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Slow Cooling of Optical Fibers Having Halogen Doped Cores
11 Nov 21
A method of processing an optical fiber includes drawing the optical fiber from an optical fiber preform within a draw furnace, the optical fiber extending from the draw furnace along a process pathway, the optical fiber comprising at least one halogen-doped core; and drawing the optical fiber through at least one slow cooling device positioned downstream from the draw furnace at a draw speed.
Steven Bruce Dawes, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 5 May 21
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Dimensionally Stable Glasses
11 Nov 21
Glasses that are substantially free of alkalis that possess high annealing points and, thus, good dimensional stability (i.e., low compaction) for use as TFT backplane substrates in amorphous silicon, oxide and low-temperature polysilicon TFT processes.
Adam James Ellison, Timothy James Kiczenski, Ellen Anne King, Adama Tandia, Kochuparambil Deenamma Vargheese
Filed: 13 Sep 19
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Methods of Making Honeycomb Bodies Having Inorganic Filtration Deposits
11 Nov 21
A method for applying a surface treatment to a plugged honeycomb body comprising porous wall includes: atomizing particles of an inorganic material into liquid-particulate-binder droplets comprised of a liquid vehicle, a binder material, and the particles; evaporating substantially all of the liquid vehicle from the droplets to form agglomerates comprised of the particles and the binder material; depositing the agglomerates onto the porous walls of the plugged honeycomb body; wherein the agglomerates are disposed on, or in, or both on and in, the porous walls.
Joseph Henry Citriniti, Christopher Lane Kerr, Stefan Wolfgang Kramel, Cai Liu, Shyam Prasad Mudiraj, Dale Robert Powers, Michael George Shultz, Jason Daniel Steadman, Huiqing Wu, Xinfeng Xing
Filed: 30 Aug 19
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Thermally Strengthened Consumer Electronic Glass and Related Systems and Methods
11 Nov 21
A strengthened cover glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article as well as processes and systems for making the strengthened glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article is provided for use in consumer electronic devices.
Peter Joseph Lezzi, Richard Orr Maschmeyer, John Christopher Thomas, Kevin Lee Wasson
Filed: 20 Jul 21
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Compositions and Methods for Preventing Baggy Warp Defect
11 Nov 21
An aluminosilicate glass, including in mole percent on an oxide basis, MgO+CaO+SrO+Li2O+ZnO+Y2O3+ZrO2+La2O3+TiO2+Nb2O5+Ta2O5 in a range of from 5 mol % to 25 mol %.
Xiaoju Guo, Shawn Rachelle Markham, Jae Hyun Yu
Filed: 3 Oct 19
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System and Method for Nitrogen Doping of a Glass Article
11 Nov 21
A system and method for nitridizing a glass article includes supplying a source of a nitridizing gas including gaseous NH3 to a glass article supported within a furnace assembly and heating the glass article.
Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Ming-Jun Li, Haitao Zhang
Filed: 23 Apr 21
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Glass Forming Apparatuses Comprising Modular Glass Fining Systems
11 Nov 21
Disclosed herein are embodiments of glass manufacturing apparatuses.
Gilbert De Angelis, Juan Camilo Isaza
Filed: 20 Sep 19
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Graphene Doping by Thermal Poling
11 Nov 21
A method of forming a graphene device includes: providing a glass substrate with a blocking layer disposed thereon to form a stack; providing a first electrode and a second electrode; increasing the temperature of the stack to at least 100° C.; applying an external electric field (VP) to the first electrode such that at least one metal ion of the glass substrate migrates toward the first electrode to create a depletion region in the glass substrate adjacent the second electrode; decreasing the temperature of the stack to room temperature while applying the external electric field to the first electrode; and after reaching room temperature, setting the external electric field to zero to create a frozen voltage region adjacent the second electrode.
Miriam Marchena Martín-Francés, Prantik Mazumder, Valerio Pruneri
Filed: 9 Oct 19
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Garnet-lithium Titanate Composite Electrolyte
11 Nov 21
A sintered composite ceramic includes: a lithium-garnet major phase; and a lithium-rich minor phase, such that the lithium-rich minor phase has LixTiO(x+4)/2, with 0.66≤x≤4.
Michael Edward Badding, Jun Jin, Zhen Song, Jianmeng Su, Zhaoyin Wen, Tongping Xiu, Chujun Zheng
Filed: 5 May 21
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Laser Cutting and Removal of Contoured Shapes from Transparent Substrates
11 Nov 21
A method for cutting, separating and removing interior contoured shapes in thin substrates, particularly glass substrates.
