And Yttrium Or Rare Earth (i.e., Elements With Atomic Numbers 39 Or 57-71) Patents (Class 501/64)
  • Patent number: 11939260
    Abstract: Substantially alkali free glasses are disclosed with can be used to produce substrates for flat panel display devices, e.g., active-matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). The glasses have high annealing temperatures and Young's modulus. Methods for producing substantially alkali free glasses using a downdraw process (e.g., a fusion process) are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkatesh Botu, Xiaoju Guo, Ellen Anne King, Lisa Ann Lamberson, Adama Tandia, Kochuparambil Deenamma Vargheese, Jingshi Wu
  • Patent number: 11935700
    Abstract: A laminated electronic component includes an element body formed by laminating an insulating layer and having a bottom surface used as a mounting surface, and a bottom surface electrode formed on the bottom surface of the element body and containing glass and a sintered metal. The bottom surface electrode includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer formed on the element body side from the first electrode layer, an edge portion of the second electrode layer is covered with an overcoat layer which is a part of the element body, the first electrode layer is laminated on the second electrode layer with the overcoat layer interposed therebetween, and a content of glass in the first electrode layer is larger than a content of glass in the second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Saito, Osamu Hirose, Toru Yoshida, Yoshinori Sato, Akira Suda, Akira Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11912618
    Abstract: In embodiments, a glass composition may include: greater than or equal to 71 mol. % and less than or equal to 83 mol. % SiO2; greater than or equal to 1 mol. % and less than or equal to 11 mol. % Al2O3; greater than or equal to 5 mol. % and less than or equal to 18 mol. % alkali oxide, the alkali oxide comprising greater than 3 mol. % Li2O and at least one of Na2O and K2O; greater than or equal to 1 mol. % and less than or equal to 8 mol. % alkaline earth oxide, the alkaline earth oxide comprising MgO and at least one of CaO, BaO, and SrO; and at least one of TiO2, ZrO2, HfO2, La2O3 and Y2O3, wherein TiO2+ZrO2+HfO2+La2O3+Y2O3 is greater than 0 mol. % and less than or equal to 6 mol. % and Al2O3+TiO2+ZrO2+HfO2+La2O3+Y2O3 is greater than or equal to 2 mol. % and less than or equal to 12 mol. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Nadja Teresia Lönnroth, Lina Ma, Robert Anthony Schaut
  • Patent number: 11773004
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laser cutting technology for cutting and separating thin substrates of transparent materials, for example to cutting of display glass compositions mainly used for production of Thin Film Transistors (TFT) devices. The described laser process can be used to make straight cuts, for example at a speed of >0.25 m/sec, to cut sharp radii outer corners (<1 mm), and to create arbitrary curved shapes including forming interior holes and slots. A method of laser processing an alkaline earth boro-aluminosilicate glass composite workpiece includes focusing a pulsed laser beam into a focal line. The pulsed laser produces pulse bursts with 5-20 pulses per pulse burst and pulse burst energy of 300-600 micro Joules per burst. The focal line is directed into the glass composite workpiece, generating induced absorption within the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thomas Hackert, Xinghua Li, Sasha Marjanovic, Moussa N'Gom, David Andrew Pastel, Garrett Andrew Piech, Daniel Schnitzler, Robert Stephen Wagner, James Joseph Watkins
  • Patent number: 11571506
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for delivering medicament to a patient. The apparatus may include elements with different capacities to attenuate or absorb sterilizing radiation. The apparatus may include a medicament delivery assembly with interactive elements for dose-setting, priming and medicament ejection. The assembly may include a chamber housing a radiation-sensitive medicament present in the apparatus during sterilization by electron beam. The assembly may include an actuator chassis, a drive mechanism, a needle-priming mechanism and a fluid-displacement mechanism including a fluid-displacement member. The chassis may be fixed, relative to an outlet, to the chamber. The member may be slidingly and/or threadingly engaged with the chassis, and may be configured to move relative to the outlet to deliver the medicament through the outlet. Assembly elements may be nested coaxially and/or stacked axially. The assembly may include at least one hollow region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Horvath, Lionel Vedrine, Nathan A. Goltz, Mukund R. Patel, Aaron D. Chesterman, Mayumi Naito Bowen
  • Patent number: 11465941
