公开(公告)号：US07071417B2

公开(公告)日：2006-07-04

申请号：US10972549

申请日：2004-10-25

申请人： Alexis G. Clare ,  Wesley A. King ,  William C. LaCourse ,  Howard H. Liebermann ,  James E. O'Keefe, Jr.

发明人： Alexis G. Clare ,  Wesley A. King ,  William C. LaCourse ,  Howard H. Liebermann ,  James E. O'Keefe, Jr.

IPC分类号： H01B7/00

CPC分类号： G06K19/06018 ,  G06K19/06187 ,  Y10T29/49117 ,  Y10T29/49194

摘要： A drawn glass-coated metallic member has a thermal contraction coefficient differential such that the thermal contraction coefficient of the glass is less than that of the metallic member. The thermal contraction coefficient differential is maintained within a predetermined range during drawing. Drawn glass is placed under residual compression, interfacial bonding between said glass and said wire is substantially uniform, and surface cracking and bond breaks between metal and glass are substantially prevented. Optical properties of the glass coated microwire provide a basis for enabling multi-bit encoding capability. Advantageously data encoding is achieved optically, magneto-optically or using a combined magnetic and optical encoding mechanism. The duplex material constitution of the glass coated microwire permits imparting of data thereon by selection and processing of the glass. Data implantation is readily achieved in-line, during an initial drawing operation, or as a separate post-draw process. Reading of data on optically encoded glass coated microwire is readily accomplished by optical or magnetic methodology, or a combination thereof.

公开(公告)号：US07354645B2

公开(公告)日：2008-04-08

申请号：US10746784

申请日：2003-12-26

申请人： Howard H. Liebermann ,  William C. LaCourse ,  James E. O'Keefe, Jr.

发明人： Howard H. Liebermann ,  William C. LaCourse ,  James E. O'Keefe, Jr.

IPC分类号： B32B15/00

CPC分类号： H01B3/08 ,  C03B37/026 ,  H01B1/02 ,  Y10T428/2933 ,  Y10T428/294 ,  Y10T428/2949 ,  Y10T428/2958

摘要： A metallic glass-coated wire is formed by drawing a hollow glass fiber from a container in which molten alloy is entrained and solidified. Interference stresses extant between the glass coating and the alloy core of the wire are produced by systematically controlling thickness and mechanical elastic properties of the glass. The interference stress is tailored by selection of glass thickness and chemistry to optimize wire drawing process conditions, such as drawing temperature and strain rate. In addition, the interference stress is especially tailored to assure physical integrity of the glass-alloy composite wire product. Local property variations along the wire length are minimized, facilitating production of discrete wire segments especially suited for use in EAS applications.

摘要翻译： 通过从其中夹带和固化熔融合金的容器中拉出中空玻璃纤维来形成金属玻璃涂层线。 通过系统地控制玻璃的厚度和机械弹性，产生玻璃涂层和金属丝的合金芯之间的干涉应力。 干涉应力是通过选择玻璃的厚度和化学成分来优化拉丝工艺条件，如拉伸温度和应变速率。 此外，干涉应力特别适合于确保玻璃 - 合金复合丝产品的物理完整性。 沿线长度的局部性质变化最小化，便于生产特别适用于EAS应用的分立线段。

公开(公告)号：US07233249B2

公开(公告)日：2007-06-19

申请号：US10935258

申请日：2004-09-07

申请人： Howard H. Liebermann ,  William C. LaCourse ,  Alexis G. Clare ,  Wesley A. King ,  James E. O'Keefe, Jr.

发明人： Howard H. Liebermann ,  William C. LaCourse ,  Alexis G. Clare ,  Wesley A. King ,  James E. O'Keefe, Jr.

IPC分类号： G08B13/14

CPC分类号： G06K19/06018 ,  G06K19/06046 ,  G06K19/06187 ,  G06K19/06196 ,  Y10T428/12465 ,  Y10T428/2935 ,  Y10T428/2938 ,  Y10T428/2949

摘要： A glass-coated amorphous metallic microwire is encoded with multi-bit digital information. Encoding is achieved magnetically, optically or through a combination of magnetic and optical encoding processes. Magnetic encoding is carried out by modifying the constituent magnetic domain structure through selective relief of interfacial stress between the glass coating and the amorphous metallic alloy core. It is also achieved by selective surface crystallization of the amorphous metallic core in order to produce a controlled magnetic bias field. Optical encoding is associated with the glass coating. It is readily achieved by fluorescent element deposition, patterned removal of fluorescent element coating, Bragg grating, and thermally activated pattern deposition. The magnetic and optical multi-bit encoding approaches for glass-coated amorphous metallic microwire can be used individually or collectively in either a redundant or a complementary manner. Encoded microwire of the instant invention can be assembled into tags for electronic article surveillance and into numerous other structures as well.

摘要翻译： 用多位数字信息编码玻璃涂层的非晶态金属微丝。 编码是通过磁学，光学或通过磁和光编码过程的组合实现的。 通过选择性地避免玻璃涂层和非晶金属合金芯之间的界面应力来改变构成磁畴结构来进行磁编码。 也可以通过非晶金属芯的选择性表面结晶来实现，以产生受控的磁偏置场。 光学编码与玻璃涂层有关。 通过荧光元件沉积，荧光元件涂层的图案化去除，布拉格光栅和热激活图案沉积容易实现。 用于玻璃涂覆的非晶金属微丝的磁和光多位编码方法可以单独使用或以多余或互补的方式共同使用。 本发明的编码微线可以组装成用于电子物品监视的标签以及许多其它结构。