Patent classifications
B32B17/10513
SELF ORCHESTRATING NETWORK
Disclosed herein are various clusters. A cluster comprises processing nodes that have supervisory roles and subordinate roles. A node in the cluster can have a supervisory or a subordinate role. The cluster can self-orchestrate its roles. The roles of the nodes can be assigned and/or reassigned (e.g., autonomously and/or automatically) by the cluster. Such system may achieve automatic commissioning of the cluster(s), e.g., in a facility.
Mitigating defects in an electrochromic device under a bus bar
Methods are provided for fabricating electrochromic devices that mitigate formation of short circuits under a top bus bar without predetermining where top bus bars will be applied on the device. Devices fabricated using such methods may be deactivated under the top bus bar, or may include active material under the top bus bar. Methods of fabricating devices with active material under a top bus bar include depositing a modified top bus bar, fabricating self-healing layers in the electrochromic device, and modifying a top transparent conductive layer of the device prior to applying bus bars.
IDENTIFYING, REDUCING HEALTH RISKS, AND TRACKING OCCUPANCY IN A FACILITY
Disclosed herein as methods, apparatuses, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems relating to reduction and/or identification of one or more health risks in a facility. For example, by sensing a bodily characteristic of an individual in a facility, e.g., by sensing at least one environmental characteristic. For example, by sensing surface cleanliness. For example, by tracking personnel in the facility. For example, by suggesting routes in an enclosure based at least in part in personnel concentration in the facility. Disclosed herein as methods, apparatuses, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems relating to monitoring occupancy of a facility.
Electrochemical glazing having electrically controllable optical and energy-related properties
The invention relates to glazing (1) comprising a first glazing sheet (10; 10A, 10B) forming a substrate on which at least one film of an electrochemical system (12) is formed, said system having optical and/or energy-related properties that are electrically controllable, a second glazing sheet (14) forming a counter-substrate, and a third glazing sheet (18). The substrate has characteristics that allow it to be obtained by being cut from a motherboard on which motherboard at least one film or the electro-chemical system (12) is formed. The substrate is located between the counter-substrate (14) and the third glazing sheet (18) and is set back relative to the counter-substrate (14) and relative to the third glazing sheet (18) over the entire circumference of the substrate (10; 10A, 10B).
Multifunctional switchable film and constructions including such a film
The present disclosure relates to a laminated glazing comprising a first glass substrate and a second glass substrate laminated together having first and second polymer intermediate films therebetween, and a layered film laminated between the polymer intermediate films, wherein the layered film comprises at least three carrier layers positioned parallel to one another with a second carrier layer positioned between first and third carrier layers, wherein a first surface of the first carrier layer is coated with a first transparent conductive coating and a first surface of the second carrier layer is coated with a second transparent conductive coating, wherein the first surface of the first carrier layer faces the first surface of the second carrier layer, and wherein a second surface of the second carrier layer is coated with a third transparent conductive coating and a first surface of the third carrier layer is coated with a fourth transparent conductive coating, wherein the second surface of the second carrier layer faces the first surface of the third carrier layer; a first switchable layer positioned between the first and second carrier layers; and a second switchable layer positioned between the second and third carrier layers.
GEL ELECTROLYTE PRECURSOR COMPOSITIONS, ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES INCLUDING GEL ELECTORLYTES, AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF
A gel electrolyte precursor composition, an electrochromic device including a gel electrolyte formed from the precursor composition, and methods of forming the electrochromic device, the precursor composition including polymer network precursors including polyurethane acrylate oligomers, an ionically conducting phase, and an initiator.
LAMINATED GLASS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATED GLASS
To provide a laminated glass in which color shading of an optical member is reduced, and a method for producing it.
A laminated glass comprising
a first glass plate,
a second glass plate facing the first glass plate, and
between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, a light control member to which a power feeder is connected, a bonding portion and a sealing member,
wherein the sealing member overlaps with at least a part of the periphery of the first glass plate, in a plan view,
the bonding portion is in contact with the first glass plate, the second glass plate, and a first principal surface, a second principal surface and side surfaces of the light control member, and
the bonding portion contains a curable transparent resin.
Displays for tintable windows
A tintable window is described having a tintable coating, e.g., an electrochromic device coating, for regulating light transmitted through the window. In some embodiments, the window has a transparent display in the window's viewable region. Transparent displays may be substantially transparent when not in use, or when the window is viewed in a direction facing away from the transparent display. Windows may have sensors for receiving user commands and/or for monitoring environmental conditions. Transparent displays can display graphical user interfaces to, e.g., control window functions. Windows, as described herein, offer an alternative display to conventional projectors, TVs, and monitors. Windows may also be configured to receive, transmit, or block wireless communications from passing through the window. A window control system may share computational resources between controllers (e.g., at different windows). In some cases, the computational resources of the window control system are utilized by other building systems and devices.
INTEGRATION OF ELECTROCHROMIC FILMS ON A SUBSTRATE
The present disclosure relates generally to methods for the integration of electrochromic films onto a substrate, such as a glass window, and the systems/structures formed via such methods.
ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE INCLUDING A TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDE LAYER AND A BUS BAR AND A PROCESS OF FORMING THE SAME
An electrochromic device can include a substrate, a transparent conductive oxide layer over the substrate, and a bus bar over the substrate. The bus bar can include silver and has a resistivity of at most 6.7×10.sup.−6 Ω*cm, an average adhesion strength to SiO.sub.2 of at least 3N based on 20 measurements, as determined by Method A of ASTM B905-00 (Reapproved 2010), or a classification of at least 4, as determined by Method B of ASTM B905-00 (Reapproved 2010). In another aspect a process of forming an electrochromic device can include forming a transparent conductive oxide layer over a substrate; forming a bus bar precursor over the substrate, wherein the precursor includes silver; and firing the precursor to form a bus bar. Firing can be performed such that the first bus bar is at a temperature of at least 390° C.