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公开(公告)号:US11952305B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-09
申请号:US17490720
申请日:2021-09-30
申请人: CORNING INCORPORATED
发明人: Ravindra Kumar Akarapu , Joel Patrick Carberry , David Alan Deneka , Steven Akin Dunwoody , Kenneth Edward Hrdina , John Michael Jewell , Yuanjie Jiang , Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias , Ming-Jun Li , Barada Kanta Nayak , Dale Robert Powers , Chunfeng Zhou , Vincent Matteo Tagliamonti , Christopher Scott Thomas
IPC分类号: C03B37/027 , C03B37/029
CPC分类号: C03B37/02727 , C03B37/029 , C03B2205/55 , C03B2205/56
摘要: In some embodiments, a method for processing an optical fiber includes: drawing an optical fiber through a draw furnace, conveying the optical fiber through a flame reheating device downstream from the draw furnace, wherein the flame reheating device comprises one or more burners each comprising: a body having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, an opening within the body extending from the top surface through the body to the bottom surface, wherein the optical fiber passes through the opening, and one or more gas outlets within the body; and igniting a flammable gas provided by the one or more gas outlets to form a flame encircling the optical fiber passing through the opening, wherein the flame heats the optical fiber by at least 100 degrees Celsius at a heating rate exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius/second.
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公开(公告)号:US11618709B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-04
申请号:US17376284
申请日:2021-07-15
申请人: CORNING INCORPORATED
发明人: Yacob Mesfin Argaw , Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias , Robert Clark Moore , Bruce Warren Reding , Chunfeng Zhou
IPC分类号: C03B37/027
摘要: A method of processing an optical fiber includes drawing the optical fiber from a heated glass source, reheating the optical fiber, and cooling the optical fiber under vacuum at a cooling rate less than the cooling rate of the optical fiber in air at 25° C. and 1 atm. Cooling the optical fiber under vacuum is conducted after reheating the optical fiber. Cooling the optical fiber under vacuum reduces the rate of heat transfer from the optical fiber, which may enable further relaxation of the glass and reduction in the fictive temperature of the optical fiber. A system for processing an optical fiber includes a furnace containing a fiber preform, a first positioner, a reheating device, and a treatment device downstream of the reheating device, the treatment device operable to cool the optical fiber under vacuum to reduce the rate of heat transfer from the optical fiber.
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公开(公告)号:US20220315473A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-06
申请号:US17706976
申请日:2022-03-29
申请人: CORNING INCORPORATED
发明人: Erling Richard Anderson , Tammy Michelle Hoffmann , Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias , Kenneth William Roberts , Eric Wade Thornton , Chunfeng Zhou
IPC分类号: C03B37/029 , C03B37/025
摘要: An optical fiber draw furnace system including a muffle, a downfeed handle, and a downfeed handle extension portion. The downfeed handle is moveably disposed within an inner cavity of the muffle. The downfeed handle extension portion is connected to the downfeed handle and moveably disposed within the inner cavity of the muffle. Furthermore, the downfeed handle extension portion forms a first gap between an outer surface of the downfeed handle extension portion and an inner surface of the muffle, the first gap having a length in a range of about 0.001 m to about 0.2 m.
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公开(公告)号:US11286195B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-29
申请号:US16387876
申请日:2019-04-18
申请人: Corning Incorporated
发明人: Stephen Mitchell Carlton , John Michael Jewell , Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias , Kochuparambil Deenamma Vargheese , Chunfeng Zhou
IPC分类号: C03B37/029 , C03B37/025
摘要: A method of producing an optical fiber is provided that includes the steps of flowing a first gas into an optical fiber draw furnace. The first gas is passed through a heated section configured to contain and heat a glass source from which the optical fiber is drawn, passing the first gas through a muffle which defines a capture chamber. A portion of the first gas is removed through at least one reclaim port operatively coupled to the capture chamber. A second gas flows into a gas screen at a rate configured to substantially recover a pressure drop associated with removing the portion of the first gas.
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公开(公告)号:US11242278B2
公开(公告)日:2022-02-08
申请号:US16298605
申请日:2019-03-11
申请人: Corning Incorporated
发明人: Erling Richard Anderson , John Michael Jewell , Robert Walter Nason , Elias Panides , Xiaoyong Wang , Leo Young Zheng , Chunfeng Zhou
IPC分类号: C03B37/029 , F27B5/10 , C03B37/083 , F27B5/14
摘要: An optical fiber draw furnace muffle includes a body portion defining a substantially cylindrical cavity extending along a centerline axis of the muffle. A tapered portion has an interior surface which defines a first curved portion with a first radius of curvature and a second curved portion with a second radius of curvature. At least one of the first and second radii of curvature has a radius greater than a radius of the cylindrical cavity.
