# US 12,005,679 B2 · Laminated vehicle glazing, associated device having a near-infrared vision system, and production thereof

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- Number: US 12,005,679 B2
- Document ID: US12005679B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/790,644
- Filed: 2020-12-23
- Published: 2023-02-16
- Granted: 2024-06-11
- Earliest claimed: 2020-01-03
- Assignees: Saint-Gobain Glass France
- Applicants: Saint-Gobain Glass France
- Inventors: Claire Davis; Keihann Yavari
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12005679B2

## CPC

- B32B 17/10293: {Edge features, e.g. inserts or holes}
- G02B 5/208: {for use with infrared or ultraviolet radiation, e.g. for separating visible light from infrared and/or ultraviolet radiation}
- B32B 3/266: {characterised by an apertured layer, the apertures going through the whole thickness of the layer, e.g. expanded metal, perforated layer, slit layer regular cells B32B3/12}
- B32B 7/12: using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
- B32B 17/10036: {comprising two outer glass sheets}
- B32B 17/1011: {having predetermined tint or excitation purity}
- B32B 17/10119: {having a composition deviating from the basic composition of soda-lime glass, e.g. borosilicate}
- B32B 17/10211: {Doped dielectric layer, electrically conductive, e.g. SnO2:F}
- B32B 17/10348: {comprising an obscuration band}
- B32B 17/10385: {for ohmic resistance heating}
- B32B 17/10651: {comprising colorants, e.g. dyes or pigments}
- B32B 17/10761: {containing vinyl acetal}
- B32B 27/08: of synthetic resin
- B32B 27/308: {comprising acrylic (co)polymers}
- B32B 27/365: {comprising polycarbonates}
- C03C 4/10: for infrared transmitting glass
- C03C 27/10: with the aid of adhesive specially adapted for that purpose
- G01S 7/4813: {Housing arrangements}
- G01S 17/931: of land vehicles
- B32B 27/30: comprising vinyl {(co)polymers; comprising acrylic (co)polymers}
- B32B 27/36: comprising polyesters
- B32B 2255/10: on synthetic resin layer or on natural or synthetic rubber layer
- B32B 2255/26: Polymeric coating
- B32B 2255/28: Multiple coating on one surface
- B32B 2307/412: Transparent
- B32B 2307/42: Polarizing, birefringent, filtering
- B32B 2605/08: Cars
- B32B: LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
- G02B: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
- C03C: CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASSES, GLAZES OR VITREOUS ENAMELS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF GLASS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR FILAMENTS MADE FROM GLASS, MINERALS OR SLAGS; JOINING GLASS TO GLASS OR OTHER MATERIALS
- G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES

## Abstract

A vehicle laminated glazing includes a first extraclear glass sheet, a lamination interlayer and a second glass or plastic sheet with a traversing hole in the lamination interlayer and the second glass or plastic sheet.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A laminated glazing for a vehicle, the laminated glazing of given thickness and comprising:
a first glass sheet intended to be an exterior glazing with a first external main face F1 and a second internal main face F2;
a lamination interlayer made of polymer material with a main face FA oriented toward the second internal main face F2 and with a main face FB opposite to the main face FA, of given thickness E3, and
a second glass or plastic sheet intended to be an interior glazing with a third main face F3, oriented toward the second internal main face F2, and a fourth internal main face F4
wherein:
the first glass sheet exhibits a content by weight of total iron oxide of at most 0.05%,
the second glass or plastic sheet exhibits a traversing hole in a thickness of the second glass or plastic sheet, with a width W1 which is at least centimetric,
the laminated glazing exhibits, under said traversing hole on a side of the second internal main face F2, a selective filter which absorbs in a visible region and which is transparent at at least one working wavelength in an infrared region in a range extending from 800 nm to 1800 nm, said selective filter having a main surface that is positioned to face the traversing hole,
opposite said traversing hole, the laminated glazing that faces the traversing hole exhibits:
a total transmission of at least 80% at the working wavelength, measured at 90°, and
a total transmission of at most 10% in the visible region.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selective filter extends beyond said traversing hole.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selective filter extends beyond said traversing hole, wherein the selective filter exhibits at least one local opening or discontinuity to allow passage of light rays.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a peripheral opaque masking layer in a region of said traversing hole, the peripheral opaque masking layer exhibiting a gap in line with said traversing hole and optionally along an edge of the traversing hole, and wherein along the edge of the traversing hole the selective filter being opposite the peripheral opaque masking layer.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selective filter is in contact with a masking layer which is in the form of at least one coating on one of at least one of the first glass sheet and second glass or plastic sheet and/or on the lamination interlayer.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second internal main face F2 opposite a zone of said traversing hole comprises at least one polymer film which comprises at least two functions chosen from the following: selective filter, heating, antireflection, breakage-prevention.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein, under said traversing hole, the selective filter is bonded to the second internal main face F2.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selective filter extends beyond said traversing hole into a border zone of said traversing hole, and in said border zone of said traversing hole the selective filter is bonded to the second internal main face F2.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein, opposite said traversing hole, the vehicle laminated glazing further comprises at least one functional polymer film transparent at the working wavelength chosen from: a selective filter film, a safety film of at least 150 μm, a heating film, an AR film, optionally several of said films being adhesively bonded by a PSA adhesive, the at least one functional polymer film being bonded to the second internal main face F2.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, comprising at least one polymer film of submillimetric thickness: with a front main face F′A, oriented toward the second internal main face F2, and an opposite rear main face F′B, the at least one polymer film being transparent at said working wavelength, the at least one polymeric film being bonded to the second internal main face F2 which is bare or with a functional coating opposite said traversing hole, the at least one polymeric film being bonded following one at least of the following configurations:
a) via an adhesion layer,
b) via a polymer local front band in adhesive contact with the second internal main face F2 opposite said traversing hole, or
c) via the lamination interlayer,
and/or wherein said at least one polymer film or another polymer film above said at least one polymer film and bonded to said at least one polymer film is bonded, according to one at least of the following configurations, to the third main face F3:
m) via an adhesion layer,
n) via a polymer local rear band, which is in adhesive contact with the third main face F3 in a border zone of said traversing hole, or
o) via the lamination interlayer.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in the claim 10, wherein the polymer local front and/or rear local band is based on poly(vinyl butyral) (PVB) containing less than 15% by weight of plasticizers.

