Patents Issued in May 9, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240150182
    Abstract: A process for reacting silicone with hydrothermal water is at temperatures from 140° C. or supercritical water. A solids mixture containing silicon is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventors: Markus ULBRICH, Jan TILLMANN, Harald VOIT
  • Publication number: 20240150183
    Abstract: A silica aerogel having a mean pore size less than 5 nm with a standard deviation of 3 nm. The silica aerogel may have greater than 95% solar-weighted transmittance at a thickness of 8 mm for wavelengths in the range of 250 nm to 2500 nm, and a 400° C. black-body weighted specific extinction coefficient of greater than 8 m2/kg for wavelengths of 1.5 ?m to 15 ?m. Silica aerogel synthesis methods are described. A solar thermal aerogel receiver (STAR) may include an opaque frame defining an opening, an aerogel layer disposed in the opaque frame, with at least a portion of the aerogel layer being proximate the opening, and a heat transfer fluid pipe in thermal contact with and proximate the aerogel layer. A concentrating solar energy system may include a STAR and at least one reflector to direct sunlight to an opening in the STAR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Evelyn N. Wang, Svetlana Boriskina, Lee A. Weinstein, Sungwoo Yang, Bikramjit S. Bhatia, Lin Zhao, Elise M. Strobach, Thomas A. Cooper, David M. Bierman, Xiaopeng Huang, James Loomis
  • Publication number: 20240150184
    Abstract: Silica powder having a dielectric loss tangent of 0.004 or less, in which the number of silicon metal particles in 10 g of the silica powder is 30 or less. A method for producing silica powder, including a heating step of heating silica powder in the presence of chlorine. Silica powder having a low dielectric loss tangent and a low silicon metal content, and a method for producing the silica powder can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIOTSUKI, Takaaki MINAMIKAWA, Koji MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240150185
    Abstract: The invention relates to multi-atomic layer borophene and a method of synthesizing multi-atomic layer borophene. The multi-atomic layer borophene comprises bilayer (BL) borophene. The BL borophene is BL-? borophene comprising two covalently bonded ?-phase borophene monolayers and being metallic and in form of a highly faceted island with a six-fold symmetric Moiré superlattice surrounded by full-coverage intermixed SL v1/5 and v1/6 borophene. The BL-? borophene nucleates and emerges at intersections of multiple SL borophene domains. The synthesizing method includes depositing boron on a substrate with atomically flat terraces at a temperature in an ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) chamber to grow multi-atomic layer borophene beyond a full coverage of single-atomic layer (SL) borophene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Mark C. Hersam, Xiaolong Liu
  • Publication number: 20240150186
    Abstract: Provided is a hexagonal boron nitride powder capable of obtaining a resin composition excellent in solder heat resistance. The solder heat resistance of the resin composition can be improved by using a hexagonal boron nitride powder having a ratio (SW/SN) of a BET specific surface area (SW) measured using water as an adsorbed species to a BET specific surface area (SN) measured using nitrogen as an adsorbed species of 0.07 or less. In addition, by a method for producing a hexagonal boron nitride powder, including a step of heat-treating a coarse hexagonal boron nitride powder having an amount of eluted boron of 60 ppm or less at 1300° C. or higher and 2200° C. or lower in a nitrogen atmosphere having a dew point temperature of ?85° C. or lower, a hexagonal boron nitride powder capable of improving the solder heat resistance of the resin composition can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kakigi, Shota Daiki
  • Publication number: 20240150187
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are for producing ammonia. The method has steps of combining hydrogen gas and nitrogen gas in a wellbore to produce ammonia, and extracting the ammonia from the wellbore. The apparatus has at least one production device for combining hydrogen gas and nitrogen gas to produce ammonia, the production device being configured to be disposed downhole in a wellbore for utilising conditions of temperature and pressure in the wellbore to facilitate the production of the ammonia. A method of processing fluid in a process of producing hydrogen or ammonia is exemplified having steps of performing electrolysis of brine or other electrolyte fluid in the wellbore to produce hydrogen gas, and injecting waste fluid from the electrolysis process into a geological formation of the subsurface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Norce Innovation AS
    Inventor: Eric Cayeux
  • Publication number: 20240150188
    Abstract: A renewable ammonia synthesis process is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Guido RADAELLI
  • Publication number: 20240150189
    Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for manufacturing ammonia, ammonium sulfate, nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, or combinations thereof, and particularly to clean and efficient methods and system configurations for manufacturing ammonia, ammonium sulfate, nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, or combinations thereof using coal, petcoke, asphaltenes and/or hydrocarbon waste products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Henry Gil, Andrew Squires
  • Publication number: 20240150190
    Abstract: Provided is a preparation method for a lithium oxide material, including the following steps: mixing lithium carbonate, a carbon source and a dispersant according to a certain proportion, stirring and dispersing and carrying out wet grinding to obtain an intermediate solution; carrying out spray drying on the intermediate solution to obtain an intermediate, and sintering and pulverizing the intermediate under a protection atmosphere to obtain a lithium oxide material. The prepared lithium oxide is uniform in particle and high in purity. The technical process is simple, and suitable for large-scale industrial production. A prepared lithium oxide material is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jie Sun, Guangchun Cheng, Shiqi Chen, Zhonglin He, Jianhao He
  • Publication number: 20240150191
    Abstract: In a method for recovering lithium hydroxide from a lithium secondary battery, cathode powder is prepared from a cathode of the lithium secondary battery. A cathode active material mixture is prepared by mixing the cathode powder with a calcium compound. The cathode active material mixture is reduced to form a preliminary precursor mixture. A lithium precursor is recovered from the preliminary precursor mixture. Therefore, a lithium precursor can be obtained with high purity without a complicated leaching process or an additional process, which result from a wet-based acid solution process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Young Bin SEO, Ji Yun PARK, Sung Real SON, Sang Ick LEE, Suk Joon HONG, Ji Min KIM
  • Publication number: 20240150192
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with different configurations of gate structures and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a gate opening on the fin structure, forming a metallic oxide layer within the gate opening, forming a first dielectric layer on the metallic oxide layer, forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer, forming a work function metal (WFM) layer on the second dielectric layer, and forming a gate metal fill layer on the WFM layer. The forming the first dielectric layer includes depositing an oxide material with an oxygen areal density less than an oxygen areal density of the metallic oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Pi CHANG, Chung-Liang Cheng, I-Ming Chang, Yao-Sheng Huang, Huang-Lin Chao
  • Publication number: 20240150193
    Abstract: A method to synthesize a silver nanohybrid material. The method includes mixing a nitrate solution with a citrate solution to form silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The method further includes esterifying a first mixture including octadecanoic acid, octadec-9-enoic acid, and octadeca-9,12-dienoic acid with caffeic acid in the presence of an acid catalyst and a solvent to form an unsaturated carboxylic acid mixture including first, second, and third acrylic acid derivatives. The method includes reacting the unsaturated carboxylic acid mixture with ethylene glycol to form a second mixture including first, second, and third ester derivatives. The method further includes mixing the AgNPs with the second mixture to form a third mixture. The method includes evaporating water from the third mixture to form the silver nanohybrid material. The silver nanohybrid material includes a AgNP core covered with the first, second, and third ester derivatives bonded to the AgNP core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventors: Asma Mohammed Zamil ELSHARIF, Monerah Ahmed Hassan ALMARZOOQ
  • Publication number: 20240150194
    Abstract: A low-carbon, high-purity tantalum pentoxide powder has a carbon content of no greater than 15 ppm. A preparation method for the powder includes: (1) adding a fluotantalic acid (H2TaF7) solution into a reaction kettle, controlling the temperature of the reaction kettle at 30-60° C., adding a precipitator until the pH of the reaction solution is 8-10, then stopping introducing ammonia, and aging to obtain a tantalum hydroxide slurry; (2) filtering and washing the slurry obtained in step (1), and then carrying out solid-liquid separation to obtain a tantalum hydroxide filter cake; (3) drying the filter cake obtained in step (2) to obtain white tantalum hydroxide powder; (4) calcining the tantalum hydroxide powder obtained in step (3), crushing and screening the calcined sample to obtain tantalum pentoxide powder; and (5) subjecting the tantalum pentoxide powder obtained in step (4) to heat treatment at a temperature of 1000-1500° C. to obtain the powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NINGXIA ORIENT TANTALUM INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Guo, Jinfeng Zheng, Tao Guo, Hongyuan Liang, Yuewei Cheng, Jingyi Zuo, Li Zhang, Ying Wang, Tong Liu, Hongjie Qin
