Frit Plus Material Other Than Glass (e.g., Color, Opacifier, Mill Additions, Etc.) Patents (Class 501/17)
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Patent number: 6514891Abstract: The present invention related to a dielectric composition of a solid state display. The dielectric composition can be P2O5—ZnO-BaO glass, SiO2—ZnO-Ba2O3 glass of PbO—ZnO—B2O3 glass, and an oxide filler with a binary compound including PbTiO3 or a ternary compound including PbTiO3 and PbZrO3.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2000Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Yoon Kwan Lee
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Publication number: 20030012962Abstract: The invention relates to a novel method of enameling substrates comprised of glass or vitroceramic material, according to which method the enamel composition contains graphite as a component, with the aim of improving the mechanical properties of the enameled substrate and/or conferring anti-adhesive properties on the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Applicant: Saint-Gobain VitrageInventor: Andre Beyrle
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Patent number: 6498116Abstract: Coating and filler materials for localized thermal processing of glazed ceramics and other brittle and low thermal conductivity materials. The coating materials include oxide compositions that exhibit coefficients of thermal expansion which are less than about 8×10−6/° C. and glass transition temperatures which are less than about 400° C. The filler materials include particulate oxide materials which do not substantially react during localized thermal processing of glazed ceramics and other brittle and low thermal conductivity materials. The coating and filler materials are useable together as a composite material for repairing cavities having depths greater than about 2 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2000Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Assignee: Rutgers, the State UniversityInventors: Richard Long Lehman, Yuya Umezu, Jie Li, Daniel Ely Murnick, James Colaizzi
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Patent number: 6485557Abstract: Manganese vanadium oxides are used as pigments. The mnanganese vanadium oxide pigments are of the formula Mn2V2O7. The, pigments are useful as colorants, and also possess improved reflectance characteristics in the infrared region, thereby reducing IR-induced heat buildup.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2000Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: DMCInventor: Daniel Russell Swiler
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Patent number: 6475939Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for use in forming an adherent, brilliant white, chemically and mechanically resistant porcelain enamel coating on aluminized steel. The composition includes a self-opacifying glass frit component which includes high levels of titanium dioxide, lithium oxide, sodium oxide, and potassium oxide. The composition is able to produce a brilliant white finish on aluminized steel in one coat without the addition of titanium oxide during milling.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2000Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: Ferro France - S.A.R.L.Inventors: Thierry Souchard, Alain Aronica
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Publication number: 20020137619Abstract: A glass, in particular a glass powder, is fused from a starting mixture containing 38 wt % to 48 wt % SiO2, 15 wt % to 19 wt % Al2O3, 4.5 wt % to 11 wt % TiO2, 0 wt % to 1.5 wt % Na2O, 0 wt % to 1.5 wt % K2O and 23 wt % to 30 wt % CaO. In addition, a glass powder mixture contains a first such glass powder having a mean particle size of 150 &mgr;m to 250 &mgr;m and a second such glass powder having a mean particle size of less than 100 &mgr;m, in particular from 10 &mgr;m to 70 &mgr;m, as well as carbon black powder and an organic binder. This glass or glass powder mixture is especially suitable for producing a glass ceramic, in particular in the form of a resistor seal and/or a gas-tight glass ceramic solder in a spark plug.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2002Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventors: Heinz Geier, Rudolf Poliner, Ulrich Eisele, Peter Wange
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Patent number: 6455453Abstract: A low-temperature sinterable ceramic composition which can be simultaneously sintered with a low melting point metal, such as silver or copper, and which has a preferable combination of high strength and superior electrical characteristics. The low-temperature sinterable ceramic composition is formed by mixing a ceramic component comprising an MgO crystal phase and an MgAl2O4 crystal phase and a glass component composed of 13 to 50 wt % silicon oxide, 3 to 30 wt % boron oxide, and 40 to 80 wt % alkaline earth oxide.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Osamu Chikagawa
