Patents by Inventor James Ernest Webb
James Ernest Webb 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: 11963928Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: James Ernest Webb, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, Steven Edward DeMartino, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Patent number: 11963929Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Connor Thomas O'Malley, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Christy Lynn Chapman, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Steven Edward DeMartino, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Publication number: 20230301872Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: James Ernest Webb, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O’Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, Steven Edward DeMartino, Michael Clement Ruotolo, JR., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, JR., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Publication number: 20230301873Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Joseph Michael Matusick, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Steven Edward DeMar, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O’Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Patent number: 11752730Abstract: A stack assembly is provided that includes a glass layer having a thickness, a first and second primary surface and a compressive stress region extending from the second primary surface to a first depth; and a second layer coupled to the second primary surface. The glass layer is characterized by: an absence of failure when the layer is held at a bend radius from about 3 to 20 mm, a puncture resistance of greater than about 1.5 kgf when the second primary surface is supported by (i) an ˜25 ?m thick PSA and (ii) an ˜50 ?m thick PET layer, and the first primary surface is loaded with a stainless steel pin having a flat bottom with a 200 ?m diameter, a pencil hardness of at least 8H, and a neutral axis within the glass layer located between the second primary surface and half of the first thickness.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Theresa Chang, Timothy Michael Gross, Guangli Hu, Nicholas James Smith, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20230270627Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Connor Thomas O'Malley, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Christy Lynn Chapman, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, JR., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, JR., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Steven Edward DeMartino, Rob Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Publication number: 20230270626Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Christy Lynn Chapman, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Steven Edward DeMartino, Rob Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Publication number: 20230233408Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Christie Leigh McCarthy, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Steven Edward DeMartino, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, JR., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut
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Publication number: 20230105652Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Steven Edward DeMartino, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, JR., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, JR., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Rob Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Publication number: 20210221100Abstract: A laminated glass structure is provided that includes: a substrate, a flexible glass sheet, a buffer layer, a first adhesive and a second adhesive. The substrate has a thickness from about 2.5 mm to about 50 mm and primary surfaces. The buffer layer has a thickness from about 0.1 mm to about 2.5 mm and is laminated to the substrate with the first adhesive. The flexible glass sheet has a thickness of no greater than 0.3 mm and is laminated to the buffer layer with the second adhesive. Further, the buffer layer is characterized by an elastic modulus of at least 70 GPa and a coefficient of thermal expansion between about 4 and 25 ppm*° C.?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2017Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Dhananjay Joshi, Micheal William Price, James Ernest Webb, Chunhe Zhang
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Patent number: 10391746Abstract: A flexible glass laminate structure includes a flexible glass substrate having a thickness of no more than 0.3 mm. The flexible glass laminate structure includes a flexible glass layer including the flexible glass substrate. A property control layer is laminated to the flexible glass layer. A neutral axis of the flexible glass laminate is located outside the flexible glass layer when the flexible glass layer is in a compressive bend configuration.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Michael William Price, Robert Lee Smith, III, Windsor Pipes Thomas, III, James Ernest Webb
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Patent number: 10347782Abstract: A silicon wafer-based photovoltaic module is described, which includes a first outer protective layer and a second outer protective layer, wherein both outer protective layers comprise a low- or no-sodium glass or low- or no-alkali compositions. The photovoltaic modules show resistance to water ingress, no or reduced potential-induced sodium ion drift, and reduced potential induced degradation.