Corning Incorporated

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Michael Joshua Snyder

Qiang Fu

John Christopher Mauro

Gilbert De Angelis

Huayun Deng

Curtis Richard Cowles

Katherine Rose Rossington

Jeffrey Lee Merriman

David John McEnroe

Nicolas LeBlond

Rand Alan Murnane

Ye Fang

Lina Ma

Dana Lynne Widmer-Quiel

Methods of making a bioactive glass fiber include forming a melt of a glass composition including: 50 to 70% SiO; 0.1 to 10% AlO, 5 to 30% NaO, 0.1 to 15% KO, 0.1 to 15% MgO, 0.1 to 20% CaO, and 5 to 10% PO, based on a 100 wt % of the glass composition. The melt has a viscosity of from 200 Poise to 2,000 Poise. Methods include drawing the melt into a drawn glass fiber. Bioactive glass compositions include: 60 to 70% SiO; 15 to 30% NaO, 5 to 15% KO, 1 to 10% CaO, and 5 to 10% PO, based on a 100 wt % of the glass composition.

High liquidus viscosity bioactive glass

A method of melting glass and glass-ceramics that includes the steps: conveying a batch of raw materials into a submerged combustion melting apparatus, the melting apparatus having liquid-cooled walls and a floor; directing a flame into the batch of raw materials and the melted batch with sufficient energy to form the raw materials into the melted batch; and heating a delivery orifice assembly in the floor of the submerged melting apparatus to convey the melted batch through the orifice assembly into a containment vessel. The melted batch has a glass or glass-ceramic composition that is substantially reactive to a refractory material comprising one or more of silica, zirconia, alumina, platinum and platinum alloys.

Methods for melting reactive glasses and glass-ceramics and melting apparatus for the same

A portable lumbar support and ergonomic chair having a lumbar support. The lumbar support has a seat hingedly coupled to a seat back having a teardrop-shaped lumbar support seat back cushion. A rigid back support portion may be rotated forward about hinges to collapse substantially parallel to the seat frame and backward to open to a variety of angles with respect to the seat frame. The seat back freely pivots around an upper lateral axis, and the rigid back support portion is linearly adjustable to space the seat back toward and away from the hinges to enable raising or lowering the upper lateral axis and thus the seat back with respect to the lower lateral axis. This provides multiple ways of changing which part of the teardrop-shaped lumbar support curve hits your lumbar curve for proper support. Variable lumbar lordotic support is thus provided.

Adjustable lumbar support and ergonomic chair

A bioactive glass composition including: 50 to 70% SiO; 0.1 to 10% AlO, 5 to 30% NaO, 0.1 to 15% KO, 0.1 to 15% MgO, 0.1 to 20% CaO, and 5 to 10% PO, based on a 100 wt % of the composition. Also disclosed is a method of making the bioactive glass composition.

Portable adjustable lumbar support and ergonomic chair

An aluminoborate composition, an alumino-borosilicate glass composition, or a mixture thereof, and solid or hollow microspheres thereof, as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the disclosed compositions, for example, forming microspheres for use in bioactive applications, and composition extracts for use in treating or healing wounds.

Bioactive glass microspheres

A molten material apparatus can include a container including a wall at least partially defining a containment area and an opening extending through the wall. The molten material apparatus can include a protective sleeve mounted at least partially within the opening of the wall of the container. A thermocouple can be positioned within an internal bore of the protective sleeve. A method of processing molten material can include inserting a thermocouple into a protective sleeve fabricated from a refractory ceramic material, and measuring a temperature of material within a containment area of a container with the thermocouple.

Molten material thermocouple methods and apparatus

A collapsible exercise machine for strengthening the core muscles (transverse abdominal, internal obliques, external obliques, rectus abdominis, and erector spinae) includes a frame mounted on a base on which a user sits and manipulates an upstanding lever arm. A seat is convertible between two differently-angled positions for back extension or abdominal exercises. The lever arm rotates a curved tube having a plurality of force adjustment holes. The tube passes through a frame at the upper end of a gas spring, and engaging an adjustment pin on the frame with different adjustment holes changes the amount of resistance. The entire frame above the base can be vertically adjusted to accommodate different sizes of user without altering the relative position between the seat (and user's hips) and the axis of rotation of the lever arm thus not affecting/changing the designated resistance between users of different heights (resistance is affected when the lever arm is lengthened). The connection between the frame and the base enables the unit to be collapsed to a profile small enough to fit under a bed.

Core exercising machine

Disclosed is a triggering transducer for signaling external equipment from an acoustic device having a foundational structure and an acoustic member, The transducer includes a base for mounting to the foundational structure; an elastic beam member having an anchor portion supported relative to the base and having a beam extremity for limited area contact with the acoustic member; a piezoelectric element attached to the beam member between the beam extremity and the anchor portion for coupling bending strain from the beam member to the piezoelectric element in response to vibration of the acoustic member, the piezoelectric element being in proximate facing contact with an active portion of the beam member, the active portion being inclined at an angle .theta. from the acoustic member, the angle .theta. is between approximately 30.degree. and approximately 45.degree.; a first resilient member bonded over substantially the entire face area of the piezoelectric element for damping the element, the beam member being U-shaped between the anchor portion and the active portion, the first resilient member being located between the active and anchor portions of the beam member and connecting the anchor portion of the beam member; an arm member, the arm member being adjustably fixable relative to the base; and a second resilient member supportively connecting the anchor portion of the beam member to the arm member.

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Almond, NY, United States of America

Michael Joshua Snyder