Hoya Corporation

Yoshimi Fujita

Toshiharu Yamashita

A method for irradiating a chemically machinable light-sensitive glass plate with a parallel bundle of ultraviolet rays so as to form tapered holes or slits in the glass plate. A mask having a desired shaped opening is mounted on the light-sensitive glass plate and the plate is disposed so that its surface forms a predetermined angle with a plane which is perpendicular to the parallel bundle of ultraviolet rays. The glass plate is then rotated about a central vertical axis thereof.

Method for exposure of chemically machinable light-sensitive glass

A method for irradiating a chemically machinable light-sensitive glass plate with a parallel bundle of ultraviolet rays so as to form a tappered polygonal hole in the glass plate. A mask having a regular polygonal opening having n vertexes is mounted on a machinable light-sensitive glass plate and a light source capable of generating a parallel bundle of ultraviolet is disposed so that one of the vertexes of the polygonal opening is positioned at the longest point from the center of the light source. The glass plate is then irradiated. Thereafter, the light source is rotated about a center axis of the opening by an angle equal to 360.degree./n and the glass plate is re-irradiated. This procedure is conducted so that the glass plate is irradiated n times.

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Akishima, Japan

Yoshimi Fujita