Patents by Inventor Rainer Liebald

Rainer Liebald 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: 11225057
    Abstract: A method for making a bonded article, wherein a thin glass substrate is bonded on a support substrate in the absence of any interlayer by an electrostatic adhesion process with the assistance of external pressure, the pressure is applied constantly or stepwise during the adhesion process by use of a tool such as a roll or a wheel or other movable device with curved surface. The bonded article has no defects, e.g. bubbles or inclusions, in the bonded interface, which benefits transportation of the thin glass substrate and its post-processing as well. Such defect-free bonded article is also disclosed. Pressure supported electrostatic adhesion, initiated by electrostatic charges adhesion of a two members, e.g. a substrate member and a support member, is enabled to minimize, prevent and exclude defects, distortion between the adhered surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SCHOTT GLASS TECHNOLOGIES (SUZHOU) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Pengxiang Qian, Chong Wang, Feng He, Yunfei Hou, Rainer Liebald
  • Patent number: 11059738
    Abstract: A low CTE boro-aluminosilicate glass having a low brittleness for use in wafer-level-packaging (WLP) applications is disclosed. The glass comprises a composition in mol-% of SiO2: 60-85, Al2O3: 1-17, B2O3: 8-20, Na2O: 0-5, K2O: 0-5, MgO: 0-10, CaO: 0-10, SrO: 0-10, and BaO: 0-10. An average number of non-bridging oxygen per polyhedron (NBO) is equal to or larger than ?0.2 and a ratio B2O3/Al2O3 is equal to or larger than 0.5. The NBO is defined as NBO=2×Omol/(Simol+Almol+Bmol)?4. A glass carrier wafer made from the low CTE boro-aluminosilicate glass and a use thereof as a glass carrier wafer for the processing of a silicon substrate are also disclosed, as well as a method for providing a low CTE boro-aluminosilicate glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Schott Glass Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Pengxiang Qian, Yunfei Hou, Junming Xue, Rainer Liebald, Hiroshi Kuroki
  • Patent number: 10988408
    Abstract: A conversion material for a white or colored light source is provided. The material includes a matrix glass that, as bulk material, for a thickness of about 1 mm, has a pure transmission of greater than 80% in the wavelength region from 350 to 800 nm and in the region in which the primary light source emits light, wherein the sum of transmission and reflection of the sintered matrix glass without luminophore is at least greater than 80% in the spectral region from 350 nm to 800 nm and in the spectral region in which the primary light source emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Rainer Liebald, Claudia Stolz, Peter Brix, Simone Monika Ritter, Peter Nass, Dieter Goedeke, Sabine Pichler-Wilhelm, Sabrina Wimmer
  • Patent number: 10730792
    Abstract: A glass ribbon in the form of a glass roll is provided that is optimized with respect to the requirements of a long service life and at the same time compact dimensions. A bending radius on the inner side of the thin glass roll is determined by performing breakage tests on samples of the glass material, statistical parameters are determined on the basis of the breakage tests, and the statistical parameters are converted into a range of bending radii which meet the requirements on service life and the most compact dimensions possible of the thin glass roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Clemens Ottermann, Rainer Liebald, Andreas Habeck, Kurt Nattermann, Markus Heiss-Chouquet, Jürgen Vogt, Thomas Wiegel, Andreas Ortner, Ning Da, Feng He, Pengxiang Qian
  • Publication number: 20200095163
    Abstract: A thin glass article is provided that has a first face, a second face, one or more edges joining the first and second faces, and a thickness between the first and second faces, where the faces and the one or more edges together form an outer surface of the thin glass article. The thin glass article has an ion-exchanged surface layer on its outer surface. The ion-exchanged surface layer is non-uniform, wherein the non-uniform ion-exchanged surface layer has an associated compressive surface stress which varies between a minimum and a maximum value over the outer surface and/or a depth of layer which varies between a minimum and a maximum value over the outer surface. A method for producing a thin glass article and a use of a thin glass article are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: SCHOTT GLASS TECHNOLOGIES (SUZHOU) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong LUO, Chong WANG, Pengxiang QIAN, Feng HE, Aiming HUANG, Dengke HOU, Rainer LIEBALD, Jose ZIMMER
