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20080202167 | Thermal edge finishing - A thermal edge finishing process includes preheating at least one cut edge of a glass sheet, laser finishing the edge to a single full continuous radius from a position orthogonal to the edge and in-plane with the glass sheet while continuing to heat the glass, and localized annealing of the edge to reduce residual stress from the laser/thermal treatment of the edge. By the present process, edge stress is reduced considerably, such as to less than 3000 psi, and more preferably to less than 2500 psi, and to as low as 1000 psi in the first 1 mm along the treated edge. | 08-28-2008 |
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20110126593 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING A GLASS SHEET - A method of separating a moving glass ribbon to form an individual sheet of glass is disclosed comprising a plurality of nosing members that move in a direction and at a speed that the moving glass ribbon is moving. The nosing members can be positioned independently of each other, and can be positioned adjacent to but not in contact with the ribbon during the scoring operation to restrict out-of-plane movement of the glass ribbon (movement substantially transverse to the draw direction of the ribbon) during the separation phase of the process. | 06-02-2011 |
20110236630 | Non-Contact Etching of Moving Glass Sheets - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for etching flexible glass sheets ( | 09-29-2011 |
20130062312 | Non-Contact Etching of Moving Glass Sheets - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for etching flexible glass sheets ( | 03-14-2013 |
20130219964 | GLASS MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHODS - A glass manufacturing apparatus includes a control device configured to modify a predetermined diameter of at least one of a first downstream pair of draw rolls in a first downstream equation based on a monitored actual velocity of a first edge portion of a glass ribbon such that a predetermined ribbon velocity of the first edge portion of the glass ribbon in the first downstream equation changes to substantially match the monitored actual velocity without substantially changing a first downstream angular velocity of the at least one of the first downstream pair of draw rolls. In further examples, methods of manufacturing a glass ribbon include the step modifying the predetermined diameter of at least one of a first downstream pair of draw rolls in the first downstream equation based on the monitored actual velocity of the first edge portion of the glass ribbon. | 08-29-2013 |
20130301961 | GAS-EJECTING BEARINGS FOR TRANSPORT OF GLASS SHEETS - Non-contact, gas-ejecting bearings ( | 11-14-2013 |
20130319050 | GLASS MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING A GLASS RIBBON - A glass manufacturing apparatus is described herein that comprises a forming device configured to produce a glass ribbon and a pull roll device which draws the glass ribbon downward from the forming device. The pull roll device has a first roll apparatus, a second roll apparatus, and a third roll apparatus. The pull roll device is configured to at least independently operate the first roll apparatus and the second roll apparatus such that at least one of a first upstream pair of draw rolls rotates with a substantially constant torque and at least one of a first downstream pair of draw rolls rotates with a substantially constant angular velocity. In further examples, methods of manufacturing a glass ribbon are provided. | 12-05-2013 |
20140083138 | APPARATUSES FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS AND METHODS OF MANAGING PULLING FORCES APPLIED TO GLASS RIBBON - Methods and apparatuses for managing pulling forces applied to a glass ribbon in a draw apparatus are disclosed. The method includes applying a front-side and a rear-side drive torque to a glass. The method further includes calculating automatically with the at least one electronic controller a front-side and a rear-side average pulling force applied to the glass ribbon and corresponding to a first time period of at least one rotation of the front-side or rear-side stub roller, respectively. The front-side average pulling force and the rear-side average pulling force are compared to establish a pulling force differential between the front-side average pulling force and the rear-side average pulling force. One or more of the front-side drive torque or the rear-side drive torque are modified to decrease the pulling force differential between the front-side average pulling force and the rear-side average pulling force. | 03-27-2014 |
20140137601 | Methods And Apparatuses For Fabricating Continuous Glass Ribbons - Methods and apparatuses for fabricating continuous glass ribbons are disclosed. The method includes forming the continuous glass ribbon by drawing the continuous glass ribbon from a draw housing in a drawing direction, heating at least one portion of a central region of the continuous glass ribbon at a heating location downstream of the draw housing, sensing a temperature of the continuous glass ribbon at a sensed temperature location downstream of the draw housing, and automatically controlling the heating of the at least one portion of the central region of the continuous glass ribbon based on the sensed temperature to mitigate distortion of the continuous glass ribbon. | 05-22-2014 |
