Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tadaoki Yabuuchi

Mutsuhiro Nakazawa

Keiji Tsujita

Osami Oogushi

Takanori Kiritoshi

A glass plate separating apparatus, as one example, includes: a trigger device that forms a start point flaw in a first main surface of a glass ribbon on a division-planned line; a pair of holding members disposed at the first main surface side of the glass ribbon; and a heater disposed at a second main surface side of the glass ribbon. The pair of holding members, each of which extends parallel to the division-planned line, is brought into contact with the glass ribbon at both sides of the division-planned line while being lowered together with the glass ribbon. The heater extends along the division-planned line, and is brought into contact with and pressed onto the glass ribbon on the division-planned line while being lowered together with the glass ribbon.

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Kobe, Japan

Tadaoki Yabuuchi