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Melting Furnace Electrode Push Assembly with Torque Limiter
15 Sep 22
An assembly for pushing an electrode into a glass melting vessel can include a frame, a shaft, a pusher actuator, a contact mechanism, a master actuator, and a torque limiter.
Chih Hung Chien, Hyun-taek Han, JinSoo Kim, Yong-hyeon Park
Filed: 8 Sep 20
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Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing a Glass Ribbon
15 Sep 22
A glass manufacturing apparatus includes a delivery apparatus defining a travel path extending in a travel direction.
Richard Nicholas Bomba, James Paul Peris
Filed: 4 Sep 20
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Method of Bonding Substrates and Separating a Portion of the Bonded Substrates Through the Bond, Such As to Manufacture an Array of Liquid Lenses and Separate the Array into Individual Liquid Lenses
15 Sep 22
A method of forming a bond between substrates and manipulating the bond comprises: emitting a first laser energy onto a strip of an absorption material disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate until the strip diffuses into the first substrate and the second substrate resulting in workpiece with a bond between the first substrate and the second substrate; emitting a second laser energy through the workpiece at the bond to create a fault line through the bond, the first substrate, and the second substrate, the second laser energy provided by an approximated Bessel beam, the approximated Bessel beam incident upon the bond having a diameter that is greater than a width of the bond; and repeating emitting the second laser energy step along a length of the bond to create a series of fault lines through the bond, the series of fault lines forming a contour.
Thomas Mikio Wynne
Filed: 11 Aug 20
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Cell Culture Assemblies and Methods of Using the Same
15 Sep 22
A cell culture assembly includes a film defining a plurality of wells extending into the film, where each well of the plurality of wells defines a perimeter extending around the well, the plurality of wells defines an outer perimeter extending around the plurality of wells and extending between the perimeters of adjacent wells of the plurality of wells, and the outer perimeter extending around the plurality of wells defines a wave shape, and a sidewall member coupled to the film, where at least a portion of the sidewall member is oriented transverse to the film, the sidewall member including an engagement portion defining a wave shape that is complementary with the outer perimeter of the plurality of wells.
William Joseph Lacey
Filed: 11 Aug 20
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Optical Fiber for Data Centers
15 Sep 22
The disclosure provides optical fibers that exhibit low macrobend loss at 1550 nm at bend diameters between 10 mm and 40 mm.
Ming-Jun Li, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 28 Feb 22
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Optical Fiber Cable with Reinforcement
15 Sep 22
An optical communication cable includes a cable jacket formed from a first material, a plurality of core elements located within the cable jacket, and an armor layer surrounding the plurality of core elements within the cable jacket, wherein the armor layer is a multi-piece layer having a first armor segment extending a portion of the distance around the plurality of core elements and a second armor segment extending a portion of the distance around the plurality of core elements, wherein a first lateral edge of the first armor segment is adjacent a first lateral edge of the second armor segment and a second lateral edge of the first armor segment is adjacent a second lateral edge of the second armor segment such that the combination of the first armor segment and the second armor segment completely surround the plurality of core elements.
Bradley Jerome Blazer, Michael John Gimblet, Julian Latelle Greenwood, III, Jason Clay Lail, Warren Welborn McAlpine, Eric John Mozdy
Filed: 27 May 22
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Foldable Apparatus, Foldable Substrate, and Methods of Making
15 Sep 22
Foldable apparatus comprise a foldable substrate foldable about an axis and a substrate thickness defined between a first major surface and a second major surface.
SHINU BABY, NAIGENG CHEN, TIMOTHY MICHAEL GROSS, JASON THOMAS HARRIS, DHANANJAY JOSHI, YOUSEF KAYED QAROUSH, ARLIN LEE WEIKEL, TINGGE XU
Filed: 28 Aug 20
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Bendable Articles Including Adhesive Layer with a Dynamic Elastic Modulus
8 Sep 22
Articles including a substrate, a cover glass layer disposed over a top surface of the substrate, and an adhesive layer having a dynamic elastic modulus disposed between a bottom surface of the cover glass layer and the top surface of the substrate.
Shinu Baby, Naigeng Chen, Edward John Fewkes, Dhananjay Joshi, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Yousef Kayed Qaroush, Ying Zhang
Filed: 12 Aug 20
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Surface Illuminator Having a Line Emitter and Configured to Disinfect a Surface
8 Sep 22
Disclosed herein are embodiments of an illuminator for disinfecting a surface.
