Patents by Inventor Terence J. Clark
Terence J. Clark 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: 11814313Abstract: A process and an apparatus for refining molten glass. The apparatus includes a porous body having an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of pores through which molten glass can flow between the inlet and the outlet. The plurality of pores are defined by walls having wall surfaces that are configured to interact with the molten glass as the molten glass flows between the inlet and the outlet to help refine the molten glass.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventor: Terence J. Clark
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Patent number: 11279532Abstract: A product includes a container, a photosensitive material carried by the container and responsive to ultraviolet light, and a UV protector carried by the container to protect the photosensitive material from exposure to UV light. A method of producing a food or beverage container includes applying a photochromic material to a food or beverage container that is responsive to ultraviolet (UV) light so as to darken upon exposure thereto, and protecting at least a portion of the photochromic material from exposure to UV light.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventors: Roger P. Smith, Jessica R. Bryant, Chris D. Anderson, Scott Cooper, Terence J. Clark, Oleg Feygenson, Anatoly Solunin
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Patent number: 10807897Abstract: An apparatus for refining molten glass that includes a housing having a vertically oriented longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. Molten glass is received at an upper end of the housing and is discharged from a lower end of the housing. A guide extends at least partway across the housing and directs molten glass in a generally downward direction through the housing and in a parallel or oblique direction relative to the transverse axis of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventors: Tilak Gullinkala, Desikan Sundararajan, Terence J. Clark, Witold Mastek
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Publication number: 20200199002Abstract: A process and an apparatus for refining molten glass. The apparatus includes a porous body having an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of pores through which molten glass can flow between the inlet and the outlet. The plurality of pores are defined by walls having wall surfaces that are configured to interact with the molten glass as the molten glass flows between the inlet and the outlet to help refine the molten glass.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Terence J. Clark
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Patent number: 10633273Abstract: A process and an apparatus for refining molten glass. The apparatus includes a porous body having an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of pores through which molten glass can flow between the inlet and the outlet. The plurality of pores are defined by walls having wall surfaces that are configured to interact with the molten glass as the molten glass flows between the inlet and the outlet to help refine the molten glass.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventor: Terence J. Clark
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Publication number: 20180186526Abstract: A product includes a container, a photosensitive material carried by the container and responsive to ultraviolet light, and a UV protector carried by the container to protect the photosensitive material from exposure to UV light. A method of producing a food or beverage container includes applying a photochromic material to a food or beverage container that is responsive to ultraviolet (UV) light so as to darken upon exposure thereto, and protecting at least a portion of the photochromic material from exposure to UV light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Roger P. Smith, Jessica R. Bryant, Chris D. Anderson, Scott Cooper, Terence J. Clark, Oleg Feygenson, Anatoly Solunin
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Patent number: 9938058Abstract: A product includes a container, a photosensitive material carried by the container and responsive to ultraviolet light, and a UV protector carried by the container to protect the photosensitive material from exposure to UV light. A method of producing a food or beverage container includes applying a photochromic material to a food or beverage container that is responsive to ultraviolet (UV) light so as to darken upon exposure thereto, and protecting at least a portion of the photochromic material from exposure to UV light.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventors: Roger P. Smith, Jessica R. Bryant, Chris D. Anderson, Scott Cooper, Terence J. Clark, Oleg Feygenson, Anatoly Solunin
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Patent number: 9932258Abstract: An apparatus and process for making glass and glass gobs on demand. A sheet of molten glass is provided in a staging section. The sheet of molten glass is held within the staging section when there is no demand for glass articles. When there is a demand for production of glass articles, a portion of the sheet of molten glass is flowed into a gob forming section.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventor: Terence J Clark
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Publication number: 20180002214Abstract: An apparatus for refining molten glass that includes a housing having a vertically oriented longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. Molten glass is received at an upper end of the housing and is discharged from a lower end of the housing. A guide extends at least partway across the housing and directs molten glass in a generally downward direction through the housing and in a parallel or oblique direction relative to the transverse axis of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Tilak Gullinkala, Desikan Sundararajan, Terence J. Clark, Witold Mastek
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Patent number: 9776904Abstract: A process and an apparatus for refining molten glass that includes a housing having a vertically oriented longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. Molten glass is received at an upper end of the housing and is discharged from a lower end of the housing. A guide extends at least partway across the housing and directs molten glass in a generally downward direction through the housing and in a parallel or oblique direction relative to the transverse axis of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventors: Tilak Gullinkala, Desikan Sundararajan, Terence J Clark, Witold Mastek
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Publication number: 20170158541Abstract: A process and an apparatus for refining molten glass. The apparatus includes a porous body having an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of pores through which molten glass can flow between the inlet and the outlet. The plurality of pores are defined by walls having wall surfaces that are configured to interact with the molten glass as the molten glass flows between the inlet and the outlet to help refine the molten glass.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventor: Terence J. Clark
