Patents Examined by Lauren R Colgan
  • Thermoformed cover glass for an electronic device
    Patent number: 11565506
    Abstract: Glass articles and methods for producing glass articles for a portable electronic device are disclosed. Properties of the glass articles, such as cover members, are improved through chemical strengthening, thermoforming, or a combination thereof. The glass articles may include barrier layers to prevent diffusion of ions between glass layers of the glass article, internal compressive stress regions, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Victor Luzzato, Christopher D. Prest, Matthew S. Rogers, Dale N. Memering, Christopher C. Bartlow
  • Inorganic oxide articles with thin, durable anti-reflective structures
    Patent number: 11567237
    Abstract: An article that includes: an inorganic oxide substrate having opposing major surfaces; and an optical film structure disposed on a first major surface of the substrate, the optical film structure comprising one or more of a silicon-containing oxide, a silicon-containing nitride and a silicon-containing oxynitride and a physical thickness from about 50 nm to less than 500 nm. The article exhibits a hardness of 8 GPa or greater measured at an indentation depth of about 100 nm or a maximum hardness of 9 GPa or greater measured over an indentation depth range from about 100 nm to about 500 nm, the hardness and the maximum hardness measured by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test. Further, the article exhibits a single-side photopic average reflectance that is less than 1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Lin Lin, James Joseph Price, Alexandre Michel Mayolet, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams
  • Luminescent optical elements for agricultural applications
    Patent number: 11569402
    Abstract: An optical element is provided which comprises a plurality of fluorophores disposed in a medium. The fluorophores have a quantum yield greater than 50% and an absorption spectrum with a maximum intensity at wavelengths less than 400 nm, and emit a spectrum of light having a maximum intensity at wavelengths within the range of 400 nm to 1200 nm. The optical element is at least partially transparent over the visible region of the spectrum. The optical element is especially useful as a window or other optical component of a greenhouse structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: UbiQD, Inc.
    Inventors: Hunter McDaniel, Matthew Bergren
  • Colored glass articles having improved mechanical durability
    Patent number: 11560329
    Abstract: A colored glass article includes greater than or equal to 50 mol % and less than or equal to 80 mol % SiO2; greater than or equal to 7 mol % and less than or equal to 25 mol % Al2O3; greater than or equal to 1 mol % and less than or equal to 15 mol % B2O3; greater than or equal to 5 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % Li2O; greater than or equal to 0.5 mol % and less than or equal to 15 mol % Na2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % K2O; and greater than or equal to 1×10?6 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % Au. R2O—Al2O3 is greater than or equal to ?5 mol % and less than or equal to 7 mol %, R2O being the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jill Marie Hall, Karl William Koch, III, Jesse Kohl, Jian Luo, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Chemically strengthened glass, and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 11548815
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass having a thickness of t [mm], and having a profile of a stress value CSx [MPa] at a depth x [?m] from a surface of the glass, the stress value being measured by a scattered-light photoelastic stress meter, in which a second-order differential value CSx? of the stress value CSx in the profile satisfies the following expression within a range of CSx?0: 0<CSx??0.050.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kaname Sekiya, Yusuke Fujiwara
  • Coated glass article, method of making the same, and photovoltaic cell made therewith
    Patent number: 11542194
    Abstract: A coated glass article includes a glass substrate. A coating is formed on the glass substrate. The coating includes a first coating layer. The first coating layer includes fluorine doped tin oxide. A second coating layer is provided between the glass substrate and the first coating layer. The second coating layer includes silicon dioxide and at least one of phosphorus and boron. The coated glass article exhibits a haze of 2.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Pilkington Group Limited
    Inventors: Lila Raj Dahal, Douglas Martin Nelson, Jun Ni, David Alan Strickler, Srikanth Varanasi
  • Glass for medicine container and glass tube for medicine container
    Patent number: 11542191