    Abstract: A ceramic waveguide includes: a doped metal oxide ceramic core layer; and at least one cladding layer comprising the metal oxide surrounding the core layer, such that the core layer includes an erbium dopant and at least one rare earth metal dopant being: lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, or oxides thereof, or at least one non-rare earth metal dopant comprising zirconium or oxides thereof. Also included is a quantum memory including: at least one doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device with the ceramic waveguide and a method of fabricating the ceramic waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Sean Matthew Garner, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Jun Yang, Haitao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11458705
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated glass capable of preventing scorching in an end part of the laminated glass. A laminated glass according to the present invention is a laminated glass including a first glass plate, a second glass plate, and an interlayer film, at least one of the first glass plate and the second glass plate being a heat ray absorbing plate glass conforming to JIS R3208:1998, each of the first glass plate and the second glass plate having a thickness of 1.9 mm or less, when a layer having a lowest glass transition temperature in the interlayer film being referred to as a layer X, the layer X containing a thermoplastic resin, a ratio of a weight average molecular weight of the thermoplastic resin in the layer X before the light irradiation test, to a weight average molecular weight of the thermoplastic resin in the layer X after the light irradiation test being 2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shougo Yoshida, Moyuru Okano, Atsushi Nohara, Yoshikazu Masuyama
  • Patent number: 11440833
    Abstract: The invention relates to glass ceramics and glasses with cerium and tin content, which comprise the following components: Component wt.-% SiO2 42.0 to 80.0 Al2O3 0.1 to 42.0 Cerium, calculated as CeO2 0.5 to 10.0 Tin, calculated as SnO 0.1 to 4.0 and which are suitable in particular for the preparation of dental restorations, the fluorescence properties of which largely correspond to those of natural teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Ronny Hengst, Marc Dittmer
  • Patent number: 11306246
    Abstract: A glass having from greater than or equal to about 0.1 mol. % to less than or equal to about 20 mol. % Ho2O3, and one or more chromophores selected from V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Se, Pr, Nd, Er, Yb, and combinations thereof. The amount of Ho2O3 (mol. %) is greater than or equal to 0.7 (CeO2 (mol. %)+Pr2O3 (mol. %)+Er2O3 (mol. %)). The glass can include one or more fluorescent ions selected from Cu, Sn, Ce, Eu, Tb, Tm, and combinations thereof in addition to, or in place of the chromophores. The glass can also include multiple fluorescent ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Timothy James Kiczenski
  • Patent number: 11286197
    Abstract: Substantially alkali free glasses are disclosed which can be used to produce substrates for flat panel display devices. The glasses can have a loading of fluorine and ceria to achieve exemplary solarization and UV protection attributes when exposed to UV radiation. Methods for producing substantially alkali free glasses using a float or downdraw process (e.g., a fusion downdraw process) are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Joseph Francis Schroeder, III, Wageesha Senaratne
  • Patent number: 11242279
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions, articles, devices, and methods for the manufacture of light guide plates and back light units including such light guide plates made from glass. In some embodiments, light guide plates (LGPs) are provided that have similar or superior optical properties to light guide plates made from PMMA and that have exceptional mechanical properties such as rigidity, CTE and dimensional stability in high moisture conditions as compared to PMMA light guide plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Melissann Marie Ashton-Patton, Adam James Ellison, Ellen Anne King
  • Patent number: 11214507
    Abstract: A glass sheet having a composition comprising a total iron content of 0.002-0.03% expressed in the form of Fe2O3 and in weight percentage with respect to the total weight of glass, and further satisfying the formula N*5?0.05; N*5 being defined as N*5=?{square root over ((a*5?a*0)2+(b*5?b*0)2)}, a*5 and b*5 being measured for a sheet thickness of 5 mm in transmission with illuminant D65, 10°, SCI; a*0 and b*0 being computed for a sheet thickness of 0 mm in transmission with illuminant D65, 10°, SCI. Such a glass sheet allows a color rendering of the sheet which is essentially the same whatever the view path available for an observer of the object integrating said glass sheet (when looking through its main faces or through its edges or through a zone bearing a diffusing coating).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Thomas Lambricht, Audrey Dogimont
