公开(公告)号：US20210316999A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-14

申请号：US17221913

申请日：2021-04-05

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Thomas Dale Ketcham ,  Xinghua Li ,  Yan Wang

IPC: C01F7/02

Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for manufacturing a crystalline material (e.g., large crystal material) through the solid state conversion of a polycrystalline material are described. A device may be configured to concurrently heat a volume of ribbon, such as an alumina ribbon, using multiple heat sources. For example, a first heat source may heat a first volume of the ribbon and a second heat source may concurrently heat a second volume, for example, within the first volume, where the ribbon may comprise polycrystalline material. The concurrent heating may drive grain growth in the polycrystalline material in at least the second volume, which may convert the polycrystalline material to crystalline material having one or more grains that are larger than one or more grains of the polycrystalline material. The processed ribbon may include a large crystal material or a single crystal material.

公开(公告)号：US10967539B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-06

申请号：US17076044

申请日：2020-10-21

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Michael Edward Badding ,  William Joseph Bouton ,  Jacqueline Leslie Brown ,  Timothy Joseph Curry ,  Roman E Hurny ,  Lanrik Wayne Kester ,  Thomas Dale Ketcham ,  John Albert Olenick ,  Kathleen Ritter Olenick ,  Jeremy Paananen ,  Thomas Silverblatt ,  Dell Joseph St Julien ,  Viswanathan Venkateswaran ,  Nathan Michael Zink

IPC: C04B35/115 ,  C04B35/486 ,  B28B11/24 ,  C04B35/443 ,  C04B35/64

Abstract: A manufacturing line includes a tape of green material that is directed through a furnace so that the furnace burns off organic binder material and then partially sinters the tape without the use of a setter board. Sintered articles resulting from the manufacturing line may be thin with relatively large surface areas; and, while substantially unpolished, have few sintering-induced surface defects. Tension may be applied to the partially sintered tape as it passes through a second furnace on the manufacturing line to shape resulting sintered articles.

公开(公告)号：US10766165B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-08

申请号：US15218689

申请日：2016-07-25

Applicant: Corning Incorporated

Inventor： Michael Edward Badding ,  William Joseph Bouton ,  Jacqueline Leslie Brown ,  Timothy Joseph Curry ,  Roman E Hurny ,  Lanrik Wayne Kester ,  Thomas Dale Ketcham ,  John Albert Olenick ,  Kathleen Ritter Olenick ,  Jeremy Paananen ,  Thomas Silverblatt ,  Dell Joseph St Julien ,  Viswanathan Venkateswaran ,  Nathan Michael Zink

IPC: C04B35/115 ,  C04B35/64 ,  B28B11/24 ,  C04B35/443 ,  C04B35/486

Abstract: A manufacturing line includes a tape of green material that is directed through a furnace so that the furnace burns off organic binder material and then partially sinters the tape without the use of a setter board. Sintered articles resulting from the manufacturing line may be thin with relatively large surface areas; and, while substantially unpolished, have few sintering-induced surface defects. Tension may be applied to the partially sintered tape as it passes through a second furnace on the manufacturing line to shape resulting sintered articles.

公开(公告)号：US20180322921A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-08

申请号：US16036297

申请日：2018-07-16

Applicant: Corning Incorporated

Inventor： Jason Allen Brown ,  Thomas Dale Ketcham ,  Daniel Aloysius Nolan ,  Wageesha Senaratne ,  Jun Yang ,  Haitao Zhang

IPC: G11C13/04 ,  H04B10/70 ,  H04B10/29 ,  G06N99/00 ,  C04B35/505 ,  C04B35/486

CPC classification number: G11C13/048 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  B82Y20/00 ,  C04B35/486 ,  C04B35/488 ,  C04B35/505 ,  C04B2235/3224 ,  C04B2235/3225 ,  C04B2235/3244 ,  C04B2235/95 ,  C04B2235/9646 ,  C04B2235/9653 ,  G06N99/002 ,  G11C13/04 ,  H04B10/29 ,  H04B10/291 ,  H04B10/70

Abstract: A quantum memory system includes a doped polycrystalline ceramic, a magnetic field generation unit, and one or more pump lasers. The doped polycrystalline ceramic is positioned within a magnetic field of the magnetic field generation unit when the magnetic field generation unit generates the magnetic field, the one or more pump lasers are optically coupled to the doped polycrystalline ceramic, and the doped polycrystalline ceramic is doped with a rare-earth element dopant that is uniformly distributed within a crystal lattice of the doped polycrystalline ceramic.

