| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 065320100 | Operating under inert or reducing conditions | 34 |
| 20100126219 | Process of Making Low Loss Visible - IR Transmitting Glass - Ceramic Spinel Composites - This invention pertains to a process of bonding a magnesium aluminate spinel article or articles and a germanate glass article or articles including the step of heating them together above the softening temperature of the glass. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100251772 | MOLTEN GLASS PRODUCING APPARATUS AND MOLTEN GLASS PRODUCING METHOD EMPLOYING THE APPARATUS - The present invention is to provide a molten glass producing apparatus realizing simultaneously the production of a glass article of high quality and save-energy in producing molten glass, a molten glass producing method employing the molten glass producing apparatus and a method for producing a glass article. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20140013803 | WINDOW FORMING DEVICE AND WINDOW FORMING METHOD USING THE SAME - A device for making a window includes a main body defining a first space and a second space, a first shaft provided in the first space and connected to the main body, a first die provided in the first space and connected to the first shaft, a second shaft connected to the main body, movable relative to the first shaft and extending to the first space from the second space, and a second die provided in the first space and connected to the second shaft.. The device further includes an air-tight chamber surrounding the first and second dies, a gas supply conduit and a gas discharge conduit connected to the chamber, and an actuator connected to the second shaft and configured to move the second shaft relative to the first shaft. At least one of the first and second dies has a flat area and a curved area. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140165654 | BULK ANNEALING OF GLASS SHEETS - Surface modification layers and associated heat treatments, that may be provided on a sheet, a carrier, or both, to control both room-temperature van der Waals (and/or hydrogen) bonding and high temperature covalent bonding between the thin sheet and carrier. The room-temperature bonding is controlled so as to be sufficient to hold the thin sheet and carrier together during vacuum processing, wet processing, and/or ultrasonic cleaning processing, for example. And at the same time, the high temperature covalent bonding is controlled so as to prevent a permanent bond between the thin sheet and carrier during high temperature processing, as well as maintain a sufficient bond to prevent delamination during high temperature processing. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140318183 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS OPTICAL ELEMENT - An apparatus for manufacturing a glass optical element includes: a heating unit that heats a glass material; a pressurizing unit that pressurizes the glass material; a cooling unit that cools the glass material; a molding room in which the heating unit, the pressurizing unit, and the cooling unit are located; an inert-gas supplying unit that forms a plurality of flows of an inert gas within the molding room by blowing the inert gas in a plurality of directions crossing each other; and an inert-gas emitting unit that emits, from within the molding room, the inert gas supplied into the molding room by the inert-gas supplying unit. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140373571 | FUSED SILICA GLASS ARTICLE HAVING IMPROVED RESISTANCE TO LASER DAMAGE - A fused silica glass article having greater resistance to damage induced by exposure to laser radiation such as laser induced wavefront distortion at deep ultraviolet (DUV) wavelengths, and behaviors such as fluence dependent transmission, which are related to intrinsic defects in the glass. The improved resistance to laser damage may be achieved in some embodiments by loading the glass article with molecular hydrogen (H | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150040612 | METHOD OF MAKING GLASS ARTICLES - A method of making a shaped glass article includes placing a glass sheet on top of a mold. A heat exchanger is arranged relative to the mold such that a heat exchange surface of the heat exchanger is in opposing relation to a back surface of the mold and separated from the back surface of the mold by a gap containing a layer of gas. The height of the gap is selected such that the dominant heat transfer between the heat exchange surface and the back surface of the mold is by conduction through the layer of gas. The glass sheet is heated and formed into a shaped glass article with the mold. The heat exchanger is operated to remove heat from at least part of the mold during at least one of heating the glass sheet, forming the shaped glass article, and cooling the shaped glass article. