The recent progress of telecommunication has needed overtone quartz oscillator-plates. In Japan, however, they have not been actually used till present owing to the difficulty of its mechanical work. The authors have studied on how to lap quartz plates, and at first carried out experiments of "Single" laps, which are "Free block" lap, "Cemented block" lap as well as "Vacuum chuck" lap. Then, they have succeeded in lapping oscillator-plates for Mc by two "Plane parallel" laps.
In this report, the results by "Single" laps are shown, and the conclusions are as follows :
(1) By simple "Single" laps, the overtone can not be excited,
(2) parallelism of plates thus obtained can not be under several microns,
(3) the reason is attributed to the lack of "equi-thickness-parallelism" principle.
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