Panel and panel manufacturing method

• US 20060238355A1
• Filed: 04/20/2006
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2005
• 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: Ohara, Shohei, Kokuryo, Kazuto
• Application Number:
  US11/407,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20060238355A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.800
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2045/14852 incorporating articles with a data carrier, e.g. chips memory cards, chip cards B29L2017/006
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/14434 Coating brittle material, e.g. glass B29C45/14377, B29C45/14418 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10036 comprising two outer glass sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10302 Edge sealing
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2305/342 Chips
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/02 arranged at the vehicle front , e.g. structure of the glazing, mounting of the glazing on windscreen mounted antenna wire H01Q1/1271
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/10 Registration, licensing, or like devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

A glass panel has a sheet glass which is a tempered glass, a frame element which covers a peripheral edge portion of the base material, and an electronic tag embedded in the frame element. The frame element is made of an injection molded resin. The electronic tag is coated with a coating material. The electronic tag coated with the coating material is affixed to the peripheral edge portion of the sheet glass for attachment thereto. A thermoplastic resin is raised as a resin making up the coating material, the thermoplastic resin including polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, acrylonitrile-butadiene, styrene copolymer, polycarbonate, polyamide resin, methacrylate resin, polyethylene terephthalate, polyvinyl butyral, polyvinyl chloride and the like.

Claims

1. A panel comprising:

a base material;

an electronic tag disposed at a peripheral edge portion of the base material and coated at least partly with a coating material; and

a frame element adapted to cover the peripheral edge portion of the base material and the electronic tag.

2. A panel according to claim 1, wherein the coating material is made at least partly of a resin.

3. A panel according to claim 2, wherein the resin is a thermoplastic resin.

4. A panel according to claim 1, wherein the frame element is made at least partly of an injection molded resin.

5. A panel according to claim 1, wherein the base material is a tempered glass.

6. A panel according to claim 1, wherein the base material is made up of a pair of sheet glasses, and wherein an interlayer film is further disposed between the pair of sheet glasses, so as to join the pair of sheet glasses together.

7. A panel according to claim 1, wherein the base material has a shape of an automotive window.

8. A panel comprising:

a base material;

a frame element adapted to cover a peripheral edge portion of the base material; and

an electronic tag embedded at least partly in the frame element and coated at least partly with a coating material.

9. A panel according to claim 8, wherein the coating material is made at least partly of a resin.

10. A panel according to claim 9, wherein the resin is a thermoplastic resin.

11. A panel according to claim 8, wherein the frame element is made at least partly of an injection molded resin.

12. A panel according to claim 8, wherein the base material is a tempered glass.

13. A panel according to claim 8, wherein the base material is made up of a pair of sheet glasses, and wherein an interlayer film is further disposed between the pair of sheet glasses, so as to join the pair of sheet glasses together.

14. A panel according to claim 8, wherein the base material has a shape of an automotive window.

15. A panel manufacturing method for manufacturing a panel comprising a base material, a frame element which covers a peripheral edge portion of the base material and an electronic tag which is embedded at least partly in the frame element, the panel manufacturing method having the steps of:

affixing the electronic tag to the base material for attachment thereto;

disposing a mold for the frame element so as to cover the electronic tag; and

injecting a resin material of the frame element into an interior of the mold.

16. A panel manufacturing method for manufacturing a panel comprising a base material, a frame element which covers a peripheral edge portion of the base material and an electronic tag which is embedded at least partly in the frame element, the panel manufacturing method having the steps of:

disposing the electronic tag in an interior of a mold for the frame element;

disposing the mold near the peripheral edge portion of the base material; and

injecting a resin material of the frame element into an interior of the mold.

17. A panel manufacturing method according to claim 16, wherein the step of disposing the electronic tag in the interior of the mold for the frame element comprises a step of affixing the electronic tag to an inner side of the mold for the frame element for attachment thereto.