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公开(公告)号:US12187643B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-07
申请号:US17041873
申请日:2019-03-15
Inventor: Hiroyuki Abe , Eiichi Uriu , Kazuya Hasegawa , Tasuku Ishibashi , Masataka Nonaka , Takeshi Shimizu , Haruhiko Ishikawa
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass panel unit, which reduces the amount of a getter material to enable a gettering ability to be realized at a relatively low temperature less likely to cause damage. The method includes a step of producing a getter material by heating an unprocessed getter material at a temperature higher than a prescribed temperature Te; a step of producing a preassembled component including a first and second glass pane, a heat-fusible sealing material, an internal space, and a gas adsorbent containing the getter material, and an evacuation port; a step of forming a frame body hermetically bonding the first glass pane and the second glass pane together by melting the heat-fusible sealing material with heat; and a step of heating the gas adsorbent at the prescribed temperature Te while the internal space is evacuated by exhausting air in the internal space through the evacuation port.
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公开(公告)号:US12098587B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-24
申请号:US17283858
申请日:2019-08-27
Inventor: Kenji Hasegawa , Eiichi Uriu , Kazuya Hasegawa , Tasuku Ishibashi , Hiroyuki Abe , Masataka Nonaka , Takeshi Shimizu , Haruhiko Ishikawa
CPC classification number: E06B3/6612 , E06B3/6621 , E06B3/6733
Abstract: A glass panel unit includes: a first panel including a glass pane; a second panel including another glass pane; a sealing portion; an exhaust port; and a printed portion. The second panel is arranged to face the first panel. The sealing portion is formed in a frame shape and hermetically bonds respective peripheral edge portions of the first and second panels to create an evacuated, hermetically sealed space between the first panel and the second panel. The exhaust port is provided for one panel selected from the first and second panels. A port sealing member hermetically seals the exhaust port. The printed portion is provided for the other panel selected from the first and second panels. The printed portion is located in an area, facing the exhaust port, of one surface of the other panel. The one surface either faces toward, or faces away from, the hermetically sealed space.
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公开(公告)号:US11905755B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-20
申请号:US17256639
申请日:2019-05-23
Inventor: Kazuya Hasegawa , Hiroyuki Abe , Haruhiko Ishikawa , Tasuku Ishibashi , Eiichi Uriu , Takeshi Shimizu , Masataka Nonaka
CPC classification number: E06B3/6736 , B32B17/10 , C03C27/06 , E06B3/6612 , E06B3/66342 , E06B3/6775 , E06B3/66333 , E06B2003/66338
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass panel unit includes a glue arrangement step, an assembly forming step, a first melting step, an evacuation step, and a second melting step. The first melting step includes melting a hot glue, bonding a first and second panel with the glue, and forming an internal space. The first melting step includes a first temperature raising step, a first temperature maintaining step including maintaining the temperature of the assembly at a temperature equal to or higher than a softening point of the hot glue, and a first temperature lowering step, which are performed in this order. The first temperature lowering step includes: an anterior temperature lowering step including lowering the temperature of the assembly; a middle temperature maintaining step including maintaining the temperature of the assembly; and a posterior temperature lowering step including lowering the temperature of the assembly, which are performed in this order.
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公开(公告)号:US11230878B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-25
申请号:US17044642
申请日:2019-03-08
Inventor: Tasuku Ishibashi , Eiichi Uriu , Kazuya Hasegawa , Hiroyuki Abe , Masataka Nonaka , Takeshi Shimizu , Haruhiko Ishikawa
Abstract: A glass panel unit assembly includes: a pair of glass substrates arranged to face each other; a peripheral wall; a partition; an air passage; and an evacuation port. The peripheral wall has a frame shape and is disposed between the pair of glass substrates. The partition partitions an internal space, surrounded with the pair of glass substrates and the peripheral wall, into a first space and a second space. The air passage connects the first space and the second space together. The evacuation port connects the second space to an external environment. The partition is lower in height than the peripheral wall.
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公开(公告)号:US10787856B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-29
申请号:US16328484
申请日:2017-08-28
Inventor: Hiroyuki Abe , Eiichi Uriu , Kazuya Hasegawa , Masataka Nonaka , Tasuku Ishibashi
Abstract: A glass panel unit includes: a sealing member arranged between a first panel and a second panel, which are arranged to face each other with a predetermined gap left between themselves, to hermetically bond the first panel and the second panel together; and an internal space sealed hermetically with the first panel, the second panel, and the sealing member. The glass panel unit further includes a spacer arranged in the internal space so as to be in contact with the first panel and the second panel. The spacer includes a plurality of resin layers that are stacked one on top of another in a direction in which the first panel and the second panel face each other. At least any two of the plurality of resin layers have different elastic moduli.
