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Wireless pressure detector, wireless pressure measuring system, and pressure measuring method
15 Feb 22
Provided is a wireless pressure detector.
Sangmo Kim, Dong-un Lee, Hak-kyung Lee, Ho-jin Lim, Eun-Woo Park, Jun-uk Park
Filed: 26 Dec 17
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Methods and apparatus for detecting surface defects on glass sheets
15 Feb 22
Methods for detecting defects on the surface of a sheet of material include collimating a beam of light and intersecting the collimated beam of light with a beam splitter.
Jeffrey Allen Knowles, Correy Robert Ustanik, Jiaxiang Zhang
Filed: 9 Nov 18
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Method of identifying wideband MMF from 850 nm DMD measurements
15 Feb 22
A method is used to select a multimode fiber meeting requirements of a first minimum bandwidth at a first wavelength and a second minimum bandwidth at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength.
John Steele Abbott, III, Scott Robertson Bickham, Thomas Arthur Hanson, Tiffany Ann Lindstrom
Filed: 3 Jun 19
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Software features licensing and activation procedure
15 Feb 22
A computer system for providing software over a network includes: a computer system for providing software over a network is provided.
Eytan Radian, Gila Shmueli
Filed: 14 Apr 20
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High-density optical fiber ribbon with cladding-strengthened glass optical fibers in a common protective coating and fiber ribbon interconnects employing same
8 Feb 22
A high-density optical fiber ribbon is formed by two or more cladding-strengthened glass optical fibers each having an outer surface and that do not individually include a protective polymer coating.
Philip Simon Brown, Matthew Ryan Drake, Richard Michael Fiacco, Mandakini Kanungo, Ming-Jun Li, Jeffery Scott Stone, Qi Wu, Haitao Zhang
Filed: 15 Nov 19
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Apparatus and methods for detecting stray optical fibers during winding
8 Feb 22
The apparatus and methods disclosed herein are directed to detecting the presence of a whipping tail when using a fiber winding system to wind a fiber onto a rotating spool.
Kirk Patton Bumgarner, James Robert Lechleider, Dustin Michael Skinner, William Joseph Stokes
Filed: 24 Feb 20
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Apparatus to control glass flow into glass forming machines
8 Feb 22
A glass forming apparatus includes a glass delivery vessel, a forming body with a forming body inlet and a downcomer (48) between the glass delivery vessel and the forming body.
Bulent Kocatulum, Pierre Laronze, Sara Ashley Manley
Filed: 13 Dec 17
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Method of producing soot
8 Feb 22
A method of producing soot, including: combusting a first fuel stream and a first oxidizer at a burner face; combusting a second fuel stream and a second oxidizer at the burner face, wherein the second fuel stream and the second oxidizer are premixed in advance of the burner face and a second equivalence ratio of the second fuel stream and the second oxidizer is less than about 1; and combusting a silicon-containing fuel into a plurality of soot particles, wherein the second fuel stream and the second oxidizer are combusted between the first fuel stream and the silicon-containing fuel.
Manoj Agrawal, Dale Robert Powers, Fei Xia
Filed: 15 Aug 19
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Tapered furnace muffles
8 Feb 22
An optical fiber draw furnace muffle includes a body portion defining a substantially cylindrical cavity extending along a centerline axis of the muffle.
Erling Richard Anderson, John Michael Jewell, Robert Walter Nason, Elias Panides, Xiaoyong Wang, Leo Young Zheng, Chunfeng Zhou
Filed: 11 Mar 19
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High transmission glasses
8 Feb 22
Compounds, compositions, articles, devices, and methods for the manufacture of light guide plates and back light units including such light guide plates made from glass.
Melissann Marie Ashton-Patton, Adam James Ellison, Ellen Anne King
Filed: 18 Oct 16
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Coated articles with optical coatings having residual compressive stress
8 Feb 22
A coated article includes a substrate having a major surface, and an optical coating disposed on the major surface of the substrate.
Shandon Dee Hart, Guangli Hu, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
Filed: 19 Dec 17
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Methods for controlling separation between glasses during co-sagging to reduce final shape mismatch therebetween
1 Feb 22
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method of controlling the flow of fluid, such as air, between a stack of glass sheets during a co-sagging process.
Steven Roy Burdette, Anurag Jain, Stephane Poissy, Zheming Zheng
Filed: 16 Oct 18
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Method and apparatus for reclaiming gas in a fiber draw furnace
1 Feb 22
A fiber draw furnace includes a heated section configured to contain and heat a glass source from which an optical fiber is drawn.
Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Yunfei Shao, Xiaoyong Wang, Chunfeng Zhou
Filed: 12 Mar 19
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Transparent glass-ceramic articles, glass-ceramic precursor glasses and methods for forming the same
1 Feb 22
Embodiments of glass ceramic articles and precursor glasses are disclosed.
George Halsey Beall, Charlene Marie Smith, Steven Alvin Tietje
Filed: 27 Mar 20
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Boron phosphate glass-ceramics with low dielectric loss
1 Feb 22
A glass-ceramic that includes: SiO2 from about 35 mol % to about 80 mol %; B2O3 from about 10 mol % to about 50 mol %; P2O5 from about 10 mol % to about 50 mol %; and an optional addition of one or more of CaO, MgO and Bi2O3 from 0 mol % to about 5 mol %, wherein the glass-ceramic further comprises a boron-phosphate crystalline phase.
George Halsey Beall, Heather Debra Boek, Ling Cai, Jin Su Kim, Dean Michael Thelen, Mark Owen Weller
Filed: 28 Mar 19
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Compositional modification of glass articles through laser heating and methods for making the same
1 Feb 22
Glass articles and methods for modifying a composition of a surface portion of the glass article are disclosed.
Matthew John Dejneka, Stuart Gray
Filed: 21 Sep 17
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High chlorine content low attenuation optical fiber
1 Feb 22
An optical fiber having a core comprising silica and greater than 1.5 wt % chlorine and less than 0.5 wt % F, said core having a refractive index Δ1MAX, and an inner cladding region having refractive index Δ2MIN surrounding the core, where Δ1MAX>Δ2MIN.
George Edward Berkey, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 19 Aug 19
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Methods and systems for controlling air flow through an annealing furnace during optical fiber production
1 Feb 22
An optical fiber production system includes an annealing furnace having a furnace inlet, a furnace outlet, and a process tube extending between the furnace inlet and the furnace outlet, the process tube having a process tube wall and a heating zone including at least one heating element.
Kenneth Duane Billings, Spencer Thomas Kingsbury, Robert Clark Moore, Michael James Todt, Johnnie Edward Watson
Filed: 20 Feb 18
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Fresnel phase lenses for 5G applications
1 Feb 22
A Fresnel phase lens for a 5G antenna is described herein.
Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Joseph Francis Schroeder, III
Filed: 17 Sep 20
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Porous article and method of manufacturing the same
25 Jan 22
The present disclosure relates to porous ceramic articles and a method of making the same.
Monika Backhaus-Ricoult, Boris Nikolayevich Tsvetkov
Filed: 31 May 17