Patents by Inventor Patrick Weber

Patrick Weber 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: 20210207759
    Abstract: A plug-in coupling for connecting a first double-walled vacuum-insulated cryogenic line to a second. The plug-in coupling has a coupling plug and a coupling socket. The coupling plug can be plugged into the coupling socket, these being retained in a plugged-together state by fixing means. A guide column is arranged on the coupling plug or the coupling socket. The guide column has arranged on it elastic means which, in the assembled state of the plug-in coupling, are subjected to stressing and which subject the coupling plug and/or coupling socket to an elastic force which strives to release the coupling plug and coupling socket from one another as soon as the fixing means no longer hold the coupling plug and coupling socket together. The elastic energy stored in the elastic means ensures that, in the event of an emergency, the coupling plug and coupling socket are quickly released from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Holger SCHULZ, Patrick WEBER
  • Patent number: 11052640
    Abstract: A laminated glass pane having a sensor assembly is presented. According to one aspect, the laminated glass pane has a first and a second glass layer that are connected via a combination film, and the sensor assembly is at least partially situated between the first and the second glass layers. According to another aspect, the sensor assembly includes a receiver antenna for supplying electromagnetic power to the sensor assembly and a transmitter antenna for transmitting information of the sensor assembly to a receiver unit situated outside the laminated glass pane. The sensor assembly includes a sensor and an evaluation unit that evaluates information from the sensor for transmission by the transmitter antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Klaus Schmalbuch, Stefan Droste, Christian Effertz, Patrick Weber
  • Patent number: 11054681
    Abstract: A device having a functional element having electrically controllable optical properties, includes an electrical energy source having an output voltage U, a functional element having electrically controllable optical properties, and at least two supply lines, by means of which the electrical energy source and the functional element are connected. The output voltage U has an alternating voltage having a frequency f from 40 Hz to 210 Hz, a maximum amplitude Umax from 24 V to 100 V, and a slope in the range of the output voltage U between ?80% Umax and 80% Umax from 0.05*Umax/100 ?s to 0.1*Umax/100 ?s and in the range of the output voltage U between 80% Umax and ?80% Umax from ?0.05*Umax/100 ?s to ?0.1*Umax/100 ?s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Florian Manz, Patrick Weber, Christian Effertz, Thorsten Dragas
  • Publication number: 20210122383
    Abstract: A computer-implemented simulation method is described for testing a driving program for the at least partial autonomous guidance of a test vehicle. The test vehicle is moved by the driving program on a simulated road. A second vehicle in the simulation method is moved as a function of control commands of a user. The test vehicle and the second vehicle are displayed to the user including the road, data relating to the guidance of the test vehicle being collected and stored during the simulation method. A system is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Boliang Yi, Patrick Weber
  • Patent number: 10949004
    Abstract: A lighting laminated glazing includes a first transparent glazing and a second glazing; an intermediate thermoplastic material layer; an electrically conductive layer between the first and second glazings; a capacitive touch sensitive device including a touch sensitive structure formed in the electrically conductive coating, having a ground electrode and a touch electrode having a touch sensitive area; a light emitting diode on the electrically conductive layer to indicate the touch sensitive area, the diode having a light emitting surface facing the touch sensitive area, and having a first and a second terminal electrically connected to, respectively, the ground electrode and the touch sensitive area; and a lighting device controlled by the touch sensitive device, the lighting device including a lighting element distinct from the diode, the lighting element being disposed between the first and the second glazing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Stefan Droste, Pascal Bauerle
  • Publication number: 20210060473
    Abstract: A method for providing an air stream for a system, in particular a plant, includes the following steps: a. specifying an air requirement and a required degree of air purity of the system having the plant, and storing the values in a memory unit of a control module; b. cleaning the air stream in a filter module comprising filter elements; c. providing the air stream through the filter module to air inlets or air outlets of the system as a provided air stream; d. detecting a magnitude of the provided air stream and of an actual degree of air purity by a sensor system; e. comparing a magnitude of the provided air stream and of the actual degree of air purity to the stored values; and g. calculating a performance characteristic of the filter module. A volume of the provided air influences the performance characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Caesar, Thomas Schroth, Karsten Schulz, Sandra Sell-Poelloth, Renate Tapper, Patrick Weber
  • Publication number: 20210060474
    Abstract: A method for predicting a service life of a filter element of a filter module in a system, the filter element serving to clean air, includes the steps of: a) retrieving characterization data of the system from a database; b) retrieving characterization data of the filter element from a database; c) retrieving measurement data of the system detected in the system by sensor technology; d) retrieving measurement data of the filter element detected by the sensor technology in the filter module; e) retrieving measurement data of air to be cleaned; and f) creating a data model from the data and determining the service life of the filter element to be expected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Caesar, Thomas Schroth, Karsten Schulz, Sandra Sell-Poelloth, Renate Tapper, Patrick Weber
