Deep gray colored glass

• US 5,726,109 A
• Filed: 10/04/1995
• Issued: 03/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited (AGC, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited (AGC, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kijima, Takashi, Ito, Mizuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, Mark L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TROILO, LOUIS
• Application Number:
  US08/538,633
• Time in Patent Office: 888 Days
• Field of Search: 501/71
• US Class Current: 501/71
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 3/087 containing calcium oxide, e.g. common sheet or container glass
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 4/02 for coloured glass
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 4/08 for glass selectively absorbing radiation of specified wave lengths
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 4/085 for ultraviolet absorbing glass

Abstract

A deep gray colored glass comprising 100 parts by weight of matrix components and coloring components consisting essentially of: from 0.8 to 1.4 parts by weight of total iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃, at most 0.21 part by weight of FeO, from 0.05 to 1.0 part by weight of TiO₂, from 0.0005 to 0.015 part by weight of Se and from 0.02 to 0.05 part by weight of CoO, wherein the matrix components comprise from 65 to 75 wt % of SiO₂, from 0.1 to 5.0 wt % of Al₂ O₃, from 10 to 18 wt % of Na₂ O+K₂ O, from 5 to 15 wt % of CaO, from 1 to 6 wt % of MgO and from 0.05 to 1.0 wt % of SO₃.

Claims

1. A deep gray colored glass comprising 100 parts by weight of matrix components and coloring components consisting essentially of:

from 0.8 to 1.4 parts by weight of total iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃, at most 0.21 part by weight of FeO, from 0.05 to 0.095 part by weight of TiO₂, from 0.0005 to 0.015 part by weight of Se and from 0.02 to 0.05 part by weight of CoO, wherein the deep gray colored glass has an excitation purity of 0.7-7%, and the matrix components comprise from 65 to 75 wt % of SiO₂, from 0.1 to 5.0 wt % of Al₂ O₃, from 10 to 18 wt % of Na₂ O+K₂ O, from 5 to 15 wt % of CaO, from 1 to 6 wt % of MgO and from 0.05 to 1.0 wt % of SO₃.

2. The deep gray colored glass according to claim 1, wherein the amount of ferrous iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃ in the total iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃ is from 10 to 30%.

3. The deep gray colored glass according to claim 1, which has, in a thickness of 5 mm, a visible light transmittance (light source A) of at most 20%, a solar radiation transmittance of at most 30% and an ultraviolet ray transmittance of at most 10%.

4. The deep gray colored glass according to claim 1, which has, in a thickness of from 3 to 5 mm, a dominant wavelength of from 490 to 580 nm for transmittance, as measured by means of light source C and an excitation purity of from 2 to 7%.

5. The deep gray colored glass according to claim 1, which has an apparent thermal conductivity of at least 5 kcal/m°

ch at 1,500°

C. and at least 0.01 kcal/m°

ch at 1,000°

C.

6. The deep gray colored glass according to claim 1, which contains from 0.07 to 0.20 part by weight of FeO per 100 parts by weight of the matrix components.

7. The deep gray colored glass according to claim 6, wherein the content of ferrous iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃ is from 12 to 23%, based on the total iron calculated as Fe₂ O₃.

8. The deep gray colored glass according to claim 6, which has, in a thickness of 5 mm, a visible light transmittance (light source A) of from 2 to 17%, a solar radiation transmittance of from 10 to 30%, and an ultraviolet ray transmittance of from 0.2 to 6%.

9. The deep gray colored glass according to claim 6, which has an apparent thermal conductivity of at least 15 kcal/m°

ch at 1,500°

C. and at least 5 kcal/m°

ch at 1,000°

C.