Abstract: A glass article having a first glass layer, a second glass layer disposed adjacent to the first glass layer, and an interface slidably coupling the first glass layer to the second glass layer. The interface has a thickness of from 2 nm to 500 nm. The glass article is characterized by: (a) an absence of failure when the article is held at a parallel plate separation distance of 10 mm for 60 minutes at 25° C. and 50% relative humidity; (b) a puncture resistance of greater than about 6 kgf when the second glass layer is supported by (i) a 50 ?m thick pressure-sensitive adhesive having an elastic modulus of less than 1 GPa and (ii) an approximately 100 ?m thick polyethylene terephthalate layer having an elastic modulus of less than 10 GPa, and the first glass layer is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a 1 mm diameter.

Abstract: Articles and methods related to the cold-forming of glass laminate articles utilizing stress prediction analysis are provided. A cold-forming estimator (CFE) value that is related to the stress experienced by a glass sheet of a glass laminate during cold-forming is calculated based on a plurality of geometric parameters of glass layer(s) of a glass laminate article. The calculated CFE value is compared to a cold-forming threshold related to the probability that defects are formed in the complexly curved glass laminate article during cold-forming. Cold-formed glass laminate articles are also provided having geometric parameters such that the CFE value is below the cold-forming threshold.

Abstract: An automotive display module can include a mounting bracket, a display panel, a cover substrate, and a frame member. The mounting bracket can be securable to a component of an automobile. The display panel can be coupled to the mounting bracket and the frame member can be connected to a back side of the cover substrate.

Abstract: A vehicle interior system is provided. The vehicle interior system includes a back structure that further includes one or more display devices for a vehicle user. A transparent cover material is attached to the back structure. The vehicle interior system includes a collapsible energy-absorbing support for attaching the back structure to a frame of the vehicle. The collapsible energy-absorbing support is configured to dissipate kinetic energy via plastic deformation. In particular embodiments, the collapsible energy-absorbing support comprises a hollow tube or a formed rectangular plate.

Abstract: The apparatus for non-contact damping vibration of a vibrating optical fiber moving over an optical fiber path includes an air bearing and an air supply. The air bearing includes a body having an aperture defined by an inner surface and a central axis that passes through the center of the aperture and along which lies the optical fiber path. A plurality of nozzles is distributed around the inner surface and directed toward the central axis. An air conduit within the body is in pneumatic communication with the plurality of nozzles. The air supply is pneumatically connected to the air conduit and is configured to supply pressurized air to the air bearing. The pressurized air is directed through the nozzles to the vibrating optical fiber and impinges on the optical fiber to damp the vibration of the vibrating optical fiber.

Abstract: A foldable electronic device module that includes a glass cover element having a thickness from about 25 ?m to about 200 ?m, an elastic modulus from about 20 GPa to about 140 GPa. The module further includes: a stack having a thickness from about 50 ?m to about 600 ?m; and a first adhesive joining the stack to a second primary surface of the cover element, the adhesive having a shear modulus from about 0.01 MPa to about 1 GPa and a glass transition temperature of at least 80 C. Further, the device module includes a flex-bond residual stress region through the thickness, and within a central region, of the cover element that ranges from a maximum compressive residual stress at the second primary surface to a maximum tensile residual stress at a first primary surface of the element along a central bend axis of the cover element.

Abstract: An article including a laminate having a substrate and an ultra-thin cover glass layer bonded to atop surface of the substrate. The ultra-thin cover glass layer has a thickness in the range of 1 micron to 49 microns. The ultra-thin cover glass layer is bonded to the top surface of the substrate with an optically transparent adhesive layer having a thickness in the range of 5 microns to 50 microns.

Abstract: A foldable electronic device module includes a glass cover element having a thickness from about 25 ?m to about 200 ?m, an elastic modulus from about 20 GPa to about 140 GPa and a puncture resistance of at least 1.5 kgf. The module further includes a stack with a thickness between about 100 ?m and about 600 ?m; and a first adhesive joining the stack to the cover element with a shear modulus between about 1 MPa and about 1 GPa. The stack further includes a panel, an electronic device, and a stack element affixed to the panel with a stack adhesive. Further, the device module is characterized by a tangential stress at a primary surface of the cover element of no greater than about 1000 MPa in tension upon bending the module to a radius from about 20 mm to about 2 mm.

Abstract: Foldable apparatus can comprise a foldable substrate comprising a thickness (T) and a plurality of grooves extending through a first major surface. A groove spacing (Gs) is defined between a pair of grooves. A first groove of the plurality of grooves comprises a groove depth (Gd) and a groove width (Gw). In some embodiments, 7.93-6.19*(Gw/T) ?9.52*(Gd/T) +6.05*(Gs/T) <0. In some embodiments, (Gw/T) ?0.1, (Gs/T) ?1.5, 0.3?Gd/T 0.95. In some embodiments, a combined groove volume divided by a central volume can be about 0.3 or more. Methods of making a foldable apparatus comprise drawing a ribbon from a quantity of molten material off a forming device. Methods further comprising impinging a target location of the ribbon traveling in a draw direction with a laser beam to form a groove in the ribbon. In some embodiments, the groove can comprise a plurality of grooves.

Abstract: Foldable apparatus can comprise a first portion comprising a first edge surface defined between a first surface area and a second surface area opposite the first surface area. Foldable apparatus can comprise a second portion comprising a second edge surface defined between a third surface area and a fourth surface area opposite the third surface area. A polymer-based portion can be positioned between the first blunted edge surface and the second blunted edge surface. In some embodiments, the polymer-based portion can comprise a polymer thickness of about 50 micrometers or less measured from the second surface area and/or the first surface area. In some embodiments, the first edge surface and/or the second edge surface can comprise a blunted edge surface. In some embodiments, a coating can be disposed over the first portion, the second portion and the polymer-based portion.

