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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2015
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Weiwei Luo, Painted Post, NY (US);
Elias Panides, Whitestone, NY (US);
Rohit Rai, Painted Post, NY (US);
Irene Marjorie Slater, Lindley, NY (US);
Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Painted Post, NY (US);
Srinavasa Rao Vaddiraju, Novi, MI (US);
Sam Samer Zoubi, Horseheads, NY (US);
Other;
Abstract
A process using a three-piece mold for making a three-dimensionally shaped glass article having a flat area and a curved/bend area is disclosed. The process includes placing a glass sheet on a mold having a shaping surface with a desired surface profile for the shaped glass article including a flat area and a bend area, moving a flat area plunger toward the glass sheet to compress the glass sheet, heating a portion of the glass sheet corresponding to an area above the bend area of the mold to a temperature above a forming temperature, and moving a bend area plunger toward the heated glass sheet to compress the heated glass sheet. A temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the bend area of the mold is higher than a temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the flat area of the mold when compressing the heated glass sheet with the bend area plunger.