Patents by Inventor Charlene Marie Smith

Charlene Marie Smith 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).

  • Patent number: 11111173
    Abstract: A glass article including, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, from 3 mol % to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, from 0 mol % to 5 mol % P2O5, from 5 mol % to 11 mol % Li2O, less than or equal to 0.2 mol % SnO2, and from 0.5 mol % to 6.5 mol % divalent cation oxides. The glass article has a molar ratio of Al2O3:(R2O+RO) greater than or equal to 0.9, where R2O is a sum of alkali metal oxides in mol % and RO is a sum of divalent cation oxides in mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 11104608
    Abstract: Ion-exchanged glass ceramic articles described herein have a stress that decreases with increasing distance according to a substantially linear function from a depth of about 0.07 t to a depth of about 0.26 t from the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass ceramic article from a compressive stress to a tensile stress. The stress transitions from the compressive stress to the tensile stress at a depth of from about 0.18 t to about 0.25 t from the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass ceramic article. An absolute value of a maximum compressive stress at the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass article is from 1.8 to 2.2 times an absolute value of a maximum central tension (CT) of the ion-exchanged glass article, and the glass ceramic article has a fracture toughness of 1 MPa?m or more as measured according to the double cantilever beam method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryan Claude Andrews, Albert Joseph Fahey, Lisa Marie Noni, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Charlene Marie Smith, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Shelby Kerin Wilson
  • Publication number: 20210238080
    Abstract: A glass article including any one or several of SiO2, Al2O3, B2O3, Li2O, SnO2 and a fusion line. The glass article can also include a liquidus viscosity less than or equal to 100 kP. In some embodiments, the glass article includes, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, from 3 mol % to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, from 0 mol % to 5 mol % P2O5, from 5 mol % to 11 mol % Li2O, less than or equal to 0.2 mol % SnO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Shawn Rachelle Markham, Charlene Marie Smith, Jae Hyun Yu
  • Publication number: 20210238083
    Abstract: A glass ceramic article including a lithium disilicate crystalline phase, a petalite crystalline phased, and a residual glass phase. The glass ceramic article has a warp (?m)<(3.65×10?9/?m×diagonal2) where diagonal is a diagonal measurement of the glass ceramic article in ?m, a stress of less than 30 nm of retardation per mm of glass ceramic article thickness, a haze (%)<0.0994t+0.12 where t is the thickness of the glass ceramic article in mm, and an optical transmission (%)>0.91×10(2?0.03t) of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths from 450 nm to 800 nm, where t is the thickness of the glass ceramic article in mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Carol Ann Click, James Howard Edmonston, Qiang Fu, Jill Marie Hall, Mathieu Gerard Jacques Hubert, Dhananjay Joshi, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Katherine Weber Kroemer, Galan Gregory Moore, Rohit Rai, John Richard Ridge, John Robert Saltzer, JR., Charlene Marie Smith, Erika Lynn Stapleton, Matthew Daniel Trosa, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Shelby Kerin Wilson, Bin Yang, Zheming Zheng
  • Patent number: 11066324
    Abstract: A glass article including, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, from 3 mol % to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, from 0 mol % to 5 mol % P2O5, from 5 mol % to 11 mol % Li2O, less than or equal to 0.2 mol % SnO2, and from 0.5 mol % to 6.5 mol % divalent cation oxides. The glass article has a molar ratio of Al2O3:(R2O+RO) greater than or equal to 0.9, where R2O is a sum of alkali metal oxides in mol % and RO is a sum of divalent cation oxides in mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Publication number: 20210179484
    Abstract: ZrO2-toughened glass ceramics having high molar fractions of tetragonal ZrO2 and fracture toughness value of greater than 1.8 MPa·m1/2. The glass ceramic may also include also contain other secondary phases, including lithium silicates, that may be beneficial for toughening or for strengthening through an ion exchange process. Additional second phases may also decrease the coefficient of thermal expansion of the glass ceramic. A method of making such glass ceramics is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 11034610
    Abstract: Glass and glass ceramic compositions having a combination of lithium silicate and petalite crystalline phases along with methods of making the glass and glass ceramic compositions are described. The compositions include Li2O, SiO2, and Al2O3. Ion-exchanged glass-ceramic articles made from the glass and glass ceramic compositions have a surface compressive stress in a range from about 100 MPa to about 500 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Publication number: 20210155531
