Light Permeable Patents (Class 181/289)
  • Patent number: 11958270
    Abstract: Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of enhancing the heat shielding property, suppressing multiple images, and satisfactorily displaying an image. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention is an interlayer film for laminated glass for use in a laminated glass serving as a head-up display, the interlayer film has a region for display corresponding to a display region of the head-up display, the interlayer film includes an infrared reflective layer, a first resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin, and a second resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin, the first resin layer is arranged on a first surface side of the infrared reflective layer, the second resin layer is arranged on a second surface side opposite to the first surface of the infrared reflective layer, at least one of the first resin layer and the second resin layer has a wedge angle of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nohara, Yuusuke Oota
  • Patent number: 11274439
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to flame-retardant building panels comprising a body having a first major surface opposite a second major surface; an inorganic coating atop the first major surface, the inorganic coating being optically transparent and flame retardant and comprising a blend of a borate compound and a phosphate compound, and wherein the inorganic flame retardant coating is substantially transparent such that the first major surface of the body is visible through the inorganic coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: AWI Licensing LLC
    Inventors: John E. Hughes, Michelle X. Wang
  • Patent number: 10774530
    Abstract: A stretched-web structure for producing a false ceiling or a dropped ceiling box in a room, including two flexible webs arranged parallel to one another and fastened stretched between at least one wall, wherein one of the webs is made of polyvinyl chloride and the other web is made of fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NORMALU
    Inventor: Jean-Marc Scherrer
  • Patent number: 10359163
    Abstract: An acoustical and illumination baffle for suspension in a ceiling area comprising a housing and a light strip in the housing, the housing being an elongated sheet metal hollow body with opposed sidewalls and a bottom wall, at least a portion of the sidewalls and/or the bottom wall having perforations, a visible light emitting strip within the housing and extending along a major part of the length of the housing and extending a major part of a length of the housing, the light emitting strip being arranged to radiate visible light through an open area in a wall of the housing thereby illuminate an area below the housing, the perforations serving to reduce noise existing in the area below the baffle and to allow cooling air circulation through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: USG INTERIORS, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Hettwer, Rana Ahmadi, James Langan
  • Patent number: 10260231
    Abstract: An acoustically absorbent assembly intended to constitute, inside premises, a partition element able to be fixed to at least one partition for producing false partitions, comprising: two fabrics parallel to each other and assembled on an attachment means at a periphery of the two fabrics, the fabrics defining respectively an inner fabric and an outer fabric when the assembly is fixed to the partition, one of the fabrics being free from perforations, wherein the outer fabric is disposed at a given distance from the inner fabric and the outer fabric comprises microperforations configured as an acoustic fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Inventor: Jean-Marc Scherrer
  • Patent number: 10233640
    Abstract: This assembly solves the problem of hanging heavy implements from a drop ceiling by bypassing its load-bearing capacity. Separate from the drop ceiling track and hangar wires, the user installs an anchor into the structural ceiling, places a rod in the anchor, and attaches to the other end of the rod a track piece formed to fit around the ceiling track. The track piece has two prongs, each with a hole for a screw on the bottom, with the ceiling track passing through the space between the prongs. The user screws a plate or a track for ceiling lights to the bottom of each prong, then attaches the desired hanging implement to the plate or lighting track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: QUICKLIP LLC
    Inventor: Clive Russell
  • Patent number: 10227776
    Abstract: A suspended ceiling system for a building structure includes a plurality of parallel struts for supporting a plurality of parallel vanes suspended from the struts in perpendicular relationship thereto. The vanes can be suspended in downwardly spaced relationship to the struts or in contiguous relationship therewith and occur in different forms including illuminated vanes, adjustable vanes and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Mayer
