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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7421857 | Process for fabricating glass art A process for fabricating glass art, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein each of the first and second substrates comprises an upper surface and a lower surface; (b) providing at least one wire, wherein the at leas... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415842 | Optical glass element and manufacturing method thereof The present invention relates to a manufacturing method for an optical glass element, in which molten glass 9 is pressed between a lower mold 1 and an upper mold 8, and the pressing process is carried out while maintaining a space 10 betw... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415843 | Apparatus and method for producing a glass optical element and glass optical element produced thereby In a method of manufacturing a glass optical element by press-forming a glass material in a chamber by using a forming mold comprising upper and lower dies at least one of which is movable, where a surrounded space is formed between the glass material and at least o... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409838 | Reducing corrosion and particulate emission in glassmelting furnaces A glassmelting furnace is heated by combustion of fuel having an atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon of 0.9 or less. ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409839 | Method and apparatus for making a glass sheet In the formation of sheet glass by the overflow downdraw process, the width of usable sheet glass is maximized by downwardly flowing edge portions of the sheet over web-like members and thereafter over extensions which intersect with and are downwardly inclined rela... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406841 | Glass-ceramic product with variably adjustable zero crossing of the CTE-T curve The present invention relates to a process for producing a glass-ceramic with a defined zero crossing of the CTE-T curve (CTE: coefficient of thermal expansion), and glass-ceramic products produced using the process according to the invention. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7395679 | Method of manufacturing glass substrate for information recording medium Molten glass is press-molded by a metallic die in which a cylindrical body is provided in a vertically standing manner at a central part of a bottom surface of a bottomed hole and a molding surface corresponding to a chamfering shape of an outer peripheral edge surf... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7383697 | Optical element molding method A method for molding an optical element by pressing a glass material in a mold, the method having the steps of: heating to soften the glass material outside a cavity of the mold; heating the mold; and pressing the glass material with the mold after putting the glass... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383698 | Method of manufacturing glass melt and method of manufacturing molded glass material A method of manufacturing glass melt and a method of manufacturing molded glass material by forming glass melt. In the method of manufacturing glass melt, the glass melt containing fluorine is prepared by melting glass raw materials and refining the resulting glass ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383700 | System for heat treatment of glass A system and a process for heat treatment of glass or other materials where fan air is blown into a heating chamber via propellant air fans and the chamber air is circulated. In order to achieve effective convection, the propellant air fans have cylindrical mixing s... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383702 | Method of forming a phosphorus doped optical core using a PECVD process Embodiments of the present invention provide a highly uniform low cost production worthy solution for manufacturing low propagation loss optical waveguides on a substrate. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of forming a PSG optical waveguide ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380417 | Continuous forming system for producing lenses A glass forming system includes a first rotating device disposed in a first processing station defining a reception region, a first heating region, a first transfer region and a first cooling region, and a second rotating device disposed in a second processing stati... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380418 | Continuous forming system for producing lenses A continuous glass forming system includes a forming room and at least one forming unit which is advanced successively through a first loading/unloading station, a first heating station, a first forming station, and a first cooling station which are provided within ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7353666 | Method for press molding a glass optical element A molding apparatus for molding a press-molded product by heating and softening a material and press-molding the material into a predetermined shape by the use of a mold, includes a pair of dies which form the mold, each of which comprises a molding surface facing w... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353667 | Neck ring guide for glassware making machine A neck ring guide for aligning neck ring sections in a glassware forming machine has a center body and a pair of spaced parallel runners coupled to the center body for receipt in guide slots in the neck ring sections. Keepers on the outboard sides of the runners ret... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347067 | Mold for an I.S. machine A mold is disclosed which has a vertical front face having a glass object surface defined therein and a stepped vertical rear surface. The upper portion of the rear surface projects outwardly from the lower portion of the rear surface. The lower rear surface include... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337633 | Process for producing flat glass The present invention relates to production of a flat glass, which can improve the surface smoothness of a flat glass in the moving direction and which prevents formation of stripes on the flat glass. A fixed bed 15 comprising a plurality of supports 12 | 03/04/2008 |
| 7325419 | Method of forming a phosphorus doped optical core using a PECVD process Embodiments of the present invention provide a highly uniform low cost production worthy solution for manufacturing low propagation loss optical waveguides on a substrate. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of forming a PSG optical waveguide ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320230 | Pushout mechanism for I.S. machine A pushout mechanism includes a pusher finger assembly which utilizes air jets to facilitate the location of bottles with the pockets defined by the fingers. The air jets are defined by in a projecting post in an orifice member which can be quickly released from the ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7308806 | Air-exhausting lehr for laminated glass sheets The invention relates to an air-exhausting lehr for laminated glass sheets, including a tunnel-like lehr, a conveyor, including elements for carrying laminated glass sheets in a substantially upright position through the lehr, and air circulation ducts, having fans ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7296442 | Neck ring cooling A system for directing cooling air onto a neck ring in a glassware molding machine that includes at least one air plenum stationarily disposed at a blank mold station and having an internal cavity for receiving cooling air flowing laterally inwardly toward the axis ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293430 | Press molding apparatus and press molding method of optical element A press molding apparatus includes upper and lower molding dies each having a molding surface facing each other, and a driving device which moves at least one of the upper and lower molding dies in a vertical direction so that the upper and lower molding dies are op... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290406 | I.S. machine An I.S. Machine is disclosed which includes a structure displaceable from a start location to an end location and a motor for displacing that structure. A control controls the operation of the motor to displace the structure and the speed of displacement can be vari... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7278282 | Device for transferring hollow glass objects from a glass-forming machine onto a conveyor belt A device for transferring an object from a dead plate of an Individual Section glass-forming machine to a conveyor belt is disclosed. The device includes a first shaft rotatable about an axis. A housing is attached to the first shaft. A carrying arm is slidably moun... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272879 | Glass molding die, renewal method thereof, and glass fabricated by the molding die A molding die for molding glass and renewal method thereof. The molding die includes a substrate, a nickel-phosphorous alloy layer, with phosphorous content 30 wt % or less, overlying the substrate, an intermediate layer overlying the nickel-phosphorous alloy layer,... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260960 | Selective glass batching methods for improving melting efficiency and reducing gross segregation of glass batch components A method of controlling reaction paths of glass batch components added to a resident glass melt is provided, including the steps of providing a plurality of raw material batch components according to a batch recipe, selectively combining a portion of the batch compo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 5781360 | Method and apparatus for detecting data track misregistration Apparatus for detecting data track misregistration is described. The present invention involves the interaction of a microprocessor with a demodulator. Microcode within the microprocessor initiates a misregistration scan of all data tracks at specific int... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5774298 | Asynchronous digital PES demodulation disk drive servo control system A digital servo control system for a disk drive provides asynchronous servo information signal demodulation. The system includes a digital demodulator having a digital squarer that removes any phase component of the digitized servo information signal and ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5680272 | Digital servo control system for use in disk drives A servo control system provides adaptive compensation for a variety of tracking and seek problems found in disk drives. The servo control system is ideally implemented in digital form for accuracy, speed and compactness. A first embodiment includes two mo... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5661617 | Head positioning control system A head positioning control system applied to a magnetic disk unit in which a positioning operation is carded out with reference to a history of past positioning errors stored in memory. A control unit determines whether or not the head is on-track by comp... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5657179 | Method for reducing noise during track seeking in a disc drive A method for reducing noise during track seeking in a disc drive wherein transducers proximate the surfaces of discs of the drive are accelerated away from an initial track in a first sequence of successive time interval and subsequently decelerated towar... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5657177 | Rotation synchronous control system In a rotation synchronous control system comprising a host controller and a plurality of units connected to the host controller, each of the plurality of units having a rotation device, the system having a spindle sync function for the rotation devices to... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5654836 | Method and circuit for detecting auto tracking find error in a video cassette recorder and accordingly controlling capstan phase for correct video head tracking A method and A circuit for detecting an auto tracking find error in a VCR, wherein a phase control range for a capstan motor is widened as compared with the prior art so that, when a phase of the capstan motor is widely detuned, the following speed for st... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5648879 | Method of and apparatus for controlling the phase of a video signal An apparatus for controlling the phase of a video signal has a track information detector for extracting track pair number data allotted to every N tracks from a reproduced signal when a rotary head is locked in phase with a reference signal, an FG genera... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5644675 | Method of helical scan magnetic tape recording A time coding system of high resolution for a digital audio and video recording system is disclosed. Various methods of structuring: time code for recording are disclosed which enable time code reading at high tape transport speeds to facilitate automatic... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5638230 | Digital servo control system for use in disk drives A servo control system provides adaptive compensation for a variety of tracking and seek problems found in disk drive. The servo control system is ideally implemented in digital form for accuracy, speed and compactness. A first embodiment includes two mod... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5638224 | Tape dubbing and divided master tape producing system A high speed dubbing apparatus for producing magnetic tapes such as video, audio or computer soft tapes, is provided. Typical form of the apparatus may comprise 2 master tape playback devices for synchronously playing back 2 divided master tapes respectiv... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5638229 | Method for detecting an information recorded position in an information reproducing apparatus A method for setting an information reader to a target information recorded position on an information recording medium in an information reproducing apparatus includes steps of reading a start position from the medium by the reader, which contacts the me... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5636073 | Methods and apparatus for editing and recording audio and/or video signals reproduced from plural sources To edit reproduced audio and video signals for recording onto a recording medium, the start point of a first reproduced signal, reproduced from a first playback medium, is synchronized to a first reference time. The end point of the first reproduced signa... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5625508 | Method and apparatus for servo demodulation in a direct access storage device A method and apparatus are provided for servo demodulation in a direct access storage device. A readback signal is sensed from at least one disk surface and locations of positive and negative peaks in the sensed readback signal are detected for providing ... | 04/29/1997 |
