Vehicle dashboard
AssigneeAgc Glass Europe
InventorsLionel Ventelon, Grazia Laricchiuta
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Abstract
A veiling glare reduction system comprising a glass dashboard part providing increased driver visual comfort, particularly a glass dashboard part arranged so that light passing through the windshield and reflected off the glass dashboard surface is partly reflected by the inner windshield surface towards a driver position providing a reduced veiling glare. A head up display system provided with a glass dashboard part having reduced veiling glare is also provided.
Claims16
A veiling glare reduction system for a vehicle comprising:
- a windshield;
- and
- a dashboard,
- wherein the windshield comprises an inner surface and an outer surface;
- wherein the windshield allows light to pass therethrough,
- wherein the dashboard is a glass dashboard comprising a part that reflects the light passing through the windshield;
- and
- wherein the part of the glass dashboard comprises a first surface that faces the windshield and is etched and ion implanted.
A method of reducing veiling glare in a vehicle with a windshield and a glass dashboard part, comprising:
- passing light through the windshield;
- allowing the light passing through the windshield to strike the glass dashboard part surface and be reflected by the glass dashboard part surface;
- and
- diffusing the light reflected by the glass dashboard part comprising a glass substrate by providing the glass substrate with a first surface that is etched and ion implanted and has a surface roughness and comprises implanted ions within a layer within the substrate and adjacent to the first substrate surface such that the light is diffusively reflected from the glass dashboard part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.