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Patent number: 6447595Abstract: Systems and methods of making and using fine particle materials in pigment blends and for using the aforementioned pigment blends in paint, coating, or coloring compositions are provided. This invention further provides systems and methods of enhancing the visual appearance of a variety of substrates by introducing a paint, coating, or coloring composition to the substrate. The fine particle materials of the present invention have a substantially random geometric shape, a particle size less than about 100 microns, and help provide both functional and visual enhancing properties to compositions and substrates containing these fine particle materials.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Ameritech Holdings CorporationInventors: Guido Greco, Vincent Pernice, Barry E. Scheetz
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Publication number: 20020119884Abstract: Glass frit compositions, calculated in mole percent on an oxide basis, consisting essentially of 24.5 to 29.0% P2O5; 1.0 to 5.0% B2O3; 1.0 to 2.0% Al2O3; and sufficient amounts of SnO and ZnO (51.5 to 66.5% SnO, and 5.0-12.0% ZnO), wherein the molar ratio of SnO:ZnO is in the range of about 5.0:1 to 12: 1, and 0.0 to 2.0% SiO2. The glass compositions exhibit, under NMR spectroscopic analysis of 11B nuclei, a signal containing at least two peaks at a chemical shift in the range of approximately −18 to −25 ppm. The frit compositions exhibit long term stability, durability, and resistance to attack against moisture in high temperature and humidity conditions and are capable of attaching optical fiber Bragg gratings without the use of a hermetic chamber and the like. An optoelectronic device that employs a sealing material that comprises a frit made from the glass compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2000Publication date: August 29, 2002Inventors: Carol L. Buhrmaster, Robert Morena, Kamjula P. Reddy, Randall E. Youngman
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Patent number: 6432853Abstract: The present invention is directed at a leaded copper boroaluminosilicate glass, having coefficients of thermal expansion (CTES) of between 25-55×10−7/°C. (over a range of 25-300° C.) and a softening point in the range of 550-725° C., being suitable for use as a sealing glass, especially for borosilicate glasses, and having a composition consisting essentially, in terms of weight percent on an oxide basis, of 27-60 SiO2, 3-14 Al2O3, 9-28 B2O3, 0.0-10 R2O, 0.1-40 PbO, 0.1-11 CuO, where R2O is an alkali oxide selected from the group consisting of Li2O, Na2O, K2O, Rb2O and Cs2O.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2000Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: George B. Hares, Dianna M. Young
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Patent number: 6432852Abstract: Systems and methods are described for coated glass work, compositions and multilayer coatings. A multilayer coated glass work includes: a substrate; and a composition coupled to the substrate, the composition defining a multilayer coating coupled to the substrate. Each of a plurality of sublayers that compose the multilayer coating includes, when initially coupled to the substrate, glass powder, water and methyl cellulose. Multi-layer coated colored printed glass panels based on the invention do not break during firing. The composition as prepared is acid-free, non-toxic, odorless, and colorless. The composition has a long shelf life, a good consistency similar to a screen printing ink and offers an adhesive surface on which to apply additional colored glass powder evenly. The invention results in clear, detailed, dense and brilliant colored images. The invention makes it possible to produce editioned fine art pieces with a printed design inside of glass.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1999Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Inventor: Keiko Hara
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Patent number: 6428614Abstract: Opaque porcelains for use with metal cores in the manufacture of PFM restorations. The porcelains exhibit a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) substantially equal to or slightly above the CTE of the metal to which it is applied. The porcelains exhibit a CTE equal to or up to about 1.5×10−6/° C. higher than the dental alloys to which they are applied as the opaque. The porcelains are fabricated from a mixture of two frit compositions. A high expansion, leucite containing frit is combined with a low melting glass frit to provide a porcelain having an expansion in the range of 16.9 to about 18×10−6/° C. in the temperature range of 25°-500° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2000Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: Jeneric/Pentron, Inc.Inventors: Dmitri Brodkin, Carlino Panzera, Paul Panzera
