Patents Assigned to Corning
  • Patent number: 9266782
    Abstract: A ceramic block consisting essentially of substantially homogeneous (Y2O3)? P2O5, where 0.95?x?1.05, having length LL, a width WW and a height HH, and a volume W of at least 8×10?3 m3 essentially free of cracks throughout the volume, a density of at least 85% of the theoretical maximal density of Y203.P2O5 under standard conditions, and a creep rate CR at 1250° C. and 6.89 MPa; where CR?8.0×10?6 hour?1 and method for making the same. The method utilizes a dry process where the starting YP04-based ceramic material is synthesized by reacting anhydrous P2O5 with dry Y2O3 powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Ralph Alfred Langensiepen, Joseph James McIntosh, Tracey Lynn Timmons
  • Patent number: 9266771
    Abstract: An electric arc apparatus for processing an optical fiber includes one or more first electrodes and one or more second electrodes. The first electrode(s) each have an end portion that terminates at an opening defined by the first electrode(s). The opening is configured to accommodate the optical fiber extending along a longitudinal axis. The second electrode(s) each have an end portion that terminates at a location spaced from the opening defined by the first electrode(s). The first electrode(s) or second electrode(s) are configured to receive a voltage that generates a plasma field between the first electrode(s) and second electrode(s), which are shaped to focus the plasma field so that the plasma field extends across the longitudinal axis and modifies the end of the optical fiber. Methods of processing an optical fiber with an electric arc apparatus are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Venkata Adiseshaiah Bhagavatula, John Himmelreich
  • Patent number: 9270374
    Abstract: Optical fiber-based distributed communications systems that provide and support both RF communication services and digital data services are disclosed herein. The RF communication services and digital data services can be distributed over optical fiber to client devices, such as remote antenna units for example. In certain embodiments, digital data services can be distributed over optical fiber separate from optical fiber distributing RF communication services. In other embodiments, digital data services can be distributed over common optical fiber with RF communication services. For example, digital data services can be distributed over common optical fiber with RF communication services at different wavelengths through wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) and/or at different frequencies through frequency-division multiplexing (FDM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: William Patrick Cune, Michael Sauer, Wolfgang Gottfried Tobias Schweiker
  • Patent number: 9268091
    Abstract: A method for laser processing arrays of optical fibers and high-fiber count splicing connectors and adapters are disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a structure having optical fibers arranged in a plurality of rows and placing a protection element adjacent to a first row of optical fibers and a second row of optical fibers. Thereafter, the first row of optical fibers can be processed using the laser. The protection element may also be used to move optical fibers. In one embodiment, the protection element has a first portion and a second portion that have relative movement therebetween. In other variations, an absorption element may be provided adjacent the first row of optical fibers for inhibiting incidental damage to the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Michael de Jong, Radawan Hall, Micah C. Isenhour, Dennis M. Knecht, James P. Luther
  • Patent number: 9269014
    Abstract: The hyperspectral detector systems and methods disclosed herein include capturing a context image and a single-column spectral image that falls within the context image. The context and spectral images are then combined to form a fused image. Using the fused image, the spectral image is panned over the scene and within the context image to capture spectral signatures within the scene. The spectral signatures are compared to reference spectral signatures, and the locations of the one or more spectral signatures within the context image are marked. The systems and methods obviate the need to store and process large amounts of spectral data and allow for real-time display of the fused context image and spectral image, along with the marked locations of matched spectral signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Lovell Elgin Comstock, II, Leon J Desmarais, Jeffry John Santman, Peter Gerard Wigley, Patrick W Woodman
  • Patent number: 9260337
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for supporting a source glass sheet and defining an at least partially non-straight cutting line that establishes a closed pattern that circumscribes a desired final shape; scoring the glass sheet at an initiation line using a mechanical scoring device; applying a laser beam to the glass sheet starting at the initiation line and continuously moving the laser beam relative to the glass sheet along the cutting line to elevate a temperature of the glass sheet at the cutting line to a substantially consistent temperature, where the laser beam is of a circular shape; and applying a cooling fluid simultaneously with the application of the laser beam, such that the cooling fluid at least reduces the temperature of the glass sheet in order to propagate a fracture in the glass sheet along the cutting line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Anatoli Anatolyevich Abramov, Bernd Christoph Hoetzel
  • Patent number: 9263300
