Abstract: A quantum memory system includes a chalcogenide optical fiber link, a magnetic field generation unit and a pump laser. The chalcogenide optical fiber link includes a photon receiving end opposite a photon output end and is positioned within a magnetic field of the magnetic field generation unit when the magnetic field generation unit generates the magnetic field. The pump laser is optically coupled to the photon receiving end of the chalcogenide optical fiber link. The chalcogenide optical fiber link includes a core doped with a rare-earth element dopant. The rare-earth element dopant is configured to absorb a storage photon traversing the chalcogenide optical fiber link upon receipt of a first pump pulse output by the pump laser. Further, the rare-earth element dopant is configured to release the storage photon upon receipt of a second pump pulse output by the pump laser.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 18, 2018
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated
Inventors:
Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Stuart Gray, Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Ji Wang, Jun Yang
Abstract: Thermally laminated foam boards, methods for making thermally laminated foam boards, apparatus for making thermally laminated foam boards, smaller foam pieces made from thermally laminated foam boards, methods for making smaller foam pieces from thermally laminated foam boards, parts made from thermally laminated foam boards, methods for making parts from thermally laminated foam boards, and tools for making parts from thermally laminated foam boards are disclosed. The thermally laminated foam boards are made by thermally bonding at least two polystyrene boards together.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 23, 2016
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2019
Assignee:
Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
Inventors:
John F. Budinscak, Jr., Jeffrey J. Van Sloun
Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing two Airy beams to process a non-rounded edge of a glass substrate or to cleave a glass substrate are disclosed. The method includes generating first and second Airy beams and causing them to cross at a crossing to define a curved intensity profile in the vicinity of the crossing point where the first and second Airy beams have respective local radii of curvature RA and RB. The method also includes scanning the curved intensity profile either along the non-rounded outer edge or through the glass along a scan path to form on the glass substrate a rounded outer edge having a radius of curvature RE that is smaller than the first and second local radii of curvature RA and RB. The radius of curvature RE can be adjusted by changing a beam angle between the first and second Airy beams.
Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: conveying a glass web from a source toward a destination in a transport direction; scoring the glass web in a width direction thereof to produce a score line having a plurality of separated score segments, thereby defining a section of the glass web between the score line and a leading edge of the glass web; supporting the glass web such that an increasing portion of the section of the glass web becomes cantilevered as the glass web is conveyed such that the portion of the section of the glass web is sufficiently large to generate stress in the respective score segments and drive respective cracks through the thickness of the glass web; and permitting the section of the glass web to separate from the glass web along the score line.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 22, 2016
Date of Patent:
December 3, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated
Inventors:
Robertson Dewhurst Booth, Douglas Edward Brackley, Michael Vincent Ficarra, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Gautam Narendra Kudva, Eric Lee Miller, Ian David Tracy
Abstract: A laser weldable device housing substrate, device housing and related method are provided. The substrate includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a thin inorganic particle layer supported by the first surface. The inorganic particle layer includes a plurality of particles arranged in a layer on the first surface. The particles have an average diameter of less than or equal to 1.0 ?m, and the inorganic particle layer has an average thickness of less than or equal to 5 ?m.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 22, 2016
Date of Patent:
December 3, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated
Inventors:
Heather Debra Boek, Theresa Chang, Leonard Charles Dabich, II, Mark Alan Lewis, Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Mark Alejandro Quesada, Wageesha Senaratne, Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov
Abstract: One or more aspects of the disclosure pertain to an article including a film disposed on a glass substrate, which may be strengthened, where the interface between the film and the glass substrate is modified, such that the article retains its average flexural strength, and the film retains key functional properties for its application. Some key functional properties of the film include optical, electrical and/or mechanical properties. The bridging of a crack from one of the film or the glass substrate into the other of the film or the glass substrate can be prevented by inserting a crack mitigating layer between the glass substrate and the film.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 11, 2013
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated
Inventors:
Heather Bossard Decker, Shandon Dee Hart, Guangli Hu, Fei Li, James Joseph Price, Chandan Kumar Saha
Abstract: Methods of securing an optical fiber within an optical fiber connector include applying heat to a front-end section of a ferrule through a heating sleeve. The heating sleeve at least partially surrounds the front-end section of the ferrule and heats a bonding agent that resides within the ferrule a securing temperature. The optical fiber is inserted into the optical fiber connector and through the bonding agent. The optical fiber is secured in the ferrule axial bore by the bonding agent when the bonding agent reaches the securing temperature.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 5, 2016
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Optical Communications LLC
Inventors:
William Edward Lock, Phillip R. MacCormack, Cameron John Tovey, Todd Marshall Wetherill
Abstract: A metrology apparatus has an illumination source that directs collimated light to a reference surface and to an optical component having a test surface that is in parallel with the reference surface. A first imaging lens defines a Fourier transform plane for light reflected from the reference surface and the test surface. A spatial filtering element is actuable to a blocking position that blocks specular light at the transform plane. A second imaging lens forms, at an image plane, an image of the test surface. A sensor array generates image data from received light at the image plane.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 15, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated
Inventors:
Thomas James Dunn, Paul Francis Michaloski
Abstract: A radio node having a primary cell identity and a secondary cell identity operates the two cell identities at the same time. They are localized and occupy the same geographic location, but operate at different frequencies/channels. The primary cell (PCell) may encompass, e.g., one or more channels, e.g., 20 MHz, and the same can act as a coverage layer, providing a stable spectrum for communications, as these channels do not change. The secondary cell (SCell) operates at the same time, and can operate with higher reuse using multiple GAA channels as they are available (their availability may vary as they are dynamically allocated). This layer can act as a “capacity” layer as the multiple GAA channels can allow for high throughput when needed. That is, they are dynamically allocated, but high capacity can be enabled as a high number of such channels may be available at any one time.
