Patents by Inventor Rolf Kotte
Rolf Kotte 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).
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Patent number: 9166275Abstract: A motor vehicle window pane with antenna mount is described. The motor vehicle window pane with antenna mount has an opening in a composite pane made of an outer pane, an intermediate layer, and an inner pane. An adhesive is disposed on the outer pane on a top in a region around the opening. A mounting plate is fixed on the adhesive. An antenna housing is disposed on the mounting plate and has a rod-shaped antenna mount within the opening and below a recess.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Jens Altes, Rolf Kötte, Michael Labrot
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Publication number: 20130140847Abstract: A motor vehicle window pane with antenna mount is described. The motor vehicle window pane with antenna mount has an opening in a composite pane made of an outer pane, an intermediate layer, and an inner pane. An adhesive is disposed on the outer pane on a top in a region around the opening. A mounting plate is fixed on the adhesive. An antenna housing is disposed on the mounting plate and has a rod-shaped antenna mount within the opening and below a recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Jens Altes, Rolf Kötte, Michael Labrot
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Publication number: 20060137253Abstract: A method for fabrication of a vehicle drop glass, with a transparent, in particular curved, pane, on the extremity of which a support part is to be attached, which cooperates with a drive and/or guide device for heightwise movement of the pane. In the method the pane is oriented and attached at plural predetermined points of its surface in a device adapted to its shape, a curable plastic material is deposited on the pane with aid of at least one tool in the region of the assembly with the support part and is fashioned, in a fixed position in the space inside the device, into a fashioned part which, after its assembly with the pane, defines the position of the support part in relation to the predetermined points. The plastic material is then cured. A window pane can be produced according to the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2003Publication date: June 29, 2006Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Rolf Kotte, Karl Hartl
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Patent number: 6243990Abstract: An assembling element, particularly for vehicle bodywork, is provided with a fastening edge (14) onto which an elastic weatherstrip made from an extrusion-compatible elastomer is extruded. The fastening edge (14) is provided with anchoring notches (17). In a variant, the elastomer of the weatherstrip and the surface of the fastening edge (14) do not form a mutual adhesive joint and the anchoring notches (17) are provided so that the weatherstrip, which is anchored solely mechanically, can be detached if required from the fastening edge (14) and, without further processing, subsequently be refastened mechanically to the fastening edge. In a second variant, the anchoring notches (17) prevent play and make it possible substantially to enhance the connection between the strip and the edge.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1997Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Saint-Gobain VitrageInventors: Gerd Cornils, Rolf Kotte, Stefan Ziesen
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Patent number: 5908595Abstract: This invention concerns a device used in the process of manufacturing an automobile pane 1 equipped with a polymer frame 52 placed on the edge of the pane 1. The frame 52 is extruded onto the pane 1 which can be moved by means of a suitable support in such a way that the edge of the pane travels through a recess in an extrusion head 25 and 40. The recess of the extrusion head 40 preferably includes a U-shaped jaw 41 straddling the edge of the pane. At the front extremity of the two half-jaws of the U-shaped jaw 41 there are disposed sealing ledges or shoes 42 and 43 which are movable perpendicularly to the surfaces of the pane and which, during extrusion, bear upon the surfaces of the pane. Alternatively, the extrusion head can include a fixed jaw where the sealing ledges or shoes slideably and sealingly contact the plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1997Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: Saint-Gobain VitrageInventors: Gerd Cornils, Herbert Joeris, Rolf Kotte, Heinz Scholl
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Patent number: 5897937Abstract: An automobile glass pane is provided with a frame molding of a polymer. The molding has a portion with a U-like cross section. In this portion, an adhesive bead is introduced, the bead serves for bonding the glass pane to the attachment flange of the window opening in the vehicle bodywork. The lateral limbs of the U-like portion of the molding are internally provided with anchoring projections for mechanically holding the adhesive bead in place between the limbs without any separate adhesive or bonding.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1997Date of Patent: April 27, 1999Assignee: Saint Gobain VitrageInventors: Gerd Cornils, Rolf Kotte, Karl Heinrich Bruck, Florian Fischer, Ulrich von Alpen, Hans Ohlenforst
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Patent number: 5815997Abstract: An automobile glazing pane, ready for installation, is pre-equipped with a mounting frame of an elastomer. The mounting frame is disposed only on the side of the glass pane facing towards the fixing flange of the window frame, without engaging around the edge of the glass pane and is bonded to the glass pane. It possesses a mounting groove for the clamped fixing of the pre-equipped glass pane to the fixing flange of the window pane.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1992Date of Patent: October 6, 1998Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage InternationalInventors: Gerd Cornils, Rolf Kotte, Heinz Kunert
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Patent number: 5806257Abstract: An automobile glass pane, intended for adhesive fastening, is provided with an extruded-on profile frame, which has a U-shaped profile section (3) with a channel-like depression, the side ribs of which are provided with anchoring projections. The adhesive composition (16) is introduced into the channel-like depression. The materials of the profile frame and of the adhesive composition do not enter into an adhesive bond with one another, instead the connection between the hardened adhesive composition (16) and the profile section (3) is provided by the mechanical interlocking alone. To be able in an emergency to press out the glass pane from inside easily and quickly, at the bottom of the channel-like depression there is laid a flexible cord (10), of which at least any intersection is led out from the frame inwards. By pulling out this cord (10), the release of the mechanical interlocking between the hardened bead of adhesive and the frame profile is made easier.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1996Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: Saint Gobain VitrageInventors: Gerd Cornils, Rolf Kotte, Dieter Kleyer
