Patents Assigned to View, Inc.
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Patent number: 9771646Abstract: Described are methods of fabricating lithium sputter targets, lithium sputter targets, associated handling apparatus, and sputter methods including lithium targets. Various embodiments address adhesion of the lithium metal target to a support structure, avoiding and/or removing passivating coatings formed on the lithium target, uniformity of the lithium target as well as efficient cooling of lithium during sputtering. Target configurations used to compensate for non-uniformities in sputter plasma are described. Modular format lithium tiles and methods of fabrication are described. Rotary lithium sputter targets are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Martin John Neumann, Que Anh Song Nguyen, Disha Mehtani, Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki, Dhairya Shrivastava, Trevor Frank, Todd Martin
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Patent number: 9759975Abstract: Conventional electrochromic devices frequently suffer from poor reliability and poor performance. Improvements are made using entirely solid and inorganic materials. Electrochromic devices are fabricated by forming an ion conducting electronically-insulating interfacial region that serves as an IC layer. In some methods, the interfacial region is formed after formation of an electrochromic and a counter electrode layer. The interfacial region contains an ion conducting electronically-insulating material along with components of the electrochromic and/or the counter electrode layer. Materials and microstructure of the electrochromic devices provide improvements in performance and reliability over conventional devices. In various embodiments, a counter electrode is fabricated to include a base anodically coloring material and one or more additives.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Zhongchun Wang, Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki
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Publication number: 20170255076Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel-tungsten-tin-oxide (NiWSnO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: View, Inc.Inventors: Dane Gillaspie, Anshu A. Pradhan, Sridhar K. Kailasam
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Patent number: 9728920Abstract: This disclosure provides connectors for smart windows. A smart window may incorporate an optically switchable pane. In one aspect, a window unit includes an insulated glass unit including an optically switchable pane. A wire assembly may be attached to the edge of the insulated glass unit and may include wires in electrical communication with electrodes of the optically switchable pane. A floating connector may be attached to a distal end of the wire assembly. The floating connector may include a flange and a nose, with two holes in the flange for affixing the floating connector to a first frame. The nose may include a terminal face that present two exposed contacts of opposite polarity. Pre-wired spacers improve fabrication efficiency and seal integrity of insulated glass units. Electrical connection systems include those embedded in the secondary seal of the insulated glass unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Clark Brown, Mark A. Collins, Travis D. Wilbur, Alexander Rumer, Dennis Mullins
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Patent number: 9723154Abstract: A system, smart device and method for apportioning costs of smart device operations between purposes. Operation information concerning operations performed by the smart device is recorded. The operations are apportioned between purposes based on categorization information and the operation information. The cost of the apportioned operations performed by the device is determined for the purposes based on the operation information and tariff information.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Mobility View Inc.Inventor: Thom Damstra
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Patent number: 9720298Abstract: Conventional electrochromic devices frequently suffer from poor reliability and poor performance. Improvements are made using entirely solid and inorganic materials. Electrochromic devices are fabricated by forming an ion conducting electronically insulating interfacial region that serves as an IC layer. In some methods, the interfacial region is formed after formation of an electrochromic and a counter electrode layer, which are in direct contact with one another. The interfacial region contains an ion conducting electronically insulating material along with components of the electrochromic and/or the counter electrode layer. Materials and microstructure of the electrochromic devices provide improvements in performance and reliability over conventional devices. In addition to the improved electrochromic devices and methods for fabrication, integrated deposition systems for forming such improved devices are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Zhongchun Wang, Anshu Pradhan, Robert Rozbicki
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Patent number: 9723723Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for tempering or chemically strengthening glass substrates having electrochromic devices fabricated thereon. In one aspect, an electrochromic device is fabricated on a glass substrate. The glass substrate is then tempered or chemically strengthened. The disclosed methods may reduce or prevent potential issues that the electrochromic device may experience during the tempering or the chemical strengthening processes, including the loss of charge carrying ions from the device, redistribution of charge carrying ions in the device, modification of the morphology of materials included in the device, modification of the oxidation state of materials included in the device, and the formation of an interfacial region between the electrochromic layer and the counter electrode layer of the device that impacts the performance of the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Robert T. Rozbicki, Anshu Pradhan
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Patent number: 9703167Abstract: 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: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Ronald M. Parker, Robert T. Rozbicki, Yashraj Bhatnagar, Abhishek Anant Dixit, Anshu A. Pradhan
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Patent number: 9690162Abstract: This disclosure provides connectors for smart windows. A smart window may incorporate an optically switchable pane. In one aspect, a window unit includes an insulated glass unit including an optically switchable pane. A wire assembly may be attached to the edge of the insulated glass unit and may include wires in electrical communication with electrodes of the optically switchable pane. A floating connector may be attached to a distal end of the wire assembly. The floating connector may include a flange and a nose, with two holes in the flange for affixing the floating connector to a first frame. The nose may include a terminal face that present two exposed contacts of opposite polarity.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Travis Wilbur, Stephen C. Brown
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Patent number: 9671664Abstract: Conventional electrochromic devices frequently suffer from poor reliability and poor performance. Improvements are made using entirely solid and inorganic materials. Electrochromic devices are fabricated by forming an ion conducting electronically-insulating interfacial region that serves as an IC layer. In some methods, the interfacial region is formed after formation of an electrochromic and a counter electrode layer. The interfacial region contains an ion conducting electronically-insulating material along with components of the electrochromic and/or the counter electrode layer. Materials and microstructure of the electrochromic devices provide improvements in performance and reliability over conventional devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki
