SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160124119 | SUBSTRATE PROVIDED WITH A STACK HAVING THERMAL PROPERTIES - A transparent substrate includes a stack of thin layers successively including, starting from the substrate, an alternation of three metallic functional layers, in particular of functional layers based on silver or on silver-comprising metal alloy, and of four antireflective coatings, each antireflective coating including at least one dielectric layer, so that each metallic functional layer is positioned between two antireflective coatings, wherein: the thicknesses of the metallic functional layers, starting from the substrate, increase as a function of the distance from the substrate, the second metallic functional layer is directly in contact with a blocking layer, referred to as second blocking layer, chosen from a blocking underlayer and a blocking overlayer, respectively referred to as second blocking underlayer and second blocking overlayer, the second blocking underlayer and/or the second blocking overlayer exhibits a thickness of greater than 1 nm. | 05-05-2016 |
20160002100 | PANE WITH THERMAL RADIATION REFLECTING COATING - The present invention relates to a pane with thermal radiation reflecting coating, comprising a substrate ( | 01-07-2016 |
20160002099 | PANE WITH THERMAL RADIATION REFLECTING COATING - The present invention relates to a pane with thermal radiation reflecting coating, comprising at least one substrate ( | 01-07-2016 |
20160002098 | SUBSTRATE COATED WITH A LOW-E MULTILAYER - A material including a substrate coated on at least some of at least one of its faces with a thin-film multilayer including at least two films based on a transparent electrically conductive oxide, the films being separated by at least one dielectric intermediate film the physical thickness of which is at most 50 nm, no metal films being deposited between the films based on a transparent electrically conductive oxide, the multilayer furthermore including at least one oxygen barrier film above that film based on a transparent electrically conductive oxide which is furthest from the substrate, each film based on a transparent electrically conductive oxide possessing a physical thickness comprised in a range extending from 20 to 80 nm. | 01-07-2016 |
20160002097 | PANE ARRANGEMENT WITH INFRARED-DAMPING COATING - Pane arrangement (I) with coating ( | 01-07-2016 |
20150351160 | PANE HAVING AN ELECTRIC HEATING LAYER - A pane having an electric heating layer is described, including at least: a first pane having a first surface; at least one electric heating layer that is applied to at least part of the surface and has an uncoated zone; at least two busbars, provided for connection to a voltage source, which are connected to the electric heating layer such that a current path for a heating current is formed between the busbars; and at least one separating line which electrically subdivides the electric layer into at least two segments. At least one segment is arranged in the form of a strip around the uncoated zone such that the current path for the heating current is at least partially guided around the uncoated zone. | 12-03-2015 |
20150321951 | SUBSTRATE WITH A PARTIAL METAL MULTILAYER, GLAZING UNIT AND PROCESS - The invention relates to a substrate ( | 11-12-2015 |
20150321950 | TRANSPARENT PANE WITH ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE COATING - A transparent pane having at least one transparent substrate and at least one an electrically conductive coating on at least one surface of the transparent substrate. The electrically conductive coating has at least two functional layers arranged one on top of another. Each functional layer contains: a layer of optically highly refractive material; a smoothing layer above the layer of optically highly refractive material; a lower adapting (matching) layer above the smoothing layer; an electrically conductive layer above the lower adapting layer; and an upper adapting (matching) layer above the electrically conductive layer. The lower adapting layer and/or the upper adapting layer contain a homogeneously distributed getter material. At least one lower adapting layer and/or upper adapting layer containing the getter material is in direct contact with the electrically conductive layer. | 11-12-2015 |
20150316838 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING A REAL IMAGE - Method of using a device for displaying a real image of the head-up display (HUD) type in a passenger compartment comprising glazing, notably laminated glazing, said device comprising a source emitting a beam of radiation of the visible UV or IR laser type or of the light-emitting diode type, directed towards a portion of said glazing comprising a fluorescent material absorbing said radiation and re-emitting light in the visible region, the illumination of said portion by the beam enabling a real image to be displayed on the glazing. | 11-05-2015 |
20150308659 | LAMINATED GLASS PANEL INCLUDING PHOSPHORS - A glazing unit includes sheets of glass and of plastic laminated between the glass sheets, and luminophores, wherein the glazing unit includes at least three glass sheets and at least two plastic films inserted in alternation between the glass sheets. | 10-29-2015 |
20150307394 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THIN SHEET GLASS - The invention relates to a process for manufacturing flat glass, comprising:
| 10-29-2015 |
20150301423 | GLAZING HAVING SWITCHABLE OPTICAL PROPERTIES - A glazing having switchable optical properties is described, including a transparent substrate having an outer surface and an inner surface, a reflection layer on the outer surface and/or on the inner surface and a switchable functional element arranged on the interior side with respect to the reflection layer. The reflection layer contains a material having a refractive index n | 10-22-2015 |
20150291472 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THIN SHEET GLASS - The invention relates to a process for manufacturing flat glass, comprising, in succession:
| 10-15-2015 |
20150283959 | METHOD FOR SELECTING AN INTERLAYER FOR VIBROACOUSTIC DAMPING, INTERLAYER AND GLAZING UNIT COMPRISING SUCH AN INTERLAYER - The invention relates to a method for selecting a viscoelastic plastic interlayer including two outer layers and a central layer that can be incorporated between two glass sheets of a glazing unit, the method includes providing first and second components that constitute respectively the central layer and the outer layers, measuring the shear modulus G′ of the first and second components, selecting the material of the second component only if G′≧3×10 | 10-08-2015 |
20150283673 | GRINDING WHEEL FOR SHAPING FLAT GLASS - A grinding wheel is suited for shaping glass, notably glass that is less than or equal to 4 mm thick. This grinding wheel has at least one abrasive portion formed of at least one metal binder and of diamonds distributed in the binder. The binder has a Rockwell B hardness of between 95 and 105 and is tungsten-based. The diamonds have a size of between 75 and 95 μm and a concentration of between 2.2 ct/cm | 10-08-2015 |
20150259234 | BENDING OF SHEETS OF GLASS RUNNING ON A BED OF ROLLS - A device for bending sheets of glass running between a bed of upper rolls and a bed of lower rolls forming a shaping bed that pinches the sheets as they run, the shaping bed being disposed in a path having a curved profile in the running direction of the sheets of glass, the shaping bed including at least one roll of what is known as the rod/sheath type including a fixed metal rod preformed in a curved profile lengthwise and a flexible sheath that is able to rotate about the rod, the sheath being rotated about the rod. The roll of the rod/sheath type may include a metal rod preformed in a curved profile lengthwise and a flexible sheath that is able to rotate about the rod, the sheath including a first envelope made of a polymer material and a second envelope made of a flexible metal material disposed around the first envelope, the first and the second envelope rotating together as one. | 09-17-2015 |
20150253486 | LUMINOUS GLAZING UNIT - A luminous glazing unit includes at least two glazing elements, for example at least two transparent glass sheets; optionally at least one lamination interlayer between the two glazing elements; at least one waveguide element, located on one face of the lamination interlayer and/or between the two glazing elements, the waveguide element having a refractive index higher than the refractive index of the adjacent interlayer and/or glazing elements; at least one light source, for example positioned at the edge of the glazing unit in order to illuminate the waveguide element via the edge face of the latter; and at least one light extraction device, formed by at least one fibrous structure, this structure being in the form of at least one textile, this structure or this extraction device being placed in the core of the waveguide element. | 09-10-2015 |
20150251523 | WINDOW WITH ENCAPSULATED PROFILED JOINT AND INSERT ATTACHED TO THE JOINT, ATTACHMENT ELEMENT OF THE INSERT FOR THE WINDOW AND WINDOW MANUFACTURING METHOD - The present invention relates to a window ( | 09-10-2015 |
20150247968 | ILLUMINATED GLAZING WITH PRINTED LAMINATION INSERT - A laminated illuminating glazing unit includes a first sheet with a first main face, a second main face and an edge face, a second sheet with a first main face, a second main face and an edge face; a transparent lamination interlayer making adhesive contact with the second main face of the first sheet and with the first main face of the second sheet; a strip of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), including a printed circuit board and a plurality of LEDs, positioned so that the emitting faces of the LEDs face the edge face of the first sheet; and one or more scattering elements, wherein the lamination interlayer includes, on at least one of its main faces, an opaque masking layer extending from the edge of the interlayer toward the center of the glazing unit so as to cover a zone in which the light from the LEDs would, in the absence of the opaque masking layer, be visible, in the form of luminous halos, through the second sheet. | 09-03-2015 |
20150247961 | SUBSTRATE HAVING A MULTILAYER WITH THERMAL PROPERTIES AND AN ABSORBING LAYER - The invention relates to a substrate ( | 09-03-2015 |
20150246603 | JOINT SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE GLAZING UNIT, GLAZING UNIT EQUIPPED WITH THE SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FITTING THE GLAZING UNIT - A joint system for an automotive glazing unit, or a windshield, the system including: a profiled bead including a hollow part that is elongate and opened toward the top, the profiled bead exhibiting in cross section a left neck part and a right neck part, a core including a pin placed inside the hollow part and a gripping mechanism allowing the pin to be removed from the hollow part. In cross section, the gripping mechanism forms a loop and includes a base located between the pin and the hollow part portion and a ring placed above the core. | 09-03-2015 |
20150236491 | LAMINATED GLAZING UNIT - A laminated glazing unit including a first and a second glass sheet, the first glass sheet being equipped with a first through-hole, a spacer film of thermoplastic polymer disposed between the first and second glass sheets, at least one conducting wire buried within the spacer film or disposed between the spacer film and the first glass sheet or disposed between the spacer film and the second glass sheet, one end of each conducting wire exiting from the laminated glazing unit via the first through-hole in the first glass sheet. The conducting wires are fed through a laminated glazing unit, with a guaranteed quality of positioning of the conducting wires, an improved field of view and with no induced noise. | 08-20-2015 |
20150226889 | DECORATIVE GLASS PANEL HAVING A REFLECTIVE LAYER DEPOSITED ON A TEXTURED SUBSTRATE - A composite successively includes a transparent substrate, and a transparent layer, a portion at least of the surface of which is textured, with characteristic dimensions of the texturing forms of between 10 nm and 100 μm, and coated with a reflective layer. | 08-13-2015 |
20150207105 | SCATTERING CONDUCTIVE SUPPORT FOR OLED DEVICE, AND OLED DEVICE INCORPORATING IT - A scattering conductive support for an organic light-emitting diode device includes, in this order, on a substrate, a scattering layer, a high index layer, a lower electrode with a dielectric underlayer, a dielectric crystalline layer, a single metal layer having an electrical conduction role, which is based on silver, with a thickness of less than 6 nm, and an overlayer. | 07-23-2015 |
20150204070 | ILLUMINATING PARTITION - An illuminating partition includes lower and upper mounting profiled members, at least the lower profiled member including a carrier element arranged in the internal volume of the profiled member and including a platen, parallel to and at a distance from the central section of the profiled member and disposed between the diodes and the glazing unit, and serving as a support for the edge of the glazing unit, one of the lateral sections of the profiled member being mobile or removable so as to have access to the diodes which are associated with the profiled member in a removable manner. | 07-23-2015 |
20150202719 | COATED PANE HAVING AREAS IN WHICH THE COATING IS PARTIALLY REMOVED - A coated pane having a communication window, having: a. a base pane, b. a coating containing metal, c. a first grid plane and a second grid plane within the coating containing metal, wherein the first grid plane and the second grid plane have areas in which the coating is removed, in form of grid lines arranged in the manner of a mesh, the grid lines in the first grid plane on at least one long side transition into an open comb structure having teeth and the grid lines in the second grid plane on at least one long side transition into a closed comb structure, wherein the first grid plane is connected by means of at least one tooth of the open comb structure to the closed comb structure of the second grid plane. | 07-23-2015 |
20150192707 | TRANSPARENT ELEMENT WITH DIFFUSE REFLECTION COMPRISING A SOL-GEL LAYER - A transparent layered element with diffuse reflection properties includes two outer layers made of dielectric materials having substantially the same refractive index and a central layer intercalated between the two outer layers, formed either from a single layer which is a dielectric layer with a refractive index different from that of the outer layers or a metallic layer, or from a stack of layers which includes at least one dielectric layer with a refractive index different from that of the outer layers or a metallic layer. The upper outer layer is a sol-gel layer including a silica-based organic/inorganic hybrid matrix. | 07-09-2015 |
20150162677 | DISK HAVING AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTION ELEMENT - A pane with at least one electrical connection element, having: a substrate, an electrically conductive structure on a region of the substrate, a connection element that is implemented as a snap and contains at least one chromium-containing steel, and a layer of a soldering compound, which electrically connects the connection element to a subregion of the electrically conductive structure. | 06-11-2015 |