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Patent number: 5723196Abstract: An automobile glass pane is provided with a frame molding of a polymer. The molding has a portion with a U-like cross section. In this portion, an adhesive bead is introduced, the bead serves for bonding the glass pane to the attachment flange of the window opening in the vehicle bodywork. The lateral limbs of the U-like portion of the molding are internally provided with anchoring projections for mechanically holding the adhesive bead in place between the limbs without any separate adhesive or bonding.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1994Date of Patent: March 3, 1998Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage InternationalInventors: Gerd Cornils, Rolf Kotte, Karl Heinrich Bruck, Florian Fischer, Ulrich von Alfen, Hans Ohlenforst
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Patent number: 5711119Abstract: A detachable mounting of a window pane to a frame of a window opening is disclosed for use primarily in motor-vehicles. The window pane is provided on its edges with a profiled frame made of elastomer. This profiled frame has a U-shaped segment with an opening facing the fixing rim of the frame of the window opening, the internal cross-section of the segment widening outwards, so as to receive a mounting bead of adhesive. The flanges of the U-shaped segment are themselves provided on the inside with retaining projections. The profiled frame and the bead of adhesive do not adhere to each other, the joint being provided solely by mechanical interlocking between the retaining projections and the bead of adhesive after it cures.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1996Date of Patent: January 27, 1998Assignee: Saint-Gobain VitrageInventors: Gerd Cornils, Rolf Kotte, Petra Friede
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Patent number: 5645785Abstract: This invention concerns a device used in the process of manufacturing an automobile pane 1 equipped with a polymer frame 52 placed on the edge of the pane 1. The frame 52 is extruded onto the pane 1 which can be moved by means of a suitable support in such a way that the edge of the pane travels through a recess in an extrusion head 25 and 40. The recess of the extrusion head 40 preferably includes a U-shaped jaw 41 straddling the edge of the pane. At the front extremity of the two half-jaws of the U-shaped jaw 41 there are disposed sealing ledges or shoes 42 and 43 which are movable perpendicularly to the surfaces of the pane and which, during extrusion, bear upon the surfaces of the pane. Alternatively, the extrusion head can include a fixed jaw where the sealing ledges or shoes slideably and sealingly contact the plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1995Date of Patent: July 8, 1997Assignee: Saint Gobain VitrageInventors: Gerd Cornils, Herbert Joeris, Rolf Kotte, Heinz Scholl
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Patent number: 5554325Abstract: For the extrusion of a calibrated profile of a thermoplastic polymer onto articles, the polymer, which is melted in an extruder (17), is fed, via a heated pressure hose (22), to an extruder head guided by a robot (5) and, by means of said extruder head, extruded and deposited on the article. At the end of each extrusion operation, the material flow to the extruder head is maintained and, by means of a change-over valve within the extruder head, redirected into an outlet orifice provided in the vicinity of the die orifice until the commencement of the subsequent extrusion operation. The redirected material flow emerges from a pipe connector (29) which is arranged on the extruder head and is coupled to a coupling piece (33). The material collected in this manner may be pelletized and fed back to the feed hopper (16) of the extruder (17).Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1994Date of Patent: September 10, 1996Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage InternationalInventors: Rolf Kotte, Gerd Cornils, Thomas Stumpe
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Patent number: 5507994Abstract: A process for the production of a plate with a polymer frame shaped onto the edge of the plate. The frame is extruded onto the plate while the latter is held stationary in a working station of a handling automaton or robot with a support device which corresponds to the shape of the plate in such a way that the edge of the plate projects freely over the support face of the support device. With the aid of the robot, an extrusion die having a through, mouth-like slot with two jaws engages the top and bottom surfaces of the circumferential edge of the plate as the mouth-like slot engages the plate edge. At the front end of the two jaws of the die mouth, there are sealing ledges movable at right angles to the plate surfaces, which are supported on the latter during the extrusion process.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1994Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: Saint Gobain VitrageInventors: Gerd Cornils, Herbert Joeris, Rolf Kotte, Heinz Scholl
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Patent number: 5421940Abstract: Process for producing an automobile pane, equipped with a frame of elastomer of a predetermined shape by extruding the elastomer onto the periphery of the pane and beyond the pane and defining at least a part of the shape of the elastomer as it is extruded by positioning mold surfaces beyond the periphery of the pane.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1993Date of Patent: June 6, 1995Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage InternationalInventors: Gerd Cornils, Florian Fischer, Rolf Kotte, Werner Siegel
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Patent number: RE37341Abstract: This invention concerns a device used in the process of manufacturing an automobile pane 1 equipped with a polymer frame 52 placed on the edge of the pane 1. The frame 52 is extruded onto the pane 1 which can be moved by means of a suitable support in such a way that the edge of the pane travels through a recess in an extrusion head 25 and 40. The recess of the extrusion head 40 preferably includes a U-shaped jaw 41 straddling the edge of the pane. At the front extremity of the two half-jaws of the U-shaped jaw 41 there are disposed sealing ledges or shoes 42 and 43 which are movable perpendicularly to the surfaces of the pane and which, during extrusion, bear upon the surfaces of the pane. Alternatively, the extrusion head can include a fixed jaw where the sealing ledges or shoes slideably and sealingly contact the plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Saint Gobain VitrageInventors: Gerd Cornils, Herbert Joeris, Rolf Kotte, Heinz Scholl