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公开(公告)号:US12203321B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17043446
申请日:2019-03-22
Inventor: Eiichi Uriu , Tasuku Ishibashi , Kazuya Hasegawa , Hiroyuki Abe , Masataka Nonaka , Takeshi Shimizu , Haruhiko Ishikawa
Abstract: A work in progress includes: a pair of glass substrates arranged to face each other; a peripheral wall having a frame shape and disposed between the pair of glass substrates; a boundary wall; and an evacuation port. The boundary wall hermetically separates an internal space, surrounded with the pair of glass substrates and the peripheral wall, into an evacuation space, a buffer space, and a ventilation space. The evacuation port connects the ventilation space to an external environment. The evacuation space and the buffer space have a lower internal pressure than the ventilation space. A predetermined part, including the evacuation space but excluding parts covering the buffer space and the ventilation space, of the work in progress, forms the glass panel unit.
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公开(公告)号:US11913277B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-27
申请号:US17258267
申请日:2019-06-19
Inventor: Hiroyuki Abe , Eiichi Uriu , Kazuya Hasegawa , Tasuku Ishibashi , Masataka Nonaka , Takeshi Shimizu , Haruhiko Ishikawa
CPC classification number: E06B3/6775 , C03C27/06 , E06B3/6612 , E06B3/66333 , E06B3/66357 , E06B3/67334 , E06B2003/66338
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass panel unit includes an assembling step, a bonding step, a gas exhausting step, a sealing step, and an activating step. The bonding step includes melting a peripheral wall in a baking furnace at a first predetermined temperature to hermetically bond a first glass pane and a second glass pane together with the peripheral wall thus melted. The gas exhausting step includes exhausting a gas from an internal space through an exhaust port in the baking furnace to turn the internal space into a vacuum space. The sealing step includes locally heating to a temperature higher than a second predetermined temperature, and thereby melting, either a port sealing material or an exhaust pipe to seal the exhaust port and thereby obtain a work in progress. The activating step includes activating a gas adsorbent after the sealing step to obtain a glass panel unit.
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公开(公告)号:US11326388B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-10
申请号:US17044827
申请日:2019-04-19
Inventor: Tasuku Ishibashi , Eiichi Uriu , Kazuya Hasegawa , Hiroyuki Abe , Masataka Nonaka , Takeshi Shimizu , Haruhiko Ishikawa
Abstract: An assembly includes: a pair of glass substrates; a peripheral wall disposed between the glass substrates; partitions; an evacuation port; and air passages. The partitions are provided to partition an internal space, surrounded with the glass substrates and the peripheral wall, into an evacuation space and a ventilation space. The evacuation port connects the ventilation space to an external environment. The air passages are used to evacuate the evacuation space through the evacuation port. The air passages include particular air passages arranged in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction, in which the glass substrates face each other, to constitute a ventilation path running through the internal space in the second direction.
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公开(公告)号:US11052563B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-06
申请号:US16985383
申请日:2020-08-05
Inventor: Takeshi Shimizu , Hiroyuki Abe , Masataka Nonaka , Kazuya Hasegawa , Eiichi Uriu , Haruhiko Ishikawa , Tasuku Ishibashi , Hiroshi Takahashi , Shinobu Watanabe
Abstract: A glass panel unit manufacturing method includes a punching step and a pillar mounting step. In the punching step, a punch punches at least one of a plurality of portions from a base material of a sheet to form at least one pillar. Each of the plurality of portions is surrounded by a corresponding one of a plurality of loop-shaped grooves in the base material. In the pillar mounting step, the at least one pillar is mounted on a surface of a first substrate including a glass pane.
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公开(公告)号:US10941068B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-09
申请号:US16089565
申请日:2017-03-27
Inventor: Masataka Nonaka , Eiichi Uriu , Takeshi Shimizu , Haruhiko Ishikawa , Kazuya Hasegawa , Tasuku Ishibashi , Hiroyuki Abe
Abstract: A glass panel unit manufacturing method includes a bonding step, a pressure reducing step, and a sealing step. The bonding step includes bonding together a first substrate and a second substrate with a first sealant to create an inner space. The pressure reducing step includes producing a reduced pressure in the inner space through an exhaust port that the first substrate has. The sealing step includes irradiating a second sealant, inserted into the exhaust port, with an infrared ray through a region, where a low emissivity film is nonexistent, of the second substrate.
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