    Abstract: A glass-based article of a composition comprising: from 48 mol. % to 75 mol. % SiO2; from 8 mol. % to 40 mol. % Al2O3; from 9 mol. % to 40 mol. % Li2O; from 0 mol. % to 3.5 mol. % Na2O; from 9 mol. % to 28 mol. % R2O, wherein R is an alkali metal and R2O comprises at least Li2O and Na2O; from 0 mol. % to 10 mol. % Ta2O5; from 0 mol. % to 4 mol. % ZrO2; from 0 mol. % to 4 mol. % TiO2; from 0 mol. % to 3.5 mol. % R?O, R? being a metal selected from Ca, Mg, Sr, Ba, Zn, and combinations thereof; and from 0 mol. % to 8 mol. % RE2O3, RE being a rare earth metal selected from Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and combinations thereof. The glass is ion exchangeable. R2O+R?O?Al2O3?Ta2O5+1.5*RE2O3?ZrO2?TiO2 is in a range from ?8 mol. % to 5 mol. %. ZrO2+TiO2+SnO2 is in a range from greater than or equal to 0 mol % to less than or equal to 2 mole %. The composition is free of As2O3, Sb2O3, and PbO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Charlene Marie Smith, Jonathan Earl Walter
  • Publication number: 20210155529
    Abstract: A glass substrate formed from a glass composition is disclosed. In embodiments, the composition comprises: from 60 mol. % to 75 mol. % SiO2; from 2 mol. % to 15 mol. % Li2O; from 1.9 mol. % to 15 mol. % Y2O3; and at least one of B2O3 and Na2O. B2O3+Na2O is from 2 mol. % to 13 mol. %. Y2O3+Al2O3 is from 10 mol. % to 24 mol. %. A ratio R2O/Al2O3 is from 0.5 to 4, where R2O is a total concentration of Li2O, Na2O, K2O, Rb2O, and Cs2O. (R2O+RO)/Al2O3 is from 0.5 to 4.5, where RO is a total concentration of BeO, MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO. The glass substrate has a Young's modulus from 75 gigapascals (GPa) to 110 GPa. The glass substrate is ion exchangeable to form a strengthened glass article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: John Philip Finkeldey, Timothy Michael Gross, Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 11014848
    Abstract: A glass ceramic article including a lithium disilicate crystalline phase, a petalite crystalline phased, and a residual glass phase. The glass ceramic article has a warp (?m)<(3.65×10?9/?m×diagonal2) where diagonal is a diagonal measurement of the glass ceramic article in ?m, a stress of less than 30 nm of retardation per mm of glass ceramic article thickness, a haze (%)<0.0994t +0.12 where t is the thickness of the glass ceramic article in mm, and an optical transmission (%)>0.91×10(2-0.03t) of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths from 450 nm to 800 nm, where t is the thickness of the glass ceramic article in mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Carol Ann Click, James Howard Edmonston, Qiang Fu, Jill Marie Hall, Mathieu Gerard Jacques Hubert, Dhananjay Joshi, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Katherine Weber Kroemer, Galan Gregory Moore, Rohit Rai, John Richard Ridge, John Robert Saltzer, Jr., Charlene Marie Smith, Erika Lynn Stapleton, Matthew Daniel Trosa, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Shelby Kerin Wilson, Bin Yang, Zheming Zheng
  • Publication number: 20210130233
    Abstract: A glass-based article may include from about 45 mol. % to about 80 mol. % SiO2; from about 0 mol. % to about 10 mol. % Na2O; less than about 5 mol. % K2O; a non-zero amount of Al2O; and an amorphous phase and a crystalline phase. The article may further in include a stress profile comprising a surface compressive stress (CS) and a maximum central tension (CT). A ratio of Li2O (mol. %) to R2O (mol. %) in the article is from about 0.5 to about 1, where R2O is the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O in the article. CT may be greater than or equal to about 50 MPa and less than about 100 MPa. CS may be greater than 2.0·CT. A depth of compression (DOC) of the stress profile may be greater than or equal to 0.14·t and less than or equal to 0.25·t, where t is the thickness of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: GUANGLI HU, CHARLENE MARIE SMITH, ZHONGZHI TANG, STEVEN ALVIN TIETJE
  • Publication number: 20210114920
    Abstract: In embodiments, a precursor glass composition comprises from about 55 wt. % to about 80 wt. % SiO2; from about 2 wt. % to about 20 wt. % Al2O3; from about 5 wt. % to about 20 wt. % Li2O; greater than 0 wt % to about 3 wt. % Na2O; a non-zero amount of P2O5 less than or equal to 4 wt. %; and from about 0.2 wt. % to about 15 wt. % ZrO2. In embodiments, ZrO2 (wt. %)+P2O5 (wt. %) is greater than 3. When the precursor glass composition is converted to a glass-ceramic article, the glass-ceramic article may include grains having a longest dimension of less than 100 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Publication number: 20210114919
