Abstract: A production apparatus making continuously curved crystalline glass as a cover or container includes a melting device, a drainage device, a molding device, and a crystallizing device. The melting device melts glass raw material to form a glass melt. The drainage device drains the glass melt to the molding device. The molding device includes a rotating table and a plurality of molding molds thereon. Each molding mold can be moved toward or away from the drainage device by the rotating table. Each molding mold has a molding cavity. At least one part of the molding cavity includes a plane, and at least one part of the molding cavity includes a curved surface to extrude the glass melt with such different surface forms. The crystallizing device crystallizes the curved glass member to achieve the curved crystallized glass member. A method for manufacturing such glass is also provided.

Abstract: A method is provided that includes producing filamentary damages in a volume of a glass or glass ceramic element adjacently aligned along a separation line and extend obliquely relative to a surface of the glass or glass ceramic element; and separating a portion from the glass or glass ceramic element along the separation line. The step of producing the filamentary damages includes directing laser pulses of an ultrashort pulse laser obliquely on the surface so that the laser pulses have a light propagation direction that extends obliquely relative to the surface and so that the filamentary damages resulting from the laser pulses have the longitudinal extension that extends obliquely relative to the surface; generating a plasma within the volume with the laser pulses; and displacing the laser pulses at points of incidence over the surface along the separation line.

Abstract: An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including a main unit including a heating portion disposed at an outer surface of the main unit, the heating portion including one or more electric heaters; and a tubular aerosol-generating article including a tubular aerosol-forming substrate and an inner passage, wherein: the inner passage of the tubular aerosol-generating article is configured to receive the heating portion of the main unit; the one or more electric heaters are configured to heat the tubular aerosol-forming substrate when the tubular aerosol-generating article is received on the heating portion of the main unit; and at least one of the main unit and the tubular aerosol-generating article includes at least one retaining feature configured to removably retain the tubular aerosol-generating article on the heating portion of the main unit when the tubular aerosol-generating article is received on the heating portion of the main unit.

Abstract: A sensor system to provide data for use to control manufacture of an optical fiber in microgravity including a diameter sensor to monitor a diameter of a fiber drawn from a preform material, a tension sensor to monitor tension of the fiber as the fiber is pulled from the preform material to a storage device and a controller in communication with at least one of the diameter sensor and the tension sensor to evaluate sensor data to determine at least one of a speed and rate at which the fiber is pulled from the preform material.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating system is provided, including a storage portion configured to store an aerosol-forming substrate; an aerosol-generating element configured to generate an aerosol from the aerosol-forming substrate; a control circuitry in communication with the storage portion or the aerosol-generating element; and disabling means for rendering the storage portion inoperable in the aerosol-generating system in response to a disable signal from the control circuitry. There is also provided a method in an aerosol-generating system, including sending a disable signal from the control circuitry to the disabling component following a determination that an amount of the aerosol-substrate in the storage portion is below a threshold level or following a determination of a malfunction in the system.

Abstract: A method for reconditioning a glass manufacturing system includes establishing a reducing atmosphere in a glass melting vessel and draining a glass melt composition from the melting vessel while the reducing atmosphere is in the vessel. The pressure of the reducing atmosphere is greater than the pressure of the atmosphere surrounding the melting vessel and the reducing atmosphere is established by operating at least one combustion burner in the melting vessel in a fuel-rich condition.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a manufacturing method of tempered vacuum glass, comprising the following steps: (1) manufacturing metalized layers, and performing tempering or thermal enhancement on the glass substrates; (2) placing a metal solder on the metalized layers; (3) superposing the glass substrates to form a tempered glass assembly; (4) heating the tempered glass assembly to 60-230° C.; (5) keeping the tempered glass assembly within the heating temperature range of step (4) in a vacuum chamber, and vacuumizing the vacuum chamber to a preset vacuum degree; and (6) hermetically sealing the metalized layers by adopting a metal brazing process.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the fabrication and characterization of an optical fiber capable of firing light virtually from any point along its circumferential surface. The optical fiber is preferably prepared by laser micromachining. In preferred embodiments, laser radiation is focused onto a multimode optical fiber axis, forming a conical-shaped cavity (side window) in the fiber core. Because of the total internal reflection when the laser beam reaches the side window-outside medium interface, the beam is reflected to the side of the optical fiber.

Abstract: A system for drawing optical fiber in microgravity including a sealed housing to prevent infiltration of at least humidity and filled with a dry environment, a preform holder located within the sealed housing to hold preform material, a furnace located within the sealed housing to receive the preform material from the preform holder and to heat the preform material from which the optical fiber is pulled, a feed system to move the preform material from the preform holder to the furnace, a drawing mechanism located within the sealed housing to pull the optical fiber from the preform material within the furnace, a diameter monitor located within the sealed housing to measure a diameter of the optical fiber and a fiber collection mechanism located within the sealed housing to gather and store the optical fiber.

Abstract: An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a main unit including a heating portion disposed at an outer surface of the main unit, the heating portion including one or more electric heaters; and a tubular aerosol-generating article including a tubular aerosol-forming substrate and an inner passage, wherein the inner passage of the tubular aerosol-generating article is configured to receive the heating portion of the main unit, and the one or more electric heaters are arranged to heat the tubular aerosol-forming substrate when the tubular aerosol-generating article is received on the heating portion of the main unit.

