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7540173 Method and apparatus for bending glass sheets  
For bending a glass sheet so that the glass sheet has a compound curvature, an apparatus comprises a furnace including hearth beds on a bed support and a quenching unit provided with upper and...
7510989 Ultra-low noble metal doped polarizing glass and process  
The invention is directed to a silver-containing polarizing boroaluminosilicate glass composition that has been doped with a noble metal selected from the group consisting of Pt, Pd, Os, Ir, Rh and...
7505650 Microlenses for optical assemblies and related methods  
Microlenses are formed on a substrate having a first absorption within an operational wavelength range, and a second absorption outside the operational wavelength range, wherein the second...
7497096 Apparatus and method for conveying curved glass sheets  
An apparatus for conveying a curved glass sheet includes a disk roll conveyor and a roll conveyor set positioned downstream of the disk roll conveyor. The roll conveyor set has a plurality of roll...
7484386 Method and apparatus for controlling a treatment process in safety glass production  
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling a treatment process in safety glass production by means of information representing a load of glass panels. Flat glass panels are...
7437892 Apparatus having vacuum applying facilities and method of using vacuum to bend and/or shape one or more sheets  
One or more sheets, e.g. two glass sheets heated to their deformation temperature are shaped by positioning the sheets on a sheet supporting surface of an outline mold. The outline mold and press...
7401477 Method for bending a glass sheet  
A glass sheet, which has been heated to have a viscosity of not lower than 10 5 Pa·s and not higher than 10 8 Pa·s, is pressed against a mold having a certain bending surface to be bent. There...
7401476 Method and apparatus for bending a glass sheet  
A heated and softened glass sheet is put on a bending surface of a frame unit to be preliminarily bent by gravity before the glass sheet is pressed by an upper mold and the frame unit. There are...
7302813 Method and device for bending glass panes in pairs  
In a method for bending, in pairs, panes placed one upon the other, heated to their softening temperature, the pair or panes is deposited on a bending frame and prebent under action of the force of...
7299657 Method of making high strain point glass  
A method of forming a glass sheet includes obtaining a preform generated from a glass composition and conveying the preform through a channel having a temperature that decreases along a length of...
7240519 Apparatus and method for bending glass sheets  
An apparatus for shaping heat softened glass sheets includes an upper mold having a full surface press face with a shaping surface generally contoured to the desired curvature of the sheets; a...
7231787 Apparatus and method for bending and/or tempering glass  
An apparatus and method for bending and/or tempering glass substrate(s) are provided. The amount of near-IR radiation which reaches the glass to be bent and/or tempered is limited (e.g., via...
7216510 Method for the forming of glass or glass ceramics  
A process for forming glass or glass ceramics is disclosed, wherein a glass ceramics form ( 12 ) is made from a starting glass by molding, which is transformed by a heat treatment into a keatite...
7162893 Glass sheet bending station and method for glass sheet bending  
A glass sheet bending station ( 20 ) and method for glass sheet bending utilize a primary actuating mechanism ( 154 ) for moving mold support linkages to provide glass sheet bending with a constant...
7155937 Method and device for bending a glass sheet  
A method for bending a sheet of glass involving heating the sheet of glass to a softening temperature, transporting the sheet of glass in an essentially horizontal path as far as a station for...
7140204 Apparatus and method for bending glass using microwaves  
An apparatus and method for bending glass substrate(s) are provided. Microwave radiation is used to heat glass substrate(s) for bending. As a result, a coating supported by the substrate(s) is not...
7122242 Wedge shaped glass and methods of forming wedged glass  
A glass sheet includes a first edge, an opposing, second edge, and an intermediate location between the first edge and second edge. The glass sheet has a first portion extending between the first...
7086252 System and method for continuous forming of glass sheets  
A glass sheet forming system ( 20 ) includes a roll bending station ( 28 ) having a lower roll conveyor ( 30 ) and an upper roll former ( 32 ) between which a heated glass sheet is progressively...
7079918 System for adjusting position of glass plates  
A system for adjusting position of glass plates includes (1) a chain for conveying glass plates into a bending furnace, the chain having (a) alternate links, (b) connecting pins for holding the...
6990835 Process for partial shaping of flat glass or glass-ceramic articles and apparatus for performing same  
In the process for partially shaping, a glass/glass ceramic article ( 5 ) is held on a planar support plate ( 1 ) by suction. The glass/glass ceramic article is heated to soften it, so that it has...
6972065 Process for production of a dielectric multi-layered reflecting coating  
A method of producing a dielectric multilayer mirror coating is characterized with a view to increasing the coefficient of reflection by the following steps: to begin with, at least two dielectric...
6904771 Method of forming and transporting curved glass  
A glass forming assembly and method for forming complex shaped glass, with the glass forming assembly having a hood assembly including a hood lift superstructure movable horizontally back and forth...
6905990 Ceramic color composition and method for bending flat glass  
The present invention provides a ceramic color composition which comprises, as a solid powder, 50 to 90 wt. % of a mixture containing 5 to 95 parts by weight of a first lead-free glass powder...
6813904 Differential pressure process for fabricating a flat-panel display faceplate with integral spacer support structures  
A process for fabricating a faceplate for a flat-panel display such as a field emission cathode type display is disclosed, the faceplate having integral spacer support structures. Also disclosed is...
6799438 Method for making a microstructure in a glass or plastic substrate according to hot-forming technology and associated forming tool  
A microstructure is formed in a viscous glass or plastic substrate by pressing a structured surface of a forming tool corresponding to a negative of the microstructure to be produced in the viscous...
