Surface Modified Glass (e.g., Tempered, Strengthened, Etc.) Patents (Class 428/410)
  • Patent number: 11711937
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including pixels and a cover window disposed on the display panel. The cover window includes a flat portion having a first thickness, and a folding portion having a second thickness that is less than the first thickness of the flat portion, the folding portion being adjacent to the flat portion. A first stress profile of the flat portion of the cover window that is a stress change along a depth direction from a surface of the flat portion of the cover window is different from a second stress profile of the folding portion of the cover window that is a stress change along a depth direction from a surface of the folding portion of the cover window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hoikwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11655182
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a rollable glass sheet configured to reversibly transition between a flat configuration and a bent configuration. The rollable glass sheet includes a first major surface and a second major surface opposite to the first major surface. The first major surface and the second major surface define a thickness of the glass sheet that is 0.4 mm or less. In the flat configuration, the first major surface includes a first surface compressive stress and a first depth of compression, and in the bent configuration, the first major surface includes a curvature. At a radius of curvature of 50 mm, the first major surface includes a second surface compressive stress less than the first compressive stress and a second depth of compression less than the first depth of compression and greater than 11 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Lee Black, Khaled Layouni
  • Patent number: 11613497
    Abstract: A glass substrate formed from a glass composition is disclosed. In embodiments, the composition comprises: from 60 mol. % to 75 mol. % SiO2; from 2 mol. % to 15 mol. % Li2O; from 1.9 mol. % to 15 mol. % Y2O3; and at least one of B2O3 and Na2O. B2O3+Na2O is from 2 mol. % to 13 mol. %. Y2O3+Al2O3 is from 10 mol. % to 24 mol. %. A ratio R2O/Al2O3 is from 0.5 to 4, where R2O is a total concentration of Li2O, Na2O, K2O, Rb2O, and Cs2O. (R2O+RO)/Al2O3 is from 0.5 to 4.5, where RO is a total concentration of BeO, MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO. The glass substrate has a Young's modulus from 75 gigapascals (GPa) to 110 GPa. The glass substrate is ion exchangeable to form a strengthened glass article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: John Philip Finkeldey, Timothy Michael Gross, Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 11560332
    Abstract: Strengthened glass-based substrates having a first outer region compressive stress and a first side having first coating thereon are disclosed. The first coating comprising a material selected to have a first coating Young's modulus value, a first coating thickness, and a first coating stress that is either neutral or compressive, such that the absolute value of first outer region compressive stress is greater than the absolute value of the first coating stress. Methods of making glass-based articles are provided, and glass-based articles having coatings that provide different strength values and/or reliability on different sides of the glass-based articles are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Harris, Vijay Subramanian, Wei Xu
  • Patent number: 11554976
    Abstract: A three dimensional glass ceramic article with a thickness between 0.1 mm and 2 mm, having a dimensional precision control of less than or equal to ±0.1 mm. A method for forming a three dimensional glass ceramic article including placing a nucleated glass article into a mold, and heating the nucleated glass article to a crystallization temperature, where the nucleated glass article is in the mold during the heating. Then, holding the nucleated glass article at the crystallization temperature for a duration sufficient to crystallize the nucleated glass article and form a three dimensional glass ceramic article, where the nucleated glass article is in the mold during the holding, and removing the three dimensional glass ceramic article from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jacob Immerman, Rohit Rai, John Robert Saltzer, Jr., Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Sibrina Jean Washington
  • Patent number: 11447417
    Abstract: Methods of enhanced ion exchange (IOX) include exposing a substrate to a bath mixture that includes a second salt dissolved in a first salt, the second salt includes the same metal ion as the first salt with an anion different from the first salt. The first salts are conventional nitrate salts into which one or more second salts, for example, carbonate, sulfate, chloride, fluorine, borate, or phosphate salts are dissolved. The second salts remain at or below their solubility limits in the first salts. Any poisoning ions remain at or below their solubility limits in the bath mixture. Glass-based articles made therefrom and electronic devices incorporating the glass-based articles are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Qiao Li, Santona Pal
  • Patent number: 11420900
    Abstract: Electronic device components that include a glass portion and a ceramic or a glass ceramic portion are disclosed. The ceramic or glass ceramic portions of the component may be located to provide desired performance characteristics to the component, which may be an enclosure component. In addition, regions of compressive stress may be formed within the glass portion, the glass ceramic portion, or both to further adjust the performance characteristics of the component. Electronic devices including the components and methods for making the components are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tyler A. Marshall, Christopher D. Jones
  • Patent number: 11419187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an article comprising at least one glass-ceramic substrate, in particular a plate, intended, for example, to cover or receive at least one heating element, said substrate exhibiting, in at least one zone, a surface roughness such that the characteristic dimensions of the patterns forming said roughness are between 2 and 100 ?m. The present invention also relates to an advantageous process for producing said substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: EUROKERA S.N.C.
