Patents by Inventor Bernd Hoppe
Bernd Hoppe 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: 20230311248Abstract: A panel-shaped glass element is provided that includes vitreous material having a thermal expansion coefficient of less than 10×10-6 K-1 as well as two opposing surfaces. The glass element furthermore has at least one recess which runs through the glass of the glass element and has a recess wall which runs around the recess and adjoins the two opposing surfaces. The recess wall has a structure with a multiplicity of mutually adjacent rounded dome-shaped depressions. A roughness of the recess wall is formed by these depressions as well as the ridges enclosing the depressions. The recess wall has a mean roughness value (Ra) which is less than 5 µm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Andreas ORTNER, Fabian WAGNER, Markus HEISS-CHOUQUET, Michael DRISCH, Vanessa GLÄßER, Annika HÖRBERG, Lukas WALTER, Lars MÜLLER, David SOHR, Michael KLUGE, Bernd HOPPE, Andreas KOGLBAUER, Stefan MUTH, Ulrich PEUCHERT
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Patent number: 11713275Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions that can be used for optical fibers and other systems that transmit light in the near-, mid- and/or far-ranges of the infrared spectrum, such as for example in the wavelength range of 1.5 ?m to 14 ?m. The optical fibers may comprise a light-transmitting chalcogenide core composition and a cladding composition. In some embodiments, the light-transmitting chalcogenide core composition has a refractive index n(core) and a coefficient of thermal expansion CTE(core), and the cladding composition has a refractive index n(cladding) and a coefficient of thermal expansion CTE(cladding), wherein n(cladding) is less than n(core) and in some embodiments wherein CTE(cladding) is less than CTE(core). In some embodiments, the chalcogenide glass core composition comprises a) sulfur and/or selenium, b) germanium, and c) gallium, indium, tin and/or one or more metal halides.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: SCHOTT CORPORATIONInventors: Bernd Schultheis, Nathan Carlie, Lothar Willmes, Simone Monika Ritter, Bernd Hoppe, William James
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Patent number: 11623892Abstract: A strongly scattering optoceramic converter material having a density of less than 97% is provided, as well as a method for producing such an optoceramic material. By appropriately choosing in particular the composition, blending method, and sintering conditions, the production method permits to produce converter materials with tailored properties.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Yvonne Menke, Volker Hagemann, Bernd Hoppe
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Patent number: 11579351Abstract: A flexible light guide that has a homogeneous light emission with high luminance is provided. The flexible light guide is provided by a side-emitting light guide. The side-emitting light guide includes a light-guiding fiber designed as a side-emitting fiber so that light guided in the fiber is scattered out along a longitudinal direction in a distributed manner. The guide also includes a tube that surrounds the fiber. The tube is designed to be light-scattering and translucent so that light emitted from the fiber can traverse the tube with scattering. The tube is surrounded by a cladding. The tube and cladding are made of plastic.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Markus Kappel, Lothar Willmes, Hubertus Russert, Bernd Hoppe
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Patent number: 11520096Abstract: A light source with a linear appearance is provided. The light source has a flexible light guide that has a homogeneous light emission with high luminance and a emitting light guide. The light emitting guide has a core, in which at least one soul extends, and a transparent cladding that surrounds the core. The core and the cladding are formed from transparent plastic. The core has a higher index of refraction than the cladding. The soul is light-deflecting, light-reflecting, or light-scattering so as to scatter light guided in the light guide and to emit the light through the cladding toward the outside. The soul has a scattering length that is at most twice as large as a maximum cross-sectional dimension of the soul.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Markus Kappel, Bernd Hoppe, Hubertus Russert, Lothar Willmes
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Publication number: 20220371961Abstract: A strongly scattering optoceramic converter material having a density of less than 97% is provided, as well as a method for producing such an optoceramic material. By appropriately choosing in particular the composition, blending method, and sintering conditions, the production method permits to produce converter materials with tailored properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Yvonne Menke, Volker Hagemann, Bernd Hoppe
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Patent number: 11427511Abstract: A strongly scattering optoceramic converter material having a density of less than 97% is provided, as well as a method for producing such an optoceramic material. By appropriately choosing in particular the composition, blending method, and sintering conditions, the production method permits to produce converter materials with tailored properties.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Yvonne Menke, Volker Hagemann, Bernd Hoppe
