Patents by Inventor Markus Kress

Markus Kress 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: 20240035142
    Abstract: The invention relates to a diaphragm assembly of an aperture diaphragm for delimiting the coating region which is operative in the deposition of a layer and to a sputtering device which uses the diaphragm assembly. The diaphragm assembly comprises a main part (13) which has a passage (14) delimited by a passage edge. The aim of the invention is to design the diaphragm opening to be temporally and geometrically variable in situ. This is achieved in that the diaphragm assembly has at least one diaphragm plate (17, 17?, 17?) which is assembled on the main part (13) so as to be movable in front of the passage (14) and back. The diaphragm assembly additionally comprises a movement device which is operatively connected to the diaphragm plate (17, 17?, 17?) in order to carry out the movement thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Dzmitry HRUNSKI, Markus KRESS, Marco SEIBERT, Florian Peter SCHWARZ
  • Patent number: 11484173
    Abstract: Roller brushes for a cleaning and/or care devices, for example, for cleaning and/or care of floor coverings in the form of tiles, natural, artificial, blocks of concrete or wood, with a rotationally symmetrical cylinder which comprises a cylinder surface. At least one first plurality of a first bundle of bristles with a first brush and a second plurality of a second bundle of bristles with a second brush may be arranged on the cylinder surface. The first bundle of bristles may be different from the second bundle of bristles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventor: Markus Kress
  • Patent number: 11274364
    Abstract: Sputter devices comprise a vacuum supply, a gas supply, a substrate holding device, and sputter sources. Each sputter source is held by an individual source support, each of which has an individual reference point allocated on a sputter surface facing the deposition area, and each of which has a source distance to a source reference surface from the individual reference point. The sputter sources are spaced apart from each other, are arranged as a two-dimensional array opposite the deposition area, and extend along the source reference surface. The source reference surface is parallel to the substrate reference surface. At least one of the sputter sources has a source distance deviating from zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Solayer GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Portka, Markus Kress, Michael Geisler, Florian Peter Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20200129031
    Abstract: Roller brushes for a cleaning and/or care devices, for example, for cleaning and/or care of floor coverings in the form of tiles, natural, artificial, blocks of concrete or wood, with a rotationally symmetrical cylinder which comprises a cylinder surface. At least one first plurality of a first bundle of bristles with a first brush and a second plurality of a second bundle of bristles with a second brush may be arranged on the cylinder surface. The first bundle of bristles may be different from the second bundle of bristles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Markus Kress
  • Patent number: 10517385
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller brush, in particular for a cleaning and/or care device, preferably for floor covering in the form of tiles, natural, artificial, blocks of concrete or wood, with a rotationally symmetrical cylinder which comprises a cylinder surface. At least one first plurality of a first bundle of bristles with a first brush and a second plurality of a second bundle of bristles with a second brush is arranged on the cylinder surface. The invention is characterised in that the first bundle of bristles are different from the second bundle of bristles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Inventor: Markus Kress
  • Publication number: 20190003039
    Abstract: Sputter devices comprise a vacuum supply, a gas supply, a substrate holding device, and sputter sources. Each sputter source is held by an individual source support, each of which has an individual reference point allocated on a sputter surface facing the deposition area, and each of which has a source distance to a source reference surface from the individual reference point. The sputter sources are spaced apart from each other, are arranged as a two-dimensional array opposite the deposition area, and extend along the source reference surface. The source reference surface is parallel to the substrate reference surface. At least one of the sputter sources has a source distance deviating from zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Martin Portka, Markus Kress, Michael Geisler, Florian Peter Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20180146773
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller brush, in particular for a cleaning and/or care device, preferably for floor covering in the form of tiles, natural, artificial, blocks of concrete or wood, with a rotationally symmetrical cylinder which comprises a cylinder surface. At least one first plurality of a first bundle of bristles with a first brush and a second plurality of a second bundle of bristles with a second brush is arranged on the cylinder surface. The invention is characterised in that the first bundle of bristles are different from the second bundle of bristles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventor: Markus Kress
  • Patent number: 9617639
    Abstract: A surface-tensioned sapphire plate and a corresponding manufacturing process. The plate may include a planar sapphire substrate and at least one layer disposed on the surface of the substrate for tensing the substrate. The layer may include at least 50 wt.-% of aluminum oxide (Al2O3). The manufacturing process for producing of a sapphire plate may include providing a planar sapphire substrate, and coating at least one surface of the substrate with a layer tensing the substrate. The layer may include at least 50 wt.-% of aluminum oxide (Al2O3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Rudolf Beckmann, Markus Kress
  • Publication number: 20140349092