  • Publication number: 20240150195
    Abstract: A molybdenum compound is represented by a general formula MoXa (in the formula, X is a Group 14 element, a Group 15 element, or a Group 16 element, and a is 0.5, 1, or 2), has the number of functional groups per unit area of 10 per nm2 or less when X is the Group 14 element in the general formula MoXa, has the number of functional groups per unit area of 100 per nm2 or less when X is the Group 15 element or the Group 16 element in the general formula MoXa, and has a particle diameter of 10 nm or more and less than 1,000 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Tabuchi, Kazuaki Hatsusaka, Jianjun Yuan
  • Publication number: 20240150196
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ?-nickel hydroxide doped with aluminum ions, in which the aluminum ions are homogeneously distributed in the crystal lattice of the ?-nickel hydroxide, as well as a method for their production. The present invention further relates to the use of the ?-nickel hydroxide according to the invention as a precursor material for the production of electrode material for lithium-ion batteries and nickel-metal hydride batteries and as a precursor material in the production of Raney nickel catalysts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Armin OLBRICH, Juliane MEESE-MARKTSCHEFFEL, Petra SCHOLZ, Mirja STERNBERG, Matthias JAHN, Rüdiger ZERTANI, Dirk PAULMANN, Henrik TRÜMPELMANN
  • Publication number: 20240150197
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a cobalt-free high-nickel positive electrode material, a preparation method therefor and use thereof. The cobalt-free high-nickel positive electrode material comprises a cobalt-free high-nickel matrix material and a coating layer coated on the cobalt-free high-nickel matrix material, wherein a chemical formula of the cobalt-free high-nickel matrix material is LimNixMnyO2, where 0.2?m?0.8, 0.4?x?0.95, and 0.05?y?0.6; and the coating layer is TiBzO1-z, where 0.2?z?0.8. The cobalt-free high-nickel positive electrode material obtained by means of modification using the coating layer TiBzO1-z has good acid resistance and wear resistance, high mechanical strength and excellent conductivity; and when the cobalt-free high-nickel positive electrode material is used for a lithium ion battery, the high-temperature cycling performance, capacity and initial efficiency of the lithium ion battery are greatly improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Feng GUO, Qiqi QIAO, Zetao SHI, Pengfei WANG
  • Publication number: 20240150198
    Abstract: A method for treating an environmental medium having organic contaminants is disclosed. A mixture is added to the environmental medium. The environmental medium is heated to activate the mixture and to evaporate the organic contaminants within the environmental medium to generate contaminated vapors. The mixture acts as an additional heat source. The mixture includes a metal powder. The contaminated vapors are extracted via a perforated pipe, thereby removing the organic contaminants in a gaseous form from the environmental medium. The organic contaminants have an initial boiling point in range of 50° C. to 400° C., when immersed in water or in contact with moist soil, measured at a standard atmospheric pressure of 1 atm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Gary M. BIRK, David F. ALDEN, John SANKEY
  • Publication number: 20240150199
    Abstract: A de-watering system for liquid industrial waste from an industrial cleaning process is provided. The liquid industrial waste has an initial water content, and comprises detergents and solid waste. A de-watering bed (430) holds the liquid industrial waste. Air in a first zone (420) is enclosed by a transparent structure (410) and is heated by the sun during daytime. A first controllable opening (450) controls a rate of flow of air in the first zone (420). Water from the liquid industrial waste evaporates into heated air in the first zone (420). An air removal conduit (440) allows heated air to vent to the atmosphere. A control system (380) selectively opens the first controllable opening (450), to regulate the flow of air. De-watering continues until a selectable end point, based on residual water content of the waste, or a final concentration of non-water components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Adam Swadling
  • Publication number: 20240150200
    Abstract: A water treatment apparatus for decomposing and removing organic substances in water to be treated includes: a hydrogen peroxide source for storing hydrogen peroxide which is added to the water to be treated; an ultraviolet oxidation device for irradiating ultraviolet light to the water to be treated to which hydrogen peroxide has been added; and a hydrogen peroxide removal device for removing hydrogen peroxide contained in the outlet water from the ultraviolet oxidation device. The hydrogen peroxide removal device includes: an anode and a cathode; and a hydrogen peroxide removal chamber disposed between the anode and the cathode and provided with a metal catalyst with ability of decomposing hydrogen peroxide. A DC current is applied between the anode and cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke SASAKI, Kazushige TAKAHASHI, Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Fumio SUDO
