Patent ID: 9682495
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B28D

Claim:
1. A method of producing a sapphire product comprising the steps of: i) providing a sapphire product precursor having a first crystalline plane orientation and a second crystalline plane orientation; ii)providing a crystalline material processing assembly device comprising: iii) placing the sapphire product precursor on the support apparatus; iv) establishing alignment of the first crystalline plane via the first x-ray module and while the sapphire product precursor remains on the device, establishing alignment of the second crystalline plane of the sapphire product precursor via the second x-ray module to position the sapphire product precursor in the fixed cutting direction prior to any cutting steps following step i); and v) cutting the sapphire product precursor along the fixed cutting direction to produce the sapphire product.