  • Patent number: 11214509
    Abstract: A glass sheet having a composition comprising the following in weight percentage, expressed with respect to the total weight of glass: Total iron (expressed as Fe2O3) 20-750 ppm; Selenium (expressed as Se) 0.1-<3 ppm; Cobalt (expressed as Co) 0.05-5 ppm; and a ratio Er2O3/Fe2O3 0.1-1.5. Such a glass sheet has a high luminous transmittance and shows edges which are colorless/achromatic and very luminous/bright, while maximizing the luminous transmittance. The glass sheet is particularly suitable due to its aesthetics as building glass or interior glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Francois Bioul, Aline Degand, Francois Boland
  • Patent number: 10717670
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glass composition that allows holes with a circular contour and a smooth inner wall to be formed by a collective micro-hole-forming process using a combination of modified portion formation by ultraviolet laser irradiation and etching, the glass composition being adapted for practical continuous production. The present invention relates to a glass for laser processing, the glass including a metal oxide serving as a coloring component, the glass having a glass composition including, in mol %: 45.0%?SiO2?68.0%; 2.0%?B2O3?20.0%; 3.0%?Al2O3?20.0%; 0.1%?TiO2?5.0%; and 0%?ZnO?9.0%, wherein a relationship of 0?Li2O+Na2O+K2O<2.0% is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Teruhide Inoue, Junji Kurachi
  • Patent number: 10613304
    Abstract: A low infrared absorbing lithium glass includes FeO in the range of 0.0005-0.015 wt %, more preferably 0.001-0.010 wt %, and a redox ratio in the range of 0.005-0.15, more preferably in the range of 0.005-010. The glass can be chemically tempered and used to provide a ballistic viewing cover for night vision goggles or scope. A method is provided to change a glass making process from making a high infrared absorbing lithium glass having FeO in the range of 0.02 to 0.04 wt % and a redox ratio in the range of 0.2 to 0.4 to the low infrared absorbing lithium glass by adding additional oxidizers to the batch materials. A second method is provided to change a glass making process from making a low infrared absorbing lithium glass to the high infrared absorbing lithium glass by adding additional reducers to the batch material. In one embodiment of the invention the oxidizer is CeO2. An embodiment of the invention covers a glass made according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: George B. Goodwin, Mehran Arbab, Caroline S. Harris, Larry J. Shelestak
  • Patent number: 10437079
    Abstract: Provided is an eyewear lens, including a lens substrate and an optical interference coating. The lens substrate is comprised of an optical material, and the optical interference coating is combined with the lens substrate and is stacked by the composition of high and low reflectivity materials. A predefined reflective appearance color will be formed by light getting through the optical interference coating. The lens substrate contains another filter on one side surface or both side surfaces or inside the lens substrate which is complementary to the light after penetrating the optical interference coating such that the overall transmittance light color remains neutral balance. Moreover, the overall transmittance spectrum of a lens uniformly filters the reflected visible light of objects. As such, a stylish reflective appearance color lens having neutral balance perspective visual tone and most colorful rendering effect of watching the scenery is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: HWA MEEI OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Charles Cheng, Chih Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 10386686
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel having a predetermined size, containing a wiring film formed of a metal, an insulating film containing an inorganic substance and a substrate formed of a non-alkali glass, in which the metal has the product of a Young's modulus (E) and a thermal expansion coefficient (?) at room temperature falling within a predetermined range, ? of the inorganic substance is smaller than that of the non-alkali glass, the non-alkali glass has E of from 70 GPa to 95 GPa and ? of from 32×10?7 to 45×10?7 (1/° C.) in which E and ? satisfies a predetermined formula, and has a predetermined composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Ono, Yasumasa Kato, Masaya Kunigita
  • Patent number: 10371967
