Patents by Inventor Bernhard Reul

Bernhard Reul 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).

  • Publication number: 20130062119
    Abstract: A laminated glass pane with electrical function and connection element is described. The laminated glass pane has at least two individual glass panes, which are areally connected to at least one thermoplastic intermediate layer. The laminated glass pane further has at least one electrically functional layer, which is situated between the at least two individual glass panes at least one foil conductor, which is electrically conductively connected to the at least one electrically functional layer, and at least one housing with at least one electrical feed line and at least one electrical line connection. The at least two individual glass panes has at least one undercut glass pane, wherein the at least one foil conductor runs without an overhang around a lateral edge of the at least one undercut glass pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas Schlarb, Walter Schreiber, Bernhard Reul
  • Publication number: 20130052859
    Abstract: An electrical connecting element is described, designed to be welded or soldered onto an electrically conductive component of a window pane. A body of the electrically connecting element has an electrically conductive foil with a thickness between 1 and 500 ?m and intermediate means that serve as shock-absorbing means between a stiff section of the body and the window pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Stefan ZIEGLER, Mitja RATEICZAK, Bernhard REUL
  • Publication number: 20130043066
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pane with an electrical connection element, comprising: a substrate made of glass (1), an electrically conductive structure (2) with a layer thickness of 5 ?m to 40 ?m on a region of the substrate (1), a connection element (3), and a layer of a solder material (4), which electrically connects the connection element (3) to a portion (12) of the electrically conductive structure (2), wherein the connection element (3) contains at least an iron-nickel alloy or an iron-nickel-cobalt alloy, the connection element (3) is connected to the portion (12) of the electrically conductive structure (2) via a contact surface (11) over its entire surface, and the contact surface (11) has no corners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Harald Cholewa, Andreas Schlarb, Lothar Lesmeister, Mitja Rateiczak, Bernhard Reul, Lothar Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20120318566
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a disk with an electrical connection element, having a substrate with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, an electrically conductive structure on a region of the substrate, and a connection element with a second coefficient of thermal expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Bernhard Reul, Mitja Rateiczak, Stefan Ziegler, Andreas Schlarb
  • Publication number: 20120298416
    Abstract: A pane with an electrical connection element is described, including a substrate made of glass with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, an electrically conductive structure with a layer thickness of 5 ?m to 40 ?m on a region of the substrate, a connection element with a second coefficient of thermal expansion, and a layer of a solder material that connects the connection element electrically to subregions of the electrically conductive structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Stefan Ziegler, Mitja Rateiczak, Bernhard Reul, Andreas Schlarb
  • Patent number: 8277244
    Abstract: Electrical connecting element (2) that is designed to be welded or soldered onto an electrically conductive component (11) of a window pane, comprising an electrically conductive body (20), of which one section is designed to be welded or soldered onto the component (11) for its electrical connection, and of which another if section is designed to be connected in the direction of the outer side of the window pane, characterized in that the body comprises an electrically conductive foil (21) with a thickness between 1 and 500 ?m and intermediate means (5, 6) that serve as shock-absorbing means between the stiff section of the body of the connecting element and the window pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Stefan Ziegler, Mitja Rateiczak, Bernhard Reul
  • Patent number: 8278609
    Abstract: A method and device for soldering plural electrical connections, in which contact elements have to be soldered to soldered-connection faces positioned on a non-metallic glazing. In the method a soldering tool is used to emit a magnetic field towards the solder spots to heat these by induction. The magnitude and shape of the soldering tool is sized according to the surface area over which plural solder spots that have to be heated simultaneously in a soldering operation are situated. At the same time, the frequency of an AC voltage applied to the loop or to the coil is tailored to the connection geometry and set to 150 kHz at most. Thus, for a high work rate, markedly better heating of the components that need to be soldered is obtained because the low-frequency field lines have a greater depth of penetration into the bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventor: Bernhard Reul
