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AssigneeSaint-Gobain Glass France
InventorsBenjamin KAPLAN, Klaus SCHMALBUCH, Stefan DROSTE, Christian EFFERTZ
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A laminated motor-vehicle windshield includes exterior glass sheet and an interior glass sheet, which sheets are joined together by an interlayer made of a thermoplastic of refractive index m. The windshield is equipped with a through-hole that passes through at least one of the glass sheets and may pass through the interlayer and wherein the hole is filled with an optical device that is suitable for deviating a light beam incident substantially horizontally on that face of the windshield which is exposed to the exterior of the vehicle and for making it converge, substantially without deformation, on an image-capturing device of a camera, such as a CCD or CMOS detector, placed facing that face of the windshield which is turned toward the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The detector is arranged substantially parallelly to the surface of the windshield.
A laminated motor-vehicle windshield comprising an exterior glass sheet and an interior glass sheet, which exterior and interior glass sheets are joined together by an interlayer made of a thermoplastic of refractive index n1, wherein said windshield is equipped with a through-hole that passes through at least one of said exterior and interior glass sheets and wherein said through-hole is filled with an optical device that is suitable for deviating a light beam incident substantially horizontally on a face of the windshield which is exposed to the exterior of the vehicle and for making the light beam converge, substantially without deformation, on an image-capturing device of a camera placed facing a face of the windshield which is turned toward the passenger compartment of the vehicle, said image-capturing device being arranged substantially parallelly to a surface of said windshield.
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