Patents Assigned to Corning
  • Patent number: 11006353
    Abstract: Location access units (LAUs) in a wireless communications system (WCS) for transmitting information to a wireless client device in a WCS for determining location of wireless client device. The LAUs each include a transmitter(s) configured to transmit local wireless communications signal that includes identification information of the LAU, to a wireless client device in the WCS. This identification information can be used to associate the location of the LAU to the client device, because the client device is known to be in communication range of the LAU. In one example, the carrier of a communication session with a client device in the WCS can instruct the client device to scan for local wireless communications signals transmitted by an LAU. The client device returns received identification information from received wireless communications signals transmitted by an LAU to the carrier to associate this location of the LAU to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Liav Bachbut, Aravind Chamarti
  • Patent number: 11000867
    Abstract: A recirculating powder applicator includes an applicator body having an inlet on an upstream surface and an outlet on a downstream surface, wherein the inlet and outlet define a passage that extends transversely through the thickness of the applicator body, a powder conduit, an air inlet, an exhaust aperture located on one of the upstream or downstream surfaces, and a circulation chamber located on the interior of the applicator body. The powder conduit and air inlet are in fluid communication with the passage and the passage is in fluid communication with the circulation chamber. A method of applying powder to a substrate during a continuous process includes using a recirculating powder applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Jerome Blazer, Craig Miller Conrad, Ming Li, Warren Welborn McAlpine
  • Patent number: 11001525
    Abstract: A sizing composition including water, a polyvinylpyrrolidone film former, a silane coupling agent, a lubricant, and a surfactant is provided. The polyvinylpyrrolidone film former constitutes from 30 wt. % to 50 wt. % of the dry solids of the sizing composition. Wet use chopped strand glass fibers for use in reinforcing gypsum board are also provided. The wet use chopped strand glass fibers include chopped glass fibers having the sizing composition applied thereto. The sizing composition improves fiber bundle integrity, fiber flow rate, fiber flow rate consistency, and dispersibility of the wet use chopped strand glass fibers in a gypsum matrix or slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Helen Huang, Mohammed Tazi
  • Publication number: 20210129486
    Abstract: A laminated glass structure for an electronic device includes: a core glass layer having a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE); and a plurality of clad glass layers, each having a CTE that is lower than or equal to the first CTE of the core glass layer. A first of the clad glass layers is laminated to a first surface of the core glass layer and a second of the clad layers is laminated to a second surface of the core glass layer. Further, the total thickness of the core glass layer and the clad glass layers ranges from about 0.1 mm to about 3 mm. In addition, each of the first of the clad layers and the core glass layer comprises a loss tangent of 0.006 or less for signals having a frequency of 1 GHz to about 100 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jin Su KIM, Dean Michael THELEN
  • Patent number: 10994378
    Abstract: A die body apparatus (101) includes a first discharge member (105) configured to be bonded with respect to a base member (103) such that aligned elongated openings (209) of the base member (103) and first discharge member (105) provide a plurality of elongated feed passages placing a plurality of feed holes (106) of the base member (103) in fluid communication with a first honeycomb network of discharge slots (415) of the first discharge member (105). In further examples, methods of assembling a die body apparatus (101) includes the step of bonding a selected discharge member (105) of at least one discharge member with respect to a base member (103). In further examples methods of extruding batch material into a honeycomb body includes the steps of bonding a selected discharge member (105) with respect to a base member (103) and extruding a quantity of batch material through the die body apparatus (101) into an extruded honeycomb body with a honeycomb network of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Timothy Michael Miller
  • Patent number: 10994440
    Abstract: A tool die for forming a green ceramic body. The tool die has a wear resistant coating that is deposited on a substrate and has an outer or free surface having a morphology that provides a mean roughness in a range from about 0.03 ?m up to about 0.8 ?m Rq. In one embodiment, the wear resistant coating has multiple alternating layers of fine grained and coarse grained materials. Methods of making the tool die and wear resistant coating are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Krishnakumar Vaidyanathan
