Patents by Inventor Vincent Lieffrig

Vincent Lieffrig 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: 20230271876
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a glazing characterized through a high hemispherical light transmission together with an enhanced tuneable light diffusion, what we hereby call a highly transmitting glazing with optimized Hortiscatter. The glazing of the invention is particularly well suitable for a greenhouse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Mohammad SHAYESTEH, Fabrice DUFOUR, Vincent LIEFFRIG
  • Patent number: 11677142
    Abstract: An improved glazing unit extending along a plane, P, defined by a longitudinal axis, X, and a vertical axis, Z; having a width, DW, measured along the longitudinal axis, X, and a length, DL, measured along the vertical axis, Z, including a glass panel, a housing able to accommodate a communication device and an opening arranged on the glass panel. The present invention also discloses a communication system including a glazing unit, at least a 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit and a provider fixed station or active or passive repeater, which is placed at least at 1 m outside from the glazing unit, wherein the 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit is fixed to the glazing unit at the opposite side from the provider fixed station or active or passive repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC Inc., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDA
    Inventors: Mohsen Yousefbeiki, Michael Bruscaglia, Simon Castex, Vincent Lieffrig, Bernard Monville, Adrien Lemoine, Kevin Vergnolle
  • Publication number: 20230009179
    Abstract: An improved glazing unit extending along a plane, P, defined by a longitudinal axis, X, and a vertical axis, Z; having a width, DW, measured along the longitudinal axis, X, and a length, DL, measured along the vertical axis, Z, including a glass panel, a housing able to accommodate a communication device and an opening arranged on the glass panel. The present invention also discloses a communication system including a glazing unit, at least a 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit and a provider fixed station or active or passive repeater, which is placed at least at 1 m outside from the glazing unit, wherein the 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit is fixed to the glazing unit at the opposite side from the provider fixed station or active or passive repeater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC Inc., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDA
    Inventors: Mohsen YOUSEFBEIKI, Michael BRUSCAGLIA, Simon CASTEX, Vincent LIEFFRIG, Bernard MONVILLE, Adrien LEMOINE, Kevin VERGNOLLE
  • Publication number: 20230010144
    Abstract: A 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit is able to be attached to a glazing unit that includes housing with at least side parts and a cover. A communication device is fixed inside the housing and is surrounded by the side parts and the cover. The 4G and/or 5G signal communication device has at least one antenna. The housing includes a matching element. A communication system includes a glazing unit, at least the 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit and a provider fixed station or active or passive repeater, which is placed at least at 1 m outside from the glazing unit. The 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit is fixed to the glazing unit at the opposite side from the provider fixed station or active or passive repeater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC Inc., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDA
    Inventors: Mohsen YOUSEFBEIKI, Michael BRUSCAGLIA, Simon CASTEX, Vincent LIEFFRIG, Bernard MONVILLE, Adrien LEMOINE, Kevin VERGNOLLE
  • Publication number: 20230006329
    Abstract: An improved a glazing unit extending along a plane, P, defined by a longitudinal axis, X, and a vertical axis, Z; having a width, DW, measured along the longitudinal axis, X, and a length, DL, measured along the vertical axis, Z, including, at least a first outer glass panel having a S11 surface and a S12 surface and a second inner glass panel having a S21 surface and a S22 surface combined together while maintaining the two glass panels at a certain distance between the surface S12 of the first outer glass panel and the surface S21 of the second inner glass sheet. The glazing unit further includes a housing able to accommodate a 4G and/or 5G communication device and has an opening arranged on the second inner glass panel, the housing having been placed in the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC Inc., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDA
    Inventors: Mohsen YOUSEFBEIKI, Michael BRUSCAGLIA, Simon CASTEX, Vincent LIEFFRIG, Bernard MONVILLE, Adrien LEMOINE, Kevin VERGNOLLE
  • Publication number: 20120216456
    Abstract: The invention relates to a green wall including a plurality of plant subjects rooted in the ground immediately next to the wall and attached to the surface of a glass substrate. The invention also relates to a method for encouraging climbing plants to anchor to a wall including the attachment of the plants to a glass substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: AGC Glass Europe
    Inventors: Pierre Boulanger, Vincent Lieffrig
  • Patent number: 5154953
    Abstract: A glazing panel and hollow glazing panel, the hollow glazing panel including a first pane, a second pane held in spaced-apart, face-to-face relationship with the first pane, and a plurality of localized damping members positioned between the first and second panes, adherent thereto, and distributed therebetween over the area of the opposing faces thereof, wherein the first pane comprises a pair of vitreous sheets and an intervening layer of polymeric material separating the sheets of the pair and to which the sheets adhere, wherein the first pane has a shape, an area, and a total mass of vitreous material, and may be compared to a notional monolithic vitreous sheets having a coincidence frequency (.phi..sub.m) and a critical frequency of coincidence, wherein the first pane has a coincidence frequency (.phi..sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: Glaverbel
    Inventors: Frederic de Moncuit, Georges De Clerck, Vincent Lieffrig