20150160400 | ILLUMINATING GLAZING WITH INCORPORATED DEFLECTOR - A lighting glazing includes a first sheet of glass of refractive index n | 06-11-2015 |
20150147110 | BASE FOR VEHICLE GLAZING UNIT, GLAZING UNIT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE GLAZING UNIT, AND USE OF THE BASE - A vehicle glazing unit including a glazed element and at least one base for reversible attachment of an accessory to the glazed element, the base including an aperture for passage of the accessory, the base including a non-flat outer face which is fastened opposite a non-flat inner face of the glazed element. The outer face includes two adhesive strips each having an elongate shape and both positioned lengthwise along the transverse horizontal axis of the glazing unit. | 05-28-2015 |
20150144900 | LAYERED STRUCTURE FOR OLED DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND OLED DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A layered structure for an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device, the layered structure including a light-transmissive substrate and an internal extraction layer formed on one side of the light-transmissive substrate, in which the internal extraction layer includes (1) a scattering area containing scattering elements composed of solid particles and pores, the solid particles having a density that decreases as it goes away from the interface with the light-transmissive substrate, and the pores having a density that increases as it goes away from the interface with the light-transmissive substrate, and (2) a free area where no scattering elements are present, formed from the surface of the internal extraction layer, which is opposite to the interface, to a predetermined depth. | 05-28-2015 |
20150140837 | METHOD FOR TEXTURING A SUBSTRATE HAVING A LARGE SURFACE AREA - The invention relates:
| 05-21-2015 |
20150135627 | CONNECTING JOINT FOR GLAZED WALL AND GLAZED WALL - A connecting joint between two panels of a glazed wall is intended to cooperate with a face of each panel and includes: at least one support having a first external face and a second external face; a first fastener arranged on the first external face of the support; a second fastener arranged on the second external face of the support. The right-angle separation force of the first fastener, measured on a glass panel with a mobile-jaw tensile testing machine with a 100 mm/min displacement speed of the mobile jaw, lies between 3 and 20 N/cm, while the right-angle separation force of the second fastener, measured on a glass panel with a mobile-jaw tensile testing machine with a 100 mm/min displacement speed of the mobile jaw, is greater than or equal to 30 N/cm. | 05-21-2015 |
20150124325 | ANTIREFLECTION GLAZING UNIT EQUIPPED WITH A POROUS COATING - A glazing unit including a transparent substrate equipped with an antireflection coating, which coating includes at least one film of a porous material essentially including silicon, oxygen, carbon and possibly hydrogen, in which the atomic proportion P | 05-07-2015 |
20150072460 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRECIPITATING A LAYER ON A SUBSTRATE - The invention relates to a device for depositing a layer made of at least two components on an object, with a deposition chamber for disposing the object, at least one source with material to be deposited, as well as at least one device for controlling the deposition process, implemented such that the concentration of at least one component of the material to be deposited can be modified in its gas phase prior to deposition on the substrate by selective binding of a specified quantity of the at least one component, wherein the selectively bound quantity of the at least one component can be controlled by modifying at least one control parameter that is actively coupled to a binding rate or the component. It further relates to a device for depositing a layer made of at least two components on an object, wherein a device for controlling the deposition process has at least one gettering element made of a reactive material, wherein the reactive material includes copper and/or molybdenum. It further relates to a method for depositing a layer made of at least two components on an object, wherein a selectively bound quantity of at least one component is controlled by modifying a binding rate of a device for controlling the deposition process. | 03-12-2015 |
20150072084 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COATED SUBSTRATE - The subject of the invention is a process for obtaining a substrate provided on at least one portion of at least one of its sides with a coating, comprising a step of depositing said coating on said substrate, then a step of heat treatment of said coating using a pulsed or continuous laser radiation focused on said coating in the form of at least one laser line, the wavelength of which is within a range extending from 400 to 1500 nm, said heat treatment being such that a relative displacement movement is created between the substrate and the or each laser line, the speed of which is at least 3 meters per minute, the or each laser line having a beam quality factor (BPP) of at most 3 mm·mrad and, measured at the place where the or each laser line is focused on said coating, a linear power density divided by the square root of the duty cycle of at least 200 W/cm, a length of at least 20 mm and a width distribution along the or each line such that the mean width is at least 30 micrometers and the difference between the largest width and the smallest width is at most 15% of the value of the mean width. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070755 | SOLAR CONTROL GLAZING - The invention relates to a solar control glazing comprising a glass substrate provided, on one of its faces, with a stack of layers having a solar protection function, in which the stack comprises the sequence of the following layers, starting from the surface of the glass substrate: a lower layer for protecting the upper layers against the migration of the alkali metal ions resulting from the glass substrate, a layer of an indium tin oxide (ITO), an upper layer for protecting the ITO layer against atmospheric oxygen, said glazing being characterized in that said upper and lower layers are essentially composed of a dielectric material chosen from a silicon nitride, an aluminum nitride or their mixture and in that intermediate layers made of a chromium-comprising metal, which layers are optionally partially or completely oxidized and/or nitrided, are positioned on either side of and in contact with said ITO layer, the thickness of said intermediate layers being between 0.5 and 3 nanometers. | 03-12-2015 |
20150052951 | CREATION OF GLAZING COMPRISING AN OPENING - The invention relates to a method for preparing a sheet of curved glass comprising an opening involving bending followed by cooling, the periphery of the sheet and the periphery of the opening being supported, at least at the start of cooling, by a skeleton. | 02-26-2015 |
20150034621 | PANE ARRANGEMENT HAVING AN ELECTRICALLY HEATABLE BAFFLE PLATE - A pane arrangement having an electrically heatable baffle plate is described. The pane arrangement has a pane having an enclosure on the inner side of the pane, a radiation receiver and/or a radiation source facing the pane within the enclosure such that a beam path of electromagnetic radiation passes through a predefined region of the pane, a baffle plate arranged within the enclosure and below the beam path, and an electrically heatable area in the baffle plate heating the region. | 02-05-2015 |
20150019075 | WIPER CONTROL - A method for cleaning and drying a transparent pane is described. The method uses a hydrophobic coating in order to wipe off the residual moisture, wherein the quantity of water on the outside of the pane is measured after the vehicle engine has been switched off and, in the event of a constant or decreasing quantity of water, at least one wiping operation is carried out after a waiting time of at least 1 minute. A device for cleaning and drying the transparent pane is also described. | 01-15-2015 |
20150013884 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A LAMINATED GLASS PANE WITH SENSOR WINDOW - A process for producing a laminated glass pane made up of a base pane, a first laminating film, a coated polymer film with a coating, a second laminating film, and a top pane having at least one sensor window is described. The process has steps a) to d), wherein a) the coated polymer film with the coating is tensioned pointing upward by way of a vacuum table, b) at least one region from which the coating is removed is produced on the coated polymer film by means of laser treatment, c) the first laminating film is arranged on the base pane, the coated polymer film is arranged on the first laminating film, the second laminating film is arranged on the coated polymer film and the top pane is arranged on the second laminating film, and d) the arrangement is autoclaved. The region from which the coating is removed is produced by way of glass plates with which the vacuum table is equipped. | 01-15-2015 |
20140368634 | DEVICE FOR ANALYZING VISIBLE DEFECTS IN A TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE - The invention relates to a device ( | 12-18-2014 |
20140363916 | PROCESS BOX, ARRANGEMENTS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING COATED SUBSTRATES - A transportable process box for processing substrates coated on one side is described. The box has a base for the placement of a first substrate in a manner such that the latter is supported over the full area, a frame, a cover which is placed onto the frame, and an intermediate element which is arranged between the base and the cover and is intended for the placement of a second substrate in a manner such that the latter is supported over the full area. Arrangements and methods for processing substrates are also described. | 12-11-2014 |
20140363601 | GLAZING UNIT EQUIPPED WITH PERIPHERAL SEALING MEANS AND ITS MANUFACTURING PROCESS - A glazing unit includes a substrate having two opposing external faces and a peripheral edge face linking the two faces, as well as a peripheral sealing arrangement added at the border of the substrate against its edge face and its two external faces, wherein the sealing arrangement includes at least two seals cooperating respectively with the two external faces of the substrate, and with the edge face of the substrate, the two seals forming a zone of overlap over one another on the edge face of the glazing unit. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362597 | LIGHT-UP WINDOW FOR A VEHICLE - An illuminating glazing unit for vehicles, including: a first transparent sheet of glass with a first main face, a second main face, and an edge; one or more modules including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), each including a plurality of LEDs and associated electronic components fixed to a printed circuit board, the modules being positioned such that emitting faces of the LEDs are turned toward the edge of the first sheet of glass; an encapsulation mechanism in contact with the first main face of the first sheet; a light extraction element, which can be located on one of the main faces of the first sheet of glass; and a heat sink element, in thermal conduction contact with the LED module, in contact with the encapsulation mechanism, and in contact with an atmosphere via a heat exchange surface. | 12-11-2014 |
20140349515 | CONNECTION ELEMENT - A connection assembly is described. The connection assembly has a substrate having at least two electrically conductive structures, a housing, which is connected to the substrate on the bottom by an adhesive fastening, the housing has a plug receptacle having at least two plug contacts, the plug contacts are connected to at least two contact pads via electrical conductors, and the contact pads connected in an electrically conducting fashion to the electrically conductive structures, the angle between the plug-in direction into the plug receptacle and the bottom of the housing lying between 15° to 90°. | 11-27-2014 |
20140349107 | BARRIER LAYER TO SIOC ALKALI METALS - The invention relates to a glazing comprising a transparent glass substrate containing ions of at least one alkali metal and a transparent layer mad of silicon oxycarbide (SiO | 11-27-2014 |
20140347657 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THE DEFECT IN A TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE AND A DETECTION SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - An illumination device for providing near isotropic illumination, and particularly an illumination system for detecting the defect in a transparent substrate and a detection system including the same are presented, An illumination system includes: an illumination system for detecting the defect in a transparent substrate, including light source receptacle in bar shape; first spot light sources, each emitting a respective first light, the respective first lights being substantially parallel to each other and the first spot light sources being arranged to a first line of spot light sources along the longitudinal direction of the receptacle; and second spot light sources, each emitting a respective second light, the respective second lights being substantially parallel to each other and the second spot light sources being arranged to a second line of spot light sources along the longitudinal direction of the receptacle. | 11-27-2014 |
20140346803 | SEALING ARRANGEMENT FOR VEHICLE WINDOWS, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF, AND USE THEREOF - A sealing arrangement for vehicle windows is described. The sealing arrangement has at least a holding rail that has a locking channel, which is formed by a guide rail and a resilient leg, and is fastened to a window and a cover that has a guide channel, which is formed by a locking rail and a positioning stop. The guide rail is arranged in the guide channel and the locking rail is latched in the locking channel. A locking hook is latched onto the resilient leg in a projecting region of the locking rail and a resilient element is clamped in the guide channel between a stop face on the underside of the cover and the guide rail. | 11-27-2014 |
20140338749 | PHOTOCATALYTIC MATERIAL AND GLAZING OR PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL COMPRISING SAID MATERIAL - A material includes a glass or glass-ceramic sheet provided on at least one portion of one of its faces with a photocatalytic coating based on titanium oxide deposited on a silica-based sublayer deposited by combustion chemical vapor deposition, the roughness Ra of which is between 4 and 30 nm, limits included. | 11-20-2014 |
20140338741 | CONDUCTING SUBSTRATE FOR A PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL - A subject-matter of the invention is a conducting substrate ( | 11-20-2014 |
20140315027 | HYDROPHOBIC GLAZING - The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a hydrophobic glazing comprising the following successive stages: | 10-23-2014 |
20140312518 | COLD BENDING OF A LAMINATED GLAZING - The invention relates to a process for the preparation of bent glazed modules comprising a metal framework and a panel comprising a laminated glazing comprising glass substrates separated by an interlayer made of polymer material, the panel being bent, after the laminated glazing has been assembled, by a force which causes it to take the shape of the metal framework and then held in this shape by a holding means, the bending being carried out while the interlayer is at a temperature between 30 and 80° C. The invention reduces the loads necessary for the bending and also the shear stresses between the interlayer made of polymer material and the glass substrates, which reduces the risks of delamination. | 10-23-2014 |
