Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a colored laminated glazing including at least two glass sheets connected together by a thermoplastic interlayer, includes deposition, by the liquid route, on a first glass sheet, of a polymeric layer including a coloring agent and polymeric compounds, drying and optionally curing of the polymeric layer, assembling of the glass sheet, coated with the colored polymeric layer, with a colorless transparent thermoplastic interlayer and with the second glass sheet, so that the colored polymeric layer is in direct contact with the interlayer, degassing, during which the air trapped between the glass sheets and the thermoplastic interlayer is removed, and heat treatment under pressure and/or under vacuum of the laminated glass at a temperature of between 60 and 200° C., during which the coloring agent present in the polymeric layer migrates toward the thermoplastic interlayer and during which the laminated glazing is assembled.

Abstract: A laminated vehicle glazing is disclosed, the glazing comprising a first glass ply coated with an electrically conductive coating, a second glass ply, an interlayer ply comprising polyvinyl butyral, and a first busbar comprising a conductive foil, wherein the electrically conductive coating comprises a pyrolytically deposited transparent conductive oxide layer and in that the first busbar is in direct contact with both the electrically conductive coating and the interlayer ply. Preferably the pyrolytically deposited transparent oxide layer comprises doped tin oxide and is the outermost layer of the electrically conductive coating. Also disclosed are a vehicle windshield and a train having a power supply at 25 V to 250 V, comprising a laminated vehicle glazing. A method for manufacturing a laminated vehicle glazing is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pan lid made of glass having a lid handle attached on the surface thereof directed outwards, the lid handle being connected to the glass surface via an adhesive connection.

Abstract: A sealing material is formed of a glass ribbon having a thickness of 1 to 100 ?m. The sealing material has both surfaces and side surfaces formed into fire-polished surfaces.

Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which laminated glass having a gradation pattern with suppressed color irregularity can be prepared. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention includes a first resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin and a plasticizer and a second resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin, a plasticizer and inorganic particles, and the first resin layer being arranged on a first surface side of the second resin layer, wherein a gradation part being a region where the parallel light transmittance is greater than 30% and less than 60% and being a region where the thickness of the second resin layer is continuously decreased in the direction orthogonal to the thickness direction of the interlayer film at the time of preparing the laminated glass exists, and the complex viscosity at 200° C. of the second resin layer is greater than or equal to 0.7 times and less than or equal to 2 times the complex viscosity at 200° C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a touch window. The touch window includes a cover window; a first print layer disposed on the cover window to form an instruction icon pattern part; a second print layer in the instruction icon pattern part; and a reinforcement material on the second print layer.

Abstract: Disclosed therein are an extrusion die for synthetic wood which can provide a natural wood pattern similar with real wood by forming various wood patterns on the surface of synthetic wood manufactured through extrusion molding, manufacturing apparatus and method using the same, and synthetic wood manufactured by the same. The extrusion die includes: a pair of molds respectively having rectangular extrusion holes for allowing extrudates forming an inner layer to pass through the extrusion holes; and surface layer forming parts having flow paths which are oppositely formed on contact faces of the molds in such a way as to keep a predetermined gap and formed in a top and bottom asymmetrical manner for injecting other extrudates supplied, the surface layer forming parts serving to form a surface layer having different wood patterns on the outer circumference of the inner layer.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is laminated glazing comprising at least two glass sheets (1, 4) and at least one polymeric interlayer (2) made of polyvinyl butyral and binding said glass sheets together. The glazing is characterized in that at least one lacquer layer (3) is placed between the at least two glass sheets (1, 4).

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a laminated glazing unit so that it withstands a predetermined load, in which the unit includes at least one substrate having a glass function and at least one layer of polymeric interlayer. The process: obtains viscoelastic behavior of constituent material of the interlayer; calculates maximum value of at least one quantity representative of the loading resistance of the laminated glazing unit subjected to the predetermined load; adjusts dimensions of the unit such that the calculated maximum value of the quantity representative of the loading resistance of the unit is less than or equal to a permissible maximum value; and the or each substrate and the or each layer of interlayer are prepared and assembled to the adjusted dimensions.

