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US 12,060,292 B2Granted
Glass form and marking
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, Chester Stanislaus Walawender, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Daniel J. Martin
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Abstract
A system for forming a glass panel includes a mixing apparatus for weighing and mixing glass particles and additives, an oven for melting and holding molten glass, a float chamber for floating molten glass thereover, an annealing lehr, and at least a nozzle for delivering compressed air at least of one of a first pressure and a second pressure.
Claims10
A system, comprising:
- an annealing lehr configured to anneal glass;
- a cutter configured to cut the annealed glass into a glass panel;
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- a nozzle configured to provide compressed air at a specified pressure to bend the glass panel to a specified radius,
- wherein the glass panel includes a dot matrix, and
- wherein the nozzle is configured to provide compressed air at a second specified pressure to form the dot matrix in the glass panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.