Glass manufacturing – Melting pot or furnace with structurally defined delivery or...
Reexamination Certificate
2010-06-01
2011-11-08
Daniels, Matthew (Department: 1741)
Glass manufacturing
Melting pot or furnace with structurally defined delivery or...
C065S134100, C065S441000, C065S404000, C373S027000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08051682
ABSTRACT:
There is provided an apparatus and method for making a glass preform with nanofiber reinforcement. The apparatus comprises a container for melting one or more glass components in a mixture comprising the glass components and one or more nanofibers. The container has an opening that allows escape of any gas released from the glass components when the glass components are melted in the container. The apparatus further comprises one or more heating elements for heating the container. The apparatus further comprises one or more electric field devices, positioned exterior to the glass components, that create an electric field in a volume of the mixture in order to orient the nanofibers within the glass components when the glass components are melted in the container.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4738938 (1988-04-01), Kunkle et al.
patent: 4820329 (1989-04-01), Gunthner
patent: 5109389 (1992-04-01), Stenzel
patent: 5401289 (1995-03-01), France et al.
patent: 6090227 (2000-07-01), Leichtfried et al.
patent: 7061964 (2006-06-01), Kawasaki et al.
patent: 2008/0104998 (2008-05-01), Tivey et al.
patent: 2008/0202287 (2008-08-01), Da Cruz et al.
patent: 2009/0104386 (2009-04-01), Barrera et al.
patent: 2009/0181211 (2009-07-01), Lang et al.
patent: 2009/0220409 (2009-09-01), Curliss et al.
patent: 2009/0226692 (2009-09-01), Wilenski et al.
patent: 2009/0226709 (2009-09-01), Wilenski et al.
patent: 2010/0011702 (2010-01-01), Wilenski et al.
patent: 2010/0075090 (2010-03-01), Wilenski et al.
patent: 1872752 (2006-12-01), None
patent: 01119522 (1989-05-01), None
Avigal, et al., “Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes by Biasing During Growth”, Applied Physics Letters, Apr. 16, 2001, pp. 2291-2293, vol. 78, No. 16, American Institute of Physics.
Bao, et al., “Electric Field Induced Growth of Well Aligned Carbon Nanotubes from Ethanol Flames”, Nanotechnology, Jan. 30, 2006, pp. 1016-1021, vol. 17, Institute of Physics Publishing.
Benedict, et al., “Static Polarizabilities of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes”, Physical Review B, Sep. 15, 1995, pp. 8541-8549, vol. 52, No. 11, The American Physical Society.
Bower, et al., “Plasma-Induced Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes”, Applied Physics Letters, Aug. 7, 2000, pp. 830-832, vol. 77, No. 6, American Institute of Physics.
Chhowalla, et al., “Growth Process Conditions of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Using Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Nov. 15, 2001, pp. 5308-5317, vol. 90, No. 10, American Institute of Physics.
Choi, et al., “Fully Sealed, High-Brightness Carbon-Nanotube Field-Emission Display”, Nov. 15, 1999, pp. 3129-3131, vol. 75, No. 20, American Institute of Physics.
Zhang, et al., “Electric-Field-Directed Growth of Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Nov. 5, 2001, pp. 3155-3157, vol. 79, No. 19, American Institute of Physics.
Hull John Ralph
Strasik Michael
Wilenski Mark S.
Daniels Matthew
Herring Lisa
The Boeing Company
LandOfFree
Apparatus and method for making glass preform with nanofiber... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Apparatus and method for making glass preform with nanofiber..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Apparatus and method for making glass preform with nanofiber... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4286765