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Adjustable fume tube burner
4 Jan 21
A method of forming an optical fiber preform includes the steps: igniting a burner having a fume tube assembly to produce a first spray size of silicon dioxide particles; depositing the silicon dioxide particles on a core cane to produce a soot blank; and adjusting an effective diameter of an aperture of the fume tube assembly to produce a second spray size of the silicon dioxide particles.
James Henry Faler, Dale Robert Powers, Fei Xia, Chunfeng Zhou
Filed: 7 Mar 18
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Optical fiber coating die with reduced wetted length
4 Jan 21
An optical fiber coating apparatus that provides increased gyre stability and reduced gyre strength, thereby providing a more reliable coating application process during fiber drawing includes a cone-only coating die having a conical entrance portion with a tapered wall angled at a half angle α, wherein 2°≤α≤25°, and a cone height L1 less than 2.2 mm, and a cylindrical portion having an inner diameter of d2, wherein 0.1 mm≤d2≤0.5 mm and a cylindrical height of L2, wherein 0.05 mm≤L2≤1.25 mm; a guide die having an optical fiber exit, the guide die disposed adjacent the cone-only coating die such that a wetted length (L5) between the optical fiber exit of the guide die and the entrance of the cone-only coating die is from 1 mm to 5 mm; and a holder for holding the cone-only coating die and the guide die in a fixed relationship defining a coating chamber between the guide die and the cone-only coating die, the coating chamber having an inner radius L6 from the optical fiber axis to an inner wall of the holder that is from 3 mm to 10 mm.
Sumitava De, Robert Clark Moore, Douglas Gregg Neilson, Pushkar Tandon
Filed: 10 Jan 18
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Zirconium tin titanate compositions, ceramic bodies comprising same, and methods of manufacturing same
4 Jan 21
Disclosed is a microcracked ceramic body, comprising a predominant phase (greater than 50 wt %) of zirconium tin titanate and a dilatometric coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) from 25 to 1000 C of not more than 40×10−7° C.−1 as measured by dilatometry and methods for the manufacture of the same.
Gregory Albert Merkel
Filed: 27 Sep 16
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Polymer surfaces for cell growth
4 Jan 21
A cell culture article comprises virgin polystyrene disposed over at least a portion of a surface of an article main body.
Michael Edward DeRosa, Stephen Benedict Rimsa, Kerry Elizabeth Robinson-Thompson, Kevin Andrew Vasilakos
Filed: 23 Jul 15
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Bromine-doped optical fiber
4 Jan 21
Bromine doping of silica glass is demonstrated.
George Edward Berkey, Steven Bruce Dawes
Filed: 13 Dec 16
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Multiple application modules (MAM) and/or multiple application units (MAU) for providing services in wireless distribution systems (WDS), including distributed antenna systems (DAS), and related systems and methods
4 Jan 21
Multiple application devices (such as multiple application modules (MAMs) and multiple application units (MAUs) for receiving of signals in wireless distribution systems (WDSs), including but not limited to distributed antenna systems (DASs), and providing a variety of network services are disclosed.
Aravind Chamarti
Filed: 13 Aug 19
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Multiple application devices for providing services in wireless distribution systems (WDS), including distributed antenna systems (DAS), and related systems and methods
4 Jan 21
Multiple application devices (such as multiple application modules (MAMs) and multiple application units (MAUs)) for providing services in wireless distribution systems (WDSs) are disclosed.
Aravind Chamarti
Filed: 11 Apr 19
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Articles including metallized vias
4 Jan 21
An article includes a wafer having a body which defines a first surface and a second surface.
Shrisudersan Jayaraman
Filed: 10 Jan 19
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Manufacturing line, process, and sintered article
28 Dec 20
A manufacturing line includes a tape of green material that is directed through a furnace so that the furnace burns off organic binder material and then partially sinters the tape without the use of a setter board.