    Abstract: Provided is an eyewear lens, including a lens substrate and an optical interference coating; the lens substrate is comprised of an optical material, and the optical interference coating is bonded to the lens substrate and is stacked by the composition of high and low reflectivity materials. A predefined reflective appearance color will be formed by light getting through the optical interference coating. The lens substrate contains another filter on one side surface or both side surfaces or inside the lens substrate which is complementary to the light after penetrating the optical interference coating such that the overall transmittance light tone remain neutral balance. The overall transmittance light spectrum has three pass-bands corresponding to the maximum response of the human eye cone cells, and the relatively high transmittance values of each pass-band center are approximately at 450 nm, 530 nm and 610 nm. The FWHM of each pass-band is between 3 nm and 50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: HWA MEEI OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Charles Cheng, Chih Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 9957194
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-layer pyrolytic coating stack deposited on a tinted glass substrate to form a coated glass article exhibiting a desired combination of emissivity, visible light transmittance and solar heat gain coefficient. A method for depositing the multi-layer coating stack on the tinted glass substrate is also part of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Pilkington Group Limited
    Inventors: Michel J. Soubeyrand, Srikanth Varanasi
  • Patent number: 9586854
    Abstract: Provided is an alkali-free glass, including as a glass composition, in terms of mol %, 60 to 70% of SiO2, 9.5 to 17% of Al2O3, 0 to 9% of B2O3, 0 to 8% of MgO, 2 to 15% of CaO, 0.1 to 10% of SrO, and 0.5 to 4% of BaO, having a molar ratio (CaO+SrO+BaO)Al2O3 of 0.6 to 1.0, and being substantially free of alkali metal oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kawaguchi, Shinkichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 9573039
    Abstract: A golf aid for assisting a user in determining distances on a golf course includes a user tracking system configured to determine the location of a user on a golf course, a heads up display, and a processor. The heads up display is configured to be worn on the user's head, and to display an image within a field of view of the user. The processor is in communication with the user tracking system and with the heads up display, and is configured to determine a distance between the location of the user an object or a landmark on the golf course, and display a numeric representation of the determined distance via the heads up display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas A. Leech
  • Patent number: 9573839
    Abstract: Described herein are alkali-free, boroalumino silicate glasses exhibiting desirable physical and chemical properties for use as substrates in flat panel display devices, such as, active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs) and active matrix organic light emitting diode displays (AMOLEDs). In accordance with certain of its aspects, the glasses possess excellent compaction and stress relaxation properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas Clippinger Allan, Bradley Frederick Bowden, Adam James Ellison, Timothy James Kiczenski, Marcel Potuzak
  • Patent number: 9371247
    Abstract: A compositional range of fusion-formable, high strain point sodium free, silicate, aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CIGS photovoltaic devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points?540° C., thermal expansion coefficient of from 6.5 to 10.5 ppm/° C., as well as liquidus viscosities in excess of 50,000 poise. As such they are ideally suited for being formed into sheet by the fusion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Corsam Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, James Edward Dickinson, Jr., Timothy J Kiczenski, Michelle Diane Pierson-Stull
  • Patent number: 9328013
    Abstract: Described herein are alkali-free, boroalumino silicate glasses exhibiting desirable physical and chemical properties for use as substrates in flat panel display devices, such as, active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs) and active matrix organic light emitting diode displays (AMOLEDs). In accordance with certain of its aspects, the glasses possess excellent compaction and stress relaxation properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas Clippinger Allan, Bradley Frederick Bowden, Adam James Ellison, Timothy James Kiczenski, Marcel Potuzak
  • Patent number: 9115021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a neutral grey glass composition which has a basic composition containing the following main coloring agents: 0.40 to 0.80% of Fe2O3; 0.05 to 2.0% of TiO2; 0.2 to 2.5% of Er2O3; 20 to 200 ppm of CuO; 0.08% to 0 0.1% charcoal; and 15% to 50% of ferrous (redox), in which the glass has light transmission “A” greater than 65%, solar transmission (TS) <55%, and ultraviolet transmission <40%, having color values a*=?4 to 3 and b*=4 to ?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: VIDRIO PLANO DE MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Jose Guadalupe Cid-Aguilar, Roberto Marcos Cabrera-Llanos, Miguel Angel Kiyama-Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20150132579