Abstract: The invention provides low solar transmittance coatings that have particularly low solar transmittance. The coating includes three infrared-reflection film regions, which may each comprise silver. In some cases, the coating is incorporated into a laminated glass assembly.

Abstract: A contoured glass sheet laminating system may include a glass-side vacuum bed, a laminate-side vacuum bed and a lamination actuator. The glass-side vacuum bed may include a vacuum backside and a mold-receiving side and may have sufficient permeability to permit a vacuum system to pull a vacuum across a thickness of the glass-side vacuum bed between the vacuum backside and the mold-receiving side of the glass-side vacuum bed. The laminate-side vacuum bed may include a vacuum backside and a thin-film loading side and may have sufficient permeability to permit a vacuum system to pull a vacuum across a thickness of the laminate-side vacuum bed between the vacuum backside and the thin-film loading side of the of the laminate-side vacuum bed.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display panel includes a step where, on a first mother substrate having an alignment film formed thereon, a first sealing member is provided to surround a display area and overlap the alignment film, and a second sealing member is provided such that the second sealing member extends along at least a side of the first sealing member and is spaced from the alignment film; and a step where the first mother substrate having the first and second sealing members provided thereon and a second mother substrate having an alignment film formed thereon are attached to each other such that the first and second sealing members are united each other with their side edges being in contact with each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes an array substrate having pixel regions, the pixel regions including thin film transistors and pixel electrodes, a color filter substrate above the array substrate, the color filter substrate including a plurality of color filters corresponding to respective pixel regions in the array substrate, a black matrix in spaces between the plurality of color filters, and a color frame layer surrounding the plurality of color filters and the black matrix, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides multiple layer interlayers having a soft inner polymer layer and relatively stiff outer layers that can be laminated without unacceptable optical distortion and used in various multiple layer glass panel type applications. Multiple layer interlayers of the present invention have surface topography that is formed by controlling the melt fracture that occurs at the exposed surface of the interlayer, or individual layers of the multiple layer interlayer, during formation of the interlayer. By precisely controlling the surface topography of the interlayer, lamination of the interlayer with a rigid substrate does not lead to unacceptable optical distortion caused by the transfer of the surface topography through outer, stiffer layers into softer, internal layers of the interlayer.

Abstract: A method of making a window unit is provided which may result in improved yields. In certain example embodiments, the method involves coating a substrate with both (i) a solar control/management coating, and (ii) a protective layer (e.g., of or including diamond-like carbon (DLC)) over the solar control/management coating. The protective layer protects the coated substrate from scratches and/or the like during processing prior to heat treatment. Then, during heat treatment, the protective layer(s) is burned off in part or in whole. Following heat treatment, the coated article (substrate with solar control/management coating thereon) is coupled to another substrate in order to form the window unit.

Abstract: This invention is thought as a material for decoration and construction. It can be used in wet areas, walls, floors, and all surfaces. Changing appearance glass tile (8) is made up of colored, non colored, transparent, translucent, or any type, any size, shape, form and thickness of glass (6) laminated with the use of an adhesive material (7) to a lenticular image (5) which is made up of more than one image (1) divided into dozens of strips per cm with the use of special computer programs (2) and are interlaced in to one image (3) which is then printed behind a lenticular film (4) which is a semi cylindrical formed, precisely specified dimensioned, ribbed transparent plastic which allows the viewer to see one image at a time according to the observation angle or printed on a graphic film and then laminated to lenticular film (4).

Abstract: A color filter including: a transparent substrate; a light shielding part formed on the transparent substrate and contains at least a light shielding material and a resin; and a colored layer formed in the opening part of the light shielding part on the transparent substrate to cover a part of the light shielding part. The light shielding part has: the width of the thick film region, 85% of more of the maximum film thickness of the light shielding part and disposed in the central part of the light shielding part, in a range of 30% to 60% of the light shielding part line width; and the width of each of the thin film regions, 50% or less of the maximum film thickness of the light shielding part and disposed on the both side parts of the light shielding part, in a range of 10% to 20% of the light shielding part line width.