  • Patent number: 10418658
    Abstract: An electrical storage system is provided that has a thickness of less than 2 mm, which includes at least one sheet-type discrete element. The sheet-type discrete element exhibits high resistance against an attack of transition metals or transition metal ions, in particular titanium, wherein the sheet-type discrete element contains titanium. The invention also relates to a sheet-type discrete element for use in an electrical storage system, which exhibits high resistance to the attack of transition metals or of transition metal ions, in particular titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Peuchert, Rainer Liebald, Miriam Kunze, Thorsten Damm, Clemens Ottermann, Nikolaus Schultz
  • Patent number: 10329191
    Abstract: A glass roll, as well as a device and a method for manufacturing the glass roll are provided. The glass roll includes a glass ribbon having a thickness, a length in an x-direction, and a width in a y-direction. The glass ribbon has at least one defect site at a position, as well as at least one error mark disposed on the glass ribbon, and is wound up into a glass roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Andreas Ortner, Andreas Habeck, Clemens Ottermann, Thomas Roßmeier, Frank Macherey, Jürgen Vogt, Rainer Liebald, Thomas Wiegel, Ulrich Battmer, Uwe Wilkens
  • Publication number: 20180339932
    Abstract: A low CTE boro-aluminosilicate glass having a low brittleness for use in wafer-level-packaging (WLP) applications is disclosed. The glass comprises a composition in mol-% of SiO2: 60-85, Al2O3: 1-17, B2O3: 8-20, Na2O: 0-5, K2O: 0-5, MgO: 0-10, CaO: 0-10, SrO: 0-10, and BaO: 0-10. An average number of non-bridging oxygen per polyhedron (NBO) is equal to or larger than ?0.2 and a ratio B2O3/Al2O3 is equal to or larger than 0.5. The NBO is defined as NBO=2×Omol/(Simol+Almol+Bmol)?4. A glass carrier wafer made from the low CTE boro-aluminosilicate glass and a use thereof as a glass carrier wafer for the processing of a silicon substrate are also disclosed, as well as a method for providing a low CTE boro-aluminosilicate glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: SCHOTT Glass Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Pengxiang Qian, Yunfei Hou, Junming Xue, Rainer Liebald, Hiroshi Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20180194673
    Abstract: A conversion material for a white or colored light source is provided. The material includes a matrix glass that, as bulk material, for a thickness of about 1 mm, has a pure transmission of greater than 80% in the wavelength region from 350 to 800 nm and in the region in which the primary light source emits light, wherein the sum of transmission and reflection of the sintered matrix glass without luminophore is at least greater than 80% in the spectral region from 350 nm to 800 nm and in the spectral region in which the primary light source emits light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Rainer Liebald, Claudia Stolz, Peter Brix, Simone Monika Ritter, Peter Nass, Dieter Goedeke, Sabine Pichler-Wilhelm, Sabrina Wimmer
  • Patent number: 9950949
    Abstract: The invention relates to a conversion material, in particular for a white or colored light source comprising a semiconductor light source as primary light source, comprising a matrix glass that, as bulk material, for a thickness d of about 1 mm, has a pure transmission ?i of greater than 80% in the wavelength region from 350 to 800 nm and in the region in which the primary light source emits light, wherein the sum of transmission and reflection of the sintered matrix glass without luminophore is at least greater than 80% in the spectral region from 350 nm to 800 nm and in the spectral region in which the primary light source emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Rainer Liebald, Claudia Stolz, Peter Brix, Simone Monika Ritter, Peter Nass, Dieter Goedeke, Sabine Pichler-Wilhelm, Sabrina Wimmer
