Patents by Inventor Adam James Ellison

Adam James Ellison has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Aluminosilicate glasses
    Patent number: 10077205
    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: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Bradley Frederick Bowden, Adam James Ellison, Ellen Anne King
  • Systems and methods for display formation using photo-machinable material substrate layers
    Patent number: 10062674
    Abstract: Embodiments are related to scalable surface structure (e.g., a well or other structure) formation in a substrate and, more particularly, to systems and methods for forming displays using a photo-machinable material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Adam James Ellison, Sean Matthew Garner, Timothy James Kiczenski, Michelle Diane Pierson-Stull
  • Alkali-doped and alkali-free boroaluminosilicate glass
    Patent number: 10000409
    Abstract: Alkali-doped boroaluminosilicate glasses are provided. The glasses include the network formers SiO2, B2O3, and Al2O3. The glass may, in some embodiments, have a Young's modulus of less than about 65 GPa and/or a coefficient of thermal expansion of less than about 40×10?7/° C. The glass may be used as a cover glass for electronic devices, a color filter substrate, a thin film transistor substrate, or an outer clad layer for a glass laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Adam James Ellison, Jason Sanger Frackenpohl, John Christopher Mauro, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Natesan Venkataraman
  • BENDABLE GLASS STACK ASSEMBLIES, ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20180113490
    Abstract: A glass element having a thickness from 25 ?m to 125 ?m, a first primary surface, a second primary surface, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth, the region defined by a compressive stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa at the first primary surface. Further, the glass element has a stress profile such that it does not fail when it is subject to 200,000 cycles of bending to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, by the parallel plate method. Still further, the glass element has a puncture resistance of greater than about 1.5 kgf when the first primary surface of the glass element is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a diameter of 1.5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Theresa Chang, Polly Wanda Chu, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Adam James Ellison, Timothy Michael Gross, Guangli Hu, Nicholas James Smith, Butchi Reddy Vaddi, Natesan Venkataraman
  • Dimensionally-stable, damage-resistant, glass sheets
    Patent number: 9932262
    Abstract: Described herein are aluminoborosilicate glass compositions that are substantially alkali-free and exhibit desirable physical and chemical properties for use as substrates in flat panel display devices, such as, active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). The glass compositions can be formed into glass sheets by, for example, the float process. When used as substrates, the glass sheets exhibit dimensional stability during processing and damage resistance during cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Adam James Ellison
  • Glass with improved total pitch stability
    Patent number: 9919952
    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 excellent compaction and stress relaxation properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas Clippinger Allan, Bradley Frederick Bowden, Adam James Ellison, Timothy James Kiczenski, Marcel Potuzak
  • Dimensionally stable fast etching glasses
    Patent number: 9919951
    Abstract: Substantially alkali free glasses are disclosed with can be used to produce substrates for flat panel display devices, e.g., active-matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). The glasses have high annealing temperatures and etch rates. Methods for producing substantially alkali free glasses using a downdraw process (e.g., a fusion process) are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Bradley Frederick Bowden, Adam James Ellison, Timothy James Kiczenski
  • Aluminosilicate glasses
    Patent number: 9902644
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions, articles, devices, and methods for the manufacture of light guide plates and back light units including such light guide plates made from glass. In some embodiments, light guide plates (LGPs) are provided that have similar or superior optical properties to light guide plates made from PMMA and that have exceptional mechanical properties such as rigidity, CTE and dimensional stability in high moisture conditions as compared to PMMA light guide plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Adam James Ellison, Jacques Gollier, Timothy James Kiczenski, Ellen Anne King, Luis Alberto Zenteno
  • ZIRCON COMPATIBLE, ION EXCHANGEABLE GLASS WITH HIGH DAMAGE RESISTANCE
    Publication number: 20180050952
    Abstract: An ion exchangeable glass having a high degree of resistance to damage caused by abrasion, scratching, indentation, and the like. The glass comprises alumina, B2O3, and alkali metal oxides, and contains boron cations having three-fold coordination. The glass, when ion exchanged, has a Vickers crack initiation threshold of at least 10 kilogram force (kgf).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Adam James Ellison, John Christopher Mauro
  • Bendable glass stack assemblies, articles and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 9898046
    Abstract: A glass element having a thickness from 25 ?m to 125 ?m, a first primary surface, a second primary surface, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth, the region defined by a compressive stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa at the first primary surface. Further, the glass element has a stress profile such that it does not fail when it is subject to 200,000 cycles of bending to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, by the parallel plate method. Still further, the glass element has a puncture resistance of greater than about 1.5 kgf when the first primary surface of the glass element is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a diameter of 1.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Theresa Chang, Polly Wanda Chu, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Adam James Ellison, Timothy Michael Gross, Guangli Hu, Nicholas James Smith, Butchi Reddy Vaddi, Natesan Venkataraman
