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US 5,707,695 AGranted
Bilaminate window glass assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorNarayanan Ramanujam
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Abstract
A bilaminate window glass assembly for an automotive vehicle includes at least one pane forming a window glass, a non-breakable frame disposed adjacent about at least a portion of a perimeter of the pane and a panel bonded to one side of the frame and the pane to form a bilaminate window glass.
Claims9
A vehicle door for an automotive vehicle comprising:
- an inner panel;
- an outer panel joined to said inner panel and forming a space therebetween;
- a bilaminate window glass disposed in the space between said inner panel and said outer panel and comprising at least one pane forming window glass and a frame disposed adjacent about at least a portion of a perimeter of said at least one pane and fixed to said at least one pane;
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- a channel having a core disposed around a door opening in the automotive vehicle and engaging top and side edges of said bilaminate window glass to form a seal therebetween, said channel having at least one downstanding flange on an outer side of said core spaced from and overlapping an outer side of said frame of said bilaminate window glass for retaining said bilaminate window glass in a window opening of said vehicle door when impacted from inside an occupant compartment of the automotive vehicle.
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A vehicle door for an automotive vehicle comprising:
- an inner panel;
- an outer panel joined to said inner panel and forming a space therebetween;
- a bilaminate window glass disposed in the space between said inner panel and said outer panel, said bilaminate window glass having at least one pane of tempered glass, a non-breakable frame bonded to top and sides of a perimeter of said at least one pane and extending outwardly from the perimeter of said at least one pane, and a panel bonded to one side of said frame and said at least one pane;
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- a channel disposed around a window opening in the automotive vehicle and engaging top and sides of said bilaminate window glass to form a seal therebetween, said channel having at least one downstanding flange on an outer side thereof spaced from and overlapping an outer side of said frame of said bilaminate window glass.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.