Patents Assigned to Corning Incorporated
  • Patent number: 12134581
    Abstract: A glass composition includes greater than or equal to 50 mol % and less than or equal to 70 mol % SiO2; greater than or equal to 10 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % Al2O3; greater than or equal to 1 mol % and less than or equal to 10 mol % B2O3; greater than or equal to 7 mol % and less than or equal to 14 mol % Li2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % Na2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % K2O; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 7 mol % CaO; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % MgO; and greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % ZnO. R2O+R?O is less than or equal to 25 mol %, wherein R2O is the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O and R?O is the sum of CaO, MgO, and ZnO. The glass composition includes at least one of NiO+Co3O4+Cr2O3+CuO is greater than or equal to 0.001 mol %, CeO2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %, and TiO2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Karl William Koch, III, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Patent number: 12135421
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) mirror is provided that includes a glass substrate with a first major surface, a second major surface opposite to the first major surface, and a minor surface connecting the first and second major surfaces. The 3D mirror also includes a reflective layer on the first major surface of the glass substrate. The first major surface comprises an aspheric curvature and a reverse curvature that is disposed in a reverse curve region of the glass substrate. The first major surface has a surface roughness Ra in the reverse curve region of about 3 nm or less, and a peak to valley (PV) surface roughness in the reverse curve region of about 30 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Bong Chul Kim, Jong Hwa Kim
  • Patent number: 12134579
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are coated articles which may include a substrate and an optical coating that includes one or more layers of deposited material. At least a portion of the optical coating may include a residual compressive stress of more than 100 MPa. The coated article may include a strain-to-failure of 0.4% or more as measured by a Ring-on-Ring Tensile Testing Procedure. The optical coating may include a maximum hardness of 8 GPa or more and an average photopic transmission of 50% or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Guangli Hu, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Patent number: 12134580
    Abstract: An aluminoborosilicate glass includes alkaline earth oxides and is substantially free of alkali oxides. The glass may be fusion formable and may be useful as a substrate or other article, such as with consumer and commercial electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Adam James Ellison, Jason Sanger Frackenpohl, John Christopher Mauro, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Natesan Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 12134059
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter body comprises: a clean filter pressure drop of (P1) and a clean filtration efficiency of (FE1); a porous ceramic honeycomb body comprising a first end, a second end, and a plurality of walls having wall surfaces defining a plurality of inner channels, the porous ceramic honeycomb body comprising a base clean filter pressure drop (P0) and a base clean filtration efficiency (FE0); and a porous inorganic layer disposed on one or more of the wall surfaces of the porous ceramic honeycomb body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Pushkar Tandon
  • Patent number: 12130428
    Abstract: A head-up display (HUD) mirror that includes a mirror substrate with a first major surface with a concave shape, a second major surface opposite to the first major surface and with a convex shape, and a minor surface connecting the first and second major surfaces. The HUD mirror also a reflective layer disposed on the first major surface. The first major surface has a first surface roughness Ra of 3 nm or less and a peak to valley (PV) roughness of less than 30 nm, and the mirror substrate is a glass or glass-ceramic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Bong Chul Kim, Jong Hwa Kim
  • Patent number: 12131985
    Abstract: According to various embodiments described herein, an article comprises a glass or glass-ceramic substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface, and a via extending through the substrate from the first major surface to the second major surface over an axial length in an axial direction. The article further comprises a helium hermetic adhesion layer disposed on the interior surface; and a metal connector disposed within the via, wherein the metal connector is adhered to the helium hermetic adhesion layer. The metal connector coats the interior surface of the via along the axial length of the via to define a first cavity from the first major surface to a first cavity length, the metal connector comprising a coating thickness of less than 12 ?m at the first major surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Mandakini Kanungo, Prantik Mazumder, Chukwudi Azubuike Okoro, Ah-Young Park, Scott Christopher Pollard, Rajesh Vaddi
  • Patent number: 12129133
    Abstract: Provided are a glass transportation apparatus and a system including the glass transportation apparatus for manufacturing a multi-pane glass unit. The glass transportation apparatus includes a plate including a main surface facing a main surface of a glass pane, a gas blowing device configured to blow a gas towards the main surface of the glass pane such that the main surface of the glass pane is spaced apart from the main surface of the plate, and a conveyer including a belt having an upper surface and a plurality of pulleys configured to circulate the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jae-Young Choi, Joon Hoi Kim, Young-Ki Oh, Cheolsoon Park, JinWook Song
  • Patent number: 12129208
    Abstract: Green ceramic batch mixtures include: at least one inorganic batch component, preferably cordierite; at least one binder, preferably polyisoprene, poly(vinyl formal), poly(vinyl methyl ether), polybutadiene carboxy terminated; and an inverse emulsion having a continuous phase, an aqueous dispersed phase, and at least one emulsifier, preferably at least one functionalized silicone compound having at least one functional group chosen from a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, hydroxyl-terminated ethylene oxide groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Mark Alan Lewis
  • Patent number: 12130443
    Abstract: An optical device includes a stack that includes a first curved optical element stacked with a second curved optical element. The second curved optical element propagates light by total internal reflection. The stack also includes an incoupling diffractive grating that incouples the light into the second optical element and an outcoupling diffractive grating optically coupled to the incoupling diffractive grating through the second curved optical element. The outcoupling diffractive grating directs the light. The first curved optical element has a first refractive index, the second curved optical element has a second refractive index, and the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index by approximately 0.15 to 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, Mark Francis Krol, Michael John Moore, Horst Herbert Anton Schreiber
