Glass manufacturing inventions 11/07

20070271957 - Process for producing glass strip, glass strip and glass substrate: A manufacturing method of a glass strip, the method including a heating and drawing process of heating and softening a glass plate preform (1), drawing the glass plate preform to have a desired thickness and forming a glass strip (11), wherein at the heating and drawing process the glass plate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070271958 - Method of molding silica glass: a second step of molding the silica glass in a predetermined form by pressing the same by means of the pressing portion so that a maximum pressure can be 0.2 Kg/cm2 to 0.8 Kg/cm2 while heating the silica glass so that the temperature of the same can be within a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070271959 - Method of manufacturing glass base material: To decrease the manufacturing cost and the transmission loss of precursor of optical fiber or preform for optical fiber, a method of manufacturing glass base material includes: forming porous glass base material which includes a dopant added core part, and an inner clad layer surrounding said core part and having... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070271960 - Method and apparatus for manufacturing a glass body: A method for manufacturing a glass body for a potentiometric sensor, including: loading a first spindle of a glass lathe with outer and inner glass tubes, so that the glass tubes are arranged coaxially with one another and with the axis of rotation of the first spindle, the inner glass... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070271961 - Production method and device of optical fiber parent material: A manufacturing method of an optical fiber base material 2 according to a VAD method includes: detecting a tip position of a soot core by means of a discrete value; averaging the value of the detected tip position by a predetermined time; and adjusting a manufacturing condition of the soot... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070271962 - Production method of quartz glass: Provided is a manufacturing method of quartz glass, which includes forming a soot deposition member that includes an effective portion having a substantially constant outer diameter and being to become a material of a glass product and ineffective portions formed at both ends of the effective portion and having an... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070271963 - Apparatus and process for producing tubes or rods: A process for producing tubes or rods is provided. The process includes providing a settable liquid and producing a strand by drawing the liquid from a nozzle in a drawing direction. The result of this is that the settable liquid emerges through an annular gap formed by the nozzle with... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20070271964 - Method and device for producing a hollow quartz-glass cylinder: In a known method for producing a hollow quartz-glass cylinder by means of the soot method , a porous soot tube with a central inner bore is produced by the deposition of SiO2 particles on the outer surface of a support that rotates about its longitudinal axis. The soot tube... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20070266734 - Method for producing glass ceramic articles with an improved surface: In order to provide glass ceramic articles with an improved surface with regard to roughness, the invention relates to a method for producing glass ceramic panels (40) in which a green glass panel (10) is produced by hot forming and the green glass panel (10) is subsequently ceramized to form... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070266735 - Gas sensor: A gas sensor is for determining at least one physical quantity of a gas, e.g., an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, the gas sensor having a sensor element that is fixed in a housing of the gas sensor by a seal assembly. The seal assembly includes a sealing... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070266736 - Process of fining glassmelts using helium bubbles: A process for removing blisters (large bubbles in a glassmelt) and seeds (small bubbles in a glassmelt) from a glassmelt by feeding helium bubbles having a diameter between about 0.5 cm and about 3 cm at a prescribed flow rate and location to effectively produce a substantially bubble-free article.... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20070266737 - Method and a device for the refining of glass: A device for the refining of a glass melt at high temperatures according to the skull pot principle is provided. The device includes a skull crucible having walls that are constructed from a plurality of pipes, a high-frequency coil for coupling electrical energy into the contents of the skull crucible,... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070261443 - Method and device for producing flat glass according to a float method: A method for reducing surface defects during production of a float glass with a transformation temperature Tg equal to or greater than 600° C. is provided which includes removing impurities from a surface of the glass strip in a float chamber by a molten metal flowing over the glass strip... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070261444 - Method for making a mold used for press-molding glass optical articles: A method for making a mold used for press-molding glass articles, comprising: providing a mold base with a press surface in a vacuum chamber; producing a plasma in the vacuum chamber; bombarding a target electrode containing carbon material with ions in the plasma and ejecting carbon atoms from the target... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070261445 - Thin-walled blown glass ornament that opens: A method for making a decorative ornament includes mouth blowing a first thin-walled glass object and cutting the first mouth blown thin walled glass object into first and second modules. The first and second modules are dimensionally and spatially correlated, where the removal of the second module results in an... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070261446 - Rotary fiberization process for making glass fibers, an insulation mat, and pipe insulation: Tubular pipe insulation is made from a glass fiber mat produced utilizing a rotary glass fiberization process. A spinner disc is rotated to centrifuge molten glass through fiberization holes in an annular sidewall of the spinner disc and form primary glass fibers. The primary glass fibers are attenuated and formed... Agent: Johns Manville

20070256453 - Methods of making led extractor arrays: A molding operation produces an extractor array by providing a mold having a plurality of cavities therein, each cavity being adapted to form an extractor suitable for coupling to an LED die; filling the mold with a plurality of glass particles; heating the glass particles above glass transition temperatures thereof... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070256455 - Method for preparing a glass substrate with a durable coloured pattern: The invention provides a method for preparing a glass substrate with a durable coloured pattern, in which method the coloured patterns is allowed to fuse into the glass substrate during the melting of the glass substrate.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070256456 - Manufacturing apparatus of porous glass base material and glass base material for optical fiber: A manufacturing apparatus of a porous glass base material is provided. The manufacturing apparatus includes a burner repeatedly moving back and forth reciprocating in a direction along a longitudinal direction of an axis-rotating base member glass rod, where the burner ejects and deposits glass particles onto the base member glass... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070251270 - Method for producing glass substrate for magnetic disk, and magnetic disk: A method for producing a glass substrate for a magnetic disk by polishing a circular glass plate, which comprises a step of polishing the principal plane of the circular glass plate by using a slurry containing a CeO2 crystal powder, the CeO2 crystal powder being obtained in such a manner... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070251271 - Processes for the production of glass article and optical device: A process for stably and efficiently producing quality glass articles such as preforms at high yields, and a process for producing an optical device from the preform obtained by the above process. In the process for producing a glass article, molten glass gobs having a predetermined weight each are poured,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070251272 - Rectangular monobloc optical lens and manufacturing method thereof: A rectangular monobloc optical lens and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. A monobloc optical lens includes a rectangular surround and a central mirror-surface area. The rectangular surround is mounted inside a clipping part of a lens holder. The central mirror-surface area consists of a convex aspherical surface and a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070251273 - System, method, and apparatus for adjustable stacker bar assembly having vertical accommodation features: An adjustable stacker bar assembly includes a pad assembly having a lower pad that is mounted to a push bar. The lower pad is in direct contact with and independently mounted to the push bar. An upper pad is mounted to and spaced apart from the lower pad by a... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070251274 - Blank mold for an i.s. glass forming machine: A blank mold for an I. S. Machine is made up of a pair of opposed engaged blanks. When closed, these blanks have a top surface with an opening. The blanks have an inner surface defining the side wall of a parison which extends upwardly to a position a defined... Agent: Spencer T. Smith Emhart Glass Research, Inc.

20070251275 - Method for producing reactive raw material for manufacture of glass suitable fiberization: The subject invention is directed to a method for producing a raw material or materials that can be used by themselves or in combination with other ingredients to make glass of high quality at high efficiencies and short production times. The raw materials are capable of high reactivity in a... Agent: Johns Manville