Patents by Inventor Ronan Tanguy
Ronan Tanguy 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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Publication number: 20240010542Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a glass article of a vehicle interior system. The glass article includes a frame having a curved support surface. The frame is configured to hold at least one magnet. The glass article also includes a glass sheet having a first major surface and a second major surface opposite to the first major surface. The glass sheet is arranged with the second major surface facing toward the curved support surface. The glass article further includes a metal strip disposed on the glass sheet. The metal strip and the at least one magnet create a magnetic connection sufficient to hold the glass sheet in conformity with the curved support surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Mickaël Berrebi, Laurent Joubaud, Khaled Layouni, Jean-Pierre Henri René Lereboullet, Elias Merhy, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20220177348Abstract: A shaped article can include a substrate formed from a glass material, a glass ceramic material, or a combination thereof and a cavity formed in the substrate. A sidewall of the cavity can have a random textured surface with a surface roughness of less than or equal to 300 nm. A method of machining a protrusion in a graphite block can include translating a cutting tool in a first longitudinal direction toward the graphite block to engage the graphite block with the cutting tool while rotating the cutting tool about a rotational axis without translating the cutting tool in a lateral direction, then translating the cutting tool in a second longitudinal direction away from the graphite block without translating the cutting tool in the lateral direction to disengage the cutting tool from the graphite block. A shaped article can be formed by pressing a preform with a monolithic graphite mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20200024184Abstract: Disclosed are methods for coating or decorating a surface of a glass sleeve. The methods include depositing a metal layer onto a surface of the glass sleeve by an electroless plating method. Also disclosed are glass sleeves which are coated or decorated on an internal surface, and electronic devices comprising the coated glass sleeves.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Clemens Rudolf Horn, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20190263704Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses for shaping a glass structure, the apparatuses having a plurality of rib members, each rib member comprising at least one void and at least one shaping edge; and at least one support member. The apparatuses can further comprise a shaping member and/or a guide member and/or a shaping groove. Also disclosed herein are methods for shaping a glass structure, the methods comprising positioning the glass structure on a shaping apparatus and heating the glass structure to shape the glass structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Paul Louis Florent Delautre, Michele Marie-Louise Meyer, Stephane Poissy, Ronan Tanguy, Claude Jacques Julien Vanotti
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Publication number: 20190210908Abstract: A local bend is formed in a glass sheet (10) by supporting large flat areas (14, 16) of the glass sheet (10) on large flat supports (106L, 106R) that are articulated relative to each other while leaving an area (12) of the glass sheet in which the local bend is to be formed unsupported. A combination of bending forces applied to the glass sheet (10) by articulation of the large flat supports (106L, 106R) and local heating (110) of the unsupported area (12) of the glass sheet (10) produces the local bend.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Michele Marie-Louise Fredholm, Vladislav Yuryevich Golyatin, Laurent Joubaud, Ronan Tanguy
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Patent number: 10336643Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses for shaping a glass structure, the apparatuses having a plurality of rib members, each rib member comprising at least one void and at least one shaping edge; and at least one support member. The apparatuses can further comprise a shaping member and/or a guide member and/or a shaping groove. Also disclosed herein are methods for shaping a glass structure, the methods comprising positioning the glass structure on a shaping apparatus and heating the glass structure to shape the glass structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Paul Louis Florent Delautre, Michele Marie-Louise Fredholm, Stephane Poissy, Ronan Tanguy, Claude Jacques Julien Vanotti