Michael Edward Badding, William Joseph Bouton, Jacqueline Leslie Brown, Timothy Joseph Curry, Roman E Hurny, Lanrik Wayne Kester, Thomas Dale Ketcham, John Albert Olenick, Kathleen Ritter Olenick, Jeremy Paananen, Thomas Silverblatt, Dell Joseph St Julien, Viswanathan Venkateswaran, Nathan Michael Zink
Filed: 15 Jul 20
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Glass melting system and method for increased homogeneity
28 Dec 20
An apparatus and method for producing a glass article includes a melting vessel, a fining vessel located downstream from the melting vessel, and a bubbling vessel that is downstream from the melting vessel and upstream from the fining vessel.
Memduh Volkan Demirbas, William Gurney Dorfeld, Susan Lee Schiefelbein, Randy Dean Ziegenhagen
Filed: 23 Aug 16
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Organic-inorganic composite fibers and methods thereof
28 Dec 20
An organic-inorganic composite, including: a discontinuous phase having a plurality of adjacent and similarly oriented fibers of an inorganic material; and a continuous organic phase having a thermoplastic polymer, such that the continuous organic phase surrounds the plurality of adjacent and similarly oriented fibers of the inorganic material, and the organic-inorganic composite is a plurality of adjacent and similarly oriented fibers of inorganic material contained within a similarly oriented host fiber of the thermoplastic polymer.
Heather Bossard Decker, Shandon Dee Hart, Jenny Kim, Yanfei Li, Joseph Edward McCarthy, Nicholas James Smith, James William Zimmermann
Filed: 19 Jun 18
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Cell culture medium for enhanced hepatocyte function
28 Dec 20
Cell culture compositions containing LFM-A13 or a structurally related compound can enhance global hepatic function.
Ronald Allen Faris, Yulong Hong, Joydeep Lahiri, Jin Liu, Olivia Grace Weeks
Filed: 24 Nov 13
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Methods for determining chemical heterogeneity of glass containers
28 Dec 20
Kelly Ann Murphy, Robert Anthony Schaut
Filed: 11 Oct 17
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Fiber optic multiport having different types of ports for multi-use
28 Dec 20
A fiber optic multiport having a housing with an enclosure defining an interior of the housing is disclosed.
Larry Reginald Coaxum, Leydys Deniss De Jesús
Filed: 13 Nov 18
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Assembly substrates including through hole vias and methods for making such
28 Dec 20
Various embodiments are related to substrates having one or more well structures with a trapezoidal cylinder shaped through hole via extending from the bottom of the well structure though the substrate.
Sean Matthew Garner, Tian Huang, Tammy Lynn Petriwsky
Filed: 30 May 18
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Camera modules with autofocus and optical image stabilization functions
28 Dec 20
A camera module includes an image sensor, a lens assembly, and a mechanical actuator.
Joseph Marshall Kunick, Karan Mehrotra, Mark J Soulliere, Paul Michael Then
Filed: 16 Jun 19
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Glass web separating devices and methods
21 Dec 20
A method of separating a glass web includes the steps of placing the glass web in tension by applying an in-plane tension to the glass web in a tensile direction and producing a region of increased tension on a first major surface of the glass web by imparting a curvature in the glass web.
John Frederick Bayne, Scott Winfield Deming, Todd Benson Fleming, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Gautam Narendra Kudva, Dale Charles Marshall, Eric Lee Miller
Filed: 29 Nov 16
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Inorganic membrane filtration articles and methods thereof
21 Dec 20
An inorganic membrane filtration article and methods for making the same.
Curtis Robert Fekety, Yunfeng Gu, Yanxia Ann Lu, Zhen Song
Filed: 26 Oct 16
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Vessel for growth of biological entities
21 Dec 20
A 5-liter bioreactor vessel enables a substantial increase in the volume of biological media that can be cultivated in the vessel compared to conventional designs.
David Alan Kenney, Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Shang-Pin Kwei, Aravind Raghavan Rammohan, Joseph Christopher Wall, Kathy Marie Youngbear
Filed: 8 Apr 15
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Systems for and methods of measuring photomask flatness with reduced gravity-induced error
21 Dec 20
The methods disclosed herein include recording at near-vertical first and second measurement positions respective first and second interferograms of the photomask surface and defining a difference map as the difference between the first and second interferograms.
Thomas James Dunn, John Weston Frankovich, Robert Dennis Grejda, Christopher Alan Lee, Matthew Ronald Millecchia, Yoshihiro Nakamura
Filed: 30 Jul 19