Corning Incorporated

Kevin Thomas Morris

David Myron Lineman

Wenchao Wang

Kristen Marie Horn

Robert D Shoup

Kim E Womer

Noshir B Havewala

Ljerka Ukrainczyk

Michael George Shultz

Paul Michael Szlosek

Michelle Diane Pierson

Kevin William Uhlig

Matthew John Towner

Thomas Achille Yorio

Andrew Nathan Nassau

James B Stamatoff

Paul W Maxim

An apparatus for locating a preform on a mold includes a preform handling tool and a force sensor coupled to the preform handling tool such that the force sensor is capable of sensing forces applied to the preform during handling of the preform by the preform handling tool. The apparatus includes a control device that is arranged and operable to move the preform handling tool relative to the mold. A method of locating the preform on the mold includes picking up the preform using the preform handling tool and placing the preform in a vicinity of the mold. Positions on the mold are mapped with an edge of the preform with the aid of the force sensor. The preform is paced on the mold according to the mapped positions.

Method and apparatus for locating a preform on a mold

A mold for shaping glass can be made by a method that includes providing a mold body having a shaping surface comprising at least about 90% nickel and modifying the composition of the shaping surface of the mold body by exposing the shaping surface to an oxidizing heat treatment. The oxidizing heat treatment may include a ramping heat treatment, a fixed heat treatment, or both the ramping heat treatment and the fixed heat treatment. The ramping heat treatment may include increasing a heating temperature at a rate from about 20&#xb0; C./hour to about 500&#xb0; C./hour to a temperature from about 700&#xb0; C. to about 1000&#xb0; C. The fixed heat treatment may include holding the heating temperature from about 700&#xb0; C. to about 1000&#xb0; C. for a holding time of at least about 5 minutes.

Molds for shaping glass and methods for making the same

The present disclosure relates to high purity nickel molds for use in forming three dimensional glass substrates, along with methods of making three dimensional glass substrates. The mold compositions minimize imperfections in the formed glass substrates providing optical quality shaped glass articles for use in electronics applications.

High purity nickel molds for optical quality glass forming

Packages and methods for containing slides adapted for the attachment of biomolecules. The containers do not degrade the ability of biomolecules to attach to the surface when the slides are stored or shipped in the container.

Substrate container that does not degrade substrate surface

A method for the manufacture of phosphate glass comprising forming an aqueous slurry by mixing phosphoric acid, a zinc compound and other batch materials in the required proportions, heating the batch slurry to produce a molten phosphate glass that exhibits a P.sub.2 O.sub.5 /ZnO weight ratio range between about 1.2 to 2.0, and cooling the molten phosphate glass to room temperature.

Method for forming zinc phosphate based glasses

The instant invention describes a method for preparing a stable, anhydrous non-hygroscopic zinc phosphate compound which is suitable for use as a batch material in the preparation of zinc-phosphate glasses. This method comprises three basic steps: first, forming an aqueous slurry mixture by intimately mixing a mixture containing phosphoric acid and a zinc-containing compound whereby the so-formed slurry mixture is comprised of a mixture of zinc hydrogen phosphates and exhibits a P.sub.2 O.sub.5 /ZnO weight ratio range between about 1.2 to 2.0; second, heating the so-formed slurry mixture to a temperature and for a time sufficient to achieve both a removal of a sufficient amount of water and the phase transformation of the zinc hydrogen phosphates resulting in zinc-phosphate material comprised of granular solid mixture of zinc metaphosphates and zinc pyrophosphate and third, cooling the zinc-phosphate material to room temperature.

Method for forming a non-hygroscopic zinc-phosphate compound and a

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Kevin Thomas Morris