Vehicle window glass and method for producing same

• US 10,106,458 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2015
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Kamitani, Kazutaka, Sasaki, Teruyuki, Okamoto, Shinya, Fujiwara, Takeshi, Shirasuna, Yasumitsu, Watanabe, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Polley, Christopher M
• Application Number:
  US15/111,712
• Publication Number:
  US 20160326049A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,376 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/00 Windows; Windscreens; Accessories therefor B60J10/00 takes precedence; air curtains instead of windows B60J9/04 ; sealing strips for windshields B60J10/70; sealing sash guides for sliding window panes B60J10/74; glass partitions inside vehicles to protect occupants against personal attack B60R21/12
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/10 fixedly mounted B60J1/085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/42 at least one coating of an organic material and at least one non-metal coating
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/74 UV-absorbing coatings
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2218/112 by spraying
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2009/2417 Light path control; means to control reflection
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/24 Screens or other constructions affording protection against light, especially against sunshine; Similar screens for privacy or appearance; Slat blindsoperating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures E06B9/56; free-hanging flexible screens A47H23/00

Abstract

Provided is a method for producing a vehicle window glass, the method being adapted to prevent peeling-off of a functional thin film from a ceramic shielding layer without masking the ceramic shielding layer with a masking tape. This production method includes: an application step of feeding a coating liquid for forming the functional thin film onto a principal surface of a glass sheet on which the ceramic shielding layer has been formed beforehand, so as to allow the coating liquid to flow in a predetermined direction on the principal surface; and a drying step of drying the fed coating liquid. In the application step, the glass sheet is set in such a position that the predetermined direction coincides with a first direction in which the maximum length of the principal surface is 30 cm or less (rather than with a second direction in which the maximum length is more than 50 cm) and thus that the distance the coating liquid flows on the principal surface is limited to 30 cm or less.

Claims

1. A method for producing a vehicle window glass including a glass sheet and a functional thin film formed on a principal surface of the glass sheet,

the principal surface including a shield region provided along a periphery of the principal surface and a transparent region surrounded by the shield region, the principal surface having a maximum length of 30 cm or less as measured in a first direction and having a maximum length of more than 50 cm as measured in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction,

the shield region of the principal surface having a ceramic shielding layer formed thereon,

the functional thin film lying over the transparent region and the shield region,

the method comprising:

an application step of feeding a coating liquid for forming the functional thin film onto the principal surface from a nozzle moving relative to the glass sheet, so as to allow the coating liquid to flow in a predetermined direction on the principal surface and thereby allow the coating liquid to cover a region on which the functional thin film is to be formed; and

a drying step of drying the coating liquid fed onto the principal surface, wherein

in the application step,

the glass sheet used is a glass sheet having the ceramic shielding layer formed beforehand on the principal surface, and

the glass sheet is set in such a position that the predetermined direction coincides with the first direction and thus that a distance the coating liquid flows on the principal surface is limited to 30 cm or less.

2. The method for producing a vehicle window glass according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of the functional thin film is in the range of 0.8 to 2.8 μ

m.

3. The method for producing a vehicle window glass according to claim 1, wherein the coating liquid contains a silane coupling agent, and a mass p of a component formed by hydrolysis and condensation polymerization of a hydrolyzable group of the silane coupling agent is 20% or more of a sum (p+q) of the mass p and a mass q of a SiO₂ component formed from a silicon-containing compound contained in the coating liquid.

4. The method for producing a vehicle window glass according to claim 3, wherein the coating liquid further contains a polyepoxide.

5. The method for producing a vehicle window glass according to claim 1, wherein a maximum thickness of the functional thin film is more than 8.0 μ

m.

6. The method for producing a vehicle window glass according to claim 1, wherein the coating liquid contains an ultraviolet-absorbing component.

7. A vehicle window glass, comprising a glass sheet and a functional thin film formed on a principal surface of the glass sheet, wherein

the principal surface has a shield region provided along a periphery of the principal surface and a transparent region surrounded by the shield region, has a maximum length of 30 cm or less as measured in a first direction, and has a maximum length of more than 50 cm as measured in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction,

the shield region of the principal surface has a ceramic shielding layer formed thereon,

the functional thin film lies over the transparent region and the shield region,

the functional thin film is formed by a liquid phase deposition process on the ceramic shielding layer, and

the functional thin film has a thickness increasing from one end to the other in the first direction over each of the transparent region and the shield region of the principal surface.

8. The vehicle window glass according to claim 7, wherein the thickness of the functional thin film is in the range of 0.8 to 2.8 μ

m.

9. The vehicle window glass according to claim 7, wherein the functional thin film is formed by a liquid phase deposition process using a coating liquid containing a silane coupling agent.

10. The vehicle window glass according to claim 9, wherein the coating liquid further contains a polyepoxide.

11. The vehicle window glass according to claim 7, wherein a maximum thickness of the functional thin film is more than 8.0 μ

m.

12. The vehicle window glass according to claim 7, wherein the functional thin film contains an ultraviolet-absorbing component.