Abstract: A manufacturing system includes a tape advancing through the manufacturing system and a station of the manufacturing system. The tape includes a first portion having grains of an inorganic material bound by an organic binder. The station of the manufacturing system receives the first portion of the tape and prepares the tape for sintering by chemically changing the organic binder and/or removing the organic binder from the first portion of the tape, leaving the grains of the inorganic material, to form a second portion of the tape and, at least in part, prepare the tape for sintering.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 19, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated
Inventors:
Michael Edward Badding, William Joseph Bouton, Lanrik Wayne Kester, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Dale Charles Marshall, Gary Edward Merz, Eric Lee Miller, Emmanuel Chima Okpara, Conor James Walsh
Abstract: An exemplary roofing system for covering an existing shingle roof with an exposure height measured between bottom edges of adjacent courses is disclosed. The roofing shingle system comprising includes a plurality of reroofing shingles. The reroofing shingles have an exposure portion extending from a top edge to a bottom edge for a height that is at least the exposure height of the existing shingle roof. At least one course of reroofing shingles is installed on at least one course of the existing shingle roof, wherein the course of the existing roof is covered by the at least one course of reroofing shingles. The top edge of the reroofing shingles abuts the bottom edge of the adjacent course of existing shingles.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 25, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
Inventors:
Christopher P. Kasprzak, Andrew Panelli, Bert W. Elliott
Abstract: Borosilicate glasses are disclosed having (in weight %) 66-76% SiO2, 0-8% Al2O3, 10-18% B2O3, 0-4% Li2O, 0-12% Na2O, 0-12% K2O, 1-1.5% Ag, 1.5-2.5% Cl? and 0.01-0.06% of a summed amount of CuO and NiO, wherein the glass composition is bleachable upon exposure to ultraviolet irradiation from a stable state color or shade to a lighter color or shade. Such reverse photochromic borosilicate glass compositions may be thermally darkenable. The borosilicate glasses may be strengthened via ion-exchange strengthening treatment. The borosilicate glasses may retain their reverse photochromic and thermally darkenable properties even after ion-exchange strengthening treatment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 9, 2016
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated
Inventors:
John Christopher Mauro, Lynn Marie Thirion
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a fiber optic spool drawer with a translatable and/or removable drawer for deployment of fiber optic cable. In exemplary aspects disclosed herein, the fiber optic spool drawer includes a housing with a translatable drawer and a rotatable spool disposed within an interior area of the housing. The translatable drawer includes a selective locking mechanism and is bidirectionally translatable within and bidirectionally removable from the housing. The rotatable spool is mounted to the translatable drawer and configured to rotate to deploy fiber optic cable. Still further, the fiber optic deployment assembly also includes front and back routing guides to manage and prevent damage to the fiber optic cables deployed. Accordingly, as an example, the fiber optic spool drawer may facilitate easy, efficient, and versatile fiber routing while preventing damage to the fiber optic cable.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 19, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Optical Communications LLC
Inventors:
Juan Miguel Gonzalez Covarrubias, Austin Cody Landis, Arturo Parra Morales, Richard David Morris
Abstract: Optical fiber connecting devices and methods of connecting first and second optical fibers are described. The exemplary devices have a housing composed of an upper and lower housing portions, a mechanical element disposed in a cavity of the lower housing portion, the mechanical element configured to axially align and connect the bare glass portions of the first and second optical fibers; and an actuation mechanism to open and close the splice element a plurality of times, and allows the first and second optical fibers to be positioned, secured and actuated in the mechanical element at the same or different times.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 2016
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Corning Research & Development Corporation
Inventors:
Rutesh D. Parikh, James B. Carpenter, Dennis G. Brannan
Abstract: A new and distinct Guzmania hybrid named ‘FROOZEN’ characterized by solid growth habit; funnel-form rosette plant, measuring about 40-50 cm in height (above the pot when flowering); numerous, green color foliage (measuring about 40 to 50 cm length and about 2-3 cm in width) Superior floral bract production; bracts are white in color (closest to RHS 159D), compound inflorescence, measuring about 15 cm in height and about 20 cm in diameter; and long-lasting habit.
Abstract: An exemplary prefabricated offset shingle includes a headlap portion extending from a top edge to a nail zone, a tab portion extending from the nail zone to a bottom edge, the headlap portion and the tab portion extending between first and second side edges. Two transverse cuts extend from the bottom edge to the headlap portion, and frangible lines of weakness in line with the transverse cuts extend from the transverse cuts to the top edge. The cuts and lines of weakness separate the shingle into first, second, and third offset portions having first, second, and third widths.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
Inventors:
Lawrence Jerome Grubka, Christina Marie Wise, William Edwin Smith, Bert W. Elliott, Mark Burger
Abstract: An optical interface device for a photonic integrated system includes a plug and a receptacle. The receptacle is operably arranged on a PIC that supports waveguides. The plug operably supports optical fibers. The receptacle and plug are configured to operably engage to establish optical communication between the optical fibers and the waveguides. A tab on the receptacle is configured to constrain longitudinal motion while allowing for lateral motion of the receptacle to adjust its position relative to the PIC to optimize alignment. The plug can include a spacer sized to fit within a recess defined by the tab to further facilitate alignment. The plug can also include lenses to establish the optical communication between the optical fibers and the waveguides. The receptacle and plug can be engaged and disengaged in a manner similar to conventional electrical connectors.