Patents Examined by Lauren R Colgan
  • Patent number: 11267754
    Abstract: A glass article with a solar-control function includes at least one glass substrate and a stack of layers deposited on at least one face of the substrate. The stack of layers includes a layer of titanium oxynitride of general formula TiNxOy, in which 1.00<x<1.20 and in which 0.01<y<0.10. The stack of layers further includes layers of dielectric materials and optionally of metallic or nitrided layers based on chromium, nickel, titanium, niobium or a mixture of at least two of these elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Laura Singh, Corentin Monmeyran, Vincent Reymond, Remy Dodet, Jean Lorenzzi
  • Patent number: 11260629
    Abstract: A decorated laminate including: an outer ply; an inner ply; a polymer interlayer between the inner ply and the outer ply; and organic ink printed decoration on one or both of internal surfaces of the laminate between the outer ply and the polymer interlayer or between the inner ply and polymer interlayer, wherein the decorated laminate has a stone impact resistance as defined herein. Also disclosed is a method of making and using the decorated laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Michael Cleary, Mark Stephen Friske, Timothy Scott Huten
  • Patent number: 11254607
    Abstract: Coated glass-based articles and methods of manufacture disclosed. An article comprises a chemically strengthened glass-based core substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a chemically strengthened glass-based first cladding substrate having a third surface directly bonded to the first surface to provide a first core-cladding interface and a chemically strengthened glass-based second cladding substrate having a fourth surface directly bonded to the second surface to provide a second core-cladding interface, wherein the core substrate is bonded to the first cladding substrate and the second cladding substrate, and there is a coating on the first cladding substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Harris, Vijay Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11247933
    Abstract: An alkali-free glass substrate which is a glass substrate includes, as represented by molar percentage based on oxides, 0.1% to 10% of ZnO. The alkali-free glass substrate has an average coefficient of thermal expansion ?50/100 at 50 to 100° C. of from 2.70 ppm/° C. to 3.20 ppm/° C., an average coefficient of thermal expansion ?200/300 at 200 to 300° C. of from 3.45 ppm/° C. to 3.95 ppm/° C., and a value ?200/300/?50/100 obtained by dividing the average coefficient of thermal expansion ?200/300 at 200 to 300° C. by the average coefficient of thermal expansion ?50/100 at 50 to 100° C. of from 1.20 to 1.30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shuhei Nomura, Kazutaka Ono
  • Patent number: 11242280
    Abstract: A coated article includes a substrate having a major surface, and an optical coating disposed on the major surface of the substrate. At least a portion of the optical coating includes a residual compressive stress of about 50 MPa or more. The coated article has strain-to-failure of about 0.5% or more as measured by a Ring-on-Ring Tensile Testing Procedure. The coated article has an average photopic transmission of about 80% or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Guangli Hu, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Patent number: 11236016
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a chemically strengthened glass in which reduction in glass surface strength is effectively suppressed even without performing a polishing treatment after a prolonged chemical strengthening treatment has been conducted at a high temperature. The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass having a specific glass composition, wherein: the surface roughness (Ra) is a specific value or greater; the compressive stress layer depth of a surface layer is a specific value or greater; by setting the hydrogen concentration in the glass surface layer to be within a specific range, the surface strength of the glass is dramatically improved even without performing an etching treatment using hydrofluoric acid or polishing the glass surface after a prolonged chemical strengthening treatment has been conducted at a high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Fujiwara, Izuru Kashima, Michinori Suehara
  • Patent number: 11220453
