Abstract: A coated article (e.g., a coated glass article) is provided with a low-emissivity, water-sheeting coating. The coating comprises a sputtered silica layer over a pyrolytically-applied dielectric layer. In certain embodiments, an automobile windscreen is provided with a low-emissivity, water-sheeting coating. Also provided are methods of rendering a surface of a substrate (e.g., a pane of glass) resistant to soiling and staining, such as by depositing on the substrate a low-emissivity, water-sheeting coating.

Abstract: A steel wire, 0.10-0.40 mm in diameter, obtained by subjecting a high-carbon (0.70-0.90 wt. %) steel wire material to heat treatment and wire drawing, wherein its tensile strength and test values of special repeated torsional tests satisfy a predetermined relation; and a method of manufacturing the same. A high strength steel wire which has so high a ductility as to substantially prevent the wire from being broken even during wire twisting, and which rarely encounters a decrease in the ductility even after the wire has been subjected to age hardening by heating, is obtained, and a method of manufacturing the same is economical.

Abstract: An elastically stretchable composite sheet includes an elastic layer and an inelastic layer formed with stretchable fibers having a relatively small diameter and bonded to at least one surface of the elastic layer. In the inelastic layer bonded to the elastic layer is formed with thermoplastic synthetic fiber, at least 80% by weight of stretchable fibers includes thermoplastic synthetic fiber containing lubricant of 0.1˜5.0% by weight.

Abstract: An article is coated with a multi-layer coating having a bronze color. The coating comprises a polymeric basecoat layer, and a color and protective stack layer comprised of layers of carbon-rich refractory metal or refractory metal alloy carbonitride alternating with layers of nitrogen-rich refractory metal or refractory metal alloy carbonitride.

Abstract: There is provided a laminated structure having a silicon carbide coating layer formed by sputtering on an alloy substrate, and the silicon carbide has a light transmittance of 70% or greater. It is preferable that the alloy substrate is a magnetic alloy or a phase-changing alloy, the impurity ratio on the surface of the silicon carbide coating layer is 1.0×1012 atoms/cm2 or less and the thickness of the silicon carbide coating layer is 10 to 100 nm. Since the laminated structure has a silicon carbide coating layer which is excellent in oxidation resistance, chlorine resistance, humidity resistance, and which has high refractive index, high light transmittance and the like, it is suitable for an optical disk recording medium such as a CD-RW, a DVD-RAM or the like.

Abstract: In the method according to the invention cold or unheated hardened glass and/or glass-ceramic parts are bonded together with a metallic ductile joining material, preferably silver, copper, aluminum or an alloy of those metals, to form a brittle article. The parts to be joined in an initial unheated state are placed with the metallic ductile joining material between them in a high frequency alternating field with frequencies preferably from 100 to 500 kHz. Then the joining material is inductively heated locally to melt it by means of the alternating field and the parts are pressed together to form a sufficiently strong bond between the parts.

Abstract: A reflector, with high total reflection, resisting mechanical stress, and having a reflector body on which the following components are superimposed (a) a functional coating, e.g., a varnish, (b) a reflection layer structure composed of a reflecting metallic layer and, optionally, one or more transparent ceramic layers, having for instance an optical depth of &lgr;/2, applied on the top of the metallic layer. The reflection layer structure is a protection layer as a surface layer. The protection layer is a silicon oxide of general formula SiOx where x is a number from 1.1 to 2.0, or is an aluminum oxide of formula Al2O3, with a thickness of 3nm or more. The protection layer protects the underlying layers from mechanical stresses. In the DIN 58196 wipe test, the protected layer shows no damage after 50 test cycles, each with 100 wiping strokes.

Abstract: A solar-control glass that has acceptable visible light transmission, absorbs near infrared wavelength light (NIR) and reflects midrange infrared light (low emissivity mid IR) along with a preselected color within the visible light spectrum for reflected light is provided. Also provided is a method of producing the improved, coated, solar-controlled glass. The improved glass has a solar energy (NIR) absorbing layer comprising tin oxide having a dopant such as antimony and a low emissivity control layer (low emissivity) capable of reflecting midrange infrared light and comprising tin oxide having fluorine and/or phosphorus dopant. A separate iridescence color suppressing layer as described in the prior art is generally not needed to achieve a neutral (colorless) appearance for the coated glass, however an iridescence suppressing layer or other layers may be combined with the two layer assemblage provided by the present invention.