  • Patent number: 10148051
    Abstract: A modular structural member (100) comprising: at least two connection portions (102), and a structural portion (101), the connection portions arranged to provide electrical and mechanical connection to other structural members, and wherein, electronic componentry (125) is provided on the structural portion, and/or the connection portions are arranged to receive a fastener (240; 260), to connect multiple connection portions together, which is provided with electronic componentry, and further wherein, a plurality of the structural members arranged to be connected together to form a structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: University of Southampton, Research and Innovation Services
    Inventors: Reuben Wilcock, Thomas Redman
  • Patent number: 10087627
    Abstract: There is provided a light-emitting acoustic panel that may be mounted in a ceiling. The light-emitting acoustic panel comprises a sound-absorbing layer and a light-transmissive layer arranged in parallel such that a space is formed in-between. In the space a light source and a reflector are arranged such that light emitted by the light source is redirected by the reflector and emitted towards a reflective side of the sound-absorbing layer. There is further a duct arranged through the light-emitting acoustic panel. In the duct, devices providing functionalities such as sensing, sound, lighting may be arranged. The outer surface of the duct, facing the space between the sound-absorbing layer and the light-transmissive layer comprises a specularly reflective surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Silvia Maria Booij, Ronald Cornelis De Gier
  • Patent number: 9856643
    Abstract: A work-station utilizes sound absorbing, translucent enclosure panels that allows light from outside of the work-station to enter. The translucent enclosure panels have an outside panel, and intermediate panel and an inside panel of a translucent plastic sheet material that form cells for dampening sound transmission through the enclosure panels. The inside panel has a plurality of apertures to allow sound to enter and be dissipated within the internal cells. A sound masking device is configured within the work-station and projects a dampening sound into the work-station, such as along the opening to work-station to produce a masking sound curtain for sound entering the work-station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Inventor: Frank Lytle
  • Patent number: 9851094
    Abstract: The invention relates to a set (1) of panels forming a lighting system, the set comprising a light-emitting panel (2) and a light-reflecting panel (3), each panel having two opposing first sides (4), two opposing second sides (5) and two opposing main surfaces (6). Each panel is suspended from a ceiling (7) with a first side (4) thereof facing the ceiling. The light-emitting panel (2) comprises a light source (11) arranged on a second side (5) thereof. The second side (5) of the light-emitting panel (2) faces a main surface (6) of the light-reflecting panel (3) such that the light source (11) is arranged to illuminate the main surface (6) of the light-reflecting panel (3). The invention also relates to a lighting system including such set of panels and an acoustic panel as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrikus Hubertus Petrus Gommans, Jasper Van Dorp Schuitman, Amin Gerhard Kohlrausch, Ronaldus Maria Aarts
  • Patent number: 9637916
    Abstract: A work-station utilizes sound absorbing, translucent enclosure panels that allows light from outside of the work-station to enter. The translucent enclosure panels have an outside panel, and intermediate panel and an inside panel of a translucent plastic sheet material that form cells for dampening sound transmission through the enclosure panels. The inside panel has a plurality of apertures to allow sound to enter and be dissipated within the internal cells. A sound masking device is configured within the work-station and projects a dampening sound into the work-station, such as along the opening to work-station to produce a masking sound curtain for sound entering the work-station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Frank Lytle
  • Patent number: 9459399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to alight-emitting panel (1) comprising: a first panel sheet (11), the first panel sheet being optically transparent; a second panel sheet (12); and a cellular support panel (10) sandwiched between the first panel sheet and the second panel sheet. The cellular support panel comprises optically transparent cell walls (13) defining a plurality of tubular channels (14) extending from the first panel sheet towards the second panel sheet. The light-emitting panel (1) further comprises a two-dimensional light-source array (15;16;24;27) comprising a plurality of light-sources (18a-b;19a-b) each being arranged to emit light into at least one of the tubular channels of the cellular support panel. Various embodiments of the present invention provide a cost-efficient light-emitting panel with advantageous light-emission and mechanical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn, Fetze Pijlman, Stefan Henricus Swinkels, Gabriel-Eugen Onac, Michel Cornelis Josephus Marie Vissenberg