Abstract: The present invention is a decorative laminated article comprising an image bearing thermoplastic interlayer wherein the image has been printed on the interlayer using an ink jet printing process, wherein the pigment comprises at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of: PY 120; PY 155; PY 128; PY 180; PY 95; PY 93; PV19/PR 202; PR 122; PB 15:4; PB 15:3; and PBI 7. The interlayer material of the present invention can be, for example, PVB, PET, or polyurethane.

Abstract: A method of making a window unit is provided which may result in improved yields. In certain example embodiments, the method involves coating a substrate with both (i) a solar control/management coating, and (ii) a protective layer (e.g., of or including diamond-like carbon (DLC)) over the solar control/management coating. The protective layer protects the coated substrate from scratches and/or the like during processing prior to heat treatment. Then, during heat treatment, the protective layer(s) is burned off in part or in whole. Following heat treatment, the coated article (substrate with solar control/management coating thereon) is coupled to another substrate in order to form the window unit.

Abstract: A production method for laminated glass capable of performing a firing step for a fired substance and a bend-forming step to an inner sheet and an outer sheet in the same forming furnace when laminated glass having a fired substance between an inner sheet and an outer sheet is produced, whereby the inner sheet and the outer sheet overlap each other with high accuracy and a production device thereof, are provided. A production method for laminated glass having a fired substance between an inner sheet 2 and an outer sheet 3 wherein a firing step for firing a fired substance in a state that the inner sheet 2 and the outer sheet 3 are kept away and a bend-forming step in a state that the inner sheet 2 and the outer sheet 3 overlap each other, is carried out in the same forming furnace.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses having imaging structures that include a focusing lens structure, a pixel array, and a transparent material arranged between the focusing lens and the pixel array. A color filter array may be located between the transparent material and the pixels of the pixel array.

Abstract: Foils based on softener-containing polyvinyl acetals are produced by injection moulding or injection stamping, and may preferably adopt a wedge-shaped cross-section not possible with extruded foils of polyvinyl acetal. The foils may be moulded to near net shape despite their very high area/thickness ratio, thus avoiding waste.

Abstract: A color filter substrate includes a display area for displaying images, a frame area being adjacent to the display area and at least two kinds of laminated pieces which are composed by laminating at least two pieces of colored layers each including a different color. Here, the laminated pieces are arranged in the frame area in a shape of mosaic.

Abstract: A method for laminating glass sheets wherein laminating film (1) is placed over one surface of a first glass sheet (2) and the film (1) is heated with short wave radiation (4) to a bonding temperature. Heated areas (8) of the film (1) are successively pressed to the glass sheet (2) in a continuous manner for purging air from between the film (1) and the first glass sheet (2) and for applying bonding pressure. The pressed film areas (8) are then cooled whereby an appropriate bond is attained between the film (1) and the first glass sheet (2). Thereafter the first glass sheet (2) with its bonded film is subjected to a partial vacuum and a second glass sheet (10) is positioned on the film (1) and the second glass sheet (10) is pressed (11) to the film (1).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing image carrying laminated material (10). An image (18) is printed on a polyvinylbutyral interlayer (16) using a solvent based ink, paint or dye system. The interlayer (16) is used to join two sheets of material (12, 14) to form the laminate.

Abstract: A newly designed “Stained Glass” window-panel process constructed from one piece of glass without the led/zinc or copper foil assembly method. “Stained Glass—The Fusing Way” is created by utilizing a kiln firing method. The results obtained can be compared to “Stained Glass” window-panels but the “Stained Glass—The Fusing Way” delivers superior strength, maintenance free results and a safer and stronger window-panel.