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Patent number: 6429161Abstract: The present invention provides a new and improved porcelain enamel coating composition for use in forming a self-cleanable coating upon aluminized steel. The coating composition comprises a glass component having a composition comprising from about 30% to about 55% SiO2, from about 11% to about 20% TiO2, from about 0% to about 10% B2O3, from about 20% to about 40% alkali metal oxides, less than about 5% rare earth metal oxides, from about 0% to about 10% CaO, from about 0% to about 10% BaO, from about 0% to about 10% MnO, from about 2% to about 12% CuO, from about 0% to about 10% Sb2O3, from about 1.5% to about 10% Fe2O3, from about 0% to about 10% SnO2, from about 0% to about 10% P2O5, less than about 2% MoO3, and less than about 5% V2O5.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2000Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: Ferro France S.A.R.L.Inventors: Thierry Souchard, Alain Aronica
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Patent number: 6407020Abstract: There is disclosed a ceramics composition mainly comprising Ba-based glass and a quartz. The content of Ba-based glass is in a range of 55.0 to 69.4 wt %, the content of a quartz is in a range of 12.1 to 40.2 wt %, and the content of Al2O3 is 24.5 wt % or less. For the components of Ba-based glass, in terms of oxides, the content of BaO is in a range of 19 to 29 mol %, the content of Si02 is in a range of 62 to 72 mol %, the content of Al2O3 is in a range of 6 to 11 mol %, and the content of B2O3 per the total of 100 mol of BaO, SiO2 and Al2O3 is in a range of 3 to 7 mol. Therefore, the sintering can be performed at a temperature equal to or less than the melting point of Ag, Cu, or an alloy mainly containing Ag or Cu, dielectric constant is low, but linear expansion coefficient is high, and the co-firing can be realized with other dielectric material and magnetic material which can be sintered at a low temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2000Date of Patent: June 18, 2002Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Hiroshige Ohkawa, Toshio Sakurai
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Patent number: 6403506Abstract: The invention relates to a glass powder, where at least one oxidizing agent or one reducing agent is added to the glass powder. The glass powder is preferably used as dental glass powder.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2000Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: Schott GlasInventors: Susanne Kessler, Hartmut Paschke, Hans-Werner Beudt, Susanne Kiermayer
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Patent number: 6399230Abstract: Resistors can be screen printed onto a green tape stack from a resistor ink comprising ruthenium oxide and a sufficient amount of a low melting temperature glass so that the resultant mixture fires at a temperature of 850-900° C. A conductive layer, as of silver, terminates the screen printed resistor layer and one or two green tapes are applied over the resistor layer to embed the resistors during firing. A final conductive layer is applied after firing.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1999Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignees: Sarnoff Corporation, Sharp CorporationInventors: Ellen Schwartz Tormey, Ashok Narayan Prabhu, Ponnusamy Palinasamy
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Publication number: 20020061809Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for use in forming a white porcelain enamel coating on aluminized or galvanized steel. The composition according to the present invention includes a solids portion including a glass component and a white pigment. The glass component includes one or more glass frits including by weight from about 30% to 50% P2O5, from about 15% to about 30% Al2O3, from about 8% to about 40% X2O where X=Na and/or K, up to about 30% TiO2, up to about 12% B2O3, up to about 10% K2O, up to about 10% ZnO, up to about 8% SiO2, up to about 7% La2O3, up to about 5% Li2O, and up to about 15% F. The white pigment include TiO2.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2001Publication date: May 23, 2002Applicant: Ferro France S.A.R.L.Inventors: Alain Aronica, Emmanuel Marinho, David Coutouly, Luc Allemeersch, Christophe Reb
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Patent number: 6387832Abstract: Transition metal NZP type compounds are synthesized. Examples of these compounds include MnZr4(PO4)6, FeZr4(PO4)6, CoZr4(PO4)6, NiZr4(PO4)6, and CuZr4(PO4)6. These compounds are synthesized by the Xerogel process. These transition metal NZP type compounds can be used as colorants in applications such as ceramic glazes where high thermal stability of the colorant is important.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2000Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Sridhar Komarneni, William W. Gould
