Saint-gobain Vitrage

Michael Hassiepen

Gerd Sauer

Manfred-Andreas Beeck

Bernd Stoffregen

Detlev Rebenstorff

Armin Felske

Gunter Ortmans

A windshield (1) for motor vehicles provided with a reflecting arrangement (6) for making optical information or signals visible to the driver of the vehicle; said information or signals being made recognizable in the same field of view as is suitable for the observation of traffic and the road ahead by said driver. According to the invention, the reflecting arrangement (6) is a hologram with the characteristic of a mirror. The angle of reflection .alpha. of the holographic mirror is different from the angle of reflection .beta. of the surface of the glass upon which said hologram is mounted. As a result the rays R' reflected from the surface of the glass do not reach the eye (8) of the observer, whereas the rays R reflected from the holographic mirror do. In the case of a bent windshield, a hologram with the function of a flat mirror will be disposed on a carrier layer curved corresponding to the shape of the windshield so that even in the case of bent windshields, the reflected image of the optical signals or information is free of aberrations.

Windshield reflector for imaging signals into view of driver

A fire resistant glazing comprising at least two parallel glass sheets, frame means for separating each of said sheets one from another by a predetermined distance and defining an intermediate space therebetween which is sealed at the periphery of the glass sheets and a hydrogel substantially filling said intermediate space, said hydrogel comprising about 70-90% by weight of water, about 10-30% by weight of a water soluble salt and, as an additive, from about 0.2 to about 2.0% by weight, in relation to the amount of water soluble salt, of a water soluble anticorrosive compound. The anticorrosive compound may be an alkali phosphate, an alkali tungstate or an alkali molybdate.

Fire-resistant glazing and method of making same

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Michael Hassiepen