Abstract: A spandrel including a first substrate, an intermediate film made of polymer material, and a second, opaque substrate, such that the first substrate is coated with at most two layers which are deposited on the surface located on the side facing the intermediate film made of polymer material and which include at least one upper dielectric layer.

Abstract: A HUD system including a light source projecting p-polarized light towards a glazing, the glazing includes an outer sheet of glass having a first surface and a second surface, and an inner sheet of glass having a first surface and a second surface, and the second surface of the inner sheet of glass has a first coating, where both sheets are bonded by at least one sheet of interlayer material, and the first coating includes at least one high refractive index layer having a thickness from 50 to 100 nm, and at least one low refractive index layer having a thickness from 70 to 160 nm, and the least one high refractive index layer has at least one of an oxide of Zr, Nb, Sn; a mixed oxide of Ti, Zr, Nb, Si, Sb, Sn, Zn, In; a nitride of Si, Zr; or a mixed nitride of Si, Zr.

Abstract: A method for detection and analysis of an external event occurring on an automotive glazing that includes receiving a signal with characteristic information of at least one electrical signal resulting from an occurrence of the external event on the automotive glazing. The method further includes applying the signal with characteristic information to a computer-implemented classification model, where for each of one or more quantities related to the characteristic information, a prediction is made of a value of a parameter indicative of the external event. The method further includes deriving a decision on whether to replace or repair based on the value of the parameter from the predictions.

Abstract: To provide a coating material capable of forming a solar cell module excellent in the weather resistance, the power generation efficiency and the design, a cover glass, a solar cell module comprising the cover glass, and an outer wall material for building. The cover glass of the present invention is a cover glass comprising a glass plate and a layer containing a fluorinated polymer having units based on a fluoroolefin, on at least one surface of the glass plate, which has an average visible reflectance of from 10 to 100%, and an average near infrared transmittance of from 20 to 100%.

Abstract: A window unit including a glazing panel, a frame which has a frame profile and encompasses the edge of the glazing panel on at least one peripheral side and includes a plastic primary part, with the primary part having at least 10% in weight of recycled material.

Abstract: A laminated glazing for a head-up display (HUD). The laminated glazing has an outer glass pane and an inner glass pane, which are bonded to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer. The intermediate layer in the vertical course (C) between a lower edge L and the upper U edge of the laminated glazing is variable at least in sections between two virtual points P1 and P2 taken along the vertical course (C). The calculated surface area (S) surrounded a straight line connecting a first value V1 defined by a position (d(1)) and a thickness (Tk(1)) of the virtual point P1 and the last value V2 defined by a position (d(2)) and a thickness (Tk(2)) of the virtual point P2 is above 10.000 mm×?m.

Abstract: An improved glazing unit extending along a plane, P, defined by a longitudinal axis, X, and a vertical axis, Z; having a width, DW, measured along the longitudinal axis, X, and a length, DL, measured along the vertical axis, Z, including a glass panel, a housing able to accommodate a communication device and an opening arranged on the glass panel. The present invention also discloses a communication system including a glazing unit, at least a 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit and a provider fixed station or active or passive repeater, which is placed at least at 1 m outside from the glazing unit, wherein the 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit is fixed to the glazing unit at the opposite side from the provider fixed station or active or passive repeater.

Abstract: A 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit is able to be attached to a glazing unit that includes housing with at least side parts and a cover. A communication device is fixed inside the housing and is surrounded by the side parts and the cover. The 4G and/or 5G signal communication device has at least one antenna. The housing includes a matching element. A communication system includes a glazing unit, at least the 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit and a provider fixed station or active or passive repeater, which is placed at least at 1 m outside from the glazing unit. The 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit is fixed to the glazing unit at the opposite side from the provider fixed station or active or passive repeater.

Abstract: An improved a glazing unit extending along a plane, P, defined by a longitudinal axis, X, and a vertical axis, Z; having a width, DW, measured along the longitudinal axis, X, and a length, DL, measured along the vertical axis, Z, including, at least a first outer glass panel having a S11 surface and a S12 surface and a second inner glass panel having a S21 surface and a S22 surface combined together while maintaining the two glass panels at a certain distance between the surface S12 of the first outer glass panel and the surface S21 of the second inner glass sheet. The glazing unit further includes a housing able to accommodate a 4G and/or 5G communication device and has an opening arranged on the second inner glass panel, the housing having been placed in the opening.

