Patents by Inventor Thomas TONDU

Thomas TONDU 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).

  • Patent number: 11865811
    Abstract: A laminated glazing has a plurality of rigid transparent substrates that are bonded to one another pairwise via an intercalary adhesive layer, at least one of these transparent substrates being coated with an electrically conductive layer that is substantially uniform in nature and thickness, a zone of which has four edges opposing one another in pairs, first and second busbars being arranged along two opposite edges, ablation lines of the electrically conductive layer closing in on themselves while forming non-conductive strips, each occupying a major portion of the distance between the busbars, the shape of the non-conductive strips being capable of providing a temperature of heating by the electrically conductive layer that is virtually constant over the entire area of the zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Thomas Tondu
  • Patent number: 11639047
    Abstract: A window pane includes at least one structural substrate referred to as interior substrate, intended to face toward a host structure within which the window pane is intended to be fixed, and having a face, referred to as interior face, wherein the interior face of the substrate includes, projecting therefrom and at the edge or near the edge and along at least one of the sides of the window pane, at least one male or female retaining element intended to collaborate with at least one respectively female or male retaining shape arranged in the host structure of the window pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Thomas Tondu, Jérôme Barbier
  • Patent number: 11548268
    Abstract: A laminated glazing includes a first and a second glass sheet that are bonded by a first interlayer adhesive layer, a peripheral zone of the laminated glazing being covered by a stepped metal element, the laminated glazing including a heating network of wires and/or a heating electrically conductive layer that is provided with busbars, a plurality of probes and other optional electrical elements that are linked to an electrical power supply via the connector of the laminated glazing, an electrical conductor linking the stepped metal element to a busbar of the heating network of wires and/or of the heating electrically conductive layer; and/or to the cap of the connector of the laminated glazing, which is linked to the ground of the structure for mounting the laminated glazing; and/or to a contact of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Marie-Hélène Debrus, Thomas Tondu, Hugo Canales, Franck Flourens, Catherine Unfer, Osmin Delverdier
  • Publication number: 20220410539
    Abstract: A light aerial vehicle laminated glazing includes a structural transparent plastic sheet covering the whole of the surface of the glazing, a protective transparent plastic sheet covering the whole of the surface of the glazing, an interlayer adhesive bonding the structural and protective sheets, a glass covered with a conductive layer having a heating function incorporated within the adhesive and covering a fraction of the surface of the glazing at most equal to 66% containing the main viewing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Thomas TONDU
  • Publication number: 20220388280
    Abstract: A laminated glazing includes a structural transparent substrate bonded to a glass sheet of 0.5 to 4 mm, intended to constitute an outer surface of the laminated glazing, by an adhesive interlayer of 4 to 10 mm, which successively includes 0.25 to 2.5 mm of a flexible first polymer material having a relaxation modulus at most equal to 2 GPa for relaxation times at least equal to 10 min, at temperatures at least equal to ?40° C., in contact with the glass sheet, then a stiff second polymer material having a relaxation modulus at least equal to 4 GPa, for time constants at most equal to 0.1 millisecond and temperatures at most equal to 40° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Thomas TONDU
  • Publication number: 20220371690
    Abstract: A port-hole of an immersed structure, for seeing, from inside the structure in air, to the outside of the structure in water, level with the structure, wherein the face of the port-hole oriented toward the inside of the structure includes at least one flat section forming an angle of 20 to 40° with respect to the face of the port-hole oriented toward the outside of the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jean-Benoît MAYEUX, Thomas TONDU
  • Patent number: 11472163
    Abstract: A heated glazing includes at least one plastic structural substrate and a heating device and includes at least one transparent and electrically-conductive thin layer. The heated glazing includes, as laminate, at least one first plastic structural substrate, at least one glass sheet equipped with the heating layer, and at least one second plastic structural substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Thomas Tondu
  • Publication number: 20220325573
    Abstract: An insulated glazing unit includes a first laminated pane including two glass sheets, each no more than 2 mm thick, that are bonded to one another by an intermediate adhesive layer, a second structural laminated pane providing the mechanical strength required for the flight conditions of an airplane, in particular resistance to bird strike and control of glazing unit deformation under pressure difference conditions during a flight on either side of the insulated glazing unit, and a gas gap between the first and second laminated panes, the first laminated pane being provided with a heating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventor: Thomas TONDU
  • Patent number: 11358734
    Abstract: A laminated glazing includes a first and a second glass sheet that are bonded by a first interlayer adhesive layer, a peripheral zone of the laminated glazing being covered by a stepped metal element, a window press that is rigidly connected to the structure for mounting the laminated glazing making contact with the laminated glazing, so as to hold the laminated glazing secure to its mounting structure, an electrical conductor having a first end that is electrically linked to the stepped metal element and a second tapered end at a non-zero distance at most equal to 1 mm from the window press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Marie-Hélène Debrus, Thomas Tondu
  • Publication number: 20220039215
