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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7003983 | Method of manufacturing optical glass element, and optical glass element manufactured using the method A method of manufacturing an optical glass element for which flatness and smoothness of the surfaces of the optical glass element can be improved while securing the similarity of the cross-sectional shape of the optical glass element to that of the mother glass, and... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6929858 | Glass fibers Glass fibers are disclosed. The glass fibers can be used, for example, in a lead acid battery. ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6588235 | Method of centering a fiber core in a multiple-crucible method The invention relates to a method of making an optical fiber and an optical fiber made in accordance with the inventive method. The method includes the step of drawing an optical fiber from a multiple crucible apparatus, wherein one of the crucibles of th... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6303182 | Method for making optical fiber devices having variable thickness metal coatings In accordance with the invention, an optical fiber is provided with a metal coating of controlled variable thickness by the steps of disposing the fiber in position for receiving coating metal from a metal source, and depositing metal while moving a shado... | 10/16/2001 |
| 5867327 | Process for manufacturing cylindrical microlenses Method for manufacturing cylindrical microlenses having exceptional optical properties, and the lenses manufactured according to the process. According to the present invention, a method is provided for fabricating cylindrical microlenses, the method comp... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5776223 | Method of making shaped fibers In a method of making a shaped fiber, a stream of fiberizable material is provided with an original shape and a void fraction from 20% to 80%. The void fraction can be provided by forming a hollow stream, a porous stream or a significantly shaped stream. ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5672429 | Glass fiber insulation product A glass fiber insulation product includes irregularly-shaped glass fibers of two different glasses having differing coefficients of thermal expansion, with the irregularly-shaped dual-glass fibers exhibiting a substantially uniform volume filling nature, ... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5462571 | Nozzle tip for spinning glass fiber having deformed cross-section and a plurality of projections The invention provides a nozzle tip for manufacturing a glass fiber having a deformed cross-section which is of a large deformation ratio in the cross-section. A plurality of projected edges are provided to extend downwardly from the distal end of a nozzl... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5181947 | Method for manufacturing a glass fiber A method for manufacturing a glass fiber having a polygonal cross section is provided. According to the method, a glass fiber having an orbicular cross section is manufactured by drawing molten glass supplied into a crucible heated at higher temperatures ... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5049176 | Fiber assembly Fiber composites, particularly for imaging, easy to manufacture even with great cross-sectional area, in which fibers are in a peak-to-valley relation with abutting pairs of fibers throughout.... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5002598 | Process of making multifilament glass strand The application discloses an apparatus and a process for the manufacture of continuous fibers by mechanical attenuation. It is especially useful in obtaining a strand composed of a mixture of filaments of differing cross sections in constant and definite ... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4981753 | Fabric for printed circuit substrate and printed circuit substrate A fabric for a printed circuit substrate composed essentially of inorganic fibers having a non-circular cross section.... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4759784 | Method of manufacturing glass fiber strand A flat glass fiber strand comprises a multiplicity of glass filaments having a non-circular cross-sectional shape with the ratio between its maximum and minimum dimensions being between 1.2:1 and 3:1, and which are gathered in such a manner that one dimen... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4698083 | Method for producing glass fibers having non-circular cross sections A method of producing a glass fiber strand in which a plurality of molten glass filaments spun from adjacent nozzle ports in a nozzle plate are adjoined to one another so as to form a single glass fiber having a non-circular cross-sectional shapes such as... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4666485 | Method and apparatus for making tapered mineral and organic fibers A tapered fiber and method and apparatus for making is provided in which the fiber has an increasing cross-sectional dimension in one direction along a portion of its length, and a decreasing cross-sectional dimension in the same direction along the same ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4636234 | Method and apparatus for making non-circular mineral fibers A method and appartus for making non-circular mineral fibers, and the fibers produced thereby, comprises flowing a stream from a body of molten mineral material through a non-circular orifice, and quenching the mineral material in the stream to form a min... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4622054 | Method and apparatus for making non-circular mineral fibers A method and apparatus for making non-circular mineral fibers, and the fibers produced thereby, comprises flowing a stream from a body of molten mineral material through a non-circular orifice, and quenching the mineral material in the stream to form a mi... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4620859 | Method for making coalesced mineral fibers A method for making mineral fibers comprising discharging molten glass as primary molten streams from orifices and joining at least one primary stream to an adjacent primary stream to form a coalesced stream of different cross-sectional shape from that of... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4590492 | High resolution optical fiber print head A high resolution printing head for a line printer using photographic recording medium has a plurality of modules connected to form a two dimensional printing array. Each module has three fiber optic ribbons bonded together to form a staggered array of fi... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4319901 | Electro-optic fiber monitor A method of and apparatus for monitoring the method comprising the steps of: generating electromagnetic radiation; using a first lens to form the electromagnetic radiation into a beam; directing the beam through a sampling volume for impingement upon the ... | 03/16/1982 |
