Corning Incorporated

Joseph Michael Matusick

Connor Thomas O'Malley

Kevin Patrick McNelis

Lewis Kirk Klingensmith

Steven Edward DeMartino

Robert Anthony Schaut

John Stephen Peanasky

James Ernest Webb

Patrick Joseph Cimo

Douglas Miles Noni, Jr

Sinue Gomez-Mower

Amber Leigh Tremper

Christy Lynn Chapman

Shivani Rao Polasani

Weirong Jiang

Christie Leigh McCarthy

Jared Seaman Aaldenberg

Bryan James Musk

Eric Lewis Allington

Kristen Dae Waight

Keith Raymond Gaylo

Adam Robert Sarafian

Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr

Allan Mark Fredholm

Elias Panides

Laurent Joubaud

David Alan Deneka

Aniello Mario Palumbo

Matthew Daniel Trosa

Christophe Pierron

Steven Robert Wagner

Christelle Ruby Barnard

Nicholas Francis Borrelli

Natesan Venkataraman

Joseph Francis Schroeder, Iii

David John McEnroe

Thomas Philip Seward, Iii

Nakia Leigh Heffner

Vladislav Yuryevich Golyatin

Glen Bennett Cook

Olus Naili Boratav

Srinivasa Rao Vaddiraju

Irene Mona Peterson

Olivier Fournel

Michael Charles Gerrish

Alexey Sergeyevich Amosov

Patrick Paul Gill

Andrey Yuryevich Ushakov

Alicia Marie Gallagher

Michael Clement Ruotolo

Eric Michael Gross

Methods for providing feedback control of converters for converting glass tubes to glass articles include a model predictive control framework. The methods include operating the converter, providing target values for attributes of the glass articles or glass tubes, measuring the attributes for the glass articles and glass tubes, conditioning the measurement data to remove outlier data points and calculating statistics representative of the measured attributes, and determine updated settings for one or more process parameters from the previous settings, the statistical properties, and the target values, where the updated settings are those that minimize an objective control function for the converter. The methods further include adjusting the process parameters to the updated settings. The model predictive control framework enables feedback control of the converter that compensates for disturbances that act on the process.

Feedback control systems and methods for glass tube converting processes

A glass cartridge comprises a cylindrical body portion comprising an outer diameter Dand an average sidewall thickness T, the cylindrical body portion having a first end and a second end opposite the first end; an opening at the first end of the cylindrical body portion; a shoulder extending radially inward from the second end of the cylindrical body portion; and a neck extending from the shoulder and comprising an outer neck diameter Nthat is less than the outer diameter Dof the cylindrical body portion. The average wall thickness Tis less than or equal to 0.85*s, wherein sis a wall thickness of a standard glass cartridge defined by ISO 13926-1:2004 having an outer diameter dthat is closer to the outer diameter Dthan the outer diameter dof any other standard glass cartridge defined by ISO 13926-1:2004.

Glass containers for storing pharmaceutical compositions

A system for producing articles from glass tube includes 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 system further includes a thermal imaging system that includes a thermal imager coupled to the turret for movement with the turret. The thermal imaging system may also include a mirror coupled to the thermal imager and positioned to reflect infrared light from one of the plurality of holders to the thermal imager. The thermal imaging system may measure one or more characteristics of the glass tube during the conversion process. Processes for controlling the converter using the thermal imaging system to measure one or more process variables are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for measuring the temperature of glass during tube conversion

Methods for producing glass articles from laminated glass tubing include introducing the glass tubing to a converter. The glass tubing includes a core layer under tensile stress, an outer clad layer under, and an inner clad layer. The methods include forming a feature the glass article at a working end of the laminated glass tubing and separating a glass article from the working end of the laminated glass tubing, which may expose the core layer under tensile stress at the working end of the glass tubing. The method further comprises remediating the exposed portion of the core layer by completely enclosing the core layer in a clad layer. Systems for re-cladding the exposed portion of the core layer as well as glass articles made using the systems and methods are also disclosed.

Glass articles made from laminated glass tubing and systems and methods for converting laminated glass tubing into the glass articles

Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter di of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Tthat is less than or equal to 0.85*s, wherein sis a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.

Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter dof a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Tthat is less than or equal to 0.85*s, wherein sis a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.

A forming body of a glass forming apparatus may include a first conduit comprising a first conduit wall and at least one slot in the first conduit wall, and a second conduit disposed above and vertically aligned with the first conduit, the second conduit comprising a second conduit wall and a slot extending through the second conduit wall. The forming body may include a first vertical wall and a second vertical wall extending between an outer surface of the second conduit wall and an outer surface of the first conduit wall at a first side and a second side, respectively, of the forming body. The forming body may include a first forming surface and a second forming surface extending from an outer surface of the first conduit wall and converging at a root of the forming body. Methods of forming a continuous laminate glass ribbon are also disclosed.

Methods and apparatus for forming laminated glass sheets

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

Methods for controlling a converter for converting glass tubes to glass articles include preparing condition sets including settings for a plurality of process parameters, operating the converter to produce glass articles, measuring attributes of the glass articles, operating the converter at each of the condition sets, associating each glass article with a condition set used to produce the glass article and the attributes measured, developing operational models from the attributes measured and the condition sets, determining run settings for each of the plurality of process parameters based on the operational models, and operating the converter with each of the process parameters set to the run settings determined from the operational models.

Converter systems and methods for controlling operation of glass tube converting processes

Methods for producing articles from a glass tube include securing a working end of the glass tube in a glass tube holder of a converter having a plurality of processing stations including a heating station and a forming station. An initial length of the glass tube includes a plurality of serial segments, each of the plurality of serial segments corresponding to one article and having an article number. The methods include heating the working end of the glass tube in the heating station, adjusting an amount of heating of the glass tube in the heating station based on the article number at the working end of the glass tube, and forming a feature of the article in the forming station. Adjusting the amount of heating based on the article number reduces variation in tube temperature, article dimensions, or both, from one article number to the next article number.

Methods to control thermal variation during tube consumption in glass tube converting

Systems and methods for minimizing SHR from pharmaceutical part converting using pulsed ejection

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Joseph Michael Matusick