  • Publication number: 20240150201
    Abstract: An ultraviolet light fluid treatment device for irradiating a fluid flowing in a flow path tube with ultraviolet light includes a substrate; a light source disposed on the substrate and configured to emit the ultraviolet light; a light transmissive member disposed between the light source and the flow path tube and configured to transmit the ultraviolet light from the light source; and a support member fixed to the substrate and configured to hold an adsorption member that includes an adsorbent material adsorbing moisture. The support member has a reflective surface. The reflective surface is positioned between the light source and the adsorption member, and is configured to reflect the ultraviolet light from the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240150202
    Abstract: A liquid sterilization device includes: an outer tube through which a fluid to be sterilized flows from one end side to the other end side in the axial direction; a flow-regulating plate that has a plurality of tapered holes having diameters thereof increasing from one end side toward the other end side in the axial direction; and a light source that applies ultraviolet light to a sterilization space on the other end side relative to the flow-regulating plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Hideaki TANAKA, Hiroyuki KATO, Kazuhisa SHINNO
  • Publication number: 20240150203
    Abstract: A method and a system for removing flow assurance chemicals from a produced water stream are provided. The method includes generating a plasma and treating the produced water stream with the plasma to form a treated water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Mohammad Saad AlQahtani, Abdulaziz Y. Ammar, Melhan M. Ben Sultan
  • Publication number: 20240150204
    Abstract: Methods and systems for the purification of an aqueous solution comprising a photocatalyst employed as an anode and a cathode in communication with an electrolyte to achieve a current flow wherein a charge is applied between the cathode and the photocatalytic excited anode a corresponding increase in electron-hole pairs occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: John B. Hayden, Sapanbir S. Thind
  • Publication number: 20240150205
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for the targeted removal and degradation of at least one contaminant from a fluid stream with at least one physical retention unit containing a retention material configured to receive and capture the at least one contaminant from the fluid stream, and at least one electrochemical cell having a first and a second electrode, operatively connected to the physical retention unit, wherein at least one oxidizing agent(s) generated by electro-oxidative reactions of the at least one electrochemical cell are supplied to the physical retention unit to contact and degrade the at least one contaminants retained and captured within the retention material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Macarena A. CATALDO-HERNANDEZ
  • Publication number: 20240150206
    Abstract: Functional aqueous solution supply apparatus (1) has a replenishment water production unit (3) that is supplied with ultrapure water (W) from a pipe conduit (2) and produces functional aqueous solution as washing water (W1), a storage tank (5) that is supplied/replenished with the produced washing water (W1) via a pipe (4), and a circulation pipe conduit (7) that supplies the washing water (W1) from the storage tank (5) to single-wafer type washers (6A, 6B, 6C, and 6D) and returns unused washing water (W1) to the storage tank (5). The circulation pipe conduit (7) is branched into supply pipes (7A, 7B, 7C, and 7D) and is further connected to return pipes (8A, 8B, 8C, and 8D) that communicate into the circulation pipe conduit (7) from the washers (6A, 6B, . . . ), respectively. The operation plan of the washers (6A, 6B, . . . ) is preliminarily transmitted to a control means (9), and this control means (9) can control the replenishment water production unit (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Yuuichi OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240150207
    Abstract: A septic sludge alarm assembly includes a vault buried beneath ground thereby facilitating the vault to be aligned with a septic tank. A sludge trap is positioned within the vault. The sludge trap has an inlet fluidly coupled to a septic tank and an outlet fluidly coupled to a leach field supply. The sludge trap has a lower section facilitating liquid flowing into the inlet to flow downwardly into the lower section. The sludge trap has an upper section inhibiting the liquid from flowing upwardly into the upper section. The sludge trap urges the fluid to flow upwardly into the upper section when the lower section becomes sufficiently filled with sludge. A flow alarm is actuated when the sludge trap urges the fluid to flow upwardly into the upper section thereby facilitating the alert to be alerted that the septic tank needs to be emptied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Joshua Ritchie