    Abstract: An anti-icing glazing or portion thereof, is entirely located, in the fitted position, on one side of the plane of symmetry of the body of an airborne, water-borne or terrestrial vehicle, wherein the heating power is differentiated over the whole of the surface thereof, so as to apply the maximum power to the portion of the surface where the heat loss is maximum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventor: Thomas TONDU
  • Publication number: 20220024186
    Abstract: laminated glazing includes a first glass sheet constituting an external face of the glazing, connected to a second glass sheet by a first interlayer adhesive layer, the edge of the first glass sheet being set back with respect to that of the second, a peripheral part of the free surface of the first glass sheet, its edge face, that of the first interlayer adhesive layer and a part of the surface of the second glass sheet extending beyond the first describing a continuous stepped contour which is covered, with interposition of adhesive, with a stepped element made of polymer material which can contain reinforcing fillers, which exhibits a permeability to water vapor at most equal to 5 g/m2/day.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas TONDU, Didier TELLIER
  • Patent number: 11207869
    Abstract: A laminated glazing for a vehicle or a building, includes an inner structural glass sheet having a surface compressive stress of between 400 and 1000 MPa with exchange depths of between 100 and 500, for example at least equal to 150 ?m and an outer structural glass sheet having a surface compressive stress of between 50 and 300 MPa with exchange depths of between 50 and 100 ?m, on condition that the product of the two is at most equal to 25 000 MPa·?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Thomas Tondu, Cyril Lago-Gomez
  • Publication number: 20210187913
    Abstract: A window pane includes at least one structural substrate referred to as interior substrate, intended to face toward a host structure within which the window pane is intended to be fixed, and having a face, referred to as interior face, wherein the interior face of the substrate includes, projecting therefrom and at the edge or near the edge and along at least one of the sides of the window pane, at least one male or female retaining element intended to collaborate with at least one respectively female or male retaining shape arranged in the host structure of the window pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas TONDU, Jérôme BARBIER
  • Patent number: 10906626
    Abstract: A laminated glazing includes a first structural ply assembled with a first glass sheet of 0.5 to 1.5 mm thickness by way of a first adhesive interlayer, the first glass sheet forming a first exterior face of the laminated glazing, the face of the first glass sheet oriented toward the first adhesive interlayer bearing a first conductive heating layer of 2 ?ngströms to 500 nm thickness, and the first conductive heating layer including flow-separating lines of 0.05 to 0.2 mm thickness spaced apart by 8 to 20 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Thomas Tondu, Pierre Chaussade, Vincent Legois
  • Patent number: 10906627
    Abstract: A laminated glazing includes a first and a second glass sheet that are bonded by a first interlayer adhesive layer, a peripheral zone of the laminated glazing being covered by a stepped metal element, a window press that is rigidly connected to the structure for mounting the laminated glazing making contact with the laminated glazing, so as to hold the laminated glazing secure to its mounting structure, an electrical conductor linking the stepped metal element and the structure for mounting the laminated glazing by way of the window press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Marie-Hélène Debrus, Thomas Tondu, Hugo Canales, Franck Flourens, Catherine Unfer, Osmin Delverdier
  • Publication number: 20200384741
    Abstract: A heated glazing includes at least one plastic structural substrate and a heating device and includes at least one transparent and electrically-conductive thin layer. The heated glazing includes, as laminate, at least one first plastic structural substrate, at least one glass sheet equipped with the heating layer, and at least one second plastic structural substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas TONDU
  • Publication number: 20200384737
    Abstract: A laminated glazing for a vehicle or a building, includes an inner structural glass sheet having a surface compressive stress of between 400 and 1000 MPa with exchange depths of between 100 and 500, for example at least equal to 150 ?m and an outer structural glass sheet having a surface compressive stress of between 50 and 300 MPa with exchange depths of between 50 and 100 ?m, on condition that the product of the two is at most equal to 25 000 MPa·?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas TONDU, Cyril LAGO-GOMEZ
  • Publication number: 20200384736
    Abstract: A laminated glazing for a vehicle or a building, includes an inner structural polymer material sheet and an outer structural glass sheet having a breaking stress of from 350 to 1000 MPa under the stress characteristics of a bird strike.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas TONDU
  • Patent number: 10836142
    Abstract: A laminated glazing includes one or two plies of 0.5 to 12 mm thickness, and one or more structural plies of 3 to 20 mm thickness, wherein at least that face of at least one ply of 0.5 to 12 mm thickness which is oriented toward the one or more structural plies and/or at least one face of the latter includes an electrically conductive layer of thickness comprised between 2 and 1600 nm, except on at least one ablation line, the edges of this line having no hem, and their average slope being at most equal to 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent Legois, Vincent Rachet, Thomas Tondu
  • Publication number: 20200344851
    Abstract: A laminated glazing with a network of heating wires includes at least two rigid transparent sheets that are connected to one another pairwise by an intercalary adhesive layer, wherein at least one network of heating wires is arranged on a face of one of the at least two rigid transparent sheets other than the exterior main faces of the laminated glazing, the network of heating wires being supplied with power by contact with at least two feeds that are connected to an electric current source, the feeds being arranged on the edges of the laminated glazing and/or on its exterior main face that is intended to be oriented, in the mounting position, opposite the exterior atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas TONDU, Jean-Benoit MAYEUX