Patents Assigned to Corning
  • Patent number: 10308544
    Abstract: A method of producing an optical fiber is provided that includes the steps of flowing a first gas into an optical fiber draw furnace. The first gas is passed through a heated section configured to contain and heat a glass source from which the optical fiber is drawn, passing the first gas through a muffle which defines a capture chamber. A portion of the first gas is removed through at least one reclaim port operatively coupled to the capture chamber. A second gas flows into a gas screen at a rate configured to substantially recover a pressure drop associated with removing the portion of the first gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Mitchell Carlton, John Michael Jewell, Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Kochuparambil Deenamma Vargheese, Chunfeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 10310195
    Abstract: An optical coupling system includes a tapered coupling element having a first end opposite a second end, a core having a core diameter that is larger at the first end than at the second end, and a cladding layer that is coupled to and circumscribes the core. An optical pathway is disposed within the core and that extends between the first end and the second end. The tapered coupling element is tapered from the first end to the second end such that the core diameter adiabatically transitions a light beam traveling along the optical pathway from a first beam size at the first end to a second beam size at the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Adam Kent Collier, Ying Geng, Ming-Jun Li
  • Patent number: 10309100
    Abstract: A mullion cover hanger and a curtain wall insulation system incorporating the mullion cover hanger are provided. The mullion cover hanger includes an elongated main body having hook members extending therefrom. When the mullion cover hanger is attached to a mullion, a mullion cover can be secured to the mullion cover hanger without using electric tools or additional fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Jack Long, Saul Salgado
  • Patent number: 10310208
    Abstract: Fiber optic cable sub-assemblies comprise a fiber optic cable including at least one optical fiber, a cable jacket that houses the optical fiber and at least one strength member. The fiber optic cable sub-assembly further comprises a collar including an inner portion seated within a cavity of an outer portion, wherein the inner portion is attached to an end portion of the strength member of the cable, and the optical fiber extends through the collar to protrude from an outer axial end of the collar. Methods of assembling a fiber optic cable sub-assembly include providing a cable having a strength member along with a collar having an inner portion and an outer portion, attaching the inner portion to an end portion of the strength member so the optical fiber extends from an outer axial end of the collar along with methods for making cable assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Cable Corning Systems LLC
    Inventors: Martin Eugene Norris, Thomas Theuerkorn
  • Patent number: 10308448
    Abstract: A method of making a laminated shingle is provided. The method includes coating a shingle mat with roofing asphalt to make an asphalt-coated sheet, adhering a reinforcement member to a portion of the asphalt-coated sheet, covering the asphalt-coated sheet, and optionally covering the reinforcement member, with granules to make a granule-covered sheet, dividing the granule-covered sheet into an overlay sheet and an underlay sheet, wherein the overlay sheet has a tab portion normally exposed on a roof and a headlap portion normally covered-up on a roof, the headlap portion having a lower zone adjacent the tab portion and an upper zone adjacent the lower zone, and wherein the reinforcement member is adhered to the lower zone of the headlap portion and laminating the overlay sheet and the underlay sheet to make the laminated shingle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: James S. Belt, Bert W. Elliott
  • Patent number: 10302885
    Abstract: A fiber terminal rack mount with front-to-back fiber routing management is disclosed herein. The terminal rack mount is configured to be mounted in a remote terminal to facilitate fiber management of fiber optic cables routed from fiber optic equipment. In exemplary aspects disclosed herein, the fiber terminal rack mount comprises two vertically oriented panels with a plurality of horizontally oriented shelves positioned therebetween. The panels are configured to mount to vertical rails of a remote terminal cabinet of the fiber terminal. The panels and shelves also define routing channels for routing fiber optic cables therethrough, thereby facilitating front-to-back fiber routing between fiber optic equipment mounted in the fiber terminal. In this manner, as an example, the fiber terminal rack mount may more easily support fiber routing between back-to-back mounted fiber optic equipment, which may increase as fiber optic connectivity density increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Richard David Morris, Diana Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 10301211
    Abstract: A method for forming an initiation defect in a glass substrate to facilitate separating the glass substrate into a plurality of substrates is provided. The method includes providing the glass substrate and contacting a broad surface of the glass substrate with an abrasive surface thereby forming a field of initiation defects in the broad surface of the glass substrate. The field of initiation defects has a width of at least about three millimeters between outermost initiation defects. At least one initiation defect is heated with a laser source. The at least one initiation defect is cooled with a cooling fluid such that a crack initiates from the at least one initiation defect, the crack extending through a thickness of the glass substrate and propagating across the glass substrate to separate the glass substrate into the plurality of substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Donald Orrin Bigelow, Robertson Dewhurst Booth, James Joseph Watkins