  • Publication number: 20240150208
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for consumption of at least one compound from a fluid are disclosed. A method, comprising: providing processed algae for subsequent use in accelerated consumption of at least one compound from a fluid to be treated by exposing algae to a processing fluid depleted in the at least one compound to be consumed by the algae in a processing vessel; adding said processed algae to a contact receptacle containing said fluid to be treated to reduce a concentration of said at least one compound from said fluid to be treated; and recirculating at least a portion of said algae and said processing fluid from said contact receptacle to said processing vessel. This makes the processed algae better adapted to reduce the amount or concentration of the at least one compound within the fluid more quickly than is possible with unprocessed algae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Thea Ekins-Coward, Francesca HO, Jeremy Winter, Daniel Murray
  • Publication number: 20240150209
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses configured to separate waste solids material from a supercritical wastewater feed may separate waste solids material from supercritical reactor effluent in a first region such that the waste solids material collects in a second region fluidically interposed between a first valve in an open state and a second valve in a closed state, the first valve being fluidically interposed between the first region and the second region. In addition, the first and second valves may be toggled between open and closed states according to a defined duty cycle such that the waste solids material is caused, at least in part, to be discharged from the second region via the second valve in response to the first valve being in a closed state and the second valve being in an open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Matthew Brandon Stroud
  • Publication number: 20240150210
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for organic waste treatment are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of adding a sorbent to a waste product to form a fluid matrix which may then be subjected to a compressive force to dewater the matrix. Thermal desorption and pasteurisation of the matrix may then be carried out. The sorbent added is draff, which may be obtained as a by-product from various industries, including the distillation of spirits. The apparatus comprises generally a dewatering compressor, but may also include a thermal desorption unit, which may thermally dewater the matrix and pasteurise it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEM ENERGY LIMITED
    Inventors: William Alexander Beveridge, Leigh Cassidey
  • Publication number: 20240150211
    Abstract: A digestion system includes: a digestion tank that digests organic matter in excess sludge by anaerobic bacteria; a first piping that supplies the excess sludge to the digestion tank; a second piping that has a larger pipe diameter than a pipe diameter of the first piping; a first reservoir tank that communicates with each of the first piping and the second piping, and that stores excess sludge transported by the second piping; a transporting unit that transports the excess sludge stored in the first reservoir tank to the digestion tank via the first piping, continuously for a predetermined period; and a heater that heats the excess sludge in the first piping by a fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: METAWATER Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato FUJIWARA, Takashi OMOTE
  • Publication number: 20240150212
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a set of mass-produced glass containers, a raw material composition, and a set of resulting mass-produced glass containers, wherein the method comprises obtaining successive batches of raw material including, in a certain percentage of at least 80% by weight, a mixture of, for the most part, predominantly transparent pieces of recovered post-consumer glass and with a heterogeneous and variable chromatic composition in successive batches, melting the successive batches of raw material, and automatically manufacturing the set of predominantly transparent mass-produced containers with an identical shape, automatically detecting and rejecting the manufactured containers exhibiting dimensional and/or safety defects causing alterations in the shape and/or geometry of the container above predefined tolerances, ignoring the chromatic and/or aesthetic manufacturing defects, and filling all the containers from the set of non-rejected mass-produced containers with the s
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Estal Packaging, S.A.