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Publication number: 20220176494Abstract: A method of structuring a glass element having a first side face and a second side face is provided. The method includes the steps of: producing a filament-shaped flaw in the glass element with a pulsed laser beam along a focus line; etching to remove glass in the filament-shaped flaw to form a wall extending from the first side face towards the second side face, the wall having a boundary line that is tapered at a vertex between the wall and the first side face with a taper angle with respect to a perpendicular of the first side face; and adjusting the taper angle by controlling a feature of the focus line. The feature is selected from a group consisting of a position of the focus line, a length of the focus line, an intensity distribution of the focus line, and any combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Andreas Ortner, Fabian Wagner, Markus Heiss-Chouquet, Annika Hörberg, Michael Drisch, Vanessa Glässer, Lukas Walter, Andreas Koglbauer, Lars Müller, David Sohr, Bernd Hoppe, Michael Kluge
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Publication number: 20210321805Abstract: A drinking implement includes a first end section with a first opening and a second end section with a second opening. A wall made of glass extends from the first opening to the second opening. At least one of the first end section or the second end section is designed as a specific end section having at least partially a ridge, an outer edge, and an inner edge. An outer transition angle and an inner transition angle both have absolute values of less than 90 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicants: Schott AG, SCHOTT Glass Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Fritz Wintersteller, Bernd Hoppe, Thomas Wedlich, Markus Riedl, Gottfried Haas, Pengxiang Qian, Junming Xue, Folker Steden, Takahisa Uchida, Csaba Debreczeny
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Publication number: 20210063625Abstract: A light source with a linear appearance is provided. The light source has a flexible light guide that has a homogeneous light emission with high luminance and a emitting light guide. The light emitting guide has a core, in which at least one soul extends, and a transparent cladding that surrounds the core. The core and the cladding are formed from transparent plastic. The core has a higher index of refraction than the cladding. The soul is light-deflecting, light-reflecting, or light-scattering so as to scatter light guided in the light guide and to emit the light through the cladding toward the outside. The soul has a scattering length that is at most twice as large as a maximum cross-sectional dimension of the soul.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Markus Kappel, Bernd Hoppe, Hubertus Russert, Lothar Willmes
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Publication number: 20210063624Abstract: A flexible light guide that has a homogeneous light emission with high luminance is provided. The flexible light guide is provided by a side-emitting light guide. The side-emitting light guide includes a light-guiding fiber designed as a side-emitting fiber so that light guided in the fiber is scattered out along a longitudinal direction in a distributed manner. The guide also includes a tube that surrounds the fiber. The tube is designed to be light-scattering and translucent so that light emitted from the fiber can traverse the tube with scattering. The tube is surrounded by a cladding. The tube and cladding are made of plastic.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Markus Kappel, Lothar Willmes, Hubertus Russert, Bernd Hoppe
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Publication number: 20200332993Abstract: A converter arrangement for light sources with high luminance is provided that includes an axially pivotable carrying wheel and a converter fixed on one side of the carrying wheel. The converter includes fluorescent materials that convert impinging light into light having a different wave length and emits the light having the different wavelength. The ratio of the total area of the converter arrangement to the area enclosed by the outer boundary curve of the converter is at least 3, preferably at least 3.5, particularly preferably at least 4.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Volker Hagemann, Bernd Hoppe, Guenter Weidmann, Seong-Won Kim
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Patent number: 10738988Abstract: A converter arrangement for light sources with high luminance is provided that includes an axially pivotable carrying wheel and a converter fixed on one side of the carrying wheel. The converter includes fluorescent materials that convert impinging light into light having a different wave length and emits the light having the different wavelength. The ratio of the total area of the converter arrangement to the area enclosed by the outer boundary curve of the converter is at least 3, preferably at least 3.5, particularly preferably at least 4.5.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Volker Hagemann, Bernd Hoppe, Guenter Weidmann, Seong-Won Kim
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Patent number: 10654741Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing glass tubes with a cross section of a noncircular form by reshaping. This method includes at least providing a glass tube, heating the glass tube, providing at least one reshaping tool, which has a forming body with a forming area for reshaping the heated glass tube, the forming body including at least one open-porous material, setting a gas pressure in the interior of the reshaping tool lower than 90 kPa, so that a negative pressure is produced on the forming area, and reshaping the heated glass tube by applying a compressive force perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the glass tube, the compressive force being generated by the reshaping tool and being applied to the outer surface of the glass tube, and the outer surface of the glass tube being fixed by the negative pressure.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Markus Riedl, Jonas Zeitler, Bernd Hoppe, Wolfgang Kreger, Gottfried Haas
