Patents by Inventor Elias Panides
Elias Panides 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).
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Patent number: 11673822Abstract: A glass tube manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing glass tubing includes a glass delivery tank with molten glass. The glass delivery tank has a bottom opening. A bell has an upper portion with an outer diameter located at the bottom opening. A heating apparatus is at least partially disposed around the bell. The heating apparatus includes a heated portion and a muffle portion located below the heated portion. A lower extended muffle structure extends downwardly from the muffle portion. The lower extended muffle structure extending about the glass tubing on all sides to manage convective airflow therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Adam Charles Berkey, Eliot Geathers, Daniel Warren Hawtof, Douglas Edward McElheny, Jiandong Meng, Elias Panides, Gaozhu Peng, Randy Lee Rhoads, Yuriy Yurkovskyy, Chunfeng Zhou
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Publication number: 20230173514Abstract: A spray coating apparatus that applies a coating material onto outer surfaces of glass objects includes a coating material source that includes a coating material. A spray nozzle assembly includes a spray nozzle fluidly connected to the coating material source. The spray nozzle is arranged and configured to direct the coating material in a first direction toward the glass object and provide an overspray amount of the coating material by the glass object such that the overspray amount bypasses a non-line of sight area of the glass object. A turn nozzle assembly includes a turn nozzle fluidly connected to a pressurized gas source. The turn nozzle is arranged and configured to direct pressurized gas in a second direction different than the first direction toward the non-line of sight area of the glass package to redirect the coating material onto the non-line of sight area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: James Michael Brown, Brian Charles Cook, Daniel Warren Hawtof, Purushotam Kumar, Sean Thomas Miller, Bruce Arthur Mourhess, JR., Elias Panides, James Westley Rogacki, John Stone, III, Yujian Sun, Leo Young Zheng
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Patent number: 11668882Abstract: A cleaning nozzle includes an outer housing having a central axis and an inner surface that defines an outer housing interior. An inner housing resides within the outer housing interior along the central axis and has an inner surface that defines an inner flow channel. The inner flow channel supports flow of the cleaning fluid and has a converging taper and a flow disrupter element. The nozzle assembly may include an adapter that receives a front end of the nozzle and that also holds a ferrule that supports an optical fiber having an end face. The nozzle assembly allows the nozzle to direct a jet stream of cleaning fluid to the ferrule end face and the fiber end face. The flow disrupter causes the jet stream to have a time-varying direction that enhances the cleaning of the ferrule end face and the optical fiber end face.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: James Michael Brown, Yuehao Li, Elias Panides, Jingru Zhang, Yi Zhang
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Patent number: 11591248Abstract: Heating apparatuses and methods for glass tubing manufacturing are disclosed. A heating apparatus for glass tubing manufacturing includes a bowl configured to receive molten glass and a plurality of heating elements thermally coupled to the bowl. The bowl has a bowl height and includes a tub portion configured to hold the molten glass, a bowl well extending beneath the tub portion, and an orifice at a distal end of the bowl well. The plurality of heating elements include a first heating element disposed at a first vertical location along the bowl height, a second heating element disposed at a second vertical location along the bowl height, wherein the first vertical location is vertically spaced apart from the second vertical location.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Gilbert De Angelis, Dale Madard Fisher, Jr., Shripad Joshi, Sowmya Krishnamurthy, Elias Panides, David Posada-Pineda
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Patent number: 11415757Abstract: The nozzle includes a nozzle body having a front end with a recess defining a recessed wall. The recess is elongate in a first direction. The recess receives a front-end section of a ferrule of a multi-fiber connector to define gap, wherein the front-end section has an elongate end face. The nozzle has first and second channels that are elongate in the first direction and have respective first and second front-end openings at the recessed wall. The first and second front-end openings are spaced apart in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A cleaning fluid flows from the first channel into the gap and then out the second channel, including over the ferrule end faces and end faces of optical fibers supported by the ferrule. A flow-disrupting feature on the recessed wall generates turbulent flow to enhance cleaning.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: James Michael Brown, Elias Panides, Adam James Ruggles, Jingru Zhang Benner, Yi Zhang