    Inventor: Gerard ALBERTÍ GASCONS
  • Publication number: 20240150213
    Abstract: A multiple mold (42) for production of at least two glass-ceramic blanks. The glass-ceramic blanks are for dental purposes and are produced from at least two powder blanks by hot pressing. The multiple mold (42) includes a frame (48) that defines at least sections of a receiving volume (50) for the at least two powder blanks. Additionally provided is a separating element (52) which is disposed within the receiving volume (50) and divides the receiving volume (50) into at least two subvolumes, each of which is designed to accommodate one of the at least two powder blanks. Also described are the use of the multiple mold (42) for production of a glass-ceramic blank for dental purposes, a compression apparatus and a continuous system for production of glass-ceramic blanks for dental purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Lars ARNOLD, Walter ENTNER
  • Publication number: 20240150214
    Abstract: A glass article includes a first surface; a second surface opposed to the first surface; a side surface connecting the first surface to the second surface; a first surface compressive region extending from the first surface to a first depth; a second surface compressive region extending from the second surface to a second depth; and a side compressive region extending from the side surface to a third depth, where the first surface and the side surface are non-tin surfaces, the second surface is a tin surface, and a maximum compressive stress of the second surface compressive region is greater than a maximum compressive stress of the first surface compressive region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Su Jin SUNG, Byung Hoon KANG, Seung KIM, Young Ok PARK, Gyu In SHIM
  • Publication number: 20240150215
    Abstract: A sheet-like glass element has a thickness less than or equal to 0.5 mm and an edge with an edge face intersecting opposite glass faces along two edge lines. The edge face has strip-like sections with each one adjoining a respective one of the edge lines. The strip-like sections interface along a boundary line that extends between the edge lines. The strip-like sections have a first section with a width ranging from 2 ?m to 8 ?m and have a first waviness that is lower than a second waviness of a second strip-like section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Markus Heiss-Chouquet, Matthias Jotz, Clemens Ottermann
  • Publication number: 20240150216
    Abstract: A laminated glazing having at least one cut-out and a method for cutting a laminated glazing, particularly for a motor vehicle, including at least a first glass sheet, a second glass assembled by an interlayer including at least one sheet of polymer material, the glazing further including an insert having a hole delimited by an inner contour, the insert being housed in a recess provided in the interlayer, the method including detecting, by a vision device, the inner contour; calculating a cutting path to be traveled based on the detection of the inner contour; and cutting, by a laser source having a beam, the first glass sheet based on the calculated cutting path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Thibault RAPENNE, Alexandre FESSEMAZ, Tobias NIELSEN
  • Publication number: 20240150217
    Abstract: A lathe system for producing an optical fiber preform, the lathe system including a rotating bait rod, a burner box configured to deposit silica-containing soot on the rotating bait rod, a hood configured to direct airflow within the lathe system through an exhaust, and a perforated floor configured to expel air within the lathe system as a plurality of air jets from a bottom portion of the lathe system to a top portion of the lathe system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Kirk Patton Bumgarner, Stephen Mitchell Carlton, Elena Alekseevna Chizhova-Notkina, Robert James Davis, Nikolay Anatolyevich Panin, Bradley Kent Shepard
  • Publication number: 20240150218
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a preform, the method including positioning at least one glass tube in a glass outer cladding to form a preform precursor, the glass tube comprising a first open end and a second open end, forming a preform from the preform precursor, and thermally treating at least one of the preform precursor and the preform. The thermally treating including sealing the first open end and the second open end of the glass tube to form a closed tube and heating and/or cooling the glass tube to manipulate gas pressure within the closed glass tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Paulo Clovis Dainese, JR., Matthew Ryan Drake, Richard Michael Fiacco, Brian Lee Harper, Ming-Jun Li, Silver Nyambo, Matthew John Rice, Jeffery Scott Stone, Matthew Artus Tuggle
