C03B 5/183
Using thermal means
Official title: using thermal means, e.g. for creating convection currents
C03B5/183 (Using thermal means) appears on 82 US grants and 68 published applications in this corpus.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Glass production method21 Oct 2025US 12,448,312 B2Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
- Glass product manufacturing apparatus and method of manufacturing glass product8 Jul 2025US 12,351,504 B2Corning Incorporated
- Fluid-cooled needle for molten material flow control6 Aug 2024US 12,054,418 B2Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
- Melt tank and glass melting plant26 Mar 2024US 11,939,256 B2Beteiligungen Sorg GmbH & Co. KG
- Cover glass for display, in-vehicle display device, and manufacturing method of cover glass for display9 Jan 2024US 11,866,365 B2AGC Inc.
- High-generation tft-lcd glass substrate preparation process9 Jul 2026US 2026/0193123 A1Bengbu China Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd
- Pushing assembly and method for glass melting furnace electrodes5 Feb 2026US 2026/0035277 A1Corning Incorporated
- Glass product manufacturing apparatus and method of manufacturing glass product25 Sep 2025US 2025/0296863 A1Corning Incorporated
- Hybrid glass-manufacturing furnace with three convection currents for feeding a float unit30 Jan 2025US 2025/0034020 A1
- Hybrid glass manufacturing furnace with electric melting, for supplying a float unit16 Jan 2025US 2025/0019287 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Heating and agitating method for multi-stage melting and refining of glass90US 4,816,056 APPG Industries, Inc. · 1989
- Multi-stage process and apparatus for refining glass or the like85US 4,798,616 APPG Industries, Inc. · 1989
- Molten glass refining apparatus83US 4,110,098 ASaint-Gobain Industries · 1978
- Method of operation of a glass melting furnace and a glass melting furnace for the practice of the method66US 6,154,481 ABeteiligungen Sorg GmbH & Co. KG · 2000
- Method and apparatus for manufacturing high melting point glasses with volatile components65US 6,085,551 ABeteiligungen Sorg GmbH & Co. KG · 2000