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Mark Francis Krol, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20190160789Abstract: A laminated glass structure is provided that includes a non-glass substrate, a flexible glass sheet, and an adhesive. The non-glass substrate includes one or more layers of polymer-impregnated paper, an upper primary surface and a lower primary surface. The non-glass substrate also comprises a lower moisture barrier at a selected depth from the lower primary surface. The flexible glass sheet has a thickness of no greater than 0.3 mm and is laminated to the upper primary surface of the non-glass substrate with the adhesive. An optional upper moisture barrier can also be included within the non-glass substrate at a selected depth from the upper primary surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Louis Mattos Jr., Michael William Price, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20180037487Abstract: A method of selecting a radius of curvature for a conveying structure (22) of a continuous glass processing apparatus for processing a flexible glass ribbon (20) having a thickness of no more than about 0.3 mm is provided. The method includes identifying a thickness of the flexible glass ribbon (20). A predetermined bending stress level is selected that is suitable for the flexible glass ribbon (20) during the processing of the flexible glass ribbon. A radius (R) of curvature is selected for a conveying structure that is suitable for conveying the flexible glass ribbon (20) during the processing of the flexible glass ribbon through the glass processing apparatus based on the predetermined bending stress and at least one of web deflection angle and line tension. The glass processing apparatus is provided including the conveying structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Kurt Edward Gerber, Uta-Barbara Goers, Nikolay Anatolyevich Panin, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20170355176Abstract: A glass-polymer laminate includes a glass layer with a thickness of at most about 300 ?m and a polymer layer laminated to the glass layer. At all temperatures within a temperature range of about 16 C to about 32 C, the glass layer has a compressive stress and the glass-polymer laminate has a bow flattening force of at most about 150 N. A method includes laminating a glass layer to a polymer layer with an adhesive at a lamination temperature to form a glass-polymer laminate. The glass layer has a thickness of at most about 300 ?m. The lamination temperature is sufficiently high that, at all temperatures within a temperature range of about 16 C to about 32 C, the glass layer has a compressive stress. The lamination temperature is sufficiently low that, at all temperatures within the temperature range, the glass-polymer laminate has a bow flattening force of at most about 150 N.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2015Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Brittany Marie Fischer, Adam Joseph Fusco, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Andrew Charles Gorges, Michael William Price, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20170274627Abstract: A stack assembly is provided that includes a glass layer having a thickness, a first and second primary surface and a compressive stress region extending from the second primary surface to a first depth; and a second layer coupled to the second primary surface. The glass layer is characterized by: an absence of failure when the layer is held at a bend radius from about 3 to 20 mm, a puncture resistance of greater than about 1.5 kgf when the second primary surface is supported by (i) an ˜25 ?m thick PSA and (ii) an ˜50 ?m thick PET layer, and the first primary surface is loaded with a stainless steel pin having a flat bottom with a 200 ?m diameter, a pencil hardness of at least 8H, and a neutral axis within the glass layer located between the second primary surface and half of the first thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Theresa Chang, Timothy Michael Gross, Guangli Hu, Nicholas James Smith, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20170190155Abstract: A flexible glass laminate structure includes a flexible glass substrate having a thickness of no more than 0.3 mm. The flexible glass laminate structure includes a flexible glass layer including the flexible glass substrate. A property control layer is laminated to the flexible glass layer. A neutral axis of the flexible glass laminate is located outside the flexible glass layer when the flexible glass layer is in a compressive bend configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Michael William Price, Robert Lee Smith, III, Windsor Pipes Thomas, III, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20140299180Abstract: Multi-junction photovoltaic modules are provided comprising a plurality of photovoltaic structures, a PV encapsulant, a plurality of encapsulating glass layers, and a structural glass layer. The photovoltaic structures define distinct absorption bands and are positioned with the encapsulating glass layers and the structural glass layer. The photovoltaic structures are at least partially surrounded by the PV encapsulant and are separated by respective flexible encapsulating glass layers to electrically isolate adjacent photovoltaic structures and permit the photovoltaic structures to be configured in a parallel or serial PV stacked cell circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Mark Francis Krol, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20140158201Abstract: A silicon wafer-based photovoltaic module is described, which includes a first outer protective layer and a second outer protective layer, wherein both outer protective layers comprise a low- or no-sodium glass or low- or no-alkali compositions. The photovoltaic modules show resistance to water ingress, no or reduced potential-induced sodium ion drift, and reduced potential induced degradation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Inventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Mark Francis Krol, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20120192928Abstract: Laminated packages and photovoltaic modules having a glass substrate layer or a plurality of glass substrate layers encapsulated between top and bottom glass protective layers. The glass substrate layers can have similar CTE. Likewise, the top and bottom glass protective layers can have similar CTEs, CTEs that may be different from the CTE of the glass substrate layer or layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventors: Mark Francis Krol, James Ernest Webb