Patent ID: 6932259

Claim:
A brittle material breaking apparatus for breaking of a brittle material that has been scribed with a plurality of scribe lines thereon, the apparatus comprising: a base frame, said base frame comprising two parallel sliding grooves extended in vertical direction; a lifting mechanism, said lifting mechanism comprising two parallel sliding rails, a transverse plate, and a driving module, wherein said sliding rails extended in vertical direction and adapted to slide along said sliding grooves respectively, said transverse plate affixed between said sliding rails, and said driving module adapted to drive said transverse plate and said sliding rails sliding along said sliding grooves vertically; and a breaking-cutter module, said breaking-cutter module comprising a carrier, a driving mechanism, and a cutter assembly, wherein said carrier mounted between the sliding rails of said lifting mechanism, said carrier comprising a central cutter slot, said driving mechanism mounted on said carrier, and said cutter assembly comprising a cutter holder, and a breaking-cutter, said cutter holder mounted on said driving mechanism and adapted to be lifted by said driving mechanism, and said breaking-cutter mounted on said cutter holder and adapted to be protruded through said central cutter slot to break one of the scribe lines of said brittle material upon upward movement of said cutter holder by the driving mechanism of said breaking-cutter module.