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Patent number: 11338257Abstract: A fluid distributor comprises a first conduit extending along a first elongated axis and a second conduit circumscribing the first conduit. A first area comprises a cross-sectional flow area of the first conduit taken perpendicular to the first elongated axis. The first conduit comprises a first plurality of orifices comprising a first combined cross-sectional area. The second conduit comprises a second plurality of orifices comprising a second combined cross-sectional area. A first ratio of the first area to the first combined cross-sectional area can be about 2 or more. A second ratio of the first combined cross-sectional area to the second combined cross-sectional area can be about 2 or more. An angle between a direction of an orifice axis of a first orifice of the first plurality of orifices and a direction of an orifice axis of a first orifice of the second plurality of orifices can be from about 45° to 180°.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: John Alan Langstrand, Dong-gun Moon, Elias Panides, Abhijit Rao, Jung-Hun Yun
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Publication number: 20220064046Abstract: An enclosure for providing a controlled environment includes a central plane extending through a top end of the enclosure and a bottom end of the enclosure and bisecting the enclosure along a width of the enclosure, an inlet at the bottom end of the enclosure having an inlet width, Winlet, an enclosure wall extending from the inlet to the top end of the enclosure, an entry port at the top end of the enclosure, and an outlet between the entry port and the chamber region of the enclosure wall. The enclosure wall comprises a chamber region and a transition region between the inlet and the chamber region. The width of the chamber region, Wchamber, is substantially constant through the chamber region. The width of the enclosure in the transition region decreases from Wchamber to Winlet, and a ratio of Winlet to Wchamber is from 1:2 to 1:5.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Purushotam Kumar, Sean Thomas Miller, Elias Panides, Yujian Sun
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Publication number: 20220041490Abstract: Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Keith Raymond Gaylo, Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Joseph Michael Matusick, Elias Panides
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Patent number: 11242278Abstract: An optical fiber draw furnace muffle includes a body portion defining a substantially cylindrical cavity extending along a centerline axis of the muffle. A tapered portion has an interior surface which defines a first curved portion with a first radius of curvature and a second curved portion with a second radius of curvature. At least one of the first and second radii of curvature has a radius greater than a radius of the cylindrical cavity.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Erling Richard Anderson, John Michael Jewell, Robert Walter Nason, Elias Panides, Xiaoyong Wang, Leo Young Zheng, Chunfeng Zhou
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Patent number: 11186513Abstract: Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Keith Raymond Gaylo, Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Joseph Michael Matusick, Elias Panides
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Publication number: 20210173153Abstract: A cleaning nozzle includes an outer housing having a central axis and an inner surface that defines an outer housing interior. An inner housing resides within the outer housing interior along the central axis and has an inner surface that defines an inner flow channel. The inner flow channel supports flow of the cleaning fluid and has a converging taper and a flow disrupter element. The nozzle assembly may include an adapter that receives a front end of the nozzle and that also holds a ferrule that supports an optical fiber having an end face. The nozzle assembly allows the nozzle to direct a jet stream of cleaning fluid to the ferrule end face and the fiber end face. The flow disrupter causes the jet stream to have a time-varying direction that enhances the cleaning of the ferrule end face and the optical fiber end face.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: James Michael Brown, Yuehao Li, Elias Panides, Jingru Zhang, Yi Zhang
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Patent number: 10968133Abstract: Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Keith Raymond Gaylo, Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Joseph Michael Matusick, David John McEnroe, Connor Thomas O'Malley, Elias Panides, Matthew Daniel Trosa, Steven Robert Wagner
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Patent number: 10955624Abstract: A cleaning nozzle includes an outer housing having a central axis and an inner surface that defines an outer housing interior. An inner housing resides within the outer housing interior along the central axis and has an inner surface that defines an inner flow channel. The inner flow channel supports flow of the cleaning fluid and has a converging taper and a flow disrupter element. The nozzle assembly may include an adapter that receives a front end of the nozzle and that also holds a ferrule that supports an optical fiber having an end face. The nozzle assembly allows the nozzle to direct a jet stream of cleaning fluid to the ferrule end face and the fiber end face. The flow disrupter causes the jet stream to have a time-varying direction that enhances the cleaning of the ferrule end face and the optical fiber end face.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: James Michael Brown, Yuehao Li, Elias Panides, Jingru Zhang, Yi Zhang
