Corning Incorporated

William Joseph Bouton

Thomas Dale Ketcham

Michael Edward Badding

Lanrik Wayne Kester

Eric Lee Miller

Dell Joseph St Julien

Jacqueline Leslie Brown

Nathan Michael Zink

John Albert Olenick

Timothy Joseph Curry

Roman E Hurny

Kathleen Ritter Olenick

Jeremy Paananen

Thomas Silverblatt

Viswanathan Venkateswaran

Cameron Wayne Tanner

James William Zimmermann

Gary Edward Merz

Conor James Walsh

Andrew Peter Kittleson

Dale Charles Marshall

Ljerka Ukrainczyk

Robert Alan Bellman

Kenneth Edward Hrdina

Christopher Lee Timmons

Zhen Song

Douglas Edward Brackley

Emmanuel Chima Okpara

Douglas W Hall

Nagaraja Shashidhar

Richard Dominic Bomba

Karen Irene Matthews

Micheal Edward Badding

A method of manufacturing ceramic tape includes a step of directing a tape of partially-sintered ceramic into a furnace. The tape is partially-sintered such that grains of the ceramic are fused to one another yet the tape still includes at least 10% porosity by volume, where the porosity refers to volume of the tape unoccupied by the ceramic. The method further includes steps of conveying the tape through the furnace and further sintering the tape as the tape is conveyed through the furnace. The porosity of the tape decreases during the further sintering step.

Manufacturing line, process, and sintered article

A process of forming a sintered article includes heating a green portion of a tape of polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals in organic binder at a binder removal zone to a temperature sufficient to pyrolyze the binder; horizontally conveying the portion of tape with organic binder removed from the binder removal zone to a sintering zone; and sintering polycrystalline ceramic and/or minerals of the portion of tape at the sintering zone, wherein the tape simultaneously extends through the removal and sintering zones.

System, process and related sintered article

A manufacturing system includes a tape advancing through the manufacturing system and a station of the manufacturing system. The tape includes a first portion having grains of an inorganic material bound by an organic binder. The station of the manufacturing system receives the first portion of the tape and prepares the tape for sintering by chemically changing the organic binder and/or removing the organic binder from the first portion of the tape, leaving the grains of the inorganic material, to form a second portion of the tape and, at least in part, prepare the tape for sintering.

Manufacturing system, process, article, and furnace

Method of manufacturing ceramic tape

A method for finishing a glass or ceramic article includes applying a force to the glass or ceramic article. The force is applied to the glass or ceramic article at least when the glass or ceramic article is at a temperature that is greater than or equal to a creep temperature of the glass or ceramic article. Holding the force to the glass or ceramic article as the glass or ceramic article is cooled to a temperature that is less than the creep temperature of the glass or ceramic article.

Rapid forming of glass and ceramics

A process for manufacturing continuous ceramic tape includes steps of heating a ceramic feedstock to a molten state and spraying molten droplets of the feedstock onto a deposition surface. The method further includes forming a ceramic coating on the deposition surface by accumulating the droplets, which solidify and are directly bonded to one another. The deposition surface is non-stick with respect to the ceramic coating such that the coating may be peeled off of the deposition surface as a continuous ceramic tape, without fracture. Additionally, in embodiments, the deposition surface is removed by running the deposition over a bending edge, chemically stripping or dissolving the deposition surface, or burning the deposition surface.

Coating tape

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