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Magnetic disk glass substrate manufacturing method

US7703303B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 14, 2005
Grant dateApr 27, 2010
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Expiry dateApr 22, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC03C21/002
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A magnetic disk glass substrate manufacturing method includes a step of polishing a surface of a glass substrate to a mirror surface, a gas heating process step of causing a heated atmosphere and the glass substrate to contact each other so as to heat the glass substrate at a temperature T0, a step of causing a chemically strengthening salt melted exceeding a freezing temperature TF and the glass substrate to contact each other so as to chemically strengthen the glass substrate at a temperature T1, a gas cooling process step of causing a gas coolant and the glass substrate to contact each other so as to cool the glass substrate to a temperature T2, and a liquid cooling process step of causing a liquid coolant and the glass substrate to contact each other so as to cool the glass substrate to a temperature T3, the above-mentioned steps being included in this order, wherein the temperature T2 is set to a temperature less than the freezing temperature TF of the chemical strengthening salt in a gas cooling process.

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