Patents Examined by Elizabeth A. Bolden
  • Patent number: 11702360
    Abstract: A chemically temperable borosilicate glass article has a low boron content and a corresponding Na2O content. The articles have good diffusivities and hydrolytical resistance values. When chemically tempered, the borosilicate glass article exhibits a compressive stress CS >400 MPa and a penetration depth DoL >20 ?m. A pharmaceutical primary packaging including the borosilicate glass article is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Malte Grimm, Christof Kass, Rainer Eichholz
  • Patent number: 11697611
    Abstract: Glass compositions suitable for fiber forming having low levels of Li2O and glass fibers having high-modulus are disclosed. The glass composition may include SiO2 from about 59 to about 63 weight percent, Al2O3 from about 13.7 to about 16 weight percent, CaO from about 14 to about 16.5 weight percent, MgO from about 6 to about 8.5 weight percent, Fe2O3 less than 1 weight percent, and TiO2 less than 1 weight percent. In some cases, the composition may be substantially free of Li2O. In some cases, the composition may include Li2O up to 0.5 weight percent. In some cases, RE2O3 may be present in the composition in an amount up to 1.5 weight percent. The glass compositions can be used to form glass fibers which can be incorporated into a variety of other fiber glass products (e.g., strands, rovings, fabrics, etc.) and incorporated into various composites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Electric Glass Fiber America, LLC
    Inventor: Hong Li
  • Patent number: 11697612
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a low LOI tellurium-lithium-silicon-zirconium frit system and a conductive paste and application thereof, and belongs to the field of conductive paste. In the low LOI tellurium-lithium-silicon-zirconium frit system, components of the frit are 24%-40% TeO2, 18%-24% Li2O, 4%-13% SiO2, 0-2% ZrO2, and a balance MOx, and M is one or a mixture of Na, K, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ti, V, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Cu, Ag, Zn, Cd, B, Al, Ga, Tl, Ge, Pb, P, and Bi. There is no need to add additional surfactants, a viscosity change of the conductive paste prepared after standing for 30 days is less than 20%, the conductive paste has good stability, the water related weight loss of inorganic oxide of the conductive paste is less than 1.6%, and the application performance of the conductive paste is not affected after standing for 30 days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGSU RIYU PHOTOVOLTAIC NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD
    Inventors: Li Yan, Song Xu, Rui Tian
  • Patent number: 11655180
    Abstract: Described herein are alkali-free, boroalumino silicate glasses exhibiting desirable physical and chemical properties for use as substrates in flat panel display devices, such as, active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs) and active matrix organic light emitting diode displays (AMOLEDs). In accordance with certain of its aspects, the glasses possess good dimensional stability as a function of temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Adam James Ellison, Sinue Gomez, Yoshiaki Kato
  • Patent number: 11643360
    Abstract: An electronic-grade glass fiber composition includes the following components with corresponding amounts by weight percentages: 54.2-60% SiO2, 11-17.5% Al2O3, 0.7-4.5% B2O3, 18-23.8% CaO, 1-5.5% MgO, less than or equal to 24.8% CaO+MgO, less than 1% Na2O+K2O+Li2O, 0.05-0.8% TiO2, 0.05-0.7% Fe2O3, and 0.01-1.2% F2. The weight percentage ratio C1=SiO2/(RO+R2O) is greater than or equal to 2.20, and the total weight percentage of the above components is greater than or equal to 98.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: JUSHI GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenzhong Xing, Guorong Cao, Lin Zhang, Xiucheng Hong, Shuangbao Zuo, Zhonghua Yao
  • Patent number: 11634353
    Abstract: To provide a glass plate for a window material and a window comprising the glass plate, which are less likely to be a barrier to radio transmitting/receiving in use of a radio-utilizing apparatus, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate. A glass plate having a radio transmittance of at least 20% at a frequency of 100 GHz as calculated as 18 mm thickness, a window comprising the glass plate, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Eriko Maeda, Takato Kajihara, Kensuke Nagai, Yutaka Kuroiwa, Osamu Kagaya, Ryuta Sonoda, Hiroyuki Hijiya
  • Patent number: 11634355
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a ceramic glass powder and a solar cell metallization paste containing the ceramic glass powder, and belongs to the technical field of solar cells. The present disclosure provides a novel formula mode of a glass powder including a crystallization nucleus component and a glass network component, that is, a formula of a ceramic glass powder that has a special crystallization behavior, a low crystallinity before sintering and a high crystallinity after the sintering, and a conductive metallization paste containing the ceramic glass powder is further obtained. The present disclosure solves the technical problem that by using metallization pastes in the prior art, a balance between corrosion of a silicon wafer and an ohmic contact is difficult to achieve. The efficiency of a solar cell is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGSU RIYU PHOTOVOLTAIC NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Song Xu, Rui Tian
