Single crystal-growing apparatus
AssigneeNGK Insulators, Ltd.
InventorsMinoru Imaeda, Akihiko Honda, Katsuhiro Imai, Yuichiro Imanishi, Nobuyuki Kokune, Shoji Sogo, Kazuaki Yamaguchi, Tetsuo Taniuchi
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Abstract
A process is disclosed for continuously producing a single crystal by drawing downwardly a melt of a single crystal raw material, wherein a single crystal body grown from the melt is continuously pulled downwardly, and a plurality of single crystal products are continuously formed by intermittently cutting the single crystal body being downwardly moved.
Claims22
A single crystal product-producing apparatus, comprising a single crystal-growing device in which a melt of a single crystal raw material is placed and a single crystal body is grown by drawing down the melt, a moving device for continuously pulling downwardly the grown single crystal body, and a cutter for intermittently cutting the single crystal body in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in which said single crystal body is being downwardly pulled to continuously produce a plurality of single crystal products.
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