Patents by Inventor Megan A. DeLamielleure

Megan A. DeLamielleure has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Fusion processes for producing sheet glass
    Patent number: 9126856
    Abstract: Methods are provided for controlling the formation of defects in sheet glass produced by a fusion process which employs a zirconia melting unit. The methods comprise controlling the temperature profile of the glass as it passes through the finer, finer to stir chamber connecting tube, and stir chamber to minimize both the amount of zirconia which diffuses into the glass and the amount of secondary zirconia based defects which comes out of solution in the stir chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Megan A. DeLamielleure, Irene M. Peterson
  • FUSION PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING SHEET GLASS
    Publication number: 20110120191
    Abstract: Methods are provided for controlling the formation of defects in sheet glass produced by a fusion process which employs a zirconia melting unit. The methods comprise controlling the temperature profile of the glass as it passes through the finer, finer to stir chamber connecting tube, and stir chamber to minimize both the amount of zirconia which diffuses into the glass and the amount of secondary zirconia based defects which comes out of solution in the stir chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Megan A. DeLamielleure, Irene M. Peterson
  • Method of reducing gaseous inclusions in a glass making process
    Publication number: 20070175241
    Abstract: Feed materials are melted in a first vessel to form a glass melt at a first temperature T1, the glass melt containing at least one fining agent. The molten glass is next cooled to a second temperature T2 less than T1 in a second vessel wherein an oxygen-comprising gas is not actively added (e.g. bubbled) into the melt during the duration of the time the melt is at T2. The molten glass is thereafter heated to a third temperature T3 greater than T1 and subsequently formed into a glass article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Megan DeLamielleure, William Johnson, Irene Peterson