Patents Examined by Lauren R Colgan
  • Glass used as a component of a heating device
    Patent number: 10876736
    Abstract: A glazing can be used as a constituent element of a heating device or of a fireproof door. The glazing includes a transparent substrate coated with a stack of thin layers including at least one silver-based functional metal layer and an upper protective layer based on zirconium titanium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Mathieu Urien, Benoit Illy, Alexandre Maillet, Matthias Alschinger
  • Ceramic glaze having antimicrobial property
    Patent number: 10863745
    Abstract: An antimicrobial ceramic glazing composition contains one or more antimicrobial agents disposed therein. Methods for making and using the glazing composition are disclosed, as well as substrates having a fired antimicrobial glaze thereon. The antimicrobial agents comprise metallic oxides, with a subset of the disclosed combinations exhibiting synergistic effect in fired glazes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Microban Products Company
    Inventor: Alvin Lamar Campbell, Jr.
  • Ceramic glaze having antimicrobial property
    Patent number: 10856549
    Abstract: An antimicrobial ceramic glazing composition contains one or more antimicrobial agents disposed therein. Methods for making and using the glazing composition are disclosed, as well as substrates having a fired antimicrobial glaze thereon. The antimicrobial agents comprise metallic oxides, with a subset of the disclosed combinations exhibiting synergistic effect in fired glazes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microban Products Company
    Inventor: Alvin Lamar Campbell, Jr.
  • Ceramic glaze having antimicrobial property
    Patent number: 10856550
    Abstract: An antimicrobial ceramic glazing composition contains one or more antimicrobial agents disposed therein. Methods for making and using the glazing composition are disclosed, as well as substrates having a fired antimicrobial glaze thereon. The antimicrobial agents comprise metallic oxides, with a subset of the disclosed combinations exhibiting synergistic effect in fired glazes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microban Products Company
    Inventor: Alvin Lamar Campbell, Jr.
  • Vehicle composite pane with optimised beam path for a sensor mounted thereon
    Patent number: 10850477
    Abstract: A vehicle composite pane having an outer pane made of glass and an inner pane made of glass that are bonded to one another via a polymeric intermediate layer is presented. According to one aspect, the intermediate layer includes a first wedge inlay and a second wedge inlay that are made of different materials, each of the inlays being wedge-shaped and having a wedge face. According to another aspect, the wedge faces are positioned one atop the other so that, in the direction from a lower edge to an upper edge of the composite pane, the thickness of the first wedge inlay increases and the thickness of the second wedge inlay decreases. According to a further aspect, at least one of the wedge inlays has a refractive index that differs from the refractive index of the outer pane and of the inner pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Klaus Schmalbuch, Dirk Wohlfeil, Malte Linn, Martin Arndt, Christian Effertz
  • Coated glass sheet
    Patent number: 10851015
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a process to increase the mechanical and chemical resistance of a hydrolyzable network-forming silica gel coating provided on the surface of a substrate. According to the invention, a coating composition comprising a hydrolyzable, network-forming silica gel doped with a precursor of bismuth or cerium oxide is applied on the surface of the substrate. The present invention concerns also the product obtained by the said process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventor: Eugenie Peyroux
  • IG window unit including laminated substrates for preventing bird collisions
    Patent number: 10843961
    Abstract: This invention relates to an insulating glass (IG) window unit designed to prevent or reduce bird collisions therewith. The IG window unit includes at least first, second and third substrates (e.g., glass substrates). At least one of the substrates supports an ultraviolet (UV) reflecting coating for reflecting UV radiation so that birds are capable of more easily seeing the window, and wherein at least two of the substrates are laminated to one another via a polymer-based laminating film (e.g., of or including PVB, EVA, or SGP) that may have a high UV absoprtion. The UV reflecting coating is preferably patterned so that it is not provided across the entirety of the IG window unit. By making the window more visible to birds, bird collisions and bird deaths can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLC
    Inventors: Jian-gang Weng, Sarah Wansack, Greg Brecht, Robert A. Vandal
  • Composite including a component and a glass material
    Patent number: 10836140