公开(公告)号：US20170369379A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-28

申请号：US15533578

申请日：2015-12-08

Applicant: Corning Incorporated

Inventor： Monika Backhaus-Ricoult ,  Thomas Dale Ketcham

IPC: C04B35/48 ,  H05B3/03 ,  C03B5/16 ,  C03B17/06 ,  C25B11/04

CPC classification number: C04B35/481 ,  C03B5/163 ,  C03B17/064 ,  C03B17/067 ,  C03C2218/13 ,  C04B2235/85 ,  C25B11/0442 ,  H05B3/03

Abstract: A method of treating a ceramic body in a glass making process includes delivering a molten glass to a heated ceramic body, the ceramic body including a ceramic phase and an intergranular glass phase, the molten glass being in contact with a surface of the ceramic body. The method further includes contacting the ceramic body with a first electrode and contacting the molten glass with a second electrode. The method further includes applying an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode to create an electric potential difference across the ceramic body between the first and second electrodes, the electric potential difference being less than an electrolysis threshold of the ceramic phase and the intergranular glass phase. The intergranular glass phase demixes under driven diffusion in the applied electric field and mobile cations in the intergranular glass phase enrich proximate one of the first and second electrode.

公开(公告)号：US20240413390A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18787114

申请日：2024-07-29

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Michael Edward Badding ,  Jacqueline Leslie Brown ,  Jennifer Anella Heine ,  Thomas Dale Ketcham ,  Gary Edward Merz ,  Eric Lee Miller ,  Zhen Song ,  Cameron Wayne Tanner ,  Conor James Walsh

IPC: H01M10/0562 ,  B28B1/30 ,  C04B35/622 ,  G02B6/122 ,  H01M4/02 ,  H01M4/04 ,  H01M4/131 ,  H01M4/136 ,  H01M4/1391 ,  H01M4/1397 ,  H01M4/505 ,  H01M4/525 ,  H01M4/58 ,  H01M10/052 ,  H01M10/0525

Abstract: A roll-to-roll sintering system for wide inorganic tape material may include a spool on which is wound a continuous tape material comprising a green tape material and a backing layer, a take-up reel, and a heating station including at least one furnace. The heating station is configured to receive an unwound length of the continuous tape. The heating station further includes a first curved section such that the continuous tape material is bent through a radius of curvature of 0.01 m to 13,000 m, and at least two rollers defining the first curved section over which the continuous tape material is bent. The heating station is controlled to provide at least a portion of the heating station with an air free atmosphere, that being at least one of vacuum, hydrogen, or helium.

公开(公告)号：US20240387863A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-21

申请号：US18660557

申请日：2024-05-10

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Michael Edward Badding ,  Jacqueline Leslie Brown ,  Jennifer Anella Heine ,  Thomas Dale Ketcham ,  Gary Edward Merz ,  Eric Lee Miller ,  Zhen Song ,  Cameron Wayne Tanner ,  Conor James Walsh

IPC: H01M10/0562 ,  B28B1/30 ,  C04B35/622 ,  G02B6/122 ,  H01M4/02 ,  H01M4/04 ,  H01M4/131 ,  H01M4/136 ,  H01M4/1391 ,  H01M4/1397 ,  H01M4/505 ,  H01M4/525 ,  H01M4/58 ,  H01M10/052 ,  H01M10/0525

Abstract: A cathode configured for a solid-state battery includes a body having grains of inorganic material sintered to one another, wherein the grains comprise lithium. A thickness of the body is from 3 μm to 100 μm. The first major surface and the second major surface have an unpolished granular profile such that the profile includes grains protruding outward from the respective major surface with a height of at least 25 nm and no more than 150 μm relative to recessed portions of the respective major surface at boundaries between the respective grains.

