Abstract:
A strengthened glass sheet product as well as process and an apparatus for making the product. The process comprises cooling the glass sheet by non-contact thermal conduction for sufficiently long to fix a surface compression and central tension of the sheet. The process results in thermally strengthened glass sheets having improved breakage properties.
Abstract:
A strengthened glass or glass ceramic sheet has a first major surface, a second major surface opposite the first major surface, an interior region between the first and second surfaces, an outer edge surface extending between the first and second major surfaces, and a thickness between the first major surface and the second major surfaces, wherein the sheet comprises a glass or glass ceramic and is thermally strengthened and wherein the first major surface has a roughness of more than 0.1 nm Ra and less than 500 nm Ra over an area of 10 μm×10 μm and wherein PP
Abstract:
A strengthened glass sheet product along with a process and an apparatus for strengthening a glass sheet are provided. The process comprises cooling the glass sheet by non-contact thermal conduction for sufficiently long to fix a surface compression and central tension of the sheet. The process results in thermally strengthened glass sheets having improved breakage properties.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for developing an edge stress in a windshield bending furnace. Adjacent to a ring mould is located a metallic, flat extra frame in a manner that the lower surface of a bent windshield remains at a small distance from extra frame. The compression stress of glass edge can be adjusted by varying the distance of extra frame from glass and/or by varying its glass-oriented dimension.
Abstract:
A strengthened cover glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article as well as processes and systems for making the strengthened glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article is provided for use in consumer electronic devices. The process comprises cooling the cover glass sheet by non-contact thermal conduction for sufficiently long to fix a surface compression and central tension of the sheet. The process results in thermally strengthened cover glass sheets for use in or on consumer electronic products.
Abstract:
Embodiments of thermally and chemically strengthened glass-based articles are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the glass-based articles may include a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t), a first CS region comprising a concentration of a metal oxide that is both non-zero and varies along a portion of the thickness, and a second CS region being substantially free of the metal oxide of the first CS region, the second CS region extending from the first surface to a depth of compression of about 0.17·t or greater. In one or more embodiments, the first surface is flat to 100 μm total indicator run-out (TIR) along any 50 mm or less profile of the first surface. Methods of strengthening glass sheets are also disclosed, along with consumer electronic products, laminates and vehicles including the same are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A strengthened glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article as well as processes and systems for making the strengthened glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article is provided. The process comprises cooling the glass sheet by non-contact thermal conduction for sufficiently long to fix a surface compression and central tension of the sheet. The process results in thermally strengthened glass sheets.
Abstract:
A strengthened glass or glass ceramic sheet has a roughness of greater than 0.05 nm Ra and less than 0.08 nm Ra over an area of 10 μm×10 μm and has the property that, excluding areas within three sheet thicknesses of the outer edge surface of the sheet, the slope of a measured value of a thermally affected property of glass over distance along the first major surface of the sheet is higher bordering one or more lower-cooling-rate-effect-exhibiting areas on the first surface of the sheet than elsewhere on the first surface of the sheet, and at least one of said one or more areas has a shortest linear dimension, in a direction parallel to the first major surface, of less than 100000 μm.
Abstract:
A glass sheet thermally strengthened such that at the first major surface is under compressive stress; the sheet having an a characteristic 2D autocorrelation matrix c(x,y) given by c(x,y)=F−1(F(g)·F̂(g)) where F is a 2D Fourier transform and ̂ represents a complex conjugate operation and g is a high pass filtered data array given by g(x,y)=F−1(F(f(1−F(h)) where h is a spatial 2D low pass filter array and f is a square data array of Shear 0 and Shear 45 data, taken over an area away from any birefringence edge effects on the sheet, wherein an autocorrelation peak maximum width of the matrix c(x,y) at 40% of peak height, for the c(x,y) matrices from both the Shear 0 and Shear 45 data, is between 1 and 5 mm.