Patents by Inventor Brian Scott Kirk

Brian Scott Kirk 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for casting ceramic sheets
    Patent number: 8894920
    Abstract: A method for making a thin, free-standing ceramic sheet may include drawing a carrier film proximate a casting head and across a casting bed of a tape caster at a rate from about 2 cm/min to about 500 cm/min. Depositing a thin film of ceramic slip less than about 150 ?m on the carrier film with the casting head. The ceramic slip may comprises a ceramic powder with an ultimate crystallite size of less than about 10 ?m dispersed in a fluid vehicle such that the ceramic slip has a ceramic solids fraction of greater than about 20% by volume. The deposited ceramic slip may be dried on the carrier film thereby forming a green ceramic sheet on the carrier film. After the green ceramic sheet is dried, the green ceramic sheet may be sintered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Lanrik Kester, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Brian Scott Kirk, Dell Joseph St Julien
  • Methods and Appartus for Casting Ceramic Sheets
    Publication number: 20110198785
    Abstract: A method for making a thin, free-standing ceramic sheet may include drawing a carrier film proximate a casting head and across a casting bed of a tape caster at a rate from about 2 cm/min to about 500 cm/min. Depositing a thin film of ceramic slip less than about 150 ?m on the carrier film with the casting head. The ceramic slip may comprises a ceramic powder with an ultimate crystallite size of less than about 10 ?m dispersed in a fluid vehicle such that the ceramic slip has a ceramic solids fraction of greater than about 20% by volume. The deposited ceramic slip may be dried on the carrier film thereby forming a green ceramic sheet on the carrier film. After the green ceramic sheet is dried, the green ceramic sheet may be sintered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Lanrik Kester, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Brian Scott Kirk, Dell Joseph St Julien