Patents by Inventor Brad Steven Barnett

Brad Steven Barnett 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).

  • Glass manufacturing apparatuses and methods for operating the same
    Patent number: 11021386
    Abstract: In embodiments, a method for operating a glass manufacturing apparatus may include heating a delivery conduit with resistive windings positioned around an exterior surface of the delivery conduit, the delivery conduit extending between a mixing vessel and a delivery vessel. The method may also include injecting electric current through the delivery conduit while heating the delivery conduit with resistive windings and prior to flowing molten glass through the delivery conduit thereby increasing a temperature of the of the delivery conduit, wherein an input heat flux into the delivery conduit is greater than an output heat flux away from the delivery conduit prior to flowing molten glass through the delivery conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Brad Steven Barnett, Brian Douglas Burns, Timothy Joseph Helmers, Andrea Ha Oac, Kimberly Denise Smith
  • GLASS MANUFACTURING APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20190077689
    Abstract: In embodiments, a method for operating a glass manufacturing apparatus may include heating a delivery conduit with resistive windings positioned around an exterior surface of the delivery conduit, the delivery conduit extending between a mixing vessel and a delivery vessel. The method may also include injecting electric current through the delivery conduit while heating the delivery conduit with resistive windings and prior to flowing molten glass through the delivery conduit thereby increasing a temperature of the of the delivery conduit, wherein an input heat flux into the delivery conduit is greater than an output heat flux away from the delivery conduit prior to flowing molten glass through the delivery conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Brad Steven Barnett, Brian Douglas Burns, Timothy Joseph Helmers, Andrea Ha Oac, Kimberly Denise Smith
  • GLASS MANUFACTURING APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170066673
    Abstract: In embodiments, a method for operating a glass manufacturing apparatus may include heating a delivery conduit with resistive windings positioned around an exterior surface of the delivery conduit, the delivery conduit extending between a mixing vessel and a delivery vessel. The method may also include injecting electric current through the delivery conduit while heating the delivery conduit with resistive windings and prior to flowing molten glass through the delivery conduit thereby increasing a temperature of the of the delivery conduit, wherein an input heat flux into the delivery conduit is greater than an output heat flux away from the delivery conduit prior to flowing molten glass through the delivery conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Brad Steven Barnett, Brian Douglas Burns, Timothy Joseph Helmers, Andrea Ha Oac, Kimberly Denise Smith