Process for producing laminated glass composed partly of plastic sheet, and laminated glass

• US 20090246517A1
• Filed: 08/28/2006
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Company Limited (Sekisui)
• Original Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Company Limited (Sekisui)
• Inventors: Hatta, Bungo
• Application Number:
  US11/991,290
• Publication Number:
  US 20090246517A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/339
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10018 comprising only one glass sheet
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10605 Type of plasticiser
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10743 containing acrylate (co)polymers or salts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10761 containing vinyl acetal
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/1077 containing polyurethane
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10788 containing ethylene vinylacetate
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2333/12 Polymers of methacrylic acid esters, e.g. PMMA, i.e. polymethylmethacrylate
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2369/00 Polycarbonates
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 27/08 of synthetic resin
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/269 including synthetic resin or polymer layer or component

Abstract

There is provided a novel laminated glass composed partly of plastic sheet advantageous in light weight property, obtainable by the step of laminating a plastic sheet having the first interlayer film adhered to one side thereof and an inorganic glass sheet having the second interlayer film adhered to one side thereof through the first and second interlayer films interposed therebetween, which warps little, exhibits almost no perspective distortion, exhibits satisfactory adhesion between the plastic sheet and the inorganic glass sheet through the interposed interlayer films, and is excellent in transparency.

Claims

1. A process for producing a laminated glass, which comprises the step of laminating a plastic sheet having the first interlayer film adhered to one side thereof and an inorganic glass sheet having the second interlayer film adhered to one side thereof through the interposed first and second interlayer films.

2. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein each of the first and second interlayer films has a ten-point average surface roughness of not more than 10 μ

m.

3. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein the step of laminating is carried out at a temperature not exceeding 80°

C.

4. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein the inorganic glass sheet having the second interlayer film adhered to one side thereof is produced by adhering an inorganic glass sheet, in which a silane coupling agent is coated to one side thereof, to the second interlayer film through the interposed silane coupling agent.

5. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein each of the first and second interlayer films is a thermoplastic elastomer resin film.

6. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 5, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin film.

7. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 6, wherein the vinyl acetate content in the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin constituting the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin film is 20 to 40% by weight as measured in accordance with JIS K6730 entitled “

Testing method for ethylene-vinyl acetate resin”

.

8. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 6, wherein the silane coupling agent is contained in an amount of 0.01 to 4 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin film.

9. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 6, wherein a tackifier is contained in an amount of 1 to 40 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin film.

10. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 6, wherein a nucleating agent is contained in an amount of 0.01 to 4 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin film.

11. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 5, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is an ethylene-acrylate copolymer resin film.

12. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 11, wherein the ethylene-acrylate copolymer resin film is one member selected from the group consisting of ethylene-methyl acrylate copolymer resin, ethylene-ethyl acrylate copolymer resin and ethylene-butyl acrylate copolymer resin films.

13. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 5, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is a thermoplastic polyurethane resin film which may contain sulfur element.

14. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 5, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is a plasticized polyvinyl acetal resin film.

15. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein the plastic sheet has a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of not less than 5×

10<sup>−

5</sup> cm/cm·

°

C. but not more than 10×

10<sup>−

5</sup> cm/cm·

°

C.

16. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein the plastic sheet is a polycarbonate sheet and a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the polycarbonate sheet is not less than 5×

10<sup>−

5</sup> cm/cm·

°

C. but not more than 8×

10<sup>−

5</sup> cm/cm·

°

C.

17. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein the plastic sheet is a polymethyl methacrylate sheet and the coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the polymethyl methacrylate sheet is not less than 5×

10<sup>−

5</sup> cm/cm·

°

C. but not more than 10×

10<sup>−

5</sup> cm/cm·

°

C.

18. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein the coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the inorganic glass sheet is not less than 0.01×

10<sup>−

6</sup> cm/cm·

°

C. but not more than 100×

10<sup>−

6</sup> cm/cm·

°

C.

19. A laminated glass which is produced by the process according to claim 1.

20. A process for producing a laminated glass which comprises a step of thermocompression bonding a plastic sheet and an inorganic glass sheet through an interposed interlayer film at a temperature exceeding 80°

C. but being less than 150°

C., and a step of cooling the plastic sheet and the inorganic glass sheet heated by thermocompression bonding, down to 60°

C. at an average cooling rate of not less than 30°

C./min but not more than 500°

C./min.

23. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 20, wherein the interlayer film is a thermoplastic elastomer resin film.

24. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 23, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is a thermoplastic elastomer resin film having an average film thickness exceeding 2.0 mm but being less than 5.0 mm.

25. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 23, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin film.

26. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 25, wherein the step of cooling at an average cooling rate of not less than 30°

C./min but not more than 500°

C./min comprises a step of cooling the plastic sheet and the inorganic glass sheet heated by thermocompression bonding, over the range from a temperature 10°

C. higher than the extrapolated end temperature of crystallization as measured in accordance with JIS K 7121 (1987) of the interlayer film resin, to a temperature 10°

C. lower than the extrapolated onset temperature of crystallization as measured in accordance with JIS K7121 (1987) at an average cooling rate of not less than 50°

C./min but not more than 500°

C./min.

27. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 23, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is an ethylene-acrylate copolymer resin film.

28. The process for producing a laminated glass according to claim 23, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is a polyurethane resin film which may contain sulfur element.

29. A laminated glass which is produced by the process according to claim 20.

21. A process for producing a laminated glass, which comprises a step of thermocompression bonding a plastic sheet and an inorganic glass sheet through an interposed interlayer film at a temperature exceeding 80°

C. but being less than 150°

C., and a step of cooling the plastic sheet and the inorganic glass sheet heated by thermocompression bonding, down to 50°

C. at an average cooling rate of not less than 30°

C./min but not more than 500°

C./min.

22. A process for producing a laminated glass, which comprises a step of thermocompression bonding a plastic sheet and an inorganic glass sheet through an interposed interlayer film at a temperature exceeding 80°

C. but being less than 150°

C., and a step of cooling the plastic sheet and the inorganic glass sheet heated by the thermocompression bonding, down to 40°

C. at an average cooling rate of not less than 30°

C./min but not more than 500°

C./min.

30. A laminated glass comprising a plastic sheet and an inorganic glass sheet, which are laminated through an interposed interlayer film by thermocompression bonding, wherein said interlayer film has an average thickness exceeding 2.0 mm but being less than 5.0 mm and the temperature at which the thermocompression bonding is carried out is higher than 80°

C. but less than 150°

C.

31. The laminated glass according to claim 30, wherein the interlayer film is a thermoplastic elastomer resin film.

32. The laminated glass according to claim 31, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin film.

33. The laminated glass according to claim 31, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is an ethylene-acrylate copolymer resin film.

34. The laminated glass according to claim 31, wherein the thermoplastic elastomer resin film is a polyurethane resin film which may contain sulfur element.