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Patent number: 6387513Abstract: The present invention relates to a more easily recyclable enamel composition which includes at least one glass frit and includes, as pigment(s), at least one or more manganese compounds, this composition furthermore having a melting temperature below 750° C. The invention also relates to an enamelling process using this composition, as well as to the enamelled products obtained.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1999Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Saint Gobain VitrageInventors: André Beyrle, Aline DeJean, Daniel Dages, Anne-Valentine Veret-Lemarinier
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Patent number: 6383961Abstract: A composition of a dielectric for a plasma display panel in user for fabricating a dielectric thick film for a front substrate having a low sintering temperature, a low thermal expensive coefficient, a high dielectric constant and a high withstand voltage. The composition of a dielectric is a P2O5—ZnO—PbO glass having composition ratios of 30˜60 wt % of P2O5, 5˜40 wt % of PbO, 0˜5 wt % of MgO, 0˜5 wt % of CaO, 0˜10 wt % of La2O3, 0˜5 wt % of SrO, 1˜5 wt % of Al2O3, 0˜2 wt % of Sb2O3, 0˜2 wt % of As2O3, 5˜25 wt % of BaO, and 0˜5 wt % of TeO2.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Byung-Gil Ryu
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Patent number: 6376400Abstract: A low melting point glass for covering electrodes, consisting, as represented by mass percentage based on the following oxides, essentially of: Mass percentage PbO 20 to 60%, Bi2O3 0 to 30%, B2O3 20 to 55%, SiO2 0 to 10%, Al2O3 0 to 15%, MgO + CaO 0 to 35%, SrO 0 to 35%, BaO 0 to 35%, ZnO 0 to 8%.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2000Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Satoshi Fujimine, Siro Ootaki, Tsuneo Manabe, Kazuhiko Yamanaka, Masamichi Tanida, Yumiko Aoki
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Publication number: 20020045016Abstract: The present invention relates to a container for high-grade natural products and a glass composition for such a container. Natural products, such as natural dietary supplements, phyto-therapeutic agents, etheric oils or homeopathic medicines, are high-grade products and can be stored in such a container. Key features of the container, and the glass material from which it is made, include its ability substantially to block visible light but to allow permeation of infrared and ultraviolet light.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Inventors: Marcus Rohrer, Yves Kraushaar
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Patent number: 6362119Abstract: A barium borosilicate glass which consists essentially of, as represented by mass% based on the following oxides: B2O3 5 to 35%, SiO2 0.5 to 30%, BaO 25 to 75%, Al2O3 0.5 to 13%, SnO2 0 to 2%, CeO2 0 to 2%, MgO + CaO + SrO 0 to 10%, ZnO 0 to 20%, TiO2 0 to 5%, ZrO2 0 to 5%, Li2O 0 to 5%, Na2O 0 to 5%, and K2O 0 to 5%.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventor: Jiro Chiba
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Patent number: 6355185Abstract: A piezoelectric paste which is used for forming a piezoelectric thick film by the thick film forming technique, which can be burned at a relative low temperature and which can form a piezoelectric film having good polarizability and high piezoelectricity while maintaining the ferroelectricity possessed by a piezoelectric crystal powder contained in the piezoelectric paste contains the piezoelectric crystal powder containing a Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 system ceramic, a crystallized glass powder and an organic vehicle, wherein the crystallized glass powder used precipitates a Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 system solid solution phase by heat treatment.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Teppei Kubota
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Publication number: 20020019303Abstract: A sealing material for electric parts containing a lead-free tin silicate-phosphate glass of 50-100 volume percents and refractory fillers of the balance. The lead free tin silicate-phosphate glass consists essentially of, by molecular percent, 30-80% SnO, 5.5-20% SiO2, and 10-50% P2O5. The glass may contain at least one of glass stabilizing elements, said glass stabilizing elements including 3-25% ZnO, 0-4.9% B2O3, 0-5% Al2O3, 0-10% WO3, 0-10% MoO3, 0-10% Nb2O5, 0-10% TiO2, 0-10% ZrO2, 0-15% R2O (R is Li, Na, K, and/or Cs), 0-5% CuO, 0-5% MnO, 0-10% R′O (R′ is Mg, Ca, Sr and/or Ba), a total content of at least one of the glass stabilizing elements being up to 40%.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2001Publication date: February 14, 2002Applicant: NIPPON ELECTRIC GALSS CO., LTD.Inventor: Toshio Yamanaka
