Patents by Inventor Sumalee Likitvanichkul
Sumalee Likitvanichkul 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).
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Patent number: 11667563Abstract: Glass-ceramics and precursor glasses that are crystallizable to glass-ceramics are disclosed. The glass-ceramics of one or more embodiments include rutile, anatase, armalcolite or a combination thereof as the predominant crystalline phase. Such glasses and glass-ceramics may include compositions of, in mole %: SiO2 in the range from about 45 to about 75; Al2O3 in the range from about 4 to about 25; P2O5 in the range from about 0 to about 10; MgO in the range from about 0 to about 8; R2O in the range from about 0 to about 33; ZnO in the range from about 0 to about 8; ZrO2 in the range from about 0 to about 4; B2O3 in the range from about 0 to about 12, and one or more nucleating agents in the range from about 0.5 to about 12. In some glass-ceramic articles, the total crystalline phase includes up to 20% by weight of the glass-ceramic article.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Qiang Fu, Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Sumalee Likitvanichkul, John Christopher Mauro
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Patent number: 11655178Abstract: A glass-based article includes a first major surface and a first compressive stress region extending to a first depth of compression from the first major surface. The glass-based article includes a second major surface including a first surface portion and one or more edge surface portions recessed from the first surface portion. The glass-based article includes a second compressive stress region extending to a second depth of compression from the first surface portion. Additionally, methods of manufacturing a glass-based article are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan, Jason Thomas Harris, Jean Philippe Michel Peraud, Rohit Rai
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Publication number: 20210230056Abstract: A method of making strengthened articles that includes: providing articles comprising ion-exchangeable alkali metal ions and first and second primary surfaces; providing a bath comprising ion-exchanging alkali metal ions larger in size than the ion-exchangeable ions; and submersing the articles in the bath at a first ion-exchange temperature and duration to form strengthened articles. Each strengthened article comprises a compressive stress region. Further, the exchange rate of the ion-exchanging alkali metal ions is higher into the first primary surface than into the second primary surface. In addition, the submersing step is conducted such that a predetermined gap is maintained between the first primary surface of each of the articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Brian Sterling Chan, Yinghong Chen, Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan, Jun Hou, Qiao Li, Santona Pal, Rohit Rai
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Publication number: 20200407260Abstract: A glass-based article includes a first major surface and a first compressive stress region extending to a first depth of compression from the first major surface. The glass-based article includes a second major surface including a first surface portion and one or more edge surface portions recessed from the first surface portion. The glass-based article includes a second compressive stress region extending to a second depth of compression from the first surface portion. Additionally, methods of manufacturing a glass-based article are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan, Jason Thomas Harris, Jean Philippe Michel Peraud, Rohit Rai
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Patent number: 10723652Abstract: Described herein are various antimicrobial soda lime glass articles that have improved resistance to discoloration when exposed to harsh conditions, including manufacturing conditions. The improved antimicrobial glass articles described herein generally include a SLG substrate that has a thickness, t; a compressive stress layer of about 0.15*t or greater; and an antimicrobial agent-containing region having an antimicrobial agent and a thickness less than the thickness of the compressive stress layer. Roughly 2 to 20 microns of the primary surfaces of the glass substrate can be removed prior to development of the compressive stress and antimicrobial agent-containing region. In some aspects, prior-annealed and tempered, or prior-annealed, SLG is employed as the substrate. In some aspects, the substrate includes tin at one surface. The improved SLG substrates experience substantially no discoloration when exposed to harsh conditions. Methods of making and using the glass articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Hongmei Hu, Jennifer Lynn Hunt, Sumalee Likitvanichkul, Ananthanarayanan Subramanian, Li Yao
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Patent number: 10710928Abstract: A method of making an antimicrobial glass article that includes the steps: submersing the article in a strengthening bath to exchange a portion of ion-exchangeable metal ions in the glass article with a portion of ion-exchanging metal ions in the strengthening bath to form a compressive stress layer extending from the first surface to a diffusion depth in the article; removing a portion of the compressive stress layer from the first surface of the article to a first depth above the diffusion depth in the article to define a new first surface and a remaining compressive stress layer; and submersing the article in an antimicrobial bath to exchange a portion of the ion-exchangeable and the ion-exchanging metal ions in the compressive stress layer with a portion of the silver metal ions in the antimicrobial bath to impart an antimicrobial property in the article.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Delena Lucinda Justice Duffy, Sumalee Likitvanichkul, Richard Michael Fiacco, Georgiy M Guryanov, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kuksenkova, Wageesha Senaratne, Anantha Narayanan Subramanian
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Patent number: 10683234Abstract: Described herein are various methods and manufacturing methods for making antimicrobial and strengthened, antimicrobial glass articles and substrates. The methods described herein generally include contacting the article with a KNO3-containing molten salt bath set at about 380 C to about 460 C for about 30 minutes to about 24 hours to form a compressive stress layer that extends inward from a surface of the glass substrate to a first depth; and contacting the article comprising the compressive stress layer with a AgNO3-containing molten salt bath set at about 300° C. to about 400° C. for about 5 minutes to about 18 hours to form an antimicrobial region that extends inward from the surface of the glass substrate to a second depth. The methods also include poisoning at least the AgNO3-containing molten salt bath and, in some cases, the KNO3-containing molten salt bath. Poisoning components include Na+ and Li+ ions.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kuksenkova, Sumalee Likitvanichkul, Santona Pal, Mehmet Derya Tetiker
