Heating
Zone Heating / Shaping / Bending
The Gyrotron Beam can be focused and scanned over small or large areas and any required temperature distribution can be rapidly achieved
Uniform
Entire glass sheet can be rapidly preheated to any required temperature at normal pressure or in vacuum for coating, pressing windshields, and other purposes. Accuracy up to 1C can be achieved
Strips
For bending (during continues preheating at dozens of linear feet per second).
Non-uniform
For gravity shaping windshields, lenses, and similar glass products
Area
For frit pre-firing
Gyrotron Beam Glass Processing Advantages
The Gyrotron Beam glass heating Lowers Production Costs – saves on tooling, labor, and energy
- Achieve Complex Geometries – many different heating zones can be created
- High Quality Output – less distortion (less heating)
- No-gap Doublet Bending – the gyrotron beam penetrates and heats both
glass sheets to the same temperature - Ability To Shape Low-E Coated Glass – the coating is transparent to the
beam - Eliminates – long vacuum preheating lines for coating
