Patents by Inventor Peter Wierer

Peter Wierer 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: 6342970
    Abstract: A dielectric interference filter system with at least filter elements of different spectral characteristics on the same carrier substrate is provided. The filter elements have the same height and/or adjoin each other without gaps. The system is used for, inter alia, interference color filter systems in the form of an LCD-display or CCD-arrangement. A process for manufacturing the system includes preparing at least one filter element by coating and subsequent etching, and preparing at least one subsequent filter element by coating and subsequent structuring utilizing lift-off in which the etching mask is used as the lift-off mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Unaxis Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhard Sperger, Helmut Rudigier, Peter Wierer, Helmut Schoech
  • Patent number: 6275332
    Abstract: An environmentally stable silver containing mirror having very high reflection values over a large spectral range comprises a silver containing layer disposed on a substrate, which is covered by a zinc sulfide layer. So that the sulfur being set free during the application or during the vaporization of the zinc sulfide to be applied, does not attack the silver, at least one barrier or intermediate layer is placed between the silver containing layer and the zinc sulfide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Unaxis Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Hohenegger, Peter Wierer, Christian Beyeler
  • Patent number: 6128126
    Abstract: An environmentally stable silver containing mirror having very high reflection values over a large spectral range comprises a silver containing layer disposed on a substrate, which is covered by a zinc sulfide layer. So that the sulfur being set free during the application or during the vaporization of the zinc sulfide to be applied, does not attack the silver, at least one barrier or intermediate layer is placed between the silver containing layer and the zinc sulfide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Hohenegger, Peter Wierer, Christian Beyeler
  • Patent number: 6024453
    Abstract: A color wheel includes a rotatable disc-shaped carrier to which three or more planar color filter segments are secured in radial fashion about the periphery thereof. The portions of the color filter segments extending beyond the peripheral portion of the carrier form a substantially continuous translucent color ring for being inserted into, and rotated through, a light path. Each of the color filter segments is formed of a continuous sheet of material without any apertures formed therein. The disc-shaped carrier has one or more recesses, or bonding zones, formed therein to receive innermost bonding portions of the color filter segments; these recesses provide stops for aiding in the proper radial and axial positioning of the color filter segments. The bonding portions of the color filter segments are secured to the bonding zone of the disc-shaped carrier by an adhesive. A further recess can be formed in the disc-shaped carrier adjacent each bonding zone to receive the adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellshaft
    Inventors: Johannes Edlinger, Manfred Kuster, Cosmas Malin, Ilse Widmann, Peter Wierer
  • Patent number: 5868482
    Abstract: A color wheel includes a rotatable disc-shaped carrier to which three or more planar color filter segments are secured in radial fashion about the periphery thereof. The portions of the color filter segments extending beyond the peripheral portion of the carrier form a substantially continuous translucent color ring for being inserted into, and rotated through, a light path. Each of the color filter segments is formed of a continuous sheet of material without any apertures formed therein. The disc-shaped carrier has one or more recesses, or bonding zones, formed therein to receive innermost bonding portions of the color filter segments; these recesses provide stops for aiding in the proper radial and axial positioning of the color filter segments. The bonding portions of the color filter segments are secured to the bonding zone of the disc-shaped carrier by an adhesive. A further recess can be formed in the disc-shaped carrier adjacent each bonding zone to receive the adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiegesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Edlinger, Manfred Kuster, Cosmas Malin, Ilse Widmann, Peter Wierer
  • Patent number: 5751474
    Abstract: An environmentally stable silver mirror having very high reflection values over a large spectral range comprises a silver layer disposed on a substrate, which is covered by a zinc sulfide layer. So that the sulphur being set free during the application or during the vaporization of the zinc sulfide to be applied, does not attack the silver, at least one barrier or intermediate layer is placed between the silver layer and the zinc sulfide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Hohenegger, Peter Wierer
  • Patent number: 5548440
    Abstract: An environmentally stable silver mirror having very high reflection values over a large spectral range comprises a silver layer disposed on a substrate, which is covered by a zinc sulfide layer. So that the sulphur being set free during the application or during the vaporization of the zinc sulfide to be applied, does not attack the silver, at least one barrier or intermediate layer is placed between the silver layer and the zinc sulfide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Hohenegger, Peter Wierer
  • Patent number: 5493442
    Abstract: In order to reduce the number of thin-films necessary to construe an interference band-pass filter for exclusive transmission of light in the UVA range the filter edge towards smaller wavelengths in the spectral characteristic is realized by the absorption edge of the material of one of the thin-films of a thin-film interference filter which filter produces the band-pass filter edge directed towards higher wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengellschaft
    Inventors: Jurgen Buchholz, Peter Wierer