Abstract: A glass ribbon includes a first major surface extending along a first plane. The glass ribbon includes a second major surface extending along a second plane substantially parallel to the first plane. A first thickness is defined between the first major surface and the second major surface along a thickness direction perpendicular to the first major surface. The first thickness is within a range from about 25 ?m to about 125 ?m. An edge surface extends between the first plane and the second plane. The edge surface comprises a height in the thickness direction that is less than the first thickness. Methods of manufacturing a glass ribbon are also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus including a first substrate, a second substrate, an inorganic film provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and in contact with both the first substrate and the second substrate, a laser welded zone formed between the first and second substrate by the inorganic film, where the laser welded zone has a heat affected zone (HAZ), where the HAZ is defined as a region in which ?HAZ is at least 1 MPa higher than average stress in the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein ?HAZ is compressive stress in the HAZ, and wherein the laser welded zone is characterized by its ?interface laser weld>?HAZ, wherein ?interface laser weld is peak value of compressive stress in the laser welded zone.

Abstract: A foldable electronic device module includes: a glass-containing cover element having a thickness from about (25) ?m to about (200) ?m, an elastic modulus from about (20) to (140) GPa, and first and second primary surfaces; a stack comprising: (a) an interlayer having an elastic modulus from about (0.01) to (10) GPa and a thickness from about 50 to (200) ?m, and (b) a flexible substrate having a thickness from about (100) to (200) ?m; and a first adhesive joining the stack to the cover element, and comprising an elastic modulus from about (0.001) to (10) GPa and a thickness from about (5) to (25) ?m. Further, the module comprises an impact resistance characterized by tensile stresses of less than about (4100) MPa and less than about (8300) MPa at the first and second primary surfaces of the cover element, respectively, upon an impact in a Pen Drop Test.

Abstract: Articles and methods related to the cold-forming of glass laminate articles utilizing stress prediction analysis are provided. A cold-forming estimator (CFE) value that is related to the stress experienced by a glass sheet of a glass laminate during cold-forming is calculated based on a plurality of geometric parameters of glass layer(s) of a glass laminate article. The calculated CFE value is compared to a cold-forming threshold related to the probability that defects are formed in the complexly curved glass laminate article during cold-forming. Cold-formed glass laminate articles are also provided having geometric parameters such that the CFE value is below the cold-forming threshold.

Abstract: A glass laminate article having high efficiency heat transfer characteristics and related systems and methods are provided. The glass laminate article has a thin, high heat conductive inner glass layer that efficiently transfers heat from a heating system throughout the glass article. The glass laminate article may be used as a vehicle window and used as part of a heating system and method for defogging or defrosting the vehicle window. The glass laminate article may include a heating coating adjacent an outer glass layer which further improves heating efficiency.

Abstract: A laminated glass article including a base layer, an anisotropic layer disposed over a top surface of the base layer, and a glass layer disposed over the anisotropic layer. The anisotropic layer may include homogeneous mechanical anisotropic properties measured at intervals of 250 microns. In some embodiments, the anisotropic layer may be an orthotropic layer including homogeneous mechanical orthotropic properties measured at intervals of 250 microns. The homogenous mechanical anisotropic or orthotropic properties of the anisotropic layer may provide a flexible laminated glass article with a high resistance to impact and puncture forces. In some embodiments, the laminated glass article may define all or a portion of a cover substrate for a consumer product.

Abstract: A foldable electronic device module includes a glass cover element having a thickness from about 25 ?m to about 200 ?m, an elastic modulus from about 20 GPa to about 140 GPa and a puncture resistance of at least 1.5 kgf. The module further includes a stack with a thickness between about 100 ?m and about 600 ?m; and a first adhesive joining the stack to the cover element with a shear modulus between about 1 MPa and about 1 GPa. The stack further includes a panel, an electronic device, and a stack element affixed to the panel with a stack adhesive. Further, the device module is characterized by a tangential stress at a primary surface of the cover element of no greater than about 1000 MPa in tension upon bending the module to a radius from about 20 mm to about 2 mm.

Abstract: The apparatus for non-contact damping vibration of a vibrating optical fiber moving over an optical fiber path includes an air bearing and an air supply. The air bearing includes a body having an aperture defined by an inner surface and a central axis that passes through the center of the aperture and along which lies the optical fiber path. A plurality of nozzles is distributed around the inner surface and directed toward the central axis. An air conduit within the body is in pneumatic communication with the plurality of nozzles. The air supply is pneumatically connected to the air conduit and is configured to supply pressurized air to the air bearing. The pressurized air is directed through the nozzles to the vibrating optical fiber and impinges on the optical fiber to damp the vibration of the vibrating optical fiber.

Abstract: A glass substrate support system includes a first and second vacuum members extending lengthwise in a glass substrate feed direction along opposing edges of a flexible glass substrate. Each vacuum member has a vacuum body including a pressure chamber located therein and a support surface having a vacuum opening extending therethrough and in communication with the pressure chamber. A support rod assembly is provided that includes a plurality of support rods located between the first second vacuum members in the glass substrate feed direction. The support rod assembly has an out-of-plane configuration that supports the flexible glass substrate in a downward arc orientation.

Abstract: Principles and embodiments of the present disclosure relate to unique asymmetric laminates and methods that produce the laminates where the laminate includes an first glass substrate having a first thickness (to), an second glass substrate having a second thickness (ti), an interlayer disposed between the second glass substrate and the first glass substrate, wherein the first thickness and the second thickness has a combined third thickness (tt), and wherein to/tt or ti/tt is in a range from about 0.7 to about 0.99.