Patents Assigned to AGC Glass Europe
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Publication number: 20210123236Abstract: A glazing assembly for a curtain wall glazing system comprising a glazing unit and a frame structure formed by a plurality of glazing profiles. Each of the plurality of glazing profiles comprises a main structural frame part and a removable clamping part. The removable clamping parts when removed from the structural frame parts unclamp the glazing unit and open a clearance allowing removal of the glazing unit in a direction of a first area. At least one of the main structural frame parts comprises a structural portion and a mobile clamping portion. When removing the mobile clamping portion from the structural frame portions a clearance is opened allowing the performance of maintenance activities to an edge region of the glazing unit from the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC INC., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDAInventors: Pavel CUMPELÍK, Razmik BALIAN
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Publication number: 20210126354Abstract: A glazing panel comprising (i) a pane of glass, (ii) an antenna, (iii) an electrically conductive connector joined to the antenna by a solder material, and (iv) a coaxial cable joined to the electrically conductive connector. The electrically conductive connector is a flat connector comprising first and a second electrically conductive portions laminated between two films of a resilient material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC INC.Inventors: Peter SCHNOERCH, Shoichi TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20210123293Abstract: A vacuum insulating glazing unit has a length equal to or greater than 800 mm and a width equal to or greater than 500 mm. The unit includes first and second float annealed glass panes having thicknesses Z1 and Z2, respectively. The thickness Z2 is equal to or greater than 4 mm and equal to or greater than (??15 mm)/5. The thickness ratio Z1/Z2 is equal to or greater than 1.10. The unit also has a set of discrete spacers positioned between the first and second glass panes and forming an array having a pitch (?) between 10 mm and 40 nm; a hermetically bonding seal sealing the distance between the first and second glass panes over a perimeter; and an internal volume having a vacuum pressure of less than 0.1 mbar.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC INC., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDAInventors: Abderrazek BEN TRAD, Julien JEANFILS, Pierre SCHNEIDER
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Patent number: 10988402Abstract: The invention relates to a trim element for interior vehicle. According to the invention, the trim element is made of glass sheet.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Claire Mattelet, Pierre Humblet
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Publication number: 20210101368Abstract: The invention concerns a trim element for a motor vehicle comprising at least one glass sheet having an absorption coefficient comprised between 5 m and 15 m in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm and having an external and an internal faces. According to the present invention, an infrared-based remote sensing device in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm, is placed behind the internal face of the glass sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Thomas LAMBRICHT, Yannick SARTENAER, Quentin FRASELLE, Nicolas CHORINE, Maxime COLLIGNON
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Publication number: 20210100074Abstract: An electrically heatable laminated automotive glazing unit including an exterior glass sheet that is curved and tempered and a thin glass interior sheet that is also tempered, these sheets being joined by means of a thermoplastic interlayer sheet. The glazing unit is configured to receive mechanical moving and/or fastening means and a portion of the exterior sheet is not covered by the thin interior sheet. The glazing unit is fastened in the zone not covered by the thin sheet, and the glazing unit includes at least one electrically heatable zone comprising (i) a substantially transparent, electrically conductive coating layer and (ii) spaced busbars adapted to supply electrical voltage across the substantially transparent, electrically conductive coating layer. The spaced busbars are placed in the portion of the exterior sheet which is not covered by the thin interior sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Rostislav LOSOT, Sylvain DRUGMAN
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Publication number: 20210087106Abstract: A glass sheet comprising at least one antireflective, etched surface having a surface roughness defined, when measured on an evaluation length of 12 mm and with a Gaussian filter with a cut-off wavelength is 0.8 mm, by: 0.02?Ra?0.6 ?m; 0.1?Rz?3 ?m; and 5?RSm?180 ?m. The glass sheet has the following optical properties, when measured from the antireflective, etched surface: a haze value of from 1 to 40%; a clarity value of from 30 to 100%; a gloss value at 60° of from 20 to 130 SGU; and a luminous reflectance Rc from 4 to 7%. The antireflective, etched surface comprises implanted ions. Such a glass sheet is particularly suitable for display applications as cover glass and has excellent sparkle reduction properties together with an anti-glare effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2019Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC INC., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDAInventors: Benjamine NAVET, Amory JACQUES