20140308464 | COLD-BENT INSULATING GLAZING - The invention relates to a glazed module comprising a metal framework and an insulating glazing comprising a water-tight barrier, said insulating glazing being cold-bent, the metal framework and the insulating glazing being rendered integral by a holding means which forces the insulating glazing to retain the bent shape conferred on it by the framework. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of the glazed module comprising a metal framework and an insulating glazing, the insulating glazing being cold-bent, after it has been assembled with a water-tight barrier, by a force which causes it to take the shape of the metal framework and then held in this bent shape by a holding means. | 10-16-2014 |
20140305492 | SOLAR MODULE WITH REDUCED POWER LOSS AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - A solar module is described. The solar module has a laminated composite of two substrates bonded to one another by at least one bonding layer, between which substrates there are solar cells which are connected in series and which each have an absorber zone made of a semiconducting material between a front electrode arranged on a light entrance side of the absorber zone and a rear electrode. A diffusion barrier differing from the front electrode is located between each absorber zone and the bonding layer and is designed to inhibit the diffusion of water molecules from the bonding layer into the absorber zone and/or the diffusion of dopant ions from the absorber zone into the bonding layer. A process for producing such a solar module is also described. | 10-16-2014 |
20140302235 | POLYMER WORKPIECE FOR FLOW COATING - A polymer workpiece is described. The workpiece has an upper main surface, a lower main surface, an injection-mold separating surface and a flow attack edge surface. The flow attack edge surface is formed in the region between the injection-mould separating surface and the lower main surface as a planar surface with an angle α with respect to the injection-mould separating surface of 20° to 70°, and/or deviates by an amount a from 0.0 mm to 0.5 mm from the planar surface. | 10-09-2014 |
20140272465 | METHOD OF HEAT TREATMENT OF SILVER LAYERS - The subject of the invention is a process for obtaining a material comprising a substrate coated on at least one portion of at least one of its faces with a stack of thin layers comprising at least one silver layer, said process comprising a step of depositing said stack then a heat treatment step, said heat treatment being carried out by irradiating at least one portion of the surface of said stack using at least one incoherent light source for an irradiation time ranging from 0.1 millisecond to 100 seconds, so that the sheet resistance and/or the emissivity of said stack is reduced by at least 5% in relative terms, the or each silver layer remaining continuous at the end of the treatment. | 09-18-2014 |
20140254187 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH TURN SIGNAL REPEATER GLAZING - An automobile vehicle including at least one glazing unit capable of operating as a direction indicator light, the glazing unit including: a first transparent sheet including first and second main faces, and an edge face; one or more light sources, each including a light-emission face opposite the edge face, connected to emit a flashing light synchronized with flashing of other direction indicator lights of the vehicle; a mechanism for extraction of light in at least one region of the first main face or the second main face of the first sheet or situated in a thickness of the first sheet, the extraction mechanism emitting, when illuminated by the light sources, an auto yellow light; and a mechanism rendering opaque situated toward inside of the vehicle with respect to the extraction mechanism and totally masking the extraction mechanism to render the extraction mechanism invisible from the inside of the vehicle. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254037 | MIRROR COMPRISING A SILVERING-MODIFYING LAYER - A colored mirror includes a transparent substrate and a reflective layer, including a coloring layer between the substrate and the reflective layer, the coloring layer including a matrix and a colorant. Furthermore, a process for preparing a mirror including a transparent substrate and a reflective layer, a coloring layer between the substrate and the reflective layer, the coloring layer including a matrix and a colorant, includes the production of the coloring layer on the substrate then the deposition of the reflective layer on the coloring layer. | 09-11-2014 |
20140252808 | VEHICLE ROOF MADE OF GLASS COMPRISING LOCALIZED ZONES OF COMPRESSIVE STRESS - An automotive vehicle roof that has two longitudinal edges and two transverse edges and that is symmetrical with respect to a median longitudinal plane, the roof consisting of a glazing unit including at least one mineral glass sheet, the sheet including a border of compressive edge stresses and at least two localized zones of compressive stress inside the border, the zones being placed symmetrically relative to the plane of symmetry and each localized zone of compressive stress being less than 30 cm from a longitudinal edge. | 09-11-2014 |
20140246074 | SOLAR MODULE WITH RIBBON CABLE, AND A METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SAME - A solar module, more particularly a thin-film solar module having a plurality of solar cells connected in series for the photovoltaic generation of power, is described. The solar module has two voltage terminals of opposite polarity, which are each connected to an external surface of the module. Each of the two leads is electrically connected to a separate terminal device. Each of the two terminal housings is attached to the outer surface of the module. The two leads are electrically interconnected through a flyback diode, and the two terminal devices are electrically connected by a ribbon cable that is arranged between the two terminal housings and attached to the external surface of the module. A manufacturing method for the solar module is also described. | 09-04-2014 |
20140240998 | LUMINOUS GLAZING UNIT FOR VEHICLE, MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A luminous glazing unit for a vehicle, includes a first pane of mineral or organic glass having a first main face, a second main face and a side face, a diode support, diodes facing an edge of the second face of the first pane, referred to as the injection face, a device for extracting the guided light, a cap covering the diodes, which is leaktight against one or more fluids, in particular liquid water or water vapor, the cap is facial, facing the second face, and is associated with an interfacial element for interfacial sealing against the one or more fluids, and/or the diode support at least is provided with at least one moisture protection layer and/or an encapsulation such as a varnish of the silicone, epoxy or acrylic type. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240997 | LIGHT-SIGNALING GLAZING FOR A VEHICLE - An illuminated vehicle signaling glazing unit, including: a first transparent sheet made of mineral glass including a first main face configured to be directed toward outside the vehicle, a second main face configured to be directed toward inside the vehicle, and an edge face; one or more light sources, or light-emitting diodes, each including a light-emission face opposite the edge face, light emitted by the light sources being guided into the first sheet between the first and the second main faces thereof; a mechanism extracting light in at least one region of the first or second main faces of the first sheet or within a thickness of the first sheet; and an opaque layer formed from ink or from enamel, situated toward the inside of the vehicle with respect to the extraction mechanism and totally masking the extraction mechanism of the light to render it invisible from inside the vehicle. | 08-28-2014 |
20140233240 | DISK HAVING AN ILLUMINATED SWITCH SURFACE - A disk having an illuminated switch surface is described. The disk has a transparent substrate, an electrically conductive structure, which forms a switch surface, a flat conductor, which is electrically connected to the electrically conductive structure by means of an electrical connecting element, a light-irradiation means, which has at least one light source and is arranged on the flat conductor and on a lateral edge of the substrate. Light is coupled into the disk from the lateral edge of the substrate and from a light-refracting means, which is arranged in the region of the disk irradiated by the light of the light-irradiation means. | 08-21-2014 |
20140230493 | METHOD FOR CAMBERING GLASS SHEETS BY SUCTION - A method and device for bending superposed sheets of glass. The sheets are picked up by a top form furnished with a suction creating an upward airflow blowing over the rim of the sheets, the suction being sufficient to lift and hold the superposed sheets against the top form, then the sheets are pressed between the top form and a full surface solid concave bottom form furnished with openings, the pressing beginning conducted while the suction is not yet finished or is finishing, then the superposed sheets are formed, by suction of the main face of the bottom sheet through the openings of the bottom concave mold, the forming by suction beginning while the pressing is not yet finished, and then the sheets are cooled. Windshields free of optical defects may thus be produced. | 08-21-2014 |
20140218934 | ILLUMINATED DOUBLE GLAZING - An illuminated window arrangement having insulating glazing is described. The illuminated window arrangement has:
| 08-07-2014 |
20140216527 | FRAMELESS SOLAR MODULE WITH MOUNTING HOLES - A frameless solar module having a carrier substrate and a top layer connected thereto, between which there is a layer structure which forms a plurality of solar cells connected in series for the photovoltaic generation of power is described. The carrier substrate and/or the top layer of the frameless solar module is/are provided with mounting holes for mounting the solar module on a module bracket or for connection to at least one further solar module. The mounting holes are produced in a coating-free zone within a photovoltaically active region. Mounting arrangements having such a solar module which contain fixing elements which pass through the mounting holes are also described. Furthermore, a method for producing such a solar module in which the mounting holes are produced in the carrier substrate and/or in the top layer is also described. | 08-07-2014 |
20140212639 | COMPOSITION THAT CAN BE SCREEN PRINTED ONTO POLYVINYL BUTYRAL - The invention relates to
| 07-31-2014 |
20140210231 | REAR WINDSHIELD COMPRISING ELECTRICS PROTECTION BOX - A rear windshield with protection box for electronic components is described. The rear windshield has a car body connection fastened to a windshield, a protection box fastened on the car body connection, a protection box base body, a protection box cover, and a foam encapsulation of the car body connection. The foam encapsulation seals off and fixes the protection box base body at the car body connection. | 07-31-2014 |
20140204601 | ILLUMINATED GLASS PANEL FOR A VEHICLE, AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF - An illuminating glazing unit for a vehicle includes a first sheet made of mineral or organic glass, a peripheral light source with a support profiled member referred to as source support, the emitting region or face of the source facing the edge face, referred to as injection face, of the first sheet for a propagation of the injected light within the thickness of the first sheet, the first sheet then playing the role of guide for the injected light, a device of extraction of the guided light so as to form at least one illuminating region, the source support being within an accommodation surrounded by material and covered by a cover, the cover and the source support being removable from the glazing unit. | 07-24-2014 |
20140199552 | ALKALI-BARRIER LAYER - A glazing incorporating a glass substrate includes, on at least one portion of its surface, a stack of layers including a barrier layer to the migration of ions contained in the substrate, especially of Na | 07-17-2014 |
20140198389 | SUBSTRATE PROVIDED WITH A MULTILAYER COATING HAVING THERMAL PROPERTIES, IN PARTICULAR FOR PRODUCTION OF A HEATED GLAZING UNIT - The invention relates to a substrate ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140182932 | DISK HAVING AN ELECTRIC CONNECTING ELEMENT - A disk having at least one electric connecting element is described. The disk has a substrate, an electrically conductive structure on a region of the substrate, a connecting element containing at least chromium-containing steel, and a layer of a soldering compound that electrically connects the connecting element to sub-regions of the electrically conductive structure. | 07-03-2014 |
20140182339 | GLASS FLOAT CHAMBER - A chamber for floating glass on a bath of molten metal including: an upstream wall, a downstream wall, and two lateral walls; rolls for driving the glass in a direction of travel from upstream to downstream; a lateral wall including a shoulder resulting in a reduction in width of the chamber in the direction of travel of the glass, the shoulder starting at a first point and terminating at a second point of the lateral wall, the first and second points being in contact with a surface of the bath of metal, the vertical plane passing through the first and second points forming with the vertical plane, parallel with the direction of travel of the glass and passing through the first point, an angle inside the chamber greater than 150°. Geometric features of the shoulder reduce lateral reciprocal motion of a ribbon emerging from the chamber. | 07-03-2014 |
20140169037 | MODULE COMPRISING LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES AND LUMINOUS GLAZING WITH SUCH A DIODE-COMPRISING MODULE - A module includes light-emitting diodes, with a printed circuit board bearing light-emitting diodes connected by a series-parallel electrical circuit including a number of circuit branches powered by a common electrical power supply, each branch including two peripheral diodes and optionally at least one internal diode. At least one of the multidiode branches includes at least one reference internal diode, the two diodes closest the reference diode belonging to a branch or branches other than said multidiode branch and/or at least one of the two-diode branches includes two reference peripheral diodes and has, as the closest diode on the printed circuit board, a diode belonging to a branch other than the two-diode branch. | 06-19-2014 |
20140158424 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PANE HAVING AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTION ELEMENT - A method of producing a pane having at least one electrical connection element is described. The method includes: applying soldering compound to at least one contact face of the connection element, arranging the connection element over the soldering compound on a region of an electrically conductive structure on a substrate, and connecting the connection element to the electrically conductive structure by means of the soldering compound with introduction of heat. | 06-12-2014 |