  • Patent number: 10836141
    Abstract: A method for producing a curved composite glass panel with an embedded curved coherent display, the composite glass panel having first and second curved glass layers, wherein the display has a display layer and an electronics layer. The display layer has a first layer thickness and the electronics layer has a second layer thickness. A first intermediate film is arranged between the electronics layer and the second glass layer. A second intermediate film is arranged adjacent the electronics layer and the first intermediate film. A third intermediate film is arranged adjacent the display layer. The composite glass panel has a first bonding layer between the first glass layer and the third intermediate film and between the first glass layer and the display layer, and has a second bonding layer between the second glass layer and the first intermediate film and between the second glass layer and the second intermediate film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Ali-Osman Kizmaz, Sara Borhani Haghighi
  • Patent number: 10827628
    Abstract: An assembly for connecting a flat body to a voltage supply is presented. The assembly includes a ribbon cable, a control unit, and a connection element. A voltage supply supplies an electric voltage to the control unit. The flat body includes an electrically conductive structure, and a switching surface for generating a control signal that is received by the control unit. According to one aspect, the control unit is embedded in an insulating material between the flat body and the connection element. Also presented is a flat body with such an assembly, as well as a method for producing such an assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Patrick Weber
  • Patent number: 10775948
    Abstract: A touch control glazing includes a first transparent glazing; an electrically conductive layer and a capacitive touch sensitive device including a touch sensitive structure formed in the electrically conductive layer, the touch sensitive structure including a ground electrode and a touch electrode having a touch sensitive area; and a light emitting diode arranged on the electrically conductive layer to indicate the touch sensitive area, the light emitting diode having a light emitting surface facing at least partially the touch sensitive area, the light emitting diode having a first terminal being an first electrode zone electrically connected to the ground electrode and a second terminal being a second electrode zone electrically connected to the touch sensitive area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Stefan Droste, Pascal Bauerle
  • Patent number: 10743375
    Abstract: A pane arrangement directed to a heatable composite pane having a capacitive switching region, including a substrate and a cover pane is disclosed. At least one intermediate layer is arranged between the substrate and the cover pane. A carrier film having an electrically conductive layer is arranged between the substrate and the intermediate layer or between the cover pane and the first intermediate layer. The electrically conductive layer forms a capacitive switching region having a contact region, a supply line region, and a connection region. The supply line region electrically connects the contact region to the connection region that can be electrically connected to a sensor electronics system. A heating wire and at least two busbars are arranged between the substrate and the cover pane, wherein one end of the heating wire is electrically connected to one of the busbars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Marcel Klein, Stefan Droste, Patrick Weber
  • Publication number: 20200170707
    Abstract: A medical endodevice (1) for an intervention inside a human or animal body comprises an elongated liaising structure (2) having a distal end arrangeable inside a body of the human or animal being and a proximal end arrangeable outside the body while the distal end is inside the body. The endodevice has an intervention tool arranged to manipulate a target tissue (51) inside the human or animal body. The intervention tool is arranged at the distal end (23) of the liaising structure (2). The endodevice (1) further comprises a positioning unit (3) having a moving formation (32) arranged to dislocate the intervention tool relative to the target tissue (51), and an anchoring formation arranged to fix the moving formation (32) to a fixing tissue (51) inside the human or animal body such that the target tissue (51) is positioned in a workspace of the intervention tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Manuela EUGSTER, Patrick WEBER, Georg RAUTER
  • Publication number: 20200156351
    Abstract: A laminated glass pane having a first glass layer and a second glass layer, wherein at least one first electrically conducting structure and a second electrically conducting structure are arranged between the first glass layer and the second glass layer, wherein the first electrically conducting structure and the second electrically conducting structure are arranged spaced apart from one another, wherein the first electrically conducting structure at least partially overlaps the second electrically conducting structure in a perpendicular orientation relative to the first glass layer, wherein the first electrically conducting structure is associated with a first electrical element, wherein the first electrical element is a capacitive sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick WEBER, Bastian KLAUSS, Michael ZEISS, Christian EFFERTZ
  • Publication number: 20200156350
