Patents by Inventor Stephan GILLESSEN

Stephan GILLESSEN 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: 20240064873
    Abstract: A composite pane with an electrically heatable camera window, which includes, inside the camera window, a first electrically conductive transparent coating for heating the camera window, wherein the first electrically conductive transparent coating is arranged on the first surface of the inner pane inside the camera window and has two busbars provided for connection to a voltage source, which are arranged on two opposite sides of the camera window such that when an electrical voltage is applied to the busbars, a current flows through the first electrically conductive transparent coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Jefferson DO ROSARIO, Stephan GILLESSEN
  • Publication number: 20240009967
    Abstract: A projection assembly for a head-up display (HUD), includes a windshield including an outer pane and an inner pane that are joined to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer, having a HUD region; and a projector that is directed at the HUD region and that emits p-polarized radiation; wherein a reflection coating is arranged on the surface of the outer pane or of the inner pane facing the intermediate layer or within the intermediate layer, which reflection coating is suitable for reflecting p-polarized radiation and which has exactly one electrically conductive layer based on silver; and an emissivity-reducing coating is arranged on the surface of the inner pane facing away from the intermediate layer, which coating has an electrically conductive layer based on a transparent conductive oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Lisa SCHMADTKE, Stephan GILLESSEN, Jefferson DO ROSARIO, Jan HAGEN
  • Publication number: 20230415571
    Abstract: A projection assembly for a head-up display (HUD), includes a windshield with an HUD region, inner and outer panes joined via a thermoplastic intermediate layer, and a projector directed at the HUD region having a radiation predominantly p-polarized. The windshield has a reflection coating for reflecting p-polarized radiation. The reflection coating has exactly one electrically conductive layer based on silver. A lower dielectric layer or layer sequence with a refractive index of at least 1.9 is arranged below the electrically conductive layer. An upper dielectric layer or layer sequence with a refractive index of at least 1.9 is arranged above the electrically conductive layer. The ratio of the optical thickness of the upper dielectric layer or layer sequence to the optical thickness of the lower dielectric layer or layer sequence is between 2.10 and 3.20. The reflection coating includes no dielectric layers with a refractive index less than 1.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Lisa SCHMADTKE, Jan HAGEN, Jefferson DO ROSARIO, Stephan GILLESSEN
  • Publication number: 20230405975
    Abstract: A composite pane includes a laminated stacking sequence composed of an outer pane with an exterior-side surface and an interior-side surface, an inner pane with an exterior-side surface and an interior-side surface, and at least one thermoplastic intermediate layer, which joins the interior-side surface of the outer pane to the exterior-side surface of the inner pane, wherein a heatable element is applied directly on the interior-side surface of the outer pane or on the exterior-side surface of the inner pane, and a thermal-radiation-reflecting coating is applied directly on the interior-side surface of the inner pane and/or a thermal-radiation-reflecting coating is applied directly on the exterior-side surface of the outer pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan GILLESSEN, Lisa SCHMADTKE, Jefferson DO ROSARIO, Robert BESLER
  • Publication number: 20230073820
    Abstract: A vehicle pane with a temperature sensor, includes a substrate and a transparent, electrically conductive coating on a surface of the substrate, wherein a temperature measuring field that is electrically isolated from the surrounding electrically conductive coating by a separating line is formed in the electrically conductive coating, a measurement current path running between two electrical contact points is formed from a region of the electrically conductive coating in the temperature measuring field, the electrical contact points can be connected to a voltage source such that an electric current flows through the measurement current path, and the electrical contact points can be connected to an analysis unit that is suitable for measuring the current strength of the electric current, determining the electrical resistance of the measurement current path therefrom, and determining the temperature from the electrical resistance using calibration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan GILLESSEN, Robert BESLER
  • Publication number: 20230062539
