devices and their proximity to the EC panes of the window overcomes a number of problems associated with conventional controller configurations.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Dhairya Shrivastava, Anshu A. Pradhan, Stephen C. Brown, David Walter Groechel, Robert T. Rozbicki
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Publication number: 20180095337Abstract: Electrochromic devices comprise first and second conductors, wherein at least one of the first and second conductors is a multi-layered conductor. The electrochromic devices further comprise an electrochromic stack between the conductors adjacent to a substrate. The at least one multi-layered conductor comprises a metal layer sandwiched between a first non-metal layer and a second non-metal layer such that the metal layer does not contact the electrochromic stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: View, Inc.Inventors: Robert T. Rozbicki, Anshu A. Pradhan, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam, Robin Friedman, Gordon E. Jack, Dane Thomas Gillaspie
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Patent number: 9927674Abstract: “Smart” controllers for windows having controllable optical transitions are described. Controllers with multiple features can sense and adapt to local environmental conditions. Controllers described herein can be integrated with a building management system (BMS) to greatly enhance the BMS's effectiveness at managing local environments in a building. The controllers may have one, two, three or more functions such as powering a smart window, determining the percent transmittance, size, and/or temperature of a smart window, providing wireless communication between the controller and a separate communication node, etc.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Stephen C. Brown, Dhairya Shrivastava
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Patent number: 9921450Abstract: Controllers and control methods apply a drive voltage to bus bars of a thin film optically switchable device. The applied drive voltage is provided at a level that drives a transition over the entire surface of the optically switchable device but does not damage or degrade the device. This applied voltage produces an effective voltage at all locations on the face of the device that is within a bracketed range. The upper bound of this range is associated with a voltage safely below the level at which the device may experience damage or degradation impacting its performance in the short term or the long term. At the lower boundary of this range is an effective voltage at which the transition between optical states of the device occurs relatively rapidly. The level of voltage applied between the bus bars is significantly greater than the maximum value of the effective voltage within the bracketed range.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Anshu A. Pradhan, Disha Mehtani, Gordon Jack
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Patent number: 9910336Abstract: This disclosure describes insulated glass units (IGUs) that incorporate electrochromic devices. More specifically, this disclosure focuses on different configurations available for providing an electrical connection to the interior region of an IGU. In many cases, an IGU includes two panes separated by a spacer. The spacer defines an interior region of the IGU and an exterior region of the IGU. Often, the electrochromic device positioned on the pane does not extend past the spacer, and some electrical connection must be provided to supply power from the exterior of the IGU to the electrochromic device on the interior of the IGU. In some embodiments, the spacer includes one or more holes (e.g, channels, mouse holes, other holes, etc.) through which an electrical connection (e.g., wires, busbar leads, etc.) may pass to provide power to the electrochromic device.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Ronald M. Parker, Yashraj Bhatnagar, Trevor Frank, Travis D. Wilbur, Stephen C. Brown
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Patent number: 9904138Abstract: Prior electrochromic devices frequently suffer from high levels of defectivity. The defects may be manifest as pin holes or spots where the electrochromic transition is impaired. This is unacceptable for many applications such as electrochromic architectural glass. Improved electrochromic devices with low defectivity can be fabricated by depositing certain layered components of the electrochromic device in a single integrated deposition system. While these layers are being deposited and/or treated on a substrate, for example a glass window, the substrate never leaves a controlled ambient environment, for example a low pressure controlled atmosphere having very low levels of particles. These layers may be deposited using physical vapor deposition.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Sridhar Karthik Kailasam, Robin Friedman, Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki
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Patent number: 9897888Abstract: This disclosure provides spacers for smart windows. In one aspect, a window assembly includes a first substantially transparent substrate having an optically switchable device on a surface of the first substrate. The optically switchable device includes electrodes. A first electrode of the electrodes has a length about the length of a side of the optically switchable device. The window assembly further includes a second substantially transparent substrate a metal spacer between the first and the second substrates. The metal spacer has a substantially rectangular cross section, with one side of the metal spacer including a recess configured to accommodate the length of the first electrode such that there is no contact between the first electrode and the metal spacer. A primary seal material bonds the first substrate to the metal spacer and bonds the second substrate to the metal spacer.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Yashraj Bhatnagar, Trevor Frank, Fabian Strong, Sridhar Kailasam, Robert Babcock, Ronald M. Parker, Robert T. Rozbicki
