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US 10,300,680 B2Granted
Laminated vehicle windshield with internal luminous sign(s)
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Glass France
InventorJean-Yves Laluet
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Abstract
A laminated vehicle windshield containing internal luminous information includes a first glazing, a lamination interlayer, and a second glazing with a face bearing a first curved organic-light-emitting-diode device that is configured to illuminate the first sign.
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A laminated vehicle windshield including one or more internal luminous signs, comprising:
- a first curved glazing with a first main face, which first main face is intended to be on an exterior side of the vehicle, and an opposite second main face;
- a second curved glazing with a third main face and an opposite fourth main face, which fourth main face is intended to be on an interior side of the vehicle, at least one of the first and second curved glazings being made of mineral glass,
- said first and second curved glazings being connected together via the second and third main faces by a lamination interlayer made of a thermoformable polymeric material, said lamination interlayer including a first bonding main face toward a side of the second main face and a second bonding main face toward a side of the third main face;
- a first peripheral layer forming an interior masking layer made of opaque material, which is between the second bonding face and the third main face or which is on the fourth main face;
- and/or a second peripheral layer forming an exterior masking layer made of opaque material, between the first bonding face and the second main face;
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- a first light source configured to emit a first emission in the visible spectrum for a first sign made up of one or more symbols and/or one or more letters;
- wherein the first light source includes a first curved organic-light-emitting-diode (OLED) device, said first curved OLED device being associated with the fourth main face and on a periphery of the fourth main face side, and wherein the first curved OLED device is configured to emit a first emission in the visible spectrum to illuminate the first sign, which is further from the fourth main face than the first curved OLED device,
- and wherein the first OLED curved device is behind a protective top element, further from the second curved glazing than the first curved OLED device.
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