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Publication number: 20210091270Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a substrate that is at least partially transparent to optical radiation and has a first index of refraction. A diode region is disposed on a first surface of the substrate and is configured to emit light responsive to a voltage applied thereto. An encapsulation layer may be disposed on a second surface of the substrate and has a second index of refraction. An antireflective layer stack is formed within the substrate directly below the second surface of the substrate. The antireflective layer has an amorphous non-porous first layer, a porous second layer, an optional amorphous non porous third layer, and a fourth layer with modified crystallinity. The encapsulation layer may also be omitted and the substrate's second surface may separate the substrate, which has an antireflective layer stack within the substrate, directly below the second substrate surface, from air.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC Inc., AGC GLASS COMPANY NORTH AMERICA, AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDAInventors: Lionel VENTELON, Pierre BOULANGER
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Publication number: 20210078293Abstract: The invention concerns a trim element for a motor vehicle comprising at least one glass sheet having an absorption coefficient lower than 5 m?1 in the wavelength range from 1051 nm to 1650 nm and having an external and an internal faces. According to the present invention, an infrared-based remote sensing device in the wavelength range from 1051 nm to 1650 nm, is placed behind the internal face of the glass sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Thomas LAMBRICHT, Yannick SARTENAER, Quentin FRASELLE, Nicolas CHORINE, Maxime COLLIGNON
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Publication number: 20210084716Abstract: A system for initiating a de-icing or de-fogging action on which ice has formed on a substrate material. The system includes (a) a substrate on which ice or fog has formed; and, (b) irradiation producing devices operative to emit irradiation that passes through at least some portion of the substrate so that a first portion of the ice or fog that is impacted by the irradiation is an interfacial portion nearest a surface of the substrate, the devices being proximate the substrate material, and selectively activated to effect irradiation, causing melting of at least some ice nearest the surface of the substrate. The substrate has an absorption coefficient lower than 15 m?1 in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Yannick SARTENAER, François BOLAND, Quentin FRASELLE, Thomas LAMBRICHT, Etienne ALEXIS
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Publication number: 20210062572Abstract: A functional member-attached glass window includes a glass window to be erected on a floor surface and having a glass plate, and a functional member having a surface area smaller than that of the glass plate and arranged at a position apart from and higher than the floor surface, wherein the functional member is pasted to the glass plate via a spacer and joined to the spacer with a fastening part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicants: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC Vidros do Brasil Ltda.Inventors: Mayu OGAWA, Mitsuo FUKUDA, Masahiro MATSUMURA, Akira SAITO
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Publication number: 20210054683Abstract: A vacuum insulating glazing unit is described. The vacuum insulating glazing unit has a first glass pane and a second glass pane; a set of discrete spacers positioned between the first and second glass panes, maintaining a distance between the first and the second glass panes; a hermetically bonding seal sealing the distance between the first and second glass panes over a perimeter thereof; an internal volume defined by the first and second glass panes and the set of discrete spacers and closed by the hermetically bonding seal, where the internal volume has an absolute vacuum pressure of less than 0.1 mbar; and an absolute difference between a coefficient of thermal expansion of the first glass pane and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the second glass pane is at most 0.40*10?6/° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC INC., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDAInventors: Abderrazek BEN TRAD, Julien JEANFILS, Pierre SCHNEIDER
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Publication number: 20210054682Abstract: A vacuum insulating glazing unit is described. The vacuum insulating glazing unit has a first glass pane and a second glass pane; a set of discrete spacers positioned between the first and second glass panes, maintaining a distance between the first and the second glass panes; a hermetically bonding seal sealing the distance between the first and second glass panes over a perimeter thereof; an internal volume defined by the first and second glass panes and the set of discrete spacers and closed by the hermetically bonding seal, where the internal volume has an absolute vacuum pressure of less than 0.1 mbar. The outer pane face of the second glass pane is laminated to at least one glass sheet by at least one polymer interlayer forming a laminated assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC INC.,, AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC, AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDAInventors: Abderrazek BEN TRAD, Pierre SCHNEIDER, Louis DELLIEU, Amelia DESMEDT