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Patent number: 6346493Abstract: The present invention provides a new and improved lead-free and cadmium-free glass enamel composition that displays good flow at traditional glass enamel firing temperatures and upon firing produces an enamel finish that displays no cracking, good chemical resistance, good weatherability, and improved color values. The glass enamel composition of the present invention includes a glass component, an oxidizer, a pigment system, and optional vehicles and fillers. The presence of the oxidizer in the composition, which can be included as part of the glass component, as a separately added material, or both, improves the color values of the fired enamel as compared to enamels formed using similar glass enamel compositions having no oxidizer present.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1999Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Ferro CorporationInventors: Galina Kniajer, Jeffrey David Cosby, Ivan H. Joyce, Srinivasan Sridharan, John J. Maloney
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Patent number: 6309989Abstract: A tin-borophosphate glass of the present invention has main components of SnO, B2O3, and P2O5, consists essentially of, by mole % representation, 30-70% SnO, 5-30% B2O3, and 24-45% (24% exclusive) P2O5, and satisfies a condition of B2O3/P2O5≧0.20 by mole ratio.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1999Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takemi Kikutani
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Patent number: 6306783Abstract: A tin borophosphate glass for use in sealing materials includes, by mole, 30 to 80% of SnO, 5 to 60% of B2O3, and 5 to 24% of P2O5 as main components. The glass is free of lead but is of equal quality to those of conventional lead-containing sealing glasses. The glass can provide a satisfactory sealing material.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshio Yamanaka
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Patent number: 6294009Abstract: The invention relates to tantalum (V) nitride pigments with improved color values compared with predisclosed products, a process for producing such pigments and their use. According to the invention, pigments having an a* color value in the CIE Lab system of equal to/greater than 45, in particular equal to/greater than 50, are obtainable by after-treating a tantalum (V) nitride produced in a known manner in a salt melt at 100 to 600° C., in particular 300 to 500° C., in the course of 1 to 100 minutes, in particular 5 to 60 minutes. Preferably, the after treatment is carried out in an alkali-metal nitrate melt. The pigments can be used to color plastics and paints, and also enamel, glass and porcelain decorations.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1999Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: dmcInventors: Hans-Peter Letschert, Wilfried Voigt
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Patent number: 6291092Abstract: These sealing glass frits are a class of frits that seal in the intermediate temperature range of 600°-800° C. The frits are based on high strain point/high CTE alkali-zinc-silicate glass compositions. The sealing frits are useful in planar solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC).Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Jeffrey T. Kohli, Robert Morena
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Patent number: 6287996Abstract: A ceramic color composition which comprises from 5 to 40 wt % of a heat-resistant color pigment powder, from 50 to 94.5 wt % of a glass powder, from 0 to 25 wt % of a refractory filler, and from 0.1 to 40 wt % of at least one whisker-like refractory filler selected from the group consisting of aluminum borate whiskers, &agr;-alumina whiskers, potassium titanate whiskers, zinc oxide whiskers, Na2Ca2P2O18 whiskers, magnesium oxide whiskers, magnesium borate whiskers, basic magnesium sulfate (MgSO4.5MgO.8H2O) whiskers and titanium diboride whiskers.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1999Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.Inventors: Jiro Chiba, Takaji Shimosaka, Kenji Mukai, Shuji Taguchi, Mineyuki Ishida, Hitoshi Onoda, Hiroshi Usui, Tsuneo Manabe
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Patent number: 6287995Abstract: A sealing glass composition for bonding the upper plate and the lower plate of a flat panel display device is described. The sealing glass composition includes a low melting point glass containing PbO of less than 20% and having a sintering temperature of less than 500° C. The sealing glass composition contains a low component of PbO to thereby decrease environmental contamination and increase work efficiency. Also, the sealing glass prevents the deformation and cracking of a substrate caused by thermal and mechanical stress and reduces the sintering temperature to thereby enhance the airtightness of the sealing glass.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1999Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Yoon Kwan Lee
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Patent number: 6281152Abstract: A conventional black oxide colorant used for the shielding coat membrane of the D2R type discharge lamps for automobiles has a problem that its wettablity with the granulated glass is not good so that a strong membrane is difficult to be obtained. A paint for the shielding coat membrane comprises polycrystalline silica and Mn-doped ferric oxide as a black colorant, which has a good wettability with the granulated glass and a shielding characteristics so as to improve the membrane strength, thereby providing a lamp with the shielding coat membrane that passes all evaluation test in the view point of the membrane strength, the light transmissivity, the discoloration, the suppression of pealing-off and cracking.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo Mifune, Masaru Ikeda