  • Publication number: 20240150219
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hollow core optical fiber, the method including positioning at least one glass tube in a glass outer cladding to form a preform precursor, the glass tube comprising a first open end and a second open end, and forming a preform from the preform precursor. The method further including drawing the preform into a hollow core optical fiber and, while drawing the preform, thermally treating the preform to manipulate gas pressure within the glass tube by at least one of (i) heating at least a portion of the preform to increase gas pressure within the glass tube and (ii) cooling at least a portion of the preform to decrease gas pressure within the glass tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Paulo Clovis Dainese, Jr., Sushmit Sunil Kumar Goyal, Kam Chuen Ng, Matthew Artus Tuggle
  • Publication number: 20240150220
    Abstract: A composition includes: 30 mol % to 60 mol % SiO2; 15 mol % to 35 mol % Al2O3; 5 mol % to 25 mol % Y2O3; 0 mol % to 20 mol % TiO2; and 0 mol % to 25 mol % R2O, such that R2O is the sum of Na2O, K2O, Li2O, Rb2O, and Cs2O.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell, Steven Alvin Tietje
  • Publication number: 20240150221
    Abstract: A cover substrate for an electronic device including greater than or equal to 1% by weight post-consumer recycled cover substrate. A method of forming the cover substrate including the steps of (i) determining the composition of the post-consumer recycled cover substrate, (ii) determining the maximum amount of the post-consumer recycled cover substrate that can be added to a predetermined batch without causing the resulting cover substrate to fall out of specification, and (iii) forming the cover substrate from the combined recycled post-consumer cover substrate and the predetermined batch. Additionally, a method that includes steps of (i) determining the composition of the post-consumer recycled cover substrate, (ii) determining a target weight percentage of the post-consumer recycled cover substrate in a cover substrate, and (iii) determining weight percentages of other oxides to be added to the target weight percentage for the resulting combination to produce the cover substrate with a desired composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Carol Ann Click, Mathieu Gerard Jacques Hubert
  • Publication number: 20240150222
    Abstract: A glass composition comprises: 50.0 mol % to 70.0 mol % SiO2; 10.0 mol % to 25.0 mol % Al2O3; 0.0 mol % to 5.0 mol % P2O3; 0.0 mol % to 10.0 mol % B2O3; 5.0 mol % to 15.0 mol % Li2O; 1.0 mol % to 15.0 mol % Na2O; and 0.0 mol % to 1.0 mol % K2O. The sum of all alkali oxides, R2O, present in the glass composition may be in the range from greater than or equal to 11.0 mol % to less than or equal to 23.0 mol %. The sum of Al2O3 and R2O present in the glass composition may be in the range from greater than or equal to 26.0 mol % to less than or equal to 40.0 mol %. The glass composition may satisfy the relationship ?0.1<(Al2O3?(R2O+RO))/Li2O<0.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Shuo Cui, Xiaoju Guo, Peter Joseph Lezzi, Jian Luo
  • Publication number: 20240150223
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a heater, a component of the heater including a coating, the coating being formed from a glass composition including: between about 30 percent by weight and about 70 percent by weight silicon oxide, between about 0.1 percent by weight and about 10 percent by weight aluminium oxide, between about 2 percent by weight and about 30 percent by weight boron oxide, between about 2 percent by weight and about 40 percent by weight lithium oxide, between about 0.1 percent by weight and about 5 percent by weight magnesium oxide, and one or more of calcium oxide, gallium oxide, potassium oxide, samarium oxide, strontium oxide, and titanium oxide. An aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating article and the aerosol-generating device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Mkhitar HOVHANNISYAN, Rafael HOVHANNISYAN, Sergey VERLINSKI