Abstract: A press assembly includes multiple pressing mechanisms for pressing a composite from multiple non-parallel directions simultaneously.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a flat display element, a pair of motherboards are prepared, and a display forming portion is formed on each motherboard. A sealant is located on one of the motherboards so as to surround the peripheral edge portion of the display forming portion, and end spacers for maintaining a gap between the two motherboards and a tacker covering the end spacers are located on the end portions of the motherboard. The motherboards are stuck on each other with the sealant, end spacers, and tacker between them, and the stuck motherboards are aligned with each other. After the alignment, the two motherboards are tacked to each other by curing the tacker. Thereafter, the motherboards are finally bonded to each other by curing the sealant. Then, the substrates, stuck on each other with the sealant, are cut out by cutting the motherboards outside the sealant.

Abstract: A windshield for a head-up display system has a pair of opposing major surfaces that are nonparallel to one another in selected areas. Light rays directed toward the nonparallel area of the windshield are reflected from the outer and inner major surfaces of the windshield and directed toward the eye of the observer as parallel or superimposed light rays to eliminate ghost images when viewing images projected by the head-up display system through the windshield. The interlayer blank utilized to make the windshield has a non-uniform thickness profile with a tapered thickness positioned in the selected areas of the windshield.

Abstract: A laminated glazing for automobile use comprising a thermoplastic functional film and having a solid coloured obscuration band around the outer edge of one of the glass panes, wherein the edge of the thermoplastic functional film lies within the obscuration band and a process for the production thereof.

Abstract: An optical device has a base body with a surface, a first optically effective, multilayer system in the base body, terminating at an intersection, and a second optically effective, multilayer system. The second system has a layer along the base body surface, spanning the intersection. The surface of the base body, including the intersection, are jointly treated by at least one of: milling, grinding, polishing, and lapping. A further base body with a further surface and a third optically effective system terminating at a further intersection area at the further surface also has a further layer between the second optically effective multilayer system and the further surface.

Abstract: A window panel for use in automotive glazing applications is described, in which inner planer piece transparent plastic is bonded to an outer piece molded from an opaque plastic creating a masking border. The two pieces have overlapping portions, and may be of reduced or tapering thickness to create a transition masking zone of reduced or varying opacity. The inner piece may be designed to separate from the outer piece at a lower impact force than that required to fracture the pieces to establish a prescribed failure mode. The window panel may be formed by a two shot molding process in which the inner and outer pieces are molded respectively to increase the overall window panel size beyond that able to be molded by a one shot process.

Abstract: Method for the production of a laser-inscribable sheet of glass, wherein a laser-sensitive coating, comprising a) a base polymer and b) a radiation-sensitive additive which exhibits a color change on laser irradiation, is applied to at least part of a sheet of glass and hardened, and the sheet of glass is subsequently inscribed by means of a laser.

Abstract: Disclosed are a phosphor pattern which comprises a substrate having unevenness and a phosphor layer formed on the inner surface of a concave portion of the substrate, wherein the phosphor pattern thickness ratio (x)/(y) satisfies a range of 0.1 to 1.5, where when the length from the bottom of the concave portion to the top of a convex portion is L (&mgr;m), (x) is a thickness of the phosphor pattern formed on an uneven wall surface at a position of 0.9×L from the bottom of the concave portion toward the top of the convex portion, and (y) is a thickness of the phosphor pattern formed on the uneven wall surface at a position of 0.4×L from the bottom of the concave portion toward the top of the convex portion, and processes for preparing the same.

Abstract: A process and panel for fixed automotive glazing, the panel molded from polycarbonate, a UV radiation blocking hard coat deposited thereon, and a pigmented primer applied in a defined band extending about the perimeter. The hard coat protects the pigmented primer coating so that two separate coatings are not required.

