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Methods and apparatus for forming shaped articles, shaped articles, methods for manufacturing liquid lenses, and liquid lenses
10 Oct 23
A method includes depositing a glass frit on sidewalls of a plurality of cavities of a shaped article formed from a glass material, a glass ceramic material, or a combination thereof.
Melinda Ann Drake, Lisa Ann Lamberson, Robert Michael Morena, Linda Frances Reynolds-Heffer
Filed: 12 Oct 18
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Single-mode optical fiber with thin coating for high density cables and interconnects
10 Oct 23
An optical fiber is provided that includes a core region, a cladding region having a radius less than about 62.5 microns; a polymer coating comprising a high-modulus layer and a low-modulus layer, wherein a thickness of the low-modulus inner coating layer is in a range of 4 microns to 20 microns, the modulus of the low-modulus inner coating layer is less than or equal to about 0.35 MPa, a thickness of the high-modulus coating layer is in a range of 4 microns to 20 microns, the modulus of the high-modulus inner coating layer is greater than or equal to about 1.6 GPa, and wherein a puncture resistance of the optical fiber is greater than 20 g, and wherein a microbend attenuation penalty of the optical fiber is less than 0.03 dB/km, and wherein an outer diameter of the coated optical fiber is less than or equal to 175 microns.
Scott Robertson Bickham, Matthew Ryan Drake, Shandon Dee Hart, Ming-Jun Li, Joseph Edward McCarthy, Weijun Niu, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 21 Jul 21
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Multi-piece layered honeycomb extrusion dies and methods of making same
10 Oct 23
Extrusion dies and methods of manufacturing extrusions dies, the extrusion die including a first plate and a second plate.
Samir Biswas, Memduh Volkan Demirbas, Ryan Joseph Grohsmeyer, Mark Lee Humphrey, Zakariya Radwan Khayat, Kenneth Richard Miller
Filed: 24 Nov 20
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Apparatus and Method for Cutting Hole In Glass Laminate Substrate
5 Oct 23
Provided is a hole cutting apparatus for forming a hole in a glass laminate substrate including a substrate, an adhesive layer, and the glass layer which are sequentially stacked.
Woo Jin Lee
Filed: 20 Aug 21
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Non-iox Glasses with High Coefficient of Thermal Expansion and Preferential Fracture Behavior for Thermal Tempering
5 Oct 23
The disclosure relates to glass compositions with high coefficients of thermal expansion and low fracture toughness designed for thermal tempering.
Timothy Michael Gross, Peter Joseph Lezzi
Filed: 31 May 23
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Methods of Forming Silica-titania Glass Articles with Reduced Striae Dimensions
5 Oct 23
A process for producing a glass body, the process including flowing oxygen gas from a burner in a furnace at a flow rate of greater than 12.0 standard liters per minute and flowing a precursor gas mixture from the burner.
William Robert Angell, IV, John Edward Maxon, Jeffrey Lee Sunderland
Filed: 28 Mar 23
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Methods and Systems for Real-time, Continuous Production of Non-viral Carrier Nucleic Acid Particles
5 Oct 23
Methods and systems are provided for transfecting cells using real-time, continuous transfection of cells.
Carine Cerato-Noyerie, Samantha Sophie Catherine Haller, Davis Henry, Marylène Denise Madeleine Pécheul, Corinne Walerack
Filed: 28 Feb 23
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Ultra-low-loss Coupled-core Multicore Optical Fibers
5 Oct 23
A coupled-core multicore optical fiber has a plurality of cores that are doped with alkali metals or chlorine to achieve low attenuation and a large effective area.
Scott Robertson Bickham, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 24 May 23
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Vehicle Interior Systems Having a Curved Cover Glass with Improved Reliability and Methods for Forming the Same
5 Oct 23
Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed.
Atul Kumar, Jinfa Mou, Yawei Sun, Po Ki Yuen
Filed: 8 Jun 23
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System and Methods for Processing an Optical Fiber Preform
5 Oct 23
A system and methods are described herein for preheating a preform in a preheater furnace and then transferring the preheated preform to a consolidation furnace for chemical treatment and sintering the preform into a clear glass which can be drawn into optical fiber.
