Title:
METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR ARRESTING CRACK PROPAGATION
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2016/010943
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method of arresting propagation of an incident crack through a transparent material includes focusing pulsed laser beams into a laser beam focal line directed into the transparent material a series of locations corresponding to a predetermined pattern that is designed to arrest an incident crack that propagates through the transparent material, and generating, with the laser beam focal line (1460), an induced absorption within the transparent material in order to produce a defect (1440) in the transparent material.
Inventors:
BOOKBINDER DANA CRAIG (US)
LOGUNOV STEPHAN LVOVICH (US)
NIEBER ALBERT ROTH (US)
PIECH GARRETT ANDREW (US)
TANDON PUSHKAR (US)
TSUDA SERGIO (US)
LOGUNOV STEPHAN LVOVICH (US)
NIEBER ALBERT ROTH (US)
PIECH GARRETT ANDREW (US)
TANDON PUSHKAR (US)
TSUDA SERGIO (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2015/040241
Publication Date:
March 03, 2016
Filing Date:
July 14, 2015
Export Citation:
Assignee:
CORNING INC (US)
International Classes:
B23K26/073; B23K26/0622; B23K26/064; B23K26/08; B23K26/359; B23K26/402; B23K26/53; B23K26/57; C03B33/02; C03B33/09; B23K103/00
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2015095146A1 | 2015-06-25 |
Foreign References:
| US20120234807A1 | 2012-09-20 | |||
| US20130044371A1 | 2013-02-21 | |||
| JP2013091578A | 2013-05-16 | |||
| US20070119831A1 | 2007-05-31 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
SHORT, Svetlana Z. (Intellectual Property DepartmentSP-Ti-03-0, Corning New York, US)
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