IP Library Granted Patent US 9,663,396
Granted Patent B2
US 9,663,396 · App. 14/498,055 · Granted May 30, 2017

Glass sheet capable of being inhibited from warping through chemical strengthening

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Patent No.
US 9,663,396
App. No.
14/498,055
Granted
May 30, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A glass sheet has one surface and the other surface facing the one surface in a thickness direction, wherein a fluorine concentration (average fluorine concentration by SIMS at a depth of 1 to 24 μm) in the one surface is higher than that in the other surface. The following expression is satisfied: 0.07≦ΔF/ΔH 2 O. ΔF (mol %) is a value obtained by subtracting an average fluorine concentration in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration from that in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration, and ΔH 2 O (mol %) is an absolute value of a value obtained by subtracting an average H 2 O concentration in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration from that in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration.

Claims (11)

1. A glass sheet, having one surface and the other surface facing the one surface in a thickness direction, wherein a fluorine concentration in the one surface is higher than the fluorine concentration in the other surface in which the fluorine concentration is an average fluorine concentration (mol %) by SIMS at a depth of 1 to 24 μm, and the following expression (1) is satisfied:

0.07≦ΔF/ΔH 2 O  (1)

wherein ΔF is a value obtained by subtracting an average fluorine concentration (mol %) by SIMS at the depth of 1 to 24 μm in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration from the average fluorine concentration (mol %) by SIMS at the depth of 1 to 24 μm in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration, and

ΔH 2 O is an absolute value of a value obtained by subtracting an average H 2 O concentration (mol %) by SIMS at the depth of 1 to 24 μm in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration from the average H 2 O concentration (mol %) by SIMS at the depth of 1 to 24 μm in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration,

wherein the surface having the higher fluorine concentration does not include a recess having a diameter of 10 nm or more; or wherein the surface having the higher fluorine concentration comprises one or more recesses with a density of 6 recesses/μm 2 or less.

2. The glass sheet according to claim 1 , which is manufactured by a float method.

3. The glass sheet according to claim 1 , which has a thickness of 1.5 mm or less.

4. The glass sheet according to claim 1 , which has a thickness of 0.8 mm or less.

5. A glass sheet, which is obtained by chemically strengthening the glass sheet according to claim 1 .

6. A flat panel display device, comprising a cover glass, wherein the cover glass is the glass sheet according to claim 5 .

7. The glass sheet according to claim 1 , which is prepared by contacting a glass sheet with fluorine wherein the glass sheet has a surface temperature of greater than 650° C.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 7, 2018
From: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
To: AGC INC.
Reel/Frame 046730/0786 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 10, 2014
From: MIYASAKA, SATOSHI; NAKADA, HIDEKO; HAYASHI, YASUO; FUKAWA, MAKOTO; NIHEI, TOSHIFUMI; SHIRAI, MASANOBU; OKAHATA, NAOKI; NAKAGAWA, KOJI; YAMANAKA, KAZUHIKO; WATANABE, KUNIO; TANII, SHIRO; IKAWA, NOBUAKI; KOBAYASHI, DAISUKE; MIYASHITA, JUNICHI; KATO, RYOSUKE
To: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
Reel/Frame 033929/0386 →