  • Patent number: 9194124
    Abstract: A sound absorbing luminaire providing lighting for an interior space environment and managing the acoustics within the environment. The luminaire includes a frame holding an acoustic film and a lighting element, forming a resonant cavity between them. The acoustic film is used for absorbing sound within the resonant cavity, and the lighting element provides light from a light source, such as LEDs, through the acoustic film. An optical film can be mounted in the frame between the acoustic film and the lighting element for providing a desired distribution of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Raymond P. Johnson, Michael A. Meis, Anthony J. Piekarczyk, Martin Kristoffersen, Stephanie B. Castiglione
  • Patent number: 9147390
    Abstract: An optical acoustic panel 100 for absorbing sound and providing a daylight appearance and a luminaire are provided. The optical acoustic panel 100 comprises a first side 114, a second side 104, a micro perforated foil 110 and a spacing structure 108. The first side 114 receives sound. The second side 104 is opposite the first side 114 and receives light. The micro perforated foil 110 comprises sub-millimeter holes 112, is light transmitting and is arranged at the first side 114. The sub-millimeter holes 112 are entrance holes of a cavity. The spacing structure 108 spaces the first side 114 at a predefined distance from the second side 104. The spacing structure 108 comprises a plurality of light transmitting cells 106. The light transmitting cells 106 comprise a light transmitting channel 118, a light exit window 122, a light input window 120 and a wall 116. The light transmitting channel 118 collimates a part of the light received at the second side 104 of the optical acoustic panel 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Henricus Swinkels, Michel Cornelis Josephus Marie Vissenberg
  • Publication number: 20140299408
    Abstract: An optical acoustic panel 100 for absorbing sound and providing a daylight appearance and a luminaire are provided. The optical acoustic panel 100 comprises a first side 114, a second side 104, a micro perforated foil 110 and a spacing structure 108. The first side 114 receives sound. The second side 104 is opposite the first side 114 and receives light. The micro perforated foil 110 comprises sub-millimeter holes 112, is light transmitting and is arranged at the first side 114. The sub-millimeter holes 112 are entrance holes of a cavity. The spacing structure 108 spaces the first side 114 at a predefined distance from the second side 104. The spacing structure 108 comprises a plurality of light transmitting cells 106. The light transmitting cells 106 comprise a light transmitting channel 118, a light exit window 122, a light input window 120 and a wall 116. The light transmitting channel 118 collimates a part of the light received at the second side 104 of the optical acoustic panel 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Henricus Swinkels, Michel Cornelis Josephus Marie Vissenberg
  • Patent number: 8695756
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an interlayer film for a laminated glass excellent in a sound-insulating property, which is preferably usable for a head up display and the like wherein a driver can look at the front view and an instrument display simultaneously without requiring to look down, and to provide a laminated glass. The present invention is directed to interlayer film for a laminated glass, which comprises at least a pair of protection layers and a sound-insulating layer sandwiched between the pair of the protection layers, and which has a wedge shape as a cross-sectional shape, a wedge angle ? of 0.1 to 0.7 mrad, the maximum thickness of 2000 ?m or thinner, and the minimum thickness of 400 ?m or thicker, the minimum thickness of the sound-insulating layer being 20 ?m or thicker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiro Miyai
  • Patent number: 8651232
    Abstract: Transparent panel of acrylic glass (PMMA) having internal reinforcement elements for securing fragments of the acrylic glass formed upon an impact with a foreign body. The reinforcement elements are embedded interspersed within the panel and spaced apart in parallel longitudinally. The reinforcement elements include rigid cables and elastic cables. The rigid cables are formed of a metal having an ultimate tensile strength of at least 500 MPa. The elastic cables are formed of a metal having a percentage elongation (engineering strain at fracture) of at least 30%, preferably between 40% and 80%. The rigid cables and elastic cables may be separate and spaced apart from one another, or intertwined with each other. The panels may be used to form an acoustic barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Plazit Iberica Plastic Solutions, S.A.
    Inventors: Ehud Kedar, Joaquin Aliu Agullo, Mariona Mata Molinet
  • Patent number: 8033360
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an interlayer film for a laminated glass excellent in a sound-insulating property, which is preferably usable for a head up display and the like wherein a driver can look at the front view and an instrument display simultaneously without requiring to look down, and to provide a laminated glass. The present invention is directed to interlayer film for a laminated glass, which comprises at least a pair of protection layers and a sound-insulating layer sandwiched between the pair of the protection layers, and which has ah wedge shape as a cross-sectional shape, a wedge angle ? of 0.1 to 0.7 mrad, the maximum thickness of 2000 ?m or thinner, and the minimum thickness of 400 ?m or thicker, the minimum thickness of the sound-insulating layer being 20 ?m or thicker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiro Miyai
  • Publication number: 20110094825
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an interlayer film for a laminated glass excellent in a sound-insulating property, which is preferably usable for a head up display and the like wherein a driver can look at the front view and an instrument display simultaneously without requiring to look down, and to provide a laminated glass. The present invention is directed to interlayer film for a laminated glass, which comprises at least a pair of protection layers and a sound-insulating layer sandwiched between the pair of the protection layers, and which has a wedge shape as a cross-sectional shape, a wedge angle ? of 0.1 to 0.7 mrad, the maximum thickness of 2000 ?m or thinner, and the minimum thickness of 400 ?m or thicker, the minimum thickness of the sound-insulating layer being 20 ?m or thicker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiro Miyai
  • Patent number: 7909133
    Abstract: A glazing unit with an improved vibroacoustic damping property including at least one sheet of glass and at least one vibroacoustic damping strip that is attached to at least one of the faces of the glass sheet and that includes at least one component made of damping material having a loss factor greater than 0.2. The strip is not joined to any other device on the opposite side from the glass sheet and the component made of damping material has a Young's modulus greater than 800 MPa, at 20° C., for a particular frequency corresponding to the critical frequency of the glazing unit to within plus or minus 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Sylvain Payot, David Fournier
  • Patent number: 7886871
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an interlayer film for a laminated glass excellent in a sound-insulating property, which is preferably usable for a head up display and the like wherein a driver can look at the front view and an instrument display simultaneously without requiring to look down, and to provide a laminated glass. The present invention is directed to interlayer film for a laminated glass, which comprises at least a pair of protection layers and a sound-insulating layer sandwiched between the pair of the protection layers, and which has a wedge shape as a cross-sectional shape, a wedge angle ? of 0.1 to 0.7 mrad, the maximum thickness of 2000 ?m or thinner, and the minimum thickness of 400 ?m or thicker, the minimum thickness of the sound-insulating layer being 20 ?m or thicker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiro Miyai
  • Patent number: 7829192
    Abstract: Laminated glazing (2) comprising a viscoelastic plastic insert (3) comprising at least two damping films (30, 31) each having a loss factor tan ? greater than 0.6 and a shear modulus G? less than 2×107 Pa over two temperature ranges tA et tB respectively, characterized in that the film which has, at a frequency of 200 Hz, the highest loss factor tan ? over a given temperature range included within the temperature range tA or tB, has an equivalent shear modulus G?eq less than the equivalent shear modulus or moduli of the other film or films, with G eq ? = G ? ? e tot e where G? is the shear modulus of the material constituting the film, e is the thickness of the film and etot the total thickness of the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Boure, Julien Charlier, Eloi Gaudry, Marc Rehfeld
  • Patent number: 7665574
    Abstract: Soundproofing, restraining systems including at least one transparent acrylic glass panel that contains at least one embedded metal cable. A layer of plastic is provided, at least partially, between the surface of the metal cable and the transparent acrylic glass matrix. The restraining systems can be used in particular as noise barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Roehm GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Egbert Schoela, Peter Seelmann, Ingulf Stuelpnagel, Johannes Kistenich, Ryoichi Tanaka, Motoji Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20090294212
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an interlayer film for a laminated glass excellent in a sound-insulating property, which is preferably usable for a head up display and the like wherein a driver can look at the front view and an instrument display simultaneously without requiring to look down, and to provide a laminated glass. The present invention is directed to interlayer film for a laminated glass, which comprises at least a pair of protection layers and a sound-insulating layer sandwiched between the pair of the protection layers, and which has a wedge shape as a cross-sectional shape, a wedge angle ? of 0.1 to 0.7 mrad, the maximum thickness of 2000 ?m or thinner, and the minimum thickness of 400 ?m or thicker, the minimum thickness of the sound-insulating layer being 20 ?m or thicker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiro Miyai
  • Patent number: 7568553
