Process for Production of Laminated Glass Interleaved with Plastic Film and Laminated Glass Interleaved with Plastic Film

• US 20110097572A1
• Filed: 05/27/2009
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Central Glass Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Central Glass Company Limited
• Inventors: Nakamura, Isao, Takamatsu, Atsushi, Izutani, Kensuke, Yonekura, Masaaki, Sakamoto, Hiromichi
• Application Number:
  US12/997,169
• Publication Number:
  US 20110097572A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/332
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10005 laminated safety glass or glazing
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10036 comprising two outer glass sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10174 Coatings of a metallic or dielectric material on a constituent layer of glass or polymer
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10761 containing vinyl acetal
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10788 containing ethylene vinylacetate
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10935 as a preformed layer, e.g. formed by extrusion
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10954 by using an aligning laminating device
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2367/00 Polyesters, e.g. PET, i.e. polyethylene terephthalate
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/26 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component, the element or component having a specified physical dimension

Abstract

According to the present invention, there is provided a production process of a plastic film-inserted laminated glass, the plastic film-inserted laminated glass having a laminated film in which a plastic film of 30 to 200 μm in thickness is sandwiched between two resin intermediate films and two glass plates, the process including at least the following three steps: a step 1 for forming a laminate in which the glass plate, the resin intermediate film, the plastic film, the resin intermediate film and the glass plate are laminated together in order of mention; a step 2 for degassing the formed laminate; and a step 3 for bonding the degassed laminate by pressing and heating, wherein the steps 1 and 2 are performed under conditions that the temperature of working atmosphere and the temperatures of the plastic film and resin intermediate films fall within a range of 10 to 25° C.

Claims

1. A production process of a plastic film-inserted laminated glass, the plastic film-inserted laminated glass having a laminated film in which a plastic film of 30 to 200 □

m in thickness is sandwiched between two resin intermediate films and two glass plates, the process comprising at least the following three steps;

a step 1 for forming a laminate in which the glass plate, the resin intermediate film, the plastic film, the resin intermediate film and the glass plate are laminated together in order of mention;

a step 2 for degassing the formed laminate; and

a step 3 for bonding the degassed laminate by pressing and heating,

wherein the steps 1 and 2 are performed under conditions that the temperature of working atmosphere and the temperatures of the plastic film and resin intermediate films fall within a range of 10 to 25°

C.

2. The production process of the plastic film-inserted laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein the step 1 includes the following three substeps:

a substep 1a for forming a film laminate by laminating at least one of the resin intermediate films and the plastic film;

a substep 1b for forming a laminated film by degassing the film laminate; and

a substep 1c for forming the laminate by laminating the laminated film and the glass plates, and

wherein the substep 1c and the step 2 are performed under the conditions that the temperature of the working atmosphere and the temperatures of the plastic film and resin intermediate films fall within the range of 10 to 25°

C.

3. The production process of the plastic film-inserted laminated glass according to claim 2, wherein the substep 1b includes heating the plastic film and thermally bonding the plastic film to said at least one of the resin intermediate films.

4. The production process of the plastic film-inserted laminated glass according to claim 1, wherein the step 1 is performed by inserting the plastic film between the resin intermediate layer to thereby form the laminated film and inserting the laminated film between the two glass plates, or by subsequently laminating, on one of the glass plates, the resin intermediate film, the plastic film, the resin intermediate film and the other of the glass plates.

5. A plastic film-inserted laminated glass produced by the production process according to claim 1, wherein the glass plates have a curved shape with a radius of curvature of 0.9 to 3 m.

6. The plastic film-inserted laminated glass according to claim 5, wherein the plastic film is an infrared-reflective coated plastic film having a plastic film substrate and an infrared-reflective coating formed on one surface of the plastic film substrate.

7. The plastic film-inserted laminated film according to claim 6, wherein the infrared-reflective coating has 4 to 11 dielectric layers laminated together and shows a maximum reflectance of higher than 50% in a wavelength range of 900 to 1400 nm so as to satisfy the following conditions (1) and (2):

(1) n_emax<

n_omin or n_omax<

n_emin where, when the dielectric layers are numbered in order from a side of the plastic film substrate, n_emax and n_emin represent the maximum and minimum values of the refractive index of an even-numbered layer, respectively; and

n_omax and n_omin represent the maximum and minimum values of the refractive index of an odd-numbered layer, respectively; and

(2) 225 nm≦

ni·

di≦

350 nm relative to infrared rays having a wavelength □

of 900 to 1400 nm where n_i and d_i represent the reflective index and thickness of an i-th numbered layer, respectively.

8. The plastic film-inserted laminated film according to claim 7, wherein the infrared-reflective coating is formed using TiO₂, Nb₂O₅ or Ta₂O₅ for high-refractive-index dielectric layers and SiO₂ for low-refractive-index dielectric layers.

9. The plastic film-inserted laminated film according to claim 5, wherein the resin intermediate films are infrared-absorptive films containing therein conductive oxide particles as an infrared-absorptive material.

10. The plastic film-inserted laminated film according to claim 5, wherein the resin intermediate films have a thickness of 0.3 to 1.2 mm.

11. The plastic film-inserted laminated glass according to claim 5, wherein the infrared-reflective coated plastic film satisfies at least one of the following conditions (A), (B) and (C):

(A) the infrared-reflective coated plastic film has a heat shrinkage of 0.5 to 4% in a temperature range of 90 to 150°

C.;

(B) the plastic film substrate has an elastic modulus of 30 to 2000 MPa in a temperature range of 90 to 150°

C.; and

(C) the plastic film substrate has an elongation of 0.3% or less as measured in a temperature range of 90 to 150°

C. under the application of a tensile load of 10 N per 1 mm width of the plastic film substrate.

12. The plastic film-inserted laminated glass according to claim 6, wherein the plastic film has a coating of a silane coupling agent formed on a side of the plastic film substrate opposite from the side on which the infrared-reflective coating is formed.

13. The plastic film-inserted laminated glass according to claim 6, wherein the plastic film has a hard coating between the plastic film substrate and the infrared-reflective coating.

14. The plastic film-inserted laminated glass according to claim 5, wherein the laminated glass has a visible light transmittance of 70% or higher as measured according to JIS R 3211-1998.

15. The plastic film-inserted laminated glass according to claim 5, wherein at least one of the glass plates is an infrared-absorptive glass plate.