Float-bath ribbon-width control method and system
US5328495A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 13, 1992 |
| Grant date | Jul 12, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 13, 2012 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S65/13
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
The width of glass ribbon at the hot end of a float bath is controlled to a constant value by raising and lowering a tweel for adjusting the flow of molten glass blank from a smelting furnace to the float bath. The controlled value of the tweel is obtained from predetermined control variables through fuzzy inference. This method is carried out in a float-bath ribbon-width control system using a fuzzy inference means that obtains the controlled value of the tweel from predetermined control variables through fuzzy inference.
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