  • Patent number: 10302891
    Abstract: Cables are constructed with embedded discontinuities in the cable jacket that allow the jacket to be torn to provide access to the cable core. The discontinuities can be longitudinally extending strips of polymer material coextruded in the cable jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: George Cornelius Abernathy, David Wesley Chiasson, Randall Dwaine Tuttle
  • Patent number: 10301771
    Abstract: This relates to the coating of air bags, which are used for safety purposes to protect occupants of vehicles such as automobiles, and of air bag fabrics intended to be made into air bags. In particular the invention relates to the top coating of air bags and air bag fabrics which have been pre-coated with a cured organic resin coating composition. The top-coat is an anti-blocking coating composition comprising at least one solid lubricant dispersed in an organic polymer binder. A process for applying the top-coat is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Marita Barth, William Blackwood, Vittorio Clerici, Andrew William Mountney
  • Patent number: 10304356
    Abstract: A registration carrier assembly (300) that enables parallel tagging of a geometrically regular set of objects is described. The registration carrier assembly (300) includes a registration carrier (310) comprising a frame (311) surrounding a window (312) through the registration carrier, a first pressure sensitive adhesive coated on one side of the registration carrier (310) and a plurality of regularly spaced tags (100) distributed across the registration carrier and adhered to the registration carrier. Each of the tags includes a tab portion having a unique printed identifier, an anchor portion (120) to attach the tag to one of the objects of the geometrically regular set, and a tether portion connecting the tab portion to the anchor portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph C. Carls
  • Patent number: 10302463
    Abstract: A fiber sensor that includes: an optical fiber configured for one of single or few mode operation at a wavelength from about 300 nm to about 2000 nm, and further defined by a transmission end, a scattering end, a fiber outer diameter and a fiber length from about 10 m to about 100 km. The fiber includes: a plurality of cores having equivalent core diameters and compositions; and a cladding defined by the fiber outer diameter and surrounding the cores. The fiber is tapered at the transmission end to define a tapered portion characterized by a tapered fiber out diameter and tapered core diameters smaller than the respective fiber outer diameter and core diameters. Further, the transmission end of the fiber exhibits a total backscattered signal that emanates from the cores after light from a single source has been injected into the cores at the transmission end of the fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Valery A Kozlov, Ming-Jun Li
  • Patent number: 10302857
    Abstract: A single mode optical fiber including a germania doped silica central core region having outer radius r1 and refractive index ?1, a maximum refractive index ?1max, and 0.32%??1max?0.45%, and a core alpha profile (Core?). In various embodiments, the optical fiber also contains a cladding region including: (i) a second inner cladding region or ring region surrounding the first inner cladding region; or (ii) an inner cladding region or pedestal region surrounding the germania doped silica central core region. The corresponding resultant optical fibers exhibit a 22 m cable cutoff less than or equal to 1260 nm, a macrobending loss at 1550 nm of ?0.75 dB/turn on a 20 mm diameter mandrel, a zero dispersion wavelength, ?0, of 1300 nm??0?1324 nm, and a mode field diameter at 1310 nm of 8.2 microns?MDF1310 nm?9.6 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li, Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra, Pushkar Tandon
  • Patent number: 10301220
    Abstract: A composition for applying to a honeycomb body includes a refractory filler, an organic binder, an inorganic binder, and a liquid vehicle, wherein the refractory filler, the particle size distribution of the refractory filler, the organic binder, and the inorganic binder are selected such that, when the composition is applied to plug a plurality of channels of the honeycomb body, the plug depth variability is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Keith Norman Bubb, Anthony Joseph Cecce, Allison Elizabeth Cronin, Huthavahana Kuchibhotla Sarma, Courtney Spencer Warren
  • Patent number: 10302886
    Abstract: An optical fiber splice tray is described that has a base, a fiber management region, a first splicing zone on a first side of the fiber management region and separated from the fiber management region by a first containment wall, a second splicing zone on a second side of the fiber management region and separated from the fiber management region by a second containment wall, the second side opposite the first side, at least one first optical component location disposed adjacent to the first splicing zone opposite the fiber management region, the first splicing zone between the at least one first optical component location and the fiber management region, and at least one second optical component location disposed adjacent to the second splicing zone, the second splicing zone between the at least one second optical component location and the fiber management region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventor: Nico Kubinski
  • Patent number: 10301222