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Patent number: 10654745Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a bonding glass which has improved water resistance and has a coefficient of thermal expansion ?(25-300) of from 14·10?6K?1 to 17·10?6K?1, comprising, in mol % on an oxide basis, 5-7 of B2O3, 10-14 of Al2O3, 36-43 of P2O5, 15-22 of Na2O, 12.5-20 of K2O, 2-6 of Bi2O3 and >0-6 of R oxide, where R oxide is an oxide selected from the group consisting of MnO2 and SiO2 and SnO2 and Ta2O5 and Nb2O5 and Fe2O3 and GeO2 and CaO. The bonding glass is free of PbO except for, at most, impurities. The bonding glass may have a glass transition temperature Tg of from 390° C. to 430° C. The present disclosure also relates to uses of this bonding glass.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Ina Mitra, Miriam Kunze, Linda Johanna Bartelt, Sabrina Wimmer, Frank Kroll, Hauke Esemann, Bernd Hoppe, Jörg Witte
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Patent number: 10556827Abstract: A product is provided that includes a volume-colored monolithic glass or glass ceramic element and to a method for producing same. The glass or glass ceramic element has a first region in which the coloration is modified so that light transmission of the first region differs from light transmission of a second, adjacent region. The light scattering in the region of modified coloration in the glass or glass ceramic remains the same as light scattering in the second, adjacent region with non-modified light transmission.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Bernd Hoppe, Martin Spier, Daniela Seiler, Evelin Weiss
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Publication number: 20190292094Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions that can be used for optical fibers and other systems that transmit light in the near-, mid- and/or far-ranges of the infrared spectrum, such as for example in the wavelength range of 1.5 ?m to 14 ?m. The optical fibers may comprise a light-transmitting chalcogenide core composition and a cladding composition. In some embodiments, the light-transmitting chalcogenide core composition has a refractive index n(core) and a coefficient of thermal expansion CTE(core), and the cladding composition has a refractive index n(cladding) and a coefficient of thermal expansion CTE(cladding), wherein n(cladding) is less than n(core) and in some embodiments wherein CTE(cladding) is less than CTE(core). In some embodiments, the chalcogenide glass core composition comprises a) sulfur and/or selenium, b) germanium, and c) gallium, indium, tin and/or one or more metal halides.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: SCHOTT CORPORATIONInventors: Bernd Schultheis, Nathan Carlie, Lothar Willmes, Simone Monika Ritter, Bernd Hoppe, William James
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Patent number: 10425994Abstract: A volume-colored monolithic glass ceramic cooking plate is provided. The plate includes a first zone in which the coloration of the glass ceramic differs from that of a second, adjacent zone, so that an absorption coefficient of the first zone is lower than the absorption coefficient of the second, adjacent zone and so that integral light transmission in the visible spectral range is greater in the first zone than the integral light transmission of the second, adjacent zone. The light scattering in the glass ceramic of the first zone differs from light scattering in the glass ceramic of the second zone by not more than 20 percentage points, preferably by not more than 5 percentage points.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Evelin Weiss, Bernd Hoppe, Martin Spier, Daniela Seiler
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Publication number: 20190084871Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a bonding glass which has improved water resistance and has a coefficient of thermal expansion ?(25-300) of from 14·10?6K?1 to 17·10?6K?1, comprising, in mol % on an oxide basis, 5-7 of B2O3, 10-14 of Al2O3, 36-43 of P2O5, 15-22 of Na2O, 12.5-20 of K2O, 2-6 of Bi2O3 and >0-6 of R oxide, where R oxide is an oxide selected from the group consisting of MnO2 and SiO2 and SnO2 and Ta2O5 and Nb2O5 and Fe2O3 and GeO2 and CaO. The bonding glass is free of PbO except for, at most, impurities. The bonding glass may have a glass transition temperature Tg of from 390° C. to 430° C. The present disclosure also relates to uses of this bonding glass.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Schott AGInventors: Ina Mitra, Miriam Kunze, Linda Johanna Bartelt, Sabrina Wimmer, Frank Kroll, Hauke Esemann, Bernd Hoppe, Jörg Witte
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Patent number: 10137165Abstract: The invention relates to the use of Factor H for the manufacture of a medicament to treat both chronic nephropathies which are not causally associated with proteinuria and chronic nephropathies which are causally associated with proteinuria. The invention also relates to large scale purification methods for Factor H.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: CSL BEHRING GMBHInventors: Peter Gronski, Christoph Licht, Bernd Hoppe, Peter Zipfel, Christine Skerka