Patents Represented by Attorney Michael W. Russell
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Patent number: 8333912Abstract: A process for making a composite material and the composite materials having thermoelectric properties.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignees: Corning Incorporated, Shanghai Institute of CeramicsInventors: Lidong Chen, Monika Backhaus-Ricoult, Lin He, Zhen Xiong, Xihong Chen, Xiangyang Huang
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Patent number: 8329341Abstract: A method for producing a halogenated activated carbon material includes heating a natural, non-lignocellulosic carbon precursor in an inert or reducing atmosphere to form a first carbon material, mixing the first carbon material with an inorganic compound to form a mixture, heating the mixture in an inert or reducing atmosphere to incorporate the inorganic compound into the first carbon material, removing the inorganic compound from the first carbon material to produce an activated carbon material, and treating the activated carbon material with a halogen source to form a halogenated activated carbon material. The halogenated activated carbon material is suitable to form improved carbon-based electrodes for use in high energy density devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree, Shrisudersan Jayaraman
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Patent number: 8318356Abstract: An activated carbon material derived, for example, by carbonizing and activating a non-lignocellulosic carbon precursor has a structural order ratio less than or equal to 0.08, and a nitrogen content greater than 0.2 wt. %. The activated carbon material can also have a volumetric capacitance greater than or equal to 70 F/cm3, an area-specific resistance less than or equal to 0.1 ohm-cm2 and/or a specific surface area greater than 300 m2/g, and is suitable to form improved carbon-based electrodes for use in high energy density devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree, Joseph Frank Mach
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Patent number: 8318619Abstract: The invention mainly relates to a transparent, essentially colorless/??-quartz glass-ceramic material, the composition of which is free of As2O3 and of Sb2O3 and contains a specific combination of three nucleating agents: TiO2, ZrO2 and SnO2; TiO2 being present in low quantity.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: EurokeraInventors: Marie Comte, Lothar Wondraczek
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Patent number: 8309044Abstract: An after-treatment device for an automotive engine includes a substrate having a thermoelectric generation element disposed in an interior volume thereof. The substrate has a first end, a second end, and an outermost lateral dimension that defines an interior volume, and is configured to flow engine exhaust gas from the first end to the second end such that the flowing exhaust gas is in thermal contact with the thermoelectric generation element.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Monika Backhaus-Ricoult, Peng Chen, Mark J Soulliere
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Patent number: 8293010Abstract: A method of forming a templated casting involves incorporating a liquid feedstock into the channels of a honeycomb substrate to form a feedstock-laden substrate, and directionally solidifying the liquid feedstock within the channels.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Prantik Mazumder, Frederick Ernest Noll, John Forrest Wight, Jr.
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Patent number: 8291729Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating glass bump standoff structures of precise height, the method comprising providing oversized glass bumps on a glass substrate, providing a heat source to heat the bumps, positioning a substrate to be aligned on the oversized bumps, and reducing the height of the oversized bumps by a combination of manipulations comprising (1) softening the bumps by heating the bumps and (2) applying pressure to the substrate to be aligned.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Richard R Grzybowski, Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov, James Scott Sutherland
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Patent number: 8252716Abstract: A two-cycle thermal process for making porous activated carbon materials involves a first step of heating a mixture of a carbon precursor/chemical additive in a first heating cycle at a first temperature to cause gas liberation and volumetric expansion of the mixture, and heating the carbon material produced in the first step in a second heating cycle at a second temperature to carbonize and activate the carbon precursor. During the second cycle, essentially no gas liberation or volumetric expansion is observed.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree, Jia Liu
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Patent number: 8242033Abstract: Methods for making and/or treating articles of semiconducting material are disclosed. In various methods, a first article of semiconducting material is provided, the first article of semiconducting material is heated sufficiently to melt the semiconducting material, and the melted semiconducting material is solidified in a direction substantially parallel to a shortest dimension of the melted article of semiconducting material. Articles of semiconducting materials made by methods described herein are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Glen Bennett Cook, Prantik Mazumder, Balram Suman, Natesan Venkataraman
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Patent number: 8211352Abstract: An electrospinning process and apparatus for forming aligned electrospun fibers. A time-dependent (AC) voltage is applied to a multi-electrode collector in order to temporally control the location and orientation of fiber deposition.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Adra Smith Baca, Dean Michael Thelen
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Patent number: 8198116Abstract: A method for fabricating thermoelectric device is provided. The method comprises placing a first electrode in a die, forming a first interlayer on an upper surface of the first electrode; positioning a separating plate on an upper surface of the first interlayer to divide an inner space of the die into a plurality of cells, and depositing a first thermoelectric material on the first interlayer within a first fraction of the cells, and depositing a second thermoelectric material on the first interlayer within a second fraction of the cells, sintering the die contents, and removing the separating plate after sintering to obtain a ? shaped thermoelectric device.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignees: Corning Incorporated, Shanghai Institute of CeramicsInventors: Lidong Chen, Monika Backhaus-Ricoult, Lin He, Xiaoya Li, Xugui Xia, Degang Zhao
