Patents by Inventor Jean-Francois Ruelle

Jean-Francois Ruelle 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: 20110020621
    Abstract: A transparent glass-type substrate coated with a stack of thin layers, constituting for example a conductive substrate for solar cells, for example photovoltaic cells, and a method for producing such a substrate. The stack of thin layers includes an underlayer, a conductive layer of which has a thickness between 200 and 1000 nm, an upper layer of which has a refractive index between 1.45 and 2.2 and a thickness between 5 and 300 nm. The substrate and the stack are such that the haze is lower than 5%, the transmission value between 450 and 850 nm minus the haze being greater than 70% or even 74%. The substrates combine contradictory electrical and optical properties of: high electrical conductivity, the presence of a buffer layer, and high light and solar transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: AGC Glass Europe
    Inventors: Dominique Coster, Alain Schutz, Pieter Jacot, Jean-Francois Ruelle, Xavier Dognies, Daniel Decroupet