David W. Baarman, Boyd Vern Hunter, Ming-Jun Li, Xiao Li, Stephan Lvovich Logunov
Filed: 7 Mar 22
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Multicore Optical Fiber
8 Sep 22
A multicore optical fiber includes an inner glass region having a plurality of core regions surrounded by a common outer cladding, the inner glass region further having at least one marker and an outer diameter in the range of 120 microns and 130 microns, wherein each core region is comprised of a germania-doped silica core and a fluorine-doped silica trench, wherein the trench volume of the fluorine-doped silica trench is greater than 50% Δ microns2.
Kevin Wallace Bennett, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 14 Feb 22
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Optical Fiber with Reduced Attenuation Due to Reduced Absorption Contribution
8 Sep 22
A single mode optical fiber including a core region doped with an alkali metal.
Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 24 Feb 22
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Substrate Transporting Apparatus
8 Sep 22
A substrate transporting apparatus including a carrier that is configured to support a substrate to be processed.
Nathanael Hermsdorf, Robert Korbinian Parsiegla, Joerg Reuner, Michael Schaefer, Florian Spaeth
Filed: 25 Feb 22
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Apparatus and Methods for Assembling a Display Area
8 Sep 22
A method of assembling a display area includes selecting a first tile from a plurality of tiles, each tile of the plurality of tiles includes a predetermined parameter and a plurality of microLEDs defining a plurality of pixels.
Sean Matthew Garner, David Robert Heine
Filed: 23 May 22
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Connector Assemblies
8 Sep 22
Various configurations of connector assemblies are disclosed herein.
Donald Andrew Burris, Thomas Edmond Flaherty, IV, Casey Roy Stein
Filed: 26 May 22
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Foldable Apparatus, Ribbons, and Methods of Making
8 Sep 22
Foldable apparatus can comprise a foldable substrate comprising a substrate thickness and a central portion positioned between a first portion and a second portion.
NAIGENG CHEN, MATTHEW WADE FENTON, TIMOTHY MICHAEL GROSS, YUHUI JIN, DHANANJAY JOSHI, KUAN-TING KUO, YOUSEF KAYED QAROUSH
Filed: 28 Aug 20
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Methods for Laser Processing Transparent Material Using Pulsed Laser Beam Focal Lines
1 Sep 22
A method for processing a transparent workpiece includes forming a first contour line, comprising a first plurality of defects, in the transparent workpiece; forming a second contour line, comprising a second plurality of defects, in the transparent workpiece, wherein the second contour line defines a second contour intersecting the first contour line at an intersection point, wherein the laser pulse energy of the second pulsed laser beam is increased from a first laser pulse energy to a second laser pulse energy at a first distance from the intersection point; and wherein the laser pulse energy of the second pulsed laser beam is decreasing from the second laser pulse energy to the first laser pulse energy at a second distance from the intersection point.
Alejandro Antonio Becker, Tobias Christian Roeder
Filed: 22 Feb 22
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Dense Glass-ceramic Articles Via Additive Manufacture of Glass Frit
1 Sep 22
A method for forming a glass frit for additive manufacturing includes providing a mixture having at least one silicon (Si) compound, at least one calcium (Ca) compound, and at least one zirconium (Zr) compound; melting the mixture at a temperature of at least 1400° C.; cooling the mixture to room temperature to obtain the glass frit including at least 50 wt. % SiO2, at least 30 wt. % CaO, and at least 10 wt. % ZrO2.
Bairu Chen, Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte
Filed: 25 Feb 22
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Bioactive Glass Compositions
1 Sep 22
A silicate-based glass composition includes 15-65 wt. % SiO2, 2.5-25 wt. % MgO, 1-30 wt. % P2O5, and 15-50 wt. % CaO.
Erin Coon, Qiang Fu, Aize Li
Filed: 26 Feb 21
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Cement Mixtures for Plugging Honeycomb Bodies and Methods of Making the Same
1 Sep 22
A cement mixture for applying to a honeycomb body that includes: (i) inorganic ceramic particles; (ii) an inorganic binder; (iii) an organic binder comprising one or more of a hydrophilic polymer and a hydrophilic additive; and (iv) an aqueous liquid vehicle.
Richard Bergman, Theresa Chang, Kunal Upendra Sakekar, Shu Yuan
Filed: 5 Aug 20
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Transparent Light Guide Plate and Lighting Device Including Same
1 Sep 22
Provided are a transparent light guide plate able to emit light through opposing surfaces and allowing for adjustment of the ratio between intensities of light exiting through the opposing surfaces, and a lighting device including the same.
JooYoung Lee
Filed: 10 Jun 20