Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sheet glass manufacturing method and manufacturing device
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Application No.: US14441934Application Date: 2013-10-29
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Publication No.: US09643878B2Publication Date: 2017-05-09
- Inventor: Takahide Fujii , Naotoshi Inayama
- Applicant: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Shiga
- Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Shiga
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2012-249313 20121113
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/079208 WO 20131029
- International Announcement: WO2014/077117 WO 20140522
- Main IPC: C03B33/08
- IPC: C03B33/08 ; C03B17/06 ; C03B23/023 ; C03B33/023 ; C03B33/09 ; C03B35/16

Abstract:
Provided is a manufacturing method for a glass sheet, including: fusing a glass ribbon (G) by irradiating the glass ribbon (G) with a laser (L) along a preset cutting line (X), which is a boundary between a product portion (G1) to be used as a product and a non-product portion (G2) to be discarded, and jetting an assist gas (A) onto molten glass (M) generated by melting the glass ribbon (G) through heating with the laser (L) so as to remove the molten glass (M) by scattering the molten glass (M); and breaking the non-product portion (G2) so as to discard the non-product portion (G2), the assist gas (A) being jetted from the product portion (G1) side with respect to the preset cutting line (X), to thereby cause scattered pieces of the molten glass (M) to adhere to the non-product portion (G2) as pieces of dross (D).
Public/Granted literature
- US20150299019A1 SHEET GLASS MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2015-10-22
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