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Patent number: 10059618Abstract: A reforming mandrel and a method of use reforming mandrel to reform glass are described. The reforming mandrel comprises an upstream portion, a downstream portion and an at least partially hollow interior. The upstream portion may have an intake inlet for fluid flow. The downstream portion may be axially spaced from the upstream portion. The downstream portion may have a flattened cross-section defined by flattened peripheral portions joined by curved peripheral portions. At least one curved peripheral portion may be made of porous material resistant to a temperature of at least 1000° C. The at least partially hollow interior may communicate with the intake inlet and the porous material.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Mickaël Mabrut, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20180050949Abstract: An apparatus for making a profiled tubing includes a mandrel adapted for positioning proximate a tubing. The mandrel has a nozzle section with a select cross-sectional profile that will define a final cross-sectional profile of the tubing. The nozzle section has a feed chamber for receiving a gas and a porous circumferential surface through which the gas can be discharged to an exterior of the mandrel. The gas when discharged to the exterior of the mandrel forms a film of pressurized gas between the porous circumferential surface and the tubing. A method of forming a profiled tubing using the apparatus is disclosed. A sleeve formed from the profiled tubing is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Antoine Gaston Denis Bisson, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Ronan Tanguy
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Patent number: 9834467Abstract: An apparatus (100) for making glass tubing (200) of a desired non-circular cross-sectional profile (cf FIG. 3) includes a mandrel (101) adapted for positioning proximate heat-softened tubing. The mandrel (101) has a nose (102) and a nozzle section (120) with a chosen profile that will define a final cross-sectional profile of the tubing. The nozzle section (120) has a feed chamber (140) for receiving a gas from a source (207) and a porous and/or foraminous circumferential surface (132,134) through which the gas can be discharged to an exterior of the mandrel. The gas discharges to the exterior of the mandrel, forming a film of pressurized gas in the gap (314, 318) between the porous circumferential surface (132,134) and the heat-softened tubing (200). A method of forming tubing having a non-circular cross-sectional profile using the apparatus is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Antoine Gaston Denis Bisson, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20170210661Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses for shaping a glass structure, the apparatuses having a plurality of rib members, each rib member comprising at least one void and at least one shaping edge; and at least one support member. The apparatuses can further comprise a shaping member and/or a guide member and/or a shaping groove. Also disclosed herein are methods for shaping a glass structure, the methods comprising positioning the glass structure on a shaping apparatus and heating the glass structure to shape the glass structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Paul Louis Florent Delautre, Michele Marie-Louise Fredholm, Stephane Poissy, Ronan Tanguy, Claude Jacques Julien Vanotti
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Patent number: 9556054Abstract: A glass or glass-ceramic sheet includes peaks and valleys, where a cross-sectional profile in one direction along the sheet contains a first plurality of peaks, and a cross-sectional profile along the sheet in a perpendicular direction to that direction contains a second plurality of peaks. The first plurality is different from the second plurality of peaks.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Ronan Tanguy
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Patent number: 9527724Abstract: Embodiments of methods for sealing a glass microstructure assembly comprise providing one or more side retainer members on a base plate adjacent the glass microstructure assembly, the side retainer members having a height less than an uncompressed height defined by the glass microstructure assembly. The methods also comprise compressing the glass microstructure assembly via a load bearing top plate in intimate contact with the top glass layer while heating the glass microstructure assembly and the top plate to a glass sealing temperature, the glass sealing temperature being a temperature sufficient to make glass viscous, wherein the glass microstructure assembly is compressed until the load bearing top plate contacts the side retainer members, and wherein the lower surface of the top plate maintains adhesion to the upper surface of the top glass layer at the glass sealing temperature while the load bearing plate is supported by the side retainer members.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Paulo Gaspar Jorge Marques, Ronan Tanguy
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Patent number: 9446378Abstract: The present disclosure provides an assembled stack of fluidic modules comprising at least first and second fluidic modules assembled in a stacked configuration. The first fluidic module has first and second major planar surfaces and encloses a first fluidic passage extending therethrough from a first passage entrance to a first passage exit with the first passage exit located on the second major planar surface of the first fluidic module. The second fluidic module also has first and second major planar surfaces and encloses a second fluidic passage extending therethrough from a second passage entrance to a second passage exit, with the second passage entrance located on the first major planar surface of the second fluidic module.