Flachglas Aktiengesellschaft

Franz-Josef Schmitte

Rolf Groth

Method for the manufacture of a toughened and/or bent glass pane of soda-lime-silica glass with reduced transmission for solar radiation, in which to at least one side of the transparent glass carrier is applied a metal layer of platinum, iridium or optionally rhodium, alloys of these metals or metal alloys with a majority content of at least one of these metals in a thickness such that the light transmittance of the laminate formed from the glass carrier and the metal layer is between 10 and 90%, particularly between 30 and 90% of that of the glass carrier alone and a toughening and/or bending process is performed in air at a temperature of 580.degree. to 680.degree. C., preferably 600.degree. to 650.degree. C., whereby the metal layer is applied to the substantially flat glass carrier before the toughening and/or bending process and on the side of the metal layer remote from the glass carrier an oxide stabilizing layer from or with a majority content of at least one metal oxide or mixed metal oxide, preferably from the group Bi, In, Ni, Sb, Sn, Ta, Ti and Zn is applied with a thickness of 2 to 20 nm before the toughening and/or bending process.

Method for the manufacture of a toughened and/or bent pane with solar

Process for the manufacture of a toughened and/or bent sheet of soda-lime silica glass with reduced transmission, in particular a solar control glass sheet, wherein at least one transmission-reducing coating having a considerable content of a metal or a metal alloy from the elements with atomic numbers 22 to 28 in the periodic table is applied in such a thickness on at least one side of a transparent glass base that the light transmission of the glass carrier provided with the transmission-reducing coating is between 10 and 90% of that of the glass base alone, and a thermal toughening and/or bending process is carried out in air at a temperature of 580.degree. C. to 680.degree. C., preferably 600.degree. C. to 650.degree. C., whereby the transmission-reducing coating is produced by magnetron cathode sputtering before the thermal toughening and/or bending process means of the joint application of the metal or metal alloy from the elements with atomic numbers 22 to 28 and of silicon as a metal silicide coating with a silicon content of at least 45 atom %.

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Franz-Josef Schmitte