  • Publication number: 20120205152
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pane, wherein an electrically conductive structure is applied to a glass pane. At least one intermediate layer is applied to the electrically conductive structure, at least one electrical connecting element is attached to the intermediate layer, and the intermediate layer, electrical connecting element and electrically conductive structure form at least one hollow space comprising an electrically conductive mass. A method for the production and use thereof is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: Mitja Rateiczak, Andreas Schlarb, Bernhard Reul, Stefan Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20120193341
    Abstract: A transparent disk that can be electrically heated over a large surface area, comprising: a large-surface-area, electrically conductive, transparent coating, which is applied to a transparent substrate, at least two bus ribbons, which are electrically connected to the electrically conductive transparent coating, at least one locally delimited region free from the coating, wherein at least one heating conductor having two poles is applied inside the free region, and wherein the first pole is electrically connected to the electrically conductive, transparent coating and the second pole is electrically connected to the electrically conductive, transparent coating or a bus ribbon. A method for the production of the disk is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Bernhard Reul, Dang Cuong Phan, Günther Schall, Susanne Lisinski, Jean-Luc Lesage
  • Publication number: 20120135631
    Abstract: Electrical connecting element (2) that is designed to be welded or soldered onto an electrically conductive component (11) of a window pane, comprising an electrically conductive body (20), of which one section is designed to be welded or soldered onto the component (11) for its electrical connection, and of which another if section is designed to be connected in the direction of the outer side of the window pane, characterized in that the body comprises an electrically conductive foil (21) with a thickness between 1 and 500 ?m and intermediate means (5, 6) that serve as shock-absorbing means between the stiff section of the body of the connecting element and the window pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Stefan ZIEGLER, Mitja RATEICZAK, Bernhard REUL
  • Publication number: 20120086614
    Abstract: A pane with electrically conductive structures is described. The pane has at least two electrically conductive structures galvanically separated from each other, a galvanic separating layer on at least on one of the electrically conductive structures, and an electrical conductor on the galvanic separating layer. The galvanic separating layer galvanically separates the conductor from at least one of the structures. A method for producing the pane and a use of the same are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Stefan Droste, Bernhard Reul, Andreas Schlarb, Gunther Vortmeier, Christoph Degen
  • Patent number: 8109782
    Abstract: Electrical connecting element (2) that is designed to be welded or soldered onto an electrically conductive component (11) of a window pane, comprising an electrically conductive body (20), of which one section is designed to be welded or soldered onto the component (11) for its electrical connection, and of which another if section is designed to be connected in the direction of the outer side of the window pane, characterized in that the body comprises an electrically conductive foil (21) with a thickness between 1 and 500 ?m and intermediate means (5, 6) that serve as shock-absorbing means between the stiff section of the body of the connecting element and the window pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Stefan Ziegler, Mitja Rateiczak, Bernhard Reul
  • Publication number: 20100319977
    Abstract: In a solder connection element (1), which is intended in particular for soldering onto a brittle substrate such as a window pane, for connecting an electrical component, which solder connection element has a body (2) provided for connecting purposes and at least two solder feet (3) protruding therefrom, a respective elastically deformable connecting part which is suitable for accommodating differences in thermal expansion extending between the body and the solder feet, more than two solder feet (3) are provided according to the invention for soldering onto a surface, wherein differences in thermal expansion and effects of mechanical forces from the component to be connected can be accommodated in at least two coordinate directions parallel to the substrate surface by way of resilience of the solder feet (3) and/or the connecting parts relative to the body (2) and/or the solder connection element (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Mitja Rateiczak, Bernhard Reul, Cornelia Retsch
  • Publication number: 20100294566
