Patents by Inventor Stefan Ziegler

Stefan Ziegler 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).

  • Publication number: 20120205152
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pane, wherein an electrically conductive structure is applied to a glass pane. At least one intermediate layer is applied to the electrically conductive structure, at least one electrical connecting element is attached to the intermediate layer, and the intermediate layer, electrical connecting element and electrically conductive structure form at least one hollow space comprising an electrically conductive mass. A method for the production and use thereof is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: Mitja Rateiczak, Andreas Schlarb, Bernhard Reul, Stefan Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20120135631
    Abstract: Electrical connecting element (2) that is designed to be welded or soldered onto an electrically conductive component (11) of a window pane, comprising an electrically conductive body (20), of which one section is designed to be welded or soldered onto the component (11) for its electrical connection, and of which another if section is designed to be connected in the direction of the outer side of the window pane, characterized in that the body comprises an electrically conductive foil (21) with a thickness between 1 and 500 ?m and intermediate means (5, 6) that serve as shock-absorbing means between the stiff section of the body of the connecting element and the window pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Stefan ZIEGLER, Mitja RATEICZAK, Bernhard REUL
  • Patent number: 8121388
    Abstract: A method for automated determination of an individual three-dimensional shape of particles includes: a) dosing, alignment, and automated delivery of the particles; b) observation of the aligned particles and image acquisition, and c) evaluation of the images. A device for automated determination of the individual three-dimensional shape of particles includes: a) a mechanism for dosing, alignment, and automated delivery of the particles; b) at least two cameras for observation of the aligned particles, and c) a mechanism for evaluation of the images. The device can be used for automated determination of individual three-dimensional shape of particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Schaefer, Juergen Ettmueller, Stefan Ziegler, Klaus Reindel
  • Patent number: 8109782
    Abstract: Electrical connecting element (2) that is designed to be welded or soldered onto an electrically conductive component (11) of a window pane, comprising an electrically conductive body (20), of which one section is designed to be welded or soldered onto the component (11) for its electrical connection, and of which another if section is designed to be connected in the direction of the outer side of the window pane, characterized in that the body comprises an electrically conductive foil (21) with a thickness between 1 and 500 ?m and intermediate means (5, 6) that serve as shock-absorbing means between the stiff section of the body of the connecting element and the window pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Stefan Ziegler, Mitja Rateiczak, Bernhard Reul
  • Patent number: 8059264
    Abstract: Method for monitoring the velocity of growing polymer particles flowing in a two-phase stream during a polymerization process, said method comprising measuring the degree of attenuation in the propagation of light in said two-phase stream by means of a photometric instrument, said photometric instrument comprising: one or more transmitting optical waveguides connecting one or more light sources to said two-phase stream, one or more receiving optical waveguides connecting said two-phase stream to a light detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia, s.r.l.
    Inventors: Christian Ulrich Schmidt, Stefan Ziegler, Gabriele Mei, Stefano Bertolini, Gerben Meier
  • Publication number: 20100285685
    Abstract: Electrical connecting element (2) that is designed to be welded or soldered onto an electrically conductive component (11) of a window pane, comprising an electrically conductive body (20), of which one section is designed to be welded or soldered onto the component (11) for its electrical connection, and of which another if section is designed to be connected in the direction of the outer side of the window pane, characterized in that the body comprises an electrically conductive foil (21) with a thickness between 1 and 500 ?m and intermediate means (5, 6) that serve as shock-absorbing means between the stiff section of the body of the connecting element and the window pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Stefan Ziegler, Mitja Rateiczak, Bernhard Reul
  • Publication number: 20100059253
    Abstract: In a laminated glass sheet with a fixing device introduced into a through-hole for objects, particularly for antennas, the through-hole is made up of holes of different sizes in two rigid sheets of the lamination, and the fixing device includes at least two parts introduced into the through-hole, pressing against surfaces around the edge of the through-hole, which surfaces are situated one facing the other. The two parts of the fixing device press from both sides against the surfaces around the edge surrounding the smaller hole made in the sheet, in that region of the walls of a smaller hole that exhibits an edge compression stress that is increased by heat treatment by comparison with the remainder of the surface of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Michael Labrot, Stefan Ziegler, Lothar Schmidt, Martin Melcher
  • Publication number: 20100006555
    Abstract: In an electrically-heated glazing unit including a plurality of collector conductors configured to supply a plurality of heating conductors with an electric current used to heat up the heating conductors and the glazing unit, at least one partial region of the surface of the glazing unit includes an arrangement of parallel heating conductors in which the current flows in opposing directions. The arrangement of the heating conductors in the partial region of the surface is tuned to minimize by mutual compensation or eliminate the magnetic field acting locally within this partial region and perpendicularly to the plane of the glazing unit when the current flows. The operation of an apparatus sensitive to magnetic fields, for example a compass, in the immediate vicinity of the glazing unit thus becomes more reliable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Marc Maurer, Stefan Ziegler, Martin Melcher
  • Publication number: 20080279448
    Abstract: A method for automated determination of an individual three-dimensional shape of particles includes: a) dosing, alignment, and automated delivery of the particles; b) observation of the aligned particles and image acquisition, and c) evaluation of the images. A device for automated determination of the individual three-dimensional shape of particles includes: a) a mechanism for dosing, alignment, and automated delivery of the particles; b) at least two cameras for observation of the aligned particles, and c) a mechanism for evaluation of the images. The device can be used for automated determination of individual three-dimensional shape of particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Schafer, Jurgen Ettmuller, Stefan Ziegler, Klaus Reindel
  • Publication number: 20060165955
    Abstract: Abstract of the Disclosure A structural component (1) is made out of long- fiber reinforced thermoplastic material (LFT) with integrated continuous fiber (CF) – reinforcement. It includes at least three individually integrated, shaped CF - profiles (10), which form a three-dimensional intersection point (50). In this, at least one CF - profile (10) lies in an upper plane (H1), at least one CF-profile lies in a lower plane (H2) of the intersection point and at least one CF - profile extends continuously in a vertical direction (v) between these CF - profiles of the upper and of the lower main plane. The CF - profiles (10) are connected to one another by shapings (32) of the LFT - mass (6) at the intersection point in a force-transmitting manner. At several points loads (L) are exerted on the CF - profiles. Such three-dimensionally applied loads (L) are capable of being optimally supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: RCC Regional Compact Car AG
    Inventors: Andreas Ruegg, Stefan Ziegler