Patents by Inventor Andreas Ortner
Andreas Ortner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20200369551Abstract: A method for processing glass elements is provided. The method includes introducing a perforation line for parting a glass element introduced into the glass element during or after a hot processing process at an elevated temperature of at least 100° C. Spaced-apart filamentary flaws are introduced into the glass element along the predetermined course of the perforation line by a pulsed laser beam of an ultrashort pulse laser, and, during or after the introduction of the filamentary flaws, the glass element is cooled down so as to produce a temperature gradient, which induces a mechanical stress at the filamentary flaws, whereby the breaking force required for parting the glass element along the perforation line is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Andreas Ortner, Ulla Trinks, Fabian Wagner, Carsten Etz, Daniela Seiler, Michael Kluge, Peter Czepelka, Frank-Thomas Lentes, André Witzmann, Reiner Artmann
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Patent number: 10807902Abstract: A method for the production of glass or glass ceramic elements from flat glass or glass ceramic parts is provided where the edges of the glass or glass ceramic elements are treated by a combination of two processes. The flat glass or glass ceramic element with an edge surface connecting the two side surfaces is produced. The edge surface has at least one first elongated, strip-shaped edge region and at least one second elongated strip-shaped edge region, which are formed by a ground edge. The edge regions extend in the longitudinal direction along the edge surface and along the side surfaces. The first edge region has elongated parallel filamentary damages that are parallel and adjacent to one another and, in particular, spaced apart equidistantly, in the longitudinal direction thereof extending transversely to the side surfaces and along the surface of the first edge region.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Volker Plapper, Fabian Wagner, Andreas Ortner, Albrecht Seidl, Frank-Thomas Lentes
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Publication number: 20200290152Abstract: A method provides for producing modifications in or on a transparent workpiece using a laser processing device. The laser processing device has a short pulse or ultrashort pulse laser that emits laser radiation having a wavelength in the transparency range of the workpiece and which has a beam-shaping optical unit for beam shaping for focusing the laser radiation. The transparent workpiece is composed of a material that has a plurality of phases, of which at least two phases have different dielectric constants, of which in turn the one phase is a phase embedded in the form of particles, which phase is substantially surrounded by the other phase, and wherein the product of the volume of the particles specified in cubic nanometers and the ratio of the absolute value of the difference of the two different dielectric constants to the dielectric constant of the surrounding phase is greater than 500.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Schott AGInventors: Andreas Ortner, Niklas Bisch, Fabian Wagner, Albrecht Seidl, Frank-Thomas Lentes
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Patent number: 10737576Abstract: A method for a high-voltage energy system of a vehicle wherein a pre-accident error state is determined which shows the current existing error of the high-voltage energy system prior to the time of an accident. Then an accident event is determined. A post-accident error state is determined which shows the current existing error of the high-voltage energy system according to the time of the accident. The high-voltage energy system is deactivated in accordance with the accident, the pre-accident error state, and the post-accident error state.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Andreas Ortner, Sebastian Schaab, Heiner Bartoszewski, Erik Hahn
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Patent number: 10737967Abstract: A method is provided for separating a portion from a sheet-like glass or glass ceramic element along an intended separation line to divide the element into the portion and a main part. The method includes producing filamentary damages a volume of the glass or glass ceramic element adjacently aligned along the separation line, the filamentary damages are produced by laser pulses of a laser, the glass or glass ceramic element comprises a material that is transparent for the laser pulses; displacing incidence points of the laser pulses on a surface of the glass or glass ceramic element thereof along the separation line; and subjecting the material of the glass or glass ceramic element located in a region of the portion to a phase transition so that the material contracts to detach the portion from the main part at the adjacently aligned filamentary damages along the separation line, while the main part remains intact as a whole.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Martin Spier, Fabian Wagner, Andreas Ortner, Georg Haselhorst, Volker Plapper
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Patent number: 10730792Abstract: A glass ribbon in the form of a glass roll is provided that is optimized with respect to the requirements of a long service life and at the same time compact dimensions. A bending radius on the inner side of the thin glass roll is determined by performing breakage tests on samples of the glass material, statistical parameters are determined on the basis of the breakage tests, and the statistical parameters are converted into a range of bending radii which meet the requirements on service life and the most compact dimensions possible of the thin glass roll.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Clemens Ottermann, Rainer Liebald, Andreas Habeck, Kurt Nattermann, Markus Heiss-Chouquet, Jürgen Vogt, Thomas Wiegel, Andreas Ortner, Ning Da, Feng He, Pengxiang Qian
