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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Minoru Imaeda, Nagoya, JP;
Akihiko Honda, Nagoya, JP;
Katsuhiro Imai, Nagoya, JP;
Yuichiro Imanishi, Nagoya, JP;
Nobuyuki Kokune, Nagoya, JP;
Shoji Sogo, Komaki, JP;
Kazuaki Yamaguchi, Nagoya, JP;
Tetsuo Taniuchi, Sendai, JP;
Assignee:
NGK Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C30B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
117214 ; 117201 ; 117202 ; 117208 ; 117216 ;
Abstract
A process is disclosed for continuously producing a single crystal by drawing downwardly a melt of a single crystal raw material, wherein a single crystal body grown from the melt is continuously pulled downwardly, and a plurality of single crystal products are continuously formed by intermittently cutting the single crystal body being downwardly moved.