    Abstract: A method for producing a curved composite glass panel with an embedded curved coherent display, the composite glass panel having first and second curved glass layers, wherein the display has a display layer and an electronics layer. The display layer has a first layer thickness and the electronics layer has a second layer thickness. A first intermediate film is arranged between the electronics layer and the second glass layer. A second intermediate film is arranged adjacent the electronics layer and the first intermediate film. A third intermediate film is arranged adjacent the display layer. The composite glass panel has a first bonding layer between the first glass layer and the third intermediate film and between the first glass layer and the display layer, and has a second bonding layer between the second glass layer and the first intermediate film and between the second glass layer and the second intermediate film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick WEBER, Ali-Osman KIZMAZ, Sara BORHANI HAGHIGHI
  • Publication number: 20200133042
    Abstract: A device having a functional element having electrically controllable optical properties, includes an electrical energy source having an output voltage U, a functional element having electrically controllable optical properties, and at least two supply lines, by means of which the electrical energy source and the functional element are connected. The output voltage U has an alternating voltage having a frequency f from 40 Hz to 210 Hz, a maximum amplitude Umax from 24 V to 100 V, and a slope in the range of the output voltage U between ?80% Umax and 80% Umax from 0.05*Umax/100 ?s to 0.1*Umax/100 ?s and in the range of the output voltage U between 80% Umax and ?80% Umax from ?0.05*Umax/100 ?s to ?0.1*Umax/100 ?s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Florian MANZ, Patrick WEBER, Christian EFFERTZ, Thorsten DRAGAS
  • Patent number: 10638549
    Abstract: An electrically heatable pane with a switch region is presented. The pane has a transparent substrate, with at least one transparent electrically conductive layer that is, at least partially, arranged on a surface of the pane. At least one separating line electrically divides the layer into a heating region and a switch region. At least two busbars are provided for connection to a voltage source. The busbars being connected to the heating region, form a current path between the busbars. A heating current can therefore flow through the current path. Furthermore, the switch region has at least one contact region, a feed line region, and a connection region, where the connection region can be connected to sensor electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Hans-Georg Esser, Jens Bondkowski
  • Publication number: 20200094849
    Abstract: A method for quantitatively characterizing at least one temporal-sequence (TS) of an object-attribute-error of an object, for at least one scenario of a plurality of scenarios; the object having been detected by a sensor of a plurality of sensors; including: providing at least one TS of sensor-data of a plurality of TSs of sensor-data of the sensor, for the at least one scenario; determining a TS of at least one object-attribute of the object with the TS of sensor-data; providing a sequence of a reference-object-attribute of the object of the scenario, corresponding to the TS of the object-attributes; determining a sequence of object-attribute-difference by comparing the sequence of the object-attribute to the sequence of the reference-object-attribute of the object; generating an error-model for describing TSs of object-attribute-errors of objects; the object having been detected by the sensor, with the TS of the object-attribute-difference, to quantitatively characterize the object-attribute-error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Achim Feyerabend, Lars Wagner, Thomas Grosser
  • Publication number: 20200096467
    Abstract: A composite pane for separating an interior space from an external environment, includes an inner pane, an outer pane with an inner surface, and an intermediate layer that areally joins the inner surface of the outer pane to an outer surface of the inner pane, a capacitive sensor for detecting moisture having at least one capacitor that is connected to an electronic sensor unit, which is provided for detecting a change in capacitance of the capacitor, wherein the capacitor has at least two electrodes formed from a transparent, electrically conductive coating, which are capacitively coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Christian EFFERTZ, Klaus SCHMALBUCH, Patrick WEBER, Hans-Georg ESSER
  • Patent number: 10588220
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing includes bonding a paste material to an organic substrate by a polymer thick film (PTF) process to form a PTF trace, coating a sinterable material over the PTF trace, and sintering the sinterable material to the PTF trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Weber
  • Publication number: 20200070478
    Abstract: A pane arrangement includes a first and second pane joined by an intermediate layer, an electro-optical functional element including a first surface electrode, an electro-optical functional layer, and a second surface electrode, wherein the functional element is arranged between the first and second panes, and the first and second surface electrodes face, respectively, the first and second panes, a sensor electrode arranged between the first surface electrode and the first pane and the sensor electrode is capacitively coupled to the first surface electrode, and a capacitive electronic sensor system electrically connected to the sensor electrode. The sensitivity of the electronic sensor system is selected such that when the outer surface of the first pane is touched above the first surface electrode by a human body part or the human body part approaches the outer surface of the first pane above the first surface electrode, a switching signal is emitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick WEBER, Stefan DROSTE