    Abstract: Ion exchangeable glasses that comprise at least one of a transition metal oxide or a rare earth oxide and have compositions that simultaneously promote a surface layer having a high compressive stress and deep depth of layer or, alternatively, reduced ion exchange time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, John Christopher Mauro, Marcel Potuzak, Morten Mattrup Smedskjaer
  • Patent number: 9016092
    Abstract: A glass for a magnetic recording medium substrate permitting the realization of a magnetic recording medium substrate affording good chemical durability and having an extremely flat surface, a magnetic recording medium substrate comprised of this glass, a magnetic recording medium equipped with this substrate, and methods of manufacturing the same. The glass is an oxide glass not including As or F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Hachitani, Kinobu Osakabe
  • Publication number: 20150045202
    Abstract: To provide glass having a favorable color tone, and its production process. Glass comprising, as represented by mass percentage based on oxides, at least 60% and at most 75% of SiO2, at least 8% and at most 20% of Na2O, at least 4.5% of MgO, at least 1% and at most 10% of CaO, and at least 0.01% and at most 0.5% of Er2O3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuki KONDO, Yuya Shimada, Hiroyuki Hijiya
  • Publication number: 20150031525
    Abstract: An optical glass is oxide glass wherein Si4++B3+ ranges from 10-60 cation %, La3++Gd3++Y3++Yb3+ ranges from 25-70 cation %, Ti4++Nb5++W6++Bi3+ ranges from 10-20 cation %, Li+ content ranges from 0-5.0 cation %, Ge content is lower than 5.0 mass % as quantity of GeO2 based on oxides, no Pb included, a cation ratio, Si4+/B3+, is equal or lower than 0.70, a cation ratio, (La3++Gd3++Y3++Yb3+)/(Ti4++Nb5++W6++Bi3+), ranges from 1.90-7.00, a cation ratio, Y3+/(La3++Gd3++Y3++Yb3+), is equal or lower than 0.180, and Nb5+ is an essential component, with Ti4+/Nb5+ being equal or lower than 4.00, with nd of higher than 1.920 and equal or lower than 2.000, vd ranging from 28.0-34.0, and yield point higher than 645° C., and a deviation ?Pg,F from normal line of partial dispersion ratio Pg,F being equal or lower than 0.0005.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoaki Negishi
  • Patent number: 8925349
    Abstract: A rare earth ion doped silicate luminescence glass and preparation method thereof are provided. The luminescence glass is the material with the following formula: aM2O.bM?2O3.cSiO2.dRE2O3, wherein M is at least one of Na, K and Li, M? is at least one of Y, Gd, La, Sc and Lu, RE is at least one of Ce, Tm, Tb, Ho, Dy, Er, Nd, Sm, Eu and Pr. The preparation method is: grinding the raw material until mixed uniformly, calcining the raw material at 1200-1500° C. for 1-5 h, cooling to room temperature, annealing at 600-1100° C. for 0.5-24 h, cooling to room temperature again, molding then getting the product. The performance of the product is stable. The product is homogenous, and the luminescence performance is good. The light transmittance is high. The process of the preparation method is simple and with low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ocean's King Lighting Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingjie Zhou, Wenbo Ma, Zhaopu Shi, Yanbo Qiao, Qingtao Li
  • Patent number: 8921246
    Abstract: There is provided a glass composition containing an oxide containing Lu, Si, and Al, in which the composition of the glass composition lies within a compositional region of a ternary composition diagram of Lu, Si, and Al in terms of cation percent, the compositional region being defined by the following six points: (32.3% LuO3/2, 30.0% SiO2, 37.7% AlO3/2), (32.3% LuO3/2, 37.7% SiO2, 30.0% AlO3/2), (20.8% LuO3/2, 55.0% SiO2, 24.2% AlO3/2), (10.0% LuO3/2, 45.0% SiO2, 45.0% AlO3/2), (20.8% LuO3/2, 24.2% SiO2, 55.0% AlO3/2), and (30.0% LuO3/2, 25.0% SiO2, 45.0% AlO3/2). For the glass composition, a glassy state having low or no intrinsic birefringence in the ultraviolet region is stably obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Watanabe, Taihei Mukaide
  • Patent number: 8906506
    Abstract: A noble glass composition which is based on a known potassium-zinc crystal glass composition suitable for chemical strengthening, in which most of contained ZnO component is replaced with a combination of less expensive oxides. The noble glass composition is easily melted in a tank and formed by machine into table wares, and provides a chemical strengthened crystal glass article which has high practical strength as tableware and can be subjected to washing with an alkali.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Toyo-Sasaki Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Shibata, Hirokazu Toyoda, Keiko Tamamaki
