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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:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2000
Yei-Ping (Mimi) H. Wang, Troy, MI (US);
Scott V. Thomsen, Milford, MI (US);
Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A vacuum insulating glass (IG) unit and method of manufacturing the same. A peripheral or edge seal of a vacuum IG unit is formed utilizing microwave energy in order to enable tempered glass sheets of the IG unit to retain a significant portion of their original temper strength. In certain exemplary embodiments, the edge seal may be formed of solder glass. In certain embodiments, edge seal material may be deposited on one or both substrates prior to a thermal tempering process so that during tempering the edge seal material is permitted to diffuse into (i.e., bond to) the glass substrate(s) before it is fully tempered. This is advantageous because diffusion of certain edge seal material (e.g., solder glass or glass frit edge seal material) into tempered glass is more difficult to achieve than diffusion of the same into annealed non-tempered glass).
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