Abstract: Polarizing coatings are formed from dyestuffs which provide a stable liquid crystalline phase in a wide range of concentrations, temperatures and pH-values. Particles formed by aggregates of the liquid crystal molecules are oriented in a predetermined direction to polarize light. The stability of the liquid crystalline state allows orienting the particles by mechanical forces such as a shearing force applied when the liquid crystal (10) is spread on a support surface (20) by a knife-like doctor (90) or a tension deformation force acting on the meniscus of the liquid crystal deposited between two surfaces (20, 30) as the surfaces are peeled off one another. As a result, the polarizing coatings are formed in some embodiments by simple methods. In some embodiments, the polarizing coatings have a high lightfastness, a high thermal stability, and a high dichroic ratio.

Abstract: A process for the continuous manufacture of articles of hygiene such as nappy-pants, of the type comprising an absorbent pad arranged between a liquid-impervious outer sheet and a liquid-permeable inner sheet, characterised in that absorbent pads are deposited at intervals onto a liquid-permeable continuous strip unwound from a reel in that a film of plastic material is extruded and deposited in the state where it has not yet solidified onto the strip and onto the pads, by applying the film against the strip and against the pads to make it adhere thereto and in that, after solidification of the film, a composite strip is cut transversely in the region situated between the absorbent pads, into individual articles.

Abstract: A glass photo tile is formed by edge slumping an optically-correct glass front in a mold at a superheated temperature substantially above the annealing temperature of the glass, then cooling down the edge-slumped glass front in the mold through an anneal-cooling curve followed by cooling to room temperature. A photographic print is laminated in the glass front with a transparent adhesive layer, and a back mounting is installed with an adhesive layer against a back side of the print to seal the print in the glass tile. For optically correct glass having an annealing temperature of about 1000.degree. F., the pre-heating temperature is within about 100.degree. F. of the annealing temperature, and the superheated temperature is about 1400.degree. F., and the anneal-cooling curve is a Fibonacci-formula curve. Preferrably, the photographic print is laminated to the front glass with a silicone adhesive layer, and the back mounting is a ribbed glass sealed to the print with a silicone adhesive layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a laminated pane, having a visible motif, the pane including at least one rigid sheer of glass or plastics material and at least one sheet of flexible plastics material. The motif is formed of at least one organic ink layer organic ink situated on an internal face of one of the sheets forming the laminated pane, the sheets being assembled under the conjugate action of pressure and heat.

Abstract: In releasing a film from stacked films and transporting it to a predetermined position, film suction devices hold the film at two opposite peripheral portions. The suction devices are then lifted together with the film so that the lifted portions approach a center of the film. Ends of the lifted portions is grasped by finger portions while the other films are pressured by a pressing mechanism. The film is further lifted to be released from the other films. The film is then transported and accurately put on a predetermined portion.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a vehicle accessory mounting button, windshield arrangement and a method for making the same which uses nonelastomeric, thermosetting, structural adhesives, preferably in film form, to adhere the accessory mounting button to the interior surface of a windshield. The adhesives provide outstanding long-term adhesion and good accessory assembly vibration performance even under rigorous climate conditions while simultaneously being compatible with conventional autoclaving processes used in windshield manufacturing. Thermosetting structural adhesives suitable to achieve the objectives of this invention include modified epoxies, which have a cure temperature below 325.degree. F., a modulus of elasticity at 85.degree. C. of at least about 10,000 psi when cured, and are compatible with current windshield manufacturing processes.

Abstract: An improved illuminated sign for adhesive bonding to the inner surface of a pane of transparent material such as the glass of an automotive window comprises a backing panel, a planar electroluminescent lamp, and an indicia-bearing member. The indicia-bearing member is smaller in planar extent than an assembly of the backing panel and the lamp. Strips of double-sided adhesive tape are applied to the border of the backing panel. The second adhesive surface of the tape is used to bond the assembly of the backing panel, the lamp and the indicia-bearing member to the inner surface of an automobile window or the like.

