Patent ID: 7992411

Claim:
A method for sintering a frit to a glass plate, said method comprising the steps of: providing the glass plate; depositing a frit onto the glass plate, where the frit includes a glass, a filler and a dispersant vehicle; placing the glass plate with the deposited frit into an oven; sintering the frit to the glass plate within the oven, where the sintering includes the steps of: ramping-up a temperature within the oven from a first temperature to a second temperature and holding the second temperature for a predetermined time, where the second temperature is high enough to volatize organic ingredients within the dispersant vehicle of the frit but not higher than a glass transition temperature (T g ) of the glass in the frit; ramping-up a temperature within the oven from the second temperature to a third temperature and holding the third temperature within the oven for a predetermined time, where the third temperature is higher than the glass transition temperature (T g ) of the glass in the frit but less than a crystallization temperature of the glass in the frit; and ramping-down a temperature within the oven; and removing the glass plate with the sintered frit from the oven.