Patents by Inventor Peer Lobmann

Peer Lobmann 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).

  • Method for depositing titanium oxide layers using soluble powders
    Patent number: 6387446
    Abstract: A sol-gel process for the production of titanium oxide layers which comprises the following stages: (i) preparation of a soluble, titanium-containing powder by: (a) reaction of a titanium alcoholate of the general formula Ti(OR)4, in which the radicals R are identical or different and represent straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl or alkenyl radicals having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, which optionally have one or more carbonyl and/or ester and/or carboxyl functions, with one or more polar compounds with completing, chelating properties, (b) heating of the solution, (c) adding of water to the solution, optionally in the presence of a catalyst, (d) concentrating of the solution until a powder is obtained, (ii) dissolving of the powder to form a sol, (iii) coating of a substrate with the sol and (iv) heating of the coated substrate, described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Fraun-Hofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Peer Lobmann, Rainer Jahn, Stephan Merklein
  • Process for depositing layers of zirconium oxide using soluble powders
    Publication number: 20020046683
    Abstract: A sol-gel process for producing layers of zirconium oxide is described which comprises the following stages:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Peer Lobmann, Walther Glaubitt, Dieter Sporn