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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2016
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Kristopher Allen Wieland, Painted Post, NY (US);
Garrett Andrew Piech, Corning, NY (US);
John Tyler Keech, Painted Post, NY (US);
Jeffrey Mathew Clark, Corning, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and processes of cutting and drilling in a target substrate uses a laser (e.g., a pulsed laser) and an optical system to generate a line focus of the laser beam within the target substrate, such as a glass substrate sheet, are provided. The laser cutting and drilling system and process creates holes or defects that, in certain embodiments, extend the full depth of the glass sheet with each individual laser pulse, and allows the laser system to cut and separate the target substrate into any desired contour by creating a series of perforations that form a contour or desired part shape. Since a glass substrate sheet is brittle, cracking will then follow the perforated contour, allowing the glass substrate sheet to separate into any required shape defined by the perforations.