    Abstract: A color-stable, antimicrobial glass powder obtained by partial ion exchange at a temperature of 300° C. to 350° C. and an exchange time of 1 to 120 minutes, is formed of a mixture of porous glass particles having micropores and macropores made of borosilicate glass continuously foamed by extrusion having a Fe2O3 content <0.2 wt %, in which the obtained glass foam is subsequently comminuted by dry grinding to average particle sizes of 1.0 to 8.0 ?m. The mixture includes color stabilizers containing 0.1% to 0.2% of ammonium ions and antimicrobial metal ions from dissolved metal salts, wherein the metal ions may be silver and/or zinc and/or copper ions. A method for the production of a color-stable, antimicrobial glass powder and applications for using the color-stable, antimicrobial glass powder are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TROVOTECH GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Ferner, Hans-Juergen Voss, Hans-Udo Lugner
  • Patent number: 11214510
    Abstract: Glass-based articles that include a hydrogen-containing layer extending from the surface of the article to a depth of layer. The hydrogen-containing layer includes a hydrogen concentration that decreases from a maximum hydrogen concentration to the depth of layer. The glass-based articles exhibit a high Vickers indentation cracking threshold. Glass compositions that are selected to promote the formation of the hydrogen-containing layer and methods of forming the glass-based article are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Georgiy M Guryanov
  • Patent number: 11208349
    Abstract: A material includes a transparent substrate coated with a stack of thin layers including an alternation of three functional silver-based metallic layers. This material makes it possible to obtain a multiple glazing having good thermal performance results, in particular a selectivity greater than 2, excellent color neutrality and low optical sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Tommaso Ongarello, Julien Beutier
  • Patent number: 11203548
    Abstract: An optical glass includes, in terms of mol % of cations, a total amount of La3+, Y3+, and Gd3+ components falling within a range of from 5% to 65% and a total amount of Zr4+, Hf4+, and Ta5+ components failing within a range of from 5% to 65%, and a relationship expressed in Expression (1) given below is satisfied. (La3++Y3++Gd3+)×(Zr4+ Hf4++Ta3+)?400(%)2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Yoshimoto, Motoi Ueda, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Tatsunori Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11198642
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a chemically strengthened glass, the method including, performing a chemical strengthening treatment including the following steps (1) to (3) to a glass having a specific composition, (1) a step of bringing the glass into contact with an inorganic salt composition including 70 mass % or more of potassium nitrate to perform ion exchange; (2) a step of bringing the glass having been ion-exchanged in step (1) into contact with an inorganic salt composition including 50 mass % or more of sodium nitrate to perform ion exchange; and (3) a step of bringing the glass having been ion-exchanged in step (2) into contact with an inorganic salt composition including 70 mass % or more of potassium nitrate to perform ion exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Izuru Kashima, Kaname Sekiya, Akio Shizukai, Yositeru Ikeda, Shogo Sueda
  • Patent number: 11192820
    Abstract: A coated glass pane and a method of preparing same comprising at least the following layers in sequence: a glass substrate; a lower anti-reflection layer, a silver-based functional layer; a barrier layer; an upper dielectric layer; and a topmost dielectric layer which comprises an oxide of zinc (Zn), tin (Sn) and zirconium (Zr); and wherein the amount of zirconium in the topmost dielectric layer comprises at least 10 atomic percent zirconium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Pilkington Group Limited
    Inventors: Monica Joscelyn Hughes, Charlie James Patrickson, Kieran James Cheetham, John Andrew Ridealgh, Rory Back
  • Patent number: 11192821
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a material comprising a glass sheet coated on at least one portion of one of the faces thereof with a stack of thin layers comprising at least one layer based on a nitride, said stack being coated on at least one portion of its surface with an enamel layer comprising bismuth, said stack further comprising, in contact with the enamel layer, a layer, referred to as a contact layer, which is based on an oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Juliette Jamart
  • Patent number: 11183412
    Abstract: A method for joining quartz pieces using metallic aluminum as the joining element. The aluminum may be placed between two quartz pieces and the assembly may be heated in the range of 500 C to 650 C. The joining atmosphere may be non-oxygenated. A method for the joining of quartz pieces which may include barrier layers on the quartz pieces. The barrier layers may be impervious to aluminum diffusion and may be of a metal oxide or metal nitride. The quartz pieces with the barrier layers may then be joined at temperatures higher than 650 C and less than 1200 C. A device such as an RF antenna or electrode in support of semiconductor processing using joined quartz pieces wherein the aluminum joining layer which has joined the pieces and also functions as antenna electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: Brent Elliot, Guleid Hussen, Jason Stephens, Michael Parker
