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US 9,975,801 B2Granted
High strength glass having improved mechanical characteristics
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsRichard Orr Maschmeyer, John Christopher Thomas, Kevin Lee Wasson
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Abstract
A strengthened glass sheet product along with a process and an apparatus for strengthening a glass sheet are provided. 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.
Claims37
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 thermally induced surface compressive stress of less than 600 MPa and greater than
- P
- 1
-
- (
- h
- )
- *
- t
- (
- P
- 2
-
- (
- h
- )
- +
- t
- )
- ·
- E
- ·
- [
- T
- strain
- ·
- α
- CTE
- s
- +
- α
- CTE
- L
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- T
- soft
- -
- T
- strain
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- ]
- ;
- in units of MPa;
- wherein P1 is given by
- 910.2
- -
- 259.2
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- exp
-
- (
- -
- h
- 0.143
- )
- ;
- P2 is given by
- 2.53
- +
- 23.65
- (
- 1
- +
- (
- h
- 0.00738
- )
- 1.58
- )
- ;
- and h is greater than or equal to 0.020,
- wherein the first major surface a roughness in the range of from 0.2 to 0.4 nm Ra over an area of 10 μm×10 μm.
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