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Patent number: 6271158Abstract: A sealant for a solid oxide fuel cell comprises a glass material that acts as a matrix, with the glass material being present between about 40 to 90 wt. %. A gap-filler material is also in the sealant and selected from the group consisting of a metal material and a ceramic material, with the gap-filler material being present between about 10 to 60 wt. %. The sealant can seal a gap as large as about 3 mm.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1999Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.Inventors: Liang A. Xue, James Piascik, Jean Yamanis, Gregory Lear, James Powers, Daniel Dalfonzo
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Patent number: 6255239Abstract: Lead-free alkali metal-free bismuth-borosilicate glass compositions are disclosed. These compositions are useful in preparing glass frits which are employed in glass enamel compositions which, in turn, are used to prepare glass enamel pastes. The glass enamel pastes can be coated on non-porous substrates and fused to form decorative and functional coatings on the substrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1998Date of Patent: July 3, 2001Assignee: Cerdec CorporationInventor: George E. Sakoske
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Patent number: 6206958Abstract: Porcelain compositions of the present invention comprises particulate of one or more glass or glass-ceramic powder components. Additionally, one or more opacifing agents, pigments, fluorescing agents and the like may be included in the composition. Based on volume percent, the particulate has a d10 of from about 1.1 and about 1.8 microns; a d50 of from about 3 to about 6 microns; a d90 of from about 8 to about 16 microns; and about 1.0 to about 4.0% by volume of the particulate has a particle size greater than or equal to about 20 microns. The mean particle size is preferably in the range of about 3.0 microns to about 7.5 microns.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: Jeneric/Pentron, IncorporatedInventors: Paul Panzera, Jana N. Pruden, Dmitri Brodkin, Lisa M. Kaiser, Richard A. Brightly, Carlino Panzera
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Patent number: 6207285Abstract: A ceramic enamel composition consists of an oxide frit, a bismuth silicate seed material, a pigment, and a vehicle. A preferred bismuth silicate seed material is selected from crystalline Bi12SiO20, Bi4(SiO4)3, and Bi2SiO5, and mixtures thereof. Upon firing a glass substrate coated with the enamel, components of the enamel adhere to the substrate. The glass can be formed with a die to a desired shape with reduced sticking of the coated region to the die. The ceramic enamel is particularly useful in providing a colored border around automotive glass, which enhances appearance and reduces degradation of adhesives by ultraviolet radiation.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: Cerdec CorporationInventors: George E. Sakoske, Joseph W. Ryan
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Patent number: 6187429Abstract: For obtaining firmly adhering decorative layers of ceramic colors applied to glass or glass ceramic substrates, prior to stoving, optically inactive inorganic substances, e.g., mica, which are chemically inert with respect to the base enamel and the pigments are added to the base enamel together with the pigments in fine-particle form, e.g., 20-40 &mgr;m, in a quantity of 1-20 wt. %.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1994Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Schott GlasswerkeInventors: Waldemar Weinberg, Herwig Scheidler
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Patent number: 6187701Abstract: Provided is a porcelain which is suitable as a dental porcelain capable of being fired on a ceramics core and has a low firing temperature and a low thermal expansion coefficient and which is excellent in a chemical durability. The above dental porcelain comprises glass containing silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, boron oxide, zinc oxide, sodium oxide and lithium oxide as principal components. The contents of these respective components in the above glass are 57 to 65% by weight of SiO2, 8 to 18% by weight of Al2O3, 15 to 25% by weight of B2O3, 0.1 to 2% by weight of ZnO, 3 to 7% by weight of Na2O and 2 to 8% by weight of Li2O respectively in terms of a percent by weight based on the total of the respective components when the respective components are reduced to SiO2, Al2O3, B2O3, ZnO, Na2O and Li2O respectively. The particularly preferred dental porcelain comprises glass having a thermal expansion coefficient of 6.0×10−6 (1/°C.) or less as a principal structural component.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1999Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Tokuyama CorporationInventors: Masato Sekino, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Osamu Iwamoto, Masaaki Ushioda
