Heatable vehicle window with different voltages in different heatable zones
AssigneeCentre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.)
InventorsJean-Marc Sol, Herve Lagrue
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AssigneeCentre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.)
InventorsJean-Marc Sol, Herve Lagrue
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A heatable vehicle window includes a bottom bus bar and a plurality of top bus bars. Voltages or electric potentials applied to the top bus bars are different, so that a first one of the top bus bars is at a given electric potential and another one of the top bus bars is at another electric potential (i.e., the voltages/potentials are offset from one another). The degree to which the top bus bar voltages/potentials are offset relative to one another is a function of the distance each respective bus bar is from the bottom bus bar across the heatable layer(s). Given a substantially continuous heatable layer(s), this can in certain example embodiments enable approximately uniform heating of the window (e.g., laminated vehicle windshield, laminated vehicle backlite, or laminated vehicle sidelite).
A heatable vehicle window comprising:
A heatable vehicle window comprising:
A method of heating a vehicle window including first and second substrates laminated to one another via at least one interlayer, with at least one heatable conductive layer supported by said first substrate, the method comprising:
A vehicle window comprising:
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