Patents by Inventor Martin Taplan
Martin Taplan 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).
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Patent number: 11160370Abstract: A glass-ceramic cooktop is provided that is made of glass-ceramic material with a flat upper side and an underside. The glass-ceramic material has transmittance values of greater than 0.1% in the visible light range in the total wavelength region greater than 420 nm, a light transmittance in the visible range of 0.8-2.5%, and a transmittance of 0-85% in the infrared at 1600 nm, and wherein the glass-ceramic material has high quartz mixed crystals as the prevalent crystal phase. The underside is flat, unstructured, and coplanar with the upper side.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Birgit Doerk, Evelin Weiss, Thomas Zenker, Ulf Hoffmann, Silke Knoche, Martin Taplan, Friedrich Siebers, Thomas Kraus, Lutz Klippe, Wolfgang Schmidbauer
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Patent number: 10228146Abstract: A cooking apparatus with a cooktop composed of a glass or glass-ceramic material is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a heating element and a lighting element that are disposed in the region below the underside of the cooktop. The heating element is applied to the underside of the cooktop indirectly by a pressing device or directly by pre-stressing one or a plurality of spring elements. The lighting element and the heating element are disposed on a common support section of the pressing device in such a way that they are adjustable with an oscillation of the cooktop.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas Zenker, Gerold Ohl, Bernd Woelfing, Ju-Young Uam, Martin Taplan
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Publication number: 20180325258Abstract: A glass-ceramic cooktop is provided that is made of glass-ceramic material with a flat upper side and an underside. The glass-ceramic material has transmittance values of greater than 0.1% in the visible light range in the total wavelength region greater than 420 nm, a light transmittance in the visible range of 0.8-2.5%, and a transmittance of 0-85% in the infrared at 1600 nm, and wherein the glass-ceramic material has high quartz mixed crystals as the prevalent crystal phase. The underside is flat, unstructured, and coplanar with the upper side.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Birgit DOERK, Evelin WEISS, Thomas ZENKER, Ulf HOFFMANN, Silke KNOCHE, Martin TAPLAN, Friedrich SIEBERS, Thomas KRAUS, Lutz KLIPPE, Wolfgang SCHMIDBAUER
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Patent number: 10028580Abstract: A glass-ceramic cooktop is provided that is made of glass-ceramic material with a flat upper side and an underside. The glass-ceramic material has transmittance values of greater than 0.1% in the visible light range in the total wavelength region greater than 420 nm, a light transmittance in the visible range of 0.8-2.5%, and a transmittance of 0-85% in the infrared at 1600 nm, and wherein the glass-ceramic material has high quartz mixed crystals as the prevalent crystal phase. The underside is flat, unstructured, and coplanar with the upper side.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Birgit Doerk, Evelin Weiss, Thomas Zenker, Ulf Hoffmann, Silke Knoche, Martin Taplan, Friedrich Siebers, Thomas Kraus, Lutz Klippe, Wolfgang Schmidbauer
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Publication number: 20170215231Abstract: A cooktop is provided that includes a glass ceramic cooking plate that exhibits enhanced mechanical strength and at the same time increased spectral transmittance in the infrared range. The glass ceramic cooking plate makes it possible to detect, through the glass ceramic cooking plate, the temperature of a piece of cookware placed thereon using an infrared sensor, and to perform an automated cooking process in response thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Birgit Doerk, Matthias Bockmeyer, Thomas Zenker, Evelin Weiss, Gerold Ohl, Martin Taplan, Roland Dudek, Sasha Backes
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Publication number: 20170215236Abstract: A cooktop is provided that has a glass ceramic cooking plate, at least one heater arranged below the glass ceramic cooking plate, and at least one touch sensor. The touch sensor is operable across the glass ceramic cooking plate for adjusting the power of the at least one heater. The glass ceramic cooking plate has an increased strength and is therefore produced with a reduced thickness, whereby the sensitivity and reliability of the touch sensor is significantly improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Birgit Doerk, Matthias Bockmeyer, Thomas Zenker, Evelin Weiss, Gerold Ohl, Martin Taplan, Roland Dudek, Sascha Backes