    Abstract: A composite includes a component and a glass or glass ceramic material. The component has a first coefficient of expansion ?1 and the glass or the glass ceramic material has a second coefficient of expansion ?2. The glass or the glass ceramic material has a surface with a thickness and thickness differences (TTV) within the surface, and thickness fluctuations (LTV). The composite has a residual stress in the glass or the glass ceramic material (WARP), and a geometric and material-physical degree of compatibility KG?4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Matthias Jotz, Marten Walther, Florian Resch, Thomas Wiegel
  • Laminated glazing having an electrically conductive layer with an ablation line, the edges of which are free of beads and gently sloped
    Patent number: 10836142
    Abstract: A laminated glazing includes one or two plies of 0.5 to 12 mm thickness, and one or more structural plies of 3 to 20 mm thickness, wherein at least that face of at least one ply of 0.5 to 12 mm thickness which is oriented toward the one or more structural plies and/or at least one face of the latter includes an electrically conductive layer of thickness comprised between 2 and 1600 nm, except on at least one ablation line, the edges of this line having no hem, and their average slope being at most equal to 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent Legois, Vincent Rachet, Thomas Tondu
  • Bendable glass stack assemblies, articles and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 10824200
    Abstract: A glass element having a thickness from 25 ?m to 125 ?m, a first primary surface, a second primary surface, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth, the region defined by a compressive stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa at the first primary surface. Further, the glass element has a stress profile such that it does not fail when it is subject to 200,000 cycles of bending to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, by the parallel plate method. Still further, the glass element has a puncture resistance of greater than about 1.5 kgf when the first primary surface of the glass element is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a diameter of 1.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Theresa Chang, Polly Wanda Chu, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Adam James Ellison, Timothy Michael Gross, Guangli Hu, Nicholas James Smith, Butchi Reddy Vaddi, Natesan Venkataraman
  • Method of manufacture of a coated glazing
    Patent number: 10822269
    Abstract: A method of manufacture of a coated glazing includes the following steps in sequence a) providing a transparent glass substrate, b) etching a surface of the substrate with an acidic gas, and c) directly or indirectly coating said surface with at least one layer based on a transparent conductive coating (TCC) and/or at least one layer based on a material with a refractive index of at least 1.75.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Pilkington Group Limited
    Inventors: Kevin David Sanderson, Neil McSporran, David Alan Strickler, Leo James Pyrah
  • Splash screen
    Patent number: 10822268
    Abstract: A splash screen, and a process for making a splash screen, comprising a glass sheet, the glass sheet comprising, a substrate of soda lime silica glass having a coating deposited on at least at least a first surface, the coating comprising a corrosion-protection layer deposited directly on the first surface of the substrate, the corrosion-protection layer having a thickness in the range 24 nm to 125 nm and comprising pyrolytically deposited silica with intentional doping of 7 atom % or lower. The splash screen provides reduced moisture induced corrosion of the glass surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Pilkington Group Limited
    Inventors: Simon James Hurst, Anna Louise Colley, Peter Michael Harris, Kieran James Cheetham
  • Electrode structure and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 10824285
    Abstract: The present disclosure: discloses an electrode structure, and the electrode structure may include: a substrate, an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer, and a metal layer that are stacked sequentially; and a metal oxide adhesive layer disposed between the ITO layer and the metal layer. The present disclosure further discloses a method for manufacturing an electrode structure, which may include: providing a substrate; disposing an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer on the substrate; disposing a metal oxide adhesive layer on the ITO layer; and disposing a metal layer on the metal oxide adhesive layer. In this way, the present disclosure may improve the bonding force between the ITO layer and the metal layer of the electrode structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Kimura
  • Coatings for multilayer insulation materials
    Patent number: 10815013
    Abstract: A laminate has a composite coating on a substrate. The substrate is a polymeric substrate with a surface resistivity of 4×102 to 1×108?/?; or a textured substrate with surface features which are 100 nm to 10 microns high. The composite coating comprising a tie layer of a nickel-chromium alloy; a layer of a reflective metal; a layer of aluminum oxide; a layer of silicon oxide; and optionally a layer of indium tin oxide. The laminate has a solar absorbance at a wavelength of 0.25 microns to 2.5 microns of between 0.07 and 0.7; and the laminate has an IR emittance of 0.1 to 0.8. Solar absorbance and IR emittance of the laminate may be independently to control the ratio of solar absorbance to IR emittance. Solar absorbance may be adjusted by changing the surface resistance or degree of texturing on the substrate. IR emittance may be adjusted by changing oxide film thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Mark M Hasegawa, Kenneth O'Connor, Alfred Wong, George M. Harris, Grant Smith
