Patents by Inventor Robert G. Wendt

Robert G. Wendt 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).

  • FLUID-ASSISTED THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF EVAPORATION SOURCES
    Publication number: 20210198783
    Abstract: In various embodiments, evaporation sources for deposition systems are heated and/or cooled via a fluid-based thermal management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Markus Eberhard Beck, Ulrich Alexander Bonne, Robert G. Wendt
  • Thin-film deposition methods with fluid-assisted thermal management of evaporation sources
    Patent number: 10174417
    Abstract: In various embodiments, evaporation sources are heated and/or cooled via a fluid-based thermal management system during deposition of thin films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SIVA POWER, INC.
    Inventors: Markus Eberhard Beck, Ulrich Alexander Bonne, Robert G. Wendt
  • FLUID-ASSISTED THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF EVAPORATION SOURCES
    Publication number: 20180245209
    Abstract: In various embodiments, evaporation sources for deposition systems are heated and/or cooled via a fluid-based thermal management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Markus Eberhard Beck, Ulrich Alexander Bonne, Robert G. Wendt
  • Fluid-assisted thermal management of evaporation sources
    Patent number: 9932666
    Abstract: In various embodiments, evaporation sources for deposition systems are heated and/or cooled via a fluid-based thermal management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SIVA POWER, INC.
    Inventors: Markus Eberhard Beck, Ulrich Alexander Bonne, Robert G. Wendt
  • THIN-FILM DEPOSITION METHODS WITH FLUID-ASSISTED THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF EVAPORATION SOURCES
    Publication number: 20180073127
    Abstract: In various embodiments, evaporation sources are heated and/or cooled via a fluid-based thermal management system during deposition of thin films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Markus Eberhard Beck, Ulrich Alexander Bonne, Robert G. Wendt
  • Thin-film deposition methods with fluid-assisted thermal management of evaporation sources
    Patent number: 9816175
    Abstract: In various embodiments, evaporation sources are heated and/or cooled via a fluid-based thermal management system during deposition of thin films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SIVA POWER, INC.
    Inventors: Markus Eberhard Beck, Ulrich Alexander Bonne, Robert G. Wendt
  • THIN-FILM DEPOSITION METHODS WITH FLUID-ASSISTED THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF EVAPORATION SOURCES
    Publication number: 20160289817
    Abstract: In various embodiments, evaporation sources are heated and/or cooled via a fluid-based thermal management system during deposition of thin films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Markus Eberhard Beck, Ulrich Alexander Bonne, Robert G. Wendt
  • FLUID-ASSISTED THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF EVAPORATION SOURCES
    Publication number: 20160289822
    Abstract: In various embodiments, evaporation sources for deposition systems are heated and/or cooled via a fluid-based thermal management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Markus Eberhard Beck, Ulrich Alexander Bonne, Robert G. Wendt
  • Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer
    Patent number: 8190006
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Global Solar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Scott Wiedeman, Jeffrey S. Britt, Douglas G. Mason
  • Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer
    Patent number: 8184963
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Global Solar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Scott Wiedeman, Jeffrey S. Britt, Douglas G. Mason
  • Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer
    Patent number: 8059945
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Global Solar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Scott Wiedeman, Jeffrey S. Britt, Douglas G. Mason
  • Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer
    Patent number: 7760992
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Global Solar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Scott Wiedeman, Jeffrey S. Britt, Douglas G. Mason
  • Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer
    Publication number: 20080247738
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Scott Wiedeman, Jeffrey S. Britt, Douglas S. Mason
  • Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer
    Publication number: 20080247737
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Scott Wiedeman, Jeffrey S. Britt, Douglas G. Mason
  • Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer
    Publication number: 20080226270
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Scott Wiedeman, Jeffrey S. Britt, Douglas G. Mason
  • Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer
    Patent number: 7194197
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Global Solar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Scott Wiedeman, Jeffrey S. Britt, Douglas G. Mason
  • Fabrication of thin-film, flexible photovoltaic module
    Patent number: 6372538
    Abstract: A new, large-area, thin-film, flexible photovoltaic structure is disclosed, as well as a general fabrication procedure, including a preferably roll-to-roll-type, process-chamber-segregated, “continuous-motion”, method for producing such a structure. A special multi-material vapor-deposition environment is disclosed to implement an important co-evaporation, layer-deposition procedure performed in and as part of the fabrication procedure. A structural system adapted to create a vapor environment generally like that just referred to is disclosed, as is an organization of method steps involved in the generation of such a vapor environment. Also, a unique, vapor-creating, materials-distributing system, which includes specially designed heated crucibles with carefully arranged, spatially distributed, localized and generally point-like, heated-nozzle sources of different metallic vapors, and a special multi-fingered, comb-like, vapor-delivering manifold structure is shown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignees: University of Delaware, Global Solar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Gregory M. Hanket, Robert W. Birkmire, T. W. Fraser Russell, Scott Wiedeman
  • Thin-film, flexible photovoltaic module
    Patent number: 6310281
    Abstract: A new, large-area, thin-film, flexible photovoltaic structure is disclosed, as well as a general fabrication procedure, including a preferably roll-to-roll-type, process-chamber-segregated, “continuous-motion”, method for producing such a structure. A special multi-material vapor-deposition environment is disclosed to implement an important co-evaporation, layer-deposition procedure performed in and as part of the fabrication procedure. A structural system adapted to create a vapor environment generally like that just referred to is disclosed, as is an organization of method steps involved in the generation of such a vapor environment. Also, a unique, vapor-creating, materials-distributing system, which includes specially designed heated crucibles with carefully arranged, spatially distributed, localized and generally point-like, heated-nozzle sources of different metallic vapors, and a special multi-fingered, comb-like, vapor-delivering manifold structure is shown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Global Solar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Wendt, Gregory M. Hanket, Robert W. Birkmire, T. W. Fraser Russell, Scott Wiedeman