Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Apenzeller

Wolfgang Apenzeller 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).

  • Process and device for cleaning and etching a substrate with a transparent conductive oxide layer
    Patent number: 8425793
    Abstract: A simple process is disclosed for treating substrates having pre-structured zinc oxide layers on rigid or flexible supports. The ZnO is treated with an etching medium then with a cleaning liquid. The treatment with the etching and cleaning liquids is carried out while the substrate is conveyed through a device. The process is technically simple to implement and makes it possible to regularly and homogeneously roughen and texturize ZnO layers of up to 1 m2. The device for treating substrates having pre-structured zinc oxide layers on rigid or flexible supports has for that purpose a first means for treating the substrate with an etching liquid, a second means for treating the substrate with a cleaning liquid, and another means, in particular transport rollers, for conveying the substrate from the first to the second means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Inventors: Joachim Müller, Gunnar Schöpe, Hildegard Siekmann, Bernd Rech, Tobias Repmann, Wolfgang Apenzeller, Brigitte Sehrbrock
  • Process and Device for Cleaning and Etching a Substrate Wi
    Publication number: 20080296262
    Abstract: A simple process is disclosed for treating substrates having pre-structured zinc oxide layers on rigid or flexible supports. The ZnO is treated with an etching medium then with a cleaning liquid. The treatment with the etching and cleaning liquids is carried out while the substrate is conveyed through a device. The process is technically simple to implement and makes it possible to regularly and homogeneously roughen and texturise ZnO layers of up to 1 m2. The device for treating substrates having pre-structured zinc oxide layers on rigid or flexible supports has for that purpose a first means for treating the substrate with an etching liquid, a second means for treating the substrate with a cleaning liquid, and another means, in particular transport rollers, for conveying the substrate from the first to the second means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Joachim Muller, Gunnar Schope, Hildegard Siekmann, Bernd Rech, Tobias Repmann, Wolfgang Apenzeller, Brigitte Sehrbrock