Raymond David Groh, Joseph Leroy Morse, Bradley Kent Shepard, Ian Anthony Smith, Eric Wade Thornton
Filed: 8 Jun 23
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Glass-ceramics and Glasses
5 Oct 23
A glass-ceramic includes glass and crystalline phases, where the crystalline phase includes non-stoichiometric suboxides of titanium, forming ‘bronze’-type solid state defect structures in which vacancies are occupied with dopant cations.
Matthew John Dejneka, Jesse Kohl
Filed: 5 Apr 23
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Methods of Categorizing Single Mode Optical Fibers
5 Oct 23
A method of categorizing single mode optical fibers, the method including determining one or more fiber properties of an optical fiber, the optical fiber being a single mode optical fiber at an operating wavelength of about 1310 nm.
Xin Chen, Kangmei Li, Ming-Jun Li, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Simit Mayank Patel
Filed: 30 Mar 23
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Methods and Apparatus for Inspecting a Material
5 Oct 23
Methods of inspecting a material include moving the material and identifying a defect location of a defect.
Earle William Gillis, Aaron Russell Greenbaum
Filed: 3 Aug 21
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Method for Making Uniform Porous Surface Layer on Garnet Thin Film
5 Oct 23
A solid garnet composition includes a bulk composition having a lithium garnet; and a surface composition having a protonated garnet on at least a portion of the exterior surface of the lithium garnet, such that the protonated garnet is uniformly disposed over the at least a portion of the exterior surface of the lithium garnet.
Michael Edward Badding, Yinghong Chen, Aaron David DeGeorge, Zhen Song
Filed: 6 Jun 23
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Method and system for measuring geometric parameters of through holes
3 Oct 23
A method of measuring geometric parameters of through holes in a thin substrate includes acquiring images of select sub-volumes of the substrate using an optical system having a field of depth greater than a thickness of the substrate.
Uta-Barbara Goers, Robert Wendell Sharps
Filed: 27 Aug 20
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Interconnect system and methods of installing the same
3 Oct 23
An interconnect system is provided that involves pre-installing a connector housing an optical connector in an adapter and a ferrule of the same optical connector on a cable.
Darrell Childers, Mitchell Cloud, Craig Conrad, Terry Lee Cooke, Jason Higley, Sherrh Clint Reinhardt
Filed: 30 Aug 22
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Light guide-based deadfront for display, related methods and vehicle interior systems
3 Oct 23
Embodiments of a deadfront article for a display are disclosed herein.
Antoine D. Lesuffleur, Xiang-Dong Mi, Xu Ouyang, Yawei Sun
Filed: 12 Sep 18
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Biaxially oriented thermoplastic pipette, and method and apparatus for forming same
3 Oct 23
Unitary measuring pipettes include a tubular body of biaxially oriented thermoplastic material, together with size reduction, elimination, and/or reorientation of longitudinally spaced, raised circumferential witness features, to mitigate or avoid interference between such witness features and graduated volumetric markings on an outside surface of the tubular body.
John Claude Cadotte, Jr., Michael Kurt Schaefer, James Mark Seymour
Filed: 28 Nov 18
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Curved glass constructions and methods for forming same
3 Oct 23
The disclosure relates to fame constructions comprising a glass substrate and a curved surface defining at least one curvature, wherein the engagement of the glass substrate with the curved surface imparts a curvature on the glass substrate.
Daniel Warren Hawtof, Christopher Lee Timmons
Filed: 26 Mar 21
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Laser cutting and processing of display glass compositions
3 Oct 23
The present invention relates to a laser cutting technology for cutting and separating thin substrates of transparent materials, for example to cutting of display glass compositions mainly used for production of Thin Film Transistors (TFT) devices.
Thomas Hackert, Xinghua Li, Sasha Marjanovic, Moussa N'Gom, David Andrew Pastel, Garrett Andrew Piech, Daniel Schnitzler, Robert Stephen Wagner, James Joseph Watkins
Filed: 23 Mar 16