1057 results about "Thin glass" patented technology

The manufacturing of electronic components on individual substrates made of an insulating material includes molding, in a silicon wafer, an insulating material with a thickness corresponding to the final thickness desired for the substrates, manufacturing the electronic components, and removing the silicon from the rear surface of the wafer after manufacturing of the components.

Improved techniques are disclosed for fabrication of touch panels using thin sheet glass, coupling external circuitry, and securely holding the touch panel within a portable electronic device. The thin sheet glass may be chemically strengthened and laser scribed.

In a touch screen having a flexible outer membrane with a first conducting surface, a backing surface with a second conductive surface, and sensors to detect contact between the first conducting surface and the second conducting surface, the improvement comprising the flexible outer membrane, wherein the flexible outer layer consists of an ultra-thin glass layer, a polymer layer; and an optical adhesive between the ultra-thin glass layer and the polymer layer, the optical adhesive holding the ultra-thin glass layer to the polymer layer.

The present invention is directed to a substrate product for use in the manufacture of active matrix liquid crystal display panels. The product includes a display substrate suitable for use as a display panel. The display substrate has a thickness less than or equal to 0.4 mm, a composition that is substantially alkali free, and a surface smoothness that allows the direct formation of thin-film transistors thereon without a prior processing step of polishing and/or grinding. The product also includes at least one support substrate removably attached to the display substrate.

Apparatus, systems and methods for improving strength of a thin glass cover for an electronic device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the glass member can have improved strength by chemical strengthening in a series of stages. The stages can, for example, have a first ion exchange stage where larger ions are exchanged into the glass cover, and a second ion exchange stage where some of the larger ions are exchanged out from the glass cover. Optionally, in one embodiment, the glass cover can improve its strength by forming its edges with a predetermined geometry. Advantageously, the glass cover can be not only thin but also adequately strong to limit susceptibility to damage. In one embodiment, the glass member can pertain to a glass cover for a housing for an electronic device. The glass cover can be provided over or integrated with a display, such as a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) display.

Methods and devices are provided for solar module designs. In one embodiment, a durable thin glass solar module is provided. The system comprises of a photovoltaic module with at least one layer comprised of a thin glass layer with protection which protects against microcracks (radial and concentric) which may form during hail impacts.

This invention relates to a continuous process for producing a web of thin, chemically hardened glass that can be wound on a roll. The process comprises the steps of (i) drawing glass, containing original alkali ions, to form a web of glass having a thickness equal to or lower than 1.2 mm and having a first and second major surface; (ii) directly after or during said drawing, treating both said surfaces of said web with chemical hardening means during less than two hours, replacing said original alkali ions by alkali ions having a larger radius; and (iii) after treating both said surfaces, winding said web on a core.

A reflector (e.g., mirror) for use in a solar collector or the like is provided. In certain example embodiments of this invention, a reflector is made by (a) forming a reflective coating on a thin substantially flat glass substrate (the thin glass substrate may or may not be pre-bent prior to the coating being applied thereto), (b) optionally, if the glass substrate in (a) was not prebent, then cold-bending the glass substrate with the reflective coating thereon; and (c) applying a plate or frame member to the thin bent glass substrate with the coating thereon from (a) and/or (b), the plate or frame member (which may be another thicker pre-bent glass sheet, for example) for maintaining the thin glass substrate and coating thereon in a desired bent orientation in a final product which may be used as parabolic trough or dish type reflector in a concentrating solar power apparatus or the like.

An improved electrochromic rearview mirror for motor vehicles, the mirror incorporating thin front and rear spaced glass elements having a thickness ranging from about 0.5 to about 1.5. A layer of transparent conductive material is placed onto the mirror's second surface, and either another layer of transparent conductive material or a combined reflector/electrode is placed onto the mirror's third surface. A chamber, defined by the layers on the interior surfaces of the front and rear glass elements and a peripheral sealing member, contains a free-standing gel comprising a solvent and a crosslinked polymer matrix. The chamber further contains at least one electrochromic material in solution with the solvent and interspersed in the crosslinked polymer matrix. The gel cooperatively interacts with the thin glass elements to form a thick, strong unitary member which is resistant to flexing, warping, bowing and/or shattering and further allows the mirror to exhibit reduced vibrational distortion and double imaging.

