Abstract: The invention relates to a dark gray soda-lime silicate glass composition which includes a coloring part essentially consisting of the compounds below in contents varying within the following weight limits: Fe2O3 (total iron) 0.7 to 0.95% CoO ?50 to 80 ppm NiO 400 to 700 ppm or Fe2O3 (total iron) 0.7 to 0.95% CoO 200 to 300 ppm NiO 1500 to 1900 ppm? said composition being free of selenium, having a redox of 0.40 or less, and the glass having a light transmission factor (TLA) under illuminant A of 50% or less and an overall energy transmission factor (TE) of less than 45%, these being measured for a thickness of 3.85 mm.

Abstract: This device comprises the following stack of layers: a substrate having a glass function (V1); a first electronically conductive layer (TCC1) with an associated current feed; a layer of electroactive varnish (VEA) based on at least one binder polymer containing the constituents of an electroactive medium that are formed by: at least one electroactive organic compound capable of being reduced and/or of accepting electrons and cations acting as compensation charges; at least one electroactive organic compound capable of being oxidized and/or of ejecting electrons and cations acting as compensation charges; at least one of said electroactive organic compounds being electrochromic in order to obtain a color contrast; and ionic charges capable of allowing, under an electric current, oxidation and reduction reactions of said electroactive organic compounds, which reactions are necessary to obtain the color contrast; and a second electronically conductive layer (TCC2) with an associated current feed.

Abstract: A seal including a body with a longitudinal axis X that includes a base-piece having a first end and an opposed second end, two opposed side walls connecting the two ends, and two shoulders located on either side of each of the two side walls and at one of the ends. The body is made of a single flexible material and, in a section perpendicular to the X axis, the width of the base-piece, from one side wall to the other, in the vicinity of the end on the opposite side from the shoulders is larger than the width of the base-piece, from one side wall to the other, in the vicinity of the end near the shoulders.

Abstract: This flat mineral glass comprises a first free surface and a second free surface, and comprises groups of zones having a high refractive index (n2) and zones having a low refractive index (n1) which are formed in the thickness of the flat glass between the first and second free surfaces, over a depth of between 1 and 1000 ?m starting from the first free surface. These high-index zones and low-index zones alternate along a direction transverse to the thickness direction of the glass between the first and second free surfaces, the high-index zones flaring out from the first free surface toward the second free surface, and the envelope surfaces of the high-index zones making an angle (?) of at least 65° with respect to the first free surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control device for at least one electrochromic window (100, 100.1, 100.2, 100?, . . . ) with means (106, 108) for generating a charging current, to bring the window from a first state into a second state, wherein the window is darker in the second state than in the first state, means (112, 116) for discharging the window, to bring the window from the second state into the first state, wherein the discharging of the window can be triggered by an emergency signal (S1, S2).

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a method of obtaining a heated window, comprising depositing a continuous thin film of a transparent electronically conductive oxide, having a sheet resistance that is uniform over the entire area of the film, on a glass sheet; and subjecting the thin film to a plasma treatment in which a device that emits excited species of an oxygen plasma is placed facing a region of the thin film, and then a relative movement is created between the thin film and the device in order to treat differentially the various regions of the thin film, so that after the thin film has been treated it has regions with different sheet resistances.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a laminated glazing, in which a lamination interlayer is interposed between two substrates having a glass function, including: making a measurement of Young's modulus E on a sample of the interlayer, using a viscoanalyzer, by varying temperature and frequency while imposing a constant dynamic displacement; making a numerical treatment of curves obtained, using WLF (Williams-Landel-Ferry) equations, to establish a law E(f) governing behavior of a material constituting the interlayer sample at a given temperature; producing a numerical model based on a finite-element method in bending of a laminated glazing panel, wherein mechanical properties of the sample result from the preceding operations; comparing results of the numerical calculation with those obtained with analytical formulae in which participation of the interlayer in transferring shear in the laminated glazing is represented by a transfer coefficient ?; varying the transfer coefficient ? in the analytical formulae until re

Abstract: The process according to the invention is based on the simultaneous ion exchange of two ions having an almost identical mobility with the ions of a glass substrate, at least one of the aforementioned two ions being used in the form of an enamel.

Abstract: A photovoltaic solar cell including an upper electrode, a layer with light scattering and/or reflection properties, and a lower electrode. The layer with light scattering and/or reflection properties is located between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.

Abstract: Method of producing a target by thermal spraying, especially by plasma spraying, said target comprising at least one compound based on atoms of different types chosen especially from the constituents M belonging to the (Zr, Mo, Ti, Nb, Ta, Hf, Cr) family and silicon, characterized in that at least one fraction of said compound, the constituents of which are bonded by covalent and/or ionic and/or metallic bonds, is injected into a plasma jet, said plasma jet spraying the constituents of said compound onto the target so as to deposit a coating of said compound on a surface portion of said target.

