Glass Production TRIZ Cases

Controlling glass-melt viscosity during hot forming cuts fine waviness and avoids polishing, improving optical quality for display glass.

Sieving Si and Al raw materials plus tuned glass composition cuts defects and stress, improving transmittance, hardness, and OLED glass yield.

See how lithium disilicate crystallization addresses glass brittleness while retaining transparency in strengthened glass-ceramic articles.

A two-step ion exchange process builds deep compressive layers and a surface stress spike for non-frangible glass behavior.

Porous foam holds etching solution against ultra-thin glass to form foldable window patterns with a simpler, lower-cost process.

Selective etching forms stress dissipation grooves along preset bending paths, improving ultra-thin glass substrate bending and reducing edge defects.

Controlled crystallization forms petalite and lithium silicate phases, while ion exchange adds a 30 μm compressive stress layer.

Optimized alkali-free glass composition delivers high specific elastic modulus and low density.

Hydrogen bath atmosphere limits water elution from molten glass to tin, preventing bottom surface defects during natural gas melting.

Tailored annealing cycles tune the zero crossover temperature of silica-titania glass substrates, reducing the need for multiple separate glass boules.

Chemically toughened ultrathin glass uses a specific chamfer structure to enhance edge impact resistance.

Two-regime annealing decouples zero-crossover temperature from coefficient of thermal expansion slope in silica-titania glass.

Replacing carbonates with granular sodium silicate and calcium oxide reduces CO2 emissions by over 5% while cutting energy consumption.

A linear stress profile with controlled slope arrests deep flaws to enhance survivability under tensile stresses.

Velocity-changing fluid jets create back pressure that prevents reducing atmosphere leakage and flame disturbances.

Non-alkali aluminum silicate glass with controlled resistivity and thermal stability.

Salt treatment removes surface cracks from the display window to boost impact resistance without lowering transmittance.

Removing TiO2 nucleating agents prevents yellowing in nepheline glass-ceramics while ion exchange strengthens the material.

Beta-spodumene glass-ceramics provide high strength and opacity through controlled crystallization.

Potassium silicate glass restores salt melt activity by exchanging ions and binding impurities, extending usability without full replacement.

Controlled glass composition lowers redox and bubble disappearance temperature to maintain high transparency without compromising fining action.

Compacting fine glass shards via roller press reduces energy consumption while eliminating dust formation and improving batch homogeneity.

Beta-spodumene glass-ceramics provide lightweight enclosures that resist buckling while maintaining structural rigidity.

A glass fiber composition with specific SrO and MgO ratios lowers forming temperatures while maintaining mechanical strength.

LAS crystallized glass reduces yellowish tinting by controlling transition metal content, achieving high whiteness.

Annealing glass parts before chemical strengthening increases compressive stress, resolving low strength from rapid mass production cooling.

A fluoroindate glass matrix doped with erbium ions delivers strong mid-infrared luminescence under laser diode pumping.

Compresses reclaimed glass fines with a binder to form briquettes, reducing handling difficulty and furnace contamination risks.

A float glass system uses machine vision cameras and sensors to automatically adjust top rollers for precise ribbon dimensions.

Indium and cadmium bind oxygen impurities in chalcogenide glass, eliminating germanium-oxygen absorption bands that degrade infrared transmission.

Adding copper to the molten tin bath lowers vapor pressure, preventing top speck defects on alkali-free glass surfaces.

Blowing fluorine gas onto the glass ribbon suppresses uneven ion exchange, preventing warpage while maintaining high scratch resistance.

Electromagnetic radiation pulses increase glass substrate strength by healing microcracks through localized photothermal heating.

A radiative cooler distributes gas via rotary flow over an exchange surface, eliminating condensation and ensuring homogeneous cooling of the glass ribbon.