  • Publication number: 20140356608
    Abstract: A method for producing bubble-free glasses is provided, in which a glass mixture that is arsenic-free and antimony-free with the exception of any unavoidable raw material impurities and a sulfate compound and SnO2 as refining agents are used. The glass mixture is melted and primarily refined in a first region of a melting tank, an average melting temperature (T1) is set at T1>1560° C. and an average melt residence time (t1) is set at t1>2 hours. The proportion of SO3 resulting from the decomposition of the sulfate compound is reduced to less than 0.002 wt. % as the primary refinement is carried out. A secondary refinement is carried out in a second region of the melting tank, an average melting temperature (T2) is set at T2>1640° C. and an average melt residence time (t2) is set at t2>1 hour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Frank-Thomas LENTES, Karin NAUMANN, Ulrich SCHIFFNER, Friedrich SIEBERS, Christian MUELLER, Klaus SCHOENBERGER, Evelin WEISS
  • Patent number: 8902493
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein comprise a laser and/or an amplifier system including a doped gain fiber having ytterbium ions in a phosphosilicate glass. Various embodiments described herein increase pump absorption to at least about 1000 dB/m-9000 dB/m. The use of these gain fibers provide for increased peak-powers and/or pulse energies. The various embodiments of the doped gain fiber having ytterbium ions in a phosphosilicate glass exhibit reduced photo-darkening levels compared to photo-darkening levels obtainable with equivalent doping levels of an ytterbium doped silica fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: IMRA America, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Dong, Martin E. Fermann, Hugh McKay, Libin Fu, Shigeru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140342896
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a neutral grey glass composition which has a basic composition containing the following main coloring agents: 0.40 to 0.80% of Fe2O3; 0.05 to 2.0% of TiO2; 0.2 to 2.5% of Er2O3; 20 to 200 ppm of CuO; 0.08% to 0 0.1% charcoal; and 15% to 50% of ferrous (redox), in which the glass has light transmission “A” greater than 65%, solar transmission (TS) <55%, and ultraviolet transmission <40%, having color values a*=?4 to 3 and b*=4 to ?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: VIDRIO PLANO DE MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Jose Guadalupe Cid-Aguilar, Roberto Marcos Cabrera-Llanos, Miguel Angel Kiyama-Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20140326314
    Abstract: The invention relates to an extra-clear glass sheet, i.e. a glass sheet with high energy transmission, which can be used in particular in the field of solar energy. Specifically, the invention relates to a glass sheet having a composition that includes, in an amount expressed in wt % for the total weight of the glass: 60-78% of SiO2; 0-10% of Al2O3; 0-5% of B2O3; 0-15% of CaO; 0-10% of MgO; 5-20% of Na2O; 0-10% of K2O; 0-5% of BaO, wherein the total amount of iron (in the form of Fe2O3) is 0.002-0.03%, and the composition includes a ratio of manganese/(total iron) of 1 to 8.5, the manganese content being expressed in the form of MnO in wt % relative to the total weight of the glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Audrey Dogimont, Sebastien Hennecker, Thomas Lambricht
  • Patent number: 8865606
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing dental restorations, wherein a lithium silicate glass ceramic or a lithium silicate glass is used which contains at least 8.5 wt.-% transition metal oxide selected from the group consisting of oxides of yttrium, oxides of transition metals with an atomic number from 41 to 79 and mixtures of these oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Christian Ritzberger, Wolfram Höland, Marcel Schweiger, Volker Rheinberger
  • Patent number: 8852764
    Abstract: To provide a substrate for information recording medium having various properties, in particular higher fracture toughness, required for application of the substrate for information recording medium of the next generation such as perpendicular magnetic recording system, etc. and a material with excellent workability for such purpose. A crystallized glass substrate for information recording medium, consisting of a crystallized glass which comprises one or more selected from RAl2O4 and R2TiO4 as a main crystal phase, in which R is one or more selected from Zn, Mg and Fe, and in which the main crystal phase has a crystal grain size in a range of from 0.5 nm to 20 nm, a degree of crystallinity of 15% or less, and a specific gravity of 3.00 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Ohara Inc.
