A method of manufacturing a glass film using a roll-to-roll process in which a long glass film from a feed roll is wound on a winding roll through a plurality of steps, the plurality of steps comprising: a step of cutting the glass film along a feed direction at a predetermined position in a width direction; and a step of polishing cutting surfaces of glass films into which the glass film is cut.

A laser cutting method cuts a planar material using an associated laser cutting device. In a first step the material to be cut is weakened along a provided cutting line by irradiation by a pulsed first laser beam. In a second step, the material to be cut is locally heated by irradiation by a second laser beam in the region of the cutting line in order to produce material stress. In the second step, the material to be cut is heated only in one place or in a plurality of spaced apart places on the cutting line.

An aspect of the invention provides a device, comprising: a laser machining head configured to deflect laser radiation onto an optical system comprising a substrate, the device being configured to carry out a method for separating the substrate using the optical system, the optical system being configured to provide the laser radiation, a thickness of the substrate not exceeding 2 mm in a region of a separating line, the method comprising: applying pulsed laser radiation having a pulse duration (t) to a substrate material of the substrate using the optical system, the substrate material being transparent at least in part to a laser wavelength of the pulsed laser radiation, the pulsed laser radiation being focused using the optical system at an original focal depth (f1), an intensity of the pulsed laser radiation leading to a modification of the substrate along a beam axis (Z) of the pulsed laser radiation.

The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a window-glass having a print pattern for a smartphone camera, and has an object of enabling various patterns such as rings, dots, curves, and designs to be implemented within the printable extent on a window-glass for a camera.

That is, the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a window-glass for a smartphone camera, comprising a cell-cutting line fabrication process for forming cell-cutting lines on a glass disk for cell separation, a sheet cutting process for cutting the glass disk into units of sheets consisting of a large number of glass cells by a laser, a sheet tempering process for increasing a surface stress of a glass sheet by potassium nitrate and allowing the cell-cutting lines to be clearly formed, a print pattern formation process for forming a pattern on the window-glass through printing, an AR deposition process for forming an AR deposition layer to increase transmittance and reduce reflectance in a rear transmission area of each glass cell, an AF deposition process for forming an AF deposition layer on a front portion of each glass cell to prevent fingerprint and foreign matter contamination, and a cell separation process for separating cells along the cell-cutting lines by pushing the glass cells in units of sheets up or down.

Therefore, the present invention has an effect of enabling various patterns such as rings, dots, curves, and designs to be implemented within the printable extent on a window-glass for a camera.

A method for manufacturing an annular glass plate that has an outer circumferential edge surface, an inner circumferential edge surface, and a thickness not larger than 0.6 mm includes processing for manufacturing an annular glass plate by irradiating each of the outer circumferential edge surface and the inner circumferential edge surface of an annular glass blank with a laser beam to melt the outer circumferential edge surface and the inner circumferential edge surface and form molten surfaces such that the molten surfaces in the outer circumferential edge surface and the inner circumferential edge surface each have an arithmetic average surface roughness Ra not larger than 0.1 μm, and the surface roughness of the molten surface in the inner circumferential edge surface becomes larger than the surface roughness of the molten surface in the outer circumferential edge surface.

A large plate includes a first main surface and a second main surface, and is separated into a first small plate and a second small plate at a separation surface. The separation surface intersects with the first main surface and the second main surface at a first intersection line and a second intersection line, respectively. The first intersection line and the second intersection line include a curved portion. The first intersection line is disposed on one side of the second intersection line in a planar view. In a cross-section perpendicular to the first intersection line, the separation surface is inclined with respect to a normal to the first main surface. (1) Form a modified portion on the separation surface to be separated. (2) Form a crack on the separation surface. (3) Separate the first and second small plate.

The present invention relates to a strengthened glass sheet having a first main surface, a second main surface which faces the first main surface, and an end surface, in which at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface has a surface compressive stress formed by a chemical strengthening treatment, the strengthened glass sheet includes a strengthened portion in which a planar compressive stress is formed along the end surface in a direction parallel with the end surface, the planar compressive stress of the strengthened portion has a maximum value of 1-120 MPa, and the strengthened portion has a width, as measured from the end surface in a direction normal to the end surface, of 0.5 times or more a thickness of the strengthened glass sheet.

Electrochromic device laminates and their method of manufacture are disclosed.

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.

Forming holes in a material includes focusing a pulsed laser beam into a laser beam focal line oriented along the beam propagation direction and directed into the material, the laser beam focal line generating an induced absorption within the material, the induced absorption producing a defect line along the laser beam focal line within the material, and translating the material and the laser beam relative to each other, thereby forming a plurality of defect lines in the material, and etching the material in an acid solution to produce holes greater than 1 micron in diameter by enlarging the defect lines in the material. A glass article includes a stack of glass substrates with formed holes of 1-100 micron diameter extending through the stack.