    Abstract: A composite pane for a vehicle with an outer pane and an inner pane that are joined to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer and the composite pane is provided for separation of a vehicle interior for occupants from an external environment, wherein at least one radar sensor is integrated into the thermoplastic intermediate layer and is designed and arranged such that the radar sensor emits radar beams into the vehicle interior and receives reflected radar beams, and the radar sensor is connected to an evaluation unit for determining movement and/or presence of persons or animals in the vehicle interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan GILLESSEN, Marcel KLEIN, Valentin SCHULZ, Robert BESLER
  • Publication number: 20220371410
    Abstract: A composite pane with at least one functional element, includes a first pane including an inner side III and an outer side IV, a second pane including an inner side II and an outer side I, a thermoplastic intermediate layer that joins the inner side III of the first pane laminarly to the inner side II of the second pane, at least one functional element that is incorporated into the thermoplastic intermediate layer, wherein the at least one functional element is directly adjacent the inner side III of the first pane and/or the inner side II of the second pane, and a deaeration structure is mounted at least in the region of the functional element that is directly adjacent the first pane and/or second pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Christian SCHÜRGERS, Stephan GILLESSEN, Sebastian ARENDT, Andrea WILLMS
  • Patent number: 11407204
    Abstract: A laminated glazing incorporates an electrically controllable device and the manufacture thereof including an operation of preassembly with a thin plastic strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Pascal Bauerle, Stephan Gillessen, Jean-Jacques Bris
  • Patent number: 11077650
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite pane for a motor vehicle includes heating the plastic film at least in the region of the LED into a fluid state by a heating source positioned on an outer surface of the first pane or the second pane or arranged at a distance from the outer surface of the first pane or the second pane, and introducing the LED into the plastic film into the fluid state with displacement of a predefined volume of the plastic film. After introducing the LED into the plastic film, the method includes laminating the first pane and the second pane with the interposed plastic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Stephan Gillessen, Pascal Bauerle, Jean Jacques Bris
  • Publication number: 20200369007
    Abstract: A laminated glazing incorporates an electrically controllable device and the manufacture thereof including an operation of preassembly with a thin plastic strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Pascal BAUERLE, Stephan GILLESSEN, Jean-Jacques BRIS
  • Patent number: 10703074
    Abstract: An automotive luminous signaling glazing for example forming a laminated vehicle front windshield, includes a first exterior glazing, with a first main face and a second main face; a lamination interlayer made of polymeric material and a set of electrically conductive wires anchored on an anchoring face of the lamination interlayer, which is either the fifth main face or the sixth main main of the lamination interlayer; an interior second glazing, with a third main face and a fourth main face, the second main face and the third main face being the internal faces of the laminated glazing; and a set of diodes emitting in the direction of the interior glass. For each of the diodes, the lamination interlayer comprises a blind aperture on the opposite face to the anchoring face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Pascal Bauerle, Stephan Gillessen, Jean-Jacques Bris
  • Patent number: 10647092
    Abstract: A vehicle luminous signaling glazing forming, for example, a laminated vehicle windshield includes a first exterior glazing, with first main face and second main face, a lamination interlayer made of polymeric material with an other edge face, a second interior glazing, with third main face and fourth main face, the second main face and the third main face being the internal faces of the laminated glazing. The glazing also includes a flexible carrier for the diodes including a diode zone, an emerging electrical supply zone emerging from the other edge face, divided into a plurality of track strips, carrying electrical tracks, with an individual width Wi of less than 5 cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Pascal Bauerle, Stephan Gillessen, Arthur Stricher
  • Publication number: 20190270285
    Abstract: A composite pane for a motor vehicle has a first pane and a second pane, wherein the two panes are laminated with an interposed plastic film. At least one depression is introduced into the plastic film in the direction of the first pane, in which depression a light-emitting diode is arranged, wherein a light-emission side of the light-emitting diode is oriented in the direction of the first pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Stephan GILLESSEN, Pascal BAUERLE, Jean Jacques BRIS
  • Publication number: 20190255813
