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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7361404 | Coated article with removable protective coating and related methods A coated article is disclosed. The coated article of the invention includes a substrate having a surface and a removable protective coating comprising up to 100 weight percent of a carbon-containing material deposited over at least a portion of the substrate, where ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7335421 | Heatable windshield A heatable transparency includes a first ply having a No. 1 surface and a No. 2 surface and a second ply having a No. 3 surface and a No. 4 surface. The No. 2 surface faces the No. 3 surface. An electrically conductive coati... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7323249 | Methods of obtaining photoactive coatings and/or anatase crystalline phase of titanium oxides and articles made thereby A method of making a photoactive coating includes depositing a first coating material containing zirconium oxide over at least a portion of a substrate and depositing a second coating material containing titanium oxide over at least a portion of the first coating ma... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7311961 | Method of making coated articles and coated articles made thereby An article includes a first substrate, a functional coating deposited over at least a portion of the substrate, and a protective coating deposited over the functional coating. The functional coating and the protective coating define a coating stack. A polymeric mate... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310973 | Method and apparatus for making variegated glass sheets and tiles An apparatus is disclosed comprising a first color glass feeder having a first valve device, and a second color glass feeder having a second valve device, each connected by communications links to a controller. The controller controls the first valve device and seco... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7231786 | Process and device for manufacturing glass sheet The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing flat sheets of a glass-based material and to an apparatus therefor. The process comprises providing a glass preform, heating the glass preform in a furnace, forming a gob and a pre-sheet, removing the gob ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7232615 | Coating stack comprising a layer of barrier coating A coating composition that contains at least one degradable coating layer and at least one layer of barrier coating is disclosed. The coating composition can be used to make a coated substrate having improved performance over conventional coated substrates after exp... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7223940 | Heatable windshield An electrically heatable transparency has at least one substrate, a first bus bar spaced from a second bus bar, and a conductive coating formed over at least a portion of the substrate. The first and second bus bars are in electrical contact with the coating. At lea... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7223523 | Demonstration kit and method for enhancing and/or demonstrating photoactive properties A method is provided for simulating and/or demonstrating and/or enhancing photoactive properties, such as hydrophilicity, of a surface, such as a photoactive surface. One embodiment includes providing a photoactive surface and applying a peroxide-containing material... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7128516 | Workpiece transport apparatus While periphery or peripheries of workpiece(s) W lifted in floating fashion by simultaneous suction and expulsion of gas(es) between pair(s) of first and second, or upper and lower, transport stages 14, 15 is/are retained by plurality of elevator pins 16 | 10/31/2006 |
| 7122242 | Wedge shaped glass and methods of forming wedged glass A glass sheet includes a first edge, an opposing, second edge, and an intermediate location between the first edge and second edge. The glass sheet has a first portion extending between the first edge and the intermediate location and a second portion extending betw... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7096692 | Visible-light-responsive photoactive coating, coated article, and method of making same A method is provided for forming a photoactive coating having a photoabsorption band in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The method includes depositing a precursor composition over at least a portion of a float glass ribbon in a molten metal bath ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6979499 | Image display system utilizing light emitting material A display system includes at least one light emitting material having an absorption band carried on a support, wherein the support is a laminated article having a first ply and a second ply; and a projection assembly having an electromagnetic radiation source, the p... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6962759 | Method of making coated articles having an oxygen barrier coating and coated articles made thereby An article includes a substrate, a functional coating deposited over at least a portion of the substrate, and a protective (barrier) coating deposited over at least a portion of the functional coating. The barrier coating is stable to oxygen-containing gases and lim... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6916542 | Coated articles having a protective coating and cathode targets for making the coated articles An article includes a substrate, a functional coating deposited over the substrate, and a protective coating deposited over the functional coating. The functional coating and the protective coating define a coating stack. The protective coating provides the coating ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6813904 | Differential pressure process for fabricating a flat-panel display faceplate with integral spacer support structures A process for fabricating a faceplate for a flat-panel display such as a field emission cathode type display is disclosed, the faceplate having integral spacer support structures. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process. ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6631627 | Differential pressure process for fabricating a flat-panel display face plate with integral spacer support structures and a face plate produced by such process A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat-panel display such as a field emission cathode type display is disclosed, the face plate having integral spacer support structures. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process.... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6564586 | Differential pressure process for fabricating a flat-panel display face plate with integral spacer support structures A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat panel display such as a field emission cathode type display is disclosed, the face plate having integral spacer support structures. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process.... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6510708 | Production of translucent sheet glass by grinding Processes for the production of a smooth translucent glass sheet comprise grinding at least one face of a clear glass sheet using a conventional abrasive such as sand. Preferably the clear glass sheet is a sheet of clear float glass. The process may be ca... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6418754 | Apparatus and method for mold changing in heated glass sheet forming station A method for heated mold changing at a forming station (24) is performed by apparatus (32) in a heated chamber (22) where heated glass sheets are cyclically formed. A switching station (318) is located adjacent the forming station (24). An unloading stati... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6393869 | Differential pressure process for fabricating a flat-panel display face plate with integral spacer support structures A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat panel display such as a field emission cathode type display, the face plate having integral spacer support structures is disclosed. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process. The support st... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6357263 | Method for bending a glass sheet, a ring mold for bending a glass sheet, and apparatus using the ring mold In bending a glass sheet, the load applied to an intermediate glass sheet can be equalized to improve the quality of a final glass sheet. For this purpose, a forming ring 1 comprises a first forming frame 15 and a second forming frame 16, and the swingabl... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6279348 | Differential pressure process for fabricating a flat-panel display face plate with integral spacer support structures A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat panel display such as a field emission cathode type display, the face plate having integral spacer support structures is disclosed. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process. The support st... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6101846 | Differential pressure process for fabricating a flat-panel display face plate with integral spacer support structures A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat panel display such as a field emission cathode type display, the face plate having integral spacer support structures is disclosed. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process. The support st... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5376197 | Formation of a removable surface area on a substrate Process for the formation of a removable surface area of a specific depth on a substrate with all coatings seated on the surface of the substrate, wherein a layer of a material, thin as related to the substrate, with a thermal expansion coefficient strong... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5224978 | Method for making hot rolled diffusing glazings A hot rolled sheet of glass having impressions impressed in the hot glass by a roller having raised projections. The projections are pyramidal or truncated pyramidal with either a square or hexagonal base. The projections produce craters which are separat... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5125946 | Manufacturing method for planar optical waveguides A metehod of manufacturing planar optical waveguides in which a planar optical preform which is stretched to form a planar optical cane with substantially smaller cross-sectional dimensions than the original preform, and in which the optical circuitry pat... | 06/30/1992 |
| 4853018 | Method and apparatus for forming a glass sheet This invention is directed to a method and apparatus for forming a glass sheet with differential gas pressure over opposite surfaces thereof. The glass sheet is formed by the action of differential gas pressure over a forming area located on a curved exte... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4801321 | Method for the manufacturing of glass sheets A method of manufacturing glass sheets from molten glass contained in a vertical drawing chamber includes the step of placing a stratified liquid layer on the mass of molten glass, the stratified liquid layer comprising at least two phases of densities di... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4746347 | Patterned float glass method Patterned float glass is produced without distorting patterns imparted to the surface by forming the glass by a process that avoids deformation of the glass subsequent to the pattern imparting step.... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4358542 | Photochromic glass suitable for microsheet and simultaneous heat treatment and shaping The instant invention is directed to the production of photochromic glasses having compositions consisting essentially, as analyzed in weight percent on the oxide basis, of SiO2 --55-60 Al2 O3 --9-10 B2 O3... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4013438 | Apparatus for manufacture of float glass A float glass facility which is readily adaptable to the production of float glass ribbons of different thicknesses and particularly to so-called thick or heavy float glass, that is, thicknesses greater than 0.250 inch (6mm). Longitudinally extending fend... | 03/22/1977 |
