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Methods and systems to form optical surfaces on optical fibers

6 Apr 20

A method of forming an optical surface on an end portion of an optical fiber comprises inserting the optical fiber through a ferrule bore of a ferrule so that the end portion extends past an end face on the ferrule.

Joel Patrick Carberry, Anping Liu, Barada Kanta Nayak

Filed: 26 Sep 17

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Systems and methods for skinning articles

6 Apr 20

A system for delivering and applying a flowable mixture to an article (311-313) is disclosed.

Brian Michael Adams, Timothy Eugene Antesberger, Richard Dominic Bomba, Marc Jason Cassada, Joseph Henry Citriniti, John Joseph Costello, III, Scott Winfield Deming, Parasuram Padmanabhan Harihara, Michael Joseph Joyce, Christopher Lane Kerr, Harry Robinson, Jr., Brian Christopher Sheehan, Dell Joseph St. Julien, Kevin Lee Wasson, James Arthur Youngman

Filed: 13 Oct 14

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6 Apr 20

A method of printing a decoration on a substrate include inkjet printing a plurality of inks to forma layer having a predetermined pattern on a surface of the substrate, wherein each of the inks includes a solvent and has a different color; heating the substrate to evaporate at least a portion of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks; and thermally curing the layer after evaporating at least the portion of the solvent in each of the plurality of inks to form the decoration.

Fang-Fang Wang, Qing Ya Wang, Yongsheng Yan

Filed: 17 Mar 16

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6 Apr 20

A glass manufacturing apparatus including a delivery vessel including a body portion with a cylindrical inner surface extending along a central axis of the body portion.

Martin Herbert Goller, Aaron Joshua Hade, Guido Peters

Filed: 22 Feb 16

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6 Apr 20

According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a glass article having a three-dimensional shape includes heating a glass article blank to a temperature above a setting temperature and coupling the glass article blank to an open-faced mold.

Weiwei Luo, Rohit Rai, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Zheming Zheng, Sam Samer Zoubi

Filed: 26 Feb 18

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6 Apr 20

A strengthened architectural glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article as well as processes and systems for making the strengthened architectural glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article is provided.

Peter Joseph Lezzi, Richard Orr Maschmeyer, John Christopher Thomas, Kevin Lee Wasson

Filed: 27 Jul 16

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6 Apr 20

The embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods, systems, and system components for creating and arranging small (micron and smaller) defects or perforations in transparent materials in a particular manner, and, more particularly, to the arrangement of these defects, each of which has an average crack length, in a predetermined spaced-apart relation (each defect separated from an adjacent defect by a predetermined distance) defining a contour in a transparent material to lower the relative interface fracture toughness for subsequent planned induced separation.

Dana Craig Bookbinder, Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Albert Roth Nieber, Pushkar Tandon, Sergio Tsuda

Filed: 13 Jul 15

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6 Apr 20

The present disclosure relates to a process for cutting and separating arbitrary shapes of thin substrates of transparent materials, particularly tailored composite fusion drawn glass sheets, and the disclosure also relates to a glass article prepared by the method.

Dana Craig Bookbinder, Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Sasha Marjanovic, Albert Roth Nieber, Garrett Andrew Piech, Kamjula Pattabhirami Reddy, Pushkar Tandon, Sergio Tsuda, Natesan Venkataraman, Robert Stephen Wagner

Filed: 24 Apr 17

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6 Apr 20

A method of controlling the temperature of an optical fiber is provided that includes the steps of: providing an energy transfer member configured to accept or provide thermal energy, the energy transfer member defines an energy transfer surface; passing an optical fiber proximate the energy transfer member such that a gap is defined between the optical fiber and the energy transfer surface; and transferring thermal energy between the optical fiber and the energy transfer member via conduction across the gap.

John Christopher Thomas, Kevin Lee Wasson

Filed: 12 Jan 17

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6 Apr 20

Disclosed are alkali aluminosilicate glasses having unexpected resistance to indentation cracking.

Jonathan David Pesansky, Chandan Kumar Saha, Trevor E Wilantewicz

Filed: 30 Aug 17

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6 Apr 20

Embodiments of glass ceramic articles and precursor glasses are disclosed.

George Halsey Beall, Charlene Marie Smith, Steven Alvin Tietje

Filed: 25 Oct 17

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6 Apr 20

A strengthened glass having a stress profile that differs from error-function and parabolic profiles.

Matthew John Dejneka, Pascale Oram, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Vitor Marino Schneider, Charlene Marie Smith, Zhongzhi Tang

Filed: 7 Dec 16

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6 Apr 20

A method for coating a surface of a cell culture article includes dissolving a polymer having a covalently attached polypeptide in an aqueous solution to produce a polymer solution.

Anthony Glenn Frutos, David Henry, Corinne Walerack

Filed: 15 Dec 15

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6 Apr 20

Provided herein are ion-implanted glass based articles with improved flaw suppression properties.

Sarko Cherekdjian, Benedict Osobomen Egboiyi, William Brashear Mattingly, III, Michael Yoshiya Nishimoto, Toshihiko Ono, Prakash Chandra Panda, Trevor Edward Wilantewicz

Filed: 21 Jun 17

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6 Apr 20

A color changing cover device for an electronic device includes a translucent cover component appearing white when not illuminated and having a shape adapted to cover a select portion of the electronic device, a direct transmission of less than 10%, and a diffuse transmission of less than 1%.

Matthew John Dejneka

Filed: 3 Feb 19

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6 Apr 20

Apparatus and method for testing a sheet of brittle material comprising the steps of measuring one or more edge features of a sheet of brittle material, imparting a bend to the sheet of brittle material and producing relative motion between the sheet and the bend such that the bend traverses the sheet.

Gabriel Pierce Agnello, Chong Pyung An, William Kenneth Denson, Peter Knowles, David Bruce Moorehouse, Denwood Falconer Ross, III, Correy Robert Ustanik, Siva Venkatachalam

Filed: 9 Mar 16

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6 Apr 20

Cables are constructed with embedded discontinuities in the cable jacket that allow the jacket to be torn to provide access to the cable core.

George Cornelius Abernathy, David Wesley Chiasson, Randall Dwaine Tuttle

Filed: 30 Apr 19

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6 Apr 20

A transparent substrate having an antiglare surface with reduced display sparkle.

Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Jacques Gollier, Ellen Marie Kosik Williams, James Andrew West

Filed: 21 Nov 16

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30 Mar 20

Disclosed is a honeycomb support structure comprising a honeycomb body and an outer layer or skin formed of a cement that includes an inorganic filler material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion from 25 C to 600 C and a crystalline inorganic fibrous material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion from 25 C to 600 C.

Keith Norman Bubb, Thomas Richard Chapman, Kenneth Joseph Drury, Christopher Lane Kerr, Mark Alan Lewis, Robert John Locker, Huthavahana Kuchibhotla Sarma, Todd Parrish St Clair

Filed: 30 Apr 15

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30 Mar 20

A honeycomb extrusion die assembly (10) comprising a honeycomb extrusion die (701) and a forming plate (800) to block batch flow to at least a portion of a skin forming region.

Slater Kent Atkins, Thomas William Brew, Darin Wayne Felty, Tushar Gulati, Min Shen, Mark Allen Spetseris, Eric Lee Thompson

Filed: 12 Feb 17