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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136372 | Fused silica article loaded with deuterium and method of making A method of making a fused silica article having a combined concentration of protium and deuterium in a range from about 1×1016 molecules/cm3 up to about 6×1019 molecules/cm3. In some embodiments, deuterium is present in... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8042359 | Methods and apparatus for heat treating glass sheets Methods for heat treating glass sheets (13) are disclosed in which the sheets (13) are held in a vertical orientation in a treatment container (15) during the heat treatment. The container (15) includes a support system for the glass shee... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7363777 | Closed cassette and method for heat treating glass sheets A convection compatible closed cassette and method are described herein where the closed cassette is used to heat treat (compact) one or more glass sheets in a uniform manner and in a clean environment. In the preferred embodiment, the closed cassette includes multi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354526 | Processing method for glass substrate, processed glass product and stress applying apparatus A processing method for glass substrate of the present invention includes: applying heat and external force to a glass substrate and then cooling it down to thereby form a compression stressed part having a different etching rate from that of other parts with respec... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7325418 | Press forming system for glass The present invention is directed to reduce the total footprint of a press forming system for glass having a plurality of press units, and also to increase an actual availability of each press unit. A plurality of press units are arranged in two parallel rows and a ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322215 | Method for blank pressing of optical components Methods for press molding a glass body, especially for optical applications, without additional grinding and polishing steps are described. One method is performed with a press mold having an upper mold part, a lower mold part and, if necessary or desired, a ring. I... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7290405 | Method and apparatus for conducting heat to a glass sheet Method for transferring heat onto a glass in the furnace meant for heat treatment of glass, into which glass is transferred on a path of rollers, furnace heated by resistors (5) located inside of the furnace, the radiation heat directed onto the glass and con... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7251958 | Method for transporting glazing through a coating-depositing plant A method for transporting a fixed glazing to be equipped with a coating, particularly a curved glazing, through a coating plant. The glazing is transported by a transport device through the plant such that one of its main sides is covered with protection against the... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7201639 | Powder for disks A plurality of disks include a first disk and a second disk stacked upon the first disk. The first disk and the second disk are each formed from glass or glass-ceramic. A powder is disposed between the first disk and the second disk. The powder is selected from the ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7191618 | Large-sized substrate and method of producing the same A large-sized substrate having a diagonal length of not less than 500 mm and a ratio of flatness/diagonal length of not more than 6.0×10−6 is disclosed. By use of the large-sized substrate for exposure of the present invention, the exposure accuracy, p... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7172983 | SiO-TiOglass body with improved resistance to radiation The invention discloses an SiO2—TiO2 glass, which is preferably made by flame-hydrolysis and which distinguishes itself by increased resistance to radiation, especially in connection with EUV lithography. By purposefully reducing the hydrogen... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7155938 | Method and device for loading a glass processing installation In the method for loading a glass processing installation (5) with loading portions (10a), glass plates (10, 10b) are extracted repeatedly from a storage unit (20) in a predetermined sequence and divided into a residual port... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7114395 | Vibration detector A small photodetector type microphone (10) exhibiting excellent directivity without requiring any mirror surface. A diaphragm (27) vibrates in response to a sound pressure. An optical waveguide (28) is formed along the diameter of the diaphragm ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7111477 | Production method of optical synthetic quartz glass, optical synthetic quartz glass, and annealing furnace An object is to provide a method for producing an optical synthetic quartz glass and an optical synthetic glass, having a birefringence of lower than 0.5 nm/cm and having favorable refractive index distribution, yet without lowering the productivity, as well as to p... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7111476 | Electrophoretic deposition process for making quartz glass products Cup-shaped porous silica preforms suitable for manufacture of large 24-inch crucibles used in Czochralski crystal-growing furnaces are produced by a unique electrophoretic casting process using a high-purity aqueous silica slip or slurry having a predetermined parti... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110193 | Optical lens preform, optical lens, and method of making optical lens The method of making an optical lens in accordance with the present invention comprises an optical lens preform producing step of producing an optical lens preform 40 having a plurality of curved surface parts 43 formed parallel to each other, and a pa... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7093465 | Method for heat treating synthetic quartz glass for optical use An object of the present invention is to overcome the problems of the prior art technique, and to provide a heat treatment method as well as a heat treatment apparatus capable of heat treating, with higher efficiency, a synthetic quartz glass for optical use having ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7079918 | System for adjusting position of glass plates A system for adjusting position of glass plates includes (1) a chain for conveying glass plates into a bending furnace, the chain having (a) alternate links, (b) connecting pins for holding the alternate links together, (c) extension pins extending from some of the ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7074731 | Method for producing hydrogen-doped silica powder, hydrogen-doped silica powder obtained from that method for use in a quartz glass crucible It is an object of the present invention to provide a hydrogen-doped silica powder that is useful in the formation of a quartz glass crucible that is capable of pulling a silicon single crystal without causing a state having dislocations in the silicon single crysta... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7017370 | Method and device for the homogenous heating of glass and/or glass-ceramic articles using infrared radiation A method for the homogeneous heating of semitransparent and/or transparent glass and/or glass-ceramic articles using infrared radiation so that the glass and/or glass-ceramic articles undergo heat treatment at between 20 and 3000° C., notably at between 20 and 1705... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7000430 | Method of forming glass-ceramic parts and/or glass parts The invention relates to a method of producing glass-ceramic parts and/or glass parts by deformation of a glass-ceramic blank and/or glass blank. The invention is characterized in that forming is carried out using infrared radiation. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000433 | Device for heating plates of glass A device for heating plates of glass (3) which are hardened or deformed, includes two ceramic heating plates (1) between which a plate of glass (3) is arranged. Compensation plates (20) are associated with the heating plates (1) at... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6946619 | Method and laser-computer system for producing laser-induced holograms This invention provides methods and apparatus for producing holograms by creating arrangement of laser-induced damages inside transparent materials. A method for transformation of an interference pattern into arrangement of points so that laser-induced damages creat... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947226 | Optical lens-use base material, optical lens, and method of producing optical lens The method of making an optical lens in accordance with the present invention comprises an optical lens preform producing step of producing an optical lens preform 40 having a plurality of curved surface parts 43 formed parallel to each other, and a pa... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6928838 | Apparatus and method for forming silica glass elements The forming apparatus has top and bottom die assemblies which form a heated silica glass material by press forming. These top and bottom die assemblies include, respectively, mold dies, which are made of isotropic carbon, and core molds, which are made of vitrified ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918267 | Press molding apparatus and press molding method A press molding apparatus includes upper and lower mother molds 102 and 104. Each of the mother molds 102 and 104 has four molding surfaces arranged in a single line and satisfies the relationship given by L×α×ΔT/t | 07/19/2005 |
| 6915665 | Method of inducing transmission in optical lithography preforms The invention provides an ultraviolet lithography method/system. The lithography method and system include providing a below 200 nm radiation source, providing a photolytically improved transmitting fused silica glass lithography optical element, transmitting below ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6908674 | Jadeite and its production A jadeite material has a thickness in excess of about 1.0 mm and CIELAB indices of L*>42, a*+6. The grain size of the jadeite material is less than about 30 microns and is an equiaxed grain structure. The jadeite material has an optical transmission pe... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6905991 | Soda-lime-silica glass compositions and applications The subject of the invention is a glass composition of the silica-soda-lime type, intended for the manufacture of substrates or sheets, the said glass composition having a φ coefficient of between 0.50 and 0.85 N/(mm2.° C.) and a working point of less t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6845635 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIA, GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIA MANUFACTURED USING THE METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE GLASS SUBSTRATE There are provided a method of manufacturing a glass substrate for information recording media that allows the inner and outer peripheral edge surfaces of the glass substrate for information recording media to be smoothed easily and inexpensively, a glass substrate ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6807823 | Fluorine-containing glass A process for producing fluorine-containing glass. An SiO2 soot is synthesized by hydrolyzing SiCl4. The soot is heated in a chlorine-compound-free atmosphere containing a fluorine compound gas to form a fluorine-containing silica glass. The gl... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6786064 | Process for the production of glass molded article Provided are a process for the production of a precision press-molded article having a high transmittance and a method of treating a glass to color or decolor the glass, the process comprising heat-treating a press-molded article containing at least one selected fro... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6777872 | Plasma display panel and method for production thereof To provide a technique for relatively easily preventing yellowing of a PDP that uses silver electrodes, and a PDP utilizing the technique that is capable of displaying images with high luminance and high quality. To form the electrodes, an alloy composed of Ag as a ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6735982 | Processing relatively thin glass sheets Thin glass sheets may be processed in an effective fashion by electrostatically charging the sheets and applying them to an oppositely electrostatically charged carrier sheet. After processing is completed the carrier sheet may be removed and the processed sheet may... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6732546 | Product method of synthetic silica glass and thermal treatment apparatus A production method of synthetic silica glass according to the present invention comprises a first step of ejecting a silicon compound and a combustion gas containing oxygen and hydrogen from a burner to effect hydrolysis of the silicon compound in oxyhydrogen flame... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6705125 | Reduction of damage initiation density in fused silica optics via UV laser conditioning The present invention provides a method for reducing the density of sites on the surface of fused silica optics that are prone to the initiation of laser-induced damage, resulting in optics which have far fewer catastrophic defects and are better capable of resistin... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6701752 | Synthesized silica glass optical member and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a synthesized silica glass optical member, the method comprising: providing a porous silica glass body; heating the porous silica glass body in an atmosphere containing hydrogen or oxygen, and sintering the porous silica glass b... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6668590 | Forced convection heating furnace and method for heating glass sheets A furnace (10) and method for heating conveyed glass sheets within a housing (12) includes forced convection heaters (24) spaced along the direction of conveyance both below and above a roll conveyor (20). Each forced convection heater (24) includes a gas... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6651461 | Conveyor belt A conveyor belt including a series of predefined sections and elevated support structures at the edges of each section for supporting items on the belt above the belt at each section.... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6612133 | Method for shifting absorption peak wavelength of infrared radiation absorbing glass A method for shifting the absorption peak wavelength in the wavelength range 900-1600 nm of an infrared radiation absorbing glass from less than 1100 nm to 1100 nm or longer without substantially changing the tint of the glass, comprising the step of irra... | 09/02/2003 |