  • Patent number: 10995404
    Abstract: A coating material includes silicon and/or aluminum, hydrogen and any two or more of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and fluorine. The coating material exhibits a hardness of about 17 GPa or greater and an optical band gap of about 3.5 eV or greater. The coating material includes, in atomic %, silicon and/or aluminum in an amount of about 40 or greater, hydrogen in an amount in the range from about 1 to about 25, nitrogen in an amount of about 30 or greater, oxygen in an amount in the range from about 0 to about 7.5, carbon in an amount in the range from about 0 to about 10, and optionally, fluorine and/or boron. Articles including the coating material may exhibit an average transmittance of about 85% or greater over an optical wavelength regime in the range from about 380 nm to about 720 nm and colorlessness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaveh Adib, Robert Alan Bellman, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Patent number: 10994934
    Abstract: A carrier (230) for a honeycomb body (220) and a method for manufacturing a honeycomb body(220) are provided. The carrier (230) comprises a first side support (234), a second side support (236), and a flexible sheet (240) suspended between the first (234) and second (236) side supports for supporting the honeycomb body (220). The method comprises placing a green honeycomb body (220) on the flexible sheet (240) and transporting the green honeycomb body (220).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: John Christian Duroe
  • Patent number: 10999166
    Abstract: Power management techniques in distributed communication systems are disclosed herein. Related components, systems, and methods are also disclosed. In embodiments disclosed herein, services within a remote unit of the distributed communication system are selectively activated and power consumption is measured. From at least two measurements, a maximum power available may be calculated and compared to power requirements of the remote unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Ami Hazani, Shlomo Zilberman
  • Patent number: 10996416
    Abstract: Hardened fiber optic connectors having a splice connector assembly are disclosed. The splice connector assembly is attached to an optical fiber of a fiber optic cable by way of a stub optical fiber, thereby connectorizing the hardened connector. In one embodiment, the hardened connector includes an inner housing having a first shell and a second shell for securing a tensile element of the cable and securing the splice connector assembly. Further assembly of the hardened connector has a portion of the inner housing fitting into a shroud of the hardened connector. The first shell comprises first and second alignment fingers that allow the mating the hardened connector with a complimentary device. The first shell can have any suitable alignment portion for mating with a complementary device. The hardened connector may also include features for fiber buckling, sealing, cable strain relief or a pre-assembly of components for ease of installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Michael de Jong, Daniel Leyva, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10988405
    Abstract: Intermediate to high CTE glass compositions and laminates formed from the same are described. The glasses described herein have properties, such as liquidus viscosity or liquidus temperature, which make them particularly well suited for use in fusion forming processes, such as the fusion down draw process and/or the fusion lamination process. Further, the glass composition may be used in a laminated glass article, such as a laminated glass article formed by a fusion laminate process, to provide strengthened laminates via clad compression as a result of CTE mismatch between the core glass and clad glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy James Kiczenski, John Christopher Mauro, Michelle Diane Pierson-Stull, Robert Anthony Schaut, Natesan Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 10993295
    Abstract: A microwave mode stirrer apparatus having a stirring member with microwave-transmissive regions is disclosed, along with methods of performing microwave stirring using the microwave mode-stirring apparatus. The microwave-transmissive regions can be in the form of holes or can include microwave-transmissive material. The stirring member can have a variety of configurations, and the microwave-transmissive regions can have a variety of sizes and shapes. A microwave oven that uses the mode stirrer apparatus for drying green ceramic-forming bodies is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Andreas Adrian, James Anthony Feldman, Jacob George, Steffen Georg Klingler, Nadezhda Pavlovna Paramonova, Erwin Josef Wersching
  • Patent number: 10992484