  • Patent number: 11174196
    Abstract: A material includes a transparent substrate coated with a stack of thin layers I including a lower coating including at least one absorbent layer, a single silver-based functional metal layer and an upper coating including at least one dielectric layer. The absorbent layer is separated from the substrate and from the functional layer by one or more dielectric layers. The material, once fitted in a double glazing, makes it possible to obtain a high selectivity, in particular of greater than 1.45, an interior and exterior light reflection of less than 25% and bluish hues in exterior reflection and in interior reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Silvia Mariani, Cécile Delbecq, Vincent Chery
  • Patent number: 11161772
    Abstract: Laminated glass-based articles are provided. The glass-based articles include at least a first glass-based layer, a second glass-based layer, and a polymer layer disposed between the first and second glass-based layers. At least one of the first and second glass-based layers has a thickness of less than or equal to 200 ?m, and the polymer layer has a thickness of less than or equal to 100 ?m. The polymer layer has an elastic modulus greater than or equal to 100 MPa at a strain rate of 1/s. Methods of producing the laminated glass-based articles are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Jonathan Earl Walter
  • Patent number: 11162688
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes thermally insulating glass laminates that prevent heat from escaping from heated cavities. In some embodiments, the thermally insulating glass laminates comprise a low or non-conductive coating layer that forms a chemical bond with at least one substrate, wherein the coating layer has a thickness of about 0.010 inches or less, wherein a plurality of glass spacers is submerged in the coating layer, and wherein at least one sealed cavity of gas molecules is created between the substrates and around the glass spacers. Since there is a small amount of gas molecules in each cavity, convective heat transfer between the substrates is minimized thereby minimizing heat loss through the laminates into the surrounding environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SCHOTT GEMTRON CORP.
    Inventor: Adam O' Ryan
  • Patent number: 11161779
    Abstract: Provided is a matte gray functional building material for windows, comprising: a transparent glass substrate; and a low-emissivity coating formed on one surface of the transparent glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Dae-Hoon Kwon, Youn-Ki Jun, Sung-Jin Park, Hyun-Woo You, Young-Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 11161780
    Abstract: Provided is a functional building material for windows and doors, the material comprising a transparent substrate and a low-emissivity coating formed on one side of the transparent substrate, wherein: the low-emissivity coating comprises a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, a lower barrier layer, a third dielectric layer, a first low-emissivity protection layer, a low-emissivity layer, a second low-emissivity protection layer, a fourth dielectric layer, a fifth dielectric layer, an upper barrier layer, and a sixth dielectric layer which are laminated in that order on the transparent substrate; the refractive index of the first dielectric layer and the refractive index of the third dielectric layer are each smaller than the refractive index of the second dielectric layer; and the refractive index of the fourth dielectric layer and the refractive index of the sixth dielectric layer are each smaller than the refractive index of the fifth dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Woo You, Youn-Ki Jun, Dae-Hoon Kwon, Sung-Jin Park, Eul-Doo Park
  • Patent number: 11155490
    Abstract: An article including an optically transparent, superomniphobic coating that is durable and relatively easy to keep clean, is disclosed. In one aspect, the present disclosure provides an article comprising a substrate and a graded layer, the graded layer having a first side disposed adjacent the substrate, the first side comprising 45-85 wt. % silicon oxide in a first glass phase and 10-40 wt. % boron oxide in a second glass phase, and opposed the first side, a second side comprising at least 45 wt. % silicon oxide, no more than 5 wt. % boron oxide, and 10-50 wt. % aerogel, the aerogel present in the graded layer as a plurality of distinct domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventor: John T. Simpson