  • Patent number: 11634354
    Abstract: A colored glass article may include 50-80 mol % SiO2; 7-20 mol % Al2O3; 1-35 mol % R2O, wherein R2O comprises at least one of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O; 1×10?6-10 mol % of a colorant, wherein the colorant comprises at least one of Cr2O3, Au, Ag, CuO, NiO, Co3O4, TiO2, CeO2; and 12-24 mol % of Al2O3+MgO+CaO+ZnO. The colored glass article may have a transmittance color coordinate in the CIELAB color space with an L* value of 55 to 96.5. The colored glass article may have a compressive stress profile with a depth of compression ?0.15t, a thickness t from 0.4 mm-5 mm, a compressive stress ?200 MPa, and a central tension ?60 MPa. The colored glass article may have a dielectric constant from 5.6 to 6.4 over the frequency range from 10 GHz to 60 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jesse Kohl, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Patent number: 11629091
    Abstract: Optically transparent glass ceramic materials comprising a glass phase containing and a crystalline tungsten bronze phase comprising nanoparticles and having the formula MxWO3, where M includes at least one H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn, Cu, Ag, Sn, Cd, In, Tl, Pb, Bi, Th, La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and U, and where 0<x<1. Aluminosilicate and zinc-bismuth-borate glasses comprising at least one of Sm2O3, Pr2O3, and Er2O3 are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Jesse Kohl, Mallanagouda Dyamanagouda Patil
  • Patent number: 11597674
    Abstract: A colored glass article includes from 40 mol % to 70 mol % SiO2; from 8 mol % to 20 mol % Al2O3; from 1 mol % to 10 mol % B2O3; from 1 mol % to 20 mol % Li2O; from 1 mol % to 15 mol % Na2O; from 0 mol % to 8 mol % MgO; from 0 mol % to 5 mol % ZnO; and from 0.0005 mol % to 1 mol % Au. MgO+ZnO is from 0.1 mol % to 6 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jill Marie Hall, Karl William Koch, III, Jesse Kohl, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Patent number: 11591253
    Abstract: A glass composition is provided. The glass composition includes: 25-40 wt % SiO2; 2.5-10 wt % B2O3; 0-10 wt % Al2O3; 0-15 wt % Li2O; 0-16 wt % of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O in total; 10-25 wt % CaO; 0-15 wt % BaO; 0-5 wt % MgO; 0-5 wt % SrO; 10-30 wt % CaO, BaO, MgO, and SrO in total; 0-7 wt % ZnO; 2-10 wt % ZrO; 2-15 wt % TiO2; 5-25 wt % Nb2O5; 0-5 wt % Ta2O5; 5-25 La2O3; and 0-5 wt % Y2O3. The glass composition has a refractive index from about 1.74 to about 1.80, a density from about 3.5 g/cm3 to about 4.0 g/cm3, a critical cooling rate from about 1° C./min to about 50° C./min, and a liquidus viscosity greater than 25 Poises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Paulo Jorge Gaspar Marques
  • Patent number: 11577987
    Abstract: A glass composition includes from 55.0 mol % to 75.0 mol % SiO2; from 8.0 mol % to 20.0 mol % Al2O3; from 3.0 mol % to 15.0 mol % Li2O; from 5.0 mol % to 15.0 mol % Na2O; and less than or equal to 1.5 mol % K2O. The glass composition has the following relationships: Al2O3+Li2O is greater than 22.5 mol %, R2O+RO is greater than or equal to 18.0 mol %, R2O/Al2O3 is greater than or equal to 1.06, SiO2+Al2O3+B2O3+P2O5 is greater than or equal to 78.0 mol %, and (SiO2+Al2O3+B2O3+P2O5)/Li2O is greater than or equal to 8.0. The glass composition may be used in a glass article or a consumer electronic product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Peter Joseph Lezzi, Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev
  • Patent number: 11577990
    Abstract: Provided is a glass fiber having a low spinning temperature and a low liquidus temperature, and besides, having a large difference between the liquidus temperature and the spinning temperature, and a method of manufacturing the same. The glass fiber of the present invention includes as a glass composition, in terms of mass % on an oxide basis, 50% to 65% of SiO2, 0% to 3% of Al2O3, 0% to 1% of MgO, 0% to less than 0.7% of CaO, 0% to 1% of Li2O, 10% to 20% of Na2O, 0% to 2% of K2O, 6% to 10% of TiO2, and 15% to 20% of ZrO2, and has a value for (Na2O+K2O)/(MgO+CaO) of 6.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Yokota, Hiroshi Sawasato, Minoru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11577988