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Publication number: 20210047878Abstract: A vacuum insulating glazing unit includes a first glass pane having a thickness Z1, and a second glass pane made of prestressed glass having a thickness, Z2, where Z1 is greater than Z2 (Z1>Z2) The glazing unit also includes a set of discrete spacers positioned between the first and second glass panes and a hermetically bonding seal sealing the distance between the first and second glass panes over a perimeter. A vacuum of pressure less than 0.1 mbar is created in an internal volume V. A thickness ratio, Z1/Z2, of the thickness of the first glass pane, Z1, to the thickness of the second glass pane, Z2, is equal to or greater than 1.30 (Z1/Z2?1.30).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC INC., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA INC, AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDAInventors: Pierre SCHNEIDER, Abderrazek BEN TRAD, Julien JEANFILS
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Publication number: 20210033775Abstract: A glass panel includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, a spacer profile at the periphery of the glass panel between the first and the second glass substrate. There is an intermediate substrate in the intermediate space between the first and the second glass substrates, the substrate having a first coefficient of thermal expansion, and means to maintain the intermediate substrate within the intermediate space. The panel also includes a second profile, having a second coefficient of thermal expansion, positioned facing the inner face of the spacer profile within the intermediate space between the first and second glass substrates of the glass panel. The second profile carries the means to maintain the intermediate substrate within the intermediate space. A difference between the first coefficient of thermal expansion and the second coefficient of thermal expansion is less than or equal to 20%.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicants: AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC INC., AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDAInventors: Adrian WALSH, Günther SALME, Carmelo DADO
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Publication number: 20210028531Abstract: A laminated glazing panel includes an outer pane of glass and an inner pane of glass, the inner pane of glass being laminated to the outer pane of glass by a thermoplastic interlayer. The panel further has an antenna structure including: (a) a feeding structure comprising at least one ground conductor and a signal conductor, the least one ground conductor being electrically isolated from the signal conductor by a gap, and (b) a radiator, fed by the feeding structure and electrically connected to the signal conductor. The panel also has a connector, to power the antenna structure, that includes a further conductor connected to the signal conductor, and at least one conductor connected to the at least one ground conductor. The radiator, the signal conductor and the extremity of the further conductor are provided on at least one of the surfaces of the inner faces of the glass panes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Xavier DARDENNE, Dan LIS, Yvain CORNET, Shimo KENICHIRO, Bart VERBEEREN
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Patent number: 10900279Abstract: The present invention relates to a frameless glass door or window arrangement comprising a static frame and a movably mounted or stationary casement, wherein the casement further comprises a multiple glazing and at least one drip groove provided on the glazing, and wherein that at least one drip groove is provided between the plan defined by the external surface of the external glass plate and the plan defined by the internal surface of the internal glass plate of the glazing.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Nicolas Chorine, Olivier Bouesnard, Pavel Cumpelik, Miroslav Spacek
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Publication number: 20210005951Abstract: An antenna unit used by being attached to window glass for a building includes a radiating element, a wave directing member arranged on an outdoor side with respect to the radiating element, and a conductor arranged on an indoor side with respect to the radiating element, wherein where a distance between the radiating element and the wave directing member is denoted as a, and where a relative permittivity of a medium constituted by a dielectric member between the radiating element and the wave directing member is denoted as ?r, the distance a is (2.11×?r?1.82) mm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicants: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC Vidros do Brasil Ltda.Inventors: Masaki HORIE, Ryuta SONODA, Yukio TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20200399164Abstract: A glass composition with low thermal radiative conductivity at high temperature has the following components in weight percentage, expressed with respect to the total weight of the glass composition: SiO2 50-85%; Al2O3 0-30%, B2O3 0-20%; Na2O 0-25%; CaO 0-25%; MgO 0-15%; K2O 0-20%; BaO 0-20%; Fe2O3 total 0.002-0.1%. The glass also includes NiO at a level of 0.0001% to 0.0020% by weight of the total glass composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventor: Michel BOGAERTS
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Patent number: 10851015Abstract: The present invention concerns a process to increase the mechanical and chemical resistance of a hydrolyzable network-forming silica gel coating provided on the surface of a substrate. According to the invention, a coating composition comprising a hydrolyzable, network-forming silica gel doped with a precursor of bismuth or cerium oxide is applied on the surface of the substrate. The present invention concerns also the product obtained by the said process.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventor: Eugenie Peyroux