20140174132 | ROLLER PAIRS FOR PROCESSING GLASS RIBBONS AND DRAW APPARATUSES INCORPORATING THE SAME - Roller pairs and draw apparatus for processing glass ribbons are disclosed. The roller pairs applying force to a glass ribbon moving through the draw apparatus. The roller pairs include a first roller assembly and a second roller assembly positioned along opposite sides of the glass ribbon. A shaft of the second roller assembly is coupled to an actuation system that includes a repositionable support member allowing translation of the shaft of the second roller assembly in a direction transverse to the draw direction of the glass ribbon, a pneumatic actuator controlling a position of the contact wheel of the second roller assembly in the direction transverse to the draw direction of the glass ribbon, and a pneumatic reservoir in fluid communication with the pneumatic actuator delivering fluid at an elevated pressure to the pneumatic actuator. | 06-26-2014 |
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20090049318 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING POWER IN A CHIP THROUGH A POWER-PERFORMANCE MONITOR AND CONTROL UNIT - A system and method for controlling power and performance in a microprocessor system includes a monitoring and control system integrated into a microprocessor system. The monitoring and control system includes a hierarchical architecture having a plurality of layers. Each layer in the hierarchal architecture is responsive to commands from a higher level, and the commands provide instructions on operations and power distribution, such that the higher levels provide modes of operation and budgets to lower levels and the lower levels provide feedback to the higher levels to control and manage power usage in the microprocessor system both globally and locally. | 02-19-2009 |
20090070719 | Logic Block Timing Estimation Using Conesize - A system for logic block timing analysis may include a controller, and storage in communication with the controller. The storage may provide delay-versus-conesize values of a logic block. The system may further include a fitting module to provide a delay-cone based upon the delay-versus-conesize values of the logic block. The system may also include a conesize parser that uses the delay-cone to provide delay values through the logic block. The conesize parser may be used to validate the design of the logic block by comparing the delay-cone with a desired cycle time. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070720 | System to Identify Timing Differences from Logic Block Changes and Associated Methods - A system to identify timing differences due to logic block changes, the system may include a controller, and storage in communication with the controller. The controller may provide delay values of a previous logic block and a current logic block. The system may also include a timing-modeler to compare the delay values of the previous logic block with the current logic block for timing analysis. The system may further include an interface that provides a report based upon the previous logic block and the current logic block comparison. | 03-12-2009 |
20090089602 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PEAK POWER ENFORCEMENT VIA AUTONOMOUS TOKEN-BASED CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT - A method of power management of a system of connected components includes initializing a token allocation map across the connected components, wherein each component is assigned a power budget as determined by a number of allocated tokens in the token allocation map, monitoring utilization sensor inputs and command state vector inputs, determining, at first periodic time intervals, a current performance level, a current power consumption level and an assigned power budget for the system based on the utilization sensor inputs and the command state vector inputs, and determining, at second periodic time intervals, a token re-allocation map based on the current performance level, the current power consumption level and the assigned power budget for the system, according to a re-assigned power budget of at least one of the connected components, while enforcing a power consumption limit based on a total number of allocated tokens in the system. | 04-02-2009 |
20110154351 | Tunable Error Resilience Computing - An attribute of a descriptor associated with a task informs a runtime environment of which instructions a processor is to run to schedule a plurality of resources for completion of the task in accordance with a level of quality of service in a service level agreement. | 06-23-2011 |
20130096902 | Hardware Execution Driven Application Level Derating Calculation for Soft Error Rate Analysis - Mechanisms are provided for predicting effects of soft errors on an integrated circuit device design. A data processing system is configured to implement a unified derating tool that includes a machine derating front-end engine used to generate machine derating information, and an application derating front-end engine used to generate application derating information, for the integrated circuit device design. The machine derating front-end engine executes a simulation of the integrated circuit device design to generate the machine derating information. The application derating front-end engine executes an application workload on existing hardware similar in architecture to the integrated circuit device design and injects a fault into the existing hardware during execution of the application workload to generate application derating information. The machine derating information is combined with the application derating information to generate at least one soft error rate value for the integrated circuit device design. | 04-18-2013 |