Patents by Inventor Gregg Lee SHUGARS

Gregg Lee SHUGARS 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 making extrusion dies
    Patent number: 10730125
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to machine cavities in die blanks having little to no taper. The apparatus includes an electrode tool (200) including intersecting walls coated with electrically insulating coating (258), an erosion face (204) comprising a cross section of the walls exposed through the electrically insulating coating, and a channel formed by the walls to supply electrolyte to the erosion face, the channels defined by interior surfaces of the walls and having an opening formed by edges of the erosion face. The method includes pulsed electrochemical machining a work piece with the electrode tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Dominick John Forenz, Mark Lee Humphrey, Kenneth Richard Miller, John Charles Rector, Gregg Lee Shugars
  • Abrasive jet forming laminated glass structures
    Patent number: 10549401
    Abstract: A method of shaping a laminated glass structure comprising a flexible glass sheet having a thickness of no greater than about 0.3 mm laminated to a non-glass substrate by an adhesive layer is provided. The method includes cutting the laminated glass structure with an abrasive cutting jet including a pressurized cutting fluid and abrasive particles thereby forming a shaped laminated glass structure. A glass edge strength of a cut edge of the shaped laminated glass structure is at least about 20 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dominick John Forenz, Mark Lee Humphrey, Walter Jay McKendrick, Michael William Price, Gregg Lee Shugars
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING EXTRUSION DIES
    Publication number: 20170266743
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to machine cavities in die blanks having little to no taper. The apparatus includes an elec trode tool (200) including intersecting walls coated with electrically insulating coating (258), an erosion face (204) comprising a cross section of the walls exposed through the electrically insulating coating, and a channel formed by the walls to supply electrolyte to the erosion face, the channels defined by interior surfaces of the walls and having an opening formed by edges of the erosion face. The method includes pulsed electrochemical machining a work piece with the electrode tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Dominick John Forenz, Mark Lee Humphrey, Kenneth Richard Miller, John Charles Rector, Gregg Lee Shugars
  • ABRASIVE JET FORMING LAMINATED GLASS STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20170120420
    Abstract: A method of shaping a laminated glass structure comprising a flexible glass sheet having a thickness of no greater than about 0.3 mm laminated to a non-glass substrate by an adhesive layer is provided. The method includes cutting the laminated glass structure with an abrasive cutting jet including a pressurized cutting fluid and abrasive particles thereby forming a shaped laminated glass structure. A glass edge strength of a cut edge of the shaped laminated glass structure is at least about 20 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Dominick John FORENZ, Mark Lee HUMPHREY, Walter Jay MCKENDRICK, Michael William PRICE, Gregg Lee SHUGARS