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass for a pharmaceutical container that is excellent in ultraviolet shielding ability, and is also excellent in chemical durability. The glass for a pharmaceutical container of the present invention includes as a glass composition, in terms of mass %, 67% to 81% of SiO2, more than 4% to 7% of Al2O3, 7% to 14% of B2O3, 3% to 12% of Na2O+K2O, 0% to 1.8% of CaO+BaO, 0.5% to less than 2% of Fe2O3, and 1% to 5% of TiO2, and satisfies a relationship of CaO/BaO?0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Arai
  • Glazing comprising a functional coating and a color adjustment coating
    Patent number: 11524919
    Abstract: A material includes one or more transparent substrates comprising two main faces, wherein one of the faces of one of the substrates is coated with a functional coating which can have an effect on solar radiation and/or infrared radiation, and a face not coated with the functional coating of one of the substrates includes a reflective color-adjustment coating comprising at least one dielectric layer including a reflective dielectric layer with a thickness of between 2 and 100 nm, all the dielectric layers of the reflective color-adjustment coating have a thickness of less than 100 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Nisita Wanakule, Cyril Jean, Paul Jacquet
  • Glass-based articles having crack resistant stress profiles
    Patent number: 11523527
    Abstract: Glass-based articles are disclosed having a thickness in a range of from about 0.2 mm to about 4.0 mm, a first compressive stress layer extending from a first surface of the glass-based article to a first depth of compression that is in a range of from about 5% to about 20% of the thickness, a second compressive stress layer extending from a second surface of the glass-based article to a second depth of compression that is in a range of from about 5% to about 20% of the thickness, wherein the second surface is opposite the first surface, and a central region extending from the first depth of compression to the second depth of compression and having a maximum tensile stress in a range of from about 0.5 MPa to about 20 MPa. Electronic devices comprising the glass-based articles and methods of making glass-based articles are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kameron Isaiah Chambliss, Benedict Osobomen Egboiyi, Kevin Barry Reiman, Vitor Marino Schneider
  • Glass compositions and methods with steam treatment haze resistance
    Patent number: 11505492
    Abstract: Glass-based articles that include a compressive stress layer extending from a surface of the glass-based article to a depth of compression are formed by exposing glass-based substrates to water vapor containing environments. The glass-based substrates have compositions selected to avoid the formation of haze during the treatment process. The methods of forming the glass-based articles may include elevated pressures and/or multiple exposures to water vapor containing environments selected to avoid the formation of haze during the treatment process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Jingshi Wu
  • Coating with solar control properties for a glass substrate
    Patent number: 11485679
    Abstract: The invention relates to a glass substrate including a stack of coating layers having control properties, in which stack comprises at least one niobium metal layer located between a layer of a dielectric material selected from Si3N4 or TiOx and a layer of a protective metal material selected from TIN or Ni—Cr, conferring solar control and heat resistance properties on the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Vidrio Plano de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
    Inventors: Jose Luis Tavares Cortes, José Guadalupe Cid Aguilar, Arturo Si Ming Lamshing Tai, Edgar Valverde-Chong, Jorge Sanchez-Gonzalez
  • Chemically strengthened glass and method for manufacturing chemically strengthened glass
    Patent number: 11479503
    Abstract: Provided is a tempered glass sheet, including: a compressive stress layer having a compressive stress of 20 MPa or more continuously from a main surface in a depth direction thereof; a tensile stress layer that is arranged on an inner side with respect to the compressive stress layer in a sheet thickness direction and has a tensile stress of 20 MPa or more continuously in a depth direction thereof; and a stress-neutral layer arranged between the compressive stress layer and the tensile stress layer, wherein the stress-neutral layer has a compressive stress of less than 20 MPa and/or a tensile stress of less than 20 MPa continuously in the sheet thickness direction, and has a thickness of 5.3% or more of a sheet thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Kinoshita, Hiroshi Sasaki
  • Antiskid and wear-resistant glaze, antiskid, wear-resistant and easy-to-clean ceramic tile and preparation method thereof
    Patent number: 11479513
