Silica container and method for producing the same

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PATENT NO 8915097
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13797028

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Producing a silica container includes forming a powder mixture by adding an Al compound or a crystal nucleating agent into a first powdered raw material; preliminarily molding to an intended shape by feeding the powder mixture to an inner wall of an outer frame while rotating the outer frame having aspiration holes; forming a silica substrate; and forming a transparent silica glass layer on an inner surface of the silica substrate, wherein the preliminarily molded article is degassed by aspiration from a peripheral side and heated from inside the preliminarily molded article at high temperature making a peripheral part of the preliminarily molded article to a sintered body while an inner part to a fused glass body, and a second powdered raw material having a higher silica purity than the first powdered raw material is spread from inside the silica substrate and heated from the inside at high temperature.

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SHIN-ETSU QUARTZ PRODUCTS CO LTDTOKYO TOKYO METROPOLIS

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Usui, Tomomi New Delhi, IN 11 76
Yamagata, Shigeru Narashino, JP 25 389

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