Patents by Inventor Pascal Verdurme

Pascal Verdurme 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).

  • METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING LOW LIQUIDUS VISCOSITY SHEET GLASS
    Publication number: 20230166999
    Abstract: Disclosed are various methods and apparatus for forming sheet glass from molten glass whose liquidus viscosity is <5 kP. Also disclosed is a roller for receiving and cooling continuously-fed ribbon of glass whose liquidus viscosity is <5 kP onto the roller's outer surface, where the roller is configured to be maintained at a predetermined temperature and can be rotated at a predetermined speed so that the glass ribbon comes in contact with the roller for a set duration of time and rolls off the roller at the end of the set duration of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Gilbert De Angelis, Nils Paul Fornell, Allan Mark Fredholm, Xiaoju Guo, Shawn Rachelle Markham, William Anthony Sheehy, Pascal Verdurme, Rui Zhang
  • Method of forming a glass melt
    Patent number: 7454925
    Abstract: A method of forming a glass melt including heating a glass feed material in a first melting furnace to form a glass melt, flowing the glass melt into a second melting furnace through a refractory metal connecting tube, and further heating the glass melt in the second melting furnace. The refractory metal connecting tube is heated to prevent the molten glass from excessive cooling, and to ensure that the glass melt entering the second melting furnace is equal to or greater than the temperature of the glass melt in the second melting furnace. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Gilbert DeAngelis, William Weston Johnson, John Jerry Kersting, Daniel Arthur Nolet, Robert Richard Thomas, Pascal Verdurme
  • Method of forming a glass melt
    Publication number: 20070151297
    Abstract: A method of forming a glass melt including heating a glass feed material in a first melting furnace to form a glass melt, flowing the glass melt into a second melting furnace through a refractory metal connecting tube, and further heating the glass melt in the second melting furnace. The refractory metal connecting tube is heated to prevent the molten glass from excessive cooling, and to ensure that the glass melt entering the second melting furnace is equal to or greater than the temperature of the glass melt in the second melting furnace. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Gilbert DeAngelis, William Johnson, John Kersting, Daniel Nolet, Robert Thomas, Pascal Verdurme