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Patent number: 6171383Abstract: Bismuth manganese oxide green pigments are used as additives to various materials such as plastics, plastic or organic coating compositions, glass and ceramic coating compositions, and the like. The green bismuth manganese oxide pigments preferably comprise Bi12MnO20 crystallized in the cubic crystal structure. The pigments possess improved reflectance characteristics, particularly in the IR region, and may reduce IR-induced heat buildup.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1999Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: Cerdec Aktiengesellschaft Keramische FarbenInventors: George Emil Sakoske, Joseph E. Sarver
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Patent number: 6171987Abstract: A glass composition comprising, in mole percent of the total composition: glass-forming compounds in a total amount of 75 to 85%, wherein said glass forming compounds comprise 40 to 65% SiO2, 10 to 20% Bi2O3 and 0.1 to 3% Al2O3, and glass modifiers in a total amount of 15 to 25%, wherein said glass modifiers comprise 1 to 23 % ZnO, 0.1 to 5% CuO, 0.1 to 5 CaO and 0.1 to 2% MgO, thick film formulations containing said composition and uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1998Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: Ben-Gurion University of the NegevInventor: Jacob Hormadaly
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Patent number: 6163106Abstract: A color cathode ray tube having a panel glass and a funnel glass sealed with a composition comprising a low melting glass containing PbO as the main component, wherein the sealed portion is such that the weight reduction after being immersed in water at 90.degree. C. for 20 hours, is at most 1 mg/cm.sup.2, and the weight reduction after being immersed in a 10% nitric acid solution at 40.degree. C. for 20 minutes, is from 80 to 700 mg/cm.sup.2.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1998Date of Patent: December 19, 2000Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.Inventors: Tsunehiko Sugawara, Yuichi Kuroki, Hirosi Usui, Ryuichi Tanabe, Tsuneo Manabe
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Patent number: 6158248Abstract: A fused-cast-alumina-zirconia-silica refractory consisting essentially of corundum crystals, baddeleyite crystals and a matrix glass phase and having a chemical composition comprising (a) from 30 to 70 wt % of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, (b) from 20 to 59 wt % of ZrO.sub.2, (c) from 5 to 12 wt % of SiO.sub.2, (d) from 0.15 to 0.60 wt % of Na.sub.2 O, (e) from 0 to 0.50 wt % of K.sub.2 O, (f) from 0 to 0.40 wt % of Li.sub.2 O, (g) from 0.05 to 0.80 wt % of B.sub.2 O.sub.3, (h) from 0.05 to 0.80 wt % of P.sub.2 O.sub.5, and (i) from 0.05 to 0.50 wt % in total of at least one member selected from the group consisting of SnO.sub.2, ZnO, CuO and MnO.sub.2.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1999Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihisa Beppu
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Patent number: 6136734Abstract: A low-fire, low-dielectric ceramic composition is disclosed. The ceramic composition comprises a mixture of finely divided particles consisting of 30-90% by volume of calcium borosilicate glass and 10-70% by volume of fillers consisting essentially of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and amorphous SiO.sub.2, which can be densified up to 95% at temperatures of 800-1000.degree. C. The sintered body produced thereby exhibits a dielectric constant in the range of 6-9 and a dielectric loss in the range of 0.01%-0.5% at 1 MHz. The ceramic composition can be processed with organic solvent, polymeric binder and plasticizer to produce a green sheet which is co-firable with high electrical conductivity metal such as gold, silver, silver-palladium and copper.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1999Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Advanced Ceramic X Corp.Inventors: Jau-Ho Jean, Shih-Chun Lin
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Patent number: 6133177Abstract: A process for the preparation of molten mineral compositions wherein organic impurities are removed by reaction with oxygen introduced via the decomposition of calcium peroxide.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1997Date of Patent: October 17, 2000Assignee: Owens Corning Fiberglas Technology, Inc.Inventor: Stephen F. Cowap
