Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Mizuki Ito

Takashi Kijima

Toru Kudo

Akira Kondo

Fumio Kamei

Glass having low solar radiation and ultraviolet ray transmittance, which consists essentially of a soda lime-silica type matrix glass containing from 0.53 to 0.70 wt % of total iron calculated as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, from 0.2 to 0.4 wt % of TiO.sub.2 and from 0.5 to 0.8 wt % of total cerium calculated as CeO.sub.2, wherein the weight of FeO calculated as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 is from 30 to 40% of the weight of the total iron calculated as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3.

Glass having low solar radiation and ultraviolet ray transmittance

A deep gray colored glass comprising 100 parts by weight of matrix components and coloring components consisting essentially of: from 0.8 to 1.4 parts by weight of total iron calculated as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, at most 0.21 part by weight of FeO, from 0.05 to 1.0 part by weight of TiO.sub.2, from 0.0005 to 0.015 part by weight of Se and from 0.02 to 0.05 part by weight of CoO, wherein the matrix components comprise from 65 to 75 wt % of SiO.sub.2, from 0.1 to 5.0 wt % of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, from 10 to 18 wt % of Na.sub.2 O+K.sub.2 O, from 5 to 15 wt % of CaO, from 1 to 6 wt % of MgO and from 0.05 to 1.0 wt % of SO.sub.3.

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Yokohama, Japan

Mizuki Ito