    Abstract: A surface-tensioned sapphire plate and a corresponding manufacturing process. The plate may include a planar sapphire substrate and at least one layer disposed on the surface of the substrate for tensing the substrate. The layer may include at least 50 wt.-% of aluminum oxide (Al2O3). The manufacturing process for producing of a sapphire plate may include providing a planar sapphire substrate, and coating at least one surface of the substrate with a layer tensing the substrate. The layer may include at least 50 wt.-% of aluminum oxide (Al2O3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Rudolf Beckmann, Markus Kress
  • Publication number: 20120285522
    Abstract: Method of depositing a TCO layer on a substrate, of depositing precursors of a solar cell and precursors of a solar cell are described. The methods includes DC sputtering a ZnO-containing transparent conductive oxide layer over the substrate, the substrate having a size of 1.4 m2 or above and texturing the ZnO-containing transparent conductive oxide layer, wherein the textured ZnO-containing transparent conductive oxide layer has a root means square roughness of 60 nm or below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Elisabeth Sommer, Philipp Obermeyer, Thomas Zilbauer, Inge Vermeir, Daniel Severin, Niels Kuhr, Markus Kress, Christof Kurthen, Ursula Ingeborg Schmidt, Stefan Klein, Susanne Buschbaum, Konrad Schwanitz, Christian Stoemmer, Tobias Stolley, Martin Rohde, Andreas Rembeck
  • Publication number: 20120255602
    Abstract: A method for controlling surface morphology of a transparent conductive oxide film (TCO) is provided. A substrate is provided as a basis for forming a solar cell. Onto the substrate, a seed layer is deposited. Then, the method includes depositing the transparent conductive oxide film (TCO) above the seed layer. The seed layer is adapted to control the surface morphology of the transparent conductive oxide film. The surface of the transparent conductive oxide film is etched in order to provide a front contact of the solar cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ursula Ingeborg SCHMIDT, Elisabeth SOMMER, Inge VERMEIR, Markus KRESS, Niels KUHR, Philipp OBERMEYER, Daniel SEVERIN, Anton SUPRITZ
  • Publication number: 20120088327
    Abstract: Methods for forming a thin film solar cell are provided. In one aspect, a thin film solar cell is formed by providing a back contact comprising a reflective material and an interface metal, applying a solder paste slurry that include a paste flux and metal particles to the interface metal and soldering at least one buss wire to back contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brand, Fei Wang, Inchu Chang, Kuo-Wei Liu, Markus Kress, Axel Straub
  • Publication number: 20120031479
    Abstract: Methods and devices for manufacturing a TCO layer of a thin film solar cell over a transparent substrate are described. Thereby, a first ZnO-containing layer is puttered with a sputtering method selected from the group consisting of: DC-sputtering, MF-sputtering, pulsed-sputtering, and combinations thereof, over the substrate with a first set of deposition parameters, a second ZnO-containing layer is puttered with a sputtering method selected from the group consisting of: DC-sputtering, MF-sputtering, pulsed-sputtering, and combinations thereof, over the first ZnO-containing layer with a second set of deposition parameters, at least one of the deposition parameters of the second set of deposition parameters is different from the corresponding parameter of the first set of deposition parameters; and the second ZnO-containing layer is textured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Markus KRESS, Tobias REPMANN, Daniel SEVERIN
  • Publication number: 20120012172
    Abstract: Methods of depositing a TCO layer on a substrate and precursor for solar cells are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ursula Ingeborg Schmidt, Elisabeth Sommer, Inge Vermeir, Markus Kress, Niels Kuhr, Philipp Obermeyer, Daniel Severin, Anton Supritz, Steven Verhaverbeke
  • Publication number: 20120012171
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a layer stack for a thin-film solar cell and layer stacks are provided. The layer stack includes a transparent substrate having a first refraction index, a transparent conductive oxide layer comprising ZnO, wherein the transparent conductive oxide layer is deposited over the substrate and has a second refraction index, and a further layer, which is deposited between the transparent conductive oxide layer and the substrate, wherein the layer has a third refraction index in a range from the first refraction index to the second refraction index, the layer comprises a metal, and wherein the layer composition has a metal content of 0.5 to 10 weight-%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ursula Ingeborg Schmidt, Elisabeth Sommer, Inge Vermeir, Markus Kress, Niels Kuhr, Philipp Obermeyer, Daniel Severin, Anton Supritz
  • Publication number: 20090272641
    Abstract: In the present invention a sub-stoichiometric ceramic ZnOx:Al target, with 0.3<x<1, is used for depositing a ZnO:Al layer in a reactive sputtering process. The process is carried out in an Ar/O2 atmosphere. The diagram depicts the deposition rate R depending on the oxygen flow in a sputtering process according to the present invention compared with a conventional sputter process using a stoichiometric ZnO target. The upper line x<1 indicates the deposition rate R when using the inventive target and process. The lower line x=1, for comparison only, indicates the deposition rate R when using a stoichiometric ceramic ZnO target. It can be seen from the diagram that both processes are quite stable as there are no steep slopes when varying the oxygen flow. However, the line x<1 is above the line x=1. Therefore, a working point P may be selected which has a higher deposition rate R than a corresponding working point P of a corresponding ceramic target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Joachim Mueller, Daniel Severin, Markus Kress
  • Publication number: 20070067170
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for identifying people, whereby a person is identified by comparing an electric signal derived from a sound produced by the person with a stored signal of the above kind. The invention is characterized in that the signals to be compared are derived from the subphonenic range of sound production. The signal especially refers to a quasiperiod of a vowel or a semivowel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventor: Markus Kress