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Publication number: 20200123046Abstract: Glass-ceramics and precursor glasses that are crystallizable to glass-ceramics are disclosed. The glass-ceramics of one or more embodiments include rutile, anatase, armalcolite or a combination thereof as the predominant crystalline phase. Such glasses and glass-ceramics may include compositions of, in mole %: SiO2 in the range from about 45 to about 75; Al2O3 in the range from about 4 to about 25; P2O5 in the range from about 0 to about 10; MgO in the range from about 0 to about 8; R2O in the range from about 0 to about 33; ZnO in the range from about 0 to about 8; ZrO2 in the range from about 0 to about 4; B2O3 in the range from about 0 to about 12, and one or more nucleating agents in the range from about 0.5 to about 12. In some glass-ceramic articles, the total crystalline phase includes up to 20% by weight of the glass-ceramic article.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Qiang Fu, Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Sumalee Likitvanichkul, John Christopher Mauro
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Patent number: 10580666Abstract: A carrier substrate includes a base layer having a first surface, and having a second surface that is parallel to and opposite of the first surface. The carrier substrate further includes a glass layer bonded to the first surface of the base layer. The carrier substrate has a Young's modulus greater than or equal to 150 GPa. A carrier substrate includes a polycrystalline ceramic and has a Young's modulus greater than or equal to 150 GPa. The carrier substrate has a coefficient of thermal expansion of greater than or equal to 20×10?7/° C. to less than or equal to 120×10?7/° C. over a range from 25° C. to 500° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan, Weiguo Miao, Eric James Nichols
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Patent number: 10544059Abstract: Glass-ceramics and precursor glasses that are crystallizable to glass-ceramics are disclosed. The glass-ceramics of one or more embodiments include rutile, anatase, armalcolite or a combination thereof as the predominant crystalline phase. Such glasses and glass-ceramics may include compositions of, in mole %: SiO2 in the range from about 45 to about 75; Al2O3 in the range from about 4 to about 25; P2O5 in the range from about 0 to about 10; MgO in the range from about 0 to about 8; R2O in the range from about 0 to about 33; ZnO in the range from about 0 to about 8; ZrO2 in the range from about 0 to about 4; B2O3 in the range from about 0 to about 12, and one or more nucleating agents in the range from about 0.5 to about 12. In some glass-ceramic articles, the total crystalline phase includes up to 20% by weight of the glass-ceramic article.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Qiang Fu, Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Sumalee Likitvanichkul, John Christopher Mauro
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Publication number: 20200006068Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass-based articles having a first surface having an edge, wherein a maximum optical retardation of the first surface is at the edge and the maximum optical retardation is less than or equal to about 40 nm and wherein the optical retardation decreases from the edge toward a central region of the first surface, the central region having a boundary defined by a distance from the edge toward a center point of the first surface, wherein the distance is ½ of the shortest distance from the edge to the center point.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan, William John Furnas, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kuksenkova
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Patent number: 10483101Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass-based articles having a first surface having an edge, wherein a maximum optical retardation of the first surface is at the edge and the maximum optical retardation is less than or equal to about 40 nm and wherein the optical retardation decreases from the edge toward a central region of the first surface, the central region having a boundary defined by a distance from the edge toward a center point of the first surface, wherein the distance is ½ of the shortest distance from the edge to the center point.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan, William John Furnas, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kuksenkova
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Patent number: 10450648Abstract: A chucking apparatus and methods for coating a glass substrate using a vacuum deposition process are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the chucking apparatus includes an ESC (ESC), a carrier disposed on the ESC, wherein the carrier comprises a first surface adjacent to the ESC and an opposing second surface for forming a Van der Waals bond with a third surface of a glass substrate, without application of a mechanical force on a fourth surface of the glass substrate opposing the third surface. In one or more embodiments, the method includes disposing a carrier and a glass substrate on an ESC, such that the carrier is between the glass substrate and the ESC to form a chucking assembly, forming a Van der Waals bond between the carrier and the glass substrate, and vacuum depositing a coating on the glass substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Daniel Robert Boughton, James Gerard Fagan, Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan
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STRENGTHENED GLASS-BASED ARTICLES AND METHODS FOR REDUCING WARP IN STRENGTHENED GLASS-BASED ARTICLES
Publication number: 20190276356Abstract: Strengthened glass substrates and methods of reducing warp in strengthened glass substrates having 3D and 2.5D shapes are disclosed. In one embodiment, a strengthened glass-based article includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and an edge between the first surface and the second surface. The edge is asymmetric with respect to a plane that is located at an average depth of the strengthened glass-based article and is parallel to the first surface and the second surface. The strengthened glass-based article has an expected warp WE based at least in part on a shape of the asymmetric edge of the strengthened glass-based article. An actual warp WA of the strengthened glass-based article is less than 85% of the expected warp metric WE of the strengthened glass-based article. The actual warp WA of the strengthened glass-based article is measured with a concave surface facing up.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: John Steele Abbott, Douglas Clippinger Allan, John Martin Darfin, Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan, David Lee Weidman, David Inscho Wilcox -