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20160031739 | THERMALLY TEMPERED GLASS AND METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR THERMAL TEMPERING OF GLASS - A strengthened glass sheet product as well as process and an apparatus for making the product. The process comprises cooling the glass sheet by non-contact thermal conduction for sufficiently long to fix a surface compression and central tension of the sheet. The process results in thermally strengthened glass sheets having improved breakage properties. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160059349 | MULTI-LASER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUTTING AND POST-CUT PROCESSING HARD DIELECTRIC MATERIALS - Laser processing of hard dielectric materials may include cutting a part from a hard dielectric material using a continuous wave laser operating in a quasi-continuous wave (QCW) mode to emit consecutive laser light pulses in a wavelength range of about 1060 nm to 1070 nm. Cutting using a QCW laser may be performed with a lower duty cycle (e.g., between about 1% and 15%) and in an inert gas atmosphere such as nitrogen, argon or helium. Laser processing of hard dielectric materials may further include post-cut processing the cut edges of the part cut from the dielectric material, for example, by beveling and/or polishing the edges to reduce edge defects. The post-cut processing may be performed using a laser beam with different laser parameters than the beam used for cutting, for example, by using a shorter wavelength (e.g., 193 nm excimer laser) and/or a shorter pulse width (e.g., picosecond laser). | 03-03-2016 |
| 065320200 | With bonding or sealing | 4 |
| 20080282734 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH-MELTING GLASS MATERIALS OR GLASS CERAMIC MATERIALS - The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the production of high-melting glass materials or high-melting glass ceramic materials by a process during which a temperature of a molten mass exceeds 1,760° C., wherein a shard material or raw material is molten to a molten mass, the molten mass is fined, and the molten mass emerges via a tubular outlet made of iridium or an iridium alloy having an iridium content of at least 50 wt.-%. According to the invention the temperature of a section of said tubular outlet, which is in contact with the ambient atmosphere having a natural gas composition, is controlled or regulated such that said temperature is held below 1,000° C. except during pouring out the molten mass out of said tubular outlet. Thus, an oxidative decomposition of the apparatus can be prevented. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20120304696 | STATIC PLASMA GRID EVACUATION TECHNIQUES FOR VACUUM INSULATING GLASS (VIG) UNITS - A thermally insulating panel (e.g., vacuum IG window unit) includes first and second opposing substrates spaced apart from one another by a plurality of spacers. A low pressure space is defined between the substrates, and is hermetically sealed off by at least one edge seal. During evacuation of the space, a plasma is ignited within the space via a static grid assembly in order to reduce the time needed to evacuate the space down and/or to help remove debris from within the space to the desired low pressure. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20140196502 | GLASS SUBSTRATE WITH SEALING MATERIAL LAYER, ORGANIC EL DEVICE USING SAME, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is a glass substrate with a sealing material layer, including a sealing material layer formed by sintering a sealing material, in which: the sealing material includes at least inorganic powder; the inorganic powder includes glass powder and a refractory filler; the content of refractory filler in the inorganic powder is 10 to 35 vol %; and the sealing material layer has a surface roughness Ra of less than 0.5 μm. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20160176748 | A SEALING METHOD FOR THE GLASS PLATE | 06-23-2016 |
| 065320300 | With crystallization or photochromism or phase separation | 7 |
| 20080216514 | Process for the production of glass molded article, optical element produced by the process, and method of treating glass - Provided are a process for the production of a precision press-molded article having a high transmittance and a method of treating a glass to color or decolor the glass, the process comprising heat-treating a press-molded article containing at least one selected from WO | 09-11-2008 |
| 20100101275 | GLASS MAKING METHOD - The subject of the invention is a process for manufacturing red glass containing copper that comprises the steps consisting in:
| 04-29-2010 |
