Patents by Inventor Vincent Reymond

Vincent Reymond 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: 20230339212
    Abstract: A glass article with solar control properties, includes a glass substrate provided with a stack of layers that includes successively from the surface of the substrate a first module M1 made of layer(s) of dielectric material, a first layer TiN1 including titanium nitride, a second module M2 made of layer(s) of dielectric material, a second layer TiN2 including titanium nitride, a third module M3 made of layer(s) of dielectric material. The total thickness the TiN1 and TiN2 layers including titanium nitride is between 25 and 60 nm. The third module M3 includes a layer including an oxide or oxynitride of silicon having a thickness greater than 10 nm. An interlayer IL of titanium, aluminum, silicon, or an alloy thereof, or of a nickel chromium alloy, is deposited between the second layer TiN2 and the third module M3, the thickness of the interlayer IL being between 0.5 nm and 7 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Corentin MONMEYRAN, Julie RUFF, Vincent REYMOND, Norbert HUHN
  • Patent number: 11401205
    Abstract: Vehicle or building glazing having a solar control property includes a glass substrate supporting a stack of layers, including successively from the surface of the substrate, a first module M1 of layer(s) based on a dielectric material with a total thickness t1, a first layer TN1 including titanium nitride with a thickness of 5 to 35 nanometers, a first module M2 of layer(s) based on a dielectric material with a total thickness t2, a second layer TN2 including titanium nitride with a thickness of 5 to 35 nanometers, a third module M3 of layer(s) based on a dielectric material with a thickness t3. The cumulative sum of the thicknesses of the TN1 and TN2 layers including titanium nitride is greater than 30 nm, t1 being less than 30 nanometers, t2 being between 10 and 100 nm and t3 being greater than 10 nanometers. The ratio t1/t3 is less than 0.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent Reymond, Corentin Monmeyran, Laura Jane Singh
  • Patent number: 11267754
    Abstract: A glass article with a solar-control function includes at least one glass substrate and a stack of layers deposited on at least one face of the substrate. The stack of layers includes a layer of titanium oxynitride of general formula TiNxOy, in which 1.00<x<1.20 and in which 0.01<y<0.10. The stack of layers further includes layers of dielectric materials and optionally of metallic or nitrided layers based on chromium, nickel, titanium, niobium or a mixture of at least two of these elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Laura Singh, Corentin Monmeyran, Vincent Reymond, Remy Dodet, Jean Lorenzzi
  • Publication number: 20220024816
    Abstract: Vehicle or building glazing having a solar control property includes a glass substrate supporting a stack of layers, including successively from the surface of the substrate, a first module M1 of layer(s) based on a dielectric material with a total thickness t1, a first layer TN1 including titanium nitride with a thickness of 5 to 35 nanometers, a first module M2 of layer(s) based on a dielectric material with a total thickness t2, a second layer TN2 including titanium nitride with a thickness of 5 to 35 nanometers, a third module M3 of layer(s) based on a dielectric material with a thickness t3. The cumulative sum of the thicknesses of the TN1 and TN2 layers including titanium nitride is greater than 30 nm, t1 being less than 30 nanometers, t2 being between 10 and 100 nm and t3 being greater than 10 nanometers. The ratio t1/t3 is less than 0.6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Vincent REYMOND, Corentin MONMEYRAN, Laura Jane SINGH
  • Publication number: 20210253472
    Abstract: A glazing, comprising a glass substrate on which is deposited in succession, from a first surface of said substrate: a first coating comprising a layer having infrared-reflecting properties or a set of layers, at least one layer of which has infrared-reflecting properties, a second coating on top of said first coating comprising an organic or mineral layer, said second coating having a relief texture, said texture being such that its mean slope Pm is less than or equal to 15°, and the percentage of the textured surface having a slope of greater than 5° is greater than 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Michele SCHIAVONI, Vincent REYMOND
  • Patent number: 10737974
    Abstract: A material includes a transparent substrate coated with a stack of thin layers acting on infrared radiation including at least one functional layer. The stack includes a carbon-based upper protective layer within which the carbon atoms are essentially in an sp2 hybridization state and the upper protective layer is deposited above at least a part of the functional layer and exhibits a thickness of less than 1 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent Reymond, Uwe Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20200216354
    Abstract: A glass article with a solar-control function includes at least one glass substrate and a stack of layers deposited on at least one face of the substrate. The stack of layers includes a layer of titanium oxynitride of general formula TiNxOy, in which 1.00<x<1.20 and in which 0.01<y<0.10. The stack of layers further includes layers of dielectric materials and optionally of metallic or nitrided layers based on chromium, nickel, titanium, niobium or a mixture of at least two of these elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Laura SINGH, Corentin MONMEYRAN, Vincent REYMOND, Remy DODET, Jean LORENZZI