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for preparing a titanate compound powder comprising titanate compound particles having a controlled particle size and/or particle size distribution. The methods include mixing at least one first inorganic compound chosen from sources of a first metal or metal oxide, at least one second inorganic compound chosen from sources of titania, and at least one binder to form a mixture; calcining the mixture to form a polycrystalline material comprising a plurality of titanate compound grains and a plurality of microcracks; and breaking the polycrystalline material along at least a portion of the microcracks. Also disclosed are titanate compound powders having a controlled particle size distribution, ceramic batch compositions comprising the powders, and ceramic articles prepared from the batch compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Monika Backhaus-Ricoult, Robert John Locker, Huthavahana Kuchibhotla Sarma, Patrick David Tepesch
  • Patent number: 10294146
    Abstract: The single-mode optical fibers have a core region that includes an inner core region having a delta value ?1 and a radius r1 immediately surrounded by an outer core region of radius r2 and a delta value ?2<?1, wherein ?1-?2 is in the range from 0.3% to 2%. A cladding region of radius r3 immediately surrounds the core region. The inner and outer regions define an annular width ?r=r2?r1. At least one of r1, r2, ?r and r3 changes with a period p in the longitudinal direction between first and second values each having a corresponding level distance dF. The change occurs over a transition distance dT such that dT/dF<0.1. The Brillouin frequency shift ?f changes by an amount ?[?f] that is least 10 MHz over each period p, thereby allowing for Brillouin frequency-shift management in fiber-based sensor systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Ming-Jun Li, Shenping Li, Jeffery Scott Stone
  • Patent number: 10295728
    Abstract: A light diffusing component is disclosed. The light diffusing component comprises a substrate, such as glass, having a frontside, a backside spaced apart from the frontside, and an edge configured to receive a light source. The glass sheet includes at least one scattering layer having a plurality of light scattering centers etched into at least a portion of the frontside of the glass sheet. The scattering centers have an increased density as the distance from the edge increases and the scattering centers are randomly distributed in size and smaller than about 200 ?m. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing a light diffusing component comprising masking a substrate, such as a glass sheet, and etching the substrate such that the density of the resulting scattering centers increased as the distance from the light source increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Etienne, Matthew Wade Fenton, Timothy Edward Myers, Kathleen Ann Wexell
  • Patent number: 10294151
    Abstract: Embodiments of a glass-based article including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t) of about 3 millimeters or less (e.g., about 1 millimeter or less), and a stress profile, wherein all points of the stress profile between a thickness range from about 0·t up to 0.3·t and from greater than 0.7·t, comprise a tangent that is less than about ?0.1 MPa/micrometers or greater than about 0.1 MPa/micrometers, are disclosed. In some embodiments, the glass-based article includes a non-zero metal oxide concentration that varies along at least a portion of the thickness (e.g., 0·t to about 0.3·t). In some embodiments, the concentration of metal oxide or alkali metal oxide decreases from the first surface to a point between the first surface and the second surface and increases from the point to the second surface. The concentration of the metal oxide may be about 0.05 mol % or greater or about 0.5 mol % or greater throughout the thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Guangli Hu, Charlene Marie Smith, Zhongzhi Tang, Steven Alvin Tietje
  • Patent number: 10295771
    Abstract: A fiber optic terminal includes an enclosure defining an interior space having a plurality module holders and at least one module removably positioned in one of the plurality of module holders. Each removable module may include at least one input adapter and a plurality of output adapters. Each removable module may also include one or more splitters, cable storage components, pass-through components, or parking components. The fiber optic module may also include first and second arms extending from the front side of the body and a handle coupled to the first and second arms. The handle may be rotatable between a closed position and an open position, and may also be removable from the first and second arms when the handle is in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Alan Duncan Burkett, Joshua David Henley, Joseph Ronald Herridge, Joseph Clinton Jensen, Diana Rodriguez, David Kimondo Waruiru, Leydys Deniss De Jesús
  • Patent number: 10293436
    Abstract: Forming holes in a material includes focusing a pulsed laser beam into a laser beam focal line oriented along the beam propagation direction and directed into the material, the laser beam focal line generating an induced absorption within the material, the induced absorption producing a defect line along the laser beam focal line within the material, and translating the material and the laser beam relative to each other, thereby forming a plurality of defect lines in the material, and etching the material in an acid solution to produce holes greater than 1 micron in diameter by enlarging the defect lines in the material. A glass article includes a stack of glass substrates with formed holes of 1-100 micron diameter extending through the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Sasha Marjanovic, Garrett Andrew Piech, Shyamala Shanmugam, Sergio Tsuda, Robert Stephen Wagner