Abstract: An optical fiber preform manufacturing apparatus comprising a seal member, wherein the seal member is attached to a flange portion formed in an open portion of a reaction chamber into which a burner is inserted, the seal member includes a first sheet that is flexible and includes an open portion that is smaller than an outer diameter of the burner, through which the burner is inserted; a second sheet having the same thickness as the first sheet and including an open portion that is larger than an outer diameter of the first sheet; and two third sheets that each include an open portion that is larger than the outer diameter of the burner and smaller than the outer diameter of the first sheet, the second sheet is arranged in the same plane as the first sheet, and the first and second sheets are sandwiched by the two third sheets.

Abstract: An e-vapor apparatus may include a pod assembly and a dispensing body configured to receive the pod assembly. A vaporizer may be disposed in the pod assembly and/or the dispensing body. The pod assembly may include a pre-vapor formulation compartment, a device compartment, and a vapor channel extending from the device compartment and traversing the pre-vapor formulation compartment. The pod assembly is a smart pod configured to receive, store, and transmit information that can be communicated with the dispensing body and/or another electronic device. The proximal portion of the dispensing body includes a vapor passage and a through-hole. The vapor passage may extend from an end surface of the proximal portion to a side wall of the through-hole. The through-hole is configured to receive the pod assembly such that the vapor channel of the pod assembly is aligned with the vapor passage of the dispensing body.

Abstract: A heat-not-burn tobacco aerosol source member or consumable includes a first heating section with a front end. The first heating section contains a liquid aerosol precursor existing as a free liquid in an unbound form. A second heating section is provided with a mouth end. The second heating section contains a solid tobacco substrate. A first thermal barrier that is vapor permeable but liquid impermeable is located between the first heating section and the second heating section. The system has a simple structure and lowers processing costs, and greatly reduces undesirable harmful chemicals because of its lower heating temperatures for the first and second heating sections of the consumable.

Abstract: An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a main unit including a heating portion disposed at an outer surface of the main unit, the heating portion including one or more electric heaters; and a tubular aerosol-generating article including a tubular aerosol-forming substrate and an inner passage, wherein the inner passage of the tubular aerosol-generating article is configured to receive the heating portion of the main unit, and the one or more electric heaters are arranged to heat the tubular aerosol-forming substrate when the tubular aerosol-generating article is received on the heating portion of the main unit.

Abstract: A smoking article is provided, having a component housing including a power source, and a tubular housing having a first end and a longitudinally-opposed second end, wherein the first or second end is configured to receive the component housing. The tubular housing includes an outer wall defining a cylindrical cavity. An aerosol-generating element is configured to be received within the cylindrical cavity, wherein the aerosol-generating element is configured to produce an aerosol in response to heat. An associated aerosol-generating element and related production methods are also provided.

Abstract: A process for producing a glass melting component composed of refractory metal. A surface zone of the glass melting component is densified at least in sections by application of local compressive stress. As a result the surface zone has its porosity reduced compared to a volume section which is located underneath the surface zone and which has residual porosity.

Abstract: A display cover is provided. The display cover includes a first glass and a second glass; a carbon material layer disposed between the first glass and the second glass, wherein the carbon material layer is formed by simultaneously applying a heat treatment process to an organic adhesive layer, the first glass, and the second glass to carbonize the organic adhesive layer. The structural strength of display cover can be strengthened by placing a carbon material layer between two glass layers to achieve a strong chemical bond between the thin carbon material layer disposed between the two glass layers and the two glass layers.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery-operated ignition smoking pipe including a replaceable nichrome wire within an indentation on an inner perimeter of a bowl of the pipe body, a fuel reservoir directly below and adjacent the interior cavity of the bowl, an ignition switch on a stem of a pipe body to selectively activate one of the nichrome wire and an amount of fuel within the fuel reservoir to combust an ignitable smoking substance, such as tobacco, contained within the bowl, and a filter disposed between the stem and the bowl. The present device permits one-handed ignition to combust the smoking substance. The rechargeable battery-operated ignition smoking pipe also includes a micro USB outlet and wireless charging receptacles to permit the pipe to recharge without the hassle of changing batteries.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing process includes forming an object material stack using sheet materials without use of binder material between the sheet materials and forming features of the cross-sectional layers of a 3D object in the corresponding sheet materials. Another process involves forming features of the cross-sectional layers of a 3D object in soot layers of a laminated soot sheet. A manufactured article includes three or more glass layers laminated together without any binder material between the glass layers. At least one of the glass layers is composed of silica or doped silica, and at least one feature is formed in at least one of the glass layers.

Abstract: A method of preparing a glass medical container is provided including the steps of providing a glass blank and forming a channel through a part of the glass blank, the channel being substantially free of tungsten or derivatives thereof. In a further aspect of the subject invention, a glass medical container is provided including a glass body having a channel extending through a part of the glass body, the channel being substantially free of tungsten or derivatives thereof. With the subject invention, tungsten or derivatives thereof can be generally or altogether completely avoided in glass medical containers.