Disclosed is a glass laminate comprising a thin glass substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, a supporting glass substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, and a resin layer and an outer frame layer arranged between the thin glass substrate and the supporting glass substrate. The resin layer is fixed to the first main surface of the supporting glass substrate and is in close contact with the first main surface of the thin glass substrate, while having easy releasability from the first main surface of the thin glass substrate. The outer frame layer surrounds the resin layer on the first main surface of the supporting glass substrate so that the outside air does not come into contact with the resin layer.

A real-time digital cytometer on a chip system utilizing a custom near field CMOS active pixel intelligent sensor that is flip-chip attached to a fluidic microchannel etched in a thin glass substrate. The CMOS active pixel sensor, fabricated using a 0.18 micron process, is a mixed signal chip comprising a sixteen pixel linear adaptive spatial filter coupled to a digital serial interface. This near field hybrid digital sensor topology obviates the need for both high resolution analog to digital conversion as well as conventional microscopy for the realization of real time optical cytometry. The custom sensor based design approach affords efficient scaling into a tiled multi-channel sensing configuration. The complete system, supported by a handheld graphical user interface and control module, demonstrates a viable micro total analysis sub-system for sample preparation and analysis which can support a wide range of applications ranging from cytometry to cell growth kinetics and analysis and various forms of fluid and droplet metering on an integrated and compact microfluidic platform.

An electro-active optical cell is described including a layer of electro-active material, a front glass substrate member, and a back glass substrate member. The optical cell is capable of independently providing changeable optical power with the application of an electrical potential. The cell is also configured to be affixed to an external surface of a plastic substrate and to provide the changeable optical power, with at least one of the front substrate or the back substrate of the optical cell being an outermost optical layer. The layer of electro-active material may have a thickness less than 10 μm, and the glass substrate members may each have a thickness approximately between 20 μm and 500 μm.

A flexible and very thin touch screen panel is implemented by forming sensing patterns as touch sensors on a first surface of a flexible thin glass substrate and by forming a supporting film on a second surface of the glass surface. A method of fabricating a touch screen panel for securing the strength of a unit cell touch screen panel includes forming sensing patterns as touch sensors in every unit cell touch screen panel on a mother glass substrate, etching the glass substrate in the thickness direction, forming a supporting film under the glass substrate, and by cutting the glass substrate and the supporting film cell by cell using dual cutting.

The present invention discloses a ultra-thin glass automatic slicing system and comprises a glass transmission branch, a clean transportation robot and a packing box fixed turnover unit as well as a glass centering positioning unit, a packing box transmission positioning unit, a packing box moving turnover unit and a septum paper supplying unit. A glass transmission main line is vertical to the glass transmission branch and the glass centering positioning unit is arranged above and below the glass transmission branch; two packing box transmission positioning units are arranged in parallel with the glass transmission branch, wherein, the terminal of the packing box transmission positioning unit arranged close to the glass transmission branch is provided with the packing box fixed turnover unit; the terminal of the packing box transmission positioning unit far away from the glass transmission branch is provided with the packing box moving turnover unit; the septum paper supplying unit is arranged in parallel to the packing box transmission positioning unit; the present invention can meet the quality standard of glass in electronic industry and packing requirement of ultra-thin glass storage and transmission at the same time, and improve yield and packing quality of ultra-thin float glass.

A method for manufacturing a touch screen that deposits a conductive layer or coating directly onto a surface of a sheet or ribbon or roll of thin glass material. The coated thin glass material may be cut to the desired shape or substrate for use as the outer, thin glass substrate of the touch screen device. Spacer elements and/or other functional coatings or layers or the like may also be applied to the conductive layer or opposite surface of the thin glass ribbon. Optionally, a functional coating or layer may be deposited or applied to a surface of a pre-cut thin glass substrate. The coated pre-cut thin glass substrate may be used as a top sheet for lamination as the protective top sheet of a touch screen device.

A coated chemically strengthened flexible thin glass includes a coating of an adhesive layer in the form of a silicon mixed oxide layer, which contains or consists of a silicon oxide layer in combination with at least one oxide of aluminum, tin, magnesium, phosphorus, cerium, zirconium, titanium, cesium, barium, strontium, niobium, zinc, or boron, and magnesium fluoride, such as at least aluminum oxide.