METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING GLASS SHEETS

    公开(公告)号:US20220081343A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-17

    申请号:US17447776

    申请日:2021-09-15

    申请人: SCHOTT AG

    摘要: A method is provided that includes providing a glass sheet of a thickness of at most 300 μm and irradiating the glass sheet with a pulsed laser beam. The laser beam has a light intensity inside the glass sheet leaves a filamentary damage along its path through the glass sheet. The laser beam and the glass sheet are moved relative to each other so that due to the pulses of the laser beam filamentary damages are inserted next to one another along a path running on the glass sheet. During the insertion of the filamentary damages, a tensile stress is applied on the glass at the filamentary damages and in the direction transverse to the path of the adjacent filamentary damages so that the glass sheet separates along the path during insertion of the filamentary damages.

    METHOD FOR PRODUCING GLASS SHEETS AND GLASS SHEETS PRODUCED BY SUCH METHOD AND USE THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20210179474A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-17

    申请号:US17083167

    申请日:2020-10-28

    申请人: SCHOTT AG

    摘要: A method for producing ultra-thin glass sheets is provided that results in glass sheets with high edge strength. The method includes: hot forming a continuous glass ribbon with a glass thickness from molten glass; annealing the glass ribbon with an annealing rate chosen based on the glass thickness; producing a laser beam focus area that is longer than the glass thickness; introducing filamentary defects into the glass ribbon using the laser beam so that the filamentary defects extend from one face to the opposite face and are spaced apart from one another along the breaking lines to produce transverse breaking lines and longitudinal breaking lines with margins each comprising a thickened bead; separating the beads along the longitudinal breaking lines and separating glass sheets by severing along the transverse breaking lines.