### Claim 12 (depends on 10)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 10, wherein the lamination interlayer exhibits a partial or traversing interlayer hole in its thickness under said traversing hole, wherein the vehicle laminated glazing comprises at least under said interlayer hole a multilayer which comprises: a first PVB layer in adhesive contact with the second internal main face F2 forming the polymer local front band/at least one polymer film forming or forming part of said selective filter or a stack of polymer films/a second PVB layer holed in line with said traversing hole forming said polymer local rear band, and wherein the polymer local front band is in adhesive contact with the lamination interlayer.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lamination interlayer exhibit a partial or traversing hole in its thickness facing said traversing hole, optionally with a size of less than at most 5 mm in said traversing hole.

### Claim 14 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lamination interlayer is a multilayer which comprises a first PVB layer in adhesive contact with the second internal main face F2/a polymer film forming or forming part of said selective filter/a second PVB layer holed in line with said traversing hole, the polymer film optionally carrying a solar control layer apart from said traversing hole.

### Claim 15 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selective filter comprises a polymeric film comprising:
a bulk-coloring agent, said bulk-coloring agent absorbing the light located in said visible region and being transparent at said working wavelength, and/or
coated with a coloring layer made of a compound comprising a matrix and a coloring agent dispersed in said matrix, said coloring agent absorbing light located in said visible region and being transparent at said working wavelength.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selective filter comprises a coloring layer made of a compound comprising a matrix and a coloring agent dispersed in said matrix, said coloring agent absorbing light located in said visible region and being transparent at said working wavelength, the coloring layer forming, in a zone of said hole, a coating:
on the second internal main face F2, or
on the lamination interlayer, or
on an additional polymeric film, on the second or third main face with a thickness of at most 0.3 mm or 0.15 mm.

### Claim 17 (depends on 15)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 15, wherein the compound of the coloring layer is polymeric or organic/inorganic hybrid.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 17, wherein the coloring agent represents between 0.1% and 10% by weight of the coloring layer.

### Claim 19 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, comprising, on a free surface of an element under said traversing hole, a coating antireflective at at least said working wavelength in the infrared region, with a free surface
the element being chosen from one at least of the following elements:
a polymeric film,
the lamination interlayer,
a coloring layer of said selective filter.

### Claim 20 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, comprising a plate adhesively bonded on the fourth internal main face F4 comprising a hole in line with said traversing hole.

### Claim 21 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, comprising, in the traversing hole, an insert.

### Claim 22 (depends on 1)

A vehicle comprising the vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1 claims, in particular forming a windshield.

### Claim 23 (depends on 1)

A device comprising:
said vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, and
a system for infrared viewing at said working wavelength positioned in a passenger compartment behind said vehicle laminated glazing so as to send and/or receive radiation after passing through the first glass sheet at a level of said traversing hole.

### Claim 24 (depends on 2)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 2, wherein, from an outside, the selective filter extends an opaque masking layer for said glazing or masks a gap in an peripheral opaque masking layer of said glazing.

### Claim 25 (depends on 24)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 24, wherein the selective filter is defined by an L*1, a*1, b*1 and the opaque masking layer being defined by an L*2, a*2, b*2, wherein a colorimetric difference ΔE* is <4, where ΔE*=√((L*1−L*2)2+(a*1−a*2)2+(b*1−b*2)2).

### Claim 26 (depends on 16)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 16, wherein the coating is ink additionally comprising PVB particles.

### Claim 27

A laminated glazing for a vehicle, the laminated glazing of given thickness and comprising:
a first glass sheet intended to be an exterior glazing with a first external main face F1 and a second internal main face F2;
a lamination interlayer made of polymer material with a main face FA oriented toward the second internal main face F2 and with a main face FB opposite to the main face FA, of given thickness E3, and
a second glass or plastic sheet intended to be an interior glazing with a third main face F3, oriented toward the second internal main face F2, and a fourth internal main face F4
wherein:
the first glass sheet exhibits a content by weight of total iron oxide of at most 0.05%,
the second glass or plastic sheet exhibits a traversing hole in a thickness of the second glass or plastic sheet, with a width W1 which is at least centimetric,
the laminated glazing exhibits, under said traversing hole on a side of the second internal main face F2, a selective filter which absorbs in a visible region and which is transparent at at least one working wavelength in an infrared region in a range extending from 800 nm to 1800 nm, said selective filter having a main surface that is positioned to face the traversing hole,
opposite said traversing hole, a portion of the laminated glazing that faces the traversing hole exhibits:
a total transmission of at least 80% at the working wavelength, measured at 90° , and
a total transmission of at most 10% in the visible region, and
wherein the second glass sheet exhibits a content by weight of total iron oxide of at least 0.40%.

### Claim 28 (depends on 1)

The vehicle laminated glazing as claimed in claim 1, when at least a portion of the lamination interlayer or another interlayer is arranged between said main surface and the second glass or plastic sheet.