  • Publication number: 20170369367
    Abstract: A material includes a transparent substrate coated with a stack of thin layers acting on infrared radiation including at least one functional layer. The stack includes a carbon-based upper protective layer within which the carbon atoms are essentially in an sp2 hybridization state and the upper protective layer is deposited above at least a part of the functional layer and exhibits a thickness of less than 1 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent REYMOND, Uwe SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 9708215
    Abstract: A transparent glass substrate including on a main face a thin-film multilayer coating including a metallic functional layer having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation, for example based on silver or a metal alloy containing silver, and two antireflection films. The films each include at least two dielectric layers, the functional layer being placed between the two antireflection films. Each antireflection film includes at least one high-refractive-index dielectric layer located in contact with or close to the functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Hadia Gerardin, Vincent Reymond
  • Patent number: 9566766
    Abstract: A multiple glazing unit with thermal isolation properties, obtained by associating at least two glass substrates, which substrates are separated by gas-filled cavities, the multiple glazing unit incorporating: a first low-E film multilayer including at least one functional metallic film; and a second low-E film multilayer including at least one functional film made of a transparent conductive oxide, and a film made essentially of silicon oxide deposited on the function film made of transparent conductive oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Hadia Gerardin, Vincent Reymond
  • Patent number: 9494717
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent substrate provided with a thin-film multilayer comprising a metallic layer having infrared-reflection properties located between two, subjacent and superjacent, nonmetallic dielectric coatings, the superjacent dielectric coating comprising the sequence of thin layers deposited in the following order: at least one high-refractive-index layer, the physical thickness of the high-refractive-index layer or the sum of the physical thicknesses of the high-refractive-index layers lying between 15 and 40 nm; and at least one low-refractive-index layer, the physical thickness of the low-refractive-index layer or the sum of the physical thicknesses of the low-refractive-index layers lying between 40 and 120 nm, the refractive index difference between the one or more high-refractive-index layers and the one or more low-refractive-index layers lying between 0.7 and 1.2, preferably between 0.8 and 1.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent Reymond, Ramzi Jribi
  • Patent number: 9481603
    Abstract: A process for producing a substrate coated on a face with a low-E thin film multilayer, the process including: depositing a thin-film multilayer containing a thin silver film between at least two thin dielectric films and an absorbent film on a face a substrate; and heat treating the coated face with laser radiation between 500 and 2000 nm to reduce at least one selected from the group of the emissivity and the sheet resistance of the multilayer by at least 5%, wherein the absorbent film at least partially absorbs the laser radiation so that the absorption of the multilayer the wavelength of the laser radiation is such that the absorption of a clear glass substrate 4 mm in thickness coated with the multilayer at the wavelength of the laser radiation is greater than or equal to 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent Reymond, Andriy Kharchenko, Nicolas Nadaud
  • Patent number: 9028930
    Abstract: A multiple glazing comprising at least two substrates, one substrate being coated on an inner face in contact with a gas-filled cavity with a thin-film multilayer coating having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation, said coating comprising a single metallic functional layer and two dielectric films, said films each comprising at least one dielectric layer, said functional layer being placed between the two dielectric films, characterized in that at least one dielectric film, or both dielectric films, includes an absorbent layer which is placed in the dielectric film between two dielectric layers, the absorbent material of the absorbent layer(s) being predominantly in the dielectric film subjacent to the metallic functional layer or predominantly in the dielectric film superjacent to the metallic functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Vincent Reymond, Hadia Gerardin, Sylvain Belliot, Veronique Rondeau, Eric Petitjean
  • Patent number: 8951617