Abstract: A method of film deposition is disclosed, which eliminates the conventional problem that a coating film having a component concentration gradient in the thickness direction and thus having a boundary with a compositional gradient or a coating film in which two or more components coexist as a mixture thereof cannot be stably obtained by sputtering. In the method, two planar cathodes are closely arranged as a pair, and a voltage is applied thereto while alternately inverting the polarities thereof so that when a target A bonded to one of the cathodes is used as a negative electrode, then a target B bonded to the other cathode and differing to the target A in component is used as a positive electrode. The targets A and B are simultaneously bombarded with positive ions while passing a substrate in front of the targets so as to cross the cathodes.

Abstract: A light transmitting electromagnetic wave filter comprising a transparent and a light transmitting electromagnetic wave shield film having a laminate structure composed of 2n+1 (n≧1) layers in which at least two dielectric layers and at least one silver layer are alternately laminated, with each other with the dielectric layer being the first to be provided on the transparent substrate, wherein at least one of the dielectric layers is an antistatic metal oxide layer having a refractive index of 1.6 to 2.7 at a wavelength of 550 nm, which is preferably formed by sputtering using a metal oxide, e.g., tin-containing indium oxide, as a target in an atmosphere having a reduced oxygen content. The electromagnetic wave filter has a high visible light transmission and a low near infrared transmission, is free from pin holes or contamination, and exhibits high durability against moist heat, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent conductive layered structure having a transparent substrate and a transparent conductive layer and transparent coating layer formed in succession on this substrate, used in, for instance, the front panel of CRT, etc., display devices. The main components of said transparent conductive layer are noble metal microparticles with a mean particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm, wherein the microparticles are made from gold and/or platinum and silver and the gold and/or platinum content is within a range exceeding 50 wt % up to 95 wt %, and a binder matrix.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an antireflection film effective for improving the transparency of an image display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), a plasma display (PDP), CRT, EL or a touch panel, to an optical product made of glass, such as a lens for eye glasses, and to an antireflection glass. The present invention is also directed to a process of coating a glass surface with a mixture comprising particular silicon compounds and thermosetting the coating film at a temperature ranging from 480 to 520° C. This process can be used to form an antireflection film on a glass surface having a refractive index ranging from 1.33 to 1.38 and a contact angle of water of at most 40 degrees.

Abstract: A glass laminate comprising a glass substrate, an oxide layer as a first layer formed on the glass substrate, and at least one multilayer (B) and at least one layer (C) which are laminated in this order or alternately on the first layer, wherein the first layer comprises a zinc oxide film (A) containing Al in a ratio of Al/(Al+Zn) of from 15 to 50 at %, the layer (B) comprises Ag as the main component, the layer (C) is composed of at least one member selected from the group consisting of oxides, nitrides, carbides and double compounds thereof, and the total number of the first layer, the layer(s) (B) and the layer(s) (C) is 2n+1 (wherein n is a positive integer).

Abstract: A low emissivity (low-E) glass and glass articles made of the low emissivity glass are provided, which permit controlling the solar heat shading property within a certain range without spoiling the transparency and heat insulating property thereof, to thereby realize a comfortable living condition in a wide region of the world or in a wide location of installment. A plurality of metallic oxide based films comprising metallic oxide are laminated on the surface of a glass substrate. The metallic oxide based films include a tin oxide based film containing antimony (SnSbOx film), and a tin oxide based film containing fluorine (SnO2:F film), and further may include a tin oxide based film consisting essentially of tin oxide, and a silicon oxide based film. The SnSbOx film contains antimony in an amount of 0.01 to 0.2 in terms of mole ratio relative to an amount of tin (=Sb mol/Sn mol), to avoid an excessive decrease in visible light transmittance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a low iron-loss Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strip having an ultrathin oxide layer with a controlled thickness and/or a segregated layer containing either or both P and S at the lower section of an ultrathin oxide layer, as well as an Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strip fabricated with an ultrathin oxide layer with a controlled structure on the thin strip surface, wherein the ultrathin oxide layer is formed with a two-layer structure on the thin strip surface to reduce iron loss. Specifically, there is provided an Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strip characterized by being a quenched metal thin strip obtained by ejecting a molten metal onto a moving substrate through a casting nozzle with a slot-shaped opening and quenching it to solidity, and by having ultrathin oxide layer with a thickness of from 5 nm to 20 nm on at least one surface of the thin strip.