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Elias Panides

Gerald A Domoto

Nicholas P Kladias

Keith Raymond Gaylo

Ljerka Ukrainczyk

Rohit Rai

Ruddy Castillo

James Michael Brown

Lloyd A Williams

Bryan James Roof

Mark Anthony Cellura

Augusto E Barton

Scott J Phillips

Joseph Michael Matusick

Lewis Kirk Klingensmith

S Warren Lohr

Yi Zhang

Jingru Zhang

Vittorio R Castelli

Liang-Bih Lin

Anthony Salvatore Condello

Roger Gaylord Leighton

Daniel Warren Hawtof

Steven Matthew Russel

Joannes N M deJong

Andrew Wayne Hays

Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias

Chunfeng Zhou

Elliott A Eklund

Narayan V Deshpande

John Richard Ridge

William Alexander Burton

Weiwei Luo

Yuehao Li

Sam Samer Zoubi

Kenneth Spencer Morgan

Irene Marjorie Slater

Sean Thomas Miller

Leo Young Zheng

Dawn Api

Purushotam Kumar

Yujian Sun

Bushra Afzal

Chieh-Min Cheng

Linn C Hoover

Paul Michael Fromm

Donald J Drake

Michael John Martin

Kevin Lee Wasson

Terrance Lee Stephens

Jorge Antonio Alvarez

Thomas N Taylor

Charles Donahue Rizzolo

Barry Daniel Reeves

Samir Kumar

Gilbert De Angelis

Juan A Morales-Tirado

Donald M Bott

Brian P Gilmartin

Gaozhu Peng

Daniel W Asarese

Richard P Germain

Connor Thomas O'Malley

Xiaoyong Wang

Joannes N M De Jong

Christopher M Wolfe

James Lawton Giacobbi

Thomas C Hollar

David John McEnroe

Bin Zhang

Srinivasa Rao Vaddiraju

Keith Mitchell Hill

Randy Lee Rhoads

John Stone, Iii

Barry M Wolf

James Padula

Gary Allan Batt

John Michael Jewell

Erling Richard Anderson

Dong-gun Moon

John J Meyers

Karl B Ayash

Matthew Daniel Trosa

David Posada-Pineda

Dale Madard Fisher, Jr

Adam Charles Berkey

David Lalley

Steven Robert Wagner

Robert Walter Nason

Christine A Keenan

Igor Podzorov

Robert M Rottman

Yolanda E Maldonado

Sowmya Krishnamurthy

Adam James Ruggles

Jiandong Meng

Abhijit Rao

Douglas Edward McElheny

Brian Charles Cook

Eliot Geathers

A spray coating apparatus that applies a coating material onto outer surfaces of glass objects includes a coating material source that includes a coating material. A spray nozzle assembly includes a spray nozzle fluidly connected to the coating material source. The spray nozzle is arranged and configured to direct the coating material in a first direction toward the glass object and provide an overspray amount of the coating material by the glass object such that the overspray amount bypasses a non-line of sight area of the glass object. A turn nozzle assembly includes a turn nozzle fluidly connected to a pressurized gas source. The turn nozzle is arranged and configured to direct pressurized gas in a second direction different than the first direction toward the non-line of sight area of the glass package to redirect the coating material onto the non-line of sight area.

Spray coating apparatuses with turn nozzle assemblies and methods of coating glass objects

An enclosure for providing a controlled environment includes a central plane extending through a top end of the enclosure and a bottom end of the enclosure and bisecting the enclosure along a width of the enclosure, an inlet at the bottom end of the enclosure having an inlet width, W, an enclosure wall extending from the inlet to the top end of the enclosure, an entry port at the top end of the enclosure, and an outlet between the entry port and the chamber region of the enclosure wall. The enclosure wall comprises a chamber region and a transition region between the inlet and the chamber region. The width of the chamber region, W, is substantially constant through the chamber region. The width of the enclosure in the transition region decreases from Wto W, and a ratio of Wto Wis from 1:2 to 1:5.

Enclosures for providing a controlled environment during the production of glass articles

Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.

Systems and methods for minimizing SHR from pharmaceutical part converting using negative pressure evacuation

A glass tube manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing glass tubing includes a glass delivery tank with molten glass. The glass delivery tank has a bottom opening. A bell has an upper portion with an outer diameter located at the bottom opening. A heating apparatus is at least partially disposed around the bell. The heating apparatus includes a heated portion and a muffle portion located below the heated portion. A lower extended muffle structure extends downwardly from the muffle portion. The lower extended muffle structure extending about the glass tubing on all sides to manage convective airflow therethrough.

