Patents by Inventor Heinz Kunert

Heinz Kunert 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: 6589613
    Abstract: An insulating glass element for glazing a building, comprising a clear glass pane and a glass pane arrangement which is arranged at a distance from the former, is predominantly absorptive in the non-visible region of the solar radiation spectrum and has a high thermal storage capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5815997
    Abstract: An automobile glazing pane, ready for installation, is pre-equipped with a mounting frame of an elastomer. The mounting frame is disposed only on the side of the glass pane facing towards the fixing flange of the window frame, without engaging around the edge of the glass pane and is bonded to the glass pane. It possesses a mounting groove for the clamped fixing of the pre-equipped glass pane to the fixing flange of the window pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventors: Gerd Cornils, Rolf Kotte, Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5533314
    Abstract: The insulating glazing unit in accordance with the invention consists in its simplest form of two panes 1 and 2 which are joined together by means of a shaped body 13 constituted by a textile spacer fabric. By means of its high elasticity, flexurally rigid rib fibers 16 the textile spacer fabric renders possible a force transmitting coupling of the panes and the formation of a dimensionally stable and self-supporting sheet body. This sheet body is suitable in particular for the production of frameless window lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5519979
    Abstract: A motor vehicle glazing (1) prepared for installation according to the adhesive process is provided with a profiled spacer (8) produced by extrusion of an extrudable polymer directly onto glazing (1) and subsequent setting. During installation of glazing (1) in the window opening of the motor vehicle body, profiled spacer (8) acts as an intermediate member between glazing (1) and assembly adhesive extrudate (13). Profiled spacer (8) is provided along its outer periphery with a lip portion (10) projecting beyond peripheral area (3) of glazing (1). In the installed position of glazing (1), lip portion (10) rests against the window frame flange (4) running parallel to peripheral area (3) of glazing (1) and acts, upon insertion of the glazing during the setting process of assembly adhesive (13), as a support and centering element for glazing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage
    Inventors: Heinz Kunert, Gerd Cornils, Heinrich Schnitter
  • Patent number: 5514428
    Abstract: The glazing element in accordance with the invention comprises in its simplest form a pane and a textile spacer fabric arranged at the covering surface of the pane. The spacer fabric comprises at least two covering layers, which are connected together by rib fibers extending approximately transversely in relation to the panes. The glazing element in accordance with the invention possesses thermal insulating properties and may be utilized as safety glass, more particularly for roofs or overhead glazing arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5398446
    Abstract: A window, arranged in a frame, rotatable by 180.degree. around a central axis, having at least one casement which can be opened in a conventional manner. The window includes an insulating glass pane made of a colorless glass pane and a selective absorption pane, a frame enclosing the insulating glass pane on all sides, a hinge arranged in the area of one lateral edge for the opening of the casement, a reversing hinge arranged in a vertical or horizontal central axis on the frame for the 180.degree. rotation of the insulating glass pane, a structurally fixed blind frame and an encircling gasket between the structurally fixed blind frame and the frame for the insulating glass pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5391416
    Abstract: An automobile glass pane prepared for adhesive bonding to the fastening flange of a window frame comprises a profiled spacer having a web aligned approximately perpendicular to the glass pane. Adjacent the web is a bead of a plastic adhesive having a high adhesion with respect to the spacer and with respect to the fastening flange. The bead of plastic adhesive, moreover, is of relatively high shear strength and is arranged on the side directed towards the border of the pane. Arranged on the other side of the web is a bead of a reaction adhesive composition. This web has a height corresponding to the minimum distance of the glass pane from the fastening flange. The bead of plastic adhesive serves to fix the glass pane in its installed position during the hardening phase of the reaction adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: St. Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5384995