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Patent number: 9671665Abstract: This disclosure provides connectors for smart windows. A smart window may incorporate an optically switchable pane. In one aspect, a window unit includes an insulated glass unit including an optically switchable pane. A wire assembly may be attached to the edge of the insulated glass unit and may include wires in electrical communication with electrodes of the optically switchable pane. A floating connector may be attached to a distal end of the wire assembly. The floating connector may include a flange and a nose, with two holes in the flange for affixing the floating connector to a first frame. The nose may include a terminal face that present two exposed contacts of opposite polarity. Pre-wired spacers improve fabrication efficiency and seal integrity of insulated glass units. Electrical connection systems include those embedded in the secondary seal of the insulated glass unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Stephen C. Brown, Mark A. Collins, Travis D. Wilbur
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Patent number: 9664974Abstract: 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: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Mark Kozlowski, Eric Kurman, Zhongchun Wang, Mike Scobey, Jeremy Dixon, Anshu Pradhan, Robert Rozbicki
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Patent number: 9664976Abstract: Electrochromic windows powered by wireless power transmission are described, particularly, the combination of low-defectivity, highly-reliable solid state electrochromic windows with wireless power transmission. Wireless power transmission networks which incorporate electrochromic windows are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventor: Robert T. Rozbicki
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Publication number: 20170130432Abstract: A water delivery system 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; a thermochromic thermal indicator, fluidly coupled between the mixing valve and the dispensing device, that provides a visible indication of the water flow having achieved a predetermined temperature; and a diverter valve, fluidly coupled between the mixing valve and the dispensing device, and operable to direct the water flow selectively either to the dispensing device or back to the water source. 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: November 10, 2015Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: Aqua View Inc.Inventor: Gus Searcy
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Patent number: 9645465Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling transitions in an optically switchable device. In one aspect, a controller for a tintable window may include a processor, an input for receiving output signals from sensors, and instructions for causing the processor to determine a level of tint of the tintable window, and an output for controlling the level of tint in the tintable window. The instructions may include a relationship between the received output signals and the level of tint, with the relationship employing output signals from an exterior photosensor, an interior photosensor, an occupancy sensor, an exterior temperature sensor, and a transmissivity sensor. In some instances, the controller may receive output signals over a network and/or be interfaced with a network, and in some instances, the controller may be a standalone controller that is not interfaced with a network.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Stephen C. Brown, Dhairya Shrivastava, Anshu A. Pradhan, Deepika Khowal, Namrata Vora
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Patent number: 9638978Abstract: A method of controlling tint of a tintable window to account for occupant comfort in a room of a building. The tintable window is between the interior and exterior of the building. The method predicts a tint level for the tintable window at a future time based on a penetration depth of direct sunlight through the tintable window into the room at the future time and space type in the room. The method also provides instructions over a network to transition tint of the tintable window to the tint level.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Stephen C. Brown, Deepika Khowal, Namrata Vora, Santosh V. Phillip
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Patent number: 9638977Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for mitigating defects in optical devices such as electrochromic devices. One method mitigates a pinhole defect in an electrochromic device by identifying the site of the pinhole defect and obscuring the pinhole to make it less visually discernible. In some cases, the pinhole defect may be the result of mitigating a short-related defect.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Robin Friedman, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Rao Mulpuri, Ronald M. Parker, Ronald A. Powell, Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki, Vinod Khosla
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Patent number: 9618819Abstract: A window assembly comprises a plurality of dynamic electrochromic zones formed on a single transparent substrate in which at least two electrochromic zones are independently controllable. In one exemplary embodiment, the window assembly comprises an Insulated Glass Unit (IGU), and at least one transparent substrate comprises a lite. In another exemplary embodiment, the IGU comprises at least two lites in which at least one lite comprises a plurality of independently controllable dynamic zones.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Peter Egerton, Drew Gaskell
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Patent number: 9610095Abstract: Retractor cannula systems may be used for accessing and visualizing the spine and related methods of treatment, including a forward-looking retractor cannula system for creating a working space and the retractor cannula system having atraumatic dissection capability to allow visualization in spine. The devices and methods described may be used, for example, to perform annulus repair, herniated disc excision, and denervation of neurological tissue; to dispense pharmacological agents and/or cell or tissue therapy agents; to diagnose disc degeneration and bony degeneration, spinal stenosis, and nucleus decompression, and to perform disc augmentation.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: SPINE VIEW, INC.Inventor: John T. To
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Patent number: 9607274Abstract: An enterprise value assessment tool includes a feedback engine executed by a computer processor. The feedback engine is implemented as a workbook having a tree structure of weighted nodes configured to generate scores according to user inputs regarding an enterprise respective of market drivers and operational drivers. A threshold engine executed by the computer processor uses the scores to calculate an asset rating and an enterprise value. An output engine executed by the computer processor displays contents of the workbook according to user selections, supplies the user inputs to the feedback engine, and generates one or more reports, including an enterprise value report containing the asset rating and the enterprise value.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Chairman's View, Inc.Inventors: Charles E. Richards, Lisa P. Kable, Jeffrey W. Doyle