    Inventors: Toshitaka Yagi, Naoyuki Goto
  • Publication number: 20140274653
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a transparent material having an increased resistance to plasma erosion. The material is formed from yttrium oxide (Y203) at a starting powder composition ranging from about 5 weight percent (wt %) to about 40 weight percent; aluminum oxide (Al203) at a starting powder composition ranging from about 5 weight percent to about 30 weight percent; silicon dioxide (SiO2) at a starting powder composition ranging from about 10 weight percent to about 80 weight percent; and magnesium oxide (MgO) at a starting powder composition ranging from about 1 weight percent to about 20 weight percent. The material may be a glass or glass-ceramic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ren-Guan DUAN, Juan Carlos ROCHA- ALVAREZ
  • Publication number: 20140247848
    Abstract: The invention relates to a Nd-doped, aluminate-based or silicate-based, laser glass having a peak emission wavelength that is longer than 1059.7 nm, an emission cross section (?em) of ?1.5×10?20 cm2, and/or an emission bandwidth (??eff) of ?28 nm, while maintaining properties that render the glass suitable for commercial use, such as low glass transition temperature Tg and low nonlinear index, n2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SCHOTT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Simi GEORGE, Nathan CARLIE, Sally PUCILOWSKI, Joseph HAYDEN
  • Patent number: 8778075
    Abstract: Lithium silicate glass ceramics and glasses are described which can advantageously be applied to zirconium oxide ceramics in particular by pressing-on in the viscous state and form a solid bond with these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Christian Ritzberger, Ricardo Dellagiacomo, Marcel Schweiger, Harald Bürke, Wolfram Höland, Volker Rheinberger
  • Patent number: 8759239
    Abstract: Transparent, essentially colorless ?-quartz glass-ceramic materials, the composition of which is free of As2O3 and of Sb2O3, where said composition contains a specific combination of three nucleating agents: TiO2, ZrO2 and SnO2; TiO2 being present in low quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Eurokera
    Inventors: Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte, Lothar Wondraczek
  • Patent number: 8753993
    Abstract: Described herein are alkali-free, boroalumino silicate glasses exhibiting desirable physical and chemical properties for use as substrates in flat panel display devices, such as, active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). In accordance with certain of its aspects, the glasses possess good dimensional stability as a function of temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Stephen Danielson, Adam James Ellison, Natesan Venkataraman
  • Publication number: 20140162863
    Abstract: Glasses are described which have characteristics that produce high visible transmittance, low solar transmittance, and high selectivity. The glasses can also preferably have a blue-green color. A number of advantageous formulations are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Darryl J. Costin, Harold Haller, Clarence Martin, Yuki Kondo, Yuya Shimada, Jun Sasai
  • Patent number: 8741178
    Abstract: Blue light emitting glass and the preparation method thereof are provided. The blue light emitting glass has the following composition: aCaO.bAl2O3.cSiO2.xCeO2, wherein a, b, c and x are, by mol part, 15-55, 15-35, 20-60 and 0.01-5 respectively. The preparation method comprises: weighing the raw materials according to the composition of the blue light emitting glass; mixing the raw materials uniformly and melting the raw materials to obtain glass melt; molding the glass melt to obtain transparent glass; thermally treating the transparent glass under reducing atmosphere, and thereafter obtaining the finished product. The blue light emitting glass obtained has intense broadband excitation spectrum in ultraviolet region and emits intense blue light under the excitation of ultraviolet light. It is suitable for using as luminescent medium material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Ocean's King Lighting & Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingjie Zhou, Wenbo Ma, Zhaopu Shi
