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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8106332 | Electrical connector for automotive glazing A connector is shaped to receive the edge region of an automotive glazing between opposing connector arms. A first surface of the automotive glazing is provided with a first electrical function situated thereon, and a second surface of the automotive glazing is prov... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8084716 | Heated glass guard with sensorless control for forklift trucks An open forklift truck is provided having an elongated windshield that protects the operator from wind chills experienced when operating the truck in a cold storage environment. The windshield is a laminate having a plurality of heating elements disposed therein tha... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8022333 | Substrate with electroconductive coating and a communication window The invention is aimed at a substrate, in particular window pane, with an electrically conducting and heatable coating, at least one communication window made in the latter in the form of an interruption of said coating, the window being able to allow communication ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022334 | Heatable glass pane A heatable glass pane is disclosed. The glass pane includes two bus bars which are located parallel to a base edge of the glass pane and arranged essentially in a line in their axial direction, spaced apart a short distance from one another. The glass pane includes ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7964821 | Window with de-icing feature and method A window such as a vehicle window (e.g., windshield) has a de-icing feature. In certain example embodiments, a conductive structure is provided on an interior surface of a substrate of the window, AC tuned to an ice removal frequency is caused to run through the con... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7880120 | Transparent window pane provided with a resistive heating coating The inventive transparent window pane is provided with a resistive heating coating (2) which extends through a substantial portion of the window pane, in particular on a main view field (A) and is electrically connected to at least two conductor rails (4, ... | 02/01/2011 |
| RE41715 | Glazing with electrical terminal A glazing provided with an electric circuit includes an electrically conducting substrate and a terminal for making electrical connection thereto. The terminal is attached to the glazing by an adhesive, rather than solely by solder, and the electrical connection bet... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7718923 | Defrosting windshield sunshade panel A sunshade for an automobile placed upon a dashboard in the interior of the vehicle provides a reflective outer surface to deflect heat and sunlight through the windshield into a vehicle during hot weather conditions and also provides the outer surface with heat str... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714254 | Air-conditioner comprising an operating device A climate control device (1) with a heater (5), a ventilation device (7), and with an operating device (3). The operating device includes an operating element (9) that can be switched to at least three different operating states. T... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7671298 | Heating line pattern structure of defogger formed on rear window glass panel of motor vehicle and rear glass panel A heating line pattern structure is provided, in which the effect of the heating lines of a defogger on an antenna for a TV broadcast especially for a digital TV broadcast may be decreased. The defogger is structured by arranging heating lines between bus bars on bo... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7652226 | Electrically heated window glass An electrically heated window glass is provided, in which an electric power load may be suppressed by causing a consumed electric power for energizing a heater to be variable depending on the purpose of heating. The electrically heated window glass in accordance wit... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7601929 | System for detecting an alignment of vehicle mounted sensors A system for detecting an alignment of a sensor mounted on a vehicle and a method of making the same is disclosed. The system includes a vehicle windshield having the sensor mounted thereto at a predetermined location. At least one conductive strip is included havin... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7576301 | Building incorporating a thermal insulation assembly and method of conserving energy The performance of a thermal insulation for a building surface 6, subject to a thermal gradient emitting from the building interior, is enhanced by a neutral thermal gradient. For this purpose an electrical heating element 1 is adapted to release very ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7423240 | Pulse width modulated defroster A window defroster system that includes a heater grid and a controller. The controller includes a pulse width modulator configured to provide a driving signal to the heater grid. The driving signal has an initial heating portion and a pulsed portion. The initial hea... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423239 | Laminated element provided with a heated layer A laminated panel element that includes at least two rigid panes, for example glass panes, bonded to each other on their surfaces, which are each provided, over their whole surface, with an electrically conductive coating that can be heated by application of a volta... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7410267 | Method for manufacturing a vehicular lamp and a vehicular lamp A method for manufacturing a vehicular lamp including a wire installation process that installs a wire (hearing wire) 6 in a flat resin plate 7 by heat; a shape-forming process that forms the resin plate 7 into a predetermined curved shape; a tr... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411158 | Heated laminated glazing A heatable composite pane having a trapezoidal outline, including a heating area having heating wires embedded in the composite and at least two main busbars. The two main busbars connect ends of a first group of parallel heating wires electrically in parallel. The ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7393557 | Flexible electrically conductive film An electrically conductive film contains electrically connected first and second visible light-transmissive metal or metal alloy layers separated by a visible light-transmissive crosslinked polymeric layer. The film can be joined or laminated into glazing (especiall... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379028 | Antenna-embedded laminated glass and method for preparing the same The present invention provides a method for preparing an antenna-embedded laminated glass with an antenna element sealed between glass sheets, which is characterized to comprise forming two or more glass sheets forming the laminated glass; bonding a transfer film on... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7362491 | Heated glass panels and methods for making electrical contact with electro-conductive films A heated glass panel assembly according to one embodiment of the invention may include a substrate having an electro-conductive film provided thereon. A conductor is positioned in contact with the electro-conductive film. A resilient material is positioned in contac... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361869 | Method for the production of an electrically conductive resistive layer and heating and/or cooling device An electrically conductive resistive layer (26) is produced by thermally spraying an electrically conductive material (18) onto the surface of a non-conductive substrate (12). Initially, the material layer (14) arising therefrom has no de... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361404 | Coated article with removable protective coating and related methods A coated article is disclosed. The coated article of the invention includes a substrate having a surface and a removable protective coating comprising up to 100 weight percent of a carbon-containing material deposited over at least a portion of the substrate, where ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358466 | Localized heat treating apparatus for blisk airfoils The present invention is a BLISK airfoil heat treating apparatus and method for heat treating the leading and/or trailing edge section(s) of a BLISK airfoil using the BLISK airfoil heat treating apparatus. The apparatus comprises a pair of hingedly connected heat tr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350753 | RF shielding for aircraft windows Disclosed is an improved aircraft window having RF shielding. In one embodiment, a window shield comprises an electrically conductive, transparent, flexible film, which is applied by known processes to a window pane. This shield is grounded to the aircraft frame or ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342375 | Automatic storm shutter control The present invention provides wireless and direct wired methods and devices for automatically closing electrically-driven roll-down storm shutters in the presence of rain on one or more rain sensors. ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340907 | Anti-condensation control system An anti-condensation control apparatus for a refrigeration device generally includes a sensor module and a control module. The control module receives an input from the sensor module and compares the input to a set point. The control module generates an output indic... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337622 | Humidity-based defog control method for a vehicle climate control system A vehicle climate control system develops a fog index based on relative humidity at or near the inner surface of the windshield, and uses the fog index to variably override the normal control settings. The relative humidity is combined with a pair of humidity thresh... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335421 | Heatable windshield A heatable transparency includes a first ply having a No. 1 surface and a No. 2 surface and a second ply having a No. 3 surface and a No. 4 surface. The No. 2 surface faces the No. 3 surface. An electrically conductive coati... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7323088 | Glazing panels A method of manufacturing a glazing panel comprises the steps of: a) taking a glazing panel having on one of its surfaces (i) a substantially transparent coating layer having a transformable portion, and (ii) an enamel material associated with the transformable port... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323249 | Methods of obtaining photoactive coatings and/or anatase crystalline phase of titanium oxides and articles made thereby A method of making a photoactive coating includes depositing a first coating material containing zirconium oxide over at least a portion of a substrate and depositing a second coating material containing titanium oxide over at least a portion of the first coating ma... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7311351 | Vehicle spoiler having nozzle and method of manufacturing the same The present invention provides a vehicle spoiler having a nozzle and a method of manufacturing the vehicle spoiler. The vehicle spoiler of the present invention has first and second surfaces, which form the external shape of the vehicle spoiler and have a hollow spa... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311961 | Method of making coated articles and coated articles made thereby An article includes a first substrate, a functional coating deposited over at least a portion of the substrate, and a protective coating deposited over the functional coating. The functional coating and the protective coating define a coating stack. A polymeric mate... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301309 | Method and device for providing the supply voltage for the loads of a vehicle on-board electrical system, using a plurality of generators A method and a device for providing the supply voltage for the loads of a vehicle on-board electrical system, using a plurality of generators. A regulator unit having at least one output stage transistor is allocated to each of the generators. The output stage trans... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301126 | Panel element with a heating layer A panel element with a toughened pane, provided with a total surface coating, which is electrically conducting and heated by applying an electrical voltage by electrodes. A partial zone of the coating is electrically separated by a separating line. Specifically, an ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297902 | High performance defrosters for transparent panels The present invention provides a window assembly having a transparent panel and a conductive heater grid formed integrally with the transparent panel. The conductive heater grid has a first group of grid lines and a second group of grid lines, with opposing ends of ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294517 | Light emitting device and method of fabricating the same It is characteristic of an organic material suited to an interlayer insulating film to transmit vapor therethrough and to be liable to absorb moisture, and the material has a disadvantage that it is extremely susceptible to oxygen and moisture to be readily deterior... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295229 | Surround surveillance apparatus for mobile body A surround surveillance system mounted on a mobile body for surveying surroundings around the mobile body includes an omniazimuth visual system, the omniazimuth visual system includes at least one omniazimuth visual sensor including an optical system capable of obta... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291816 | Transparent electrothermal body and the method of making it A method for making a transparent electrothermal body includes: a) plating ITO (indium tin oxide) onto a surface of a transparent substrate to form an ITO film, and b) printing a conducting material onto a surface of the ITO film to form two connecting portions each... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285748 | Flexible heater device The heating device includes a conductive layer which is positioned on an electrically insulative substrate. Preferably, the conductive layer is screen printed onto the substrate. The substrate is designed to limit elongation of the conductive layer, thereby improvin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275983 | System for limiting an increase in the inside air temperature of passenger compartment of vehicle Light control glasses are used as window glasses of a vehicle. When the vehicle is parked, voltage is applied to the light control glass, which directly receives solar radiation from the sun, so that a light transmittancy of the light control glass is reduced to red... | 10/02/2007 |