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公开(公告)号:US20220009204A1
公开(公告)日:2022-01-13
申请号:US17485976
申请日:2021-09-27
申请人: CORNING INCORPORATED
发明人: Gaozhu Peng , Chunfeng Zhou
摘要: A laminated glass article has a first layer having a first ion exchange diffusivity, D0, and a second layer adjacent to the first layer and having a second ion exchange diffusivity, D1. D0/D1 is from about 1.2 to about 10, or D0/D1 is from about 0.05 to about 0.95. A method for manufacturing the laminated glass article includes forming a first layer having a first ion exchange diffusivity, D0, and forming a second layer adjacent to the first layer and having a second ion exchange diffusivity, D1. The laminated glass article can be strengthened by an ion exchange process to form a strengthened laminated glass article having a compressive stress layer with a depth of layer from about 8 μm to about 100 μm.
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公开(公告)号:US20180370837A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-27
申请号:US16115998
申请日:2018-08-29
申请人: Corning Incorporated
发明人: Guangli Hu , Bin Zhang , Chunfeng Zhou
摘要: An apparatus for making a glass laminate, including: a source of a glass core sheet; a source of a first force that tensions the glass core sheet in a first axial direction; a source of a second force that tensions the glass core sheet in a second axial direction; and at least one molten glass reservoir extending along a length of the apparatus and on opposite sides of the glass core sheet that delivers a source of at least two glass clads to the opposite side surfaces of the bi-axially tensioned glass core sheet. Also disclosed are methods for making a glass laminate sheet using the disclosed apparatus, as defined herein.
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公开(公告)号:US20170267569A1
公开(公告)日:2017-09-21
申请号:US15455776
申请日:2017-03-10
申请人: Corning Incorporated
发明人: Laura Beth Cook , Curtis Robert Fekety , Yunfeng Gu , Dale Robert Powers , Christopher Scott Thomas , Srinivas Vemury , Fei Xia , Chunfeng Zhou
IPC分类号: C03B37/018 , C03B37/012
摘要: A method of producing bi-modal particles includes the steps of igniting a first precursor gas using a primary burner thereby producing a first plurality of particles of a first size, fluidly transporting the first plurality of particles down a particle tube, igniting a second precursor gas using a secondary burner thereby producing a second plurality of particles of a second size, flowing the second plurality of particles into the first plurality of particles, and capturing the first and second plurality of particles.
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公开(公告)号:US20160347639A1
公开(公告)日:2016-12-01
申请号:US15162858
申请日:2016-05-24
申请人: Corning Incorporated
发明人: Guangli Hu , Bin Zhang , Chunfeng Zhou
IPC分类号: C03B17/06
CPC分类号: C03B17/068 , B32B17/06 , C03B17/02 , C03B17/064 , C03B17/067 , C03C1/00 , C03C3/091 , C03C3/093
摘要: An apparatus for making a glass laminate, including: a source of a glass core sheet; a source of a first force that tensions the glass core sheet in a first axial direction; a source of a second force that tensions the glass core sheet in a second axial direction; and at least one molten glass reservoir extending along a length of the apparatus and on opposite sides of the glass core sheet that delivers a source of at least two glass dads to the opposite side surfaces of the bi-axially tensioned glass core sheet. Also disclosed are methods for making a glass laminate sheet using the disclosed apparatus, as defined herein.
摘要翻译: 一种制造玻璃层压片的方法,包括:选择用于玻璃层压结构的芯玻璃组合物和复合玻璃组合物组合; 确定并比较所选择的芯和包层玻璃组合物在所关注的温度范围内的粘度和热膨胀系数(CTE)曲线,包括粘弹性开始到环境温度; 以及根据包层有效系数热膨胀(CTEeff芯)和芯有效系数热膨胀(CTEeff芯)的至少一个差异条件,在层压熔化拉制装置中处理所选择的芯和包层玻璃组合物以形成层压玻璃板 )。 制造玻璃层压片的另一方法包括控制冷却速度以控制所得到的层压体的强度。
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公开(公告)号:US20230406752A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-21
申请号:US18198445
申请日:2023-05-17
申请人: CORNING INCORPORATED
IPC分类号: C03B37/029 , F23D14/84
CPC分类号: C03B37/029 , F23D14/84 , F23D2900/21 , C03B2205/70 , C03B2205/68
摘要: A method of heating an optical fiber, the method including flowing gas from a common gas channel into one or more gas outlets of a burner, the common gas channel encircling an aperture of the burner. The method further including igniting the gas to form a flame and heating the fiber with the flame as the fiber passes through the aperture. The one or more gas outlets opening into the aperture such that each gas outlet has a gas outlet bore terminating at an inward-facing wall of the burner that defines the aperture. And the gas outlet bore being oriented at an angle θ1 defined between the gas outlet bore and the inward-facing wall of the burner, downstream of the gas outlet bore, that is greater than or equal to 10 degrees and less than or equal to 70 degrees.
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