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Patent number: 10702948Abstract: A method provides for producing modifications in or on a transparent workpiece using a laser processing device. The laser processing device has a short pulse or ultrashort pulse laser that emits laser radiation having a wavelength in the transparency range of the workpiece and which has a beam-shaping optical unit for beam shaping for focusing the laser radiation. The transparent workpiece is composed of a material that has a plurality of phases, of which at least two phases have different dielectric constants, of which in turn the one phase is a phase embedded in the form of particles, which phase is substantially surrounded by the other phase, and wherein the product of the volume of the particles specified in cubic nanometers and the ratio of the absolute value of the difference of the two different dielectric constants to the dielectric constant of the surrounding phase is greater than 500.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Andreas Ortner, Niklas Bisch, Fabian Wagner, Albrecht Seidl, Frank-Thomas Lentes
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Publication number: 20200199007Abstract: A method is provided that includes producing filamentary damages in a volume of a glass or glass ceramic element adjacently aligned along a separation line and extend obliquely relative to a surface of the glass or glass ceramic element; and separating a portion from the glass or glass ceramic element along the separation line. The step of producing the filamentary damages includes directing laser pulses of an ultrashort pulse laser obliquely on the surface so that the laser pulses have a light propagation direction that extends obliquely relative to the surface and so that the filamentary damages resulting from the laser pulses have the longitudinal extension that extends obliquely relative to the surface; generating a plasma within the volume with the laser pulses; and displacing the laser pulses at points of incidence over the surface along the separation line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Andreas ORTNER, Albrecht SEIDL, Frank-Thomas LENTES, Fabian WAGNER
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Patent number: 10689285Abstract: A method is provided for separating a portion from a sheet-like glass or glass ceramic element along an intended separation line to divide the element into the portion and a main part. The method includes producing filamentary damages a volume of the glass or glass ceramic element adjacently aligned along the separation line, the filamentary damages are produced by laser pulses of a laser, the glass or glass ceramic element comprises a material that is transparent for the laser pulses; displacing incidence points of the laser pulses on a surface of the glass or glass ceramic element thereof along the separation line; and subjecting the material of the glass or glass ceramic element located in a region of the portion to a phase transition so that the material contracts to detach the portion from the main part at the adjacently aligned filamentary damages along the separation line, while the main part remains intact as a whole.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Martin Spier, Fabian Wagner, Andreas Ortner, Georg Haselhorst, Volker Plapper
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Patent number: 10626039Abstract: A method is provided for preparing transparent workpieces for separation. The method includes generating aligned filament formations extending transversely through the workpiece along an intended breaking line using ultra-short laser pulses.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Andreas Ortner, Andreas Habeck, Klaus Gerstner, Georg Haselhorst, Fabian Wagner
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Publication number: 20200115269Abstract: A method is provided for preparing transparent workpieces for separation. The method includes generating aligned filament formations extending transversely through the workpiece along an intended breaking line using ultra-short laser pulses.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Andreas Ortner, Andreas Habeck, Klaus Gerstner, Georg Haselhorst, Fabian Wagner
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Publication number: 20200101561Abstract: Devices and methods for processing a workpiece along a predetermined processing line are provided. The device includes: a pulsed, polychromatic laser beam generator; an optical arrangement; and a moving device. The laser beam generator generates a laser beam along a beam direction. The optical arrangement generates a focal line along the beam direction. The optical arrangement has a chromatic aberration for wavelength-dependent focusing of the laser beam and a filter for wavelength-dependent filtering of the laser beam. The moving device generates relative movement between the laser beam and the workpiece along the predetermined processing line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Andreas ORTNER, Fabian WAGNER, Albrecht SEIDL, Simon SCHMITT, Frank-Thomas LENTES, Jens Ulrich THOMAS
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Publication number: 20200087192Abstract: A component of glass or glass ceramic having predamages arranged along at least one predetermined dividing line is provided. The dividing line has a row of predamages lying one behind the other. The predamages pass continuously through the glass or the glass ceramic with at least 90% of the predamages being cylindrically symmetrical. The glass or the glass ceramic has a material compaction of at least 1% relative to an actual material density in a radius of 3 ?m about a longitudinal axis of respective pre-damaged points. The relative weight loss per pre-damaged point is less than 10% and the component has a thickness of at least 3.5 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Jens Ulrich THOMAS, Frank-Thomas LENTES, Andreas ORTNER, Jonas SCHATZ, Michael KLUGE
