C03B 5/185
Electric means
C03B5/185 (Electric means) appears on 61 US grants and 42 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
- 61
- Published applications
- 42
- Assignees
- 33
- Inventors
- 154
- Latest grant
- 21 Oct 2025
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| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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
- Melt tank and glass melting plant26 Mar 2024US 11,939,256 B2Beteiligungen Sorg GmbH & Co. KG
- Corrosion-resistant glass melt electrodes and methods of using them14 Nov 2023US 11,814,312 B2H.C. Starck Solutions Coldwater, LLC
- Glass melting furnace21 Mar 2023US 11,608,286 B2International Partners in Glass Research
- 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
- 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
- Tunable molten oxide pool assisted plasma-melter vitrification systems58US 5,756,957 AIntegrated Environmental Technologies, LLC · 1998