Patents by Inventor Thomas SCHMIADY
Thomas SCHMIADY 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: 20260103419Abstract: The invention relates to a glass pane, in particular a glass pane which is obtained by individualizing a floated glass strip formed by a hot forming process, in particular comprising a borosilicate glass, with a thickness (D) ranging from at least 1.75 mm to maximally 7 mm or a thickness (D) ranging from at least 0.7 mm to 7 mm, in particular from 1.1 mm to maximally 7 mm, and comprising an upper face and a lower face. The glass pane is characterized by a fine waviness of 10 nm to 26 nm, preferably between 10 nm and 15 nm, in at least one direction parallel to the surface of the glass pane on at least one surface of the upper face or the lower face of the glass pane. The invention also relates to an assembly of said glass panes and to methods for producing and using same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 16, 2026Applicant: SCHOTT Technical Glass Solutions GmbHInventors: Juliane Brandt-Slowik, Thomas Schmiady, Stefan Eberl, Andreas Sprenger, Armin Vogl, Michael Meister, Tommy Schröder, Michael Reinl
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Patent number: 12246980Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a glass substrate for vehicle glazing, in particular for a windscreen of a vehicle, which comprises hot forming of a borosilicate glass, wherein in a hot forming section, at least during stretching of the glass (8) in the flow direction or longitudinal direction of movement of the glass (8), an aging velocity Av of the glass (8) to be hot formed does not exceed 10 mm/s and an aging velocity Av of the glass preferably does not undershoot 3 mm/s, and also relates to glass substrates for vehicle glazing produced by such method as well as to windscreen projection devices and driver assistance systems comprising such glass substrates.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas Seuthe, Thilo Zachau, Thomas Schmiady, Sandra von Fintel, Jochen Alkemper
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Patent number: 12005687Abstract: A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity ?1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg ?1(y1)/dPa·s=(lg ?01/dPa·s+a1(y1)) applies.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Armin Vogl, Thomas Schmiady, Thilo Zachau, Jochen Alkemper, Michael Meister, Christian Kunert, Lutz Klippe, Rüdiger Dietrich
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Patent number: 11987523Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas Schmiady, Thomas Seuthe, Jörg Hessenkemper, Sebastian Leukel, Susanne Krüger
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Publication number: 20240158284Abstract: A glass pane, especially to a glass pane obtained by singularization from a preferably floated glass strip formed by hot forming, is provided. The glass pane is a borosilicate glass with a top side, a bottom side, and a thickness the top and bottom surfaces of at least 1.75 mm and at most 7 mm. The glass pane has a magnitude of the sum total of refractions from the top side and the bottom side within a square area Mb of 500 mm by 500 mm for light incident perpendicularly on the glass pane for a 99.9% quantile of 0 mdpt to less than 1.7 mdpt in at least one direction parallel to the surface of the glass pane.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: SCHOTT Technical Glass Solutions GmbHInventors: Juliane Brandt-Slowik, Thomas Schmiady, Stefan Eberl, Andreas Sprenger, Armin Vogl, Michael Meister, Tommy Schröder, Michael Reinl
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Publication number: 20240092684Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas SCHMIADY, Thomas SEUTHE, Jörg HESSENKEMPER, Sebastian LEUKEL, Susanne KRÜGER
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Patent number: 11890844Abstract: A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity ?1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg ?1(y1)/dPa·s=(lg ?01/dPa·s+a1(y1)) applies.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Armin Vogl, Thomas Schmiady, Thilo Zachau, Jochen Alkemper, Michael Meister, Christian Kunert, Lutz Klippe, Rüdiger Dietrich
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Patent number: 11878939Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas Schmiady, Thomas Seuthe, Jörg Hessenkemper, Sebastian Leukel, Susanne Krüger
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Patent number: 11745459Abstract: Thin glass substrates are provided. Also provided are methods and apparatuses for the production thereof and provides a thin glass substrate of improved optical quality. The method includes, after the melting and before a hot forming process, adjusting the viscosity of the glass that is to be formed or has at least partially been formed is in a defined manner for the thin glass substrate to be obtained. The apparatus includes a device for melting, a device for hot forming, and also a device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate, and the device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate is arranged upstream of the device for hot forming.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Armin Vogl, Thomas Schmiady, Thilo Zachau, Michael Meister, Jochen Alkemper, Christian Kunert, Lutz Klippe, Rüdiger Dietrich
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Publication number: 20230191741Abstract: A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity ?1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg ?1(y1)/dPa·s=(lg ?01/dPa·s+a1(y1)) applies.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Armin VOGL, Thomas SCHMIADY, Thilo ZACHAU, Jochen ALKEMPER, Michael MEISTER, Christian KUNERT, Lutz KLIPPE, Rüdiger DIETRICH
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Publication number: 20220153629Abstract: A chemically toughened or chemically toughenable sheet-like glass article is provided. The glass article includes a glass with a composition having Al2O3, SiO2, Li2O, and B2O3. The glass and/or the glass article includes not more than 7 w t% of B2O3.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Inge BURGER, Thomas SEUTHE, Jochen ALKEMPER, Susanne KRÜGER, Oliver HOCHREIN, Rüdiger DIETRICH, Jovana DJORDJEVIC-REISS, Thomas SCHMIADY, Jörg HESSENKEMPER, Sebastian LEUKEL, Julia WEISSHUHN
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Publication number: 20210039982Abstract: A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 ?m and up to at most 5 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas Schmiady, Thomas Seuthe, Jörg Hessenkemper, Sebastian Leukel, Susanne Krüger
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Publication number: 20200354253Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a glass substrate for vehicle glazing, in particular for a windscreen of a vehicle, which comprises hot forming of a borosilicate glass, wherein in a hot forming section, at least during stretching of the glass (8) in the flow direction or longitudinal direction of movement of the glass (8), an aging velocity Av of the glass (8) to be hot formed does not exceed 10 mm/s and an aging velocity Av of the glass preferably does not undershoot 3 mm/s, and also relates to glass substrates for vehicle glazing produced by such method as well as to windscreen projection devices and driver assistance systems comprising such glass substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas Seuthe, Thilo Zachau, Thomas Schmiady, Sandra von Fintel, Jochen Alkemper
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Publication number: 20200238664Abstract: Thin glass substrates are provided. Also provided are methods and apparatuses for the production thereof and provides a thin glass substrate of improved optical quality. The method includes, after the melting and before a hot forming process, adjusting the viscosity of the glass that is to be formed or has at least partially been formed is in a defined manner for the thin glass substrate to be obtained. The apparatus includes a device for melting, a device for hot forming, and also a device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate, and the device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate is arranged upstream of the device for hot forming.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Armin VOGL, Thomas SCHMIADY, Thilo ZACHAU, Michael MEISTER, Jochen ALKEMPER, Christian KUNERT, Lutz KLIPPE, Rüdiger DIETRICH
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Publication number: 20190308900Abstract: A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity ?1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg ?1(y1)/dPa·s=(lg ?01/dPa·s+a1(y1)) applies.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Armin VOGL, Thomas SCHMIADY, Thilo ZACHAU, Jochen ALKEMPER, Michael MEISTER, Christian KUNERT, Lutz KLIPPE, Rüdiger DIETRICH