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US 2016/0244353 A1Published application
Method for producing glass sheet with bent portion and glass sheet with bent portion
AssigneeNippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
InventorsOsamu ODANI, Masayuki IKEMOTO, Masahiro KOBAYASHI, Tomoya IWAKOSHI, Masanori WADA
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Abstract
Provided is a method capable of producing a glass sheet with a bent portion in which a flattened portion has high flatness and high smoothness. A flat glass sheet 20 is radiationally heated with a first portion 21 thereof held between first and second heat-insulating members 31, 32. And then, a second portion 22a, 22b of the flat glass sheet 20 not held between the first and second heat-insulating members 31, 32 is bent.
Claims6
A glass sheet with a bent portion, the glass sheet comprising:
- a flattened portion substantially in in the shape of a flat sheet;
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- a bent portion continued to an end region of the flattened portion in a transverse direction thereof,
- wherein when viewed in cross section along a thickness direction of the glass sheet, no gap is created between an imaginary line tangent to a back surface of a middle region of the flattened portion in the transverse direction and the end region of the flattened portion in the transverse direction.
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