| 20120186299 | Directional Solidification Furnace For Reducing Melt Contamination And Reducing Wafer Contamination - A directional solidification furnace includes a crucible for holding molten silicon and a lid covering the crucible and forming an enclosure over the molten silicon. The crucible also includes an inlet in the lid for introducing inert gas above the molten silicon to inhibit contamination of the molten silicon. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20140190211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING FUSED QUARTZ GLASS - A method of forming fused quartz glass is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a starting body made of fused quartz glass; (b) positioning the fused quartz glass starting body on a base plate; (c) inserting a first insert device into an interior cavity of the starting body to form an assembled structure; (d) heating the assembled structure to a predetermined temperature at which the fused quartz glass has a viscosity in a range of 10 | 07-10-2014 |
| 20150082833 | POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON AND METHOD OF CASTING THE SAME - Casting polycrystalline silicon includes placing a bottomless cooling crucible divided at least partially in the axis direction into a plurality of parts in the peripheral direction and having an inner surface coated with a release agent containing nitrogen, in an induction coil of a chamber charged with an inert gas; melting a raw material of polycrystalline silicon in the bottomless cooling crucible by electromagnetic induction heating using the induction coil; and pulling out the molten silicon downward while cooling and solidifying it. Pullout of the solidified molten silicon is performed through adjusting the carbon concentration of the molten silicon to 4.0×10 | 03-26-2015 |
| 20160200584 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TREATING THE FREE SURFACE OF A MATERIAL | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160200620 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING IRON-DOPED SILICA GLASS | 07-14-2016 |
| 065320400 | With coating | 4 |
| 20120234046 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLARIZING ELEMENT - A method for producing a polarizing element includes the steps of: forming an island-shaped film of a metal halide on a glass substrate; forming needle-shaped particles of the metal halide by stretching the glass substrate through heating to elongate the island-shaped film; and forming needle-shaped metal particles composed of a metal by reducing the metal halide of the needle-shaped particles, wherein the metal halide is deposited on the glass substrate by a reactive physical vapor deposition method. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120240627 | APPARATUS FOR DEPOSITING THIN FILM COATINGS AND METHOD OF DEPOSITION UTILIZING SUCH APPARATUS - The invention relates to an apparatus for depositing thin film coatings on a substrate. The deposition apparatus is designed to keep gaseous reactant materials to be deposited apart from one another in the deposition apparatus, by one or more separation devices and/or methods, but nevertheless, to allow the chemical reactants to mix and react at or near the substrate surface, rapidly enough to create a uniform film at commercially viable deposition rates. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120291491 | Method of Manufacturing Optical Component - The method of manufacturing an optical component includes: a process for forming optical surface of mirror-finishing a surface of an object-to-be-processed that is formed of glass; a heating process of heating the object-to-be-processed that is mirror-finished; and a film forming process of forming an optical thin film on the surface of the object-to-be-processed that is heated in the heating process. In the heating process, a temperature of the object-to-be-processed is from 0.75 times or more to 1 times or less of a glass transition point T | 11-22-2012 |
| 20160194233 | PRINTER HEAD FOR 3D PRINTING | 07-07-2016 |
| 065320500 | With forming glass from molten state, with treatment of molten glass, or with drawing of glass in softened state | 10 |
| 20090064715 | Method and device for drawing a tubular strand of quartz glass - In a known method for drawing a tubular quartz glass strand, a crucible is fed with SiO | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090126405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND ONE OR MORE VESSELS IN A GLASS MANUFACTURING SYSTEM - A system and method are described herein that control the environment (e.g., oxygen, hydrogen, humidity, temperature, gas flow rate, pressure) around one or more vessels in a glass manufacturing system. In the preferred embodiment, the system includes a closed-loop control system and a capsule that are used to control the level of hydrogen around the exterior (non glass contact surface) of the vessel(s) so as to suppress the formation of gaseous inclusions and surface blisters in glass sheets. In addition, the closed-loop control system and capsule can be used to help cool molten glass while the molten glass travels from one vessel to another vessel in the glass manufacturing system. Moreover, the closed-loop control system and capsule can be used to maintain an atmosphere with minimal oxygen around the vessel(s) so as to reduce the oxidation of precious metals on the vessel(s). | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090165500 | Method and Device for Bubble-free Transportation, Homogenization and Conditioning of Molten Glass - The present invention relates to a device and method for transporting, homogenizing or conditioning of glass melts or glass ceramic melts and is distinguished in that the new formation of bubbles after refining is at least reduced. The new formation of bubbles on the surfaces of components that are in contact with the melt is at least reduced by means of a layer having iridium as a material. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090241602 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE ENVIRONMENTAL AROUND ONE OR MORE VESSELS IN A GLASS MANUFACTURING SYSTEM - A system and method are described herein that control the environment (e.g., oxygen, hydrogen, humidity, temperature, gas flow rate, pressure) around one or more vessels in a glass manufacturing system. In the preferred embodiment, the system includes a closed-loop control system and a capsule that are used to control the level of hydrogen around the exterior (non glass contact surface) of the vessel(s) so as to suppress the formation of gaseous inclusions and surface blisters in glass sheets. In addition, the closed-loop control system and capsule can be used to help cool molten glass while the molten glass travels from one vessel to another vessel in the glass manufacturing system. Moreover, the closed-loop control system and capsule can be used to maintain an atmosphere with minimal oxygen around the vessel(s) so as to reduce the oxidation of precious metals on the vessel(s). | 10-01-2009 |
| 20110126589 | MOLD FOR MOLDED GLASS AND ITS PROTECTION METHOD - The present invention provides a mold for molded glass and its protection method; the protection method permits reducing gas to be generated within the mold for molded glass, thus preventing oxidation of core assembly during temperature rise of glass and protecting the core assembly; the reducing gas is formed by the reaction between oxygen and carbon-containing element in the mold; the mold comprises a core assembly, a core sleeve sleeved onto exterior of the core assembly and a reaction member, of which the reaction member made of graphite material is arranged onto exterior of the core sleeve or into the chamber of core assembly, and used to generate reducing gas from reaction with oxygen within the mold; moreover, the mold also comprises a core assembly, a core sleeve and a fixed molding ring; a carbon film is coated onto the inner side of the fixed molding ring, and the reducing gas is formed from reaction with oxygen within the mold space. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20120192592 | POLARIZING PHOTOREFRACTIVE GLASS - The invention is directed to a glass composition and articles made from the composition that are both polarizing and photorefractive. The glass has, for example, a composition consisting essentially of, in weight percent (“wt. %”) of 70-73 SiO | 08-02-2012 |
| 20130167588 | SHEET WAFER FURNACE WITH GAS PRESERVATION SYSTEM - A sheet wafer furnace has a chamber having an opening, and a crucible, within the chamber, and spaced from the opening. The furnace also has a puller configured to pull a sheet wafer from molten material in the crucible and through the opening in the chamber, and a seal across the opening of the chamber. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20140026618 | FORMING MOLD AND RELATED FORMING DEVICE AND FORMING METHOD USING SAME - A forming mold made from a polyporous refractory material is provided for forming a glass piece. The forming mold includes an outer surface and a plurality of forming structures provided on the outer surface. Each of the forming structures includes a forming surface matching with a shape of the glass piece. The forming mold is structured and arranged to be pumped down from the outer surface to generated an absorption force on molten glass material provided at the at least one forming surface for sucking the molten glass material on the forming structure to form the glass piece. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140182336 | ION TRANSPORT MEMBRANES IN FLOAT GLASS MANUFACTURING - Ion transport membranes are integrated with a glass melting furnace and a float glass bath. Only feeds of air, steam and hydrocarbon are necessary for producing hot oxygen for the melting furnace and a mixture of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen for the float glass bath. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140345327 | PLATE GLASS PRODUCTION DEVICE, AND PLATE GLASS PRODUCTION METHOD - Provided is an apparatus for producing a sheet glass, including: a forming device that forms a glass ribbon by allowing molten glass continuously supplied onto molten metal in a bath to flow on the molten metal; a rotary roll disposed in an outer vicinity of the bath and configured to draw the glass ribbon obliquely upward from the molten metal; and a supporting device supporting the rotary roll from below. | 11-27-2014 |
