Corning Incorporated

Nagaraja Shashidhar

Timothy Michael Gross

Matthew John Dejneka

Thomas Dale Ketcham

Michael Edward Badding

Venkata Adiseshaiah Bhagavatula

Sinue Gomez

Ljerka Ukrainczyk

James Joseph Price

Paul John Shustack

Gary Edward Merz

Kenneth Edward Hrdina

Zhen Song

Dell Joseph St Julien

Cameron Wayne Tanner

Jacqueline Leslie Brown

John Himmelreich

Robert Sabia

William Joseph Bouton

Eric Lee Miller

Kristen L Barefoot

Gregory Scott Glaesemann

John Robert Saltzer, Jr

Conor James Walsh

Huan-Hung Sheng

Richard Dominic Bomba

Michael Lesley Sorensen

Ming-Huang Huang

Kevin Andrew Vasilakos

Ananthanarayanan Subramanian

Larry G Mann

Satish Chandra Chaparala

Rachid Gafsi

G Scott Glaesemann

David Inscho Wilcox

Kurt Edward Gerber

Kimberly Michelle Keegan

Kristen Lorraine Eckart

A glass and an enclosure, including windows, cover plates, and substrates for mobile electronic devices comprising the glass. The glass has a crack initiation threshold that is sufficient to withstand direct impact, has a retained strength following abrasion that is greater than soda lime and alkali aluminosilicate glasses, and is resistant to damage when scratched. The enclosure includes cover plates, windows, screens, and casings for mobile electronic devices and information terminal devices.

Crack and scratch resistant glass and enclosures made therefrom

A multi-layer and method of making the same are provided. The multi-layer, such as a sensor, can include a high strength glass overlay and a lamination layer on a substrate layer. The overlay can be less than 250 micrometers thick and have at least one tempered surface incorporating a surface compression layer of at least 5 micrometers deep and a surface compressive stress of at least 200 MPa. The overlay can exhibit a puncture factor of at least 3000 N/&#x3bc;mat B10 (10percentile of the probability distribution of failure) in a multi-layer structure, an apparent thickness of less than 0.014 mm, and a pencil hardness greater than 6H. The method can include ion-exchange tempering at least one major surface of a glass sheet, light etching the major surface to remove flaws and laminating the glass sheet on the tempered and lightly etched major surface to a substrate layer.

Multi-layer structure and method of making same

Disclosed herein are frameless display devices comprising a glass sheet () having a first surface, an opposing second surface, and a thickness between the first and second surfaces of less than 3 mm; a transparent adhesive layer (); and an assembly comprising a backlight unit and a back panel (); wherein at least one of the first and second surfaces is patterned with an image; and wherein the transparent adhesive layer () affixes the first surface of the glass sheet () to a surface of the assembly. Also disclosed herein are display devices comprising a glass sheet () having a first surface, an opposing second surface, a thickness between the first and second surfaces of less than about 3 mm, and a core having a plurality of light extraction features; a transparent adhesive layer (); and an assembly comprising a back panel (). Further disclosed herein are kits for making frameless display devices.

Device for displaying a backlit image

Described herein are various polymer-covered glass and glass-ceramic articles that exhibit improved adhesion between the polymer and the glass or glass-ceramic, along with methods for their manufacture and use. The improved articles generally include a glass or glass-ceramic substrate, a surface-roughened coating disposed on at least a portion of an edge of the glass or glass-ceramic substrate, and a polymer covering disposed on at least a portion of the surface-roughened coating. The surface-roughened coatings beneficially allow the polymer coverings to adhere better to the edge surfaces of the glass or glass-ceramic substrates relative to similar or identical articles that lack the surface-roughened coating.

Polymer edge-covered glass articles and methods for making and using same

A biometrics-enabled smart card for use in transactional or identity applications (e.g., credit cards and identity cards). The biometric smart card includes a substrate, a biometric sensor capable of reading biometric information through the substrate, and a microprocessor to process, store, and authenticate biometric information. The substrate has a Young's modulus of at least abut 50 GPa and a thickness of up to about 0.5 mm.

Biometric-enabled smart card

The invention is directed to a high strength, chemically toughened protective glass article, the glass article having a high damage tolerance threshold of at least 1500 g as measured by the lack of radial cracks when the load is applied to the glass using a Vickers indenter; preferably greater than 2000 g s measured by the lack of initiation of radial cracks when the load is applied to the glass using a Vickers indenter.

Damage resistant chemically-toughened protective cover glass

A tempered glass sheet article includes a glass sheet having a thickness t, at least one edge, and at least one surface. The at least one edge is connected to the at least one surface by an edge-to-surface corner. The edge-to-surface corner is rounded with a radius r and has a surface compression that is at least 78% of a surface compression measured at or near a center of the at least one surface.

Method for improving the edge strength of tempered glass sheet articles

The present invention provides lensed fibers and methods of making lensed fibers. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of making a functional-coated lensed fiber includes the steps of providing a lensed fiber, the lensed fiber having a terminal section including a terminal fiber segment and a lensed segment, the lensed segment having an optically operative area; covering at least part of the terminal section of the lensed fiber with a protective element, thereby forming a protected lensed fiber having an optically operative area that is not covered by the protective element; and forming a functional coating on the optically operative area of the lensed segment of the protected lensed fiber to form the functional-coated lensed fiber. The method can be used to provide antireflection coated lensed fibers that are resistant to breakage.

Lensed fibers and methods of making lensed fibers

A fiber lens includes a graded-index lens, a single-mode fiber disposed at a first end of the graded-index lens, and a refractive lens having a hyperbolic or near-hyperbolic shape disposed at a second end of the graded-index lens to focus a beam from the single-mode fiber to a diffraction-limited spot.

Small mode-field fiber lens

A collimator for use at multiple wavelengths includes an optical fiber and a gradient index lens positioned at a constant distance with respect to an end of the optical fiber. The gradient index lens has a chromatic aberration at a selected pitch less than 0.01 over a selected range of the infrared spectral region.

Multi-bandwidth collimator

A multi-lens apparatus for altering the mode field of an optical signal is disclosed. The apparatus includes an optical fiber having a core region defining an optical axis and a GRIN-fiber lens positioned in relation to one end of the optical fiber. A biconic lens including an external surface defined by two different curves disposed substantially orthogonal to one another, a major curve Cand a minor curve C, with Cand Cintersecting at or near the optical axis is positioned in relation to an end of the GRIN-fiber lens remote from the fiber. A method of manufacturing a multi-lens apparatus for altering the mode field of an optical signal, and an optical assembly are also disclosed.

Beam altering fiber lens device and method of manufacture

An apparatus for altering the mode field of an optical signal is disclosed. The apparatus includes a GRIN-fiber lens and a reflective surface disposed at one end of the GRIN-fiber lens, the reflective surface configured to cooperate with the GRIN-fiber lens to redirect the path of the optical signal directed against the reflective surface. A method of manufacturing an apparatus for altering the mode field of an optical signal and an optical assembly are also disclosed.

Beam bending apparatus and method of manufacture

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Painted Post, NY, United States of America

Nagaraja Shashidhar