Patents by Inventor Guillaume Bignon

Guillaume Bignon 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: 8815340
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a heat treatment process by flame treatment of at least one thin film deposited on a glass substrate (1) running in the path of at least one flame treatment device comprising at least one burner (2), said treatment being able to increase the degree of crystallization of said at least one thin film and/or to increase the size of the crystallites in said at least one thin film, said process being characterized in that the maximum transient bending “b” is less than 150 mm and respects the following condition: b?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Guillaume Bignon, Nicolas Nadaud, Binh Tran, Se-Jong Kim
  • Publication number: 20140182339
    Abstract: A chamber for floating glass on a bath of molten metal including: an upstream wall, a downstream wall, and two lateral walls; rolls for driving the glass in a direction of travel from upstream to downstream; a lateral wall including a shoulder resulting in a reduction in width of the chamber in the direction of travel of the glass, the shoulder starting at a first point and terminating at a second point of the lateral wall, the first and second points being in contact with a surface of the bath of metal, the vertical plane passing through the first and second points forming with the vertical plane, parallel with the direction of travel of the glass and passing through the first point, an angle inside the chamber greater than 150°. Geometric features of the shoulder reduce lateral reciprocal motion of a ribbon emerging from the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Guillaume Bignon, Fabien Bouillet, Stephane Gasser
  • Publication number: 20110311732
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a heat treatment process by flame treatment of at least one thin film deposited on a glass substrate (1) running in the path of at least one flame treatment device comprising at least one burner (2), said treatment being able to increase the degree of crystallization of said at least one thin film and/or to increase the size of the crystallites in said at least one thin film, said process being characterized in that the maximum transient bending “b” is less than 150 mm and respects the following condition: b?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Guillaume Bignon, Nicolas Nadaud, Binh Tran, Se-Jong Kim