    Inventors: Francois Guillemot, Nicolas Chemin, Nathalie Diaz, Pablo Vilato
  • Patent number: 11401210
    Abstract: A pre-fractured glass laminate that includes: a glass substrate comprising a thickness, a pair of opposed primary surfaces, a compressive stress region, a central tension (CT) region and a plurality of cracks; a second phase comprising a polymer or a cured resin within the plurality of cracks; a backing layer; and an interlayer disposed between one of the primary surfaces of the substrate and the backing layer. The compressive stress region extends from each of the primary surfaces to a first selected depth in the substrate. Further, the plurality of cracks is located in the CT region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Zhongzhi Tang
  • Patent number: 11401193
    Abstract: Glass-ceramic articles are manufactured by an ion exchange process that results in glass-based articles having improved stress profiles. A knee may be located at a depth of 3 microns or deeper. A compressive stress at a surface may be 200 MPa or more and at a knee may be 20 MPa or more. A non-sodium oxide may have a non-zero concentration that varies from the first surface to a depth and a depth of compression (DOC) may be located at 0.10·t, or even at 0.17·t or deeper. A two-step ion exchange (DIOX) includes, for example, a potassium bath in a first treatment to form a spike in a spike region of the stress profile, followed by a second treatment which includes, for example, a potassium and sodium mixed bath to maintain the spike and form a tail region of the stress profile. The glass-ceramic articles may thereby avoid developing a vitreous surface layer, which facilitates repeatable and reliable measurement of waveguide modes and determination of compressive stress in the surface (CS) and depth of the spike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Delena Lucinda Justice Duffy, Constance L Fieno, Jill Marie Hall, Yuhui Jin, Vitor Marino Schneider
  • Patent number: 11358898
    Abstract: The efficiency of ion exchange processes is increased by increasing the concentration of nitrite salts in the molten salt bath. The increase in nitrite salt concentration may be achieved by adding a nitrite salt to a molten nitrate salt bath, aging a molten nitrate salt bath, or a combination thereof. The glass-based articles produced using the modified baths exhibit reduced haze and increased flexural strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Qiang Fu, Kristy Lynn Smith
  • Patent number: 11352287
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass composition that includes: 57 to 75 percent by weight of SiO2; 3 to 11 percent by weight of Al2O3; 6 to 11 percent by weight of Na2O; 16 to 21 percent by weight of CaO; 0.01 to 0.1 percent by weight of Li2O; and less than 0.05 percent by weight of K2O. Each percent by weight is based on total weight of the glass composition. Glass products are also provided that have a bulk glass composition as described above. The glass products, such as flat glass products and glass substrates, have a strain point of at least 590° C. and a thermal expansion of at least 7.4 ppm/° C. The present invention also relates to magnetic recording articles and photovoltaic cells that include a glass substrate that has a bulk glass composition as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Vitro Flat Glass LLC
    Inventors: Larry J. Shelestak, James W. McCamy, Paul R. Ohodnicki, Jr., Hong Li, Adam D. Polcyn
  • Patent number: 11339082
    Abstract: Chemically toughened glass is provided that has a depth of compressive stress for potassium of at least 4 ?m and at most 8 ?m; a compressive stress at a depth of 30 ?m due to sodium exchange of at most 200 MPa and a minimum amount of at least 90 MPa where the thickness is 0.5 mm, at least 100 MPa where the thickness is 0.55 mm, at least 110 MPa in where the thickness is 0.6 mm, at least 120 MPa where the thickness is 0.7 mm, and at least 140 MPa where the thickness is 1 mm; a ratio of sodium exchange depth, in ?m, to the thickness, in mm, that is greater than 0.130; and a normalized integral of tensile stress that is a storable tensile stress of at least 20.6 MPa and at most 30 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Rüdiger Dietrich, Jochen Alkemper, Oliver Hochrein, Susanne Krüger, Julia Weißhuhn
  • Patent number: 11306020
    Abstract: The invention relates to a glass sheet having a luminous transmission LTD4?87% and having a composition free of antimony and arsenic, comprising total iron (expressed in the form of Fe2O3) from 0.002-0.04% and erbium (expressed in the form of Er2O3) from 0.003-0.1%. The glass sheet composition further having a redox ratio ?32% and satisfying the formula 1.3*Fe2O3?Er2O3?21.87*Cr2O3?53.12*Co?2.6*Fe2O3. Such a glass sheet has a high luminous transmittance and has warm-toned to neutral colored edges and is particularly suitable due to its aesthetics as building glass or interior glass, as well as in furniture applications, as automotive glass, or as cover glass in electronic devices/displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Thomas Lambricht, Audrey Dogimont