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Publication number: 20200408464Abstract: An air knife for discharging a stream of gas onto a sheet of material. The air knife includes a main body including an inlet portion and an outlet portion, and a plurality of inlet ports. The inlet portion defines a plenum. The outlet portion defines an exit orifice in fluid communication with the plenum. The inlet ports project from the inlet portion and each inlet port comprises a passageway in fluid communication with the plenum. In some embodiments, the inlet ports project from a rear, or trailing, wall of the main body. In other embodiments, the outlet portion terminates at an exit face in which the exit orifice is formed, with a tip region of the outlet portion forming a taper angle of not more than 90 degrees in extension to the exit face.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Hironori Fukuyama, Hiroyuki Kamei, Hsi-Ta Lin, Weiwei Luo, Elias Panides, Jingru Zhang Benner
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Publication number: 20200139314Abstract: A fluid distributor comprises a first conduit extending along a first elongated axis and a second conduit circumscribing the first conduit. A first area comprises a cross-sectional flow area of the first conduit taken perpendicular to the first elongated axis. The first conduit comprises a first plurality of orifices comprising a first combined cross-sectional area. The second conduit comprises a second plurality of orifices comprising a second combined cross-sectional area. A first ratio of the first area to the first combined cross-sectional area can be about 2 or more. A second ratio of the first combined cross-sectional area to the second combined cross-sectional area can be about 2 or more. An angle between a direction of an orifice axis of a first orifice of the first plurality of orifices and a direction of an orifice axis of a first orifice of the second plurality of orifices can be from about 45° to 180°.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: John Alan Langstrand, Dong-gun Moon, Elias Panides, Abhijit Rao, Jung-Hun Yun
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Publication number: 20190291232Abstract: An apparatus for processing an edge of a substrate sheet. The apparatus includes a finishing member, a shroud, and a tubular member. The finishing member is rotatably maintained within a chamber of the shroud. The shroud includes a wall segment terminating at a major edge that defines a portion of a slot. The slot is configured to receive the edge of the substrate sheet, facilitating interface of the edge with the finishing member. The wall segment further defines a nozzle passageway that terminates at an opening in the major edge. The tubular member projects from the major edge and defines a passage in fluid communication with the nozzle passageway. Cooling agent delivered to the nozzle passageway is injected onto the finishing member via the tubular member even in the presence of vacuum induced cross-flow. In some embodiments, a spatial arrangement of the tubular member is adjustable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: James William Brown, Weiming Li, Elias Panides
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Publication number: 20190284084Abstract: An optical fiber draw furnace muffle includes a body portion defining a substantially cylindrical cavity extending along a centerline axis of the muffle. A tapered portion has an interior surface which defines a first curved portion with a first radius of curvature and a second curved portion with a second radius of curvature. At least one of the first and second radii of curvature has a radius greater than a radius of the cylindrical cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Erling Richard Anderson, John Michael Jewell, Robert Walter Nason, Elias Panides, Xiaoyong Wang, Leo Young Zheng, Chunfeng Zhou
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Publication number: 20190284081Abstract: A glass tube manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing glass tubing includes a glass delivery tank with molten glass. The glass delivery tank has a bottom opening. A bell has an upper portion with an outer diameter located at the bottom opening. A heating apparatus is at least partially disposed around the bell. The heating apparatus includes a heating portion and a muffle portion located below the heating portion. A lower extended muffle structure extends downwardly from the muffle portion. The lower extended muffle structure extending about a periphery of the glass tubing to manage convective airflow therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Adam Charles Berkey, Eliot Geathers, Daniel Warren Hawtof, Douglas Edward McElheny, Jiandong Meng, Elias Panides, Gaozhu Peng, Randy Lee Rhoads, Yuriy Yurkovskyy, Chunfeng Zhou
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Publication number: 20190161382Abstract: Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Keith Raymond Gaylo, Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Joseph Michael Matusick, David John McEnroe, Connor Thomas O'Malley, Elias Panides, Matthew Daniel Trosa, Steven Robert Wagner
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Publication number: 20190161380Abstract: Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Keith Raymond Gaylo, Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Joseph Michael Matusick, Elias Panides