    Abstract: A noise barrier system composed of a base and a transparent superstructure. A support holds at least two adjacent transparent noise barrier elements and includes a point-fastening of the transparent noise barrier element. A position of upper holding points of the transparent superstructure is arranged at a height of from 70 to 90% of a total height of the transparent noise barrier element and at a distance of from 3 to 50 times a thickness of the transparent noise barrier element from a vertical edge. An upper side of the transparent noise barrier element has a flexure, an angle of the flexure being from 30° to 90° from vertical, and a width of an angled region being from 5 cm to 50 cm, and an entire length of a lower side of the sheet is secured within a groove-shaped depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Roehm GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolffgang Wiebel, Klaus Lublow, Klaus Oberlaender, Norbert Brand, Reiner Lingelbach, Peter Seelmann
  • Patent number: 7546900
    Abstract: A panel assembly for a traffic noise barrier wall of the type including opposing slots formed in pairs of vertically-mounted posts is described. The panel assembly includes a sheet, which may be transparent, and a frame disposed along at least a portion of the perimeter of the sheet. Side portions of the frame capture at least a portion of the side edges of the sheet and are received within the opposing slots in drop-down fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Evonik Cyro LLC
    Inventors: Eric C. Humphries, Stephen D. Barratt, Ray Stauffer, Paul D. Nowicki, John H. Miller
  • Patent number: 7537813
    Abstract: An acoustic insulating glazing unit including at least two substrate sheets, joined together around their periphery using a device that forms a sealed joint and a spacer frame, which device, with the two substrate sheets, defines a flat cavity filled with a gas. At least one microcavity is formed over at least part of the periphery of the cavity, constituting a zone of thermoviscous losses from the cavity along at least one of internal walls of the two substrate sheets by which the cavity is bounded. Dimensions of the at least one microcavity are chosen to promote propagation of some of the acoustic waves from the cavity into the microcavity, generating thermoviscous losses and thus reducing acoustic energy of the cavity. A mechanism is provided to contain the acoustic waves escaping from the microcavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Beatrice Mottelet, Marc Rehfeld
  • Patent number: 7352870
    Abstract: An active sound muffler for reducing a sound to be reduced as emitted from a sound source located at one of the opposite sides of a sound insulating wall and diffracted and transmitted to the other side, the muffler comprises a control loudspeaker arranged at the front end or the other side of the sound insulating wall and adapted to output a control sound with a predetermined amplitude and a predetermined phase, a control microphone arranged above the sound insulating wall and adapted to gauge the sound pressure or the acoustic intensity of the sound to be reduced and that of the control sound and a control circuit for controlling the output of the control loudspeaker so as to minimize the sound pressure or the acoustic intensity, whichever appropriate, based on the outcome of gauging of the control microphone, and the control loudspeaker showing a line sound source characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akihiko Enamito, Osamu Nishimura, Tsutomu Shioyama
  • Patent number: 7322440
    Abstract: An ultra light, noise reducing composite (1) comprises an acoustically transparent, light weight film (6) between an underlay layer (5) and an air flow resistance layer (4). This composite allows to easily tune the acoustic properties by balancing the absorption and sound transmission behaviour of the composite (1). This air flow resistance layer (4) has an air flow resistance of between 500 Ns/m3 and 10,000 Ns/m3 and an area mass between 200 g/m2 and 3,000 g/m2. The underlay layer (5) has a stiffness value in the range between 100 Pa and 100,000 Pa. The light weight film (6) may consist of a synthetic foil and preferably has a thickness of 0.01 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Rieter Technologies AG
    Inventors: Hameed S. Khan, James H. Fisher, Steven D. Tessendorf, Peter Ehrler
  • Patent number: 7121380
    Abstract: A method of acoustically attenuating noises of structure-borne origin in an article of manufacture by installing a laminated window having a glass sheet and an intermediate film, where the film has a loss factor tan ? greater than 0.6 and a shear modulus G? smaller than 2×107 N/m2 in a temperature range between 10 and 60° C. and in a frequency range between 50 and 10,000 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Gilles Garnier, Marc Rehfeld, Franz Kraemling
  • Patent number: 7021421
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transparent noise-barrier wall which is slow to foul, easy to clean even when fouled, and capable of maintaining these effects over a long period of time. The transparent noise-barrier wall has brookite titanium dioxide substantially existing on the surface. The titanium dioxide particles preferably contain about 20% by mass or more of brookite titanium dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Showa Denko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Ohmori, Masayuki Sanbayashi
  • Patent number: 6668974
    Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic insulating glazing unit. This glazing unit comprises two glass sheets (12, 14) joined together around their periphery by means of an assembly (16) forming a seal (163) and an insert frame (161) which defines, with the two glass sheets, a flat cavity filled with a gas, and a waveguide fastened between the glass sheets, internal to the insert frame. The waveguide consists of at least one straight tubular section (20, 22, 24, 26) placed on the periphery of the gas-filled cavity along one side of the glazing unit, this section being provided with a transverse partition (28) which closes the latter in its length direction, the said partition being placed at a length position along the section which depends on the acoustic mode of the cavity that it is desired to disorganize, this partition defining, on either side of it, two chambers (30, 31) which communicate with the cavity through the ends of the sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Beatrice Mottelet, Marc Rehfeld