Method and apparatus for controlling glass tube taper

A cleaning nozzle includes an outer housing having a central axis and an inner surface that defines an outer housing interior. An inner housing resides within the outer housing interior along the central axis and has an inner surface that defines an inner flow channel. The inner flow channel supports flow of the cleaning fluid and has a converging taper and a flow disrupter element. The nozzle assembly may include an adapter that receives a front end of the nozzle and that also holds a ferrule that supports an optical fiber having an end face. The nozzle assembly allows the nozzle to direct a jet stream of cleaning fluid to the ferrule end face and the fiber end face. The flow disrupter causes the jet stream to have a time-varying direction that enhances the cleaning of the ferrule end face and the optical fiber end face.

Cleaning nozzle and nozzle assembly and cleaning methods for optical fiber connectors

Heating apparatuses and methods for glass tubing manufacturing are disclosed. A heating apparatus for glass tubing manufacturing includes a bowl configured to receive molten glass and a plurality of heating elements thermally coupled to the bowl. The bowl has a bowl height and includes a tub portion configured to hold the molten glass, a bowl well extending beneath the tub portion, and an orifice at a distal end of the bowl well. The plurality of heating elements include a first heating element disposed at a first vertical location along the bowl height, a second heating element disposed at a second vertical location along the bowl height, wherein the first vertical location is vertically spaced apart from the second vertical location.

Heating apparatuses and methods for glass tubing manufacturing

The nozzle includes a nozzle body having a front end with a recess defining a recessed wall. The recess is elongate in a first direction. The recess receives a front-end section of a ferrule of a multi-fiber connector to define gap, wherein the front-end section has an elongate end face. The nozzle has first and second channels that are elongate in the first direction and have respective first and second front-end openings at the recessed wall. The first and second front-end openings are spaced apart in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A cleaning fluid flows from the first channel into the gap and then out the second channel, including over the ferrule end faces and end faces of optical fibers supported by the ferrule. A flow-disrupting feature on the recessed wall generates turbulent flow to enhance cleaning.

Cleaning nozzle and nozzle assembly for multi-fiber connectors

A fluid distributor comprises a first conduit extending along a first elongated axis and a second conduit circumscribing the first conduit. A first area comprises a cross-sectional flow area of the first conduit taken perpendicular to the first elongated axis. The first conduit comprises a first plurality of orifices comprising a first combined cross-sectional area. The second conduit comprises a second plurality of orifices comprising a second combined cross-sectional area. A first ratio of the first area to the first combined cross-sectional area can be about 2 or more. A second ratio of the first combined cross-sectional area to the second combined cross-sectional area can be about 2 or more. An angle between a direction of an orifice axis of a first orifice of the first plurality of orifices and a direction of an orifice axis of a first orifice of the second plurality of orifices can be from about 45&#xb0; to 180&#xb0;.

Methods and apparatus comprising a first conduit circumscribed by a second conduit

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.

Tapered furnace muffles

Methods for minimizing SHR in glass articles by producing a gas flow during pharmaceutical part converting

The cleaning nozzle is used for cleaning an optical fiber connector using a cleaning fluid. The optical fiber connector includes a connector housing. A ferrule is supported within the interior of the connector housing. The nozzle has inner and outer housing members that respectively define an inner channel and an outer channel. The inner channel is sized to accommodate a front-end section of the ferrule. The inner and outer channels are in fluid communication through the interior of the connector housing when the front-end section of the ferrule resides within the inner channel. The nozzle assembly includes the nozzle and the optical fiber connector. Methods of cleaning the interior of the optical fiber connector as well as the ferrule end face, the optical fiber end face and the ferrule outer surface are also disclosed.

Cleaning nozzle, apparatus, nozzle assembly, and methods for optical fiber connectors

A process using a three-piece mold for making a three-dimensionally shaped glass article having a flat area and a curved/bend area is disclosed. The process includes placing a glass sheet on a mold having a shaping surface with a desired surface profile for the shaped glass article including a flat area and a bend area, moving a flat area plunger toward the glass sheet to compress the glass sheet, heating a portion of the glass sheet corresponding to an area above the bend area of the mold to a temperature above a forming temperature, and moving a bend area plunger toward the heated glass sheet to compress the heated glass sheet. A temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the bend area of the mold is higher than a temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the flat area of the mold when compressing the heated glass sheet with the bend area plunger.

Process and apparatus for forming shaped glass articles

A method of making a shaped glass article includes placing a glass sheet on top of a mold. A heat exchanger is arranged relative to the mold such that a heat exchange surface of the heat exchanger is in opposing relation to a back surface of the mold and separated from the back surface of the mold by a gap containing a layer of gas. The height of the gap is selected such that the dominant heat transfer between the heat exchange surface and the back surface of the mold is by conduction through the layer of gas. The glass sheet is heated and formed into a shaped glass article with the mold. The heat exchanger is operated to remove heat from at least part of the mold during at least one of heating the glass sheet, forming the shaped glass article, and cooling the shaped glass article.

Method of making glass articles

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