EVACUATED GLASS PANEL AND METHOD OF FIXING SUPPORT
MEANS, DISPOSED THEREIN
Technical Field
The present invention relates to a kind of evacuated glass panel and a method of fixing support means, disposed therein, particularly, a method of fixing support means, disposed therein, which is convenient to large scale production and able to increase the productivity of evacuated glass panel, and said method can employed for manufacturing high thermo and sound-insulating glass panel.The present invention concerns the technical field of glass manufacturing
Background of the Art
The well-known evacuated (vacuumized) glass panel generally includes two or more planar glass sheets. Due to the evacuated state between the planar glass sheets, heat can not be transferred by convection manner, and at same time a effective barrier for sound transfer is generated, such, evacuated glass panel is also referred to as high thermo and sound-insulating evacuated glass panels.
The evacuated state between the planer glass sheets and atmospherical pressure effecting on outer surface of planar glass sheets make it possible to cause opposite deformation of planar glass sheets in evacuated glass sheets in evacuated glass planar and even to make the glass sheets fracture. Therefore, during the manufacturing process of evacuated glass planar, a plurality of support means disposed between planar glass sheets are always used, and make the distribution of disposed support means as uniform as possible, so that to resist the atmospherical pressure on planar glass sheets, and thus maintain the shape of planar glass sheets not easy to deform or rupture. Disposing support means within the evacuated glass panel will bring some problems: influence on transmissivity of evacuated glass panel, particularly, colorless transparent evacuated glass panel, and when the support means has large cross section, it not only has influence on transmissivity of evacuated glass planels, but also makes it short of a esthetic sense. Therefore, a solution to said problems is to use smaller size transparent glass support means. However, this method brings certain difficulty in manufacturing evacuated glass panel.
In order to dispose support means between glass sheets of evacuated glass panel, there is an operation of placement of support means during manufacturing process.
Due to use smaller cross section support means , a great number of support means is necessary to place, especially during manufacturing large size evacuated glass panels. At the time of placing support means, because a large number of support means is need to place, moreover, the two bottoms of support means may be not parallel, and commonly the surface of planar glass sheet is not very even and the height between support means is different, so that the support means, disposed on planar glass sheet is easy to turn down, specially, when move the planar glass sheet on which support means are disposed, the possibility of support means to turn down is increased. Besides due to the difference of height between support means, after completion of manufacturing evacuated glass panel, some support means which have lower height are able to be moved, particularly, when install the evacuated glass panel vertically, the support means is easy to fall off under its gravity. The fall off regarding to support means leads to non-uniform support force on planar glass sheet, and under the atomspherical pressure, the planar glass sheet is easy to deform, and the inner stress of evacuated glass panel is also accordingly increased. The evacuated glass panel is trend toward fractured during accident collision, even if the force is very low. It is appreciated, from above-mentioned, the problem of turn-down and fall off regarding to support means exert tremendous influence not only on productivity of evacuated glass panel, but also on service quality of finished evacuated glass panel. Therefore, such a problem must be resolved as fast as possible.
Summary of the Invention
The main object of the present invention is to provide a method of fixing support means within evacuated glass panels. Adopt proposed fixing method makes small support means can be stably placed on planar glass sheet, including said high thermo and sound-insulating glass panel. Even if the planar glass sheet is moved or the finished evacuated glass panel is vertically assembled, no turn down and fall off of support means will occur so that the productivity of evacuated glass panel and quality of finished evacuated glass panel is increased.
The secondary object of the present invention is to provide a method of fixing support means within evacuated glass panels. Use proposed fixing method makes manufactured evacuated glass panel obtain a specific functional layer on its inner surface, therefore it can result in more wide application. The further object of the present invention is to provide an evacuated glass panel, that have support means disposed therein according to proposed fixing method. Said evacuated glass panel has not only good high thermo and sound-insulation property,
but also good mechanical strength and specific applicable function. Above objects of this invention are realized through following technical schemes: A method of fixing support means within evacuated glass panel, said evacuated glass panel includes at least two lays of any shape planar glass sheets and support means disposed in interior, disposed therein, characterized in that said method comprising at least following steps of:
At first apply a solution layer on surface of planar glass sheet, on which the support means are disposed; Secondly, place the support means on said solution layer; At last, cover the upper surface of support means with a planar glass sheet, and heat said solution layer to dry, so as to fix said support means between planar glass sheets. Said solution layer entirely or partly covers or locates planar glass sheet's surface, on which the support means is disposed in order to manufacturing evacuated glass panel, having various specific function. Said planar glass sheet, on which support means is disposed, is a top planar glass sheet or a intermediate planar glass sheet. Said heating method is a oven drying or sintering.