  • Patent number: 6351914
    Abstract: A light-transmitting building component, as wall roof or ceiling component etc. is formed with a technical membrane, in the form of a textile tissue on the outward-facing side and, furthermore, by a sound-insulation layer arranged at a distance to the outer layer of the technical membrane, and by and infrared-impeding, light-transmitting layer on the inward-facing side. In this manner, a building component is created which features low surface weight and still meets stringent requirements not only in terms of resistance to climatic influences but also with regard to heat and sound insulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Werner Sobek Ingenieure GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Sobek
  • Patent number: 6186578
    Abstract: A window pane fixed to an automobile via a peripheral joint forms at least a part of a wall defining a cabin of the vehicle. The window pane, at the peripheral joint, is constructed so as to eliminate at least one mode of acoustic radiance from the pane to a cavity defined by the cabin when the pane is excited by an acoustic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage
    Inventors: Gilles Garnier, Marc Rehfeld
  • Patent number: 6098744
    Abstract: Disclosed a thermal- and sound-insulating container having a chamber, which is defined by multilayer wall structure including vacuum layers therein. The chamber is made as small as possible the surface area thereof to achieve the high insulating effectiveness. The thermal- and sound-insulating container is comprised of the multilayer wall structure with vacuum layers therein, which constitutes the chamber defined in a hollow cylinder partially having a flat secant face, the hollow cylinder having a cross section of a circle or an ellipse that closely resembles the circle. The multilayer wall structure is composed of a pair of confronting frames arranged spaced away from each other, surface panels attached to the frames to define an empty space between the confronting frames, and sealing members arranged between the frames and the peripheries of the surface panels so as to keep the space at vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Isuzu Ceramics Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Kawamura
  • Patent number: 6074732
    Abstract: The invention relates to a soundproofing window in which an intermediate film provides for damping of vibrations transmitted in particular by structure-borne conduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage
    Inventors: Gilles Garnier, Marc Rehfeld, Franz Kraemling
  • Patent number: 5965853
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vibration dampening/sound absorbing aircraft transparency which includes an outboard pane assembly, a vibration dampening/sound absorbing pane assembly and a spacer frame assembly for retaining the outboard pane assembly and the vibration dampening/sound absorbing pane assembly in spaced-apart generally parallel facing relationship to provide a space therebetween. The vibration dampening/sound absorbing pane assembly is a multilayer laminate which includes a substrate, an adhesive interlayer provided over a surface of the substrate and a sound dampening material layer provided over the adhesive interlayer and adhered by the adhesive interlayer to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventor: William W. Hornsey
  • Patent number: 5942736
    Abstract: Antinoise barrier including a perforated transparent panel fixed parallel to another solid transparent panel in such a way as to form an air interspace between the panels, with the perforated panel provided with holes having different dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignees: Dieselbox SA, Vismara Attilio s.r.l.
    Inventor: Rivo Cortonesi
  • Patent number: 5532440
    Abstract: In the sound absorbing member, partition members each formed of sound absorbing material are disposed between first and second light transmissive sheet members to thereby form a plurality of small spaces, and first and second through holes are formed in the first and second sheet members, respectively, in such a manner that the first through holes communicate with other small spaces than the small spaces in communication with the second through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyoji Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 5368917
    Abstract: An acoustic glazing intended for land transportation vehicles and including first and second glass sheets separated by an interlayer region, wherein the acoustic transmission loss differs at most by 5 dB from a figure increasing of 9 dB per octave from 800 to 2000 Hz and of 3 dB per octave above that. As examples, double glazings or laminated glazings are presented featuring an interlayer with a pronounced damping. The acoustic glazing will then operate to effectively eliminate aerodynamic noises in moving vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage International
    Inventors: Marc Rehfeld, Michel Canaud
  • 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
  • Patent number: 4829728
    Abstract: A soundproof structure is provided at its surface with a lining of a catadioptric material which forms a light source when a light beam impinges on it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Inventor: Clino T. Castelli
  • Patent number: 4787296
