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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
May. 28, 2018
Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd., Otsu, JP;
Tomoki Yanase, Otsu, JP;
Masaru Nanbu, Otsu, JP;
NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD., Otsu, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a method for manufacturing a glass fiber strand in which a glass fiber strand is formed by bundling a plurality of glass fiber filaments comprising molten glass drawn out from a nozzle, wherein said method for manufacturing a glass fiber strand is capable of detecting breakage of the glass fiber filaments in a more reliable manner. This method comprises: an image capturing step for generating a plurality of items of image data by continuously capturing images of a plurality of glass fiber filaments f; an image processing step for extracting, from the image data, a high luminance object having a luminance of a prescribed value or more; and a breakage detection step for detecting that a glass fiber filament f has broken on the basis of the results of the image processing in the image processing step.