    Abstract: Power management techniques in distributed communication systems in which the power available at a remote unit (RU) is measured and compared to the power requirements of the RU. Voltage and current are measured for two dummy loads at the RU and these values are used to solve for the output voltage of the power supply and the resistance of the wires. From these values, a maximum power available may be calculated and compared to power requirements of the RU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Ami Hazani, Guy Lupescu, Ofer Nisan
  • Patent number: 10989417
    Abstract: A thermal appliance is provided. The thermal appliance includes a heating compartment within the enclosure that is surrounded by insulating material. The insulating material comprises one or more layers, and the insulating material includes at least one channel. A channel allows air to travel within the enclosure to hotspot locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony L. Rockwell, Phillip J. Johnson, Jason Seward
  • Patent number: 10982582
    Abstract: Systems for and methods of evacuating air from a muffler while it is being filled with a fibrous material are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventor: Luc J. Brandt
  • Patent number: 10982998
    Abstract: A laser system includes a controller comprising a processor and a non-transitory machine-readable memory, a laser head configured to output a laser beam, a work bed positioned opposite the laser head, and a power meter communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and integrated within the work bed. The laser system further includes a knife edge plate positioned between the power meter and the laser head, and a machine-readable instruction set stored in the non-transitory machine readable memory that causes the laser system to perform at least the following when executed by the processor: position the laser head at a distance from the power meter, cause the laser head to output the laser beam, translate the laser head across the power meter, receive power signals from the power meter as the laser beam is translated across the power meter, and calculate a spot size based on the power signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Hackert, Tobias Christian Roeder, Uwe Stute
  • Patent number: 10983267
    Abstract: A quasi-single-mode (QSM) optical fiber includes a core and a cladding surrounding the core. The core includes a centerline and an outer edge. The cladding includes an interior edge and an exterior edge. The cladding has a cladding outer diameter defined by the exterior edge of the cladding. The cladding outer diameter may be in the range of greater than 170 ?m to about 200 ?m. The QSM fiber has a cabled cutoff wavelength that is greater than about 1530 nm. The core and the cladding support a fundamental mode LP01 and a higher-order mode LP11. The fundamental mode LP01 has an effective area Aeff>150 ?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: John David Downie, Ming-Jun Li, William Allen Wood, Aramais Robert Zakharian
  • Patent number: 10981825
    Abstract: An antimicrobial article having a substrate, and a coating on a surface of the substrate. The coating includes a silver-containing alkali silicate. The antimicrobial article has an antimicrobial efficacy of greater than or equal to about 90.0% according to EPA Test Method for Efficacy of Copper Alloy Surfaces as a Sanitizer. The coating may further include at least one of a boron-containing compound and an aluminum-containing compound. A method for forming antimicrobial articles includes coating a substrate with a mixture comprising an alkali silicate; curing the coating at a temperature from greater than or equal to about 300° C. to less than or equal to about 620° C. for a duration of greater than or equal to about 15 minutes to less than or equal to about 120 minutes; and contacting the coating with an antimicrobial medium comprising silver nitrate and an alkali nitrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Wageesha Senaratne, Ying Wei
  • Patent number: 10981355
    Abstract: Bulk materials having a kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond is provided. The bulk materials having a kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond includes transparent material, absorbent opaque material and a diffusion bond. The transparent material has properties that allow an electromagnetic beam of a select wavelength to pass there through without more than minimal energy absorption. The absorbent opaque material has properties that significantly absorb energy from the electromagnetic beam. The diffusion bond is formed by the electromagnetic beam bonding the transparent material to the absorbent opaque material. Moreover, the diffusion bond has a thickness that is less than 1000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Medtronic, Inc, Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael S. Sandlin, David A. Ruben, Raymond M. Karam, Georges Roussos, Thomas M. Wynne
  • Patent number: 10980391
    Abstract: A home appliance having a housing, an internal compartment within the housing, and a first duct extending from the internal compartment to an area exterior to the housing. The first duct formed from at least one sound absorbing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventor: Anthony Lee Rockwell