An evacuated glass panel according to this invention, comprising: a top planar glass sheet, a bottom planar glass sheet, support means and seal component around the periphery of planar glass sheet, characterized in that, said support and bottom planar glass sheets; said support means are adhered to the surface of bottom planar glass sheet through residual solution layer; the cavity between top and bottom planar glass sheets is a vacuum. Said support means is solid or hollow pillar said hollow pillar has opened penetrated portion at its side or top surface, for communication of space between planar glass sheets with the inner cavity of hollow pillar. Said support means is more than two on top planar glass sheet, and uniformly disposed on surface of bottom planar glass sheet or on upper surface of top planar glass sheet. Said residual solution layer is an adherent layer formed after volatilization of organic or non-organic solution during glass manufacturing process; said adherent layer entirely or partly covers or locates the surface of bottom planar glass sheet or upper surface of tip planar glass sheet. Said sealing component is used to vertically seal and join to edge frame component around the periphery of planar glass sheet; said edge frame component will through sintering and make the low melting point glass powers applied on its inner side melt and cool, and then join to the periphery of said planar glass sheet. With regard to shortages of prior evacuated glass panel, the present invention proposes: a method of placing the support means on surface of planar glass sheet through adhesion during the process of glass manufacturing. Using said method, it can maintain uniform force receiving of planar glass sheet on the one hand, and resolve the problem of movement of support means within evacuated glass panel on
the other hand, resulting a good quality level for the evacuated glass panel. The present invention has following advantages:
Because the immersion and surface tension effect of liquid, using said method for placing support means in evacuated glass panel make the support means can not be moved in succedent operations, so as to simplify the operations, reduce cost and increase operating effectiveness.
Using said method for placing support means in evacuated glass, through heating operation in manufacturing process of evacuated glass panel, due to presence of residual matter of organic solution, as well as non-volatilizable matter of non-organic material, specially, at periphery around the end of support means the residual matter is collected relatively more because of surface tension of liquid, Therefore, said method has following advantages: because the hardness of residual matter is far lower than that of support means or glass, so a buffering layer is formed. This buffeing layer increase mechanical strength of the evacuated glass panel and overcome the problem of non-uniform stress which come from the different size of support means generated in compression process of evacuated glass panel; the residual matter adheres support means and planar glass sheets together without moving of support means; if solution material having higher infrared reflecting ability of infrared ray, the manufactured glass panel will be effective to reduce thermal conductivity.
Using high thermo and sound insulating evacuated glass panel made by said method, overcomes the disadvantage of different size of support means and movement thereof, thereby increasing the mechanical strength and practical applicability of evacuated glass panels.
Brief Description of the Drawing
Fig.l is a schematic cross sectional view of an embodiment with covered rosin spirit solution layer according to this invention; Fig.2 is a schematic cross sectional view of embodiment in Fig.l after completion of manufacture;
Fig.3 is a schematic cross sectional view of an embodiment having three planar glass sheets with covered solution layer according to this invention;
Fig.4 is a schematic cross sectional view of embodiment in Fig3 after completion of manufacture;
Fig.5 is schematic cross sectional view of an embodiment with tin chloride solution;
Fig.6 is a schematic cross sectional view of embodiment in Fig.5 after completion of
manufacture.
Preferred embodiment
The present invention will be described in more detail by way of embodiment with refering to accompanying drawings as follows. Example 1:
As shown in Fig 1 this embodiment according to the present invention uses a rosin spirit solution for adhering support means. The evacuated glass panel comprising: a top planar glass sheetl and a bottom planar glass sheet 2; a layer of organic rosin spirit solution 5 is entirely rolled on surface of bottom planar glass sheet 2; between two planar glass sheets support means 4 is in form of transparent glass pillar with penetrated hole 41; at periphery around planar glass sheet a glass seal component 6 is placed. The manufacturing process of said evacuated glass panel includ following steps: At first apply a layer of organic rosin spirit solution on surface of bottom planar glass sheet 2 by way of entirely rolled on.
