Glazing Comprising an Electronic Device and Method of Reading/Writing Information in Said Device

• US 20080191841A1
• Filed: 04/24/2006
• Published: 08/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France (Compagnie De Saint-Gobain)
• Original Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France S.A. (Compagnie De Saint-Gobain)
• Inventors: Fourreau, Frederic
• Granted Patent: US 8,384,520 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 1/1484 Windows B64C1/1492 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2011/0061 Windows displaying outside view, artificially generated
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0297 including a machine-readable marking, e.g. a bar code digitally marked record carriers in general G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/203 specially adapted to be attached to a transparent surface, e.g. the window of a car

Abstract

A window panel including at least one electronic device that includes at least one electronic memory in which is stored information that can be read remotely using an appropriate reading apparatus. An electronic device connected to the memory receives and processes data so as to transmit and enter information to and in the memory in response to signals received in a programmed way by one or more units for detecting and sending data associated with the window panel and/or a device accommodating the window panel.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A window panel comprising:

at least one electronic device that includes at least one electronic memory containing information that can be read remotely using an appropriate reading apparatus; and

electronic means connected to the memory for receiving and processing data so as to transmit and enter information to and in the memory in response to signals received in a programmed way by one or more units for detecting and sending data associated with the window panel and/or a device accommodating the window panel.

21. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein at least some of the information stored in the memory is linked to parameters that evolve over time and that relate to the window panel and/or the device incorporating the window panel and/or an electrical element incorporated in the window panel.

22. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein access to the information stored in the memory is reserved for authorized users.

23. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein the electronic device is protected from an external environment.

24. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein the electronic device is joined to a periphery of the window panel, directly on a substrate of the window panel, or on an element added to the window panel, or on a peripheral frame, and or in a position configured to be concealed by a framework in which the window panel is housed.

25. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein the electronic device is incorporated inside the window panel provided with at least two sheets of glass.

26. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein the units for detecting and sending data are one of electrical current sensors, voltage sensors, pressure sensors, temperature sensors, vibration sensors, accelerometers, inclinometers, mechanical actuation detectors, or counters.

27. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein the unit for detecting and sending data is included in the window panel or is remotely sited and associated with the device accommodating the window panel.

28. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein the memory of the electronic device includes information already stored before operation of the electronic device in response to the signals received in a programmed way, the information being related to identification, configuration, and production characteristics and to technical characteristics of the window panel and/or of an electrical element incorporated in the window panel.

29. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein the information stored in the memory of the electronic device of the window panel is configured to be read by a reading/writing apparatus also operating as an apparatus for writing information into the memory in response to a human choice.

30. The window panel as claimed in claim 29, further comprising means of communication between the electronic device and the reading/writing apparatus of a radiofrequency link, or a radiofrequency identification system (RFID), or Wi-Fi or Bluetooth®

technology, or using a link by optical signal by infrared, by capacitive, or inductive transmission tracks, or a cable link.

31. The window panel as claimed in claim 30, wherein the means of communication corresponds to radiofrequency signals, the electronic device including an antenna for identification by radiofrequencies associated with the electronic means, the antenna cooperating with another antenna of same type associated with the reading/writing apparatus.

32. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, wherein the electronic means includes a system of identifying the electronic device that avoids collision with other information not intended for the electronic device.

33. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, further comprising a recognition marking providing information on a particular type of the window panel.

34. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, configured to be incorporated in a locomotive device of aeronautical, motor vehicle, or rail vehicle.

35. The window panel as claimed in claim 34, wherein the electronic memory is configured to store flying hours of an aeronautical device.

36. The window panel as claimed in claim 20, configured to be incorporated in a building window panel.

37. A method of storing information and remotely reading the information, the information being stored in a memory of an electronic device joined to a window panel, the method comprising:

recording data, in a programmed way, via at least one detection and transmission unit of a sensor;

sending the data to electronic means for receiving and processing included in the electronic device of the window panel;

storing the data processed by the electronic means in a memory in a form of information; and

reading the information contained in the memory using a contactless reading apparatus.