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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7584630 | Photochromic ocular devices Described are photochromic ocular devices such as contact lenses and intraocular lenses made of an organic polymeric material and at least one photochromic material capable upon exposure to actinic radiation to change from a less ultraviolet radiation absorbing unac... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7326500 | Sensitization of photo-thermo-refractive glass to visible radiation by two-step illumination Photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass is a multi-component silicate glass having photosensitivity in rear UV region. A novel process is disclosed for PTR glass sensitization to visible region by means of two-step illumination followed by thermal development. This disc... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7288495 | Photorefractive glass and optical elements made therefrom The present invention provides an alkali alumino-silicate Na—F-containing glass material and a method of making the alkali alumino-silicate Na—F-containing glass material, with the glass material capable of being made photosensitive and thus formed into optical ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7262144 | Photostructurable body and process for treating a glass and/or a glass-ceramic The invention relates to a photostructurable body, in particular glass or glass-ceramic, in which the glass is a multicomponent glass and/or the glass-ceramic is a multicomponent glass-ceramic, in each case having a positive change in refractive index Δn as a resul... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251082 | Photochromic/vitroceramic window assembly A photochromic/vitroceramic window assembly that restores some of the natural illumination and warm blue-green colors normally excluded from the interior of an enclosed space after blocking at least a portion of infrared and/or UV light, comprising: a) ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7192897 | Near-infrared light-absorbing glass, near-infrared light-absorbing element, near-infrared light-absorbing filter, and method of manufacturing near-infrared light-absorbing formed glass article, and copper-containing glass Provided are near-infrared light-absorbing glass in which good color compensating characteristics are maintained even without containing harmful arsenic, permitting the thinning of the glass, and having good weatherability and forming properties; a near-infrared lig... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7168268 | Method for the production of colored structures of a glass A method for the manufacture of colored structures of a glass, particularly for applying an inscription to the glass, by locally heating volume elements of the glass by means of a laser beam. The glass contains ions of metals which, in the form of submicroscopic par... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7129179 | Method for topographical patterning of a device The device of the present invention facilitates engaging mating elements, such as actuators used in disc drives, with a pattern on the device. The improved device includes arcuate edges between at least one of the sidewalls in the pattern and the surface of the devi... | 10/31/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7097303 | Polarizing devices and methods of making the same Certain, non-limiting embodiments of the disclosure provide ophthalmic elements and devices comprising an at least partial coating adapted to polarize at least transmitted radiation on at least a portion of at least one exterior surface of an ophthalmic element or s... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097304 | Polarizing devices and methods of making the same Certain, non-limiting embodiments of the disclosure provide ophthalmic elements and devices comprising an at least partial coating adapted to polarize at least transmitted radiation on at least a portion of at least one exterior surface of an ophthalmic element or s... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7044600 | Polarizing devices and methods of making the same Certain, non-limiting embodiments of the disclosure provide ophthalmic elements and devices comprising an at least partial coating adapted to polarize at least transmitted radiation on at least a portion of at least one exterior surface of an ophthalmic element or s... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7004583 | Eyewear lenses and methods of manufacturing Unfinished lenses, semi-finished lens including optical coatings or a transmission altering layer and methods of manufacturing are described. The unfinished lens includes an optical coating and a surface configured to receive a curve. Non-prescriptive and prescripti... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004582 | Electronically enabled eyewear A wearable audio interface includes a support for positioning the plurality of speakers juxtaposed to and spaced from the ears of a wearer. The audio device can include wireless networking electronics so as to allow the device to interact with other wireless network... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999220 | Device exhibiting photo-induced dichroism for adaptive anti-glare vision protection A device (100, 140, 150) for differentially absorbing light, depending on the state of linear polarization of the light, is disclosed. This polarizing effect is induced and controllable by the level of ambient light impinging on the device. The device (100... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6990285 | Method of making at least one hole in a transparent body and devices made by this method A method of making an at least one hole in an optically transparent body comprises the following steps: (i) providing an ultrashort pulse laser for producing a laser output with a wavelength λ, the laser output having a subpicosecond laser pulse duration; (ii) prov... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6977763 | Free-space optical isolator with integrated quarter-wave plate The present invention provides low cost methods and apparatuses for filtering out polarized light reflections in a free-space optical isolator. In one embodiment, a laser directs a non-polarized optical signal through a series of polarizers and rotators in order to ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6950235 | Optical isolators and methods of manufacture Optical isolators and methods of manufacturing optical isolators are disclosed. The optical isolators are manufactured by directly bonding the parts of the isolators without the use of adhesive or mechanical devices to hold the individual parts together. ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6932933 | Ultraviolet method of embedding structures in photocerams A laser direct write method creates true three dimensional structures within photocerams using an focused pulsed ultraviolet laser with a wavelength in a weakly absorbing region of the photoceram material. A critical dose of focused laser UV light selectively expose... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6912087 | Ultra-thin glass polarizers and method of making same A method for making a polarizing glass article is provided. The method includes first providing a precursor glass containing metal-halide particles. The precursor glass may be encased in a gas-permeable medium. Then, form at least a first polarizing layer and a non-... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6878653 | Ultraviolet ray-absorbing, colorless and transparent soda-lime-silica glass An ultraviolet ray-absorbing, colorless and transparent soda-lime-silica glass is disclosed, which glass is prepared by irradiating a cerium containing soda-lime-silica glass with light having wavelengths in far- to near-ultraviolet region and thereby reducing trans... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6844669 | Glass funnel for a cathode ray tube and process for its production A glass funnel for a cathode ray tube, which has a substantially rectangular opened end at one end and a neck portion at the other end and which constitutes, together with a glass panel having a substantially rectangular face portion, a glass bulb to be used for a c... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6754429 | Method of making optical fiber devices and devices thereof The invention provides a method of making optical fiber devices. The method includes providing an ultrashort subpicosecond laser pulse duration pulse laser for producing a laser output with a wavelength λ, providing a laser output focussing lens having an air worki... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6606885 | Infrared, glass polarizer and method A glass polarizer and a method of making the polarizer, the polarizer being produced from an R2 O--Al2 O3 --B2 O3 --SiO2 glass containing limited amounts of ZrO2 and TiO2, ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6536236 | Method of making a polarizing glass A method of producing a polarizing glass article that exhibits a broad band of high contrast polarizing properties in the infrared region of the radiation spectrum. The polarizing glass is phase-separated or exhibits photochromic properties based on silve... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6524773 | Polarizing glasses having integral non-polarizing regions Polarizing glass having localized regions or patterns of non-polarizing glass is disclosed. The glass is formed by use of reducing gas-blocking material, by local thermal heating of the glass, or by an etching technique.... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6516633 | Photochromic glass nanoparticles and methods of preparation The present invention is directed to microemulsion techniques for rapidly preparing photochromic glass nanoparticles and to the photochromic glass nanoparticles so prepared. More particularly, the method of the invention comprises the combination of two m... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6408650 | Nitrate/nitrite-free manufacturing of glass with selenium The invention is a method of retaining selenium in a lass containing selenium by including a manganese compound and not including nitrates or nitrites routinely used in the industry to retain selenium. Particularly, a preferred embodiment involves manufac... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6363748 | Method of making protective filter lens An ophthalmic, protective, filter lens, and a method of producing such lens, the lens having a ratio of Z and Y tristimulus values between 0.25-0.40, a dominant wavelength between 570-580 nm. on a color mixture diagram, a sharp transmission drop between 4... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6298691 | Method of making glass having polarizing and non-polarizing regions Method is disclosed for making glass having both polarizing and non-polarizing regions integral thereto by either ion-exchange or by exposure to light and heat. The polarizing regions of the resulting glass is effective in polarizing light radiation, that... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6221480 | Broadband contrast polarizing glass A polarizing glass article, and a method of making the article, that exhibits a broad band of high contrast polarizing properties in the infrared region of the radiation spectrum, that is phase-separated by precipitating silver, copper, or copper-cadmium ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6158246 | Barrier film for hydrogen coloration in glass Method of patterning or forming color gradients and/or designs on a glass surface are disclosed. Patterns are formed by depositing a film of metal on at least one surface of the glass; forming a layer of photoresist over the metal; exposing the article to... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6089042 | Method of forming glass having integral polarizing and non-polarizing regions Method of making polarizing glass having integral polarizing and non-polarizing regions disclosed. The method involves applying a protective glass/frit material capable of blocking reducing gas to the surface of the glass to form a desired pattern, exposi... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6058738 | Method of forming glass having integral polarizing and non-polarizing regions Method of making polarizing glass having integral polarizing and non-polarizing regions is disclosed. The method involves applying a protective glass/frit material capable of blocking reducing gas to the surface of the glass to form a desired pattern, exp... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6058739 | Long life fused silica ultraviolet optical elements The present invention provides a process for substantially extending the useful life of fused silica elements used in high energy ultraviolet optical systems. The fused silica bulk material is pre-compacted by illuminating it with radiation prior to final... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5728189 | Method of altering the visible absorption characteristics of permanently tinted photochromic glasses A photochromic glass having colorant incorporated in the glass composition to impart a permanent tint, and having its chromaticity point shifted from the blue-green side toward the red side of the white point in the CIE chromaticity coordinate system, and... | 03/17/1998 |
