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US 10,314,116 B1Granted
Glazed panel heating systems
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsDavid E. Kingman, Ibuki Kamei, James R. Wilson, John Raff, Martin Melcher
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Abstract
A heating system includes a conductive layer disposed on a pane surface of a glass pane, a first busbar extending along a first pane edge portion of the glass plane in electrical contact with the conductive layer, and a second busbar extending along a second pane edge portion of the glass plane in electrical contact with the conductive layer. Applying power to the first busbar causes current to travel from the first busbar along the conductive layer to the second busbar, heating the pane surface.
Claims20
A heating system, comprising:
- a conductive layer disposed on a pane surface of a glass pane;
- a first busbar extending along a first pane edge portion of the glass plane in electrical contact with the conductive layer;
- and
- a second busbar extending along a second pane edge portion of the glass plane in electrical contact with the conductive layer;
- wherein applying power to the first busbar causes current to travel from the first busbar along the conductive layer to the second busbar, heating the pane surface,
- wherein the first pane edge portion includes an edge treatment comprising at least one of a cut edge, a seamed edge, a swiped edge, a machine-ground edge, or a machine-polished edge, and
- wherein the first busbar extends along the edge treatment of the first pane edge portion.
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A heating system, comprising:
- a first glass pane;
- a second glass pane;
- an interlayer extending between a pane surface of the first glass pane and a pane surface of the second glass pane;
- a first conductive layer extending between the pane surface of the first glass pane and the interlayer;
- a second conductive layer extending between the pane surface of the second glass pane and the interlayer;
- a first busbar extending along a first edge portion of the first glass pane and in electrical contact with a first edge portion of the first conductive layer;
- a second busbar extending along a first edge portion of the second glass pane and in electrical contact with a first edge portion of the second conductive layer;
- and
- a trace extending between a second edge portion of the first glass pane and a second edge portion of the second glass pane along an edge portion of the interlayer and in electrical contact with a second edge portion of the first conductive layer and a second edge portion of the second conductive layer;
- wherein applying power to the first busbar causes current to travel from the first busbar along the first conductive layer to the trace along the edge portion of the interlayer and along the second conductive layer to the second busbar, heating the pane surfaces of the first glass pane and the second glass pane.
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A heating system, comprising:
- a glass pane, comprising:
- a trace extending along a first pane edge portion;
- a first busbar extending along a second pane edge portion;
- and
- a conductive layer extending along a pane surface and in electrical contact with the trace and the first busbar;
- and
- a seal, comprising:
- a sealing surface, wherein the glass pane has a contact position where the first pane edge portion of the glass pane contacts the sealing surface of the seal and a non-contact position where the glass pane does not contact the seal;
- and
- a second busbar extending along the sealing surface, wherein the second busbar contacts the trace extending along the first pane edge portion of the glass pane with the glass pane in the contact position;
- wherein applying power to the trace causes current to travel from the trace to the second busbar to the conductive layer to the first busbar with the glass pane in the contact position, heating the pane surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.