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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2015
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Dana Craig Bookbinder, Corning, NY (US);
Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Corning, NY (US);
Albert Roth Nieber, Painted Post, NY (US);
Garrett Andrew Piech, Corning, NY (US);
Pushkar Tandon, Painted Post, NY (US);
Sergio Tsuda, Horseheads, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
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 (), an induced absorption within the transparent material in order to produce a defect () in the transparent material.