    Abstract: A motor vehicle glazing (1) prepared for installation according to the adhesive process is provided with a profiled spacer (8) produced by extrusion of an extrudable polymer directly onto glazing (1) and subsequent setting. During installation of glazing (1) in the window opening of the motor vehicle body, profiled spacer (8) acts as an intermediate member between glazing (1) and assembly adhesive extrudate (13). Profiled spacer (8) is provided along its outer periphery with a lip portion (10) projecting beyond peripheral area (3) of glazing (1). In the installed position of glazing (1), lip portion (10) rest against the window frame flange (4) running parallel to peripheral area (3) of glazing (1) and acts, upon insertion of the glazing during the setting process of assembly adhesive (13), as a support and centering element for glazing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Assignee: St. Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventors: Heinz Kunert, Gerd Cornils, Heinrich Schnitter
  • Patent number: 5336349
    Abstract: The method of and apparatus for equipping a surface of an article with a profiled gasket, bead or a profiled frame, after appropriate pretreatment of the surface. A thermoplastic elastomer is supplied via an extruder and a heated pressure hose to a heated extrusion nozzle. The nozzle is guided by a robot, and the elastomer is extruded and laid by means of the extrusion nozzle onto the surface. The gasket is applied, for example, to an automobile glazing as a profiled frame along its border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventors: Gerd Cornils, Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5309677
    Abstract: An electric motor driven vehicle window assembly wherein an electric motor is mounted in an aperture formed in a portion of a transparent window pane. The electric motor operates in conjunction with a simple transmission element such as a threaded rod or a toothed rack and when energized, causes the window to be raised or lowered. The invention provides a motor driven window which is more compact than conventional motor driven vehicle windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventors: Heinz Kunert, Hans Ohlenforst
  • Patent number: 5128181
    Abstract: The element according to the invention consists in a preferred embodiment of two panes (10, 12) assembled in the manner of a composite or laminate pane, a thermally insulating layer, for example an air or inert gas layer, formed between said panes, and a sheet-like photovoltaic unit (18) which is arranged between the one pane (10) and the thermally insulating layer and which can consist of a transparent semiconductor material. By this configuration of the element the solar energy is optimally available as light and thermal energy in accordance with its spectral distribution and after conversion by the photovoltaic element also as electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5108526
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for extruding a polymer profile directly onto the surface of a glass plate and particularly along a peripheral edge thereof. The extruded polymer profile is provided with a sealing and centering lip located on and projecting over the circumferential peripheral surface of the glass plate. The extrusion die has at least one supply channel for the polymer to be extruded. One supply channel or portion thereof leads the polymer material substantially to the portion of the die orifice directed toward the center of the plate. The other supply channel essentially supplies the portion of the orifice directed toward the outside. The supply channel may be provided with a shutoff device which regulates the volume flow. The regulation of the shutoff device takes place as a function of the radius of curvature (R) of the path covered by the extrusion die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventors: Gerd Cornils, Werner Siegel, Heinz Kunert, Ludwig Schwartz
  • Patent number: 5095669
    Abstract: A motor vehicle glazing prepared for installation is provided with one or more profiled spacers produced by extrusion of an extrudable polymer directly onto the glazing. A first spacer is provided along its outer periphery with an lip portion projecting beyond the peripheral area of the glazing. In the installed position of the glazing the lip portion rests against the window frame flange running parallel to the peripheral area of the glazing and acts, upon insertion of the glazing and during the setting process of the assembly adhesive, as a support and centering element for the glazing. Adjacent the first profiled spacer, and attached to the glazing is the assembly adhesive bead. Optionally, a second spacer is provided also adjacent the adhesive bead for retaining the adhesive bead between the first and second spacers and for adding support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventors: Heinz Kunert, Gerd Cornils, Heinrich Schnitter
  • Patent number: 5092101
    Abstract: A wall or window element and/or wall element beneath the window is provided having an insulation layer disposed between two panels. The insulation layer is formed of a material which reduces convective heat transfer and thermal radiation. The insulation layer and the panels are permeable by the solar radiation spectrum, and the external panel which bounds the insulation layer on the side of the solar radiation is an absorptive pane which has a maximally high absorptivity for the non-visible portion of the solar radiation spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5085021