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Publication number: 20200039005Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device and a method for laser-based separation of a transparent, brittle workpiece, comprising a laser that emits a laser beam having an intensity (IL) along an optical axis (P), and an optical device. The optical device has at least one one-piece double axicon. The double axicon has an entrance surface and the optical device has an exit surface. The entrance surface is such that in the double axicon, a ring beam is formed. The intensity (IL) in the double axicon is lower than the threshold intensity (IS) of the material of the double axicon. The exit surface is such that a line focus having a maximum intensity (Imax) and a length (LT) is generated in the direction of the laser beam behind the exit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Jens Ulrich THOMAS, Frank-Thomas LENTES, Andreas ORTNER
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Publication number: 20190329251Abstract: A method for producing a cavity in a substrate composed of hard brittle material is provided. A laser beam of an ultrashort pulse laser is directed a side surface of the substrate and is concentrated by a focusing optical unit to form an elongated focus in the substrate. Incident energy of the laser beam produces a filament-shaped flaw in a volume of the substrate. The filament-shaped flaw extends into the volume to a predetermined depth and does not pass through the substrate. To produce the filament-shaped flaw, the ultrashort pulse laser radiates in a pulse or a pulse packet having at least two successive laser pulses. After at least two filament-shaped flaws are introduced, the substrate is exposed to an etching medium which removes material of the substrate and widens the at least two filament-shaped flaws to form filaments. At least two filaments are connected to form a cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: Schott AGInventors: Andreas Ortner, Andreas Roters, Hauke Esemann, Markus Heiss-Chouquet, Fabian Wagner, Laura Brueckbauer, Stephanie Mangold, Vanessa Hiller
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Publication number: 20190329252Abstract: A method for the production of microfluidic cells using a disc-shaped glass element is provided. The disc-shaped glass element has a thickness of at most 700 micrometers is structured in such a way that it has at least one opening. The opening connects the two opposite-lying, parallel side faces of the glass element. The side faces are attached to a glass part so that the opening is sealed by the two glass parts to form a microfluidic cell having a cavity enclosed therein. The cavity is suitable for the conveyance of fluids. The attachment of the glass element to at least one of the two glass parts is produced by an adhesive that is applied onto the side face of the glass element. During application of the adhesive, the at least one opening in the glass element is left free of adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Hauke Esemann, Stephanie Mangold, Andreas Roters, Andreas Ortner, Markus Heiss-Chouquet, Fabian Wagner, Vanessa Hiller, Laura Brueckbauer
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Publication number: 20190322564Abstract: A method for separating a substrate of a brittle-hard material is provided. The method includes the steps of introducing defects into the substrate at a spacing from one another along a separation line using at least one pulsed laser beam; selecting an average spacing between neighboring defects and a number of laser pulses for generating a respective defect such that a breaking stress (?B) for separating the substrate along the separation line is smaller than a first reference stress (?R1) of the substrate and such that an edge strength ?K of the separation edge obtained after separation is greater than a second reference stress (?R2) of the substrate; and separating the substrate after introducing the defects by applying a stress along the separation line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Fabian WAGNER, Volker PLAPPER, Andreas ORTNER, Simon SCHMITT, Frank-Thomas LENTES, Albrecht SEIDL, Antal MAKACS, Patrick BARTHOLOME
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Patent number: 10407336Abstract: A method for cutting a thin glass including the steps of guiding, by a transport device, the thin glass ribbon over a levitation support, and directing, within a range of the levitation support, a laser beam onto the thin glass ribbon, which heats up the thin glass ribbon at an impingement point of the laser beam. The method also includes the step of blowing, by a cooling jet generator, a cooling fluid onto the track heated by the laser beam so that a region heated by the laser beam is cooled down and a mechanical stress is created. The cooling fluid contains vapor of a liquid at a saturation ratio of at least 0.5 or a plurality of liquid droplets. The liquid droplets form a contact angle on a surface of the thin glass ribbon which is smaller than that of water on the same surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Thomas Rossmeier, Andreas Ortner, Jürgen Vogt, Andreas Habeck, Clemens Ottermann, Dirk Förtsch, Christian Breitbach, Stephan Behle
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Publication number: 20190210909Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing glass products from tubular glass precursors is provided. In particular, a method and apparatus for separating tube glass into sized glass tube portions, produced glass tube portions, glass precursor portions, or glass product portions, and their use as pharmaceutical packaging are provided. The tube glass or the glass precursor or the glass product is provided with filaments along predetermined breaking planes. The filaments extend obliquely to the local wall radius and allow for clean separation of the tube glass or the glass precursor or the glass product.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Fabian WAGNER, Michael KLUGE, Andreas ORTNER, Laura BRUECKBAUER, Frank-Thomas LENTES
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Patent number: 10329191Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Andreas Ortner, Andreas Habeck, Clemens Ottermann, Thomas Roßmeier, Frank Macherey, Jürgen Vogt, Rainer Liebald, Thomas Wiegel, Ulrich Battmer, Uwe Wilkens