20140153220 | LIGHTING UNIT MADE UP OF AN INSULATING GLASS PANEL AND LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES - A lighting unit includes a glass panel including at least two spaced sheets of glass, and a lighting system based on light-emitting diodes the light-emitting portion of which is disposed facing each of the edge surfaces of the sheets of glass and carried by at least one section associated at least with the edge surface of the glass panel. The section is associated with the edge surface of the glass panel without creating thermal bridges. It is attached against the edge surface of the glass panel or demountably fixed to it. | 06-05-2014 |
20140141222 | TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE CLAD WITH A STACK OF MINERAL LAYERS ONE OF WHICH IS POROUS AND COVERED - A transparent substrate coated with a stack of layers including one or more essentially inorganic layer(s) exhibiting a nonzero fraction by volume of at most 74% of pores of 30 to 100 nm and a minimum thickness of at least the dimension of the biggest pores which it contains and, if appropriate, one or more essentially inorganic dense layer(s) with thickness(es) at most equal to 400 nm, provided that two such dense layers are not adjacent and that at least one porous layer is covered with at least one other layer. | 05-22-2014 |
20140124029 | CONDUCTING SUBSTRATE FOR A PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL - A conducting substrate includes a dielectric substrate having alkali ions, an electrode coating having a molybdenum-based layer on the substrate, and a stack of several layers between the substrate and the electrode coating. The stack comprises a first layer impermeable to alkali on the substrate, a layer for retention of alkali on the first layer impermeable to alkali and made of another material, and a second layer impermeable to alkali on the layer for retention of alkali and made of a material other than the layer for retention of alkali. The ratio of the thickness of the layer for retention of alkali to the first layer impermeable to alkali is equal to 2 or more. | 05-08-2014 |
20140120341 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING GLAZING COMPRISING A POROUS LAYER - A process for manufacturing glazing including a substrate provided with a coating including a layer consisting of a porous material, includes depositing on the substrate, via a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process in a vacuum chamber, a coating including a layer of a material including an element selected from Si, Ti, Sn, Al, Zr, In or a mixture of at least two of these elements, oxygen and carbon, the layer in addition optionally including hydrogen, heat treatment of the layer thus deposited, under conditions that enable at least one portion of the carbon to be removed and the layer of porous material to be obtained, wherein the deposition is carried out, on the substrate passing through the chamber, by the sputtering of a carbon target, under a reactive plasma atmosphere including a precursor of the element or elements. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120252 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A GLASS SUBSTRATE COMPRISING PRINTED ENAMEL PATTERNS - A process for manufacturing a one-way vision glass pane, the process including: a) depositing a layer of a compound comprising a mineral pigment over an area of the pane, the compound being free of glass frit; b) depositing a layer of an enamel compound including a glass frit and a mineral pigment of a different color to the pigment of a), by screen printing, in the shape of the one or more desired patterns; c) heating the coated pane to a temperature high enough to bake the enamel; and d) removing pigments that have not been fixed by the enamel, wherein the particles of the pigments and the particles of the glass frits are of similar size, and the thickness of the layer of the deposited enamel compound is larger than the thickness of the pigment layer deposited in a). | 05-01-2014 |
20140116412 | GLASS SUBSTRATE WITH SLIGHTLY ROUGH LAYER - The invention relates to:
| 05-01-2014 |
20140106088 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING A SUBSTRATE PROVIDED WITH A COATING - The subject of the invention is a process for obtaining a substrate ( | 04-17-2014 |
20140104690 | TRANSPARENT ELEMENT WITH DIFFUSE REFLECTION - This transparent layered element ( | 04-17-2014 |
20140094948 | PROCESS FOR CUTTING ONE OR MORE GLAZINGS - A process for cutting several pieces of glass from at least one glass sheet, includes reading information relating to defects in the at least one glass sheet; and automatically and dynamically generating an optimum cutting layout for each of the at least one glass sheet as a function of at least some of the information relating to the defects. | 04-03-2014 |
20140091074 | ELECTRICALLY HEATABLE CARRIER AND PANEL RADIATOR, AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - A carrier, in particular a plastic film, comprising an electrical heating layer is described. The heating layer is applied to at least a portion of a carrier surface. The heating layer is electrically divided by one or more first separating zones, each of which is designed such that a current path changes the direction of flow thereof at the free zone ends, and one or more second separating zones, which are designed such that the current path changing the direction of flow thereof at the free zone ends is divided in at least some sections into a plurality of electrically parallel current sub-paths. One or more second separating zones are associated with at least one free zone end of a first separating zone, with the second separating zones arranged in an aligned extension to the first separating zone. | 04-03-2014 |
20140091073 | FILM-TYPE HEATING ELEMENT - The invention relates to a heating element comprising a substrate ( | 04-03-2014 |
20140087154 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SILKSCREEN PRINTED LAMINATED GLASS PANEL USING A DOUBLE-WEAVE SILKSCREEN - The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a printed laminated glazing unit composed of two glass sheets separated by an interlayer adhesive sheet, comprising the steps consisting in screen printing, with a printing composition, at least one face of one of the sheets making up the glazing unit using a screen printing screen; and in assembling the various sheets making up the glazing unit, at least one of which has been screen printed. In this process a screen printing screen is used that comprises two superimposed fabrics, the fabric (I) intended to be placed opposite the face to be screen printed having a smaller mesh opening than the other fabric (S), the difference in mesh opening between the two fabrics lying in the range from 22 to 65 μm. | 03-27-2014 |
20140060887 | TRANSPARENT ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR - A transparent electric conductor includes titanium oxide doped with aluminum and at least one other dopant:
| 03-06-2014 |
20140059878 | HEAT TREATMENT OF A LASER COATING - The invention relates to a process for heating an organic coating applied to a number of substrates, especially a mirror, laser radiation being applied to the organic coating while the substrates run past without stopping. This process especially allows paints or inks to be dried or baked with little heat transfer to the substrate. | 03-06-2014 |
20140054578 | LAYERED ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A device includes an organic polymer layer and an electrode positioned against the polymer layer, the electrode being constituted by a transparent stack of thin layers including an alternation of n thin metallic layers and of (n+1) antireflection coatings, with n≧1, where each thin metallic layer is placed between two antireflection coatings. At least one of the two antireflection coatings located at the ends of the constituent stack of the electrode includes a stack that is a barrier to moisture and gases, the layers of the or each barrier stack having alternately lower and higher densities. | 02-27-2014 |
20140050388 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING THE QUALITY OF A GLAZING - A method for analyzing quality of a glazing including: generating at least one digital image of a test chart produced in reflection by an external surface of the glazing on an outside of the glazing; computation by at least one processing unit of quantities representative of the quality of the glazing based on the at least one image generated; and comparing values computed for the representative quantities with respect to reference values. The test chart exhibits a pattern including elements of closed contours arranged periodically. The representative quantities are representative of a deformation of the image of the test chart produced in reflection by the external surface of the glazing on the outside of the glazing, and the computation of a representative quantity includes the computation of a density of the elements. | 02-20-2014 |
20140041308 | DEVICE FOR FIXING A PIVOT-OPENING GLAZING, GLAZING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE GLAZING - A device for fixing a glazed element into an opening for the glazed element to be pivotable with respect to the opening. The device includes at least one projecting element including an axis for fixing the device to an upright of the opening, and at least one baseplate including interior and exterior faces facing a surface of the glazed element. The baseplate is at least partially integrated into a portion of elastic material adhering at least to the interior face. The projecting element rigidly fixes the projecting element to the upright of the opening so that the orientation of the axis with respect to the upright remains unchanged during opening or closing movement of the glazed element and so that during the opening movement, at least part of the portion of elastic material is squashed between the baseplate and the upright or between the baseplate and the glazed element. | 02-13-2014 |
20140027434 | TRANSPARENT PANE WITH AN ELECTRICAL HEATING LAYER, AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREFOR - A transparent pane with an electrical heating layer, which extends at least over a part of the pane surface and can be electrically connected to a power source via connection means is described. The transparent pane has connection means having a strip-shaped first bus bar and a strip-shaped second bus bar, which are electrically conductively connected directly to the heating layer over the entire strip length. A method for producing such a transparent pane is also described. In the method the zone heating element is electrically conductively connected directly to at least one first flat ribbon cable and to at least one second flat ribbon cable in an electrical parallel circuit with respect to the heating field. | 01-30-2014 |
20140027433 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DE-ICING A TRANSPARENT WINDOW USING AN ELECTRIC HEATING DEVICE - An arrangement and a method for de-icing a transparent window, in particular a vehicle windshield, with an electric heating device, are described. The method has the following steps: Step A): Measuring a window temperature before an initial application of a heating voltage; Step B): Measuring the window temperature after a beginning of a heating period; and Step C): Applying a heating voltage of more than 100 volts to a heating device over a heating period of a maximum of 2 minutes, in particular a maximum of 90 seconds, and repeating step B). | 01-30-2014 |
20140022630 | TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE PROVIDED WITH A THIN-FILM MULTILAYER - 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:
| 01-23-2014 |
20130344642 | TEXTURED TRANSPARENT FILM HAVING PYRAMIDAL PATTERNS THAT CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS - A transparent plate includes at least two parallel main borders and has, in relief on at least one of its main surfaces, repetitive pyramidal relief features, each including an apex, a base, and a set of edges that join the apex to the base, and at least one edge of the features being such that its projection in the general plane of the plate is substantially parallel to the two parallel main borders. The plate may be combined with photovoltaic cells so as to enhance the transmission of light to the cells. The plate can easily be produced by hot rolling. | 12-26-2013 |
20130344317 | SAFETY GLASS PANEL - The invention relates to a glazing comprising a glass substrate and a complex sheet made of a plastic comprising a plasticized polyvinyl butyral layer and a polyester film provided with a scratch-resistant and abrasion-resistant coating, an adhesive layer of thermoplastic polyurethane being inserted between the glass substrate and the polyvinyl butyral layer of the complex sheet of plastic, characterized in that the adhesion of the polyester film to the polyvinyl butyral layer, measured by exerting on a 1 cm wide strip of the polyester film a tensile force perpendicular to the surface of the glazing with a pull rate of 5 cm/min, is at least equal to 3 daN/cm. | 12-26-2013 |
20130340479 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR BENDING SHEETS - A device for bending panes is described. The device has a pre-bending ring, a movable bending ring holder, a final bending ring, a preheating region for preheating at least one pane, a pre-bending region for a further bending of the at least one pane, a heating region for a final bending of an edge of the at least one pane and for a surface pre-bending of the at least one pane, a second bending region for a further surface bending of the at least one pane and a cooling region. | 12-26-2013 |
20130335801 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE HAVING ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLABLE OPTICAL AND/OR ENERGY TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES - The present invention relates to an electrochemical device ( | 12-19-2013 |
20130329273 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE HAVING ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLABLE OPTICAL AND/OR ENEGY TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES - The invention relates to an electrochemical device ( | 12-12-2013 |
20130316158 | VISCOELASTIC PLASTIC INTERLAYER FOR VIBRO-ACOUSTIC DAMPING AND GLAZING COMPRISING SUCH AN INTERLAYER - A viscoelastic plastic interlayer intended to be incorporated between two glass sheets to form a laminated glazing with vibro-acoustic damping properties, the interlayer comprising at least one layer made of viscoelastic plastic with vibro-acoustic damping properties, the interlayer being such that the resonant frequency f | 11-28-2013 |
20130313671 | SUBSTRATE FOR A PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL - The subject of the invention is a substrate for photovoltaic cell comprising at least one sheet of float glass provided on a face of at least one electrode, characterized in that said glass has a chemical composition comprising the following constituents, in a weight content that varies within the limits defined below: | 11-28-2013 |
20130313436 | LASER GAS ANALYZER - The invention relates to a device for measuring the concentration of a molecule, such as CO, NO or NO | 11-28-2013 |