  • Patent number: 12122716
    Abstract: Glass-based articles comprise stress profiles providing improved fracture resistance and decreased weight gain. The glass-based articles are produced with a single-step ion exchange process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pascale Oram, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev
  • Patent number: 12122236
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure pertain to a vehicle interior system comprising a base having a base surface; and a glass article coupled to the surface, wherein the glass article comprises a first portion comprising a first elastically deformed surface forming a first concave shape with a first radius of curvature from about 20 mm to about 2000 mm, and a second elastically deformed surface directly opposite the first elastically deformed surface that forms a second convex shape, wherein the second elastically deformed surface has a surface compressive stress that is less than a compressive stress at the first elastically deformed surface, and a second portion adjacent the first portion, wherein the second portion is substantially planar portion or curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: James Gregory Couillard, Atul Kumar, Yawei Sun, Wendell Porter Weeks
  • Patent number: 12122066
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing an extrusion die (100) having a plurality of pins (600a-c) and a plurality of slots (601) defined by the plurality of pins, each pin having a base, the method including applying a coating material (604) over side walls of the bases of the pins of the extrusion die and removing a portion of the coating material coated over the side walls of the bases of the plurality of pins with a cutting tool (650). In some embodiments, the cutting tool has a cutting width (652) equal to a target slot width (640) of the slots. In some embodiments, applying the coating material over the side walls of the bases of the pins includes overcoating a coating material to a thickness that is greater than a thickness needed to define a target slot width of the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Eugene Antesberger, Dana Eugene Coots, Eric Jay Dacheux, Kevin Eugene Elliott, Gary Michael Huzinec, Neil James Sidebottom
  • Patent number: 12122138
    Abstract: Described herein are glass articles and methods of making glass articles, comprising a thin sheet and a carrier, wherein the thin sheet and carrier or bonded together using a coating layer, which is preferably an organosiloxane polymer coating layer, and associated deposition methods and inert gas treatments that may be applied on the thin sheet, the carrier, or both, to control van der Waals, hydrogen and covalent bonding between the thin sheet and the carrier. The coating layer bonds the thin sheet and carrier together to prevent a permanent bond at high temperature processing while at the same time maintaining a sufficient bond to prevent delamination during high temperature processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Robert Alan Bellman, Jiangwei Feng, Prantik Mazumder
  • Patent number: 12122705
    Abstract: A textured glass article includes: a body comprising an aluminosilicate glass comprising greater than or equal to 16 wt % Al2O3, the body having at least a first surface; a plurality of dendritic surface features extending from the first surface, each of the plurality of dendritic surface features comprising a base on the first surface and a surface feature size at the base greater than or equal to 10 ?m and less than or equal to 350 ?m; and a transmittance haze greater than or equal to 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Robert Randall Hancock, Jr., Yuhui Jin, Aize Li
  • Patent number: 12122124
    Abstract: A cold-formed glass laminate (100) may include a first ply (108) of 3D formed glass with a first thickness, a first strength, and a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The laminate (100) may also include a second ply (110) of 3D formed glass with a second thickness less than the first thickness, a second strength greater than the first strength, and a second coefficient of thermal expansion. The second coefficient of thermal expansion may be selected to be sufficiently higher than the first coefficient of thermal expansion to induce residual compressive stresses in the first ply (108) due to cold forming therewith. An adhesive layer (112) may be arranged between the first ply (108) and the second ply (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Vikram Bhatia, Zhang Liu, Ah-Young Park, Yousef Kayed Qaroush
  • Patent number: 12122703
    Abstract: Glass-based articles comprise stress profiles providing improved drop performance. A glass-based substrate comprises: a glass transition temperature (Tg), a liquid fragility index (m), and fictive temperature (Tf), wherein Tg is less than or equal to 650° C., a value of Tf minus Tg is greater than or equal to ?30° C., and m is greater than or equal to 25. A stress relaxation rate is greater than or equal to 10%, or 20% or more. The articles can comprise a lithium-based aluminosilicate composition and a fracture toughness that is greater than or equal to 0.75 MPa*m0.5. The stress profiles comprise: a spike region extending from the first surface to a knee; and a tail region extending from the knee to a center of the glass-based article, the tail region comprising: a negative curvature region wherein a second derivative of stress as a function of depth is negative; a depth of compression (DOC) that is greater than or equal to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jason Thomas Harris, Kevin Barry Reiman
  • Patent number: 12122134
    Abstract: Emobidments of a curved glass article are disclosed herein. The curved glass article includes a glass sheet first and second major surfaces. The glass sheet is bent to define a curved region disposed between flat sections. The curved glass article also includes a carrier adhered to the glass sheet. The carrier includes longitudinal strips and lateral strips. The longitudinal strips define the radius of curvature of the curved region. The lateral strips extend between the longitudinal strips. The glass sheet deviates 0.3 mm or less from planar in the flat sections. The longitudinal strips each have a width Wlong of 2 mm or less. The first lateral strips each have a width Wlat of 20 mm or less. At least a portion of the width Wlat of each lateral strip is located in the curved region and a flat section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gaurav Dave, Khaled Layouni, Mincong Liu, Elias Merhy, Quentin Jean André Pierron, Michael William Price, Fraaz Tahir
  • Patent number: 12122711
    Abstract: Glass-based articles that include a compressive stress layer extending from a surface of the glass-based article to a depth of compression are formed by exposing glass-based substrates to water vapor containing environments. The glass-based substrates include low amounts of phosphorous. The methods of forming the glass-based articles may include elevated pressures and/or multiple exposures to water vapor containing environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Jingshi Wu
  • Patent number: 12121030
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention pertain to glass compositions, glasses and articles. The articles include an aluminosilicate glass, which may include P2O5 and K2O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Gary Stephen Calabrese, Timothy Michael Gross, Dayue Jiang, Jianguo Wang