A laser cutting apparatus and a laser cutting method are provided. A laser cutting method includes: preparing an object on a stage; cutting the object into a set shape by relatively moving and irradiating a laser beam along the set shape with respect to the object; and performing uniform heating compensation to reduce accumulation of thermal energy of the laser beam resulting from a change of speed at a shift point where a travelling direction of the laser beam with respect to the object changes.

A technical object of the present invention is to devise a glass sheet that is suitable for supporting a substrate to be processed to be subjected to high-density wiring and has high end surface strength, and a method of manufacturing the glass sheet, to thereby contribute to an increase in density of a semiconductor package. The glass sheet of the present invention has a total thickness variation of less than 2.0 m, all or part of an end surface of the glass sheet including a melt-solidified surface.

A method includes cutting an outer diameter into a glass substrate. An inner diameter within the outer diameter is also cut into the glass substrate. A first region inside the outer diameter and a second region inside the inner diameter are heated. The second region inside the inner diameter is cooled, wherein the cooling causes the second region to detach from the first region.

The present invention relates to a method for separating solid-body slices (1) from a donor substrate (2). The method comprises the steps of: producing modifications (10) within the donor substrate (2) by means of laser beams (12), wherein a detachment region is predefined by the modifications (10), along which detachment region the solid-body layer (1) is separated from the donor substrate (2), and removing material from the donor substrate (2), starting from a surface (4) extending in the peripheral direction of the donor substrate (2), in the direction of the centre (Z) of the donor substrate (2), in particular in order to produce a peripheral indentation (6).

A method of separating a workpiece into a plurality of sections includes generating one or a plurality of lines of modified material along one or a plurality of predefined separating lines in the workpiece in a first step by local material processing using a laser beam through a surface of the workpiece, which results in a reduction of breaking stress of the workpiece along the separating lines, and dividing, in a second step, the workpiece into the sections along the separating lines by thermal laser beam separation, wherein the one or the plurality of lines are generated completely or at least in portions at a distance from the surface in the workpiece.

The present disclosure relates to a process for cutting and separating arbitrary shapes of thin substrates of transparent materials, particularly tailored composite fusion drawn glass sheets, and the disclosure also relates to a glass article prepared by the method. The developed laser method can be tailored for manual separation of the parts from the panel or full laser separation by thermally stressing the desired profile. The self-separation method involves the utilization of an ultra-short pulse laser that can be followed by a CO.sub.2 laser (coupled with high pressure air flow) for fully automated separation.

Processes of chamfering and/or beveling an edge of a glass substrate of arbitrary shape using lasers are described herein. Two general methods to produce chamfers on glass substrates are the first method involves cutting the edge with the desired chamfer shape utilizing an ultra-short pulse laser to create perforations within the glass; followed by an ion exchange.

Methods of separating a glass web include exposing a separation path on the glass web to a laser beam that produces thermal stress along the separation path without damaging the glass web. The methods further include redirecting a portion of the laser beam to create a defect on the separation path while the separation path is under thermal stress produced during the exposing the separation path on the glass web to the laser beam, whereupon the glass web separates along the separation path in response to creating the defect. Apparatus are further provided for separating a glass web with at least one laser beam generator that produces a laser beam to heat a separation path and a mirror configured to reflect an end portion of the laser beam to create a defect at a location of the separation path on the glass web.

A method of manufacturing a glass includes a conveying step of moving a conveyance sheet material that contacts a lower surface of a glass film, to thereby convey the glass film. The conveyance sheet material includes a first contact portion that contacts the lower surface of the glass film on an upstream side in a manufacture-related process step, a second contact portion that contacts the lower surface of the glass film on a downstream side in the manufacture-related process step, and a non-contact portion that is prevented from contacting the lower surface of the glass film. In this method, the manufacture-related process step includes subjecting the glass film to a predetermined process at a position corresponding to the non-contact portion between the first and second contact portions while simultaneously moving the first, second , and non-contact portions of the conveyance sheet material through the conveying step.

A method for separating a thin glass, in which method the thin glass is progressively heated along a path which forms a parting line, wherein the heating of the glass is realized by way of the energy of at least one energy source within an area of action of the energy source on the thin glass, and, by way of a temperature gradient of the glass heated by way of the at least one energy source in relation to the surrounding glass, a mechanical stress is generated in the glass, by way of which mechanical stress, a crack propagates, following the mechanical stress, along the parting line.