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Patent number: 9637406Abstract: An apparatus for melting and refining a silica-based glass composition includes a vertical first reaction chamber having an input adjacent to a lower end for receiving glass-forming components. The glass-forming components are heated to elevated temperature during upward flow through the vertical first reaction chamber to form a glass precursor melt adjacent to an upper end of the vertical first reaction chamber. A vertical second reaction chamber has an input adjacent to an upper end and an output adjacent to a lower end for delivering glass melt. A cross passage connects the upper end of the vertical first reaction chamber to the upper end of the vertical second reaction chamber such that the precursor melt flows from the vertical first reaction chamber through the cross passage and then through the vertical second reaction chamber to homogenize the precursor melt.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventors: Dawid Dewet-Smith, D. Wayne Leidy, Carl L. Fayerweather, Daniel R. Swiler, Terence J. Clark
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Patent number: 9611163Abstract: A process and an apparatus for refining molten glass. The apparatus includes a porous body having an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of pores through which molten glass can flow between the inlet and the outlet. The plurality of pores are defined by walls having wall surfaces that are configured to interact with the molten glass as the molten glass flows between the inlet and the outlet to help refine the molten glass.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventor: Terence J Clark
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Publication number: 20160251129Abstract: A product includes a container, a photosensitive material carried by the container and responsive to ultraviolet light, and a UV protector carried by the container to protect the photosensitive material from exposure to UV light. A method of producing a food or beverage container includes applying a photochromic material to a food or beverage container that is responsive to ultraviolet (UV) light so as to darken upon exposure thereto, and protecting at least a portion of the photochromic material from exposure to UV light.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Roger P. Smith, Jessica R. Bryant, Chris D. Anderson, Scott Cooper, Terence J. Clark, Oleg Feygenson, Anatoly Solunin
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Patent number: 9365314Abstract: A product includes a container, a photosensitive material carried by the container and responsive to ultraviolet light, and a UV protector carried by the container to protect the photosensitive material from exposure to UV light.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventors: Roger P. Smith, Jessica R. Bryant, Chris D. Anderson, Scott Cooper, Oleg Feygenson, Anatoly Solunin, Terence J Clark
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Publication number: 20150353405Abstract: A process and an apparatus for refining molten glass that includes a housing having a vertically oriented longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. Molten glass is received at an upper end of the housing and is discharged from a lower end of the housing. A guide extends at least partway across the housing and directs molten glass in a generally downward direction through the housing and in a parallel or oblique direction relative to the transverse axis of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Tilak Gullinkala, Desikan Sundararajan, Terence J. Clark, Witold Mastek
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Publication number: 20150251941Abstract: A process and an apparatus for refining molten glass. The apparatus includes a porous body having an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of pores through which molten glass can flow between the inlet and the outlet. The plurality of pores are defined by walls having wall surfaces that are configured to interact with the molten glass as the molten glass flows between the inlet and the outlet to help refine the molten glass.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventor: Terence J. Clark
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Patent number: 9023474Abstract: A plurality of soda-lime glass batch materials are formed into granules that include a core and a shell surrounding the core. The core comprises a first portion of the plurality of glass batch materials, and the shell comprises a remaining portion of the plurality of glass batch materials. These core-shell granules can be melted in a glass furnace to produce molten soda-lime glass in less time and at a lower temperature than conventional soda-lime glass batch preparations.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Inventors: Witold W. Mastek, Desikan Sundararajan, Terence J. Clark, Melisa Y. Zambrano Becerra
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Publication number: 20120001358Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method comprising a) placing wet ceramic greenware body on a carrying structure, and b) exposing the wet ceramic greenware body to conditions such that the liquid carrier in the ceramic greenware body is substantially removed; wherein the carrying structure contains a carrying sheet comprising a material which retains its shape under drying conditions, the carrying sheet having two flat parallel faces and a plurality of walls perpendicular to the flat parallel faces wherein the walls form a plurality of flow passages communicating between the two faces wherein the largest distance between any two walls in the carrying sheet is about 6 mm or less and the walls have a sufficient thickness to support the wet ceramic greenware body under drying conditions without deforming and the area of the flow passages measured parallel to the two faces is from about 60 to about 90 percent by volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Inventors: Terence J. Clark, James J. O'Brien
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Patent number: 7019390Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a power module for automotive switching applications including a plurality of semiconductor chips and a unitary silicon nitride substrate. The plurality of semiconductor chips are attached to the silicon nitride substrate and the substrate is configured to have a thermal coefficient of expansion substantially the same as the plurality of semiconductor chips.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2004Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: William W. Sheng, Terence J. Clark, James Fain, Sylvester Karpchuck, Ronald P. Colino