Abstract: A laminated glazing usable as a heatable glazing for means of transportation. Also, a method for producing the laminated glazing and a method for decreasing the sheet resistance of the laminated glazing.

Abstract: Method for fixing a glass interior trim element into a motor vehicle. The invention relates to method for fixing a glass trim element into a motor vehicle's interior characterized in that the method comprises a step of fixation of the glass element to a support to provide an assembly that is integrated to motor vehicle's interior body.

Abstract: A fire resistant vacuum insulating glazing assembly includes at least one vacuum insulating glazing unit that has a first glass pane, GP1, which includes an inner pane face and an outer pane face and a second glass pane, GP2, which includes an inner pane face and an outer pane face. A set of discrete pillars is positioned between the first and second glass panes and maintains a distance between the first and the second glass panes. A hermetically bonding seal seals the distance between the first and second glass panes over a perimeter. An internal volume, V, is defined by the first and second glass panes and is closed by the hermetically bonding seal. There is a vacuum of absolute pressure of less than 0.1 mbar and the inner pane faces face the internal volume, V.

Abstract: A fire resistant vacuum insulating glazing assembly with at least one vacuum insulating glazing unit having first and second glass panes; a set of discrete pillars between the glass panes; a hermetically bonding seal sealing the distance between the glass panes; an internal volume defined by the glass panes and closed by the hermetically bonding seal, wherein there is a vacuum of absolute pressure of less than 0.1 mbar. The inner pane faces face the internal volume, and the glazing assembly further includes at least one intumescent unit having a layer of intumescent material, an intumescent unit glass pane, and an intumescent unit peripheral spacer. The intumescent unit glass pane and the intumescent unit peripheral spacer define an intumescent unit volume, and the layer of intumescent material and the intumescent unit peripheral spacer face one of the outer pane faces of the first or second glass panes.

Abstract: The invention concerns reflective opaque panels that can be used as facing panels or decorative panels. They consist of a substrate coated with a stack of layers comprising, in the following order, at least (i) a transparent substrate (S), (ii) a first dielectric layer which is a high refractive index dielectric layer (H1), (iii) a second dielectric layer which is a low refractive index dielectric layer (L1), and (vi) a single chromium-based layer.

Abstract: An automotive LiDAR glazing with at least one glass sheet having an absorption coefficient lower than 5 m?1 in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm and having an external face and an internal face. An infrared-based remote sensing device emitting and/or receiving p-polarized laser signal in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm is placed on the internal face of the glass sheet.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An interior component of a vehicle comprises a carrier having a front face directed toward a passenger compartment of the vehicle and an opposite rear face; a speaker including an at least partially transparent diaphragm and a transducer coupled to the diaphragm. Movement of the transducer causes vibration of the diaphragm to generate sound by vibration of the diaphragm, the diaphragm having a front face directed towards the passenger compartment and an opposite rear face. The carrier provides a support along at least part of the periphery of the diaphragm where the diaphragm is attached to the carrier where the front face and the rear face of the diaphragm are free of the carrier across a part of the diaphragm surface so that the diaphragm is suspended in the carrier of the interior component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminated body with electric conductor including a substrate; a functional layer having at least an adhesive layer; an electric conductor; and a protective material, wherein the substrate, the functional layer having at least the adhesive layer, the electric conductor, and the protective material are sequentially laminated in a thickness direction, and wherein a thickness of the functional layer is less than or equal to 0.300 mm.

Abstract: A detection device includes a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) device enclosed in housing with a glass cover that has a mean transmittance at the LiDAR operating wavelength of at least 80%, to an IR-radiation in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm. The glass cover is laminated and includes at least one glass sheet laminated with at least one thermoplastic interlayer. The thermoplastic interlayer has a mean transmittance at the LiDAR operating wavelength of at least 80%, to an IR-radiation in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm, and has a light transmission in the visible range of less than 10% of the incident light.

Abstract: A method for dissipating the kinetic energy during an impact on a glass trim element into a motor vehicle's interior that includes fixation of the glass trim element to a support to provide an assembly that is integrated to motor vehicle's interior body. The support further includes a material with a permanent deformation or not to dissipate the kinetic energy during an impact.