    Abstract: A vehicle luminous signaling glazing forming, for example, a laminated vehicle windshield includes a first exterior glazing, with first main face and second main face, a lamination interlayer made of polymeric material with an other edge face, a second interior glazing, with third main face and fourth main face, the second main face and the third main face being the internal faces of the laminated glazing. The glazing also includes a flexible carrier for the diodes including a diode zone, an emerging electrical supply zone emerging from the other edge face, divided into a plurality of track strips, carrying electrical tracks, with an individual width Wi of less than 5 cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Pascal BAUERLE, Stephan GILLESSEN, Arthur STRICHER
  • Publication number: 20190248122
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite pane for a motor vehicle includes heating the plastic film at least in the region of the LED into a fluid state by a heating source positioned on an outer surface of the first pane or the second pane or arranged at a distance from the outer surface of the first pane or the second pane, and introducing the LED into the plastic film into the fluid state with displacement of a predefined volume of the plastic film. After introducing the LED into the plastic film, the method includes laminating the first pane and the second pane with the interposed plastic film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Stephan GILLESSEN, Pascal BAUERLE, Jean Jacques BRIS
  • Publication number: 20190210328
    Abstract: A viscoelastic plastic interlayer to be incorporated between two glass sheets of a glazing provides it with vibro-acoustic damping properties. The interlayer includes two outer layers made of standard PVB, first and second inner layers made of viscoelastic plastic material based on polyvinyl acetal and plasticizer, with improved acoustic properties, a central layer made of standard PVB, the first and the second inner layers being arranged, respectively, between the central layer and the first and second outer layers. The viscoelastic plastic interlayer, when incorporated between two glass sheets to form a laminated glazing with vibro-acoustic damping properties, allows an improvement in the acoustic insulation properties, in particular within a frequency range of between 1000 Hz and 5000 Hz, in which range the human ear is the most sensitive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Stephan GILLESSEN, Benjamin KREBS, Ingo VON DER WEIDEN, Gerald MERCIER
  • Publication number: 20190168488
    Abstract: A composite pane having a multiple-ply composite layer arranged between outer and inner panes is presented. The composite layer is a laminate that includes a first thermoplastic film, a polyester film, and a second thermoplastic film. Thicknesses a, b, and c of the first thermoplastic film, the polyester film and the second thermoplastic film, are bound by the expressions: a/b=1/5 to 5/1, and c/(a+b)=25/1 to 2/1. The first thermoplastic film and the polyester film have a common edge that runs at a distance A from the edge of the second thermoplastic film, and the material of the second thermoplastic film fills the space between the common edge, the inner face of the outer pane, and the edge of the second thermoplastic film situated at the distance A from the common edge. Methods for use and production of the composite pane are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Florian MANZ, Uwe VAN DER MEULEN, Benjamin KREBS, Sabrina PLAHL, Stephan GILLESSEN
  • Publication number: 20190134954
    Abstract: An automotive luminous signaling glazing for example forming a laminated vehicle front windshield, includes a first exterior glazing, with a first main face and a second main face; a lamination interlayer made of polymeric material and a set of electrically conductive wires anchored on an anchoring face of the lamination interlayer, which is either the fifth main face or the sixth main of the lamination interlayer; an interior second glazing, with a third main face and a fourth main face, the second main face and the third main face being the internal faces of the laminated glazing; and a set of diodes emitting in the direction of the interior glass. For each of the diodes, the lamination interlayer comprises a blind aperture on the opposite face to the anchoring face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Pascal BAUERLE, Stephan GILLESSEN, Jean-Jacques BRIS
  • Publication number: 20190037649
    Abstract: A method for processing a substrate is presented. The substrate includes an electrically conductive coating, and at least one isolating line that runs between first and second subregions of the electrically conductive coating. According to one aspect, the isolating line includes at least one defect with a proportion of less than 10% of the total surface area of the isolating line. First and second electric contacts are respectively connected to the first and second subregion. A voltage Un is applied between the first and second electric contacts, and a measurement is taken to detect whether an electric current is flowing between the first and the second subregions. If a current is flowing, application of the voltage and measurement of the current are repeated with a voltage greater than or equal to Un, until a current can no longer be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Valentin SCHULZ, Stephan GILLESSEN