Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for making glass sheet
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Application No.: US13522405Application Date: 2012-03-27
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Publication No.: US09676650B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Kariya , Kimihiko Nakashima
- Applicant: Hiroyuki Kariya , Kimihiko Nakashima
- Applicant Address: JP Mie KR Gyeonggi-Do
- Assignee: AvanStrate Inc.,AVANSTRATE KOREA INC.
- Current Assignee: AvanStrate Inc.,AVANSTRATE KOREA INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Mie KR Gyeonggi-Do
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2011-070993 20110328
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/002130 WO 20120327
- International Announcement: WO2012/132419 WO 20121004
- Main IPC: C03B17/06
- IPC: C03B17/06 ; C03B25/12 ; C03C3/091

Abstract:
The method for producing a glass sheet by down-drawing includes an air pressure controlling step of controlling the air pressure of a furnace outside space formed between a furnace and a covering part that covers the furnace, the furnace including a forming furnace and a lehr, a melting step of melting glass raw materials to form molten glass, a supplying step of supplying the molten glass to a forming cell disposed inside the forming furnace, a forming step of forming a glass sheet by allowing the molten glass to flow down the forming cell, an annealing step of cooling the glass sheet while allowing the glass sheet to flow in one direction in the lehr, and a cutting step of cutting the glass sheet that has been cooled. In the air pressure controlling step, air pressure is controlled such that the air pressure is higher, inside the furnace outside space, at a position more toward the upstream side of the flow direction of the glass sheet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140013805A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING GLASS SHEET Public/Granted day:2014-01-16
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