Method for the manufacture of a tempered and/or curved glass pane with reduced transmission

• US 4,715,879 A
• Filed: 11/05/1986
• Issued: 12/29/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Flachglas AG
• Original Assignee: Dieter Muller, Franz-Josef Schmitte, Rolf Groth
• Inventors: Muller, Dieter, Groth, Rolf, Schmitte, Franz-Josef
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/927,174
• Time in Patent Office: 419 Days
• Field of Search: 65/60.2, 65/60.4, 65/106, 65/107, 65/114
• US Class Current: 65/60.2
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/36 at least one coating being a metal
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3605 Coatings of the type glass/metal/inorganic compound
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3613 Coatings of type glass/inorganic compound/metal/inorganic compound/metal/other
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3615 Coatings of the type glass/metal/other inorganic layers, at least one layer being non-metallic
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3618 Coatings of type glass/inorganic compound/other inorganic layers, at least one layer being metallic
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3649 made of metals other than silver
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/366 Low-emissivity or solar control coatings
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3681 the multilayer coating being used in glazing, e.g. windows or windscreens

Abstract

Method for the manufacture of a prestressed and/or curved glass pane of soda-lime-silica glass having reduced transmission in a prescribable spectral range (in prescribable spectral ranges), in particular a sunshade pane, whereby at least one metal layer having a majority content of a metal or of a metal alloy from the elements having the atomic numbers 22 through 28 of the periodic table is applied to at least one side of a glass carrier and a protective layer of at least one metal oxide or mixed metal oxide is applied to that side thereof facing away from the glass carrier, and whereby a thermal prestressing and/or bending process is carried out in air at a temperature of 580° C. through 680° C., preferably 600° C. through 650° C., characterized in that both the metal layer as well as the protective layer are applied to the essentially planar glass carrier before the thermal prestressing and/or bending process; and in that the protective layer is applied with an oxygen deficit x, referrred to a metal atom of the metal oxide or, respectively, oxides, of 0.05≦x≦0.4 and in a thickness from 10 nm through 100 nm, being applied in such a composition that no noteworthy oxygen diffusion into the metal layer occurs during the prestressing and/or bending process.

Claims

1. Method for the manufacture of a prestressed and/or curved glass pane of soda-lime-silica glass having reduced transmission in a prescribable spectral range (in prescribable spectral ranges), in particular a sunshade pane, whereby at least one metal layer having a majority content of a metal or of a metal alloy from the elements having the atomic numbers 22 through 28 of the periodic table is applied to at least one side of a glass carrier and a protective layer of at least one metal oxide or mixed metal oxide is applied to that side thereof facing away from the glass carrier, and whereby a thermal prestressing and/or bending process is carried out in air at a temperature of 580°

C. through 680°

C., preferably 600°

C. through 650°

C., characterized in that both the metal layer as well as the protective layer are applied to the essentially planar glass carrier before the thermal prestressing and/or bending process; and

in that the protective layer is applied with an oxygen deficit x, referred to a metal atom of the metal oxide or, respectively, metal oxides, of 0.05≦

x≦

0.4 and in a thickness from 10 nm through 100 nm, being applied in such a composition that no noteworthy oxygen diffusion into the metal layer occurs during the prestressing and/or bending process.

2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that a layer of or having a majority content of at least one metal oxide or mixed metal oxide from the group Sn, In, Ta is applied as protective layer.

3. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the oxygen deficit lies in the range 0.1≦

x≦

0.3.

4. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that an indium oxide layer having the composition InO₁.5-x is applied as protective layer.

5. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that a tin oxide layer having the composition SnO_2-x is applied as protective layer.

6. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that a tantalum oxide layer having the composition TaO₂.5-x is applied as protective layer.

7. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the thickness of the protective layer amounts to at least 13 nm.

8. Method according to claim 7, characterized in that the thickness of the protective layer amounts to about 20 nm through 70 nm.

9. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that a cover layer of at least one metal oxide in an essentially stoichiometric composition is applied to the protective layer.

10. Method according to claim 9, characterized in that the cover layer comprises at least one metal oxide from that group from which the metal oxide or the metal oxides for the protective layer is or are selected.

11. Method according to claim 10, characterized in that the metallic composition of the cover layer corresponds to that of the protective layer.

12. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one sub-layer of a metal, a metal alloy, a metal oxide or a mixed metal oxide is applied to the glass carrier before application of the metal layer (layers).