Abstract: An analysis device for analysing a transparent or specular surface of a substrate, the device including a raster located opposite the surface of the substrate to be measured, a video camera for capturing at least one image of the raster deformed by the measured substrate, a raster lighting system, and an image-processing and digital analysis mechanism connected to the video camera. The video camera is a matrix array camera, the raster is provided on a substrate having an oblong shape and is bidirectional including a first pattern extending along a first direction and along a smallest extension of the substrate, the first pattern being transversely periodical to the smallest extension, and a second pattern extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first pattern and along a largest extension of the substrate.

Abstract: A method for regenerating liquid crystals of a variable light-scattering electrically controlled system including a substrate carrying a liquid crystal element between two electrodes connected to an electrical power supply, the method including: supplying data for the regeneration comprising a regeneration duration DT and at least one regeneration setpoint C, programming for the regeneration comprising comparing operational data with the regeneration setpoint C, automatically regenerating by automatic power-down of the electrical circuit for the period of the duration DT, once the setpoint or setpoints C have been reached, and programming for an operating decision referred to as ‘forced mode’ during the regeneration in progress depending on the history of use and/or the context of use.

Abstract: This frame (3), which is intended to be attached to the periphery of a panel (2), comprises a main portion (4), a surrounding wall (41) of which is designed to surround the edge (21) of the panel, and attachment means for attaching the frame relative to the panel, which comprise at least one locking element (6). This locking element (6) is connected to the main portion (4) by means of a hinge (9) and is movable relative to the main portion between an open position, in which the panel (2) is capable of being inserted into the surrounding wall (41) without interaction with the locking element, and a closed position, in which, when the surrounding wall (41) surrounds the edge (21) of the panel, the locking element is facing a main face (22) of the panel.

Abstract: A system for fastening an element, particularly made of fragile material such as glass, to a bearing structure or a framework at least at one point. At least at one fastening point, the system includes a mechanical connection device for fixing the element to a framework or bearing structure or connecting to an adjacent similar element. At least one arm at a first end is connected to a fastener mechanically connected to the element, and at a second end is connected to a joining piece. The joining piece includes a tubular envelope that contains a mechanism for adjusting degrees of freedom of the fixing or of the connection. A wall including at least one fixed or opening element can be fixed to a structure or a framework by such a mechanical connection device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plant comprising an industrial manufacturing unit having a burner that burns a combustible fluid, the unit generating combustion flue gases containing CO2, characterized in that the plant comprises a combustible fluid production unit fed with organic matter, which is decomposed in the production unit to said fluid, the combustible fluid production unit comprising a thermochemical gasifier that decomposes the organic matter by the latter reacting with an oxidizing gas comprising steam or oxygen or CO2 so as to form the combustible fluid in gaseous form.

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-cleaning lighting device comprising a light source and a wall, which permits a portion of at least the radiation emitted by said source to pass therethrough and which is covered, over a portion of at least one of its two faces, by a photocatalytically active layer. The invention is characterized in that under the weakest illumination conditions, the photocatalytic activity of said layer is high enough for degrading and reducing organic soilings into easily eliminable particles that do not adhere to said layer, and/or for conferring a hydrophilic character to this layer. The invention also relates to a method for producing the aforementioned device, a translucent wall provided for this device, and to the use of the device for lighting tunnels, public lighting, airport runway lighting, indoor lighting or for headlamps or indicator lights of transportation vehicles.

Abstract: One subject of the invention is a glass substrate coated with a continuous temporary protection film, said film essentially consisting of a stack of discernible colloidal polymer particles. Another subject of the invention is a process for coating a glass substrate with a continuous temporary protection film, in which process an aqueous dispersion of colloidal particles of at least one water-insoluble solid polymer is deposited on at least one surface of said substrate and then the film thus obtained is dried at a temperature above the glass transition temperature of said at least one polymer but not exceeding 50° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent substrate provided with a thin-film multilayer comprising at least one functional metal layer, especially a silver-based layer, having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in the solar radiation range, at least one metal barrier layer in contact with the functional layer and at least one upper dielectric layer, characterized in that at least one barrier layer is based on zirconium and in that the upper dielectric layer comprises at least one ZnO-based layer in contact with the functional layer or with the barrier layer.

Abstract: A method of making an electrical power supply of an electrically controllable system having variable optical properties, when fitted near water, electrically safe, the electrically controllable system comprising a carrier substrate that bears an electroactive element placed between first and second electrodes supplied with a periodic voltage U(t) having a given maximum RMS value U0 at a given low supply frequency, the method including limiting the touch potential at an input or output terminal of the electrically controllable system to a maximum value of 50 V or less, the touch potential being defined as the potential experienced by the human body in case of contact with the input or output terminal.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is: the use for a transparent bullet-proof and/or splinter-proof laminate, of which at least part of the thickness consists of a mosaic comprising at least two transparent constituent elements, in order to limit deterioration of the laminate beyond one of said at least two constituent elements that receive an impact; such a laminate with dimensions greater than those that are the maximum possible for a plate of monocrystalline sapphire, of which at least part of the thickness consists of an at least partly transparent mosaic, and of which at least one of its outer faces consists of a continuous transparent sheet; glazing for a building or transport vehicle comprising this laminate.