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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7254963 | Method and device for continuous production of glass-sheathed metal wires The device and process allow for continuous processing of metal wire sheathed in glass (10) of considerable length. Normally a feed pipe (15) containing all the necessary metal, itself placed into a glass tube (20 | 08/14/2007 |
| 7041911 | Amorphous microwire and method for manufacture thereof An amorphous microwire coated with an insulating sleeve, composed of a metal core made up of an alloy of transition metals and metalloid elements, at a proportion between 65%–90% and 10%–35%, respectively, and an insulating glass sleeve, the transition metals ar... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6112553 | Method of making a device for temperature stabilizing a Bragg grating The invention relates to a method of making a device for stabilizing a Bragg grating relative to temperature, the device being of the type comprising two materials having coefficients of thermal expansion that are far apart, the method comprising the step... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5979187 | Lamp construction and method for forming In a method of forming a glass to metal seal between one end of a glass lamp tube (for, for example, a flash lamp or laser lamp), a metal rod which is terminated by the electrode is heated, and has molten glass sealing material applied thereto to form a b... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5895512 | Process for the manufacture of an object displaying a message A process for the manufacture of an object displaying a message includes the following steps: preparation of a support for the message having dimensions less than the dimensions of the object; manual or automatic application of the message to the support;... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5756998 | Process for manufacturing coated wire composite and a corona generating device produced thereby An improved process for manufacturing glass coated wire, for example, a corona generating electrode having a dielectric coating layer of the type used in electrostatographic printing applications, wherein predetermined stresses are induced along the axial... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5709724 | Process for fabricating a hermetic glass-to-metal seal A process for forming a hermetic glass-to-metal seal between a conductive pin and an outer body, wherein a corrosion-resistant noble metal (e.g., gold) coating is applied to the conductive pin before the hermetic seal is formed. The process generally incl... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5664320 | Method of making a circuit protector A subminiature circuit protector includes a substrate carrying a metal fuse element hermetically sealed in a glass sleeve cartridge. The fuse element may comprise a film deposited on the substrate, or, alternatively a metal strip or wire. Leads extend fro... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5538527 | Method of sealing glass to aluminum, particularly for electrical feed-through connectors An insulating electrical feed-through connector extending through a wall of aluminium is obtained by using a sintered sleeve comprising phosphate glass in which a conductive pin is inserted. The sleeve is raised to a firing temperature in excess of the di... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5509952 | Method for bonding a fiber to a sleeve for fiber optic packaging applications In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of increasing the attachment bond strength between a first and second object comprising respective first and second materials. Each of the first and second materials has a respective first coeffic... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5223123 | Method for making a polarographic oxygen sensor The cathode sub-assembly of a polarographic sensor comprises an elongate housing with a longitudinal opening therethrough and with noble metal wires extending completely through the opening, the wires held symmetrically in the longitudinal opening by an e... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5198009 | Method of manufacturing glass beads for use in thermionic gas chromatographic detectors Alkali metal-containing glass beads for use as sources in thermionic detectors for gas chromatography are manufactured by a method which produces reproducible beads of preselected sizes. A glass tube of the desired composition is reduced to capillary size... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5030336 | Polarographic oxygen sensor The cathode sub-assembly of a polarographic sensor comprises an elongate housing with a longitudinal opening therethrough and with noble metal wires extending completely through the opening, the wires held symmetrically in the longitudinal opening by an e... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4888039 | Apparatus for manufacturing hermetic terminal assemblies Apparatus for forming glass to metal hermetic seals in a terminal assembly of a housing part wherein an upwardly directed glass melting heating gradient is applied to a housing part having a glass sleeved terminal pin supportedly disposed in an aperture t... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4804396 | Method for manufacturing hermetic terminal assemblies A method of forming glass to metal hermetic seals in a terminal assembly of a housing part wherein an upwardly directed glass melting heating gradient is applied to a housing part having a glass sleeved terminal pin supportedly disposed in an aperture the... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4550269 | Electric discharge lamps In a high pressure electric discharge lamp employing at least one ribbon seal incorporating a strip (3) of refractory metal foil extending through the wall of an envelope (1) of fused silica, and connected at its outer end to at least one external lead ro... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4452624 | Method for bonding insulator to insulator A method for making an airtight seal between a pair of insulator elements, uch as glass plates, without destroying any fine structure etched in the insulator elements. A thin metal film is deposited on one of the elements to be sealed and then placed in in... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4445920 | Method of making glass-to-metal seal (header) A metal-to-glass-to-metal seal that includes a chemical bond between the ss and metal as well as a mechanical seal is obtained by using an oxide layer which joins the glass and metal. A glass tube or glass powder with a coefficient of expansion which app... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4417913 | Lower temperature glass and hermetic seal means and method An improved lead-free glass or glass plus alumina ceramic sealing material composition for making compression glass sealed electrical leads in semiconductor device packages is described wherein the improved sealing material consists essentially of the fol... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4311506 | Method and apparatus for continuously producing very small diameter metal wire having a glass coating thereover A method is described for continuously producing very small diameter metal wire from molten material, comprising at least one heating stage for heating in a first predetermined position a glass tube in which a wire of metal material is disposed, these bei... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4292464 | Glass pass through with an additional insulator for lengthening leakage path Pass through having a glass part disposed in an opening formed in a metal case part, an insulator for lengthening the leakage path connected at an end face thereof to at least one end face of the glass part and at least one electric conductor extending th... | 09/29/1981 |