  • Bendable glass stack assemblies, articles and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 10809766
    Abstract: A glass element having a thickness from 25 ?m to 125 ?m, a first primary surface, a second primary surface, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth, the region defined by a compressive stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa at the first primary surface. Further, the glass element has a stress profile such that it does not fail when it is subject to 200,000 cycles of bending to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, by the parallel plate method. Still further, the glass element has a puncture resistance of greater than about 1.5 kgf when the first primary surface of the glass element is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a diameter of 1.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Polly Wanda Chu, Adam James Ellison, Timothy Michael Gross, Robert Bumju Lee, Jen-Chieh Lin, Chouhwan Moon, Pei-Lien Tseng
  • Laminated glass display for vehicle
    Patent number: 10800238
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated glass display for a vehicle, in which the wiring harness between a display part and a vehicle body is not exposed. The display part is resistant to environmental factors such as moisture. To this end, the laminated glass display for a vehicle includes a plurality of adhesive films sequentially located between an upper laminated glass and a lower laminated glass having a recess in an end adjacent to a vehicle body panel; a display part located between the adhesive films; a dampener facing the upper laminated glass and located in the recess; and a molding disposed between the dampener and the vehicle body panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nak Kyoung Kong, Keon Soo Jin, Jong Min Park, Ki Hong Lee
  • Heat treatable coated article having titanium nitride and ITO based IR reflecting layers
    Patent number: 10793469
    Abstract: Coated articles include two or more functional infrared (IR) reflecting layers optionally sandwiched between at least dielectric layers. The dielectric layers may be of or including silicon nitride or the like. At least one of the IR reflecting layers is of or including titanium nitride (e.g., TiN) and at least another of the IR reflecting layers is of or including indium-tin-oxide (ITO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLC
    Inventors: Brent Boyce, Yiwei Lu, Guowen Ding, Cesar Clavero, Daniel Schweigert, Minh Le
  • Low-E matchable coated articles having absorber film and corresponding methods
    Patent number: 10787385
    Abstract: A low-E coating has good color stability (a low ?E* value) upon heat treatment (HT). Thermal stability may be improved by the provision of an as-deposited crystalline or substantially crystalline layer of or including zinc oxide, doped with at least one dopant (e.g., Sn), immediately under an infrared (IR) reflecting layer of or including silver; and/or by the provision of at least one dielectric layer of or including an oxide of zirconium. These have the effect of significantly improving the coating's thermal stability (i.e., lowering the ?E* value). An absorber film may be designed to adjust visible transmission and provide desirable coloration, while maintaining durability and/or thermal stability. The dielectric layer (e.g., of or including an oxide of Zr) may be sputter-deposited so as to have a monoclinic phase in order to improve thermal stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLC
    Inventors: Yongli Xu, Salah Boussaad, Jingyu Lao
  • Composite glass pane with a mounting hole
    Patent number: 10773485
    Abstract: A composite glass pane with a through mounting hole. The composite glass pane having a first pane and a second pane that are bonded to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer and at least one passage that extends through the entire composite glass pane, wherein the edge of the passage is provided with a polymeric element formed in one piece having a through hole running through the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Stefan Uebelacker, Rolf Koette, Wolfgang Von Avenarius, Gerry R. Parij
  • Laminate, building material, window material, and radiation cooling device
    Patent number: 10766225
    Abstract: Provided are a laminate including a substrate; and a laminated structure including two or more kinds of layers having different specific acoustic impedances which is disposed on the substrate, in which the number of the layers constituting the laminated structure is 10 or more, a thickness of a layer having the largest thickness among the layers constituting the laminated structure is 8 nm or less, and in the laminated structure, a CV value defined by a standard deviation of a layer thickness/average layer thickness is 0.05 or more, and a building material, a window material, and a radiation cooling device including the laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya Yoshihiro