Patents by Inventor Roger T. Green

Roger T. Green 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).

  • Glass manufacturing
    Patent number: 11912608
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, a glass manufacturing system includes a hot-end subsystem, including: a submerged combustion melter that melts feedstock to produce molten glass; a stiller that receives the molten glass from the submerged combustion melter and that includes a stilling tank to still the molten glass and that is configured to control outflow of the stilled molten glass to effectively decouple viscosity of the molten glass from the flow rate of the molten glass and thereby control finer molten glass levels; and a finer that is mechanically decoupled from the stiller, and that receives and fines the stilled molten glass to produce fined molten glass. Many other aspects of the system are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Weil, Randy Ernsthausen, Thomas G. Green, Shane T. Rashley, Phillip J. Rausch, Roger P. Smith, Zhongming Wang
  • Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films
    Patent number: 11843070
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell can include a dopant in contact with a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Roger T. Green, Akhlesh Gupta, Upali Jayamaha, Peter Meyers, Rick C. Powell
  • PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES INCLUDING DOPED SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS
    Publication number: 20210091250
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell can include a dopant in contact with a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Roger T. Green, Akhlesh Gupta, Upali Jayamaha, Peter Meyers, Rick C. Powell
  • Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films
    Patent number: 10319873
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell can include a dopant in contact with a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick C. Powell, Upali Jayamaha, Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Akhlesh Gupta, Roger T. Green, Peter Meyers
  • PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES INCLUDING DOPED SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS
    Publication number: 20160126398
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell can include a dopant in contact with a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Rick C. Powell, Upali Jayamaha, Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Akhlesh Gupta, Roger T. Green, Peter Meyers
  • Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films
    Patent number: 9263608
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell can include a dopant in contact with a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick C. Powell, Upali Jayamaha, Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Akhlesh Gupta, Roger T. Green, Peter Meyers
  • PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES INCLUDING DOPED SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS
    Publication number: 20090194166
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell can include a dopant in contact with a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick C. Powell, Upali Jayamaha, Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Akhlesh Gupta, Roger T. Green, Peter Meyers
  • Pseudomorphic substrates
    Patent number: 5512375
    Abstract: High quality epitaxial layers can be grown on a multi-layer substrate which has a crystalline pseudomorphic layer with an exposed surface used for the epitaxial growth. The pseudomorphic layer of the substrate has a thickness at or below the pseudomorphic limit so it will be deformed as stress forces are developed during epitaxial growth of heteroepitaxial structures. A plastically deformable layer is bonded to the pseudomorphic layer, This plastically deformable layer is made of material that plastically flows at epitaxial growth temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Intevac, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger T. Green, Gary A. Davis, Verle W. Aebi
  • Solar module
    Patent number: D644986
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: First Solar, Inc
    Inventors: Michael Ross, John Christiansen, Roger T. Green, Joseph Casler, Brian E. Cohen