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Patent number: 9483983Abstract: A display device in particular for cooktops is provide that has a glass ceramic with a front side and a back side and a lamp arranged in the area of the back side. The display device further includes an optical compensation filter arranged between the front side and the lamp so as to implement any color impressions easily and inexpensively and in a preselectable manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Evelin Weiss, Gerold Ohl, Thomas Zenker, Martin Taplan
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Publication number: 20160227609Abstract: A cooktop system with a glass or glass-ceramic cooktop system is provided. The cooktop system has a heating area that has a heating element thermally connected thereto and a limiter system so that the cooktop is suitable for a standard cooking operation at a first limit and suitable for a non-standard cooking operation at a second limit different from the first limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2015Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Martin Taplan, Sascha Backes, Silke Heinrich, Karen J. Wegert, Theodore A. Wegert
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Patent number: 9371969Abstract: A display device is provided that is a transparent, colored glass-ceramic with a front-side indication side, a rear-side illumination side, and at least one luminous element disposed in the region of the illumination side. The display device further includes a color compensation filter and a at least partially transparent intermediate layer between the color compensation filter and the glass-ceramic.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas Zenker, Martin Taplan, Gerold Ohl, Silke Heinrich
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Patent number: 9170026Abstract: A heating element is provided that has at least one flat electrical heating device to heat at least one spatial region found on one side of the heating device. The heating device has a contact configured to connect to a power supply and control device of a baking and roasting oven. The contact is configured to alternately connect to an electronic mechanism external to the baking and roasting oven. In addition, an arrangement of the heating element with an electronic mechanism external to the baking and roasting oven is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Martin Taplan, Sascha Backes
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Patent number: 9156727Abstract: A transparent, dyed cooktop is provided that has improved color display capability. The cooktop is made of a glass ceramic having high quartz mixed crystals as the predominant crystal phase, wherein the glass ceramic comprises none of the chemical refining agents arsenic oxide and/or antimony oxide, except for inevitable trace amounts. The glass ceramic has transmission values of greater than 0.1% in the range of visible light over the entire wavelength range greater than 450 nm, light transmission in the visible range of 0.8 to 5%, and transmission in the infrared at 1600 nm of 45-85%. The glass ceramic also includes a display apparatus that has a display device which is designed to display different operating conditions with different colors and/or symbols.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Friedrich Siebers, Thomas Zenker, Helga Goetz, Martin Taplan
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Publication number: 20150021312Abstract: A cooking apparatus with a cooktop composed of a glass or glass-ceramic material is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a heating element and a lighting element that are disposed in the region below the underside of the cooktop. The heating element is applied to the underside of the cooktop indirectly by a pressing device or directly by pre-stressing one or a plurality of spring elements. The lighting element and the heating element are disposed on a common support section of the pressing device in such a way that they are adjustable with an oscillation of the cooktop.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Thomas Zenker, Gerold Ohl, Bernd Woelfing, Ju-Young Uam, Martin Taplan
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Patent number: 8794226Abstract: An oven muffle that has at least two wall elements adjoining each other, which delimit at least some regions of an interior space that is used as a cooking chamber. The wall elements are of a glass or a glass ceramic and the adjacent wall elements are oriented at an angle with respect to one another. In an oven muffle of this invention, along with ease of cleaning, a simple structural design is achieved if the wall elements are integrally joined to one another and constitute one formed part.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Wolfgang Schmidbauer, Sascha Backes, Helga Götz, Thomas Zenker, Martin Taplan
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Publication number: 20140146538Abstract: A display device is provided that is a transparent, colored glass-ceramic with a front-side indication side, a rear-side illumination side, and at least one luminous element disposed in the region of the illumination side. The display device further includes a color compensation filter and a at least partially transparent intermediate layer between the color compensation filter and the glass-ceramic.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas Zenker, Martin Taplan, Gerold Ohl, Silke Heinrich
