Corning Incorporated

David Scott Franzen

Jackson P Trentelman

Gaozhu Peng

Bulent Kocatulum

Paul Richard Grzesik

Ahdi El-Kahlout

Ren Hua Chung

Brendan William Glover

Michael John Stephenson

Robert Sabia

Elizabeth Marie Vileno

Candace J Quinn

Thierry L A Dannoux

Mark Allen Spetseris

Gary Graham Squier

Christopher Steven Witte

Jon Anthony Passmore

Walter L Morgan

Yuk Fung Chan

An apparatus and methods for making a glass ribbon includes a forming wedge with a pair of inclined forming surface portions converging along a downstream direction to form a root. The apparatus further includes an edge director intersecting with at least one of the pair of downwardly inclined forming surface portions, and a replaceable heating cartridge configured to direct heat to the edge director and thermally shield the edge director from heat loss. A replaceable heating cartridge is also provided for directing heat to the edge director and thermally shielding the edge director from heat loss.

Methods and apparatuses for reducing heat loss from edge directors

An improvement in a process of forming ceramic articles comprising oil-based components or extrusion aids, the improvement including removing the oil-based components after drying and prior to firing by flowing a heated gas through the green ceramic honeycomb articles to evaporate and condense the oil-based components, with or without microwave radiation.

Process for removing oil-based components and forming ceramic bodies

A collimator array, a fiber array and a method for fabricating the fiber array are described herein. In one embodiment, that fiber array includes a plurality of optical fibers and a glass plate with a plurality of holes in each of which there is secured one of the optical fibers, wherein the holes were formed by etching away a plurality of opal regions within an exposed and heated photosensitive glass which after the etching became the glass plate. In another embodiment, the fiber array includes a plurality of optical fibers and a glass plate with a plurality of holes in each of which there is secured one of the optical fibers, wherein the holes were formed by etching away a plurality of opal regions within an exposed and heated photosensitive glass which after the etching became the glass plate that included a plurality of oversized holes which were filled with a moldable material that was then drilled to form the holes.

Fiber array and methods for fabricating the fiber array

An improved temperature-compensated optical grating device includes a temperature-compensating structure including a plurality of members that are selected and arranged to provide an effective coefficient of thermal expansion that is negative with respect to two mounting points for an optical fiber grating, wherein the improvement is achieved by making at least one of the members of the temperature-compensating structure from a material having a low coefficient of thermal expansion that decreases with increasing temperature and at least one other member having a high coefficient of thermal expansion that increases with increasing temperature.

Temperature-compensated optical grating device

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Painted Post, NY, United States of America

David Scott Franzen