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multiple glazing including at least two substrates, one substrate being coated on an inner face in contact with a gas-filled cavity with a thin-film multilayer coating having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation, the coating including a metallic functional layer and at least two dielectric films, each including at least one dielectric layer, the metallic functional layer being placed between the two dielectric films, characterized in that the two dielectric films each include at least one absorbent layer which is placed in the dielectric film between two dielectric layers, the absorbent material of the absorbent layers being symmetrically placed on either side of the metallic functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Vincent Reymond, Hadia Gerardin, Sylvain Belliot, Veronique Rondeau, Eric Petitjean
  • Patent number: 8883277
    Abstract: A multiple glazing unit with at least three substrates which are held together by a frame structure, in which at least two intermediate gas-filled cavities lie each between two substrates, at least one substrate has, on at least one face in contact with an intermediate gas-filled cavity, an antireflection film which is in a face-to-face relationship relative to said intermediate gas-filled cavity, with an insulating film having reflection properties for infrared and/or in solar radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: David Janssen, Marcus Neander, Vincent Reymond, Ulrich Billert
  • Publication number: 20140022630
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent substrate provided with a thin-film multilayer comprising a metallic layer having infrared-reflection properties located between two, subjacent and superjacent, nonmetallic dielectric coatings, the superjacent dielectric coating comprising the sequence of thin layers deposited in the following order: at least one high-refractive-index layer, the physical thickness of the high-refractive-index layer or the sum of the physical thicknesses of the high-refractive-index layers lying between 15 and 40 nm; and at least one low-refractive-index layer, the physical thickness of the low-refractive-index layer or the sum of the physical thicknesses of the low-refractive-index layers lying between 40 and 120 nm, the refractive index difference between the one or more high-refractive-index layers and the one or more low-refractive-index layers lying between 0.7 and 1.2, preferably between 0.8 and 1.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Vincent Reymond, Ramzi Jribi
  • Publication number: 20140010976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multiple glazing unit with thermal isolation properties, obtained by associating at least two glass substrates, which substrates are separated by gas-filled cavities, the multiple glazing unit incorporating: a first low-E film multilayer comprising at least one functional metallic film; and a second low-E film multilayer comprising at least one functional film made of a transparent conductive oxide, and a film made essentially of silicon oxide deposited on the function film made of transparent conductive oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Hadia Gerardin, Vincent Reymond
  • Publication number: 20120087005
    Abstract: A process for producing a substrate coated on a face with a low-E thin film multilayer, the process including: depositing a thin-film multilayer containing a thin silver film between at least two thin dielectric films and an absorbent film on a face a substrate; and heat treating the coated face with laser radiation between 500 and 2000 nm to reduce at least one selected from the group of the emissivity and the sheet resistance of the multilayer by at least 5%, wherein the absorbent film at least partially absorbs the laser radiation so that the absorption of the multilayer the wavelength of the laser radiation is such that the absorption of a clear glass substrate 4 mm in thickness coated with the multilayer at the wavelength of the laser radiation is greater than or equal to 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent Reymond, Andriy Kharchenko, Nicolas Nadaud
  • Publication number: 20120028009
    Abstract: A transparent glass substrate including on a main face a thin-film multilayer coating including a metallic functional layer having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation, for example based on silver or a metal alloy containing silver, and two antireflection films. The films each include at least two dielectric layers, the functional layer being placed between the two antireflection films. Each antireflection film includes at least one high-refractive-index dielectric layer located in contact with or close to the functional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Hadia Gerardin, Vincent Reymond
  • Publication number: 20110305853
    Abstract: The invention relates to multiple glazing comprising at least two substrates, one substrate being coated on an inner face in contact with a gas-filled cavity with a thin-film multilayer coating having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation, said coating comprising a single metallic functional layer (140) and two dielectric films (120, 160), said films each comprising at least one dielectric layer (122, 126; 162, 166), said functional layer (140) being placed between the two dielectric films (120, 160), characterized in that the two dielectric films (120, 160) each include at least one absorbent layer (123, 165) which is placed in the dielectric film between two dielectric layers (122, 126; 162, 166), the absorbent material of the absorbent layers (123, 165) being symmetrically placed on either side of the metallic functional layer (140).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent Reymond, Hadia Gerardin, Sylvain Belliot, Veronique Rondeau, Eric Petitjean