20130305656 | SPACER, CONNECTOR AND INSULATING GLAZING UNIT - A spacer for an insulating glazing unit, the spacer including a longitudinal body including two longitudinal sides and two membranes or membrane parts, each membrane or membrane part configured to be secured to a glass sheet of the insulating glazing unit, and each membrane or membrane part configured to be articulated to the body about an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body between a position in which the membrane or membrane part lies against a longitudinal side of the body and a position in which the membrane or membrane part is at least partially moved apart from the longitudinal side of the body. The spacer allows the size of the insulating glazing unit not to be restricted while ensuring a bead for example of butyl of the insulating glazing unit can withstand high climatic loads without being damaged. | 11-21-2013 |
20130299479 | HEATING ELEMENT COMPRISING FILMS - The invention relates to a heating element comprising a substrate ( | 11-14-2013 |
20130265511 | MULTIPLE GLAZING HAVING VARIABLE DIFFUSION BY LIQUID CRYSTALS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A liquid-crystal multiple glazing including a first glass sheet and a second glass sheet that is sealed by a sealing gasket, first and second electrodes with first and second electricity supply zones, a liquid-crystal layer, between 15 and 60 μm, with spacers, the first glass sheet protruding by a first protruding side and including the first electricity supply zone, electrical cabling with a first cabling input with a first electrically insulating polymer material, a third glass sheet laminated with the second glass sheet, the third glass sheet protruding from the second glass sheet by a side covering the first electrically insulating material, referred to as the first covering side. | 10-10-2013 |
20130264948 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ACTIVE WINDOW GLASS MANAGING THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT IN A BUILDING - The present invention relates to a lighting control system, comprising a control unit comprising a memory in which control programs are recorded. | 10-10-2013 |
20130258484 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACTIVE WINDOWS WITH GLARE SENSOR - The present invention relates to a system for controlling the optical transmission of a plurality of windows V | 10-03-2013 |
20130255319 | NOZZLE FOR TEMPERING DEVICE - A device for cooling sheets of glass by jets of air emitted by at least one nozzle in a form of a pipe, including a box supplying the nozzle with air, airflow ejected via an ejection orifice of the nozzle passing successively through a conical part, of which an internal section is reduced in a flow direction, and then through a cylindrical part including the ejection orifice, of which an internal section corresponds to a smallest internal section of the conical part and to an internal section of the ejection orifice. The cylindrical part of the nozzle has a length greater than 6 times the diameter of the ejection orifice. The device achieves a high level of heat exchange when the sheets of glass are cooled, which makes it possible to increase reinforcing effect on the glass and/or to reduce power of fans used to convey air through the nozzles. | 10-03-2013 |
20130252001 | LAMINATED GLASS PANEL FOR HEAD-UP DISPLAY SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a laminated glazing for information display, of the automobile windshield or architectural glazing type, comprising an assembly of at least two transparent sheets of inorganic glass or of a strong organic material, joined together by an interlayer of a thermoformable material or by multilayer foils incorporating such an interlayer, said glazing being characterized in that a luminophore material of the hydroxyterephthalate type, combined with an antioxidant additive, is integrated into said interlayer, allowing said display. | 09-26-2013 |
20130248846 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN OLED DEVICE - The subject of the invention is a process for manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode device comprising at least one electrode based on an electrically conductive thin-film multilayer deposited on a substrate, in which the deposition of said multilayer comprises the following steps:
| 09-26-2013 |
20130229612 | MULTIPLE GLAZING WITH VARIABLE SCATTERING BY LIQUID CRYSTALS AND ITS METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A multiple glazing with variable scattering by liquid crystals includes first and second flat float glass sheets sealed on the edge of their internal faces by a sealing joint, in particular made of a given sealing material, in particular essentially organic, first and second electrodes, and a layer of liquid crystals with an average thickness E between 15 and 60 μm inclusive of these values and incorporating spacers. The thickness A of each of the first and second glass sheets is less than or equal to 5.5 mm, and each of the internal faces coated with the first and second electrodes has a dioptric defect score, expressed in millidioptres, of less than 12E/15 where the thickness E of the liquid crystals is in μm. | 09-05-2013 |
20130224990 | HOUSING FOR ELECTRICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN A FOIL CONDUCTOR AND A CONDUCTOR - A housing having an electrical connection between a conductor and a foil conductor is described. An inlet opening ( | 08-29-2013 |
20130221336 | SUPPORT WITH A DIFFUSING LAYER FOR AN ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DEVICE, AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A SUPPORT - A support for an organic light-emitting diode device successively includes a transparent substrate, made of mineral glass, provided with first and second opposite main faces, the substrate being coated on its second face with a diffusing layer which includes a vitreous mineral binder and diffusing elements dispersed in the binder, the vitreous binder includes between 40% and 60% by weight of bismuth oxide Bi | 08-29-2013 |
20130220992 | TRANSPARENT PANEL HAVING A HEATABLE COATING - A transparent pane with a conductive coating is described. The transparent pane is electrically connected to an electrically heatable coating that extends at least over a part of the area of the pane and to at least two first electrodes provided for electrical connection to the two terminals of a voltage source. The heating field of the transparent pane includes at least one coating-free zone. The transparent pane also has at least one second electrode provided for electric connection to one terminal of the voltage source The supply section of the transparent pane consists of at least two supply parts separated from each other, and a coupling section, which is electrically connected to the heatable coating. A method for manufacturing the transparent pane is also described. | 08-29-2013 |
20130216967 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HEAT-TREATING A PLURALITY OF MULTI-LAYER BODIES - A device for continuous heat-treating of at least two multilayer bodies on at least two process levels disposed one beneath another in at least one heating chamber and at least one cooling chamber, which are arranged one after another is described. The heating chamber of the device has a first process level and a second process level. The cooling chamber of the device has a cooling device, the first process level and the second process level. | 08-22-2013 |
20130213949 | TRANSPARENT PANEL HAVING A HEATABLE COATING - A transparent pane having an electrically heatable coating is described. The transparent pane is electrically connected to at least two first electrodes provided for electrical connection to two terminals of a voltage source. A heating field includes at least one coating-free zone. At least one second electrode is provided for electric connection to one terminal of the voltage source. A method for manufacturing the transparent pane is also described. | 08-22-2013 |
20130207094 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRICAL CONNECTION(S) IN AN ENCAPSULATED ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DEVICE, AND SUCH AN OLED DEVICE - A process for manufacturing an encapsulated OLED device, which includes, after encapsulation of the device, a step of ultrasonic soldering at a first edge of the lower electrode, forming a lower electrical connection zone with a solder pad extending from the encapsulation surface as far at least as the surface of the lower electrode, and/or a step of ultrasonic soldering in an upper electrical connection zone with a solder pad extending from the encapsulation surface as far at least as the surface of the upper electrode. | 08-15-2013 |
20130202883 | LAMINATED STRUCTURE FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION - The invention relates to: | 08-08-2013 |
20130202799 | METHOD FOR THE FLOW COATING OF A POLYMERIC MATERIAL - Method for flow coating a polymeric material, wherein
| 08-08-2013 |
20130202798 | METHOD FOR THE FLOW COATING OF A POLYMERIC MATERIAL - Method for flow coating a polymeric material, wherein at least | 08-08-2013 |
20130186018 | WINDOW HAVING AN ENCAPSULATED PROFILED SEAL AND INSERT FASTENED TO THE SEAL, FASTENER FOR FASTENING THE INSERT FOR THE WINDOW AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE WINDOW - A window including a glazed element, at least one portion of a profiled seal, at least one insert or a trim, and at least one fastener for fastening the insert to the portion of the profiled seal. The fastener includes a plate having a longitudinal axis, the plate being at least partially overmolded in the portion of the profiled seal and supporting at least two flanges located outside the portion of the profiled seal, for fastening the insert to the fastener, the flanges being longitudinally offset. | 07-25-2013 |
20130183512 | GLASS SHEET - A glass sheet, the thickness of which is at most 2 mm, including a surface zone under compression and a central zone under tension, such that the depth at which the transition between compression and tension occurs is at least 100 micrometers, the ratio between the depth and the thickness being at least 0.1, the sheet additionally being such that the flexural stress at break in a “ring-on-tripod” test is at least 70 MPa, after Vickers indentation under a load of 60 N. | 07-18-2013 |
20130162816 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE SHAPE OF A MIRROR OR OF A SPECULAR SURFACE - A device for measuring a shape of a surface. The device includes a first monodirectional-pattern gauge illuminated by first lighting mechanism, thereby making it possible to measure the shape in relation to a first direction, and a second gauge with monodirectional pattern perpendicular to the pattern of the first gauge making it possible to measure the shape in relation to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second gauge is produced in the same plane as the first gauge by an additional lighting mechanism that is only turned on when the first lighting mechanism is turned off. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161309 | TRANSPARENT PANEL HAVING HEATABLE COATING AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - The invention relates to a transparent pane with a transparent heatable coating, which extends at least over a part of the pane surface, in particular over its visual field. The heatable coating is divided by at least one heatable coating-free zone into at least one first heatable coating zone and a second heatable coating zone, wherein the two heatable coating zones are in each case electrically connected to at least two collecting conductors such that after application of a supply voltage that is provided by a voltage source, in each case a current flows over at least one first heating field formed by the first heatable coating zone and at least one second heating field formed by the second heatable coating zone. At least one heating element is disposed in the heatable coating-free zone, which heating element has an ohmic resistance such that by means of application of the supply voltage to the heating element, the pane is heatable in a surface area containing the heatable coating-free zone. The at least one heating element is configured such that by means of application of the supply voltage to the heating element, the pane is also heatable in at least one surface area adjacent the coating-free zone which surface area contains at least one of the collecting conductors. | 06-27-2013 |
20130155496 | GLASS PANEL HAVING SUN-SHIELDING PROPERTIES - The invention relates to solar-control glazing comprising a glass substrate and a solar-control thin-film multilayer, said thin-film multilayer incorporating a film selectively absorbing infrared radiation having a wavelength longer than 800 nm, said absorbing film consisting of a titanium oxide substituted with an element X chosen from Nb or Ta, the atomic percentage [X/Ti+X] lying between about 4% and about 9% and the thickness of said absorbing film lying between about 20 and about 200 nanometers. | 06-20-2013 |
20130142584 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING AN ACOUSTIC ABSORBENT PANEL - The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an acoustic absorbent panel, comprising the following steps:
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20130141656 | LAMINATED GLAZING WITH VARIABLE LIQUID-CRYSTAL-INDUCED SCATTERING, AND PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING IT - A laminated glazing with variable liquid-crystal-induced scattering, includes a first glass sheet; a first interlayer film for laminating the first glass sheet, made from a first plastic material; an electrically controllable, variable scattering system including the liquid crystals between a first support for a first electrode and a second support for a second electrode, the electrodes making contact with the liquid crystals; a second interlayer film, made from a second plastic material for laminating a second glass sheet; links to the electrodes; electrical wiring with two wiring inputs; a polymer material, for protecting the wiring inputs, which makes contact with the glass sheets; and a seal for sealing the liquid crystals and the electrodes from water. The protective polymer material forms a seal for sealing the electrode links and the wiring inputs from liquid water. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141289 | ANTENNA ASSEMBLY AND ANTENNA STRUCTURE WITH IMPROVED SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO - An antenna assembly including: an insulating substrate; a conductive coating covering a surface of the substrate at least section-wise and serving at least section-wise as a planar antenna receiving electromagnetic waves; a first coupling electrode electrically coupled to the conductive coating extracting useful signals from the planar antenna; a source of interference disposed such that interfering signals can be received by the planar antenna; an electrically conductive ground; and a second coupling electrode electrically coupled to the conductive coating coupling out interfering signals received by the planar antenna from the planar antenna. The second coupling electrode includes a first coupling surface and the conductive structure includes a second coupling surface capacitively coupled to the first coupling surface, the two coupling surfaces configured to selectively allow passage of a frequency range corresponding to the interfering signals to be extracted from the planar antenna. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140847 | WINDOW PANE HAVING AN ANTENNA - A motor vehicle window pane with antenna mount is described. The motor vehicle window pane with antenna mount has an opening in a composite pane made of an outer pane, an intermediate layer, and an inner pane. An adhesive is disposed on the outer pane on a top in a region around the opening. A mounting plate is fixed on the adhesive. An antenna housing is disposed on the mounting plate and has a rod-shaped antenna mount within the opening and below a recess. | 06-06-2013 |