  • Patent number: 9908730
    Abstract: A method for processing a thin glass is provided. The thin glass is subjected to a tensile stress ?app smaller than 1.15 · Min ? ( ? _ a - ? a ? 0.4 · ( 1 - ln ? ( A ref A App ? ? ) ) , ? ? _ e - ? e ? 0.4 · ( 1 - ln ? ( L ref L App ? ? ) ) ) , wherein ?a is a mean value of tensile stress at break for fractures in a surface of samples of the thin glass under bending stress, wherein ?a is a mean value of tensile stress at break for fractures emanating from an edge of the samples, wherein Lref is an edge length and Aref is a surface area of the samples, wherein ?e and ?a denote standard deviations of the mean values ?e and ?a, respectively, and wherein Aapp is a surface area of the thin glass, Lapp is a summated edge length of opposite edges of the thin glass, and ? is a predefined maximum fracture rate within a period of time of at least half a year.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Andreas Ortner, Clemens Ottermann, Kurt Nattermann, Markus Heiss-Chouquet, Rainer Liebald
  • Publication number: 20180009706
    Abstract: A thin glass article is provided that has a first face, a second face, one or more edges joining the first and second faces, and a thickness between the first and second faces, where the faces and the one or more edges together form an outer surface of the thin glass article. The thin glass article has an ion-exchanged surface layer on its outer surface. The ion-exchanged surface layer is non-uniform, wherein the non-uniform ion-exchanged surface layer has an associated compressive surface stress which varies between a minimum and a maximum value over the outer surface and/or a depth of layer which varies between a minimum and a maximum value over the outer surface. A method for producing a thin glass article and a use of a thin glass article are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: SCHOTT GLASS TECHNOLOGIES (SUZHOU) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong LUO, Chong WANG, Pengxiang QIAN, Feng HE, Aiming HUANG, Dengke HOU, Rainer LIEBALD, Jose ZIMMER
  • Publication number: 20170263973
    Abstract: An electrical storage system is provided that has a thickness of less than 2 mm, which includes at least one sheet-type discrete element. The sheet-type discrete element exhibits high resistance against an attack of transition metals or transition metal ions, in particular titanium, wherein the sheet-type discrete element contains titanium. The invention also relates to a sheet-type discrete element for use in an electrical storage system, which exhibits high resistance to the attack of transition metals or of transition metal ions, in particular titanium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ulrich PEUCHERT, Rainer LIEBALD, Miriam KUNZE, Thorsten DAMM, Clemens OTTERMANN, Nikolaus SCHULTZ
  • Patent number: 9738828
    Abstract: An optical converter for producing colored or white light from blue excitation light is provided. The converter has good scattering properties to be able to produce nearly white light from the scattered blue light components and the scattered, converted yellow light components. The optical converter includes material including one or more of a YAG ceramic, a LuAG ceramic, and a magnesium-aluminum ceramic exhibiting strong scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Volker Hagemann, Peter Nass, Yvonne Menke, Bernd Hoppe, Wolfram Beier, Rainer Liebald, Niko Schultz, Guenter Weidmann, Hauke Esemann
  • Publication number: 20170183258
    Abstract: A glass ribbon in the form of a glass roll is provided that is optimized with respect to the requirements of a long service life and at the same time compact dimensions. A bending radius on the inner side of the thin glass roll is determined by performing breakage tests on samples of the glass material, statistical parameters are determined on the basis of the breakage tests, and the statistical parameters are converted into a range of bending radii which meet the requirements on service life and the most compact dimensions possible of the thin glass roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Clemens OTTERMANN, Rainer LIEBALD, Andreas HABECK, Kurt NATTERMANN, Markus HEISS-CHOUQUET, Jürgen VOGT, Thomas WIEGEL, Andreas ORTNER, Ning DA, Feng HE, Pengxiang QIAN
