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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434420 | Process for glass molding A process for glass molding includes the steps of: gradually increasing a working temperature to a formation temperature T1 while maintaining a normal pressure and an initial mold position; maintaining the formation temperature T1 for about 60 ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7401477 | Method for bending a glass sheet A glass sheet, which has been heated to have a viscosity of not lower than 105 Pa·s and not higher than 108 Pa·s, is pressed against a mold having a certain bending surface to be bent. There are a step for controlling a bending temperature T ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7353666 | Method for press molding a glass optical element A molding apparatus for molding a press-molded product by heating and softening a material and press-molding the material into a predetermined shape by the use of a mold, includes a pair of dies which form the mold, each of which comprises a molding surface facing w... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7331198 | Bending apparatus for a glass sheet A desired temperature distribution is efficiently formed on a glass sheet by a simple structure without lowering heat efficiency within a furnace. A heating furnace conveys a bending mold of a glass sheet and a radiation-heating device is provided in the heating fur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7305854 | Methods for producing substrate blank A method for producing a thin-plate-shaped substrate blank that is an intermediate for a glass substrate, in which the occurrence of undulation is prevented and the substrate blank is produced with high accuracy, the method comprising press-molding a glass in a soft... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7222710 | Conveyance apparatus, conveyance system, and conveyance method A load conveyance device composed of: a load supporting device having a through hole passing in a gravity direction, and a fluid supplying device to supply a fluid into the through hole, | 05/29/2007 |
| 7213415 | Method for producing air-quench-toughened glass plate In a process for producing an air-quench-toughened glass plate, defective glass plates containing nickel sulfide (NiS) are removed by compulsory breaking the glass plates. Such compulsory breakage is carried out in the course of a batch-manner soaking process carrie... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7211521 | Capping layer for crystallizing germanium, and substrate having thin crystallized germanium layer A structure including at least one layer of germanium formed on a surface of a ceramic substrate is provided. The layer of germanium has a thickness of not larger than 10 microns and includes grains having grain size of at least 0.05 mm. A structure including at lea... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207193 | Method of fabricating low-warp flat glass A method of fabricating a glass sheet comprises modifying the thermal stress in the glass such that it is a tensile stress or substantially zero stress in a particular temperature zone of the glass, with that zone selected such that the glass sheet is formed substan... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7152433 | Method of manufacturing image display apparatus and apparatus for manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing an image display apparatus is provided and includes the steps of bringing panel members that constitute a display panel of the image display apparatus into a bake processing chamber, subjecting to bake processing the display panel members, ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7134298 | Method of press-forming glass An object of the present invention is to provide a press-forming method for glass capable of uniformly heating press dies and a preform and preventing oxidation of the press dies. According to the press-forming method for glass of the present invention, a preform is... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134299 | Meltdown device as well as a process for the production of high-UV-transmitting glass type The invention relates to a meltdown device for the production of high-UV transmittive glass types, comprising a meltdown tank for a melt bath a feed opening for the supplying or laying-in of highly pure raw materia... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127918 | Method and apparatus for heating glass sheets in preparation of tempering A method and apparatus for heating glass sheets in preparation of tempering. A furnace (1) is provided with upper and lower convection blasting conduits (11, 14) extending lengthwise of the furnace. The furnace is also provided with upper and lower rad... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121119 | Press molding apparatus for an optical element and method of manufacturing the optical element A transfer arm holds a plurality of preforms arranged in a single line and simultaneously drops and supplies the preforms downward. A positioning arm has a pair of arm split members split in its widthwise direction. The arm split members have positioning surfaces fo... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110080 | Device for connecting display panel substrates comprising a spacer having a plurality of spacer elements or a rotatable head section for controlling cell gap A connecting device for display panel substrates provided with a first surface table and second surface table for holding the first and second substrates. The connecting device includes a spacer having a thickness substantially equal to a prescribed cell gap, and an... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7065985 | Molding die for optical element with lens-barrel A molding die for an optical element with a lens-barrel in which the lens-barrel is set in the molding die includes a tubular guide die, a upper die and a lower die sliding in the guide die Also an optical raw material is placed in the lens-barrel and the optical el... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7045737 | Glass-processing method and glass-processing apparatus for the method A glass-processing method adjusts the range of the heating region according to the work piece and processing condition, and a glass-processing apparatus implements the method. The method incorporates the heating of a glass body with a thermal plasma torch comprising... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7010941 | Coating of cooled devices A structural component for a device for the treatment of melts, especially of glass melts, having a base body of metal or of a metal alloy and a cooling system in which a cooling medium is led through the structural component for the leading-off of heat. The base bo... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7003981 | Low phonon energy gain medium and related active devices Using sol-gel techniques, an optical gain medium has been fabricated comprising a glass ceramic host material that includes clusters of crystalline oxide material, especially tin oxide, and that is doped with active ions concentrated at the clusters. The active ions... | 02/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6874335 | Large scale synthesis of germanium selenide glass and germanium selenide glass compounds Systems and methods for large scale synthesis of germanium selenide glass and germanium selenide glass compounds are provided. Up to about 750 grams of a germanium selenide glass or a glass compound can be synthesized at a time in about eight hours or less. Stoichio... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6845633 | Method and apparatus for heating glass panels in a tempering furnace equipped with rollers In a method and an apparatus for heating glass panels in a tempering furnace equipped with rollers, glass panels are carried on a conveyor defined by rollers into a tempering furnace for the duration of a heating cycle, followed by carrying the glass panels into a t... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6810686 | Process for manufacturing glass optical elements Disclosed are processes for manufacturing glass optical elements by press molding a heated and softened glass material in preheated molds. In the process, the glass material is heated while it is floated by a gas blow and the heated and softened glass material is tr... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6796144 | System and method for glass processing and temperature sensing Techniques for measuring the temperature at various locations through the thickness of glass products and to control the glass processing operation with the sensed temperature information are disclosed. Fluorescence emission of iron or cerium in glass is excited and... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6705122 | Method and apparatus for controlling temperature of cooling air for glass manufacturing machine The temperature of cooling air to a manifold for distribution to molds of a glass manufacturing machine is controlled by passing untreated air through an indirect heat exchanger in indirect heat exchange relationship with water flowing through a coil in the indirect... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6698240 | Apparatus for manufacturing glass base material and a method for manufacturing glass base material An apparatus for manufacturing a glass base material which is an parent material of an optical fiber, comprising: a tank which contains a raw material of the glass base material to vaporize the raw material to generate a raw material in gas phase; a tempe... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6679085 | Shaping tool with a structured surface for producing structures on glass, and the application thereof for structuring channel plates While avoiding the disadvantages of the screen printing technique employed until now, the invention provides a shaping tool (1) with a structured surface for creating structures on glass (2) which, in an economical way, makes it possible to form high-prec... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6609394 | Method for producing air-quench-toughened glass plate In a process for producing an air-quench-toughened glass plate, defective glass plates containing nickel sulfide (NiS) are removed by compulsory breaking the glass plates. Such compulsory breakage is carried out in the course of a batch-manner soaking pro... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6606883 | Method for producing fused silica and doped fused silica glass A method for forming a fused silica glass includes delivering a silica precursor to a burner and passing the silica precursor through the flame of the burner to form silica particles, depositing the silica particles on a planar surface to form a flat, por... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6595027 | Method and apparatus for supporting the middle section of a glass panel to be bent in a mold The invention relates to a method and apparatus for supporting the middle section of a glass panel to be bent in a mold. During a preheating process of a glass panel, its middle section is supported by middle support elements carried along with a mold car... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6557378 | Method for pressing oxynitride glass, disk of oxynitride glass made by said method, and pressing die for said method A method of producing a disk having a radius of r and a thickness of 2h from an oxynitride glass by pressing, said method being characterized in that the pressing load (F), the pressing temperature (T), and the pressing time (t) are defined by the express... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6477862 | Monitoring gob diameter in a glassware forming system A glassware manufacturing system includes at least one blank mold and a loading funnel for feeding molten glass gobs in sequence into the blank mold. A temperature sensor is operatively coupled to the external surface of the funnel for providing an electr... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6470711 | Furnace for heat treatments of glass sheets A furnace particularly for heat treatments of glass sheets, comprising a longitudinally-elongated chamber which contains roller conveyor elements for the glass sheets. The furnace comprises irradiation-heating elements combined with first and second eleme... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6460375 | Ice coating method for controlling the formation of an ice-coating on the exterior of a hollow glass article A system is provided for forming an ice coating on the outer surface of blown glass tube-shaped glass pieces (30) of an art work. The blown glass tubes are attached to a support surface (36) such that opposing ends of each glass tube are positioned over a... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6457330 | Apparatus and method for delivering a cased glass stream Apparatus for forming a cased glass stream having an inner core glass surrounded by an outer casing glass includes a first orifice for receiving core glass from a first source, and an orifice ring forming a second orifice vertically spaced beneath and ali... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6430964 | Method for identifying a heat soak tested glazing A method of identifying glazing that has undergone a heat treatment, consisting of fixing a substance to its surface and/or on an edge, the optical characteristic of the substance being modified at a temperature reached during the heat treatment.... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6427488 | Method for heating glass sheets to be tempered or heat-strengthened The invention relates to a method for heating glass sheets to be tempered or heat-strengthened, in which method glass sheets are heated in a preheating furnace (1) by applying a hot-air blast and convection heating produced thereby to the opposite sides o... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6412308 | Liquid cooling of glassware molds A glassware forming mold that includes a body of heat conductive construction having a central portion with a forming surface for shaping molten glass and a peripheral portion spaced radially outwardly of the central portion. A plurality of coolant passag... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6381988 | Liquid cooling deflectors in a glassware forming system A glassware forming machine system includes an individual section glassware forming machine having a plurality of sections, each with at least one blank mold, and a gob distributor for distributing molten glass gobs to the blank molds of each machine sect... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6357262 | Apparatus and method for reducing scratching when bending glass sheets A roller assembly for use in a glass bending machine comprises a base bracket, a bending roller rotatably mounted on said base bracket, the bending roller having a three-piece construction comprises a central hub having an annular outer surface, opposed s... | 03/19/2002 |