20130139553 | FURNACE HAVING A THERMAL BARRIER - A furnace for heating an object in a space, including a refractory ceramic wall, a heat source, at least one metal plate coated with an adherent layer of ceramic material on one of its principal faces, the coated plate being placed between the wall and the source, the adherent layer being situated facing the source. The coated metal plate acts as a thermal barrier and improves heating efficiency of the heat source. The furnace may for example serve to bend by gravity glass sheets placed on a bending frame. | 06-06-2013 |
20130133734 | PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL - A photovoltaic cell includes transparent glazing substrate, protecting a thin-film multilayer including a film having photovoltaic properties; and two films forming electrodes, one the bottom electrode film and the other the top electrode film, placed on either side of the photovoltaic film, the bottom electrode film being a TCO including a zinc oxide substituted by an element selected from Al, Ga, In, B, Ti, V, Y, Zr and Ge or any combination thereof. The cell includes, between the substrate and the bottom electrode film, a succession of at least two films of dielectric materials, including a first film of a material forming a barrier to the alkali metals coming from the glazing substrate, especially during a tempering or annealing operation; and a second film including aluminum nitride AlN, gallium nitride GaN or a mixture thereof, the second film being in contact with the bottom electrode film. | 05-30-2013 |
20130129945 | GLAZING PANEL - The subject of the invention is a glazing unit comprising a glass substrate ( | 05-23-2013 |
20130129329 | DEVICE FOR THERMALLY TREATING SUBSTRATES - The invention relates to a heat treatment inner chamber ( | 05-23-2013 |
20130115468 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MATERIAL INCLUDING A SUBSTRATE PROVIDED WITH A COATING - The subject of the invention is a process for obtaining a material comprising a substrate provided on at least one of its faces with a permanent coating comprising at least one thin film, said process comprising the following steps:
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20130099981 | ANTENNA BANDWIDTH-OPTIMIZED BY HYBRID STRUCTURE COMPRISING PLANAR AND LINEAR EMITTERS - The invention relates to a hybrid antenna structure that comprises at least one electrically insulating substrate, at least one electrically conductive coating that covers at least one surface of the substrate at least section-wise and serves as a planar antenna for reception of electromagnetic waves, as well as at least one coupling electrode electrically coupled to the conductive coating for coupling out of antenna signals from the planar antenna. It is essential here that the coupling electrode be electrically coupled to an unshielded, linear antenna conductor that serves as a linear antenna for reception of electromagnetic waves, with the antenna conductor situated outside an area that can be projected by orthogonal parallel projection onto the planar antenna serving as a projection area, by which means an antenna foot point of the linear antenna becomes a common antenna foot point of the linear and planar antenna. The invention further relates to a method for producing such a hybrid antenna structure. | 04-25-2013 |
20130086855 | GLAZING UNIT COMPRISING AN INSERT HAVING A PRESSURE ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE GLAZING UNIT AND INSERT FOR THE GLAZING UNIT - A glazing unit including a pane, a profiled seal portion, and at least one insert having an overmolded part located in the profiled seal portion and a protruding part located outside the profiled seal portion. The insert includes a baseplate that supports a base having a central axis and having a free face, and also a pressure element firmly attached to the insert in at least one bonding region and that extends between the baseplate and the pane, bearing on the pane. The pressure element is also applied against the baseplate or against the base in at least one bearing region located beneath the base, between the base and the pane. | 04-11-2013 |
20130086854 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING A GLAZING UNIT COMPRISING A DECORATIVE FILM, AND GLAZING UNIT COMPRISING A DECORATIVE FILM - The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a glazing unit ( | 04-11-2013 |
20130067723 | DEVICE FOR FORMING A REDUCED CHAMBER SPACE, AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING MULTILAYER BODIES - A device for forming a reduced chamber space, which is a process box or a process hood, containing an apparatus, which positions at least two multilayer bodies each including a surface to be processed, wherein the apparatus is designed such that the multilayer bodies are opposite to each other, wherein the surfaces to be processed are facing away from each other such that the multilayer bodies can be processed as a multilayer body arrangement in a processing system. In addition, a method for positioning the two multilayer bodies comprising a surface to be processed, with the two multilayer bodies disposed in such a device such that multilayer bodies are opposite each other, wherein the surfaces to be processed are facing away from each other, such that the multilayer bodies are processable as a multilayer body arrangement in a processing system. | 03-21-2013 |
20130059431 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUBSTRATE PROCESSING - The present invention relates to a device for processing substrates in a processing system with at least one process tool disposed in at least one process area, which tool has two substrate levels disposed opposite each other in the process area, which are aligned at least approximately vertical, wherein the device is adapted to process at least two substrates at the same time in the process area by means of the process tool, wherein the substrates can be disposed in the substrate levels such that coatings of the substrates face each other and, at least during processing, a quasi-closed process space is formed between the substrates. It further relates to a method for processing coated substrates in a processing system, wherein the substrates have coatings and the substrates are each disposed opposite each other such that the coatings of the substrates face each other and, at least during processing, a quasi-closed process space is formed between the substrates. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057939 | ELECTROCHROMIC GLAZING WITH SERIES CONNECTED CELLS, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - An electrochromic glazing containing: a substrate including a layer structure thereon, which contains a first and second electrode layer, between which a first and second electrochemically active layer are situated, which each reversibly incorporate ions, wherein the first active layer contains an electrochromic material and the two active layers are separated from each other by an electrolyte layer, the layer structure being subdivided into series-connected electrochromic cells by a transition zone comprising: a first trench; a second trench; and a third trench between the first and second trenches, wherein the first and second trenches subdivide the first and second electrode layers into first electrode sections electrically insulated from each other and second electrode sections electrically insulated from each other, respectively, and the third trench is filled with an electrically conductive material, by which the first and second electrode sections of the cells adjacent the transition zone are electrically connected. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056246 | GLASS PANEL HAVING ULTRASONICALLY INTEGRATED CONDUCTING WIRES - A glazing and a process for manufacturing such a glazing, the glazing integrating a conducting wire, wherein a surface of the glazing includes a substrate made of a polymer material wherein the conducting wire is partly sunken and at the very most flush with the surface of the polymer material, or a substrate made of mineral glass or made of a polymer material onto which the conducting wire is adhesively bonded. The glazing can be applied in a transport vehicle, building trades, street furniture, interior fittings, electrical goods or electronics. | 03-07-2013 |
20130050983 | COMPOSITE GLASS PANE AS A HEAD-UP DISPLAY - Composite glass pane comprising at least
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20130045558 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRECIPITATING A LAYER ON A SUBSTRATE - A device for depositing a layer containing at least two components on an object, including: a deposition chamber; a source containing a material to be deposited; and a control device, which controls the deposition process, implemented such that a concentration of the component of the material can be modified in its gas phase prior to deposition on the object by selective binding a specified quantity of the component, wherein the selectively bound quantity of the component is controlled by modifying a control parameter that is actively coupled to a binding rate or the component, and wherein the control device contains a gettering element containing a reactive material containing copper and/or molybdenum. Also, a method for depositing a layer containing at least two components on an object, wherein a selectively bound quantity of a component is controlled by modifying a binding rate of the component of the control device. | 02-21-2013 |
20130043406 | LUMINESCENT COMPOUNDS - A crystalline phosphor of formula: | 02-21-2013 |
20130042650 | CELLULAR BENDING MOLD - A mold for bending glass, including a cellular solid material including cells that form cavities in the molding area, the cells representing more than 40% of the volume of the material. A low-heat-capacity tool bends glass panes in the context of processing tempered or laminated glass. A process for manufacturing the bending mold includes assembly of metal sheets of different shapes placed parallel to one another so as to form a cellular unit, then machining of the molding area of the unit, the area being placed substantially perpendicular to the metal sheets. | 02-21-2013 |
20130039059 | LUMINOUS MULTIPLE GLAZING UNIT COMPRISING LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES - A luminous multiple glazing unit including: first and second flat glass elements; light-emitting diodes located in an internal space; a reflector including a part fixed to the glazing unit in the internal space; and a first luminous zone associated with the first glass element. In a first configuration, the reflector has a central reflective area for reflecting at least 30% of total flux emitted by the diodes in the group onto a first mechanism scattering light, or, in a second configuration, the reflector forms a beam splitter and has a double-image central reflective area of a first central area for reflecting first central rays onto a first mechanism scattering light and a second central area for reflecting second central rays onto a second scattering mechanism, the reflector reflecting at least 30% of total flux emitted by the diodes in the group. | 02-14-2013 |
20130033894 | LUMINOUS VEHICLE GLAZING AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A luminous vehicle glazing containing: a first sheet having a first and a second main face; a peripheral light source, the emitting face facing an injection side, which is a side of the second face; a surface diffusion extractor, which extracts the guided light via the first and/or the second main face, or a volume diffusion extractor in the first sheet; a fluid-tight cap, which covers the peripheral light source and is impermeable to liquid water or water vapor, wherein the cap is a facial cap, faces the second face, joined by a fastening element, and associated with an interfacial sealing element. | 02-07-2013 |
20130032202 | PHOTOCATALYTIC MATERIAL AND GLASS SHEET OR PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL INCLUDING SAID MATERIAL - A material includes a glass substrate provided on at least one portion of one of its faces with a photocatalytic coating based on titanium dioxide that covers at most 15% of the subjacent surface, the photocatalytic coating being in the form of a two-dimensional network of interconnected strands. | 02-07-2013 |
20130029479 | ARRANGEMENT, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTILAYER BODIES - The invention relates to a multilayer body arrangement, which comprises at least two multilayer bodies each having at least one surface to be processed as well as at least one device for positioning the multilayer bodies, wherein the device is configured such that the respective surfaces to be processed are opposite each other and thus form a quasi-closed processing space disposed between the surfaces, in which the processing occurs. It further relates to a system for processing multilayer bodies with such a multilayer body arrangement, as well as a method for processing multilayer bodies, wherein the multilayer bodies are disposed such that the respective surfaces to be processed are opposite each other and thus form a quasi-closed processing space disposed between the surfaces, in which the processing occurs. | 01-31-2013 |
20130025672 | GLASS SUBSTRATE COATED WITH LAYERS HAVING IMPROVED MECHANICAL STRENGTH - A transparent glass substrate, associated with a transparent electrically conductive layer capable of constituting an electrode of a photovoltaic module, and composed of a doped oxide, characterized by the interposition, between the glass substrate and the transparent electrically conductive layer, of a layer of one or more first nitride(s) or oxynitride(s), or oxide(s) or oxycarbide(s) having good adhesive properties with the glass, then of a mixed layer of one or more second nitride(s) or oxynitride(s), or oxide(s) or oxycarbide(s) having good adhesive properties with the glass, and of one or more third nitride(s) or oxynitride(s), or oxide(s) or oxycarbide(s) capable of constituting, optionally in the doped state, a transparent electrically conductive layer. | 01-31-2013 |
20130010175 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING THE OPTICAL QUALITY OF A TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE - A device for analyzing a transparent surface of a substrate including a reference pattern facing a surface of the substrate to be measured. The reference pattern is formed on a support of short and long extents. A camera is provided for taking at least one image of the reference pattern distorted by the measured substrate. A reference pattern illumination system and a processor for processing the image and digital analysis are connected to the camera. The support is of oblong shape and the reference pattern is a one-directional pattern that extends along the shortest extent of the support. The pattern is transversely periodic to the short extent, and the camera is a linear camera. | 01-10-2013 |
