Patents by Inventor Josef Flatz

Josef Flatz 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: 5362514
    Abstract: A process is provided for producing an anode for an electrochemical cell, in particular a solar cell, on electrically conductive glass to which a layer of porous metal oxide is applied. The layer includes metal complexes of the porphyrin-phthalocyanine class and other dyestuffs and is then subjected to a heat treatment. A paste of highly dispersed metal oxide, in particular aluminum oxide and/or titanium oxide, is first produced with the addition of a dyestuff and an alcoholic solution, which acts as a binder, in a dry atmosphere. The paste produced in this way is applied as a thin layer to the glass plate coated with a transparent, electrically conductive layer, and the configuration including the glass plate and the pasty metal oxide layer is subjected to a heat treatment at temperatures below 300.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Flatz, Hermann W. Grunling, Jorg Sopka
  • Patent number: 4691082
    Abstract: Plastic cable with at least one electric conductor which is surrounded by a cable covering which, besides an insulating layer comprises several electrically conducting layers of a polymer material. At least one electrically conducting layer is made of a polymer, a mixed polymerizate or a polymer alloy which is meltable and/or soluble, and the electric conductivity of which can be adjusted to a defined value by a content of charge transfer complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Brown, Boveri & Cie AG
    Inventors: Josef Flatz, Gert Weddigen, Hans-Joachim Bohme, Fritz Grieser, Robert Huber, Hans Nienburg
  • Patent number: 4670511
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a conductive plastic of a defined conductivity by forming a polymer alloy. A polar or nonpolar insulating polymer and a polar or nonpolar conductive polymer are used for forming the polymer alloy. The two polymers are mixed together and they are homogeneously distributed within the polymer alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Brown, Boveri & CIE AG
    Inventors: Gert Weddigen, Josef Flatz, Conrad Schmidt, Robert Huber, Gerhard Pohsner