US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 18 for "Melting furnace electrode push assembly with torque limiter" (South Korean, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,433, issued on March 18, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Melting furnace electrode push assembly with torque limiter" was invented by Chih Hung Chien (Taichung, Taiwan), Hyun-taek Han (Asan, South Korea), JinSoo Kim (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Yong-hyeon Park (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for pushing an electrode into a glass melting vessel can include a frame, a shaft, a pusher actuator, a contact mechanism, a master actuator, and a torque limiter. The contact mechanism can be attached to the shaft. The pusher actuator can be mounted to the frame and configured to cause translation of the sha...