Panel and panel manufacturing method

• US 20060208904A1
• Filed: 03/03/2006
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• 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: Matsushita, Yoshimitsu, Ohara, Shohei, Kokuryo, Kazuto
• Application Number:
  US11/366,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20060208904A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.800
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10036 comprising two outer glass sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10761 containing vinyl acetal
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10816 by pressing
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2305/342 Chips
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2519/00 Labels, badges
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07756 the connection being non-galvanic, e.g. capacitive
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2417 having a radio frequency identification chip
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1271 for mounting on windscreens
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2208 associated with components used in interrogation type services, i.e. in systems for information exchange between an interrogator/reader and a tag/transponder, e.g. in Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] systems methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns G06K7/00; record carrier for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/40 Radiating elements coated with or embedded in protective material

Abstract

An electronic tag includes an antenna and a radio chip attached to the electronic tag such that the radio chip is connected to the antenna so as to transmit identification information in response to a request provided from outside through radio communication via the antenna. A first sheet glass and a second sheet glass are positioned such that surfaces thereof are made to face each other with the electronic tag held therebetween. An interlayer film is disposed between the first sheet glass and the second sheet glass so as to join the sheet glasses to each other. Two or more interlayer films are superposed on each other in at least part of an area defined between the first sheet glass and the second sheet glass, and the electronic tag is attached to the supposed interlayer films so as to be held therebetween.

Claims

1. A panel comprising:

an electronic tag including an antenna and a radio chip connected to the antenna;

a plurality of thin sheets of a glass material which hold the electronic tag therebetween; and

a joint member which supports the electronic tag at a fixed position with respect to the thin sheets.

2. A panel comprising:

an electronic tag including an antenna and a radio chip mounted such that the radio chip is connected to the antenna so as to transmit identification information in response to a request provided from outside through a radio communication via the antenna;

a plurality of thin sheets of a glass material which are positioned such that surfaces thereof are made to face each other; and

at least one interlayer film which is interposed between the thin sheets so as to join the thin sheets to each other;

wherein said at least one interlayer film is superposed twofold or more in at least part of an area defined between the thin sheets with the electronic tag attached to the interlayer film so as to be held therebetween.

3. A panel according to claim 2, wherein a coloring layer which interrupts light transmission is formed to face at least one of the thin sheets so as to cover and hide the electronic tag thereunder.

4. A panel according to claim 2, wherein in a cross section of the electronic tag taken along a perpendicular direction with respect to a surface of the thin sheets, the electronic tag is molded into a shape of which the thickness gradually reduces along a longitudinal direction of the thin sheets.

5. A panel according to claim 2, wherein the thin sheets are formed into a shape of an automotive windshield.

6. A panel according to claim 2, further comprising a fixing frame which holds the panel at a fixed position with respect to another member.

7. A panel comprising:

a thin sheet made of a glass material;

a fixing frame which holds the thin sheet at a fixed position;

an electronic tag including an antenna and a radio chip mounted such that the radio chip is connected to the antenna so as to transmit identification information in response to a request provided from outside through a radio communication via the antenna and disposed between the thin sheet and the fixing frame;

a first interlayer film which faces the thin sheets; and

a second interlayer film which faces the fixing frame;

wherein

the electronic tag is attached to the first interlayer film and the second interlayer film so as to be held therebetween.

8. A manufacturing method of a comprising the steps of:

holding an electronic tag with a plurality of layers of interlayer films, the electronic tag comprising an antenna and a radio chip mounted such that the radio chip is connected to the antenna so as to transmit identification information in response to a request provided from outside through a radio communication via the antenna;

holding the interlayer films between thin sheets of a glass material which are disposed such that surfaces thereof are made to face each other; and

pressurizing or depressurizing the thin sheets so as to remove a void existing inside of the thin sheets which are made to face each other so that the interlayer films are made to be joined to the thin sheets, respectively.

9. A panel manufacturing method comprising the steps of:

holding an electronic tag with a plurality of layers of interlayer films, the electronic tag comprising an antenna and a radio chip mounted such that the radio chip is connected to the antenna so as to transmit identification information in response to a request provided from outside through a radio communication via the antenna, and holding the interlayer films between thin sheets of a glass material which are disposed such that surfaces thereof are made to face each other; and

pressurizing or depressurizing the thin sheets so as to remove a void existing inside of the thin sheets which are made to face each other so that the interlayer films are made to be joined to the thin sheets, respectively.

10. A panel manufacturing method comprising the steps of:

holding between thin sheets of a glass material which are disposed such that surfaces thereof are made to face each other an interlayer film element in which an electronic tag is held with a plurality of layers of interlayer films, the electronic tag including an antenna and a radio chip mounted such that the radio chip is connected to the antenna so as to transmit identification information in response to a request provided from outside through a radio communication via the antenna; and

pressurizing or depressurizing the thin sheets so as to remove a void existing inside of the thin sheets which are made to face each other so that the interlayer films are made to be joined to the thin sheets, respectively.