Glass article and method of producing glass article
AssigneeAGC Inc.
InventorsToru Momose, Osamu Sato, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Nobuhiko Takeshita
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Abstract
A method of producing a glass article includes holding a carrier having a circular shape, in which a glass substrate having a circular shape is retained, with an upper surface plate and a lower surface plate; and polishing the glass substrate by rotating the carrier with respect to the upper surface plate and the lower surface plate, to obtain the glass article. The glass substrate is disposed in the carrier such that, in a top plan view, a center of the carrier is included in a region of the glass substrate, and a center of the glass substrate is shifted from the center of the carrier.
Claims6
A method of producing a glass article comprising:
- holding a carrier having a circular shape, in which a glass substrate having a circular shape is retained, with an upper surface plate and a lower surface plate;
- and
- polishing the glass substrate by rotating the carrier with respect to the upper surface plate and the lower surface plate, to obtain the glass article, wherein:
- the glass substrate is disposed in the carrier such that, in a top plan view,
- a center Oc of the carrier is included in a region of the glass substrate, and
- a center Og of the glass substrate is shifted from the center Oc of the carrier,
- wherein the glass article comprises a first surface having a circular shape wherein:
- a radius R of the glass article is within a range of from 50 mm to 150 mm inclusive,
- when, in the glass article, to is a thickness at the center Og, a first end is one end portion, t1 is a thickness at the first end, tx′ is a thickness at any position X, except the first end and the center Og, between the first end and the center Og, and
- a thickness is measured from a first-surface side of the glass article by an optical interferometry type thickness measurement method, conditions of
- 0.1 mm<to<2 mm expression (1),
- 1<to/t1≤1.1 expression (2),
- to>tx′>t1 expression (3), and
- txn≥(to−t1)×(n/5)+t1 expression (4)
- are satisfied, where n is any integer from 1 to 5, and txn represents a thickness at a position Xn of R×(n/5) from the first end toward the center Og, and wherein
- when a second end is an end portion opposite to the first end with respect to the center Og, t2 is a thickness at the second end, tx” is a thickness at any position W, except the second end and the center Og, between the second end and the center Og, and
- a thickness is measured from a first-surface side of the glass article by the optical interferometry type thickness measurement method, conditions of
- 1<to/t2≤1.1 expression (5),
- to>tx″>t2 expression (6), and
- twn≥(to−t2)×(n/5)+t2 expression (7)
- are satisfied, where n is any integer from 1 to 5, and twn represents a thickness at a position Wn of R×(n/5) from the second end toward the center Og,
- wherein:
- the glass article has a thickness that monotonically decreases from the center Og toward each of the end portions,
- the glass article comprises glass having a refractive index of 1.6 or more, and
- the glass article comprises glass having a surface roughness of 0.5 nm or less.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.