Glass Member Having Photocatalytic Function and Heat Reflecting Function and Double Paned Glass Including The Same

• US 20070237968A1
• Filed: 06/05/2007
• Published: 10/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited
• Inventors: Inaoka, Daisuke, Anzaki, Toshiaki, Kijima, Yoshifumi, Wada, Hiromasa
• Application Number:
  US11/758,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20070237968A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/426
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 35/39 Photocatalytic properties
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/36 at least one coating being a metal
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/71 Photocatalytic coatings
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2218/365 Coating different sides of a glass substrate

Abstract

The present invention provides a glass member including a photocatalyst layer and a heat reflecting layer, the glass member having high photocatalytic activity and exhibiting a low reflectance and a colorless or pale blue reflection color tone or a bluish green or green reflection color tone. The glass member is produced by laminating an antistripping layer made of silicon oxide or the like, a crystalline undercoat layer made of zirconium oxide or the like and a photocatalyst layer made of titanium oxide or the like on the other surface of a glass substrate having a heat reflecting layer formed on one surface thereof. The heat reflecting layer is formed such that the other surface of the glass substrate has a reflection chromaticity (a*, b*) satisfying −4≦a*≦2 and −5≦b*≦0 and a visible light reflectance of 10% or less, the crystalline undercoat layer is allowed to have a thickness ranging from 2 to 28 nm, and the photocatalyst layer is allowed to have a thickness ranging from 2 to 20 nm, whereby the glass member having a colorless or pale blue reflection color tone can be produced. Likewise, the heat reflecting layer is formed such that the reflection chromaticity (a*, b*) satisfies −15≦a*≦−2 and −10≦b*≦10 and the visible light reflectance is 13% or less, the crystalline undercoat layer is allowed to have a thickness ranging from 2 to 28 nm, and the photocatalyst layer is allowed to have a thickness ranging from 2 to 14 nm, whereby the glass member having a bluish green or green reflection color tone can be produced.

Claims

1. A glass member in which a heat reflecting layer is laminated on one surface of a glass substrate and a photocatalyst layer is laminated on the other surface thereof,

wherein the glass substrate and the heat reflecting layer are combined such that, in a state in which the heat reflecting layer is laminated on one surface of the glass substrate and the photocatalyst layer is not laminated on the other surface of the glass substrate, the other surface of the glass substrate has a reflection chromaticity (a*, b*) satisfying 4≦

a*≦

2 and −

5≦

b*≦

0 and a visible light reflectance of 10% or less,

an antistripping layer, a crystalline undercoat layer and the photocatalyst layer are laminated in this order on the other surface of the glass substrate,

the crystalline undercoat layer has a thickness ranging from 2 to 28 nm and the photocatalyst layer has a thickness ranging from 2 to 20 nm, and the antistripping layer comprises at least one material selected from the group consisting of an oxide, an oxynitride and a nitride containing at least one of silicon and tin.

2. The glass member according to claim 1,

wherein the crystalline undercoat layer has a thickness ranging from 3 to 20 nm, and the photocatalyst layer has a thickness ranging from 3 to 12 nm.

5. The glass member according to claim 1 or 3,

wherein the antistripping layer comprises at least one material selected from the group consisting of an amorphous oxide, an amorphous oxynitride and an amorphous nitride containing at least one of silicon and tin.

6. The glass member according to claim 1 or 3,

wherein the antistripping layer comprises silicon oxide.

7. The glass member according to claim 1 or 3,

wherein the crystalline undercoat layer comprises at least one of a metal oxide and a metal oxynitride.

8. The glass member according to claim 7,

wherein the crystalline undercoat layer comprises at least one of zirconium oxide and zirconium oxynitride.

9. The glass member according to claim 8,

wherein the zirconium oxide is monoclinic zirconium oxide.

10. The glass member according to claim 1 or 3,

wherein the photocatalyst layer comprises at least one of a metal oxide and a metal oxynitride.

11. The glass member according to claim 10,

wherein the photocatalyst layer comprises at least one of a crystalline metal oxide and a crystalline metal oxynitride.

12. The glass member according to claim 10,

wherein the photocatalyst layer comprises at least one of titanium oxide and titanium oxynitride.

13. The glass member according to claim 12,

wherein the titanium oxide is anatase type titanium oxide.

14. The glass member according to claim 1 or 3,

wherein the heat reflecting layer is a multilayer laminate (a dielectric/Ag/a dielectric/Ag/a dielectric) in which a dielectric, silver, a dielectric, silver and a dielectric are laminated in this order.

15. The glass member according to claim 1 or 3,

wherein the antistripping layer comprises silicon oxide, the crystalline undercoat layer comprises zirconium oxide, and the photocatalyst layer comprises titanium oxide.

16. Double paned glass comprising two glass plates and a spacer placed therebetween so as to create a space between the facing surfaces of the two glass plates,

wherein at least one of the glass plates is a glass member according to claim 1 or 3, and

the photocatalyst layer of the glass member is placed such that the photocatalyst layer serves as an outermost layer of the double paned glass.

3. A glass member in which a heat reflecting layer is laminated on one surface of a glass substrate and a photocatalyst layer is laminated on the other surface thereof,

wherein the glass substrate and the heat reflecting layer are combined such that, in a state in which the heat reflecting layer is laminated on one surface of the glass substrate and the photocatalyst layer is not laminated on the other surface of the glass substrate, the other surface of the glass substrate has a reflection chromaticity (a*, b*) satisfying −

15≦

a*≦

−

2 and −

10≦

b*≦

10 and a visible light reflectance of 13% or less,

an antistripping layer, a crystalline undercoat layer and the photocatalyst layer are laminated in this order on the other surface of the glass substrate,

the crystalline undercoat layer has a thickness ranging from 2 to 28 nm, and the photocatalyst layer has a thickness ranging from 2 to 14 nm, and the antistripping layer comprises at least one material selected from the group consisting of an oxide, an oxynitride and a nitride containing at least one of silicon and tin.

4. The glass member according to claim 3,

wherein the crystalline undercoat layer has a thickness ranging from 3 to 18 nm, and the photocatalyst layer has a thickness ranging from 3 to 8 nm.