Patents by Inventor Stephan GIER
Stephan GIER 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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Publication number: 20240051271Abstract: A composite pane includes an outer pane and an inner pane that are joined to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer, wherein the composite pane has at least one functional film that contains at least one metal layer, and the thermoplastic intermediate layer is formed with at least one thermoplastic film that contains refractive-index-reducing agents and these refractive-index-reducing agents reduce the refractive index of the thermoplastic film by at least 0.05 in the optically visible range between 380 nm and 780 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Jan HAGEN, Stephan GIER, Marc KOELLING
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Patent number: 11780211Abstract: A colored thermoplastic intermediate layer with a width, a height, and a wedge-shaped cross-section with a thicker first end and a thinner second end, at least comprising a first colored thermoplastic layer with a width, a height, and a wedge-shaped cross-section with a thicker first end and a thinner second end, wherein the width and the height of the colored thermoplastic intermediate layer equal the width and the height of the first colored thermoplastic layer, the first colored thermoplastic layer has a dye, the dye concentration in the first colored thermoplastic layer increases from its thicker first end to its thinner second end, the light transmittance through the first colored thermoplastic layer is constant over its entire width and its entire height, and the light transmittance through the colored thermoplastic intermediate layer is constant over its entire width and its entire height.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Stephan Gier, Andrea Willms
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Publication number: 20230127785Abstract: A multilayer colored thermoplastic intermediate layer, includes a first thermoplastic layer with a wedge-shaped cross-section; and a second thermoplastic layer having a substantially constant thickness, wherein the first thermoplastic layer is colorless and the second thermoplastic layer is colored with a dye.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Andrea WILLMS, Stephan GIER
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Publication number: 20230131635Abstract: A colored thermoplastic intermediate layer with a width, a height, and a wedge-shaped cross-section with a thicker first end and a thinner second end, at least comprising a first colored thermoplastic layer with a width, a height, and a wedge-shaped cross-section with a thicker first end and a thinner second end, wherein the width and the height of the colored thermoplastic intermediate layer equal the width and the height of the first colored thermoplastic layer, the first colored thermoplastic layer has a dye, the dye concentration in the first colored thermoplastic layer increases from its thicker first end to its thinner second end, the light transmittance through the first colored thermoplastic layer is constant over its entire width and its entire height, and the light transmittance through the colored thermoplastic intermediate layer is constant over its entire width and its entire height.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Stephan GIER, Andrea WILLMS
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Patent number: 11572299Abstract: A device for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane, includes a frame with an upper side and a lower side, which is suitable to be directed at a glass pane with a thickness of less than 1 mm, and which is provided with a plurality of picking up pins that are arranged substantially parallel to one another and whose end directed at the glass pane is equipped with a suction cup, wherein the picking up pins are movable along their direction of extension independent of one another in order to adapt the arrangement of the suction cups to an intended shape of the glass pane.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Stephan Gier, Nikolai Borchmann, Stefan Lücke
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Patent number: 11351757Abstract: A composite pane includes a first pane, a second pane, and a thermoplastic film arranged between the two panes, wherein at least one pane is in the form of a flat glass and at least one pane surface has a plurality of elongated elevations and elongated depressions that extend along a first pane direction and are alternatingly arranged in a second pane direction perpendicular to the first pane direction, the thermoplastic film is produced by extrusion and at least one film surface has a plurality of elongated elevations and elongated depressions that extend along a first film direction and are alternatingly arranged in a second film direction perpendicular to the first film direction, wherein the elongated elevations of the at least one pane are arranged at an angle different from 90° relative to the elongated elevations of the thermoplastic film.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Günther Schall, Stephan Gier, Richard Brocker, Michael Balduin, Nikolai Borchmann
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Patent number: 11207868Abstract: A method for producing a laminated pane, wherein a first laminating film, a carrier film, and a second laminating film are provided and joined to form a pre-laminate, wherein the first laminating film, the carrier film, and the second laminating film have the same film thickness, a compensating film and the pre-laminate are arranged to form a layer stack between a first pane and a second pane, wherein, parallel to two side edges of the layer stack, in each case a strip-shaped peripheral film is arranged and the compensating film is provided to compensate an offset between the pre-laminate and the peripheral films, and the layer stack including the first pane, the pre-laminate, the compensating film with peripheral films, and the second pane is laminated to form a laminated pane, wherein the first laminating film and the second laminating film have a plasticizer content of less than 15 wt.-%.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Uwe Van Der Meulen, Stephan Gier, Richard Brocker, Robert Besler, Rene Bischof, Stefan Lücke
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Patent number: 11192341Abstract: A method for producing a composite glass pane, includes placing a first glass pane having a thickness less than or equal to 1 mm on a support mould, wherein the first glass pane is curved into a shape determined by the support mould; placing at least one thermoplastic film on the first glass pane; placing a curved second glass pane having a thickness greater than or equal to 1.5 mm on the thermoplastic film; and joining the first glass pane to the second glass pane via the thermoplastic film to form a composite glass pane by lamination.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Stephan Gier, Stefan Lücke, Uwe Van Der Meulen, Ingo Von Der Weiden, Richard Brocker