Publication number: 20190085443Abstract: A chucking apparatus and methods for coating a glass substrate using a vacuum deposition process are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the chucking apparatus includes an ESC (ESC), a carrier disposed on the ESC, wherein the carrier comprises a first surface adjacent to the ESC and an opposing second surface for forming a Van der Waals bond with a third surface of a glass substrate, without application of a mechanical force on a fourth surface of the glass substrate opposing the third surface. In one or more embodiments, the method includes disposing a carrier and a glass substrate on an ESC, such that the carrier is between the glass substrate and the ESC to form a chucking assembly, forming a Van der Waals bond between the carrier and the glass substrate, and vacuum depositing a coating on the glass substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Daniel Robert Boughton, James Gerard Fagan, Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan
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Publication number: 20190010602Abstract: A chucking apparatus and method for vacuum processing mobile device cover substrates in a vacuum chamber in which the chucking apparatus is configured for temporarily securing the cover substrate within the vacuum chamber, and includes a carrier substrate with a CTE within 20% of CTE of the cover substrate to prevent the carrier substrate and the cover substrate from becoming detached from one another due to differing rates of thermal expansion during processing in the vacuum chamber. The carrier substrate has a surface contact area in contact with the cover substrate selected to provide for continuous bonding during the processing in the vacuum chamber and to provide for de-bonding after the process in the vacuum chamber is complete. Further, the carrier substrate is prepared for use with a cleaning process that facilitates Van der Waals bonding between the carrier substrate and the cover substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2016Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Daniel Robert Boughton, James Gerard Fagan, Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan
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Patent number: 10138546Abstract: A chucking apparatus and methods for coating a glass substrate using a vacuum deposition process are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the chucking apparatus includes an ESC (ESC), a carrier disposed on the ESC, wherein the carrier comprises a first surface adjacent to the ESC and an opposing second surface for forming a Van der Waals bond with a third surface of a glass substrate, without application of a mechanical force on a fourth surface of the glass substrate opposing the third surface. In one or more embodiments, the method includes disposing a carrier and a glass substrate on an ESC, such that the carrier is between the glass substrate and the ESC to form a chucking assembly, forming a Van der Waals bond between the carrier and the glass substrate, and vacuum depositing a coating on the glass substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Daniel Robert Boughton, James Gerard Fagan, Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan
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Publication number: 20180170803Abstract: A method of making an antimicrobial glass article that includes the steps: submersing the article in a strengthening bath to exchange a portion of ion-exchangeable metal ions in the glass article with a portion of ion-exchanging metal ions in the strengthening bath to form a compressive stress layer extending from the first surface to a diffusion depth in the article; removing a portion of the compressive stress layer from the first surface of the article to a first depth above the diffusion depth in the article to define a new first surface and a remaining compressive stress layer; and submersing the article in an antimicrobial bath to exchange a portion of the ion-exchangeable and the ion-exchanging metal ions in the compressive stress layer with a portion of the silver metal ions in the antimicrobial bath to impart an antimicrobial property in the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Delena Lucinda Justice Duffy, Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan, Richard Michael Fiacco, Georgiy M. Guryanov, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kuksenkova, Wageesha Senaratne, Anantha Narayanan Subramanian
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Patent number: 9919963Abstract: A method of making an antimicrobial glass article that includes the steps: submersing the article in a strengthening bath to exchange a portion of ion-exchangeable metal ions in the glass article with a portion of ion-exchanging metal ions in the strengthening bath to form a compressive stress layer extending from the first surface to a diffusion depth in the article; removing a portion of the compressive stress layer from the first surface of the article to a first depth above the diffusion depth in the article to define a new first surface and a remaining compressive stress layer; and submersing the article in an antimicrobial bath to exchange a portion of the ion-exchangeable and the ion-exchanging metal ions in the compressive stress layer with a portion of the silver metal ions in the antimicrobial bath to impart an antimicrobial property in the article.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Delena Lucinda Justice Duffy, Richard Michael Fiacco, Georgiy M Guryanov, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kuksenkova, Sumalee Likitvanichkul, Anantha Narayanan Subramanian, Wageesha Senaratne
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Publication number: 20180044784Abstract: A chucking apparatus and methods for coating a glass substrate using a vacuum deposition process are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the chucking apparatus includes an ESC (ESC), a carrier disposed on the ESC, wherein the carrier comprises a first surface adjacent to the ESC and an opposing second surface for forming a Van der Waals bond with a third surface of a glass substrate, without application of a mechanical force on a fourth surface of the glass substrate opposing the third surface. In one or more embodiments, the method includes disposing a carrier and a glass substrate on an ESC, such that the carrier is between the glass substrate and the ESC to form a chucking assembly, forming a Van der Waals bond between the carrier and the glass substrate, and vacuum depositing a coating on the glass substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Daniel Robert Boughton, James Gerard Fagan, Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan