Patents by Inventor David Le Bellac

David Le Bellac 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).

  • Patent number: 8470434
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent glass substrate, associated with a transparent electro-conductive layer capable of constituting an electrode of a photovoltaic cell and composed of a doped oxide, characterized by the interposition, between the glass substrate and the transparent electroconductive layer, of a mixed layer of one or more first nitride(s) or oxynitride(s), or oxide(s) or oxycarbide(s) having good adhesive properties with glass, and one or more second nitride(s) or oxynitride(s) or oxide(s) or oxycarbide(s) capable of constituting, possibly in the doped state, a transparent electroconductive layer; a method for producing this substrate; a photovoltaic cell, a tempered and/or curved glass, a shaped heating glass, a plasma screen and a flat lamp electrode having this substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Bernard Nghiem, Emilie Viasnoff, Bertrand Kuhn, David Le Bellac, Anne Durandeau, Fabrice Abbott, Eddy Royer, Georges Zagdoun, Olivier Dubois
  • Patent number: 8187714
    Abstract: Transparent substrate, especially made of glass, associated with an electrode, especially one suitable for solar cells, characterized in that the electrode comprises a first transparent electrically conducting layer composed of an undoped mineral oxide, said first layer being coated with a second transparent electrically conducting layer composed of the same mineral oxide, said mineral oxide however being doped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: David Le Bellac, Bertrand Kuhn
  • Publication number: 20120112224
    Abstract: A process for obtaining a structure having a textured external surface for an organic light-emitting device, which structure includes a mineral glass substrate having a surface which is provided with projections and depressions, the process including the deposition of an etching mask on the surface of the substrate and the etching of the surface of the substrate around the etching mask, and possible removal of the mask, wherein one of the steps of preparing the etching mask consists in forming a multitude of nodules randomly arranged on the surface of the substrate and made of a material possessing no affinity with the glass and wherein, after the etching step, the structure undergoes a moderating step in which the slopes of the projections of submicron height and width obtained by etching are moderated sufficiently to form the thus moderated textured external surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: David Le Bellac, Bernard Nghiem, François-Julien Vermersch, Sophie Besson
  • Publication number: 20120112225
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode device bearing a structure having a textured outer surface including a substrate made of inorganic glass that forms the support of the organic light-emitting diode device, includes: manufacturing the structure having a textured outer surface including: vapor depositing, onto the substrate made of inorganic glass, a first dielectric layer of at least 300 nm in thickness at a temperature greater than or equal to 100° C. so as to form protrusions, depositing onto the first layer a second smoothing dielectric layer, having a refractive index greater than or equal to that of the first layer, and made of an essentially amorphous material so as to sufficiently smooth the protrusions and to form the textured outer surface, and depositing, directly onto the smoothing layer, an electrode in the form of layer(s), so as to form a surface that conforms substantially to the smoothed outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: David Le Bellac, Bernard Nghiem, François-Julien Vermersch
  • Publication number: 20100313936
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent glass substrate, associated with a transparent electro-conductive layer capable of constituting an electrode of a photovoltaic cell and composed of a doped oxide, characterized by the interposition, between the glass substrate and the transparent electroconductive layer, of a mixed layer of one or more first nitride(s) or oxynitride(s), or oxide(s) or oxycarbide(s) having good adhesive properties with glass, and one or more second nitride(s) or oxynitride(s) or oxide(s) or oxycarbide(s) capable of constituting, possibly in the doped state, a transparent electroconductive layer; a method for producing this substrate; a photovoltaic cell, a tempered and/or curved glass, a shaped heating glass, a plasma screen and a flat lamp electrode having this substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Bernard Nghiem, Emilie Viasnoff, Bertrand Kuhn, David Le Bellac, Anne Durandeau, Fabrice Abbott, Eddy Royer, Georges Zagdoun, Olivier Dubois
  • Publication number: 20100209673
    Abstract: Surface texturing process, i.e. one for the formation of at least one array of features with a characteristic dimension on at least one surface portion of a substrate having a glass function, characterized in that a solution containing at least one precursor of a material to be deposited is dissociated, at atmospheric pressure, within a flame, said flame being directed toward said surface portion so as to deposit, in the form of a plurality of nodules based on said material, a mask, said mask of said material being subjected to an etching step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Emilie Viasnoff, Anne Durandeau, Bernard Nghiem, Herve Montigaud, David Le Bellac
  • Publication number: 20080314442
    Abstract: Transparent substrate, especially made of glass, associated with an electrode, especially one suitable for solar cells, characterized in that the electrode comprises a first transparent electrically conducting layer composed of an undoped mineral oxide, said first layer being coated with a second transparent electrically conducting layer composed of the same mineral oxide, said mineral oxide however being doped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: David Le Bellac, Bertrand Kuhn
  • Patent number: 6383642
    Abstract: A hydrophobic/oleophobic coating is formed on a substrate by a process, which comprises ionizing at least one precursor during deposition on the substrate, while during deposition the substrate temperature decreases from a temperature above 80° C. to a temperature below 80° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage
    Inventors: David Le Bellac, Claude Bernard