    Abstract: Ventilated soundproof glass including at least two sheets of glass and one sheet of plastic film in between. These two sheets of glass and the sheet of plastic film have holes arranged in them. The sides of the two sheets of glass adjacent to the sheet of plastic film have grooves, by which the air can pass through the ventilated soundproof glass while the noise is substantially reduced when it is propagating through the long courses of the grooves within the ventilated soundproof glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Inventor: Tao Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 4607466
    Abstract: The present invention is an acoustic panel having a porous layer and a generally rigid layer affixed to each other. The generally rigid layer includes at least one passageway opening on one side of the rigid layer and extending through the rigid layer to the porous layer. The porous layer is a fibrous material. The rigid layer is a concrete-type material, such as vermiculite-cement plaster. This acoustic panel further comprises a generally rigid planar surface positioned adjacent to the porous layer. This generally rigid planar surface can comprise an insulating layer affixed to the other side of the porous layer and a structural layer fastened to the insulating layer. The insulating layer is a polyurethane foam board. The structural layer is a particle board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Inventor: John C. Allred
  • Patent number: 4600078
    Abstract: A sound barrier (22) comprising a pair of spaced apart members (24,26), a medium (34) disposed between the members capable of propagating sound waves, and one or more acoustical resonators (30) coupled to the medium and tuned to one or more selected frequencies. The resonators may be disposed between the members or may be disposed around the outer periphery of the members to permit construction of a sound barrier window. The resonators may form an integral part of one of the members or may be suspended between the members by netting or sound insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Lockheed Corporation
    Inventor: Leslie S. Wirt
  • Patent number: 4330046
    Abstract: A sound barrier for isolating a noise source of the type emanating from manufacturing areas for food. The sound barrier comprises a panel made of sound attenuating material having a plurality of longitudinally extending side by side co-planar sections separated by V-shaped ribs so as to define a plurality of longitudinally extending side by side cavities. The cavities are provided with acoustical absorptive material therein so that the sound waves emanating from the noise source are first absorbed by the acoustical absorptive material and thereafter partly attenuated by the panel and partly deflected thereby so as to be absorbed again by the acoustical absorptive material. The panel is preferably transparent and portions of at least some cavities may be left free of acoustical absorptive material so as to provide undistorted vision from one side of the panel to the opposite side thereof. The sound barrier is intended to be disposed so that the open faces of the cavities confront the noise source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Inventors: Armand Lerner, Sylvain S. Lerner
  • Patent number: 4278146
    Abstract: A sound barrier for isolating a noise source of the type emanating from manufacturing areas for food. The sound barrier comprises a panel made of sound attenuating material having a plurality of longitudinally extending side by side co-planar sections separated by V-shaped ribs so as to define a plurality of longitudinally extending side by side cavities. The cavities are provided with acoustical absorptive material therein so that the sound waves emanating from the noise source are first absorbed by the acoustical absorptive material and thereafter partly attenuated by the panel and partly deflected thereby so as to be absorbed again by the acoustical absorptive material. The panel is preferably transparent and portions of at least some cavities may be left free of acoustical absorptive material so as to provide undistorted vision from one side of the panel to the opposite side thereof. The sound barrier is intended to be disposed so that the open faces of the cavities confront the noise source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1981
    Inventors: Armand Lerner, Sylvain S. Lerner
  • Patent number: 4275801
    Abstract: The present noise and heat insulating structural component may form a wall anel or a window element if the component is made of transparent material. Between two substantially parallel outer walls there is arranged at least one auxiliary damping wall forming a plurality of evacuated pockets each having a vaulted or domed surface when the auxiliary wall is substantially free of a load condition. The auxiliary wall may be secured to one or both of the outer walls, for example, by adhesive. Alternatively the auxiliary damping wall may be secured to a further inner wall member or it may be held in position only at its edges substantially intermediate between the outer walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Biohm Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventor: Oskar Bschorr
  • Patent number: 4261433
    Abstract: An acoustical-reflective ceiling panel for directing incident light from a remotely positioned light source toward a selected area and for attenuating ambient noise. The panel includes a plurality of pyramidal reflector units arranged in an array of rows and columns and a plurality of acoustical holes which trap the ambient noise to thereby reduce the noise level in the vicinity of the panel. The pyramidal reflector units each have reflective surfaces facing in different directions and are located in staggered rows in which the pyramidal reflector units in alternate rows form the columns. Light emitted from a light source positioned laterally with respect to the pyramidal reflector units is reflected off those reflective surfaces that face the light source onto the selected surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1981
    Assignee: Herman Miller, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert L. Propst