Patents by Inventor Frank T. Coppola

Frank T. Coppola 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).

  • Apparatus and method for heat treating a glass substrate
    Patent number: 8826693
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for heat treating a plurality of glass substrates. The glass substrates are supported on support platform and housed in a heat treating furnace. The substrates are supported in a substantially vertical orientation by restraining pins extending through walls of the furnace, and are separated from each other by frame-shaped spacing members. The spacing members reduce convection currents between the substrates and reduce or eliminate the post-heat treating distortion of each glass substrate to less than 100 ?m over the entire surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank T. Coppola, Monica J. Mashewske
  • HIGH-STRENGTH LAMINATED SHEET FOR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20120234050
    Abstract: A laminated sheet includes a surface layer having an optical surface that is of fire-polished quality and a core layer having a higher modulus than the surface layer to increase an overall stiffness or fracture toughness of the laminated sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Peter L. Bocko, David Chen, Glen B. Cook, Frank T. Coppola, Victoria A. Edwards, Gunilla E. Gillberg, Josef C. Lapp, Randy L. Rhoads, David A. Tammaro, Butchi R. Vaddi
  • High-strength laminated sheet for optical applications
    Patent number: 8211505
    Abstract: A laminated sheet includes a surface layer having an optical surface that is of fire-polished quality and a core layer having a higher modulus than the surface layer to increase an overall stiffness or fracture toughness of the laminated sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter L. Bocko, David Chen, Glen B. Cook, Frank T. Coppola, Victoria A. Edwards, Gunilla E. Gillberg, Josef C. Lapp, Randy L. Rhoads, David A. Tammaro, Butchi R. Vaddi
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HEAT TREATING A GLASS SUBSTRATE
    Publication number: 20120047954
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for heat treating a plurality of glass substrates. The glass substrates are supported on support platform and housed in a heat treating furnace. The substrates are supported in a substantially vertical orientation by restraining pins extending through walls of the furnace, and are separated from each other by frame-shaped spacing members. The spacing members reduce convection currents between the substrates and reduce or eliminate the post-heat treating distortion of each glass substrate to less than 100 ?m over the entire surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Frank T. Coppola, Monica J. Mashewske
  • Laminated glass articles and methods of making thereof
    Patent number: 8007913
    Abstract: Disclosed are laminated glass articles and methods of making the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank T. Coppola, Josef C. Lapp, Monica J. Mashewske
  • HIGH-STRENGTH LAMINATED SHEET FOR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20090162545
    Abstract: A laminated sheet includes a surface layer having an optical surface that is of fire-polished quality and a core layer having a higher modulus than the surface layer to increase an overall stiffness or fracture toughness of the laminated sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Peter L. Bocko, David Chen, Glen B. Cook, Frank T. Coppola, Victoria A. Edwards, Gunilla E. Gillberg, Josef C. Lapp, Randy L. Rhoads, David A. Tammaro, Butchi R. Vaddi
  • High-strength laminated sheet for optical applications
    Patent number: 7514149
    Abstract: A laminated sheet includes a surface layer having an optical surface that is of fire-polished quality and a core layer having a higher modulus than the surface layer to increase an overall stiffness or fracture toughness of the laminated sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter L. Bocko, David Chen, Glen B. Cook, Frank T. Coppola, Victoria A. Edwards, Gunilla E. Gillberg, Josef C. Lapp, Randy L. Rhoads, David A. Tammaro, Butchi R. Vaddi
  • Laminated glass articles and methods of making thereof
    Publication number: 20070190340
    Abstract: Disclosed are laminated glass articles and methods of making the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Frank T. Coppola, Josef C. Lapp, Monica J. Mashewske
  • High-strength laminated sheet for optical applications
    Publication number: 20040197575
    Abstract: A laminated sheet includes a surface layer having an optical surface that is of fire-polished quality and a core layer having a higher modulus than the surface layer to increase an overall stiffness or fracture toughness of the laminated sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Peter L. Bocko, David Chen, Glen B. Cook, Frank T. Coppola, Victoria A. Edwards, Gunilla E. Gillberg, Joseph C. Lapp, Randy L. Rhoads, David A. Tammaro, Butchi R. Vaddi
  • Contoured insulation window for evacuated solar collector
    Patent number: 4186723
    Abstract: An insulating contoured window is provided for use with an enclosed chamber such as an evacuated flat plate solar heat collector with the contoured solar window being of minimum thickness and supported solely about its peripheral edge portions. The window is contoured in both its longitudinal and transverse directions, such that in its longitudinal direction the window is composed of a plurality of sinusoidal corrugations whereas in its transverse direction the peaks of such corrugations are contoured in the form of paraboloids so that the structure may withstand the forces generated thereon by the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Corning Glass Works
    Inventors: Frank T. Coppola, William P. Lentz, Robert V. VanDewoestine