Transparent substrate fitted with a stack of silver layers, with application to heated laminated windows

• US 5,677,065 A
• Filed: 10/25/1995
• Issued: 10/14/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage (Saint-Gobain Emballage)
• Original Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage (Saint-Gobain Emballage)
• Inventors: Rigal, Francoise, Chaussade, Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Ryan, Patrick
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bahta, Abraham
• Application Number:
  US08/548,132
• Time in Patent Office: 720 Days
• Field of Search: 428/31, 428/432, 428/434, 428/469, 428/437, 428/699, 428/34, 428/213, 428/212, 428/220, 428/426, 428/701, 428/433, 428/698, 428/458, 428/704, 52/788, 52/171, 52/304, 296/39.3, 296/97.1, 296/97.2
• US Class Current: 428/432
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10174 Coatings of a metallic or dielectric material on a constituent layer of glass or polymer
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/36 at least one coating being a metal
• 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 17/3628 one layer at least containing a sulfide
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3639 Multilayers containing at least two functional metal layers
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3644 the metal being silver
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3673 specially adapted for use in heating devices for rear window of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24942 including components having same physical characteristic in differing degree
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2495 Thickness [relative or absolute]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31681 Next to polyester, polyamide or polyimide [e.g., alkyd, glue, or nylon, etc.]

Abstract

A transparent substrate (1), comprising a support having thereon thin multiple layers comprising two layers of silver (3,5) alternating with three dielectric layers (2,4,6), the silver layer (3) closest to the substrate being thinner than the other silver layer (5), wherein the material of the dielectric layers is zinc sulfide.

Claims

1. A transparent substrate, comprising:

a support (1) having thereon thin multiple layers comprising two layers of silver (3,5) alternating with three dielectric layers (2,4,6), the silver layer (3) being thinner than the other silver layer (5), wherein the material of the dielectric layers is zinc sulfide.

2. The substrate of claim 1, wherein said support is made of glass.

3. The substrate according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the intermediate dielectric layer (4) is greater than or equal to 1.1 times the sum of the thicknesses of the other two dielectric layers (2,6).

4. The substrate according to claim 3, wherein the thicknesses of the first layer of dielectric (2) and of the third layer of dielectric (6) are approximately equal.

5. The substrate according to claim 4, wherein the approximately equal thicknesses of the first and third dielectric coatings are on the order of 28 nm.

6. The substrate according to claim 1, wherein the support on one surface thereof has a layer made of one of the metals of Group IV, V or VIII, of one of their alloys, or of an oxide of the same metals or alloys.

7. The substrate according to claim 6, wherein said metal is titanium.

8. The substrate according to claim 1, wherein it is assembled with a second transparent substrate (8) by means of a thermoplastic film (7).

9. The substrate according to claim 8, wherein it includes a surface layer made of one of the metals of Group IV, V or VIII, of one of their alloys, or of an oxide of the same metals or alloys.

10. The substrate according to claim 9, wherein the surface layer is based on titanium and/or an oxide of titanium.

11. The substrate according to claim 1, wherein the layers are deposited by a thermal evaporation technique in a vacuum.

12. A passenger car window, comprising:

a laminate of the substrate of claim 1 with a second transparent substrate bonded together with an intermediate thermoplastic film.

13. The passenger car window of claim 12, wherein said thermoplastic film is a PVB film.

14. The substrate according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of the thicknesses of Ag layer (3) to Ag layer (5) is about 0.8.

15. A transparent substrate, comprising:

a support (1) coated on each side with a metal, metal oxide, alloy or alloy oxide of metal(s) selected from Groups IV, V and VIII of the Periodic Table, said support having thereon thin multiple layers comprising two layers of silver (3,5) alternating with three dielectric layers (2,4,6), the silver layer (3) being thinner than silver layer (5), wherein the material of the dielectric layers is zinc sulfide.