    Abstract: The present invention describes a windowpane, in particular vehicle windowpane, having at least one flat-conductor soldered connecting element for making electrical contact, which flat-conductor soldered connecting element has at least one electrically insulating plastic layer and one electrically conductive layer or foil which is connected to a soldering surface for soldering on a line connection which leads on from the windowpane, and which flat-conductor soldered connecting element is adhesively attached to an outer surface of the windowpane, characterized in that at least one electrically insulating buffer layer is provided between a section of the electrically conductive layer or foil with a freely exposed soldering surface, on the one hand, and the surface of the windowpane, on the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventor: Bernhard Reul
  • Publication number: 20100285685
    Abstract: Electrical connecting element (2) that is designed to be welded or soldered onto an electrically conductive component (11) of a window pane, comprising an electrically conductive body (20), of which one section is designed to be welded or soldered onto the component (11) for its electrical connection, and of which another if section is designed to be connected in the direction of the outer side of the window pane, characterized in that the body comprises an electrically conductive foil (21) with a thickness between 1 and 500 ?m and intermediate means (5, 6) that serve as shock-absorbing means between the stiff section of the body of the connecting element and the window pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Stefan Ziegler, Mitja Rateiczak, Bernhard Reul
  • Publication number: 20100243047
    Abstract: The invention related to an element capable of collecting light, comprising a first substrate (1) having a glass function and forming a protective cover and a second substrate (1?) forming a support plate, said substrates sandwiching between two electrode-forming conductive layers at least one functional layer (7) based on an absorber material for converting light energy into electrical energy. The second substrate (1?) is provided with at least one orifice which opens at the level of the conductive layers and within which a pressing member (19) passes, said pressing member being held within a cavity made in an electrical connection device (9) fastened to said substrate (1?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Hans-Werner Kuster, Bernhard Reul, Walter Stetter
  • Publication number: 20100200286
    Abstract: An electrode is produced on a rigid or flexible support substrate, including a grid network of very fine electrically-conductive lines with nodes and links, to produce a diffraction pattern, as much as possible in an arc shape, in the light transmitted and that results in an absence of high-level optical impacts. The grid network may in addition be produced without preferential direction with a number of three lines joining up at each node and/or with conductive sections extending in the shape of an arc or in wave form between the nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Martin Melcher, Michael Labrot, Benno Dunkmann, Philippe Letocart, Bernhard Reul, Karl-Josef Ollfisch, Marc Maurer
  • Patent number: 7520416
    Abstract: A transparent pane, in particular a glass pane, having at least one electroconducting, non-transparent contact surface placed on one of its surfaces, to connect it by soldering to a connection piece. In the region of the soldering location, the contact surface has at least one cutout via which the soldering filler metal is visible through the pane after the connection piece has been soldered to the contact surface. Such a configuration allows reliable visual verification of the soldering locations, even in cases in which the soldering location is incorporated within a composite glazing panel and has been soldered, if necessary by induction heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Richard Crumbach, Bernhard Reul, Andreas Sznerski
  • Patent number: 7414357
    Abstract: A window (1) with an opaque coating (2) comprising a surface region (3) which has opaque surface portions (5) and which is perforated by surface portions (4) allowing light to pass through and distributed over the surface. At least one flat electroluminescent light element (EL) with several layers, including a transparent electrode (8), is placed in at least some of the opaque surface portions (5) of the surface region (3), which element, after applying an electrical supply voltage to the side of the transparent electrode (8), radiates light through at least one of the faces of the window (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Bernhard Reul, Volkmar Offermann, Horst Mercks, Walter Goerenz, Dieter Linnhoefer
  • Publication number: 20080164248
    Abstract: A method and device for soldering plural electrical connections, in which contact elements have to be soldered to soldered-connection faces positioned on a non-metallic glazing. In the method a soldering tool is used to emit a magnetic field towards the solder spots to heat these by induction. The magnitude and shape of the soldering tool is sized according to the surface area over which plural solder spots that have to be heated simultaneously in a soldering operation are situated. At the same time, the frequency of an AC voltage applied to the loop or to the coil is tailored to the connection geometry and set to 150 kHz at most. Thus, for a high work rate, markedly better heating of the components that need to be soldered is obtained because the low-frequency field lines have a greater depth of penetration into the bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Bernhard Reul