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Patent number: 8650907Abstract: The method produces a reshaped glass-ceramic article by forced reshaping of a flat green glass part during a ceramicizing process with temporarily lowered viscosity due to crystallization heat. To perform the forced reshaping economically the forced reshaping takes place in a continuous oven for ceramicizing and in an oven section in which the viscosity of the green glass part is temporarily lowered as a result of crystallization heat. An apparatus for performing the process is provided in the continuous oven including different active reshaping devices and/or a hollow mold. The method produces glass-ceramic articles with undamaged surfaces corresponding to surfaces produced during the making of the green glass part (smooth or structured, e.g. knobbed).Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Martin Taplan, Herwig Scheidler, Ioannis Kosmas, Friedrich-Georg Schroeder, Wolfgang Schmidbauer, Torsten Gabelmann, Dieter Schoenig
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Publication number: 20140009370Abstract: A display device in particular for cooktops is provide that has a glass ceramic with a front side and a back side and a lamp arranged in the area of the back side. The display device further includes an optical compensation filter arranged between the front side and the lamp so as to implement any color impressions easily and inexpensively and in a preselectable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Evelin Weiss, Gerold Ohl, Thomas Zenker, Martin Taplan
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Publication number: 20130140293Abstract: A glass-ceramic cooktop is provided that is made of glass-ceramic material with a flat upper side and an underside. The glass-ceramic material has transmittance values of greater than 0.1% in the visible light range in the total wavelength region greater than 420 nm, a light transmittance in the visible range of 0.8-2.5%, and a transmittance of 0-85% in the infrared at 1600 nm, and wherein the glass-ceramic material has high quartz mixed crystals as the prevalent crystal phase. The underside is flat, unstructured, and coplanar with the upper side.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Birgit DOERK, Evelin WEISS, Thomas ZENKER, Ulf HOFFMANN, Silke KNOCHE, Martin TAPLAN, Friedrich SIEBERS, Thomas KRAUS, Lutz KLIPPE, Wolfgang SCHMIDBAUER
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Patent number: 8450653Abstract: An oven muffle having a receiving space, at least some regions of which are delimited by wall elements, in which at least one of the wall elements is permeable to IR radiation or has a region that is permeable to IR radiation. In the oven muffle, the cooking performance is successfully improved while also providing an easily cleanable interior because a reflecting element that reflects IR radiation is positioned in the region of the outer surface of the wall element on a side oriented away from the receiving space.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Martin Taplan, Thomas Zenker, Wolfgang Schmidbauer, Sascha Backes, Helga Goetz
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Publication number: 20120067865Abstract: A transparent, dyed cooktop is provided that has improved color display capability. The cooktop is made of a glass ceramic having high quartz mixed crystals as the predominant crystal phase, wherein the glass ceramic comprises none of the chemical refining agents arsenic oxide and/or antimony oxide, except for inevitable trace amounts. The glass ceramic has transmission values of greater than 0.1% in the range of visible light over the entire wavelength range greater than 450 nm, light transmission in the visible range of 0.8 to 5%, and transmission in the infrared at 1600 nm of 45-85%. The glass ceramic also includes a display apparatus that has a display device which is designed to display different operating conditions with different colours and/or symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2010Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventors: Friedrich Siebers, Thomas Zenker, Helga Goetz, Martin Taplan
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Patent number: RE48575Abstract: A display device in particular for cooktops is provide that has a glass ceramic with a front side and a back side and a lamp arranged in the area of the back side. The display device further includes an optical compensation filter arranged between the front side and the lamp so as to implement any color impressions easily and inexpensively and in a preselectable manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Evelin Weiss, Gerold Ohl, Thomas Zenker, Martin Taplan