  • Patent number: 11254607
    Abstract: Coated glass-based articles and methods of manufacture disclosed. An article comprises a chemically strengthened glass-based core substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a chemically strengthened glass-based first cladding substrate having a third surface directly bonded to the first surface to provide a first core-cladding interface and a chemically strengthened glass-based second cladding substrate having a fourth surface directly bonded to the second surface to provide a second core-cladding interface, wherein the core substrate is bonded to the first cladding substrate and the second cladding substrate, and there is a coating on the first cladding substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Harris, Vijay Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11231351
    Abstract: A portable flexure fixture including a fixture housing, a translatable plug, a load ring, and a support ring. The fixture housing includes a first end opposite a second end, a plug receiving opening extending into the first end and a test opening extending into the second end. The support ring is disposed in the fixture housing. The translatable plug is insertable into the plug receiving opening of the fixture housing and is translatable in both a sample engaging direction and a sample releasing direction. Further, the load ring is coupled to the translatable plug and is positioned at a sample facing end of the translatable plug such that translation of the translatable plug in the sample engaging direction translates the load ring in the sample engaging direction and translation of the translatable plug in the sample releasing direction translates the load ring in the sample releasing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Timothy Edward Meyer
  • Patent number: 11211090
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate contains an alkaline earth metal component as a glass composition and includes a pair of main surfaces, and an outer circumferential side edge surface that is a mirror surface. The outer circumferential side edge surface includes a surface having a roughness percentage of 40% or more when a bearing ratio of a roughness cross-sectional area is 50% in a bearing ratio curve of roughness cross-sectional areas obtained when a surface roughness of the outer circumferential side edge surface obtained after the outer circumferential side edge surface is etched by 2.5 ?m is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuhei Azuma
  • Patent number: 11198642
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a chemically strengthened glass, the method including, performing a chemical strengthening treatment including the following steps (1) to (3) to a glass having a specific composition, (1) a step of bringing the glass into contact with an inorganic salt composition including 70 mass % or more of potassium nitrate to perform ion exchange; (2) a step of bringing the glass having been ion-exchanged in step (1) into contact with an inorganic salt composition including 50 mass % or more of sodium nitrate to perform ion exchange; and (3) a step of bringing the glass having been ion-exchanged in step (2) into contact with an inorganic salt composition including 70 mass % or more of potassium nitrate to perform ion exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Izuru Kashima, Kaname Sekiya, Akio Shizukai, Yositeru Ikeda, Shogo Sueda
  • Patent number: 11168017
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a glass composition may include from 65 mol. % to about 75 mol. % SiO2; from about 6 mol. % to about 12.5 mol. % Al2O3; from about 5 mol. % to about 12 mol. % alkali oxide; and from about 2 mol. % to about 7 mol. % CaO. The glass composition may be free from boron and BaO. The glass composition may be susceptible to strengthening by ion-exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Melinda Ann Drake, Robert Michael Morena
  • Patent number: 11124444
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a glass article may include SiO2, Al2O3, Li2O and Na2O. The glass article may have a softening point less than or equal to about 810° C. The glass article may also have a high temperature CTE less than or equal to about 27×10?6/° C. The glass article may also be ion exchangeable such that the glass has a compressive stress greater than or equal to about 600 MPa and a depth of layer greater than or equal to about 25 ?m after ion exchange in a salt bath comprising KNO3 at a temperature in a range from about 390° C. to about 450° C. for less than or equal to approximately 15 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte, Melinda Ann Drake, Karen Leslie Geisinger, Sinue Gomez, Robert Michael Morena, Charlene Marie Smith, Randall Eugene Youngman
  • Patent number: 11111173
    Abstract: A glass article including, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, from 3 mol % to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, from 0 mol % to 5 mol % P2O5, from 5 mol % to 11 mol % Li2O, less than or equal to 0.2 mol % SnO2, and from 0.5 mol % to 6.5 mol % divalent cation oxides. The glass article has a molar ratio of Al2O3:(R2O+RO) greater than or equal to 0.9, where R2O is a sum of alkali metal oxides in mol % and RO is a sum of divalent cation oxides in mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 11093089
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a glass substrate having a touch surface and a first touch electrode formed of a fine metal wire formed on a surface of the glass substrate opposite to the touch surface, the glass substrate contains an Si atom, an Al atom, and a K atom, a content of the Si atom is 25.0% to 35.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the glass substrate, a content of the Al atom is 5.0% to 16.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the glass substrate, and a content of the K atom is 3.0% to 10.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masaya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11078111
    Abstract: Embodiments of glass articles including a compressive stress (CS) region and a central tension (CT) region, wherein a portion of the CS region extends from the first major surface to a depth of compression (DOC), wherein, when the glass article is in a substantially flat configuration, the CT region has a maximum value (CTflat) that is about 60 MPa or less, and wherein, when the glass article is in a cold bent configuration, CT region comprises a maximum value (CTbent), wherein CTbent/CTflat<1.4. Embodiments of automotive interior systems including such glass articles are provided, along with methods for forming a glass article and for forming an automotive interior system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew Lee Black, Khaled Layouni, Yawei Sun, Chunhe Zhang
  • Patent number: 11066324
    Abstract: A glass article including, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, from 3 mol % to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, from 0 mol % to 5 mol % P2O5, from 5 mol % to 11 mol % Li2O, less than or equal to 0.2 mol % SnO2, and from 0.5 mol % to 6.5 mol % divalent cation oxides. The glass article has a molar ratio of Al2O3:(R2O+RO) greater than or equal to 0.9, where R2O is a sum of alkali metal oxides in mol % and RO is a sum of divalent cation oxides in mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 11028007
    Abstract: Embodiments of glass articles comprising an anneal point (° C.) and a softening point (° C.), and the relationship of (anneal point+softening point)/2 in a range from about 625° C. to about 725° C. are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the glass articles include a glass composition including SiO2 in an amount in a range from about 63 mol % to about 75 mol %; Al2O3 in an amount in a range from about 7 mol % to about 13 mol %; R2O in an amount from about 13 mol % to about 24 mol %; P2O5 in an amount in a range from about 0 mol % to about 3 mol %, and one or both of MgO and ZnO. Laminates including such glass articles, and methods for making such laminates are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Zhongzhi Tang, Lisa Anne Tietz Moore
  • Patent number: 11028013
    Abstract: A chemically strengthened glass has a compressive stress layer formed in a glass surface layer by ion exchange. The compressive stress layer includes at least two types of stress patterns of a stress pattern A close to a glass surface and a stress pattern B on an inner side of the glass. In the stress pattern A, compressive stress increases as going inward from the glass surface. In the stress pattern B, compressive stress decreases as going inward from the glass surface. Depth of compressive stress layer in the stress pattern B is 90 ?m or more from the glass surface. Compressive stress ? MPa of the glass surface in the stress pattern A and compressive stress ? MPa at a point where the stress pattern A and the stress pattern B cross each other satisfy a relation of ?>?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masao Ozeki, Shusaku Akiba, Izuru Kashima
  • Patent number: 11024335
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate containing an alkali metal component as a glass composition includes a pair of main surfaces and an outer circumferential side edge surface that is a mirror surface. The outer circumferential side edge surface includes a surface with a roughness percentage that is 40% or more when a bearing ratio of a roughness cross-sectional area is 50%, in a bearing ratio curve of roughness cross-sectional areas obtained when a surface roughness of the outer circumferential side edge surface obtained by etching the outer circumferential side edge surface by 2.5 ?m is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuhei Azuma
  • Patent number: 10947152
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for permanently electrostatically doping a layer of a conductive or non-conductive material that is deposited on a solid substrate, to the doped material obtained according to this process, and to the use of such a material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIC, UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE (PARIS 6)
    Inventors: Abhay Shukla, Johan Biscaras, Andrea Paradisi
  • Patent number: 10934209
    Abstract: Glass-based articles article are described and have a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t) (mm); and a compressive stress (CS) layer containing ion-exchanged potassium and ion-exchanged silver or ion-exchanged potassium and ion-exchanged copper, the CS layer extending from the first surface to a depth of compress (DOC), wherein the DOC is in a range of 0.1·t and 0.3·t, the CS at the first surface in a range of 300 MPa and 1500 MPa and defining a compressive stress profile including a spike region, a tail region and a knee region between the spike region and the tail region, wherein all points of the stress profile in the spike region comprise a tangent having a value that is in a range of ?15 MPa/micrometer and ?200 MPa/micrometer and all points in the tail region comprise a tangent having a value that is in a range of ?0.01 MPa/micrometer and ?3 MPa/micrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Vitor Marino Schneider
  • Patent number: 10918110
    Abstract: A glass laminate for an architectural element has a glass substrate coupled to the architectural element and defines a primary surface facing away from the architectural element. A phase-separable glass cladding is coupled to the primary surface. The cladding has an interconnected matrix with a first phase composition and a second phase that has a second phase composition different than the first phase composition. The second phase is distributed throughout the interconnected matrix. A copper phase is distributed within the interconnected matrix. The glass cladding has an antimicrobial log kill rate greater than about 4 as measured by an EPA Copper Test Protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Heather Debra Boek, John Christopher Mauro, Lisa Anne Moore, Michael S Pambianchi, Natesan Venkataraman, Mark Owen Weller
  • Patent number: 10917989
    Abstract: Disclosed are device display screen protectors comprising a first strengthened substrate sized to cover a display screen of an electronic device, the first strengthened substrate having a central tension value in the range greater than 0 MPa and less than 20 MPa, a surface having a Knoop lateral cracking scratch threshold of at least 3 N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jaymin Amin, Joshua Michael Jacobs, Jonathan David Pesansky, Kevin Barry Reiman, Ananthanarayanan Subramanian
  • Patent number: 10899654
    Abstract: Glass-based articles comprise: a glass-based substrate having opposing first and second surfaces defining a substrate thickness (t); a stress profile comprising: a compressive stress region extending from the first surface to a depth of compression (DOC), the DOC located at 0.04•t or deeper; and a central tension region. An alkali metal oxide is present in the central tension region. A first metal oxide whose metal has the same or smaller atomic radius as the metal of the alkali metal oxide, and a second metal oxide whose metal has a larger atomic radius than the metal of the alkali metal oxide are both present in independent concentrations that vary within at least a portion of the compressive stress region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Qiao Li, Santona Pal
  • Patent number: 10899653
    Abstract: Provided herein is a glass composition comprising: about 72 mol % to about 77 mol % SiO2; about 8 mol % to about 12 mol % Al2O3; about 10 mol % to about 14 mol % of one or more alkali oxide R2O, wherein R2O is Li2O, Na2O, K2O, Rb2O, or Cs2O; one or more divalent oxide RO, wherein RO is MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO, or ZnO; and P2O5, wherein the ratio of mol % RO/(mol % R2O+mol % RO) is at least about 0.2. The glass composition has one or more of the following characteristics: (i) a low temperature (form 25° C. to 300° C.) coefficient thermal expansion (LTCTE) of less than 7.5 ppm/° C.; (ii) high temperature coefficient thermal expansion (HTCTE) of less than 18 ppm/° C.; (iii) liquidus viscosity of at least 200,000 poise; (iv) glass temperature of at least 1100° C. at 200,000 poise or at least 1200° C. at 35,000 poise; and (v) a fictive temperature Tf less than about 795° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Timothy Michael Gross
  • Patent number: 10800137
    Abstract: A laminated glazing unit includes one to ten first glass sheets each of thickness included between 1.5 and 22 mm, if needs be adhesively bonded to one another by one or more first adhesive interlayers, and a second glass sheet forming one of the two faces of the laminated glazing unit, of thickness included between 0.5 and 1.5 mm, and adhesively bonded to the first glass sheet(s) by a second adhesive interlayer, the second glass sheet being made of aluminosilicate or soda-lime glass that is chemically toughened, having a surface stress comprised between 300 and 1000 and between 200 and 500 MPa, respectively, and a depth under compression between 20 and 100 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Pierre Chaussade, Stéphane Daudiffret, Benoît Lubin, Michel Rouby
  • Patent number: 10787387
    Abstract: A glass-based article including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t) of about 3 millimeters or less (e.g., about 1 millimeter or less), and a stress profile, wherein all points of the stress profile between a thickness range from about 0·t up to 0.3·t and from greater than about 0.7·t to t, comprise a tangent with a slope having an absolute value greater than about 0.1 MPa/micrometer. In some embodiments, the glass-based article includes a non-zero metal oxide concentration that varies along at least a portion of the thickness (e.g., 0·t to about 0.3·t) and a maximum central tension of less than about 71.5/?(t) (MPa). In some embodiments, the concentration of metal oxide or alkali metal oxide decreases from the first surface to a point between the first surface and the second surface and increases from the point to the second surface. The concentration of the metal oxide may be about 0.05 mol % or greater or about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Guangli Hu, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Charlene Marie Smith, Zhongzhi Tang, Steven Alvin Tietje
  • Patent number: 10781136
    Abstract: The present invention relates to glass with a single reinforced layer, comprising a glass body and the single reinforced layer formed in a surface of the glass body. The compressive stress of the single reinforced layer trends to decrease non-linearly from the surface of the glass body to the interior of the glass body. The compressive stress curve of the single reinforced layer has an inflection point. The gradient of a first curve section in front of the inflection point is greater than the gradient of a second curve section behind the inflection point. The overall refractive index of the single reinforced layer trends to decrease non-linearly from the surface of the glass body to the interior of the glass body. The refractive index curve of the single reinforced layer has at least two inflection points. Furthermore, a method for preparing the glass with a single reinforced layer is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Chongqing Aureavia Hi-tech Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Hu, Fanghua Chen, Zhenyu Chen
  • Patent number: 10768143
    Abstract: Methods of characterizing ion-exchanged chemically strengthened glass containing lithium are disclosed. The methods allow for performing quality control of the stress profile in chemically strengthened Li-containing glasses having a surface stress spike produced in a potassium-containing salt, especially in a salt having both potassium and sodium. The method allows the measurement of the surface compression and the depth of the spike, and its contribution to the center tension, as well as the compression at the bottom of the spike, and the total center tension and calculation of the stress at the knee where the spike and the deep region of the stress profile intersect. The measurements are for a commercially important profile that is near-parabolic in shape in most of the interior of the substrate apart from the spike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ryan Claude Andrews, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Vitor Marino Schneider
  • Patent number: 10752542
    Abstract: A glass article having an asymmetric stress profile exhibiting a high degree of asymmetry and a low degree or no warp. The glass article has a stress profile with a high Asymmetry Figure of Merit and a high Warpage Figure of Merit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Timothy Michael Gross, Jennifer Lynn Hunt, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev
  • Patent number: 10745319
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method to produce a medical form body of lithium silicate glass ceramic. To increase its strength it is proposed that a surface compressive stress is created in a form body of lithium silicate glass, or containing lithium silicate glass, through the replacement of lithium ions by alkali metal ions of greater diameter. For this purpose the form body is covered with a paste that contains alkali metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Pröpster, Markus Vollmann
  • Patent number: 10654750
    Abstract: Chemically temperable glass sheet The invention relates to a glass sheet having a boron-, strontium- and lithium-free glass composition comprising the following in weight percentage, expressed with respect to the total weight of glass: 65?SiO2?78% 8?Na2O?15% 1?K2O<6% 1?Al2O3<3% 2?CaO<10% 0?MgO?6%; as well as a total iron (expressed in the form of Fe2O3) in a content ranging from 0.002 to 0.02% by weight and a K2O/(K2O+Na2O) ratio which is ranging from 0.1 and 0.7. The invention corresponds to an easy chemically-temperable soda-lime-silica type glass composition, which is more suited for use in electronic devices applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventor: Thomas Lambricht
  • Patent number: 10570055
    Abstract: A glass-ceramic composition is disclosed herein including: from about 60 mol. % to less than 72.0 mol. % SiO2; from about 10 mol. % to about 17 mol. % Al2O3; from about 3 mol. % to about 15 mol. % Na2O; from about 1 mol. % to about 8 mol. % Li2O; and from about 3 mol. % to about 7 mol. % TiO2. The glass-ceramic composition can be used to form one, two, or more, cladding layers of a laminated glass article, wherein the layer(s) of glass-ceramics material can be cerammed to form one or more glass layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Heather Debra Boek, Natesan Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 10562272
    Abstract: A strengthened glass article (100), such as a substrate for a p-Si based transistors, includes first and second glass cladding layers (104, 106) and a glass core layer (102) disposed therebetween. A coefficient of thermal expansion [CTE] of each cladding layer (104, 106), which can be made of the same glass, is at least 1×10?7° C.?1 less than that of the core layer (102). Each of the core and cladding layers has a strain point less than 700° C. A compaction of the glass article (100) is at most about 20 ppm [see FIG. 1]. A method includes forming a glass article and/or heating a glass article to a first temperature of at least about 400° C. The glass article has a glass core layer (102) and a glass cladding layer (104, 106) adjacent to the core layer. The glass article is maintained at a temperature within a range of from 400° C. to 600° C. for a holding period from 30 to 90 minutes and subsequently cooled to a temperature of at most 50° C. over a cooling period from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy James Kiczenski, Samuel John Koseba, Natesan Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 10544059
    Abstract: Glass-ceramics and precursor glasses that are crystallizable to glass-ceramics are disclosed. The glass-ceramics of one or more embodiments include rutile, anatase, armalcolite or a combination thereof as the predominant crystalline phase. Such glasses and glass-ceramics may include compositions of, in mole %: SiO2 in the range from about 45 to about 75; Al2O3 in the range from about 4 to about 25; P2O5 in the range from about 0 to about 10; MgO in the range from about 0 to about 8; R2O in the range from about 0 to about 33; ZnO in the range from about 0 to about 8; ZrO2 in the range from about 0 to about 4; B2O3 in the range from about 0 to about 12, and one or more nucleating agents in the range from about 0.5 to about 12. In some glass-ceramic articles, the total crystalline phase includes up to 20% by weight of the glass-ceramic article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Qiang Fu, Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Sumalee Likitvanichkul, John Christopher Mauro
  • Patent number: 10526537
    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: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Timothy James Kiczenski
  • Patent number: 10425994
    Abstract: A volume-colored monolithic glass ceramic cooking plate is provided. The plate includes a first zone in which the coloration of the glass ceramic differs from that of a second, adjacent zone, so that an absorption coefficient of the first zone is lower than the absorption coefficient of the second, adjacent zone and so that integral light transmission in the visible spectral range is greater in the first zone than the integral light transmission of the second, adjacent zone. The light scattering in the glass ceramic of the first zone differs from light scattering in the glass ceramic of the second zone by not more than 20 percentage points, preferably by not more than 5 percentage points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Evelin Weiss, Bernd Hoppe, Martin Spier, Daniela Seiler
  • Patent number: 10407339
    Abstract: Ion exchangeable alkali aluminosilicate glasses and glass articles having softening points and high temperature coefficients of thermal expansion that permit the glass to be formed into three-dimensional shapes by the vacuum sagging process are provided. These glasses contain significant amounts of at least one of MgO and ZnO and comprise B2O3 and less than 1 mol % Li2O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte, Robert Michael Morena, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 10399894
    Abstract: The glass sheet of the present invention is a glass sheet with a thickness of 1.6 mm or less produced by a float process in which a molten glass material is formed into a sheet on a molten metal. When one surface of the glass sheet kept in contact with the molten metal during the formation of the molten glass material into the glass sheet is defined as a first surface and the other surface of the glass sheet opposite to the first surface is defined as a second surface, at least the first surface has been subjected to a treatment for forming a densified dealkalized layer therein. An etching rate ER1 (nm/min) of the first surface and an etching rate ER2 (nm/min) of the second surface satisfy a relation of ER2/ER1?0.8 when the first surface and the second surface are etched using 0.1 mass % hydrofluoric acid at 50° C. as an etching liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi Hotta, Kazuishi Mitani, Yasuhiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10322960
    Abstract: Controlling foam in apparatus downstream of a melter by adjustment of alkali oxide content in the melter. One method includes feeding a feedstock into a submerged combustion melter (SCM) apparatus having an internal space containing a flowing or non-flowing molten mass of foamed glass comprising molten glass and bubbles entrained therein, the molten mass having glass foam comprising glass foam bubbles on at least a portion of a top surface of the molten mass. The molten mass from the SCM is routed to a downstream apparatus, stability of the glass foam in the downstream apparatus is observed, and alkali oxide percentage fed to the SCM apparatus is adjusted based on the observation to positively or negatively affect the foam stability. Systems for carrying out the methods, and the products of the methods are also considered novel and inventive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Marlon Keith Martin, Kristina Jevicova, Jeffrey M Shock, Mark William Charbonneau
  • Patent number: 10273049
    Abstract: Delamination resistant glass containers with heat-tolerant coatings are disclosed. In one embodiment, a glass container may include a glass body having an interior surface, an exterior surface and a wall thickness extending from the exterior surface to the interior surface. At least the interior surface of the glass body is delamination resistant. The glass container may further include a heat-tolerant coating positioned on at least a portion of the exterior surface of the glass body. The heat-tolerant coating may be thermally stable at temperatures greater than or equal to 260° C. for 30 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kaveh Adib, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Theresa Chang, Paul Stephen Danielson, Steven Edward DeMartino, Melinda Ann Drake, Andrei Gennadyevich Fadeev, James Patrick Hamilton, Robert Michael Morena, Santona Pal, John Stephen Peanasky, Chandan Kumar Saha, Robert Anthony Schaut, Susan Lee Schiefelbein, Christopher Lee Timmons
  • Patent number: 10252941
    Abstract: Chemically strengthened glass and a method for making utilizing differential chemistry are provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a glass chemical structure. Host alkali ions are situated in the chemical structure. The substrate has a treatment-rich volume and a treatment-poor volume located as opposed to each other in the substrate. The method also includes providing an exchange medium characterized by including a composition associated with an ion exchange rate of invading alkali ions having an average ionic radius that is larger than an average ionic radius of the host alkali ions. The method also includes providing a modified exchange medium including a modified composition associated with a modified ion exchange rate of the invading alkali ions. The method also includes applying the exchange mediums and conducting ion exchange to produce the strengthened substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Saxon Glass Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick K. Kreski