Bradley Frederick Bowden, Xiaoju Guo, Thomas Hackert, Garrett Andrew Piech, Kristopher Allen Wieland
Filed: 23 Jul 21
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Secondary Battery and Method of Preparing the Same
11 Nov 21
A secondary battery includes a cathode layer including a cathode active material layer; an anode layer including an anode current collector and a metal layer disposed on the anode current collector; a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer; and a graphite interlayer disposed between the solid electrolyte layer and the anode layer, wherein the interlayer comprises a graphite material having a crystallite size of about 1000 angstroms to about 1500 angstroms, when measured from a (110) diffraction peak, and having a hexagonal interplanar spacing about 500 angstroms to about 800 angstroms in a c-axis direction, when measured from a (002) diffraction peak, an aspect ratio of the graphite material is in a range of between about 0.44 and about 0.55.
Victor ROEV, Kyounghwan KIM, Sewon KIM, Jusik KIM, Michael Edward BADDING, Myungjin LEE, Jaemyung CHANG, Zhen SONG
Filed: 5 Jan 21
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Optical Reflective Filter Devices and Optical Networks Using the Same
11 Nov 21
Optical filter devices for providing a reflective event in an optical network are disclosed.
Joseph Clinton Jensen, Christopher Paul Lewallen
Filed: 26 Jul 21
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Display with Localized Brightness Adjustment and Related Methods
11 Nov 21
A display system with local brightening function, the system including a display unit to display an image to a user; a sensor to detect an event, including an interaction with the display system by the user or an ambient lighting condition; and a control unit to determine a specified region of the display unit corresponding to a targeted area of the event.
Xiang-Dong Mi
Filed: 8 Jul 19
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Optical Fiber with Nitrogen and Chlorine Co-doped Core
11 Nov 21
An optical fiber can include a core comprising silica co-doped with nitrogen and chlorine and an outer cladding surrounding the core.
Richard Michael Fiacco, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Ming-Jun Li, Jeffery Scott Stone, Haitao Zhang
Filed: 21 Apr 21
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Electrowetting Optical Device
11 Nov 21
A selective optical shutter can include a first window, a second window, and a cavity disposed between the first window and the second window.
Joseph Marshall Kunick, Shawn Michael O'Malley
Filed: 10 Oct 19
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Gateway Coordinating Multiple Small Cell Radio Access Networks
11 Nov 21
A method of coordinating a plurality of radio access networks (RANs) includes aggregating, with a gateway, communications interfaces between a plurality of RANs and a packet core network through the gateway.
Yashodhan A. Dandekar, Brian Dunn, Hithesh Nama, Behrooz Parasay, Jaspreet Singh, Shashikant Tiwari
Filed: 20 Jul 21
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Selective Distribution And/or Reception of Wireless Communications Signals In a Non-contiguous Wireless Distributed Communications System (WDCS) for Reducing Downlink Transmission Power And/or Uplink Noise
4 Nov 21
Selective distribution and/or reception of wireless communications signals in a non-contiguous wireless distributed communications systems (WDCS) for reducing downlink transmission power and/or uplink noise is disclosed.
Benjamin Imanilov
Filed: 13 Jul 21
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Vacuum Slow Cooling Device for Optical Fiber Draw
4 Nov 21
A method of processing an optical fiber includes drawing the optical fiber from a heated glass source, reheating the optical fiber, and cooling the optical fiber under vacuum at a cooling rate less than the cooling rate of the optical fiber in air at 25° C. and 1 atm.
Yacob Mesfin Argaw, Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Robert Clark Moore, Bruce Warren Reding, Chunfeng Zhou
Filed: 15 Jul 21
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Method of Improving Optical Quality of Curved Glass Structures
4 Nov 21
Shaped glass structures, in particular to curved glass structures, having optically improved transmittance are provided along with methods of making such glass structures.
Jaymin Amin, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Vladislav Yuryevich Golyatin, Santona Pal
Filed: 13 Jul 21
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Lithium Containing Glasses
4 Nov 21
A glass article including, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, from 3 mol % to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, from 0 mol % to 5 mol % P2O5, from 5 mol % to 11 mol % Li2O, less than or equal to 0.2 mol % SnO2, and from 0.5 mol % to 6.5 mol % divalent cation oxides.
Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Charlene Marie Smith
Filed: 13 Jul 21