Tempered glass substrate and method of producing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9299869-B2
Application number	US-201213491731-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 8, 2012
Priority date	Aug 3, 2007
Publication date	Mar 29, 2016
Grant date	Mar 29, 2016

Abstract

A tempered glass substrate of the present invention is a tempered glass substrate, which has a compression stress layer on a surface thereof, and has a glass composition comprising, in terms of mass %, 40 to 71% of SiO 2 , 3 to 21% of Al 2 O 3 , 0 to 3.5% of Li 2 O, 7 to 20% of Na 2 O, and 0 to 15% of K 2 O.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A tempered glass substrate, which has a compression stress layer on a surface thereof, and has a glass composition comprising, in terms of mass %, 58.4 to 71% of SiO 2 , 3 to 23% of Al 2 O 3 , 0 to 1% of Li 2 O, 8.2 to 20% of Na 2 O, 0 to 2% of K 2 O, 0.5% or less of TiO 2 , and 0 to 4% of MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO, wherein the compression stress layer has a compression stress value of 600 MPa or more, and wherein the tempered glass substrate has an unpolished surface having an average surface roughness Ra of 5 Å or less.

2. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , which has a compression stress layer on a surface thereof, and has a glass composition comprising, in terms of mass %, 58.4 to 71% of SiO 2 ,12 to 23% of Al 2 O 3 , 0 to 1% of Li 2 O, 10 to 19% of Na 2 O, and 0 to 2% of K 2 O, and further comprising 0 to 4% of CaO, 0 to 3% of SrO, 0 to 3% of BaO, and 0 to 8% of ZnO.

3. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 2 , wherein the tempered glass substrate further comprises 0.01 to 3% of SnO 2 .

4. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the glass composition further comprises, in terms of mass %, less than 0.01% of As 2 O 3 and less than 0.01% of Sb 2 O 3 .

5. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 4 , wherein the tempered glass substrate further comprises 0.01 to 3% of SnO 2 .

6. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the tempered glass substrate further comprises 0.01 to 3% of SnO 2 .

7. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the tempered glass substrate further comprises 0.001 to 10% of ZrO 2 .

8. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , which is formed by being chemically tempered.

9. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the compression stress layer has a compression stress value of 600 MPa or more, a depth of the compression stress layer is 10 μm or more, and an internal tensile stress in the tempered glass substrate is 200 MPa or less.

10. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the tempered glass substrate comprises a glass composition having a liquidus temperature of 1200 ° C. or lower.

11. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the tempered glass substrate comprises a glass composition having a liquidus viscosity of 10 4.0 dPa·s or more.

12. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , which is used as a cover glass of a display.

13. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , which is used as a cover glass of a solar battery.

14. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the tempered glass substrate comprises a glass composition having a liquidus viscosity of 10 5.0 dPa·s or more.

15. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein a depth of the compression stress layer is 10 to 37 μm.

16. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the compression stress layer has a compression stress value of 800 MPa or more.

17. The tempered glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the glass composition is substantially free of CaO.

18. A method of producing a tempered glass substrate, comprising:
melting a glass raw material which is prepared to have a glass composition comprising, in terms of mass %, 58.4 to 71% of SiO 2 ,3 to 23% of Al 2 O 3 ,0 to 1% of Li 2 O, 8.2 to 20% of Na 2 O, 0 to 2% of K 2 O, 0.5% or less of TiO 2 , and 0 to 4% of MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO, to form a resultant;
forming the resultant into a plate shape; and
performing an ion exchange treatment on the plate shape to form a compression stress layer on a surface of the glass, wherein the compression stress layer has a compression stress value of 600 MPa or more, to produce the tempered glass substrate having an unpolished surface having an average surface roughness Ra of 5 Å or less.

19. The method of producing the tempered glass substrate according to claim 18 , wherein the forming the resultant into the plate shape is performed by a down draw method.

20. The method of producing the tempered glass substrate according to claim 18 , wherein the forming the resultant into the plate shape is performed by an overflow down draw method.

Assignees

• Murata Takashi
• Nippon Electric Glass Co

Inventors

• Murata Takashi

Classifications

• Y10T428/31

  Surface property or characteristic of web, sheet or block · CPC title

• Y02E10/50

  Photovoltaic [PV] energy · CPC title

• G06F3/0416

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• C03C3/091

  containing aluminium · CPC title

• Y10T428/26

  Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component, the element or component having a specified physical dimension · CPC title