Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a glass blank in which, even when a thick portion is provided at a center, a portion other than the thick portion is thinned, and a crack is prevented from occurring after press. SOLUTION: The glass blank 1 includes the disk-shaped thick portion 10, and the ring-shaped thin portion 20 which is provided, surrounding a periphery of the thick portion 10 and includes a smaller thickness than that of the thick portion 10. The thick portion 10 is convex with respect to at least one surface of the thin portion 20. On a surface on which the thin portion 20 and the thick portion 10 are formed so that a step is formed, a sloped surface extended from a flat surface portion 22 of the thin portion 20 to a topmost portion 12 of the thick portion 10 includes a curved surface 14. The curved surface and the flat surface portion 22 form a continuous surface. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently mass-produce homogeneous linear products to the peripheries of which lots of granules are adhered. SOLUTION: An adhesion method for making quartz glass balls 3 be adhered to the periphery of each of numbers of glass fibers has a pretreatment process for forming a mixture in which lots of quartz glass balls 3 exist among a plurality of glass fibers 1, and an adhesive 4 exists between the glass fiber 1 and the quartz glass ball 3 and an adhesive curing process for drying or curing the adhesive while the glass fibers 1 are moved relatively to each other by applying acceleration movement such as vibration and swinging to the mixture.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for producing a glass plate, enabling to produce the glass plate little in curvature. SOLUTION: This device for producing a glass plate is provided with a shaping form 2 for shaping molten glass 3 into a plate-like shape and with pulling rollers 6 for pulling out the cooled glass plate 3', wherein the form 2 and the pulling rollers 6 are arranged at a space therebetween the in the vertical direction. Therein, a plurality of bulkheads 7 for separating the oven room 6 in the vertical direction are arranged, and a room temperature controller for controlling the temperature of the room is disposed for each separated room to control an average cooling speed between the glass transition point of the glass and its strain point to 1.2 deg.C/sec.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a glass molded body which enables to stably produce a high quality glass material, using low stability (high crystallizability) glass species, high specific gravity, high refractive index glass or the like, by continuously pouring molten glass into a mold.SOLUTION: In the method for producing a glass molded body in which molten glass accumulated in a vessel 1 is allowed to flow down through a glass outflow pipe 2 connected to the vessel 1, continuously poured into a mold disposed below the pipe, and molded, a pipe provided with an outflow section with a glass outlet port at one end and a narrowed section 4 which leads molten glass to the outflow section and has an inside diameter smaller than that of the outflow section is used as the glass outflow pipe 2. Molten glass is allowed to flow out after increasing the diameter of a molten glass flow flowing in the pipe in an inverse tapered pipe section 5, and the molten glass is poured into the mold while keeping the level of molten glass in the mold lower than the outlet port of the pipe.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for manufacturing a glass plate with 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 can stably be molded; a method for molding a glass plate; and methods for manufacturing a glass material for press molding and an optical element.SOLUTION: The apparatus for manufacturing a glass plate includes 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. The bottom part internally has at least two through-holes which are substantially perpendicular to the side walls and substantially parallel to the top surface, and the through-holes have openings in side faces of the bottom part connecting to the outer surfaces of the side walls. The apparatus includes a cooling medium supply pipe having at least one discharge port for discharging a cooling medium on the side face. The cooling medium supply pipe is disposed in such a way that it is put in and taken out of the through-holes and at least one discharge port is located in the through-hole. When the cooling medium supply pipe is disposed in the through-hole, a cooling medium discharged from the discharge port has such a size and/or shape that it can flow out of the opening to the outside of the through-hole.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a glass formed body by which the optically homogeneous solid glass formed body comprising glass easily causing striae is stably manufactured without damaging, a method of manufacturing a glass base material for press-forming using the method, and a method of manufacturing an optical device by machining the glass formed body. SOLUTION: The method of manufacturing the glass formed body is carried out by using a mold having a through-hole, continuously pouring molten glass flowing out from a pipe into the inlet of the through-hole and continuously taking out from the outlet of the through-hole to form into the solid glass. In such a case, the temperature of the center part of the glass is brought close to the temperature of the side face of the glass by bringing the side face of the glass in the through-hole into contact with the inside wall of the through-hole to take the heat of the glass from the side face at least in a part of a zone (cooling zone) of the through-hole and passing the glass passed in the cooling zone through an atmosphere where the temperature is equal to or above a temperature lower by 150°C than the transition temperature of the glass. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a glass plate to stably supply a glass plate having a constant thickness, a manufacturing method of a base material for press molding made of glass, and a manufacturing method of an optical part. SOLUTION: This glass plate is continuously manufactured by continuously introducing a melt glass flow into a mold and forms into a plate in the mold and the molded glass plate is drawn out of the mold. In this method, the variation of the thickness is reduced by changing the drawing speed of the glass plate based on the change of the height of the molten glass surface introduced in the die. This glass plate is processed into the glass base material for press molding of a desired weight, or the glass base material for press molding is heated and softened and this optical glass part is manufactured via press molding. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a thin glass substrate having high flatness without scratches by suspending or dispersing an inorg. powder in a solvent which does not produce a decomposed gas to prepare a soln., applying the prepared soln. on the surface of a sheet glass formed by down loading method, laminating the glass sheets, interposing the glass sheets between compressing plates with high flatness, and heating and slowly cooling the sheets while pressurizing. SOLUTION: The inorg. powder to be applied preferably consists of MgCO3 and/or CaCO3 and contains boron nitride. The particle size is uniform and preferably about 20 to 30 μm. The powder is uniformly applied preferably by rotating a sponge roller impregnated with a soln. in which the inorg. material is suspended along the surface of the sheet glass. The concn. of the soln. is preferably controlled to a low level so as to form a single molecular layer. Moreover, the sponge roller impregnated with water is preferably brought into contact with the sheet glass under pressure. By this flattening method of sheet glass, a succeeding polishing process can be simplified.
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PURPOSE:To prevent the damage of rollers by dividing molten glass by the front and rear surfaces of a shaped body, joining the divided flows at a bottom end and pulling the glass plate by the 2nd pull rollers, then drawing down the glass plate by the pull rollers when the width of plate increases. CONSTITUTION:The homogeneous molten glass 3 which does not contain bubbles or foreign matter is supplied to the recessed part 2a of the shaped body 2 having the broad front and rear surfaces. The molten glass 3 flows from the recessed part 2 and flows down along the front and rear surfaces 2b, 2c. The divided flows are joined at the bottom end of the shaped body 2. The glass plate is then drawn down in the state of a large lump by retreating the pull rollers 5a to 5c to retreat positions and moving the 2nd pull rollers 6 to an advance position by the signals from a restricting means. The glass plate having the prescribed thickness and width is continuously drawn down by the pull rollers 5a, to 5c when the width of the glass plate drawn down by the pull rollers 6 increases sufficiently after 3 to 4 hours and when the thick parts at both ends decreases to the extent of not coming into pressuring contact with the rollers. The 2nd pull rollers are simultaneously retreated to the retreat position to prevent the flawing of the shaped glass plate.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To provide the molding for producing a glass plate which can maintain the adhesion between a cladding platinum plate and a refractory body during molding of the glass plate in order to obtain the glass plate having high surface shape accuracy. CONSTITUTION:This molding has a peak part 10 to which molten glass is supplied, a refractory body 9 having a bottom end 11 where the molten glass joins to constitute the glass plate 7, broad front and rear surfaces 13 consisting of a central part 13a where the molten glass from the peak part shunts and flows down toward the bottom end and two side edges 13b adjacent to this central part and are proximity to each other at the bottom end, and two end faces 12 adjacent to the front and rear surfaces and a coating 15 of the platinum or platinum alloy covering the entire surface of the body 9. The thicknesses of the coatings of the central part, the side edges and the end face are specified to any of the following: (a) The central part is formed thicker than the end face and the side edges. (b) The central part is formed thicker than the end face and the side edges are formed at the same thickness as the thickness of the central part. (c) The central part is formed at the same thickness as the thickness of the end face and the central part is formed thicker than the side edges.