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Sylvain Maxime F. Gremetz, Olivier Lobet, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20160221858Abstract: A reforming mandrel and a method of use reforming mandrel to reform glass are described. The reforming mandrel comprises an upstream portion, a downstream portion and an at least partially hollow interior. The upstream portion may have an intake inlet for fluid flow. The downstream portion may be axially spaced from the upstream portion. The downstream portion may have a flattened cross-section defined by flattened peripheral portions joined by curved peripheral portions. At least one curved peripheral portion may be made of porous material resistant to a temperature of at least 1000° C. The at least partially hollow interior may communicate with the intake inlet and the porous material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Mickaël Mabrut, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20160130169Abstract: A glass or glass-ceramic sheet includes peaks and valleys, where a cross-sectional profile in one direction along the sheet contains a first plurality of peaks, and a cross-sectional profile along the sheet in a perpendicular direction to that direction contains a second plurality of peaks. The first plurality is different from the second plurality of peaks.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2016Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20160122233Abstract: Disclosed are methods for coating or decorating a surface of a glass sleeve. The methods include depositing a metal layer onto a surface of the glass sleeve by an electroless plating method. Also disclosed are glass sleeves which are coated or decorated on an internal surface, and electronic devices comprising the coated glass sleeves.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Clemens Rudolf Horn, Ronan Tanguy
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Patent number: 9259705Abstract: A microreactor device (100) comprises a microcircuit (110) defining a reaction microchamber (112) containing a liquid and reaction medium (114), in which a chemical reaction takes place generating the gas (116), and is characterized in that the device (100) is disposed substantially vertically or inclined, defining an upper part (120) and a lower part (130) of the microchamber, and in that means (150) are provided in the upper part (120) of the said microcircuit for the in situ collection and removal of the gas formed during the reaction.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Elena Daniela Lavric, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20150225279Abstract: An apparatus (100) for making glass tubing (200) of a desired non-circular cross-sectional profile (cf FIG. 3) includes a mandrel (101) adapted for positioning proximate heat-softened tubing. The mandrel (101) has a nose (102) and a nozzle section (120) with a chosen profile that will define a final cross-sectional profile of the tubing. The nozzle section (120) has a feed chamber (140) for receiving a gas from a source (207) and a porous and/or foraminous circumferential surface (132,134) through which the gas can be discharged to an exterior of the mandrel. The gas discharges to the exterior of the mandrel, forming a film of pressurized gas in the gap (314, 318) between the porous circumferential surface (132,134) and the heat-softened tubing (200). A method of forming tubing having a non-circular cross-sectional profile using the apparatus is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Antoine Gaston Denis Bisson, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Ronan Tanguy
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Publication number: 20140369902Abstract: The present disclosure provides an assembled stack of fluidic modules comprising at least first and second fluidic modules assembled in a stacked configuration. The first fluidic module has first and second major planar surfaces and encloses a first fluidic passage extending therethrough from a first passage entrance to a first passage exit with the first passage exit located on the second major planar surface of the first fluidic module. The second fluidic module also has first and second major planar surfaces and encloses a second fluidic passage extending therethrough from a second passage entrance to a second passage exit, with the second passage entrance located on the first major planar surface of the second fluidic module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Sylvain Maxime F. Gremetz, Olivier Lobet, Ronan Tanguy
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Patent number: 8875543Abstract: A method for forming a continuous glass sheet from a tube of glass includes expanding and thinning the tube of glass by drawing the tube of glass over susceptor bearing comprising a porous sidewall defining an internal chamber. The diameter of the susceptor bearing may increase between a top portion and a bottom portion. The tube of glass may be maintained at a temperature above a softening point of the glass as the tube of glass is drawn over the susceptor bearing. The tube of glass is suspended over the susceptor bearing by blowing the tube of glass away from the susceptor bearing in a radial direction with a pressurized fluid supplied to the internal chamber and emitted from the porous sidewall as the tube of glass is drawn over the susceptor bearing. Thereafter, the tube of glass is cooled and sectioned to form a continuous glass sheet.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux, Ronan Tanguy