Secondly, uniformly place support means 4 as required on surface of bottom planar glass sheet 2.Because of the immersion and surface tension effect of liquid the support means 4 is not easy to be moved. As show in Fig2, at successive operations of evacuated glass manufacture, a glass seal componentό is sealed and joined on periphery around planar glass sheets through sintering. At the end of said manufacturing process, because of higher temperature of seal and join (i.e. 400° C) the rosin spirit solution 5 is dried. Moreover, during evacuation of air from intermediate layers between planar glass sheets, the volatilized vapor of rosin sprit solution is bled out at the same time. Because rosin spirit solution 5 is able to leave a residual layer7 at process of drying, specially, the residual matter is collected relatively more at periphery around the end of support means4 due to surface tension of liquid.
Moreover, because the hardness of residual layer 7 is far lower than that of support means or glass, so a buffering layer is formed, thereby increasing the mechanical strength of evacuated glass panel and over coming the problem identified by non-uniform stress in glass resulted form different size of support means4 in compression process of evacuated glass support means and planar glass sheets together, without moving of support means 4. Example 2: As shown in Fig 3,4 this embodiment according to the present invention use a solution layer for adhering support means in manufacturing three-layer evacuated glass panel.
The hollow three-layer evacuated glass panel comprising: a top planar glass sheetla, a middle planar glass sheet3, a bottom planar glass sheet2a; a layer of indium oxide water solution 5a at upper surfaces of middle planar glass sheet 3 and bottom planar glass sheet 2a is entirely rolled on; solid main support means 4a are disposed between three layer of planar glass sheets, a glass seal component 6a is placed at periphery around planar glass sheet.
The manufacturing process of said evacuated glass panel including following steps: At first apply a layer of indium oxide solution 5 a on surface of middle planar glass sheet3 and bottom planar glass sheet 2a by way of entirely rolled on. Secondly, according to requirement place support means4a on surface of middle planar glass sheet3 and bottom planar glass sheet 2a above the solution layer 5 a. At last, slightly compress said three layers of planar glass sheets and carry out successive sintering operation. In above embodiment, the effect of indium oxide solution is similar to that of organic rosin spirit solution in example 1. After sintering the residual layer 7a gives a good adhering effect on support means 4a. During production or practical assembly, the support means 4a cannot be moved or fall off. Evacuated glass panel made by this method has good operational performance. Example 3 : As shown in Fig 5,6, this embodiment according to the present invention use a tin chloride solution layer for adhering support means. Said embodiment is an evacuated glass panel, comprising a top planar glass sheet lb and a bottom planar glass sheet 2b; the upper surface of bottom planar glass sheet 2b is entirely covered by a layer of tin chloride solution 5b; between two planar glass sheets a support means 4b is disposed; said support means 4b is a hollow glass pillar 4b with penetrated notch 41b, through said penetrated notch the space between planar glass sheets is communicated with inner cavity of support means, thereby ensuring evacuated state within support means after evacuation of space between planar glass sheets. At periphery around planer a glass sheet metal seal component 6b is disposed. During sintering process, the low melting point glass powder on inner side of metal seal component 6b is melted and after solidified on inner portion around the periphery of said metal seal component 6b and planar glass sheet, realizing the sealing of evacuated glass panel. In said glass manufacturing process the effect of tin chloride solution is similar to that of above example 1, further description is omitted. It should be noted that the layer of tin chloride solution 5b became a residual layer of tin chloride 6c after sintering operation. The function of said residual layer of tin chloride 6c is not only adhering and fixing effect, but also covering the surface of bottom planar glass sheet 2b. Because of good infrared reflecting and electric conducting effect of residual tin
oxide layer 6c this glass can effectively reduce thermo conductivity of glass. Said two layer evacuated glass panel after evacuation will have better high thermo and sound-insulating ability, as well as good electric conductivity, and thereby lead to a wide application. At last, it should be noted, that above-mentioned embodiments are employed only for description of the technical schemes of the present invention and should not be limited thereon, although the present invention has been detailed described, it should be apparent to those of ordinary skilled in the art that modifications and variations may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical schemes of the present invention, all they should be included within the scope of appended claims.