Manufacturing system, process, article, and furnace

US10486332B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CORNING INCORPORATED · US

Inventors

• Michael Edward Badding · Campbell, US
• William Joseph Bouton · Big Flats, US
• Lanrik Wayne Kester · Savona, US
• Thomas Dale Ketcham · Big Flats, US
• Andrew Peter Kittleson · Honeoye Falls, US
• Dale Charles Marshall · Brockport, US
• Gary Edward Merz · Rochester, US
• Eric Lee Miller · Corning, US
• Emmanuel Chima Okpara · Corning, US
• Conor J. Walsh · Corning, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 2017
• Grant date: Nov 26, 2019
• Expiry date: May 22, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C04B2235/9615
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A manufacturing system includes a tape advancing through the manufacturing system and a station of the manufacturing system. The tape includes a first portion having grains of an inorganic material bound by an organic binder. The station of the manufacturing system receives the first portion of the tape and prepares the tape for sintering by chemically changing the organic binder and/or removing the organic binder from the first portion of the tape, leaving the grains of the inorganic material, to form a second portion of the tape and, at least in part, prepare the tape for sintering.