Patents by Inventor Patrick Aaron Parks
Patrick Aaron Parks 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: 11939175Abstract: An apparatus that forms bundles of glass articles includes a glass article infeed station including an infeed conveyor that continuously transports individual glass articles to a layer separating conveyor. The layer separating conveyor includes a conveyor belt that forms a layer of side-by-side glass articles. A robotic lift assembly is configured to place the layer of side-by-side glass articles together on a layer separation insert. The layer separation insert has side-by-side slots that each receive a single glass article of the layer of side-by-side glass articles.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Marty Eric Hess, Kevin Robert Kaelin, Patrick Aaron Parks, Evan Marshall Rathbun, Gregory James Tenbus
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Publication number: 20230150780Abstract: An apparatus that forms bundles of glass articles includes a glass article infeed station including an infeed conveyor that continuously transports individual glass articles to a layer separating conveyor. The layer separating conveyor includes a conveyor belt that forms a layer of side-by-side glass articles. A robotic lift assembly is configured to place the layer of side-by-side glass articles together on a layer separation insert. The layer separation insert has side-by-side slots that each receive a single glass article of the layer of side-by-side glass articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Marty Eric Hess, Kevin Robert Kaelin, Patrick Aaron Parks, Evan Marshall Rathbun, Gregory James Tenbus
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Patent number: 11299306Abstract: A method of forming bundles of glass articles is provided. The method includes transporting individual glass articles to an insert building station using a conveying system. The glass articles are individually located within article receiving slots of a layer separation insert using the conveying system. Each slot of the layer separation insert receives a single glass article forming a glass article layer of side-by-side glass articles. Multiple glass article layers including layer separation inserts are stacked using the conveying system forming a bundle. The layer separation inserts provide a barrier between adjacent glass articles of each of the glass article layers to inhibit glass-to-glass contact.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Manu Chakravarthy Kittanakere-Naagaraj, Patrick Aaron Parks, John Robert Turner
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Patent number: 11014849Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for ion exchanging glass articles. Methods for ion exchanging glass articles include receiving processing instructions from one or more user input devices, loading a cassette containing a plurality of glass articles into a molten salt bath of one or more ion exchange stations automatically with a robotic lift based on the processing instructions, removing the cassette from the molten salt bath automatically with the robotic lift after a predetermined time based on the processing instructions, and rotating the cassette automatically to drain fluid of the molten salt bath from the cassette.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Michael David Harris, Timothy Leonard Hunt, Kevin Robert Kaelin, William James Miller, Patrick Aaron Parks, Jeanne Lynn Swecker, Christopher Lee Timmons
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Publication number: 20180148373Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for ion exchanging glass articles. Methods for ion exchanging glass articles include receiving processing instructions from one or more user input devices, loading a cassette containing a plurality of glass articles into a molten salt bath of one or more ion exchange stations automatically with a robotic lift based on the processing instructions, removing the cassette from the molten salt bath automatically with the robotic lift after a predetermined time based on the processing instructions, and rotating the cassette automatically to drain fluid of the molten salt bath from the cassette.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Michael David Harris, Timothy Leonard Hunt, Kevin Robert Kaelin, William James Miller, Patrick Aaron Parks, Jeanne Lynn Swecker, Christopher Lee Timmons
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Publication number: 20170369194Abstract: A method of forming bundles of glass articles is provided. The method includes transporting individual glass articles to an insert building station using a conveying system. The glass articles are individually located within article receiving slots of a layer separation insert using the conveying system. Each slot of the layer separation insert receives a single glass article forming a glass article layer of side-by-side glass articles. Multiple glass article layers including layer separation inserts are stacked using the conveying system forming a bundle. The layer separation inserts provide a barrier between adjacent glass articles of each of the glass article layers to inhibit glass-to-glass contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Manu Chakravarthy Kittanakere Naagaraj, Patrick Aaron Parks, John Robert Turner