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a glass may include from about 50 mol. % to about 70 mol. % SiO2; from about 12 mol. % to about 35 mol. % B2O3; from about 4 mol. % to about 12 mol. % Al2O3; greater than 0 mol. % and less than or equal to 1 mol. % alkali metal oxide, wherein Li2O is greater than or equal to about 20% of the alkali metal oxide; from about 0.3 mol. % to about 0.7 mol. % of Na2O or Li2O; and greater than 0 mol. % and less than 12 mol. % of total divalent oxide, wherein the total divalent oxide includes at least one of CaO, MgO and SrO, and wherein a ratio of Li2O (mol. %) to (Li2O (mol. %)+(Na2O (mol. %)) is greater than or equal 0.4 and less than or equal to 0.6. The glass may have a relatively low high temperature resistivity and a relatively high low temperature resistivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Megan Aurora DeLamielleure, John Christopher Mauro, Charlene Marie Smith, Liying Zhang
  • Patent number: 11572302
    Abstract: A glass pharmaceutical package having a glass composition of 68.00 mol % to 81.00 mol % SiO2, from 4.00 mol % to 11.00 mol % Al2O3, from 0.10 mol % to 16.00 mol % Li2O, from 0.10 mol % to 12.00 mol % Na2O, from 0.00 mol % to 5.00 mol % K2O, from 0.10 mol % to 8.00 mol % MgO, from 0.10 mol % to 5.00 mol % CaO, from 0.00 mol % to 0.20 mol % fining agent. The glass pharmaceutical package is delamination resistant, and has class 1 or class 2 chemical durability in acid, base, and water. The glass pharmaceutical package may have a surface compressive stress of at least 350 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Steven Edward DeMartino, Nadja Teresia Lönnroth, Lina Ma, Robert Anthony Schaut, Charlene Marie Smith, Zhongzhi Tang, Jamie Todd Westbrook
  • Patent number: 11565967
    Abstract: A glass composition for glass fiber includes SiO2 in the range of 52.0% by mass or more and 56.0% by mass or less; B2O3 in the range of 21.0% by mass or more and 24.5% by mass or less; Al2O3 in the range of 9.5% by mass or more and 13.0% by mass or less; MgO in the range of 0% by mass or more and less than 1.0% by mass; CaO in the range of 0.5% by mass or more and 5.5% by mass or less; SrO in the range of 0.5% by mass or more and 6.0% by mass or less; and TiO2 in the range of 0.1% by mass or more and 3.0% by mass or less; and includes F2 and Cl2 in the range of 0.1% by mass or more and 2.0% by mass or less in total, with respect to the total amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Urushizaki, Takanobu Hosokawa, Takashi Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11554984
    Abstract: An article comprises a glass substrate. The glass substrate has a first surface having a plurality of vias therein, and a second surface parallel to the first surface. At least one of the first surface and the second surface is an etched surface having a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.75 nm or less. The glass substrate comprises, in mol percent on an oxide basis: 65 mol %?SiO2?75 mol %; 7 mol %?Al2O3?15 mol %; 26.25 mol %?RO+Al2O3?B2O3; 0 mol %?R2O?2 mol %. RO=MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO+ZnO. R2O=Li2O+Na2O+K2O+Rb2O+Cs2O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Yuhui Jin, Ruchirej Yongsunthon, Liying Zhang
  • Patent number: 11554983
    Abstract: A glass substrate has a compaction of 0.1 to 100 ppm. An absolute value |??50/100| of a difference between an average coefficient of thermal expansion ?50/100 of the glass substrate and an average coefficient of thermal expansion of single-crystal silicon at 50° C. to 100° C., an absolute value |??100/200| of a difference between an average coefficient of thermal expansion ?100/200 of the glass substrate and an average coefficient of thermal expansion of the single-crystal silicon at 100° C. to 200° C., and an absolute value |??200/300| of a difference between an average coefficient of thermal expansion ?200/300 of the glass substrate and an average coefficient of thermal expansion of the single-crystal silicon at 200° C. to 300° C. are 0.16 ppm/° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shuhei Nomura, Kazutaka Ono
  • Patent number: 11548807
    Abstract: A soda lime glass plate has, on the basis of oxides, a total sulfur content in terms of SO3 of 0.001 to 0.2% in mass %, a total iron content in terms of Fe2O3 of 0.15 to 0.4% in mass %, and a total tin content in terms of SnO2 of 0.02 to 1% in mass %, and has a mass proportion of a divalent iron in terms of Fe2O3 in the total iron in terms of Fe2O3 of 45 to 70%. The soda lime glass plate has, as a conversion value for a 3.85 mm-thickness glass plate, a visible light transmittance Tv_A of 70% or more, a total solar transmittance Tts of 63.7% or less, and c* in the L*a*b* color space of 4 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hijiya, Kensuke Nagai
  • Patent number: 11535548
    Abstract: A glass for chemical strengthening has a Young's modulus E of 70 GPa or more. The glass satisfies X1+X2+X3 being 1760 or less. Here, X1 is a numerical value equivalent to a value [unit: kPa/° C.] obtained by multiplying the Young's modulus E by an average coefficient ? of thermal expansion at 50° C. to 350° C., X2 is a numeral value equivalent to a value of a temperature Tf [unit: ° C.] at which a viscosity of the glass reaches 100 MPa·s, and X3 is a numerical value equivalent to a value of a difference [unit: 105 Pa·s] between the viscosity (100 MPa·s) at the Tf and a viscosity ?+10 at a temperature 10° C. higher than the Tf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Suguru Murayama, Satoshi Kanasugi, Madoka Ono