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing vias in a glass substrate includes bonding, through a bonding layer, a first face of the glass substrate including a plurality of holes to a first face of a glass carrier. The bonding layer has a thickness t between the first face of the glass substrate and the first face of the glass carrier and extends into at least some of the plurality of holes to a depth h from the first face of the glass substrate. The method includes etching back the bonding layer to a depth d through the plurality of holes in the glass substrate. The depth d is less than the sum of the thickness t and the depth h. The method can include filling the plurality of holes with an electrically conductive material, and de-bonding the glass substrate from the bonding layer and the glass carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Tsai, Bor Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 9260458
    Abstract: A method of producing an organic silicon compound includes a step of reaction of the following: (A) a reactive silane compound represented by General Formula (1) below: R1mSiY(4-m) (wherein R1 is a monovalent organic group (except for the group represented by Y) or a hydrogen atom; Y indicates a chlorine atom or a group represented by —OR2; R2 indicates a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; and m is a number in the range of 0 to 3), (B) a halogenated organic compound represented by General Formula (2) below: R3—X (wherein R3 indicates a monovalent organic group; and X is a halogen atom), and (C) metallic magnesium (Mg) in the presence of (D) an organic solvent containing at least one type of ether type compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sugiura, Yoshinori Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 9261429
    Abstract: Prism-coupling systems and methods for characterizing large depth-of-layer waveguides are disclosed. The systems and methods utilize a coupling prism having a coupling angle ? having a maximum coupling angle ?max at which total internal reflection occurs. The prism angle ? is in the range 0.81?max???0.99?max. This configuration causes the more spaced-apart lower-order mode lines to move closer together and the more tightly spaced higher-order mode lines to separate. The adjusted mode-line spacing allows for proper sampling at the detector of the otherwise tightly spaced mode lines. The mode-line spacings of the detected mode spectra are then corrected via post-processing. The corrected mode spectra are then processed to obtain at least one characteristic of the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Shenping Li, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev
  • Patent number: 9263197
    Abstract: A method of forming an electrolyte solution involves combining ammonium tetrafluoroborate and a quaternary ammonium halide in a liquid solvent to form a quaternary ammonium tetrafluoroborate and an ammonium halide. The ammonium halide precipitate is removed from the solvent to form an electrolyte solution. The reactants can be added step-wise to the solvent, and the method can include using a stoichiometric excess of the ammonium tetrafluoroborate to form a substantially halide ion-free electrolyte solution. Filtration can be done at low temperatures to reduce the amount of excess bromide in the resulting electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree, Satyanarayana Kodali
  • Patent number: 9263809
    Abstract: A terminal block allows wires to be connected to the block by insertion at a front portion of the block and along a direction parallel to the length of the block. The block includes a securing feature to retain the electrical conductor securely in the block while also allowing simplified connection and disconnection of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications Wireless Ltd
    Inventors: Lior Assif, Alon Rozenvax, Shlomo Zilberman
  • Publication number: 20160039588
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus for holding may include a plurality of ware keepers for receiving glassware. Each ware keeper may include a retention body comprising a wire coil circumscribing a glassware receiving volume. A lower-most winding of the wire coil forms a ware stop in the retention body. The retention body may include a spacer coil extending from the retention body below the ware stop. A base frame may include a plurality of apertures extending through the base frame. Each of the plurality of ware keepers may be positioned in a corresponding aperture in the base frame such that the retention body of each ware keeper is above a top surface of the base frame and the spacer coil of each ware keeper is below a bottom surface of the base frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Brian Christopher Sheehan
  • Publication number: 20160039587
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magazine apparatus may include a plurality of dividing straps positioned substantially parallel with one another and a plurality of support straps positioned substantially parallel with one another. The plurality of support straps may intersect with the plurality of dividing straps to form a plurality of ware receiving channels. An upper end and a lower end of each ware receiving channel may be at least partially open. The magazine apparatus may also include a plurality of ware seats. Each ware seat may extend at least partially across a corresponding ware receiving channel proximate a lower end of the corresponding ware receiving channel. Each ware seat may provide a seat for glassware positioned in the corresponding ware receiving channel. A plurality of ware spacers may be positioned below and spaced apart from a corresponding ware seat and extending at least partially across the corresponding ware receiving channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Todd Marshall Wetherill
  • Publication number: 20160039718
