C03B 2205/74
Means for moving at least a part of the draw furnace
Official title: Means for moving at least a part of the draw furnace, e.g. by rotation or vertical or horizontal movement
C03B2205/74 (Means for moving at least a part of the draw furnace) appears on 19 US grants and 15 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
- 19
- Published applications
- 15
- Assignees
- 11
- Inventors
- 38
- Latest grant
- 23 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Inductive furnace with rotating susceptor for high precision waveguide glass draw23 Dec 2025US 12,503,386 B2Heraeus Quartz North America LLC
- Seal structure of wire drawing furnace for optical fiber, and production method for optical fiber23 Dec 2025US 12,503,387 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Optical fiber draw furnace system and method21 Nov 2023US 11,820,696 B2Corning Incorporated
- Optical fiber draw furnace system and method15 Nov 2022US 11,498,862 B2Corning Incorporated
- Fiber optic manufacturing in space4 Feb 2020US 10,550,028 B2FOMS Inc.
- Inductive furnace with rotating susceptor for high precision waveguide glass draw22 Jun 2023US 2023/0192526 A1Heraeus Quartz North America LLC
- Optical fiber draw furnace system and method16 Feb 2023US 2023/0047162 A1Corning Incorporated
- Seal structure of wire drawing furnace for optical fiber, and production method for optical fiber27 Jan 2022US 2022/0024800 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Optical fiber draw furnace system and method29 Jul 2021US 2021/0230044 A1Corning Incorporated
- Fiber optic manufacturing in space23 May 2019US 2019/0152835 A1FOMS Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Composite waveguide28US 7,424,193 B2The Regents of the University of Michigan · 2008
- Method for manufacturing glass fibers from an infrared ray-transmitting glass fiber material14US 4,343,638 ANippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corporation · 1982
- Methods of and system for clean air delivery to lightguide fiber drawing apparatus12US 4,390,357 AWestern Electric Company, Inc. · 1983
- Method of controlling an upper portion of an optical fiber draw furnace10US 6,810,692 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. · 2004
- Glass fiber drawing machine8US 4,121,920 AInternational Telephone and Telegraph Corporation · 1978