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Patent number: 6124224Abstract: The present invention provides high temperature sealing glass compositions for use in producing mechanically and chemically durable electrically insulating hermetic glass seals between materials such as zirconia, alumina, fosterite, steatite, carbon steels, stainless steels, and superalloys. High temperature sealing glass compositions according to the present invention include a glass component and optional vehicles. The glass component includes one or more glass frits containing in weight percent from about 17% to about 56% BaO+SrO, from about 18% to about 60% SiO.sub.2, from about 6% to about 36% B.sub.2 O.sub.3, from about 2% to about 32% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, from about 0% to about 25% CaO plus MgO, from about 0% to about 20% Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, from about 0% to about 7% ZrO.sub.2, from about 0% to about 3% alkali oxides, from about 0% to about 5% Co.sub.3 O.sub.4, from about 0% to about 5% NiO, and from about 0% to about 3% MoO.sub.3.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1998Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Ferro CorporationInventors: Srinivasan Sridharan, Tack J. Whang, Gordon J. Roberts
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Patent number: 6110569Abstract: The invention is a conductor paste composition comprising a conductive material that contains silver as the essential component, and an inorganic binder as dispersed in a vehicle, wherein said inorganic binder contains, in terms of oxides, from 10 to 60% by weight of lead oxide (PbO), from 5 to 15% by weight of boron oxide (B.sub.2 O.sub.3), from 2 to 15% by weight of silicon oxide (SiO.sub.2), from 0.1 to 15% by weight of manganese oxide (MnO), and from 0.1 to 80% by weight of vanadium oxide (V.sub.2 O.sub.5). The invention realizes a conductor paste for outer electrodes having excellent mountability, high reliability in mounting and excellent electric properties for inner electrode co-fired, non reciprocal devices, and also realizes non reciprocal devices comprising it.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1998Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: TDK CorporationInventor: Katsuhiko Igarashi
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Patent number: 6105394Abstract: The present invention provides lead and cadmium free glass enamel compositions. In one embodiment of the invention, glass frits include from about 0.1 percent by weight to about 15 percent by weight Nb.sub.2 O.sub.5, less than about 3 percent by weight alkali metal oxides, less than about 3 percent by weight ZnO, less than about 1 percent by weight B.sub.2 O.sub.3, and precursors from which Bi.sub.2 SiO.sub.5 can be crystallized upon firing, said precursors including Bi.sub.2 O.sub.3 and SiO.sub.2. Glass frits according to the present invention preferably further include up to about 25 percent by weight of coloring oxides, such as CeO.sub.2, Co.sub.3 O.sub.4, In.sub.2 O.sub.3, SnO, Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3, CuO, Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, MnO.sub.2, MoO.sub.3, NiO, and V.sub.2 O.sub.5. By incorporating various amounts of coloring oxides into the compositions, the degree of crystallization and the rate at which crystallization occurs upon firing of the compositions can be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1999Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: Ferro CorporationInventors: Srinivasan Sridharan, Robert P. Blonski, Hasan B. Emlemdi, Gordon J. Roberts, Ivan H. Joyce
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Patent number: 6100209Abstract: A glass frit is prepared by heating an initial glass frit in the presence of a reducing agent so as to reduce metal moiety in the glass structure of the frit and then cooling the reaction mixture. Preferably, the frit prepared is used in a method of forming electrically conducting silver tracks on enamel on glass windows, by applying to window glass an enamel composition containing the frit and on top thereof a silver composition in the shape of the tracks and firing the compositions, such that on the firing the reduced metal moiety reduces silver ions migrating through the enamel composition from the silver composition to elemental silver and thereby prevents or impairs them from interacting with the glass to form visible tracks.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1998Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Geert Klaas Bentem, Peter Trenton Bishop, Jonathan Charles Shepley Booth, David Lawrence Gavin, Detlef Rehorek
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Patent number: 6083858Abstract: The present invention relates to a sealing glass composition, which is able to seal a panel and funnel of a color TV at low temperature for a short time by adding Garnet(Fe.sub.3 Al.sub.2 Si.sub.3 O.sub.12) as a nucleating agent and filler component to control the thermal expansion coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1999Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Samsung Corning Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Ho Park, Sung Hoon Moon, Young Gil Nam