  • Publication number: 20170104191
    Abstract: An electrical storage element is provided that includes a discrete sheet-like element with particularly low transparency to high-energy electrical radiation, preferably in a range of wavelengths from 200 to 400 nm, and to the manufacturing thereof, and also relates to a discrete sheet-like element that exhibits particularly low transparency for high-energy electromagnetic radiation, preferably in a range of wavelengths from 200 to 400 nm, and to the manufacturing thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ulrich PEUCHERT, Rainer LIEBALD, Miriam KUNZE, Thorsten DAMM, Clemens OTTERMANN, Nikolaus SCHULTZ
  • Publication number: 20170104190
    Abstract: An electrical storage element is provided that includes at least one discrete sheet-like element with increased transparency to high-energy electrical radiation. Discrete sheet-like elements exhibiting increased transparency to high-energy electrical radiation and the manufacturing thereof are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ulrich PEUCHERT, Rainer LIEBALD, Miriam KUNZE, Thorsten DAMM, Clemens OTTERMANN, Nikolaus SCHULTZ
  • Publication number: 20160311722
    Abstract: A glass roll, as well as a device and a method for manufacturing the glass roll are provided. The glass roll includes a glass ribbon having a thickness, a length in an x-direction, and a width in a y-direction. The glass ribbon has at least one defect site at a position, as well as at least one error mark disposed on the glass ribbon, and is wound up into a glass roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Andreas ORTNER, Andreas HABECK, Clemens OTTERMANN, Thomas ROßMEIER, Frank MACHEREY, Jürgen VOGT, Rainer LIEBALD, Thomas WIEGEL, Ulrich BATTMER, Uwe WILKENS
  • Publication number: 20160207726
    Abstract: A method for processing a thin glass is provided. The thin glass is subjected to a tensile stress ?app smaller than 1.15 · Min ? ( ? _ a - ? a ? 0.4 · ( 1 - ln ? ( A ref A App ? ? ) ) , ? ? _ e - ? e ? 0.4 · ( 1 - ln ? ( L ref L App ? ? ) ) ) , wherein ?a is a mean value of tensile stress at break for fractures in a surface of samples of the thin glass under bending stress, wherein ?a is a mean value of tensile stress at break for fractures emanating from an edge of the samples, wherein Lref is an edge length and Aref is a surface area of the samples, wherein ?e and ?a denote standard deviations of the mean values ?e and ?a, respectively, and wherein Aapp is a surface area of the thin glass, Lapp is a summated edge length of opposite edges of the thin glass, and ? is a predefined maximum fracture rate within a period of time of at least half a year.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Andreas ORTNER, Clemens OTTERMANN, Kurt NATTERMANN, Markus HEISS-CHOUQUET, Rainer LIEBALD
  • Publication number: 20160136929
    Abstract: A lightweight composite panel is provided that includes at least one mineral glass or glass-ceramic panel and at least one organic layer. The weight per unit area of the lightweight composite panel is in the range from 0.5 kg/m2 to 5.5 kg/m2, the ratio of the total thickness of the one or more mineral glass or glass-ceramic panels to the total thickness of all of the organic layers is from 1:0.01 to 1:1 and the total thickness of all of the organic layers is less than or equal to 350 ?m. The lightweight composite panel complies with the thermal safety requirements of the air travel authorities and its “Total Heat Release,” measured in accordance with JAR/FAR/CS 25, App. F, Part IV & AITM 2.0006, is less than 65 kW×min/m2 and its flame time after removal of the flame in the “Vertical Bunsen Burner Test”, measured in accordance with FAR/JAR/CS 25, App. F, Part 1 & AITM 2.0002A, is less than 15 s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Jens MEISS, Clemens OTTERMANN, Hauke ESEMANN, Joerg Hinrich FECHNER, Andreas ORTNER, Rainer LIEBALD, Klaus-Peter KUREK, Markus HEISS-CHOUQUET