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Patent number: 8198210Abstract: A method for producing a halogenated activated carbon material includes heating a natural, non-lignocellulosic carbon precursor in an inert or reducing atmosphere to form a first carbon material, mixing the first carbon material with an inorganic compound to form a mixture, heating the mixture in an inert or reducing atmosphere to incorporate the inorganic compound into the first carbon material, removing the inorganic compound from the first carbon material to produce an activated carbon material, and treating the activated carbon material with a halogen source to form a halogenated activated carbon material. The halogenated activated carbon material is suitable to form improved carbon-based electrodes for use in high energy density devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree, Shrisudersan Jayaraman
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Patent number: 8198201Abstract: Transparent ?-quartz glass-ceramics containing vanadium oxide. Such glass-ceramics have advantageous optical properties including good transmission in the infrared range, low transmission in the visible range, and significant transmission in the blue range for thicknesses of 3 mm. They can be used as materials for cooking top plates.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: EurokeraInventors: Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte, Philippe Lehuede, Isabelle Marie Chauvel-Melscoet, Daniel Louis Gabriel Ricoult
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Patent number: 8194248Abstract: Methods of optimizing optical alignment in an optical package are provided. In one embodiment, the optical package includes a laser diode, a wavelength conversion device, coupling optics positioned along an optical path extending from the laser diode to the wavelength conversion device, and one or more adaptive actuators. The method involves adjusting the optical alignment of the wavelength conversion device in a non-adaptive degree of freedom by referring to a thermally-dependent output intensity profile of the laser diode and a thermally-dependent coupling efficiency profile of the optical package.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2008Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignees: Corning Incorporated, Konica-MinoltaInventors: Vikram Bhatia, Steven Joseph Gregorski, Fumio Nagai, Yukihiro Ozeki
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Patent number: 8181485Abstract: An ultra-thin glass sheet is formed using a roll-to-roll glass soot deposition and sintering process. The sintering involves initially heating and sintering one or more central segments of a glass soot sheet, and progressively heating and sintering glass soot sheet segments that are located laterally or axially adjacent to previously-sintered segments such that, along respective width directions of the glass soot sheet, only a portion of the width is sintered at a given time interval during the heating.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Calvin Thomas Coffey, Daniel Warren Hawtof, Stanley Zinn
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Patent number: 8143179Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent and essentially colorless ?-quartz glass-ceramic material which is free of TiO2, As2O3, Sb2O3 and phosphates; articles formed from said glass-ceramic material; lithium aluminosilicate glasses, precursors for said glass-ceramic material; and methods of producing said glass-ceramic material and said articles formed from said glass-ceramic material.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: EuroKeraInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte, Lothar Wondraczek
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Patent number: 8143178Abstract: The present invention discloses a blue transparent glass-ceramic material comprising ?-quartz solid solution as a predominant crystalline phase and process for making same. The glass-ceramic comprises TiO2 as a nucleating agent, sulphur and at least one metal oxide, advantageously MgO and/or ZnO. The process for making the glass-ceramic material comprises including a metal sulphide, such as ZnS and/or MgS, as a reducing agent in melting the precursor glass of the glass-ceramic material.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: EuroKeraInventor: Lothar Wondraczek
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Patent number: 8062733Abstract: A high-silica glass sheet has an average thickness of less than 150 microns and an average surface roughness over one or both of its two major surfaces of less than 1 nm. The glass sheet is formed using a roll-to-roll glass soot deposition and sintering process. The glass sheet may comprise a plurality of substantially parallel surface protrusions, which are visible only when a major surface of the glass sheet is viewed at an angle sufficiently removed from normal incidence.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Daniel Warren Hawtof, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr.
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Patent number: 7983021Abstract: An oblong electrochemical double-layer capacitor is disclosed having a modified jelly roll design and having a plurality of fingers extending from each electrode in substantially the same direction. A packaged electrochemical double-layer capacitor is also disclosed comprising the oblong electrochemical double-layer capacitor having a modified jelly roll design. A method for manufacturing an oblong electrochemical double-layer capacitor having a modified jelly roll design is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kamjula Pattabhirami Reddy, James Scott Sutherland, Todd Marshall Wetherill
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Patent number: 7976587Abstract: The invention is directed to a carbon composition produced from a carbon precursor, a carbon precursor modifier, and an additive, wherein a mixture of the recited components is formed, the carbon precursor is cured, the resulting mixture carbonized to produce a porous carbon composition. Also disclosed are methods for preparing the carbon composition and for using the carbon composition to fabricate electrodes and electric double layer capacitors comprising the carbon composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree, Joseph Frank Mach