    Abstract: In embodiments, a glass-ceramic article includes from about 55 wt. % to about 80 wt. % SiO2; from about 2 wt. % to about 20 wt. % Al2O3; from about 5 wt. % to about 20 wt. % Li2O; a non-zero amount of P2O5 less than or equal to 6 wt. %; and from about 3 wt. % to less than 8 wt. % ZrO2. The glass-ceramic grains having a longest dimension of less than 100 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Publication number: 20210101825
    Abstract: In embodiments, a lithium-containing aluminosilicate glass-ceramic article includes a fracture toughness of 1 MPa·m1/2 or greater; a ring-on-ring strength of at least 300 MPa; a compressive stress layer formed by ion-exchange having a depth of layer (DOL) of at least about 30 ?m; and a transmittance of at least 85% for light in a wavelength range from 400 nm to 700 nm at a thickness of 1 mm. The lithium-containing aluminosilicate glass-ceramic article is not frangible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Publication number: 20210101824
    Abstract: In embodiments, a precursor glass comprising from about 55 wt. % to about 80 wt. % SiO2; from about 5 wt. % to about 20 wt. % Al2O3; from about 5 wt. % to about 20 wt. % Li2O; from about 2 wt. % to about 4 wt. % P2O5; and from about 0.2 wt. % to about 15 wt. % ZrO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 10968134
    Abstract: A glass article including any one or several of SiO2, Al2O3, B2O3, Li2O, SnO2 and a fusion line. The glass article can also include a liquidus viscosity less than or equal to 100 kP. In some embodiments, the glass article includes, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, from 3 mol % to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, from 0 mol % to 5 mol % P2O5, from 5 mol % to 11 mol % Li2O, less than or equal to 0.2 mol % SnO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Shawn Rachelle Markham, Charlene Marie Smith, Jae Hyun Yu
  • Publication number: 20210070649
    Abstract: A glass article including, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, from 3 mol % to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, from 0 mol % to 5 mol % P2O5, from 5 mol % to 11 mol % Li2O, less than or equal to 0.2 mol % SnO2, and from 0.5 mol % to 6.5 mol % divalent cation oxides. The glass article has a molar ratio of Al2O3:(R2O+RO) greater than or equal to 0.9, where R2O is a sum of alkali metal oxides in mol % and RO is a sum of divalent cation oxides in mol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Publication number: 20210047234
    Abstract: Glass-ceramics exhibiting a Vickers indentation crack initiation threshold of at least 15 kgf are disclosed. These glass-ceramics may be ion exchangeable or ion exchanged. The glass-ceramics include a crystalline and amorphous phases generated by subjecting a thin precursor glass article to ceramming cycle having an average cooling rate in the range from about 10° C./minute to about 25° C./minute. In one or more embodiments, the crystalline phase may comprise at least 20 wt % of the glass-ceramics. The glass-ceramics may include ?-spodumene ss as the predominant crystalline phase and may exhibit an opacity ?about 85% over the wavelength range of 400-700 nm for an about 0.8 mm thickness and colors an observer angle of 10° and a CIE illuminant F02 determined with specular reflectance included of a* between ?3 and +3, b* between ?6 and +6, and L* between 88 and 97.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Lionel Joel Mary Beunet, Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte, Allan Mark Fredholm, Qiang Fu, Anne Paris, Sophie Peschiera, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Publication number: 20210017072
    Abstract: A glass-based article including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t) of about 3 millimeters or less (e.g., about 1 millimeter or less), and a stress profile, wherein all points of the stress profile between a thickness range from about 0·t up to 0.3·t and from greater than about 0.7·t to t, comprise a tangent with a slope having an absolute value greater than about 0.1 MPa/micrometer. In some embodiments, the glass-based article includes a non-zero metal oxide concentration that varies along at least a portion of the thickness (e.g., 0·t to about 0.3·t) and a maximum central tension of less than about 71.5/?(t) (MPa). In some embodiments, the concentration of metal oxide or alkali metal oxide decreases from the first surface to a point between the first surface and the second surface and increases from the point to the second surface. The concentration of the metal oxide may be about 0.05 mol % or greater or about 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Guangli Hu, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Charlene Marie Smith, Zhongzhi Tang, Steven Alvin Tietje
  • Publication number: 20210002164
    Abstract: Glass and glass ceramic compositions having a combination of lithium silicate and petalite crystalline phases along with methods of making the glass and glass ceramic compositions are described. The compositions include Li2O, SiO2, and Al2O3. Ion-exchanged glass-ceramic articles made from the glass and glass ceramic compositions have a surface compressive stress in a range from about 100 MPa to about 500 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith