公开(公告)号：US20180148365A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-31

申请号：US15567521

申请日：2016-04-19

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： James William Brown ,  Weiwie Luo ,  Elias Panides ,  Ling Qi ,  Edward Zhmayev ,  Naiyue Zhou

IPC: C03B33/033 ,  C03B33/03 ,  C03B17/06

CPC classification number: C03B33/033 ,  B65G2249/045 ,  C03B17/067 ,  C03B33/0215 ,  C03B33/03

Abstract: A glass manufacturing apparatus may be configured to facilitate a process of separating a glass ribbon along a separation path extending across a width of the glass ribbon. In one example, the glass manufacturing apparatus comprises at least one anvil-side vacuum port defined by an elongated nose and an elongated anvil member. The anvil-side vacuum port is configured to remove glass debris during the process of separating the glass ribbon. In another example, the glass manufacturing apparatus comprises a scoring device and a score-side vacuum port configured to remove glass debris generated during the process of separating the glass ribbon.

公开(公告)号：US09522837B2

公开(公告)日：2016-12-20

申请号：US14447017

申请日：2014-07-30

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Bushra Afzal ,  Keith Raymond Gaylo ,  Elias Panides ,  Kevin Lee Wasson

IPC: C03B23/02 ,  C03B23/025 ,  C03B23/035

CPC classification number: C03B23/0258 ,  C03B23/0357

Abstract: A method of making a shaped glass article includes placing a glass sheet on top of a mold. A heat exchanger is arranged relative to the mold such that a heat exchange surface of the heat exchanger is in opposing relation to a back surface of the mold and separated from the back surface of the mold by a gap containing a layer of gas. The height of the gap is selected such that the dominant heat transfer between the heat exchange surface and the back surface of the mold is by conduction through the layer of gas. The glass sheet is heated and formed into a shaped glass article with the mold. The heat exchanger is operated to remove heat from at least part of the mold during at least one of heating the glass sheet, forming the shaped glass article, and cooling the shaped glass article.

Abstract translation: 制造成形玻璃制品的方法包括将玻璃板放置在模具的顶部。 相对于模具布置热交换器，使得热交换器的热交换表面与模具的后表面相对，并且与模具的背面隔开包含一层气体的间隙。 选择间隙的高度，使得热交换表面和模具的后表面之间的主要传热是通过气体层的传导。 玻璃板被加热并与模具成形为成形玻璃制品。 在加热玻璃板，形成成形玻璃制品和冷却成形玻璃制品的至少一个中，操作热交换器以从至少部分模具中除去热量。

公开(公告)号：US09469561B2

公开(公告)日：2016-10-18

申请号：US14317581

申请日：2014-06-27

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Nikolaos P Kladias ,  Kenneth Spencer Morgan ,  Elias Panides ,  Rohit Rai ,  John R Ridge ,  Ljerka Ukrainczyk

IPC: C03B23/023 ,  C03B23/025 ,  C03B23/035 ,  C03B25/08 ,  C03B35/14 ,  C03B29/08

CPC classification number: C03B23/0235 ,  C03B23/0258 ,  C03B23/0357 ,  C03B25/08 ,  C03B29/08 ,  C03B35/14 ,  C03B2225/00

Abstract: A glass sheet is placed on a mold and heated to a first temperature. The glass sheet is then formed into a glass article having a three-dimensional shape using the mold. An isothermal heat transfer device comprising at least one heat pipe is provided in thermal contact with the mold. With the glass article on the mold and the isothermal heat transfer device in thermal contact with the mold, the glass article, mold, and isothermal heat transfer device are transported along a thermally-graded channel to cool the glass article to a second temperature. During the transporting, the isothermal heat transfer device transfers heat from a relatively hot region of the mold to a relatively cold region of the mold.

Abstract translation: 将玻璃板放置在模具上并加热至第一温度。 然后使用该模具将玻璃片形成为具有三维形状的玻璃制品。 提供与模具热接触的包括至少一个热管的等温传热装置。 随着模具上的玻璃制品和与模具热接触的等温传热装置，玻璃制品，模具和等温传热装置沿着热分级通道输送以将玻璃制品冷却至第二温度。 在运输期间，等温传热装置将热量从模具的相对较热的区域传递到模具的相对较冷的区域。

公开(公告)号：US20160031738A1

公开(公告)日：2016-02-04

申请号：US14883999

申请日：2015-10-15

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Weiwei Luo ,  Elias Panides ,  Rohit Rai ,  Irene Marjorie Slater ,  Ljerka Ukrainczyk ,  Srinavasa Rao Vaddiraju ,  Sam Samer Zoubi

IPC: C03B23/03 ,  H05K5/03 ,  C03B23/035

CPC classification number: C03B23/0307 ,  C03B23/0302 ,  C03B23/0305 ,  C03B23/035 ,  C03B40/04 ,  H05K5/03 ,  Y10T428/24653

Abstract: A process using a three-piece mold for making a three-dimensionally shaped glass article having a flat area and a curved/bend area is disclosed. The process includes placing a glass sheet on a mold having a shaping surface with a desired surface profile for the shaped glass article including a flat area and a bend area, moving a flat area plunger toward the glass sheet to compress the glass sheet, heating a portion of the glass sheet corresponding to an area above the bend area of the mold to a temperature above a forming temperature, and moving a bend area plunger toward the heated glass sheet to compress the heated glass sheet. A temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the bend area of the mold is higher than a temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the flat area of the mold when compressing the heated glass sheet with the bend area plunger.

Abstract translation: 公开了一种使用三件式模具制造具有平坦区域和弯曲/弯曲区域的三维形状的玻璃制品的方法。 该方法包括将玻璃板放置在具有成形表面的模具上，所述成形表面具有用于成形玻璃制品的所需表面轮廓，所述成形玻璃制品包括平坦区域和弯曲区域，将平坦区域柱塞朝向玻璃板移动以压缩玻璃板，加热 玻璃板的对应于模具的弯曲区域以上的区域的部分达到高于成形温度的温度，并且使弯曲区域柱塞向加热的玻璃板移动以压缩加热的玻璃板。 当用弯曲区域柱塞压缩加热的玻璃板时，在模具的弯曲区域之上的区域中的玻璃板的温度高于在模具的平坦区域之上的区域中的玻璃板的温度。

公开(公告)号：US11673822B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-13

申请号：US16464231

申请日：2017-11-30

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Adam Charles Berkey ,  Eliot Geathers ,  Daniel Warren Hawtof ,  Douglas Edward McElheny ,  Jiandong Meng ,  Elias Panides ,  Gaozhu Peng ,  Randy Lee Rhoads ,  Yuriy Yurkovskyy ,  Chunfeng Zhou

IPC: C03B17/04

CPC classification number: C03B17/04

Abstract: A glass tube manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing glass tubing includes a glass delivery tank with molten glass. The glass delivery tank has a bottom opening. A bell has an upper portion with an outer diameter located at the bottom opening. A heating apparatus is at least partially disposed around the bell. The heating apparatus includes a heated portion and a muffle portion located below the heated portion. A lower extended muffle structure extends downwardly from the muffle portion. The lower extended muffle structure extending about the glass tubing on all sides to manage convective airflow therethrough.

公开(公告)号：US20220064046A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-03

申请号：US17410131

申请日：2021-08-24

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Purushotam Kumar ,  Sean Thomas Miller ,  Elias Panides ,  Yujian Sun

IPC: C03B17/04 ,  C03B23/00

Abstract: An enclosure for providing a controlled environment includes a central plane extending through a top end of the enclosure and a bottom end of the enclosure and bisecting the enclosure along a width of the enclosure, an inlet at the bottom end of the enclosure having an inlet width, Winlet, an enclosure wall extending from the inlet to the top end of the enclosure, an entry port at the top end of the enclosure, and an outlet between the entry port and the chamber region of the enclosure wall. The enclosure wall comprises a chamber region and a transition region between the inlet and the chamber region. The width of the chamber region, Wchamber, is substantially constant through the chamber region. The width of the enclosure in the transition region decreases from Wchamber to Winlet, and a ratio of Winlet to Wchamber is from 1:2 to 1:5.

公开(公告)号：US20190284084A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-19

申请号：US16298605

申请日：2019-03-11

Applicant: Corning Incorporated

Inventor： Erling Richard Anderson ,  John Michael Jewell ,  Robert Walter Nason ,  Elias Panides ,  Xiaoyong Wang ,  Leo Young Zheng ,  Chunfeng Zhou

IPC: C03B37/029 ,  F27B5/10 ,  F27B5/14 ,  C03B37/083

Abstract: An optical fiber draw furnace muffle includes a body portion defining a substantially cylindrical cavity extending along a centerline axis of the muffle. A tapered portion has an interior surface which defines a first curved portion with a first radius of curvature and a second curved portion with a second radius of curvature. At least one of the first and second radii of curvature has a radius greater than a radius of the cylindrical cavity.

公开(公告)号：US20180370839A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-27

申请号：US15778819

申请日：2016-11-29

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Jean-Luc Dabouineau ,  Elias Panides ,  William Robert Powell ,  Irene Marjorie Slater ,  Sam Samer Zoubi

IPC: C03B23/025 ,  C03B23/023 ,  C03B23/035 ,  C03B23/03 ,  C03B40/04

Abstract: A method of making articles from preformed materials includes placing a preformed material on a mold such that a non-quality region of the preformed material contacts the mold and a quality region of the preformed material is free of contact with the mold. A non-contact support is provided to the quality region to control sagging of the quality region. A reformable area of the preformed material is formed into a select shape by contacting the reformable area with a forming tool while restricting contact between the forming tool and the reformable area to the non-quality region. After the forming of the reformable area, an article is extracted from the quality region.

公开(公告)号：US20150329402A1

公开(公告)日：2015-11-19

申请号：US14713171

申请日：2015-05-15

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Bushra Afzal ,  Keith Raymond Gaylo ,  Elias Panides

IPC: C03B23/023

CPC classification number: C03B23/0235 ,  Y02P40/57

Abstract: Mold assemblies for forming shaped glass articles are disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, a mold assembly may include a mold body including a mold cavity, a support base, and a plenum body extending between the mold body and the support base. When the mold assembly is heated to an average temperature of greater than or equal to about 650° C. by an overhead heating source, the temperature at the center of the mold cavity may be less than at the perimeter of the mold cavity. The difference between the temperature at the center of the mold cavity and the temperature at the perimeter of the mold cavity may be at least about 12° C.

Abstract translation: 本文公开了用于成形成形玻璃制品的模具组件。 根据一个实施例，模具组件可以包括模具主体，其包括模腔，支撑基座和在模体和支撑基座之间延伸的增压室。 当通过塔顶加热源将模具组件加热到大于或等于约650℃的平均温度时，模腔中心处的温度可以小于模腔周长处的温度。 模腔中心处的温度与模腔周边的温度之间的差可以是至少约12℃

公开(公告)号：US20140335322A1

公开(公告)日：2014-11-13

申请号：US14269424

申请日：2014-05-05

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Weiwei Luo ,  Elias Panides ,  Rohit Rai ,  Irene Marjorie Slater ,  Ljerka Ukrainczyk ,  Srinivasa Rao Vaddiraju ,  Sam Samer Zoubi

IPC: C03B23/03 ,  H05K5/03

CPC classification number: C03B23/0307 ,  C03B23/0302 ,  C03B23/0305 ,  C03B23/035 ,  C03B40/04 ,  H05K5/03 ,  Y10T428/24653

Abstract: A process using a three-piece mold for making a three-dimensionally shaped glass article having a flat area and a curved/bend area is disclosed. The process includes placing a glass sheet on a mold having a shaping surface with a desired surface profile for the shaped glass article including a flat area and a bend area, moving a flat area plunger toward the glass sheet to compress the glass sheet, heating a portion of the glass sheet corresponding to an area above the bend area of the mold to a temperature above a forming temperature, and moving a bend area plunger toward the heated glass sheet to compress the heated glass sheet. A temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the bend area of the mold is higher than a temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the flat area of the mold when compressing the heated glass sheet with the bend area plunger.

Abstract translation: 公开了一种使用三件式模具制造具有平坦区域和弯曲/弯曲区域的三维形状的玻璃制品的方法。 该方法包括将玻璃板放置在具有成形表面的模具上，所述成形表面具有用于成形玻璃制品的所需表面轮廓，所述成形玻璃制品包括平坦区域和弯曲区域，将平坦区域柱塞朝向玻璃板移动以压缩玻璃板，加热 玻璃板的对应于模具的弯曲区域以上的区域的部分达到高于成形温度的温度，并且使弯曲区域柱塞向加热的玻璃板移动以压缩加热的玻璃板。 当用弯曲区域柱塞压缩加热的玻璃板时，在模具的弯曲区域之上的区域中的玻璃板的温度高于在模具的平坦区域之上的区域中的玻璃板的温度。