公开(公告)号：US12021189B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-25

申请号：US18203242

申请日：2023-05-30

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Michael Edward Badding ,  Jacqueline Leslie Brown ,  Jennifer Anella Heine ,  Thomas Dale Ketcham ,  Gary Edward Merz ,  Eric Lee Miller ,  Zhen Song ,  Cameron Wayne Tanner ,  Conor James Walsh

IPC: H01M10/052 ,  B28B1/30 ,  C04B35/622 ,  G02B6/122 ,  H01M4/04 ,  H01M4/131 ,  H01M4/136 ,  H01M4/1391 ,  H01M4/505 ,  H01M10/0525 ,  H01M10/0562 ,  H01M4/02 ,  H01M4/1397 ,  H01M4/525 ,  H01M4/58

CPC classification number: H01M10/0562 ,  B28B1/30 ,  C04B35/62218 ,  G02B6/122 ,  H01M4/0471 ,  H01M4/131 ,  H01M4/1391 ,  H01M4/505 ,  H01M10/0525 ,  H01L2224/16225 ,  H01L2224/48091 ,  H01L2224/49107 ,  H01L2224/73265 ,  H01L2924/181 ,  H01M2004/028 ,  H01M4/136 ,  H01M4/1397 ,  H01M4/525 ,  H01M4/5825 ,  H01M10/052 ,  H01M2300/0071 ,  H01M2300/0077 ,  H01L2224/48091 ,  H01L2924/00014

Abstract: A cathode configured for a solid-state battery includes a body having grains of inorganic material sintered to one another, wherein the grains comprise lithium. A thickness of the body is from 3 μm to 100 μm. The first major surface and the second major surface have an unpolished granular profile such that the profile includes grains protruding outward from the respective major surface with a height of at least 25 nm and no more than 150 μm relative to recessed portions of the respective major surface at boundaries between the respective grains.

公开(公告)号：US20240019209A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-18

申请号：US18239211

申请日：2023-08-29

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Michael Edward Badding ,  William Joseph Bouton ,  Jacqueline Leslie Brown ,  Timothy Joseph Curry ,  Roman E. Hurny ,  Lanrik Wayne Kester ,  Thomas Dale Ketcham ,  John Albert Olenick ,  Kathleen Ritter Olenick ,  Jeremy Paananen ,  Thomas Silverblatt ,  Dell Joseph St Julien ,  Viswanathan Venkateswaran ,  Nathan Michael Zink

IPC: F26B3/00 ,  C04B35/115 ,  C04B35/443 ,  C04B35/486 ,  C04B35/64 ,  F27B13/10 ,  F26B13/10 ,  B28B11/24

CPC classification number: F26B3/00 ,  C04B35/115 ,  C04B35/443 ,  C04B35/486 ,  C04B35/64 ,  F27B13/10 ,  F26B13/10 ,  B28B11/243 ,  C04B2235/6025 ,  C04B2235/9615 ,  C04B2235/963 ,  C04B2235/9653 ,  F27B9/28

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US20230364828A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-16

申请号：US18225767

申请日：2023-07-25

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Michael Edward Badding ,  William Joseph Bouton ,  Lanrik Wayne Kester ,  Thomas Dale Ketcham ,  Andrew Peter Kittleson ,  Dale Charles Marshall ,  Gary Edward Merz ,  Eric Lee Miller ,  Emmanuel Chima Okpara ,  Conor James Walsh

IPC: B28B11/24 ,  C04B35/115 ,  C04B35/638 ,  C04B35/486 ,  C04B35/64 ,  B32B27/32

CPC classification number: B28B11/243 ,  C04B35/115 ,  C04B35/638 ,  C04B35/486 ,  C04B35/64 ,  B32B27/32 ,  C04B2235/3225 ,  C04B2235/6025 ,  C04B2235/656 ,  C04B2235/65 ,  C04B2235/612 ,  C04B2235/9615

Abstract: 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.