  • Publication number: 20240150224
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass ceramic including: a lithium disilicate-based crystal; and an SiO2-based crystal, in which a content of the lithium disilicate-based crystal and a content of the SiO2-based crystal are both equal to or greater than a content of crystal other than the lithium disilicate-based crystal and the SiO2-based crystal on a mass basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki KANEHARA, Yutaka KUROIWA, Shusaku AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20240150225
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass ceramic, in which a crystal contained in the largest amount on a mass basis is a lithium disilicate-based crystal, and a ratio of Li ions in Li ion sites of the lithium disilicate-based crystal is less than 95%. The glass ceramic may have a light transmittance in terms of a thickness of 0.7 mm of 85% or more in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 1,000 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki KANEHARA, Yutaka KUROIWA, Shusaku AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20240150226
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass ceramic, in which a crystal contained in the largest amount on a mass basis is a lithium disilicate-based crystal, and a difference obtained by subtracting a ratio (mass %) of a content of a crystal contained in the second largest amount on a mass basis from a ratio (mass %) of a content of the lithium disilicate-based crystal is 20 mass % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki KANEHARA, Yutaka KUROIWA, Shusaku AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20240150227
    Abstract: An optical fiber includes a core portion made of silica-based glass; and a cladding portion made of silica-based glass having lower maximum refractive index than the core portion, the cladding portion surrounding an outer periphery of the core portion. The core portion is doped with an alkali metal element and chlorine. An average concentration of chlorine is higher than 800 atomic ppm on a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the core portion. A region doped with the alkali metal element is larger than a region doped with chlorine at 800 atomic ppm or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori MUKASA, Keiichi AISO
  • Publication number: 20240150228
    Abstract: A method for producing a mineral wool product includes contacting mineral fibres with a formaldehyde-free binder composition for mineral fibres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Hjelmgaard
  • Publication number: 20240150229
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a substrate with high versatility, a method for producing the substrate, and a method for producing a unit cell using the substrate. The problem is solved by providing a substrate comprising a plurality of alkali metal azide spots on a substantially flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, TOYOBO MC Corporation
    Inventors: Motoaki HARA, Yuichiro YANO, Tetsuya IDO, Hikaru TANAKA, Kazutake HAGIYA, Yasuhiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20240150230
    Abstract: A coating composition, coating glass and a method for preparation thereof, and a cooking appliance including the coating class are described. The coating composition includes a coating material and a heat conductive oxide nano powder that is 5 to 10 wt % with respect to a weight of the coating material. The coating composition provides an excellent infrared reflective function, a high transmittance, and an excellent cleaning performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Taeho KIM, Dongwan SEO, Yongsoo LEE, Taehee KIM, Ju Hyeong KIM, Woon-Jin CHUNG, Hansol LEE, In-Gun KIM
  • Publication number: 20240150231
    Abstract: A cover member according to the present invention is a cover member configured to cover a display device, and includes a glass plate having a first surface and a second surface, and a single functional film formed on the first surface. The functional film includes an inorganic oxide that forms three-dimensional network bonds, inorganic oxide microparticles containing the same element as the inorganic oxide, and antibacterial metal ions. Protrusions and depressions are formed on a surface of the functional film by the inorganic oxide microparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Nobuki IWAI