20130008499 | RADIATION-COLLECTING DEVICE - A radiation-collecting device includes at least one radiation-collecting element and a scattering layer placed, in relation to the element, on that side on which the radiation is incident on the device. The scattering layer has a transparent fibrous structure and a transparent medium for encapsulating the fibers of the fibrous structure, the absolute value of the difference between the refractive index of the fibers of the fibrous structure and the refractive index of the encapsulating medium being equal to or greater than 0.05. | 01-10-2013 |
20130004719 | GLASS PANEL WITH LOW LEVELS OF GHOST IMAGES - The present invention relates to:
| 01-03-2013 |
20130000701 | CURVED MODULE CONTAINING PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS - A module made of transparent polymer material in which rectangular photovoltaic cells are embedded. The sides of the photovoltaic cells are of length l | 01-03-2013 |
20120320621 | LUMINOUS VEHICLE GLAZING AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A luminous vehicle glazing, containing: a first sheet containing a mineral or an organic glass having a first main face, a second main face, and an injection edge; a peripheral light source with an emitting face, which faces the injection edge; a guided-light extracting element; a peripheral functional element, bonded to the first sheet, which is fluid-tight, including a cavity for placing the peripheral light source; a covering element, which covers the cavity and the peripheral light source, which is fluid-tight, and which is selected from i) a cap combined with an interfacial element, for interfacial fluid-tightness or ii) a fluid-tight sealing mastic covering the peripheral light source and sealing the peripheral functional element. In addition, a method of manufacturing the luminous vehicle glazing. | 12-20-2012 |
20120313134 | GLASS SUBSTRATE COATED WITH A HIGH-INDEX LAYER UNDER AN ELECTRODE COATING, AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A SUBSTRATE - A glass substrate including a first face and a second face opposing the first face, the substrate including, above the second face, an electrode layer which includes at least one electrically conducting layer, wherein the substrate includes, between the second face and the electrode layer, at least one layer of vitreous material having an index in the range from 1.7to 2.4and including from 40% to 60% by weight of bismuth oxide Bi | 12-13-2012 |
20120309244 | ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL - This electrolyte material for an electrically controllable device having variable optical/energy properties is in the form of a self-supported layer intended to be placed between two layers of electroactive material, and comprises or consists of a matrix which is capable of maintaining the mechanical strength thereof and in which are inserted ionic charges capable of allowing, under the action of a current, oxidation and reduction reactions in adjacent layers of electroactive material. The ionic charges are within the matrix in the solubilized state, solubilized by a solubilization liquid (L). The matrix is chosen to provide the percolation pathway for the ionic charges. According to the invention, the matrix is based on a textile sheet (TS) or on a stack of sheets including at least one textile sheet (TS), the textile sheet or the stack being translucent or transparent once impregnated by the liquid (L) that has solubilized the organic compounds and the ionic charges, and being capable of retaining at least a portion of its integrity once impregnated by the liquid (L). | 12-06-2012 |
20120307338 | ELECTROACTIVE MATERIAL - An electroactive material, in the form of a self-supported layer, comprising: a matrix, which maintains the mechanical strength of the electroactive material; and an electroactive system, which is inserted in the matrix and comprises an electroactive organic compound (ea | 12-06-2012 |
20120288681 | METHOD FOR STRUCTURING A SURFACE BY MEANS OF REACTIVE ION-BEAM ETCHING, STRUCTURED SURFACE AND USES - A process for forming an array of irregularities or features that are submicron-size in height and that have a characteristic lateral dimension that is micron- or submicron-size, over a surface of a material by reactive-ion etching, the process including: supplying the material with a thickness at least equal to 100 nm, the material being a solid hybrid material that includes: a simple silicon oxide or a mixed silicon oxide, most of the oxides in the case of a mixed oxide being silicon oxide, an oxide molar percentage in the material being at least 40%; and a species, of a different nature to the silicon of the oxide, a molar percentage of the species in the material ranging from 1 mol % or even up to 50 mol % while remaining below the percentage of the silicon oxide, at least most of the species having a largest characteristic dimension smaller than 50 nm, optionally heating the hybrid material before the etching; structuring the surface of the hybrid material, without masking, with etching that lasts less than 30 minutes over an etching area greater than 1 cm | 11-15-2012 |
20120288676 | METHOD FOR STRUCTURING A SURFACE BY MEANS OF ION-BEAM ETCHING, STRUCTURED SURFACE AND USES - A process for forming an array of irregularities or features that are submicron-size in height and that have a characteristic lateral dimension that is micron- or submicron-size, over a surface of a material, by ion erosion, the process including: supplying the material with a thickness at least equal to 100 nm, the material being a solid hybrid material that includes: a simple oxide or a mixed oxide of one or more elements, an oxide molar percentage in the material being at least 40%; and a species, of a different nature to the one or more elements of the oxide, a molar percentage of the species in the material ranging from 6 mol % up to 50 mol % while remaining below the percentage of the oxide, most of the species having a largest characteristic dimension smaller than 50 nm, optionally heating the hybrid material before the erosion; structuring the surface of the hybrid material with an erosion that lasts less than one hour over an erosion area greater than 1 cm | 11-15-2012 |
20120285605 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A GAS-FILLED TRIPLE GLAZING - A method of manufacturing a gas-filled triple glazing, including: a pre-assembly during which three sheets of glass are positioned beside one another, at least one of the sheets of glass including a spacer, each sheet of glass being positioned inclined by an angle between 0° and 10° with respect to an adjacent sheet of glass, to form two cavities, each of the cavities being between two adjacent sheets of glass; filling the two cavities by injecting gas into the two cavities at a same time using nozzles; pressing the sheets of glass against one another to seal the triple glazing. The method allows triple glazing to be manufactured quickly. | 11-15-2012 |
20120279549 | ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL AND MODULE COMPRISING SUCH A CELL - An organic photovoltaic cell comprising a substrate, a first electrode formed on the substrate, an organic photoactive medium comprising an electron donor and an electron acceptor, and a second electrode comprising a conductive mesh, the first electrode being located between the substrate and the second electrode. The cell comprises an insulating mesh formed on the first electrode. The conductive mesh is formed on the insulating mesh. The insulating mesh and the conductive mesh define together apertures for receiving the photoactive medium, said apertures being able to receive the photoactive medium after the first electrode, the insulating mesh and the conductive mesh have been deposited on the substrate. | 11-08-2012 |
20120262918 | LIGHTING UNIT HAVING LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES - A lighting device includes light-emitting diodes as illuminating light sources and arranged on a support, and a receptacle housing the support of the diodes and closed by a glass substrate facing the diodes. The receptacle and the fastener to fasten the support to the receptacle, are made of a thermally conductive material. Furthermore, a scattering device to scatter light is arranged at least in zones located facing the diodes, and a reflector of light is arranged in the receptacle. The lighting device is thus thin, highly effective, and causes very little dazzle. | 10-18-2012 |
20120258858 | METHOD FOR DEPOSITION BY SPUTTERING, RESULTING PRODUCT, AND SPUTTERING TARGET - The subject of the invention is a process for obtaining a substrate coated with a photocatalytic film based on a mixed oxide of bismuth and at least one metal other than bismuth, comprising at least a step of depositing said oxide by a sputtering technique. | 10-11-2012 |
20120237724 | METHOD FOR FIXING AN ATTACHED COMPONENT TO A GLAZING OR TO A MOLDING, FIXING DEVICE FOR FIXING THE COMPONENT AND GLAZING OBTAINED USING THE METHOD - A method for fixing an attached component made of plastic, such as a trim, to a periphery of a glazing or to a portion of a molding fixed to the periphery of the glazing. The attached component includes a rear face including a fixing mechanism fixing it to the glazing or to the molding. The rear face includes appendages each of which enters a hole created in the molding or in the glazing and which is open at its two ends onto two opposite faces of the molding or glazing respectively. The distal end of each appendage projects beyond a rear face of, respectively, the molding or glazing delimiting the hole, and the distal end of each appendage is deformed by temporary softening, for example through application of ultrasound, to come into contact with the rear face of the molding or glazing at the periphery of the hole or around the entire periphery of the hole. | 09-20-2012 |
20120234368 | Substrate for photovoltaic cell - The object of the invention is a substrate for photovoltaic cell comprising at least one sheet of float glass provided on a face of at least one electrode, characterized in that said glass has a chemical composition comprising the following constituents, in a weight content that varies within the limits defined below: | 09-20-2012 |
20120222669 | SOLAR COLLECTOR - A solar collector includes a first wall and a second wall facing one another, which between them delimit a housing, the first wall being transparent and intended to face in the direction of the solar radiation incident upon the collector, and an absorption device for absorbing the energy derived from the solar radiation and positioned in the housing, the absorption device including at least one pipe through which a heat-transfer fluid flows. In addition, the collector includes at least one transparent spacer arranged between the first wall and the absorption device in the region of the pipe. | 09-06-2012 |
20120207380 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING THE QUALITY OF A GLAZING UNIT - A method for analyzing quality of a glazing unit including: generating a digital image of a test chart produced in reflection by an outer surface of the glazing, the test chart presenting a pattern composed of a plurality of contrasted elements defining between them interface lines; calculating quantities representative of the glazing from the image generated, the calculation being carried out by a processing unit; and comparing the calculated values for the representative values relative to reference values. The representative quantities are representative of a deformation of the image of the test chart produced in reflection by the outer surface of the glazing. | 08-16-2012 |
20120204861 | SOLAR COLLECTOR - A solar collector, includes a glass sheet provided with a fired metal frit; a metal frame or another glass sheet provided with a fired metal frit and a metal frame; a brazed seal between the metal frit or frits and the metal frame; an absorber and pipes in which a heat-transfer fluid circulates, the pipes being in contact with the absorber, and the absorber and the pipes being placed between the glass sheet and the metal frame or between the two glass sheets. The invention provides a solar collector which is compact and simple and improves solar radiation transmission. | 08-16-2012 |
20120202049 | TOUGHENED GLASS SPACER - The invention relates to an object containing at least one glass spacer between a first element of said object and a second element of said object, said spacer having a concentration gradient in alkali metal ions from its surface and perpendicular to its surface. The object may be a solar collector under vacuum. The invention also relates to a glass bead having a concentration gradient in alkali metal ions from its surface and perpendicular to its surface and its use as a spacer withstanding a pressure force between two elements, said pressure pushing the two elements together. | 08-09-2012 |
20120199116 | SOLAR COLLECTOR - A solar collector, includes a glass sheet; a metal frame or another glass sheet and a metal frame; a seal between the glass sheet or sheets and the metal frame; the metal frame including a wall offset with respect to the seal and/or a wall connected to the seal by a low thermal conductivity material. The invention provides a solar collector which is compact and simple and improves solar radiation transmission. | 08-09-2012 |
20120187435 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A STRUCTURE WITH A TEXTURED SURFACE AS A MOUNTING FOR AN ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DEVICE, AND OLED STRUCTURE WITH A TEXTURED SURFACE - A production method and a structure having a textured surface forming the support for an organic-light-emitting-diode device, which structure is provided on a transparent substrate made of mineral glass on which is optionally deposited an interface film made of mineral glass, the profile of the texture of the surface comprising protrusions and troughs which are defined by an FT or a roughness parameter Rdq such that the protrusions are not too pointed and such that an increase in the extraction efficiency is ensured. The method especially consists in depositing on the glass substrate a coating film and in ensuring a contraction of the assembly by heating and cooling. | 07-26-2012 |
20120186646 | TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE EQUIPPED WITH AN ELECTRODE - The subject of the invention is a transparent substrate, especially made of glass, which is provided with an electrode, especially for a solar cell, comprising a conductive layer based on molybdenum Mo with a thickness of at most 500 nm, especially at most 400 nm or at most 300 nm or at most 200 nm. | 07-26-2012 |
20120183734 | TEXTURED TRANSPARENT PLATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH A PLATE - A monolithic transparent plate including, on at least one of its faces, at least one region textured by a plurality of geometric features in relief relative to a general plane of the face, each feature having a cross section, parallel to the general plane, which diminishes with distance from the face, from a base to a peak of the feature. The area of the zones of the textured region for which the inclination angle relative to the general plane is less than 30° C. represents less than 35% of the total area of the textured region. | 07-19-2012 |
