Glass panel manufacturing systems and methods

A method for a mobile scanning device for retrieving stress information of one of a plurality of reinforced glass panels, comprising:

• capturing, via a mobile scanning device, an image of an identification code installed on a surface of the one of the plurality of reinforced glass panels, wherein the identification code is unique to each of the plurality of reinforced glass panels;
• processing the captured image to recognize the identification code;
• instructing the mobile scanning device to retrieve stress information corresponding to the recognized identification code from a glass panel production information database;
• displaying the retrieved stress information on the mobile scanning device;
• retrieving, from a product standard database, a product standard including a required stress for a reinforced glass panel in a particular geographical area based on geographical location information of the mobile scanning device;
• comparing the retrieved product standard with the retrieved stress information corresponding to the recognized identification code to determine whether the one of the plurality of reinforced glass panels complies with the product standard;
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• displaying a result of the comparison on the mobile scanning device;
• wherein the stress information was obtained via at least one stress sensor testing a stress at different testing locations on a surface of each of a plurality of glass panels being processed on a production line for manufacturing the plurality of reinforced glass panels.

A glass panel on-production-line stress testing and retrieving system, comprising:

• an identification code installed on a surface of each of a plurality of glass panels, wherein the identification code is unique to each of the plurality of glass panels;
• at least one stress sensor to test a stress at different testing locations on the surface of each of the plurality of glass panels being processed on a production line for manufacturing reinforced glass panels, and to obtain the stress information;
• a sensor controller to place the at least one stress sensor on the different testing locations, wherein the sensor controller moves the at least one stress sensor along a direction parallel to the surface of each of the plurality of glass panels and along a direction vertical to the surface of each of the plurality of glass panels;
• a glass panel production information database to store the stress information based on the identification code;
• a product standard database to provide a product standard including a required stress for a reinforced glass panel in a particular geographical area;
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• a control server coupled to the product standard database to retrieve the product standard based on geographical location information of the mobile scanning device, compare the retrieved product standard with the retrieved stress information corresponding to the identification code to determine whether the one of the plurality of glass panels complies with the product standard, and return a comparison result to the mobile scanning device;
• wherein the glass panel production information database provides stress information corresponding to an identification code installed on a surface of one of the plurality of glass panels upon a mobile scanning device reads the identification code and submits a retrieval request.

A glass panel on-production-line stress testing and retrieving method, comprising:

• installing an identification code on a surface of each of a plurality of glass panels, wherein the identification code is unique to each of the plurality of glass panels;
• establishing a record in a glass panel production information database using the identification code for each of the plurality of glass panels;
• processing each of the plurality of glass panels using a reinforcing process;
• saving processing information into the glass panel production information database based on the identification code;
• conducting, via at least one stress sensor, stress testing on each of the plurality of glass panels to derive stress information;
• saving the stress information into the glass panel production information database using the identification code;
• reading, via a code-reader device, the identification code on the surface of one of the plurality of glass panels to retrieve stress information based on the identification code, wherein the reading is conducted at a remote location distant from where the reinforcing process and stress testing were conducted;
• obtaining, from a product standard database, a product standard based on geographical location information of the code-reader device;
• comparing the obtained product standard with the stress information retrieved based on the identification code to determine whether the one of the plurality of glass panels complies with the product standard;
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• returning a comparison result to the code-reader device.

A reinforced glass panel, comprising:

• a glass plate, which was one of a plurality of glass plates that were processed on a production line for manufacturing a plurality of reinforced glass panels;
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• a first identification code installed on a surface of the glass plate, wherein the first identification code being an identification code installed on a surface of each of the plurality of glass plates respectively, and the identification code is unique to each of the plurality of glass plates;
• wherein:
• stress information for each of the plurality of reinforced glass panels was obtained via at least one stress sensor testing a stress at different testing locations on a surface of the each of the plurality of reinforced glass panels on the production line, and was stored in a glass panel production information database based on the identification code;
• stress information of the reinforced glass panel is retrieved based on the first identification code being read via a mobile scanning device;
• a product standard including a required stress for the reinforced glass panel in a particular geographical area is retrieved from a product standard database based on geographical location information of the mobile scanning device;
• the retrieved product standard is compared with the retrieved stress information of the reinforced glass panel to determine whether the reinforced glass panel complies with the product standard;
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• a result of the comparison is displayed on the mobile scanning device.