    Abstract: An antiskid and wear-resistant glaze, an antiskid, wear-resistant and easy-to-clean ceramic tile and a preparation method thereof, relating to the technical field of building ceramics, are provided. This antiskid and wear-resistant glaze is prepared by antiskid and wear-resistant particles, a printing paste and sodium tripolyphosphate. This antiskid, wear-resistant and easy-to-clean ceramic tile comprises, from the bottom up, a green body layer, an overglaze layer, a decoration layer, an antiskid and wear-resistant layer and an easy-to-clean protection layer provided in turn, wherein the antiskid and wear-resistant layer is mainly prepared by antiskid and wear-resistant particles, and the easy-to-clean protection layer is mainly prepared by easy-to-clean protection particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Guangdon Kito Ceramics Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Deying Li, Yonggang Dai, Lifeng Zhong, Jingjun Yu
  • Glass sheet composite
    Patent number: 11472161
    Abstract: The present invention is a glass sheet composite in which the loss coefficient is 1×10?2 or more and the longitudinal wave acoustic velocity in the sheet thickness direction is 5.5×103 m/s or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventor: Jun Akiyama
  • Laminated glass article with tinted layer
    Patent number: 11472730
    Abstract: A laminated glass article includes a glass core layer and a glass cladding layer adjacent to the glass core layer. At least one of the glass core layer or the glass cladding layer is a tinted layer. The tinted layer can include a tinting agent that imparts a color to the tinted layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Heather Debra Boek, Matthew John Dejneka, Lisa Ann Tietz Moore
  • Flexible ultrathin glass with high contact resistance
    Patent number: 11465930
    Abstract: An ultrathin chemically toughened glass article has a thickness of no more than 0.4 mm. In order to improve the sharp impact resistance, the glass article has a breakage height (given in mm) of more than 50 multiplied by the thickness (t) of the glass article (given in mm). Further, it has a breakage bending radius (given in mm) of less than 100000 multiplied by the thickness (t) of the glass article (given in mm) and divided by the figure of the surface compressive stress (in MPa) measured at the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Schott Glass Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ning Da, Feng He, Jiaqi Meng, Mathew Shan
  • Glass article and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 11465936
    Abstract: A glass article includes lithium alumino-silicate (“LAS”), a first surface, a second surface opposed to the first surface, a first compressive region extended from the first surface to a first compression depth, a second compressive region extended from the second surface to a second compression depth, and a tensile region disposed between the first compression depth and the second compression depth, wherein a stress profile in the first compressive region comprises a first segment provided between the first surface and a first transition point and a second segment provided between the first transition point and the first compression depth, and wherein a ratio of a stress at the first transition point to a stress at the first surface ranges from 0.22 to 0.47.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Hoon Kang, Seung Kim, Young Ok Park, Su Jin Sung, Gyu In Shim
  • Glazing comprising a stack of thin layers acting on solar radiation and a barrier layer
    Patent number: 11459269
    Abstract: A transparent substrate, in particular made of glass, provided with a stack of thin layers acting on solar radiation, includes at least one functional layer, this functional layer being combined with at least one barrier underlayer, wherein this barrier underlayer is a layer of silicon dioxide having a thickness of between 15 and 25 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Carole Braley
  • Polyimide (PI) substrate and method for fabricating same
    Patent number: 11453751
    Abstract: A polyimide (PI) substrate, including a glass substrate is provided, wherein a first PI layer is disposed over the glass substrate, and a second PI layer is disposed over the first PI layer. The first PI layer is formed with a first PI material, and the second PI layer is formed with a second PI material. Disposal of the second PI layer over the first PI layer allows for manual and complete peeling of the second PI layer from the first PI layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yamin Wang
  • Lithium containing glass or glass ceramic article with modified K2O profile near the glass surface
    Patent number: 11453610
    Abstract: A method of reworking lithium containing ion exchanged glass articles is provided. The method includes a reverse ion exchange process that returns the glass article to approximately the composition of the glass from which the glass article was produced, before being subjected to ion exchange. The reworked glass articles exhibit a K2O concentration profile comprising a portion wherein a K2O concentration increases to a local K2O concentration maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ryan Claude Andrews, Jill Marie Hall, Pascale Oram, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Vitor Marino Schneider, Ljerka Ukrainczyk