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Patent number: 9061932Abstract: A pull roll apparatus and method are described herein that can control a cross-draw tension and a down-draw tension of a glass sheet while manufacturing the glass sheet. In one embodiment, the pull roll apparatus includes a first driven stub roll pair, a second driven stub roll pair and a control device (e.g., PLC) that controls the first and second driven stub roll pairs while a first edge portion of the glass sheet is drawn between two vertically downtilted rolls associated with the first driven stub roll pair and while an opposing second edge portion of the glass sheet is drawn between two vertically downtilted rolls associated with the second driven stub roll pair. If desired, the pull roll apparatus may include a pulling roll assembly (located below the first and second driven stub rolls) or another set of driven stub roll pairs (located below the first and second driven stub roll pairs).Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: James Gary Anderson, Liam Ruan de Paor, Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Patrick Aaron Parks, George Clinton Shay, Michael George Shultz, David John Ulrich
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Publication number: 20140075994Abstract: A pull roll apparatus and method are described herein that can control a cross-draw tension and a down-draw tension of a glass sheet while manufacturing the glass sheet. In one embodiment, the pull roll apparatus includes a first driven stub roll pair, a second driven stub roll pair and a control device (e.g., PLC) that controls the first and second driven stub roll pairs while a first edge portion of the glass sheet is drawn between two vertically downtilted rolls associated with the first driven stub roll pair and while an opposing second edge portion of the glass sheet is drawn between two vertically downtilted rolls associated with the second driven stub roll pair. If desired, the pull roll apparatus may include a pulling roll assembly (located below the first and second driven stub rolls) or another set of driven stub roll pairs (located below the first and second driven stub roll pairs).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Corning IncorporatedInventors: James Gary Anderson, Liam Ruan de Paor, Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Patrick Aaron Parks, George Clinton Shay, Michael George Shultz, David John Ulrich
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Patent number: 8627684Abstract: A pull roll apparatus and method are described herein that can control a cross-draw tension and a down-draw tension of a glass sheet while manufacturing the glass sheet. In one embodiment, the pull roll apparatus includes a first driven stub roll pair, a second driven stub roll pair and a control device (e.g., PLC) that controls the first and second driven stub roll pairs while a first edge portion of the glass sheet is drawn between two vertically downtilted rolls associated with the first driven stub roll pair and while an opposing second edge portion of the glass sheet is drawn between two vertically downtilted rolls associated with the second driven stub roll pair. If desired, the pull roll apparatus may include a pulling roll assembly (located below the first and second driven stub rolls) or another set of driven stub roll pairs (located below the first and second driven stub roll pairs).Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Michael George Shultz, George Clinton Shay, David John Ulrich, James Gary Anderson, Liam Ruan de Paor, Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Patrick Aaron Parks
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Publication number: 20110267740Abstract: The disclosure relates to packaging for electrochemically active materials comprising a housing comprising at least one active coating, devices made therefrom, and methods of making the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2010Publication date: November 3, 2011Inventors: Shrisudersan Jayaraman, James Robert Lim, Patrick Aaron Parks, Todd Marshall Wetherill
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Publication number: 20090178298Abstract: An apparatus for drying a surface of a substrate during laser scoring. During the laser scoring process, a narrow cooling liquid jet follows the laser beam to create and propagate a partial vent. Precision of the scoring and overall stability of the process depend upon the accuracy of the alignment of the beam and the fluid stream. In one aspect, the apparatus has a conduit with at least one interior chamber in communication with at least one nozzle orifice. The conduit is configured to be in communication with a pressurized gas source to introduce the pressurized gas into the chamber. The pressurized gas forms a curtain of gas that is used to clean the cooling fluid therefrom the surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Inventors: Anatoli Anatolyevich Abramov, Weiwei Luo, Patrick Aaron Parks, Rashid A. Rahman, Naiyue Zhou
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Publication number: 20030000257Abstract: A method of optical fiber preparation includes concurrently processing a plurality of optical fibers which have a substantially vertical orientation, and the concurrent processing is substantially automated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2001Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Chester Hann Huei Chang, Scott Winfield Deming, Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Woody Brian Swan, Patrick Aaron Parks, Thomas Shawn Moag, Michael Albert Joseph