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PURPOSE:To prevent the uniform part of thickness in width direction of a glass plate from being diminished by molding molten glass into a plate and pulling the obtained glass plate down via a cooler by tension rollers. CONSTITUTION:Homogeneous molten glass 3 is supplied to the recessed part 2a of a molded body 2, overflowed and allowed to fall down on the surface 2b and the rear 2c of the molded body 2 from the slitlike opening of the upside of the recessed part 2a and then joined in the lower end part of the molded body 2 to obtain a glass plate 4. After the edge parts of both sides of this glass plate 4 are cooled by a cooler 5 provided via the space for the glass plate 4, the glass plate 4 is pulled down by a pair of tension rollers 11.
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PURPOSE:To eliminate the temp. unevenness in the forming atmosphere and to obtain the glass plate of uniform thickness distribution by providing the unit sending preheat air from above a forming body to the vicinity of the forming body and pulling down the plate type glass while it is being cooled. CONSTITUTION:A molten glass supply pipe 3 is connected with the recessed part 2a of the forming body 2. The molten glass 4 supplied to the recessed part 2a from the molten glass supply pipe 3 is overflowed from a slit type opening of the upper part of the recessed part 2a, flowed down along both side surface of the forming body 2, and joined together at the lower end part of the forming body 2. The confluent molten glass 4 is cooled into glass plate 4' and pulled down by a pair of tension rollers 5 revolvingly driven. The unit sending preheat air as the forming atmosphere 1a is provided above the forming body 2. This preheat air keeps the forming atmosphere 1a in high temp., and prevents the air ascending by convection as shown by arrow 11 from flowing into the forming atmosphere 1a by keeping the pressure in the furnace chamber to be positive, where the furnace chamber means the inner chamber enclosed by furnace walls 1.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a glass plate by which inward creasing and the generation of a nonuniform woody texture pattern are prevented without causing fusion of glass to a casting mold, so that a high-quality glass plate with a uniform thickness and small warpage is stably molded; and to provide methods for manufacturing a glass material for press molding, an optical element and a thin sheet glass using such a glass plate.SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing a glass plate includes: continuously casting molten glass flowing out of an orifice into a casting mold having a pair of opposed side walls which define the width of a glass plate, and a bottom part having a surface (a top surface) which forms one of opposed two principal surfaces of a glass plate; and continuously molding a flat glass plate while moving the cast glass along both the side walls in one direction (a molding direction) from the upstream side to the downstream side. The casting of the molten glass and the molding to the flat plate shape are carried out while locally cooling, when the top surface is viewed from above, a position of the top surface directly below the orifice and a region which extends from the position directly below the orifice in the molding direction and the width of which increases discontinuously or continuously toward the downstream side.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a glass plate by which inward creasing and the generation of a nonuniform woody texture pattern are prevented without causing fusion of glass to a casting mold, so that a high-quality glass plate with a uniform thickness and small warpage is stably molded.SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing a glass plate includes: continuously casting molten glass 2 flowing out of an orifice 3 into a casting mold 1 having a pair of opposed side walls 11, 11' which define the width of a glass plate, and a bottom part 13 having a surface (called a top surface) which forms one of opposed two principal surfaces of a glass plate; and continuously molding a flat glass plate while moving the cast glass 2 along both the side walls 11, 11' in one direction (called a molding direction) from the upstream side to the downstream side. The casting of the molten glass 2 and the molding to the flat plate shape are carried out while locally cooling, when the top surface is viewed from above, a position of the top surface directly below the orifice 3 and a region which extends from the position directly below the orifice 3 in the molding direction and has much the same width.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a glass blank having higher flatness even when the thinner glass blank is produced. SOLUTION: There are provided a method for producing the glass blank where the glass blank for an information recording medium is produced at least via a pressing step to press-mold softened glass between an upper die and a lower die after supplying the softened glass on the center of the pressing surface of the lower die and where the temperature in the vicinity of the center of the pressing surface of the upper die just before performing the pressing step is lower than that in another area on the pressing surface of the upper die, the upper die and a press-molding apparatus used in the method, a method for producing a substrate for the information recording medium using the apparatus and a method for producing the information recording medium. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method which suppresses adhesion of glass to an upper die during pressing even when a thinner glass blank is produced, and to provide a device which implements the method. SOLUTION: The glass blank manufacturing method includes a glass supply step of supplying softened glass onto a press surface of a lower die, an agglomerate glass-cooling step of cooling the glass agglomerated on the press surface by contacting a cooling member to a center portion of an upper surface of the agglomerated glass, and a press step of pressing the agglomerated glass using the upper and lower dies immediately after the agglomerated glass cooling step, to produce a glass blank satisfying 0.01≤t/d≤0.02 (wherein, t represents a thickness (mm) of the glass blank, and d represents a diameter (mm) of the glass blank). Note that a press forming device is a device which implements the manufacturing method, and a method for manufacturing a substrate for an information recording medium and a method for manufacturing an information recording medium are each a method which utilizes the manufacturing method. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a plurality of glass raw materials for press forming, which have high weight precision and high quality, by introducing continuously melted glass into a fixed die and extruding a glass plate from one end of the die and cutting it efficiently. SOLUTION: The method for producing the glass raw materials for press forming comprises introducing continuously the melted glass into the fixed die and extruding the glass plate having a constant thickness and having such a width as controlled by the die from one end of the die to give the glass plate and cutting it into a plurality of the glass raw materials for press forming. In the method, the glass plate is cut in the vertical direction against the width direction, and almost all glass plates are partitioned into a plurality of longitudinal articles, wherein cutting is conducted in such a way as capable of producing at least one group of a plurality of the longitudinal glass materials having the same cross-cut surface area with one another against the extruding direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for efficiently heating glass, a method for annealing glass, a method for manufacturing a glass molding, and a heat treatment apparatus. SOLUTION: In the method for annealing or heating a glass article, the glass article is annealed or heated by transporting the glass article sequentially inside a plurality of heat treatment chambers 13 each communicating with adjacent chambers through respective openings. In the method for manufacturing the glass molding, molten glass, or the like, is molded and the obtained glass molding is annealed by transporting the glass molding sequentially inside the plurality of the heat treatment chambers 13 through respective openings. In the method for manufacturing the glass article, the glass article is heated and softened by transporting the glass article sequentially inside the plurality of the heat treatment chambers through respective openings and molding the softened glass article. The adjacent heat treatment chambers are mutually heat insulated by heat insulating walls 14 and the atmospheric temperature of each chamber is independently set. The heat treatment apparatus 10 has a tunnel type furnace 11 and a transporting device for transporting the article along the inside of the furnace 11, and is used for heat treating the article introduced from the outside of the furnace while transporting the article through the inside of the furnace 11. The heat treatment apparatus 10 has the heat insulating walls 14 for partitioning the inside of the furnace 11 into the plurality of the heat treatment chambers 13 in the direction to transport the article so as not to disturb the transport of the article, and atmosphere temperature setting units. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cut a sheet-like continuous material always at right angles or at a fixed angle by using servo motors having a function of varying the magnification of a command pulse to an input pulse for the drive of an advancing sheet-like continuous. material and the drive of an advancing cutter, respectively, and electrically synchronizing the motors with each other. SOLUTION: When the advancing speeds of a sheet-like continuous material and a cutter are taken to be V, v, and the angle made among the advancing direction of the sheet-like continuous material, the right-angled direction and the advancing direction of the cutter is taken to be θ, at the time of cutting the sheet-like continuous material 1 at right angles, the relation is expressed by V=vsinθ. The diameter of a driving feed roller 3 for the sheet-like continuous material is equal to the diameter of a cutter driving pulley 6, the command pulse magnification of the servo motors 2, 4 for driving the sheet-like continuous material and the cutter is set to 1, 1/sinθ, and the respective servo motors 2, 4 are wired in parallel to the input pulse. By this arrangement, even if the advancing speed of the sheet-like material is changed or varied, the sheet-like continuous material 1 can be cut always at right angles.