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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2003
Tetsuo Minaai, Osaka, JP;
Tetsuo Minaai, Osaka, JP;
Nippon Sheet Glass, Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a glass panel and a glass panel manufactured such a method, comprising a pair of glass plates opposed to each other to define a void therebetween by a number of space-maintaining members arranged along plate surfaces with predetermined intervals between rows, and a thermally meltable seal member for joining the glass plates throughout a circumference thereof to be hermetically sealed by a heat-joining process. The void between the glass plates being decompressed by a decompressing process, and the distance between outermost rows of the space-maintaining members and peripheral edges of the glass plates being at most 5.8 times the thickness of the thinner one of the glass plates.