  • Publication number: 20140141226
    Abstract: Ion-exchangeable glasses having high hardness and high elastic modulus. The base cover glass formulation includes Na2O, Y2O3, Al2O3, and SiO2. The glasses may further include P2O5, B2O3, and any of the alkali, alkaline earth, and rare earth oxides, as well as other divalent metal oxides. The ion-exchangeable glasses offer higher hardness, which provides more resistance to micro-ductile scratching damage. Ion-exchange of these glasses increases their resistance to cracking caused by frictive damage and increases retained strength following formation of surface damage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Timothy Michael Gross
  • Publication number: 20140141285
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a crystallized glass which has various properties required for employing the substrate for information recording medium of the next generation, and also has significantly low specific gravity; and a crystallized glass substrate for information recording medium. A crystallized glass containing, as a crystal phase, one or more selected from RAl2O4 and R2TiO4 (wherein R is one or more selected from Mg and Fe), the crystallized glass comprising the components of SiO2 of 50% to 70%, Al2O3 of 10% to 26%, TiO2 of 1 to 15%, MgO of 2.5% to 25%, FeO of 0% to 8%, and ZnO of 0% to less than 2%, expressed in terms of mass percentage on an oxide basis, wherein the value of (Al2O3+MgO)/SiO2 is 0.30 or more and 0.65 or less, and a specific gravity is less than 2.63.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: OHARA INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki Momono, Katsuhiko Yamaguchi, Toshitaka Yagi, Naoyuki Goto
  • Publication number: 20140113141
    Abstract: There is provided a glass for chemical strengthening having a gray-based color tone and excelling in characteristics preferred for the purposes of housing or decoration of an electronic device, that is, bubble quality, strength, and light transmittance characteristics. A glass for chemical strengthening contains, in mole percentage based on following oxides, 55% to 80% of SiO2, 3% to 16% of Al2O3, 0% to 12% of B2O3, 5% to 16% of Na2O, 0% to 4% of K2O, 0% to 15% of MgO, 0% to 3% of CaO, 0% to 18% of ?RO (where R represents Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba or Zn), 0% to 1% of ZrO2, 0.01% to 0.2% of Co3O4, 0.05% to 1% of NiO, and 0.01% to 3% of Fe2O3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Kazuhide KUNO
  • Publication number: 20140106168
    Abstract: The X-ray-opaque glass, which is free of BaO and PbO except for at most impurities, has a refractive index nd of from 1.50 to 1.58 and a high X-ray opacity with an aluminium equivalent thickness of at least 300%. The glass is based on a SiO2—Al2O3—SrO—R2O system with additions of La2O3 and ZrO2. The glass has very good chemical resistance and can be used, in particular, as a dental glass or as an optical glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventors: Simone Monika Ritter, Sabine Pichler-Wilhelm, Carina Dobler, Stefanie Hansen
  • Patent number: 8598055
    Abstract: Disclosed are alkali-free glasses having a liquidus viscosity of greater than or equal to about 90,000 poises, said glass comprising SiO2, Al2O3, B2O3, MgO, CaO, and SrO such that, in mole percent on an oxide basis: 64?SiO2?68.2; 11?Al2O3?13.5; 5?B2O3?9; 2?MgO?9; 3?CaO?9; and 1?SrO?5. The glasses can be used to make a display glass substrates, such as thin film transistor (TFT) display glass substrates for use in active matrix liquid crystal display devices (AMLCDs) and other flat panel display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Adam James Ellison