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US 9,776,905 B2Granted
Highly strengthened glass article
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsRichard Orr Maschmeyer, John Christopher Thomas, Kevin Lee Wasson
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Abstract
A strengthened glass sheet product as well as process and an apparatus for producing the product. The process comprises cooling the glass sheet by non-contact thermal conduction for sufficiently long to fix a surface compression and central tension of the sheet. The process results in thermally strengthened glass sheets having improved breakage properties.
Claims30
A thermally strengthened glass sheet:
- the glass sheet having a thickness, expressed in millimeters, of t, a length, expressed in millimeters, of l, and a width, expressed in millimeters, of w, t being less than l and less than w;
- the glass sheet having a first major surface and a second major surface separated by the thickness t;
- the glass sheet comprising a glass having a low temperature linear CTE, expressed in 1/° C., of αSCTE, a high temperature linear CTE, expressed in 1/° C., of αLCTE, an elastic modulus, expressed in GPa, of E, a strain temperature, expressed in units of ° C., of Tstrain, and a softening temperature, expressed in units of ° C., of Tsoft;
- the first major surface of the glass sheet having a roughness in the range of from 0.2 to 0.7 nm Ra over an area of 10 μm×10 μm and a thermally induced surface compressive stress of less than 800 MPa and greater than
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- in units of MPa;
- wherein P1 is given by
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- P2 is given by
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- and h is a constant greater than or equal to 0.0625.
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