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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8118971 | Interlayer film separation method There are provided an interlayer film separation solution and an interlayer film separation method capable of separating an interlayer film and a glass for a short period of time and collecting the separated interlayer film in a recyclable condition. An interlayer f... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8024943 | Method of dividing glass into separate pieces with the aid of a cutting liquid and improved cutting liquid for said method The method of dividing a glass substrate into separate pieces includes producing a crack along a dividing line on the substrate and acting on the crack with an aqueous cutting liquid during or immediately after producing the crack. The aqueous cutting liquid used in... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7975508 | Method for producing high silicate glass and high silicate glass The present invention provides: a method for producing high silicate glass which has a low Fe concentration and can achieve a high UV transmittance while retaining advantages of Vycor glass that mass-production at low cost is feasible and that complex formation with... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7937967 | Method of manufacturing a glass substrate, glass substrate manufactured by the method, and magnetic recording medium using the glass substrate An object of the present invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a glass substrate containing alkali metals. A glass substrate manufactured by the method exhibits excellent performances including durability by virtue of suppressing elution of alkali metals... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934390 | Method for manufacturing a lens of synthetic quartz glass with increased Hcontent The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a lens of synthetic quartz glass with increased H2 content, in particular for a lens for an optical system with an operating wavelength of less than 250 nm, in particular less than 200 nm, with the ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7841210 | Method of manufacturing glass substrate and information recording medium In a method of manufacturing a glass substrate for an information recording medium including a step for chemically strengthening the glass substrate by contacting the glass substrate with chemical strengthening processing liquid containing chemical strengthening sal... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836727 | Glass cutting method A method of cutting a glass substrate to form a plurality of flat panel displays. The method includes forming a scribe line or a line of weakness on a surface of a mother material; treating the mother material with chemical to further weaken the mother material; and... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7810355 | Full perimeter chemical strengthening of substrates Methods and apparatus for protecting the thin films during chemical and/or thermal edge strengthening treatment. In one embodiment, a portion of each individual sheet is laminated. Pairs of sheets are then sealed together such that the thin film sides face inward to... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7415841 | Method for producing chemically strengthened glass substrate for information recording medium Prior to conducting chemical strengthening treatment by contacting a glass with a potassium-containing chemical strengthening treating solution, oxidation treatment is conducted to iron-containing particles adhered to a surface of the glass as a pre-step, and the gl... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7312170 | Optical synthetic quartz glass and method for producing the same The present invention provides an optical synthetic quartz glass material which substantially does not cause changes in transmitted wave surface (TWS) by solarization, compaction (TWS delayed), rarefaction (TWS progressed) and photorefractive effect when ArF excimer... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305166 | Graded refractive index optical fibers, optical components fabricated to include plural graded index optical fibers and methods of fabricating the same A graded-refractive-index optical fiber is fabricated by providing an elongated core rod of a first material including a concentration of high-refractive-index ions and a cladding tube of a second material including a lower concentration of the high-refractive-index... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300563 | Use of N-alllyl substituted amines and their salts as brightening agents in nickel plating baths An aqueous acidic plating bath for the electrodeposition of a nickel or nickel alloy deposit. The bath includes nickel ions and an additive having the general formula: H2C═CHCH2NR1R2 or [H2... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7288775 | Synthetic quartz glass optical material for YAG laser with higher harmonic It is an object of the present invention to provide synthetic quartz glass optical materials suitable for use in YAG of higher order harmonics. The damage threshold value in J/cm2 (energy density at which cracks occur generated by irradiation) is to be co... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281394 | Method of manufacturing glass substrate and method of manufacturing information recording medium In a method of manufacturing a glass substrate for an information recording medium including a step for chemically strengthening the glass substrate by contacting the glass substrate with chemical strengthening processing liquid containing chemical strengthening sal... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7265070 | Synthetic silica glass optical material having high resistance to optically induced index change Disclosed is a synthetic silica glass optical material having high resistance to optical damage by ultraviolet radiation in the ultraviolet wavelength range, particularly in the wavelength region of less than about 250 nm and particularly, exhibiting a low laser ind... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7255943 | Glass substrate for a magnetic disk, magnetic disk, and methods of producing the glass substrate and the magnetic disk On a principal surface of a glass disk substrate, a texture comprising a combination of an isotropic texture for stabilizing a flight of a magnetic head flying and traveling over a magnetic disk and an anisotropic texture for imparting a magnetic anisotropy to a mag... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7232778 | Synthetic quartz glass ingot, synthetic quartz glass, and methods of manufacture thereof In a synthetic quartz glass ingot which is produced by vapor phase hydrolyzing or oxidatively decomposing a silica-forming starting compound in an oxyhydrogen flame such that silica growth in a direction occurs at a silica particle deposition and melting face, stria... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230760 | Polarizers and isolators and methods of manufacture A passively aligned optical isolator includes laminated layers of material including two polarizing glass layers sandwiching a Faraday rotator layer. Each polarizing glass layer comprises a glass matrix containing elongated metal particles exhibiting a change in pol... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226522 | Method for the production of a mineral fibre product The present invention is directed to method of bonding mineral fibers in a mineral fiber material, according to which an acid is applied to the mineral fiber material in an amount sufficient to dissolve mineral material from the fiber to form a silica containing bin... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224076 | Electronic component package An electronic component package and method of fabrication is provided. The electronic component package includes a ceramic substrate and a plurality of bonding pads formed on the substrate, each pad forming an interface with the ceramic. Formed on the bonding pads i... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7210333 | Humidity sensor and method of using the humidity sensor A humidity-sensitive porous layer (13) of a humidity-sensitive element section (3) of a humidity sensor (1) is formed of a crystalline phase oxide grains such as Al2O3—SnO2—TiO2 and of a glass phas... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7197897 | Chemical strengthening process for disks used in disk drive data storage devices A salt mixture used for chemical strengthening of data recording disks is subjected to sub-micron filtration prior to use to remove certain impurities. Preferably, glass disks are chemically strengthened by ion exchange in a bath of molten sodium nitrate and potassi... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197217 | Method of making a fiberoptic light guide A method of making a fiberoptic light guide utilizes a hollow glass cladding blackened by chemical reduction. The cladding has a predetermined lead content and is heated to an elevated temperature in an atmosphere of substantially 100% hydrogen gas in a furnace. The... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7162894 | Method for charging quartz glass objects with hydrogen The invention relates to the loading of quartz glass objects with hydrogen in an annealing process in a furnace for improving the homogeneity of the refractive index and the laser resistance while, at the same time, maintaining a specified stress birefringence of ea... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159418 | Method of producing synthetic quartz glass Fluorine-containing synthetic quartz glass is produced by feeding silica-forming material, hydrogen, and oxygen gases from a burner to a reaction zone, flame hydrolyzing the silica-forming material in the reaction zone to form particles of silica, depositing the sil... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7157149 | Surface-modified glass-ceramics and their preparation The present invention relates to a product, comprising a body which is delimited by a surface, of a lithium aluminosilicate-based glass-ceramic, as well as to its method of preparation. Characteristically, said glass-ceramic has, on at least one part of said surface... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7140203 | Method for manufacturing glass substrate of information recording medium Provided is a method for manufacturing a glass substrate for an information recording medium, which is advantageous in that oozing of an alkali and deformation of a texture are suppressed. The glass substrate is chemically reinforced, and a texture is formed in the ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7126589 | Touch control panel A touch control panel comprises a transparent substrate, a contact layer, a first transparent electrode formed over the transparent substrate and a second transparent electrode formed over the contact layer facing the first transparent electrode. The space between t... | 10/24/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7110179 | Polarizers and isolators and methods of manufacture Polarizing glass articles, optical isolators including polarizing glass articles, and methods of manufacturing polarizing glass articles and optical isolators are disclosed. The methods manufacture can be used to manufacture isolators exhibiting improved contrast ra... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7104090 | Method of making polarizing glasses Polarizing glass articles and methods of manufacturing polarizing glass articles are disclosed. The method involves forming a polarizing layer on the surface of the glass article by ion-exchanging silver or copper into the surface. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7059154 | Method for making float glass, implementing device and resulting products The present invention relates to a float process for manufacturing glass sheets, in which molten glass is poured onto a liquid support denser than the glass and then the continuous ribbon which forms is advanced toward the downstream end, this process being characte... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7035507 | Manufacturing method for optical element A manufacturing method for an optical element includes providing a base member for an optical element and a cutting tool from which a blade tip part protrudes, forming an inspecting groove on a surface of the base member by the blade tip part of the cutting tool by ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7022633 | Synthetic quartz glass and process for producing it A synthetic quartz glass for optical use, to be used by irradiation with light within a range of from the ultraviolet region to the vacuum ultraviolet region, which contains fluorine, which has a ratio of the scattering peak intensity of 2250 cm−1 (I | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013062 | Material for thermal compensation and optical communication device using the material A material for temperature compensation consists of a sinter produced by baking any of crystalline powder, crystallized glass powder, and partially crystalline glass powder. The sinter has a negative coefficient of thermal expansion and contains anisotropic crystals... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7007510 | Method of producing an optical member An object of the present invention is to provide an improved blank such that an optical member of a high homogeneity can be obtained therefrom, and to provide a vessel and a heat treatment method for heat-treating a highly uniform synthetic quartz blank. In a first ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6993934 | Dental glass powders Dental glass powders, methods for producing the powders and dental compositions including the glass powders. The powders preferably have a well-controlled particle size, narrow size distribution and a spherical morphology. The method includes forming the particles b... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992753 | Projection optical system Radiation-induced damage to a lens material in a projection exposure system is reduced by selection of maximum design fluence values HD for lenses and at least one lens made of a material having a characteristic transition point TRC after expos... | 01/31/2006 |
