Fluid deposition of electrically conductive strips and articles having solid electrically conductive strips obtained therefrom
First Claim
1. A method of applying an electrically conductive strip to a transparency selected from a transparency for a land, air, space, above water and below water vehicle;
- a transparency for a residential and commercial structure, and a transparency for viewing into a compartment, comprising;
applying an electrically conductive, minuscule size particle containing liquid solution or an electrically conductive particle free liquid solution to a surface of a transparency to provide a liquid conducting member, and heating the liquid conducting member to provide a solid conductive member adhered to the surface of the transparency.
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Abstract
An electrically conductive, minuscule size particle containing liquid solution or particle free liquid solution is applied, e.g. by ink jet printing technique to a surface, e.g. the surface of a glass sheet and drying the applied liquid in any convenient manner, e.g. during the heat treatment, or shaping, of the sheet to dry the liquid which results in the metal solute of the liquid solution to dry and adhere together to provide a solid electrically conductive strip on the glass surface. In one non-limiting embodiments of the invention, the solid conductive strips are a plurality of spaced conductive strips having a width no greater than 0.20 millimeters in the vision area of an automotive windshield.
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1. A method of applying an electrically conductive strip to a transparency selected from a transparency for a land, air, space, above water and below water vehicle;
- a transparency for a residential and commercial structure, and a transparency for viewing into a compartment, comprising;
applying an electrically conductive, minuscule size particle containing liquid solution or an electrically conductive particle free liquid solution to a surface of a transparency to provide a liquid conducting member, and heating the liquid conducting member to provide a solid conductive member adhered to the surface of the transparency. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
- a transparency for a residential and commercial structure, and a transparency for viewing into a compartment, comprising;
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15. A method of applying an electrically conductive strip to a vehicle transparency having an area designated as a vision area, comprising:
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providing a glass sheet having an area designated as the vision area;
applying electrically conductive first and second, spaced apart bus bars on a surface of the glass sheet; and
applying a plurality of spaced conductive strips in a vision area of a glass sheet, wherein a first end of each of the conductive strips is in electrical contact with the first bus bar and an opposing end of each of the conductive strips is in electrical contact with the second bus bar, the conductive strip applying step comprising;
applying an electrically conductive, minuscule size particle containing liquid solution or electrically conductive particle free liquid solution by an inkjet application technique to the surface of the glass sheet to provide a plurality of spaced liquid electrically conductive strips on the surface of the glass sheet, and heating the liquid electrically conductive members to provide a plurality of spaced solid electrically conductive strips adhered to the vision area of the glass sheet. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A transparency selected from a transparency for a land, air, space, above water and below water vehicle;
- a transparency for residential and commercial structures, and a transparency for viewing into a compartment, comprising;
a solid electrically conductive strip having a first surface adhered to a surface portion of the transparency, the conductive strip having conductive particles bonded together as a result of evaporation of a conductive solute of a conductive liquid solution. - View Dependent Claims (21)
- a transparency for residential and commercial structures, and a transparency for viewing into a compartment, comprising;
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22. A transparency for an automobile, comprising
at least one glass sheet having a first major surface and an opposite second major surfaces, and a plurality of spaced solid electrically conductive strips having a first surface and an opposite second surface, one end of the strips connected to a first bus bar and other end of the strips connected to a second bus bar, the bus bars and first surface of the conductive strips secured to the first major surface of the at least one glass sheet, wherein the conductive strip has conductive particles bonded together as a result of evaporation of a conductive solute of a conductive liquid solution.
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