    Abstract: A glass pane is equipped with an elastically resilient sealing profile. For fixing the sealing profile on the glass pane, a profile strand is glued to the glass pane and a sealing profile is secured to this strand. The profile strand consists of a hardened adhesive compound extruded directly onto the glass pane or onto a frame-like coating disposed on the glass pane. The profile strand has a channel-shaped cross-section and possesses lateral flanges which are equipped with inwardly oriented projections and thus form an insertion groove with back-cut zones for securing a push-in portion connected with the sealing portion of the sealing profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5062248
    Abstract: An automobile glass pane, intended for glueing to the fixing web of the window frame of an automobile body, is furnished along its edge with a profile strand of a hardened adhesive compound. This profile strand forms a no longer plastically deformable intermediate body between the glass pane and the adhesive strand. The profile strand is substantially of U-section and possesses anchorage projections. These anchorage projections produce a form-fitting and force-transmitting connection between the adhesive strand and the profile strand. They can additionally serve for the clamping fixing of different lugs, clips or profile strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: 5057354
    Abstract: A motor vehicle glazing prepared for bonding with the window frame of a motor vehicle body is provided with a profile bead and a single tear-away cord. The profile bead serves as an intermediate body between the glazing surface and an assembly adhesive. In the area coming in contact with the assembly adhesive the width of the profile bead is selected to inhibit the lateral overflow of the assembly adhesive over the profile bead during installation. A tear-away cord is placed inside the profile bead or in its immediate vicinity to shear through the profile bead when removing glazing. The profile bead itself or the adhesive bonding of the profile bead to the glazing surface is shaped so that the width of the section of profile bead to be sheared through by the tear-away cord is substantially smaller than the width of the area coming in contact with the assembly adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventors: Heinz Kunert, Hans Ohlenforst, Gerd Cornils
  • Patent number: 5057265
    Abstract: A method for producing a spacer for a windshield bracket including laying a window glazing (1) on a support frame (15), and guiding an extrusion head along the glazing edge. The extrusion head has an extrusion die (16) with a calibrated opening (18) corresponding to the desired cross-section of the spacer. The extrudable polymer compound for the spacer is fed to the extrusion die (16) by a pipe (19) connected to a feeding and pumping mechanism. The extrusion die (16) is then removed from the glazing (1). The transition zone of the profiled spacer 8 is then subjected to additional compression by operation of upper and lower rams (23, 25), the rams exhibiting forming areas corresponding to the lower and upper forms of the spacer, respectively. Release films 33 and 34 are laid on forming areas of the lower ram (23) and the upper ram (25) prior to the compression molding process. After the compression molding, film pieces 33 and 34 adhere to the polymer material, but do not bond thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventors: Heinz Kunert, Gerd Cornils, Heinrich Schnitter
  • Patent number: 4944984
    Abstract: A window glass having shaped metallic brackets with a U-shaped cross section which are force-fittingly connected by clamping to the edge areas of the glass, wherein the window glass is provide on at least one surface on the edge area overlapped by the shaped metallic bracket with a raised layer which securely adheres to the glass surface and which is made of a highly elastic polymer which produces a large-surface force connection to the abutting shaped shank with partial elastic deformation. The window glass avoids the use of adhesives between the shaped brackets and glass surface and is suitable for industrial production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Recherche
    Inventor: Heinz Kunert
  • Patent number: RE37395
    Abstract: A motor vehicle glazing (1) prepared for installation according to the adhesive process is provided with a profiled spacer (8) produced by extrusion of an extrudable polymer directly onto glazing (1) and subsequent setting. During installation of glazing (1) in the window opening of the motor vehicle body, profiled spacer (8) acts as an intermediate member between glazing (1) and assembly adhesive extrudate (13). Profiled spacer (8) is provided along its outer periphery with a lip portion (10) projecting beyond peripheral area (3) of glazing (1). In the installed position of glazing (1), lip portion (10) rests against the window frame flange (4) running parallel to peripheral area (3) of glazing (1) and acts, upon insertion of the glazing during the setting process of assembly adhesive (13), as a support and centering element for glazing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Heinz Kunert, Gerd Cornils, Heinrich Schnitter