    Abstract: A ceramic precursor batch composition comprising inorganic ceramic-forming ingredients, a hydrophobically modified cellulose ether binder having a molecular weight less than or equal to about 300,000 g/mole and an aqueous solvent is provided. The ceramic precursor batch composition has a ratio of binder to aqueous solvent of less than about 0.32. The ceramic precursor batch composition may be used to increase the rate of extrusion of the composition. A method for increasing a rate of extrusion of a ceramic precursor batch composition is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Edward DeRosa, Lung-Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 9257312
    Abstract: A metal oxide thin film substrate which can increase light trapping efficiency and light extraction efficiency, a method of fabricating the same and a photovoltaic cell and organic light-emitting device (OLED) including the same. The metal oxide thin film substrate includes a base substrate, and a metal oxide thin film formed on the base substrate. The metal oxide thin film has voids which are formed inside the metal oxide thin film to scatter light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Precision Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YoungZo Yoo, Seo Hyun Kim, June Hyoung Park, Il Hee Baek, Gun Sang Yoon, Hyunhee Lee, Eun Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 9254538
    Abstract: A compound optical assembly is constructed from a plurality of stacking elements for spacing, aligning, and retaining optical elements within the assembly. Stacking faces of the stacking elements are measured and low-order surface errors are extracted, represented by mathematical approximations having a primary angular frequency. The stacking elements including the optic holders are relatively oriented to promote complementarity between the low-order surface errors of mating stacking faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Dennis Grejda, Todd Robert McMichael
  • Patent number: 9255036
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to treat a dried unfired article comprising a ceramic precursor composition substantially held together by a binder, to be resistant to binder soluble solvent based processing. The method includes depositing a fluid on the article surface, and polymerizing the deposited fluid to form a polymer thin layer on the surface. The fluid may be an aerosol, a vapor, a fog, a mist, a smoke, or combinations thereof. An apparatus to perform the method and an article resistant to binder soluble solvent based processing are also provided. The article can be an unfired honeycomb body that includes a dried composition of ceramic precursor substantially held together by a binder and a layer disposed on a surface of the unfired honeycomb body. The surface to be exposed in the green state to a binder soluble solvent and the layer protects the binder from solubilization by the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kenneth Joseph Drury, Paul John Shustack, Todd Parrish St. Clair
  • Patent number: 9258052
    Abstract: Components, systems, and methods for reducing location-based interference in distributed antenna systems operating in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) configuration are disclosed. Interference is defined as issues with received MIMO communications signals that can cause a MIMO algorithm to not be able to solve a channel matrix for MIMO communications signals received by MIMO receivers in client devices. These issues may be caused by lack of spatial (i.e., phase) separation in the received MIMO communications signals. Thus, to provide phase separation of received MIMO communication signals, multiple MIMO transmitters are each configured to employ multiple transmitter antennas, which are each configured to transmit in different polarization states. In certain embodiments, one of the MIMO communications signals is phase shifted in one of the polarization states to provide phase separation between received MIMO communication signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Jacob George, Anthony Ng'Oma, Hejie Yang
  • Patent number: 9254544
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for finishing alkaline earth metal fluoride optical components and to the alkaline earth optical elements produced using the method. In particular, in the last polishing step, the method of the invention uses a colloidal silica polishing slurry having containing silica particles having a particle size of <500 nm. Additionally, after colloidal silica polishing, the method using a megasonic cleaning step with a high pH detergent cleaning solution to remove any silica residue on the polished optical component. The optic resulting from use of the method has a polished and unetched surface roughness of less than 0.5 nm; a surface roughness of less then 0.6 nm after polishing and etching; and a step height of less than 6 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jiangwei Feng, Mai Phung, Robert Sabia
  • Patent number: 9257328
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for forming a semiconductor on glass-ceramic structure provide for: subjecting an implantation surface of a donor semiconductor wafer to an ion implantation process to create an exfoliation layer of the donor semiconductor wafer; bonding the implantation surface of the exfoliation layer to a precursor glass substrate using electrolysis; separating the exfoliation layer from the donor semiconductor wafer to thereby form an intermediate semiconductor on precursor glass structure; sandwiching the intermediate semiconductor on precursor glass structure between first and second support structures; applying pressure to one or both of the first and second support structures; and subjecting the intermediate semiconductor on precursor glass structure to heat-treatment step to crystallize the precursor glass resulting in the formation of a semiconductor on glass-ceramic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Daigler, Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree, Joseph Frank Mach, Steven Alvin Tietje