Abstract: A method of producing a composite laminated film-to-glass panel for the display by back lighting of graphics and/or advertising and instructional alpha-numerical information for incorporation in game machines, product dispensing apparatus, and wall displays. The composite film-to-glass panel of the invention is produced by assembling as a layered structure: a primary front glass sheet component; a first intermediate mounting sheet component of double-faced adhesive-coated clear polyester film material in interfacing relationship with the front glass sheet; a second intermediate component comprised of a sheet of positive image film bearing the graphic and/or advertising and instructional information on the front side thereof in interfacing relationship with the mounting sheet component; and a rear component comprising a film-protecting sheet of clear polyester film material bearing a clear laminating adhesive on its front side in interfacing relationship with the sheet of positive image film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a divided light inserts which employ metal caming and a kit for mounting the inserts on existing windows. The preferred divided light inserts use substantially lead-free, rigid caming which incorporates a flange and steel core around the perimeter of the insert. The preferred mounting kit provides for ventilation between the insert and the primary glazing panel of a window in which the insert is mounted.

Abstract: A novel "three-dimensional" appearing light-transmitting and insulating sandwich panel of planar outer facing sheets in which the illusion of a three-dimensional array of step-like block structures is produced by periodic light transmission contrasting blocks containing, internally of the panel, contrasting light-transmitting insulation filler battes in alternate blocks, and method of constructing the same.

Abstract: A curved, laminated car glazing having a decorative enamel coating formed as a frame along the edge of a laminated glazing, on a surface adjacent to the intermediate, thermoplastic layer of one of the individual glass sheets is prepared by printing an enamel as the decorative coating on a glass sheet, which is then dried, printing an enamel containing metallic silver as a narrow strip on the decorative coating, firing or baking the coated glass sheet, superimposing the baked glass sheet with a mating glass sheet with the printed coating on the inside, and with the result that the bent sheets do not stick together because of the presence of the silver-containing strip, and completing the lamination of the curved glass sheets.

Abstract: A decorative relief pattern is provided on a glass/plastic laminate wherein a sandwiched structure comprised of a glass sheet (10), an adhesive layer (12), a plastic film (14) having a thin cured coating of a polysiloxane antiabrasion material (16) on its exposed surface by placing a texturing medium (18) on the exposed surface and autoclaving the sandwiched structure under vacuum and pressure to provide a permanent bond between the plastic film (14) and the glass sheet (10) thereby transferring the surface texture of the texturing medium (18) to the exposed surface of said coating.

Abstract: Decorated sheets of laminated safety glass, particularly for use in the field of building construction and vehicles for transportation, are manufactured using a process which makes it possible to obtain a product which can be defined as laminated safety glass. The process consists in reproducing the decoration on a support formed by paper and polyethylene layers and transferring said decoration onto the interposed plastic film, using the adhesive bond differential between decoration and polyethylene and decoration and plastic film.

Abstract: A method of making a glazing unit comprises sputter coating surface of a substrate ply with a first film of dielectric material and then a substantially transparent, electrically conductive coating, and then laminating the coated surface of the substrate ply to a laminating ply of polymeric material. The first film of dielectric material is sputtered onto the surface of the substrate followed by sputtering, in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, an electrically conductive film of silver metal over the first dielectric film. An adhesion film of copper or zinc is sputtered over the silver metal film in a non-oxidizing atmosphere. A film of tantalum pentoxide is then sputtered over the adhesion film. Applications include, for example, glazing units for solar load reduction and electrically heated glazing units.

Abstract: A laminated glazing is prepared by a providing an electroconductive layer on side 3, the sides of such a glazing being conventionally numbered from 1-4 starting from the outside of the glazing when mounted on a vehicle, towards the inside. The electroconductive layer is formed by powder deposition and pyrolysis to form a ITO layer on a glass pane, which is subsequently bent such that the surface bearing the ITO layer is convex. This glass is laminated with a glass of the same curvature, between which panes is sandwiched a plastic interlayer. On the side of the interlayer facing the electroconductive layer, current lead strips, in the form of metal tinsel, are provided, such that upon lamination, the metal lead strips are in electrical contact with the electroconductive layer and lead to a source of electricity. The resulting window is produced more simply, more reliably, and exhibits improved defogging.