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Patent number: 9885935Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure concern controllers and control methods for applying a drive voltage to bus bars of optically switchable devices such as electrochromic devices. Such devices are often provided on windows such as architectural glass. In certain embodiments, the applied drive voltage is controlled in a manner that efficiently drives an optical transition over the entire surface of the electrochromic device. The drive voltage is controlled to account for differences in effective voltage experienced in regions between the bus bars and regions proximate the bus bars. Regions near the bus bars experience the highest effective voltage.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Gordon Jack, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Stephen C. Brown, Anshu A. Pradhan
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Patent number: 9885934Abstract: Portable apparatus for identifying and mitigating defects in electronic devices disposed on substrates or windows are disclosed herein. Such defects can be visually perceived by the end user. The substrates or windows may include flat panel displays, photovoltaic windows, electrochromic devices, and the like, particularly electrochromic windows.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2013Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Robert T. Rozbicki, Bruce Baxter, Trevor Frank
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Publication number: 20170364395Abstract: Disclosed are platforms for communicating among one or more otherwise independent systems involved in controlling functions of buildings or other sites having switchable optical devices deployed therein. Such independent systems include a window control system and one or more other independent systems such as systems that control residential home products (e.g., thermostats, smoke alarms, etc.), HVAC systems, security systems, lighting control systems, and the like. Together the systems control and/or monitor multiple features and/or products, including switchable windows and other infrastructure of a 103 site, which may be a commercial, residential, or public site.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: View, Inc.Inventors: Dhairya Shrivastava, Stephen Clark Brown, Ronald F. Cadet
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Publication number: 20170356172Abstract: A plumbing system for a shower or the like includes a mixing valve operable for delivering a water flow of adjustable temperature from a water source to a dispensing device downstream from the mixing valve. The system further includes a diverter valve between the mixing valve and the dispensing device, and operable to divert a selectively variable portion of the water from the mixing valve back to the water source. A thermochromic thermal indicator, downstream from the mixing valve, may advantageously provide a visible indication of the water flow having achieved a predetermined temperature. The thermal indicator may be a thermochromic PVC conduit, or it may be a fitting having an inlet, an outlet, a thermochromic PVC element therebetween, and a barrier located between the inlet and the outlet so as to define a flow path that includes an interior surface of the thermochromic element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Aqua View, Inc.Inventor: Gus Searcy
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Patent number: 9829763Abstract: Window units, for example insulating glass units (IGU's), that have at least two panes, each pane having an electrochromic device thereon, are described. Two optical state devices on each pane of a dual-pane window unit provide window units having four optical states. Window units described allow the end user a greater choice of how much light is transmitted through the electrochromic window. Also, by using two or more window panes, each with its own electrochromic device, registered in a window unit, visual defects in any of the individual devices are negated by virtue of the extremely small likelihood that any of the visual defects will align perfectly and thus be observable to the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Robin Friedman, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Rao Mulpuri, Ronald A. Powell, Dhairya Shrivastava
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Patent number: 9831072Abstract: The present disclosure concerns sputter targets and sputtering methods. In particular, sputter targets and methods of sputtering using conventional sputter targets as well as sputter targets described herein, for highly uniform sputter deposition, are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Ronald M. Parker, Robert T. Rozbicki
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Patent number: 9788849Abstract: Disclosed herein are tissue-removal devices and methods for treating spinal diseases using such devices. The tissue-removal devices may comprise a cable and/or extendable elements with a retracted and a deployed configuration. The cable and/or extendable elements may be distally supported and restrained by a support element such that the support element may be pushed transversely away when the extendable element is distally extended into its deployed configuration. An annular cutting element may be provided about the distal end of the extendable element or the support element. Various configurations of the extendable and support elements are described herein, as well as methods of using tissue-removal devices with extendable and support elements coupled by an annular cutting element for treating spinal diseases.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Spine View, Inc.Inventors: David Batten, John To, Hiep Nguyen
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Patent number: 9778532Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to methods for controlling an optical transition in an optically switchable device, and optically switchable devices configured to perform such methods. In various embodiments, non-optical (e.g., electrical) feedback is used to help control an optical transition. The feedback may be used for a number of different purposes. In many implementations, the feedback is used to control an ongoing optical transition.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventor: Anshu A. Pradhan
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Patent number: D816518Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Stephen C. Brown, Alexander Rumer, Nilesh T. Desai