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Patent number: 10875279Abstract: A method for autoclave-free lamination of a composite pane. A stack sequence of a substrate pane, at least one intermediate layer, and a cover pane is produced, a vacuum ring or a vacuum bag is placed around the stack sequence, the stack sequence is deaerated for a period of t?8 min and at a temperature T from 0° C. to 30° C. by application of a negative pressure of p?0.3 bar to the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag, the stack sequence is heated to a temperature T of 70° C. to 115° C., the stack sequence is deaerated for a period t of t?8 min by application of a negative pressure of p?0.3 bar to the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag, the stack sequence is cooled to a temperature T<70° C., the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag is aerated and removed, the stack sequence is heated to a temperature T from 40° C. to 120° C., the stack sequence is pressed together between at least two opposing calender rollers of a first calender unit over the entire width b of the stack sequence.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Stephan Gier, Stefan Luecke, Wojciech Kluczewski
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Publication number: 20200376816Abstract: A vacuum ring for deaerating a stack sequence includes a vacuum-stable flexible hose, which can be connected to a vacuum pump, has the shape of a closed ring, and has an opening to the interior such that the ring can hold an outer side edge of a stack sequence in order to form a deaeration channel along the side edge, wherein the vacuum ring has at least one electric heating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Stefan LÜCKE, Raphaela KANNENGIESSER, Stephan GIER, Bernhard REUL
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Publication number: 20200338864Abstract: A method for producing a laminated pane, wherein a first laminating film, a carrier film, and a second laminating film are provided and joined to form a pre-laminate, wherein the first laminating film, the carrier film, and the second laminating film have the same film thickness, a compensating film and the pre-laminate are arranged to form a layer stack between a first pane and a second pane, wherein, parallel to two side edges of the layer stack, in each case a strip-shaped peripheral film is arranged and the compensating film is provided to compensate an offset between the pre-laminate and the peripheral films, and the layer stack including the first pane, the pre-laminate, the compensating film with peripheral films, and the second pane is laminated to form a laminated pane, wherein the first laminating film and the second laminating film have a plasticizer content of less than 15 wt.-%.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Uwe VAN DER MEULEN, Stephan GIER, Richard BROCKER, Robert BESLER, Rene BISCHOF, Stefan LÜCKE
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Publication number: 20200156352Abstract: A composite pane includes a first pane, a second pane, and a thermoplastic film arranged between the two panes, wherein at least one pane is in the form of a flat glass and at least one pane surface has a plurality of elongated elevations and elongated depressions that extend along a first pane direction and are alternatingly arranged in a second pane direction perpendicular to the first pane direction, the thermoplastic film is produced by extrusion and at least one film surface has a plurality of elongated elevations and elongated depressions that extend along a first film direction and are alternatingly arranged in a second film direction perpendicular to the first film direction, wherein the elongated elevations of the at least one pane are arranged at an angle different from 90° relative to the elongated elevations of the thermoplastic film.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Günther SCHALL, Stephan GIER, Richard BROCKER, Michael BALDUIN, Nikolai BORCHMANN
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Publication number: 20200109076Abstract: A device for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane, includes a frame with an upper side and a lower side, which is suitable to be directed at a glass pane with a thickness of less than 1 mm, and which is provided with a plurality of picking up pins that are arranged substantially parallel to one another and whose end directed at the glass pane is equipped with a suction cup, wherein the picking up pins are movable along their direction of extension independent of one another in order to adapt the arrangement of the suction cups to an intended shape of the glass pane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Stephan GIER, Nikolai BORCHMANN, Stefan LÜCKE
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Publication number: 20190389180Abstract: A method for producing a composite glass pane, includes placing a first glass pane having a thickness less than or equal to 1 mm on a support mould, wherein the first glass pane is curved into a shape determined by the support mould; placing at least one thermoplastic film on the first glass pane; placing a curved second glass pane having a thickness greater than or equal to 1.5 mm on the thermoplastic film; and joining the first glass pane to the second glass pane via the thermoplastic film to form a composite glass pane by lamination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Stephan GIER, Stefan LÜCKE, Uwe VAN DER MEULEN, Ingo VON DER WEIDEN, Richard BROCKER
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Publication number: 20190329530Abstract: A method for autoclave-free lamination of a composite pane. A stack sequence of a substrate pane, at least one intermediate layer, and a cover pane is produced, a vacuum ring or a vacuum bag is placed around the stack sequence, the stack sequence is deaerated for a period of t?8 min and at a temperature T from 0° C. to 30° C. by application of a negative pressure of p?0.3 bar to the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag, the stack sequence is heated to a temperature T of 70° C. to 115° C., the stack sequence is deaerated for a period t of t?8 min by application of a negative pressure of p?0.3 bar to the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag, the stack sequence is cooled to a temperature T<70° C., the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag is aerated and removed, the stack sequence is heated to a temperature T from 40° C. to 120° C., the stack sequence is pressed together between at least two opposing calender rollers of a first calender unit over the entire width b of the stack sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Stephan GIER, Stefan LUECKE, Wojciech KLUCZEWSKI
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Publication number: 20180250919Abstract: A method for rolling up a wedge-shaped film is described. In the disclosed method, a wedge-shaped film and a wedge-shaped intermediate layer are wound together onto a winding core. According to one aspect, the thicker edge of the wedge-shaped intermediate layer is positioned at least flush on the thinner edge of the wedge-shaped film. According to another aspect, the thinner edge of the wedge-shaped film is from 0.7 mm to 0.9 mm and the thicker edge is from 1.1 mm to 1.3 mm, and the thinner edge of the wedge-shaped intermediate layer is from 0.01 mm to 0.05 mm and the thicker edge is from 0.4 mm to 0.55 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Stephan GIER, Stefan LUECKE