20120177900 | SUBSTRATE PROVIDED WITH A MULTILAYER HAVING THERMAL PROPERTIES, IN PARTICULAR FOR PRODUCING A HEATED GLAZING UNIT - The invention relates to a substrate ( | 07-12-2012 |
20120174981 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE MOUNTING SYSTEM - A system for mounting a photovoltaic module onto a structure at least in part made of metal, in which the photovoltaic module includes at least one photovoltaic cell including electrically conductive elements, the mounting system including, in each region in which the photovoltaic cell is near a grounded metal part of the structure when in the mounted configuration, at least one electrically insulating element positioned between the metal part and the nearest part of the electrically conductive elements of the photovoltaic cell, the total thickness of electrically insulating material between the metal part and the nearest part of the electrically conductive elements of the photovoltaic cell being at least 7 mm. | 07-12-2012 |
20120174968 | SOLAR MODULE ATTACHMENT DEVICE AND MOUNTING METHOD - A device for attaching a module for collecting energy originating from solar radiation on a structure such as a roof, a façade or a mounting structure of a ground-mounted system, in which the module is provided with at least one fastener on its face designed to be facing the structure. The device includes at least one support secured to the structure by snap-fitting, the fastener and the support being suitable for being coupled to one another for the attachment of the module to the structure. | 07-12-2012 |
20120171439 | THIN FILM DEPOSITION METHOD - The subject of the invention is a process for obtaining a substrate coated on at least part of its surface with at least one film of oxide of a metal M the physical thickness of which is 30 nm or less, said oxide film not being part of a multilayer comprising at least one silver film, said process comprising the following steps:
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20120167961 | TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE EQUIPPED WITH AN ELECTRODE - The subject of the invention is a transparent substrate, especially made of glass, which is provided with an electrode, especially for a solar cell, comprising a conductive layer based on molybdenum Mo with a thickness of at most 500 nm, especially at most 400 nm or at most 300 nm or at most 200 nm. | 07-05-2012 |
20120164443 | MATERIAL AND GLAZING COMPRISING SAID MATERIAL - The subject of the invention is a material comprising a glass substrate coated on at least one of its faces with a thin-film multilayer comprising, starting from said substrate, at least one lower dielectric layer, at least one functional layer made of a metal or metal nitride, at least one upper dielectric layer and at least one layer of titanium oxide at least partially crystallized in the anatase form, said metal or metal nitride being based on Nb, NbN, W, WN, Ta, TaN or any of their alloys or solid solutions. | 06-28-2012 |
20120149556 | PHOTOCATALYTIC MATERIAL - One subject of the invention is a material comprising a substrate coated on at least one portion of at least one of its faces with a stack comprising a photocatalytic layer, the geometrical thickness of which is between 2 and 30 nm, and at least one pair of respectively high and low refractive index layers positioned underneath said photocatalytic layer so that in the or each pair, the or each high refractive index layer is closest to the substrate, said material being such that the optical thickness, for a wavelength of 350 nm, of the or each high refractive index layer, except the photocatalytic layer, is between 170 and 300 nm and the optical thickness, for a wavelength of 350 nm, of the or each low refractive index layer is between 30 and 90 nm. | 06-14-2012 |
20120148798 | METHOD FOR MAKING LAMINATED GLAZING AND LAMINATED GLAZING INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE HOLE - A process for manufacturing a laminated glazing including a hole of substantial size, the process arranging a seal on an edge face and external faces of the glazing around an entire periphery of the hole, the seal including protruding fastening elements that are applied against the external faces of the glazing. | 06-14-2012 |
20120141795 | BISMUTH VANADATE PARTICLES AND THE METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - The subject of the invention is a method for obtaining particles of chemical formula BiVO | 06-07-2012 |
20120135631 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENT AND WINDOW PANE PROVIDED WITH SUCH AN ELEMENT - Electrical connecting element ( | 05-31-2012 |
20120135248 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A LAMINATED GLAZING UNIT - A process for manufacturing a laminated glazing unit so that it withstands a predetermined load, in which the unit includes at least one substrate having a glass function and at least one layer of polymeric interlayer. The process: obtains viscoelastic behavior of constituent material of the interlayer; calculates maximum value of at least one quantity representative of the loading resistance of the laminated glazing unit subjected to the predetermined load; adjusts dimensions of the unit such that the calculated maximum value of the quantity representative of the loading resistance of the unit is less than or equal to a permissible maximum value; and the or each substrate and the or each layer of interlayer are prepared and assembled to the adjusted dimensions. | 05-31-2012 |
20120133762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND CLASSIFYING A DEFECT OF A SUBSTRATE - A method and system for detecting and classifying a defect of a substrate, the system including a first channel, including a first illuminating unit to irradiate a light to a substrate and a first imaging unit to take images by sensing a light from the substrate when it is irradiated; a second channel, including a second illuminating unit to irradiate a light to the substrate and a second imaging unit to take images by sensing a light from the substrate when it is irradiated; an image constructing module to construct two images of the substrate using the images of the first and second imaging units respectively; and an image processing module to detect, when the substrate has a defect, that the defect is a defect on or in the substrate, based on a relationship of positions where the defect of the substrate appears in the two images of the substrate. | 05-31-2012 |
20120121915 | PROCESS FOR OBTAINING GLASS AND GLASS OBTAINED - The object of the invention is a continuous method for obtaining glass, comprising steps consisting of: charging raw materials upstream of a furnace, along which a plurality of burners is disposed, obtaining a mass of molten glass, and then leading said mass of molten glass to a zone of the furnace situated further downstream, at least one burner disposed in the region of this zone being fed with an over-stoichiometric quantity of oxidant, and then,
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20120112225 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DEVICE HAVING A STRUCTURE WITH A TEXTURED SURFACE AND RESULTING OLED HAVING A STRUCTURE WITH A TEXTURED SURFACE - A process for manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode device bearing a structure having a textured outer surface including a substrate made of inorganic glass that forms the support of the organic light-emitting diode device, includes: manufacturing the structure having a textured outer surface including: vapor depositing, onto the substrate made of inorganic glass, a first dielectric layer of at least 300 nm in thickness at a temperature greater than or equal to 100° C. so as to form protrusions, depositing onto the first layer a second smoothing dielectric layer, having a refractive index greater than or equal to that of the first layer, and made of an essentially amorphous material so as to sufficiently smooth the protrusions and to form the textured outer surface, and depositing, directly onto the smoothing layer, an electrode in the form of layer(s), so as to form a surface that conforms substantially to the smoothed outer surface. | 05-10-2012 |
20120112224 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A STRUCTURE WITH A TEXTURED EXTERNAL SURFACE, INTENDED FOR AN ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DEVICE, AND A STRUCTURE WITH A TEXTURED EXTERNAL SURFACE - A process for obtaining a structure having a textured external surface for an organic light-emitting device, which structure includes a mineral glass substrate having a surface which is provided with projections and depressions, the process including the deposition of an etching mask on the surface of the substrate and the etching of the surface of the substrate around the etching mask, and possible removal of the mask, wherein one of the steps of preparing the etching mask consists in forming a multitude of nodules randomly arranged on the surface of the substrate and made of a material possessing no affinity with the glass and wherein, after the etching step, the structure undergoes a moderating step in which the slopes of the projections of submicron height and width obtained by etching are moderated sufficiently to form the thus moderated textured external surface. | 05-10-2012 |
20120107587 | SUBSTRATE WHICH IS EQUIPPED WITH A STACK HAVING THERMAL PROPERTIES - The invention relates to a substrate ( | 05-03-2012 |
20120105624 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DEFECT INSPECTION IN SEPARATED TRANSPARENT AND/OR SEMI-TRANSPARENT BODY - An apparatus and a method for detecting a defect of a separated low rigidity transparent or translucent body, wherein an image acquiring device includes: a first conveyer and a second conveyer to convey a separated low rigidity transparent or translucent body; a transparent bridge disposed between a first conveyer and a second conveyer along a transport path of the separated low rigidity transparent or translucent body, the transparent bridge having a top surface; an illuminating unit disposed on one side of the transparent bridge and configured to project diffusive light onto the top surface of the transparent bridge by transmitting through the transparent bridge; and an image pickup unit disposed on the other side of the transparent bridge and configured to receive light projected from the illuminating unit and transmitting through the separated low rigidity transparent or translucent body to form an image when the separated low rigidity transparent or translucent body enters the top surface of the transparent bridge. With the apparatus and the method, it is possible to detect a defect of the separated low rigidity transparent or translucent body. | 05-03-2012 |
20120103960 | DISC WITH A HEATABLE, OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT SENSOR ARRAY - A pane having a heatable, optically transparent sensor array comprising at least: a) a pane, b) at least one optically transparent sensor array on the surface of the pane, c) at least one heatable film which is fitted to the optically transparent sensor array, comprising: c1) a support film, c2) a heatable coating, printed conductors, meshes and/or heating wires on the support film, d) at least one electrical contact-making means, which is fitted to the heatable coating and/or to the heating wires, and e) encapsulation, which is fitted to the optically transparent sensor array and to the heatable film, and a sensor which is fitted in the encapsulation. | 05-03-2012 |
20120094075 | METHOD FOR DEPOSITING A THIN FILM, AND RESULTING MATERIAL - A method of obtaining a substrate coated on a first face with at least one transparent and electrically conductive thin layer based on at least one oxide, including depositing the at least one thin layer on the substrate and subjecting the at least one thin layer to a heat treatment in which the at least one layer is irradiated with aid of radiation having a wavelength between 500 and 2000 nm and focused on a zone of the at least one layer, at least one dimension of which does not exceed 10 cm. The radiation is delivered by at least one radiation device facing the at least one layer, a relative displacement being created between the radiation device and the substrate to treat the desired surface, the heat treatment being such that resistivity of the at least one layer is reduced during the treatment. | 04-19-2012 |
20120091488 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A STRUCTURE WITH A TEXTURED SURFACE FOR AN ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DEVICE, AND STRUCTURE WITH A TEXTURED SURFACE - A method for manufacturing a structure having a textured surface, including a substrate made of mineral glass having a given texture, for an organic-light-emitting-diode device, the method including supplying a rough substrate, having a roughness defined by a roughness parameter Ra ranging from 1 to 5 μm over an analysis length of 15 mm and with a Gaussian filter having a cut-off frequency of 0.8 mm; and depositing a liquid-phase silica smoothing film on the substrate, the film being configured to smooth the roughness sufficiently and to form the textured surface of the structure. | 04-19-2012 |
20120087005 | THIN FILM DEPOSITION METHOD AND RESULTING PRODUCT - 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%. | 04-12-2012 |
20120086148 | PROCESS FOR MOLDING A PLASTIC PART WITH AN INSERT HELD IN POSITION BY SUCTION, MOLDING DEVICE AND USE - A process for molding a beading particularly on the periphery of a window or for molding a plastic window, in which a constituent plastic of said beading, or of said plastic window, respectively, is introduced into a molding cavity in which at least one insert, such as a trim, has been positioned beforehand, wherein said insert is held in position in said molding cavity, while said plastic is being introduced, by suction through a plurality of fine holes emerging on the internal surface of said molding cavity. | 04-12-2012 |
20120085395 | SOLAR MODULE ATTACHMENT DEVICE AND MOUNTING METHOD - An attachment device for a module for collecting energy originating from solar radiation to a structure, such as a roof, a facade, or a mounting structure of a ground-mounted structure, wherein the module includes on its rear face at least one reinforcing profiled section. The attachment device includes at least one support secured to the structure. The support includes a snap-fastening mechanism with respect to the reinforcing profiled section of the module, which snap-fastening mechanism can be activated by applying a one-way thrust force pushing the module in the direction of the structure. | 04-12-2012 |
20120074618 | PROCESS FOR MOLDING A PLASTIC PART WITH A METAL INSERT HELD IN PLACE BY MAGNETIZATION, MOLDING DEVICE AND USE OF A METHOD FOR FASTENING SAID INSERT - A process for molding a beading in particular on the periphery of a window or for molding a plastic window, in which a constituent plastic of said beading or of said plastic window respectively is introduced into a molding cavity in which at least one ferromagnetic insert, such as a trim, has been placed beforehand, wherein said insert is held in position in said molding cavity during the introduction of said plastic by at least one magnet which can move between two positions, an active position in which it exerts an attractive force on said insert across the internal surface of the molding cavity and an inactive position I in which it exerts no attractive force on said insert. | 03-29-2012 |