  • GLASSES HAVING IMPROVED TOUGHNESS AND SCRATCH RESISTANCE
    Publication number: 20180029923
    Abstract: A silicate glass that is tough and scratch resistant. The toughness is increased by minimizing the number of non-bridging oxygen atoms in the glass. In one embodiment, the silicate glass is an aluminoborosilicate glass in which ?15 mol %?(R2O+R?O—Al2O3—ZrO2)—B2O3?4 mol %, where R is one of Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs, and R? is one of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Adam James Ellison, Sinue Gomez, Robert Michael Morena
  • DIMENSIONALLY STABLE FAST ETCHING GLASSES
    Publication number: 20180016183
    Abstract: Substantially alkali free glasses are disclosed with can be used to produce substrates for flat panel display devices, e.g., active-matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). The glasses have high annealing temperatures and etch rates. Methods for producing substantially alkali free glasses using a downdraw process (e.g., a fusion process) are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Bradley Frederick Bowden, Adam James Ellison, Timothy James Kiczenski
  • METHODS FOR THERMALLY TREATING GLASS ARTICLES
    Publication number: 20180002216
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for thermally treating glass articles may include holding a glass article at a treatment temperature equal to an annealing temperature of the glass article =15° C. for a holding time greater than or equal to 5 minutes. Thereafter, the glass article may be cooled from the treatment temperature through a strain point of the glass article at a first cooling rate CR1 less than 0° C./min and greater than ?20° C./min such that a density of the glass article is greater than or equal to 0.003 g/cc after cooling. The glass article is subsequently cooled from below the strain point at a second cooling rate CR2, wherein |CR2|>|CR1|.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Adam James Ellison, Timothy James Kiczenski, Stephanie Lynn Morris, Robert Anthony Schaut, Steven Alvin Tietje
  • Zirconia compatible, ion exchangeable glass with high damage resistance
    Patent number: 9822032
    Abstract: An ion exchangeable glass having a high degree of resistance to damage caused by abrasion, scratching, indentation, and the like. The glass comprises alumina, B2O3, and alkali metal oxides, and contains boron cations having three-fold coordination. The glass, when ion exchanged, has a Vickers crack initiation threshold of at least 10 kilogram force (kgf).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Adam James Ellison, John Christopher Mauro
  • OPAQUE COLORED GLASS-CERAMICS COMPRISING NEPHELINE CRYSTAL PHASES
    Publication number: 20170327411
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are opaque glass-ceramics comprising at least one nepheline crystal phase and comprising from about 30 mol % to about 65 mol % SiO2, from about 15 mol % to about 40 mol % Al2O3, from about 10 mol % to about 20 mol % (Na2O+K2O), and from about 1 mol % to about 10 mol % (ZnO+MgO). Also disclosed herein are opaque-glass ceramics comprising at least one nepheline crystal phase and at least one spinel-structure phase doped with at least one colorant chosen from transition metals and rare earth elements. Further disclosed herein are methods for making these opaque glass-ceramics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Adam James Ellison, Lisa Anne Moore, Taheisha Linette Werner
  • Glasses having improved toughness and scratch resistance
    Patent number: 9809487
    Abstract: A silicate glass that is tough and scratch resistant. The toughness is increased by minimizing the number of non-bridging oxygen atoms in the glass. In one embodiment, the silicate glass is an aluminoborosilicate glass in which ?15 mol %?(R2O+R?O—Al2O3—ZrO2)—B2O3?4 mol %, where R is one of Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs, and R? is one of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Adam James Ellison, Sinue Gomez, Robert Michael Morena
  • Dimensionally stable fast etching glasses
    Patent number: 9802857
    Abstract: Substantially alkali free glasses are disclosed with can be used to produce substrates for flat panel display devices, e.g., active-matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). The glasses have high annealing temperatures and etch rates. Methods for producing substantially alkali free glasses using a downdraw process (e.g., a fusion process) are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Bradley Frederick Bowden, Adam James Ellison, Timothy James Kiczenski
  • ALKALI-DOPED AND ALKALI-FREE BOROALUMINOSILICATE GLASS
    Publication number: 20170291845
    Abstract: Alkali-doped boroaluminosilicate glasses are provided. The glasses include the network formers SiO2, B2O3, and Al2O3. The glass may, in some embodiments, have a Young's modulus of less than about 65 GPa and/or a coefficient of thermal expansion of less than about 40×10?7/° C. The glass may be used as a cover glass for electronic devices, a color filter substrate, a thin film transistor substrate, or an outer clad layer for a glass laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Adam James Ellison, Jason Sanger Frackenpohl, John Christopher Mauro, Douglas Miles Noni, JR., Natesan Venkataraman
  • PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE PACKAGE
    Publication number: 20170267573
    Abstract: Fusion-formable sodium-containing aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described. The glasses are particularly useful for controlled release of sodium—useful in semiconductor applications, such as thin film photovoltaics where the sodium required to optimize cell efficiency is to be derived from the substrate glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Adam James Ellison, James Patrick Hamilton, Timothy James Kiczenski
  • ALUMINOSILICATE GLASSES
    Publication number: 20170260084
    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: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Bradley Frederick Bowden, Adam James Ellison, Ellen Anne King