6725689 Method for bend-shaping a glass sheet  
An apparatus for bend-shaping a glass sheet is disclosed, which comprises a heating furnace, a plurality of in-furnace beds disposed within the heating furnace, at least one out-furnace bed...
6718798 Method for forming heated glass sheets  
Apparatus ( 26 ) and a method for forming heated glass sheets in a heated chamber ( 22 ) of a housing ( 20 ) includes an upper mold support assembly ( 28 ) for supporting an upper mold ( 38 )...
6698243 Method and apparatus for manufacturing bent glass sheet  
A heated glass sheet is bent by pressing together with at least one belt made of a heat-resistant material against a bending member. The glass sheet is bent as the glass sheet is conveyed with the...
6668589 Method of shaping sheet glass  
A suction mold has a central suction chamber having a flat shaping surface area and a pair of opposite side suction chambers disposed one on each side of the central suction chamber and having...
6592703 Method and apparatus for cutting a laminate made of a brittle material and a plastic  
A method and an apparatus for cutting a laminate made of a brittle material and a plastic with a cutting tool is described. The plastic is heated up, thereby lowering its viscosity, at least in the...
6578383 Apparatus and method for roll bending heated glass sheets  
Apparatus ( 16 ) and a method for roll bending heated glass sheets includes a pair of sets of bending rolls ( 40 ) and a support and drive mechanisms ( 44 ) that supports and rotatively drives the...
6543255 Press bending station and method for job switching  
A press bending station ( 12 ) for heated glass sheets includes a lower wheel bed ( 36 ) having a lower support ( 38 ) and wheel assemblies ( 40 ) with detachable connections ( 46 ) to a drive...
6526781 Method for roll forming glass sheets  
A method for roll forming a heated glass sheet utilizes a forming conveyor ( 62 ) including forming rolls ( 66 ) that are pivotally moved upwardly between horizontal rolls ( 46 ) of a horizontal...
6502425 Belt for bending a glass sheet, and method and apparatus for bending a glass sheet using the same  
This invention provides a belt for bending a glass sheet without surface defects caused by roller marks, belt junctions or belt deformations. A strip of heat-resistant member is joined together...
6470712 Method of changing the surface of a glass substrate containing silver, by using a laser beam  
A laser processing method for removing glass by melting, evaporation or ablation from sheet-like glass substrate for forming microscopic concavities and convexities. Diffraction grating and planar...
6442975 Method of manufacturing thin-plate glass article, method of manufacturing glass substrate for information recording medium, and method of manufacturing magnetic recording medium  
There are disclosed a method of manufacturing a thin-plate glass having a good flatness with a high mass productivity and a method of manufacturing a high-quality and high-performance glass...
6434976 Method for manufacturing glass product  
A manufacturing method for a glass product not having a rotatively symmetric body like an optical fiber fixing member but having a fine structure as of optical fiber engagement portions, to...
6425269 Method for glass sheet forming  
A method for forming glass sheets is performed by a system ( 10 ) that includes a furnace ( 12 ) having a heating chamber ( 14 ) in which a topside transfer device ( 20 ) has a downwardly facing...
6422040 Method for forming glass sheets  
A method for forming glass sheets is performed by a system ( 10 ) that includes a furnace ( 12 ) having a heating chamber ( 14 ) in which a vacuum platen ( 20 ) has a downwardly facing surface ( 22...
6412307 Heat treatable coated glass  
A heat-treatable coated glass article comprises a substantially transparent substrate with a substantially transparent dual-function coating on a surface of the substrate. The coating provides low...
6397634 Bend-shaping method and apparatus for a glass plate  
A plurality of rollers provided at positions where a transferred glass plate is moved vertically to form a transferring plane formed by the primary rollers into a curved plane, and the curved plane...
6385999 Glass bending process  
A process for bending tempered glass. The process involves adhering two sheets of tempered glass in overlying relation and positioning a containment barrier such as vinyl sheets over the adhered...
6378339 Apparatus and method for glass sheet forming  
A glass sheet forming system ( 10 ) includes apparatus ( 12 ) having a forming station ( 22 ) for forming glass sheets by cooperation of a lower deformable roll forming conveyor ( 26 ) and an upper...
6363753 Curved glass manufacturing apparatus with improved bending and conveyor units  
A roll-forming unit of a curved glass manufacturing apparatus includes a cooperating pair of upper and lower forming roll mechanisms. Each mechanism includes a forming roll having a resilient rod...
6363747 Glass mold material for precision glass molding  
A method for making working mold tools for use in a compression molding process for molding optical glass elements from high temperature glasses having T g 's in the range of from about 400° C. to...
6357263 Method for bending a glass sheet, a ring mold for bending a glass sheet, and apparatus using the ring mold  
In bending a glass sheet, the load applied to an intermediate glass sheet can be equalized to improve the quality of a final glass sheet. For this purpose, a forming ring 1 comprises a first...
6347536 Process and device for manufacturing networks of microlenses  
The device includes a housing, a means for heating the housing, and a means for supporting, in the housing, at least one group composed of plates of malleable material under pressure at the...
6343489 Bending rail band guide  
A variable radius bending apparatus is disclosed for bending a glass plate. The variable radius bending apparatus includes a bending rail having a longitudinal rail member and a drive drum and a...
6321570 Method and apparatus for tempering and bending glass  
A method of and apparatus for bending and tempering a sheet of glass heated to a formable state provides an improved rigid mold and pressing member for pressing the heated sheet against the rigid...
6301933 Method for bending glass sheets  
A bending mold for bending glass sheets is provided. The mold comprises a frame having longitudinally parallel side walls and a bottom. Support devices having support surfaces are connected between...