Central Glass Company, Limited

Nobuyuki Takeuchi

Yasunobu Iida

Masato Nakamura

Hiroshi Nakashima

Koichi Furuya

Hiroyuki Nishii

Toshiaki Itoh

Junichi Suzuki

Keiji Onishi

The invention provides a heat reflecting glass plate with a six-layer coating excellent in optical characteristics and also in durability on a transparent glass plate. The coating consists of (1) a metal oxide film deposited on the glass surface, (2) a metal nitride or oxynitride film deposited on the oxide film, (3) a metal film of Ti, Zr, Ta, Cr, Ni-Cr or stainless steel deposited on the nitride or oxynitride film to a thickness of 30-150 .ANG., (4) a metal nitride or oxynitride film overlying the metal film, (5) a metal oxide film overlying the film (4) and (6) a film of an oxide or oxynitride of Si-Al, Si-Ti or a film of aluminum nitride or oxynitride deposited on the film (5) to a thickness greater than 300 .ANG.. The metal for the oxide films (1) and (5) is Ti, Zr, Ta, Sn or Cr, and the metal for the nitride or oxynitride films (2) and (4) is Ti, Zr, Ta, Cr, Ni-Cr or stainless steel. Each of the oxide films (1) and (5) is 200-1000 .ANG. in thickness, and each of the nitride or oxynitride films (2) and (4) is 300-200 .ANG. in thickness. The heat reflecting glass plate is not lower than 30% in transmittance for visible light, not higher than 60% in transmittance for solar radiation and not higher than 20% in reflectance for visible light.

Neat reflecting glass with multilayer coating

The invention provides a heat insulating glass plate with a multilayer coating which is fairly low in transmittance for solar radiation and fairly high in transmittance for the visible light and also for radio waves. The multilayer coating is a lamination of transparent and dielectric layers and has three essential layers in which the middle layer is higher or lower in refractivity than the inner and outer layers. The coating may have five layers in which the second and fourth layers are higher or lower in refractivity than the remaining three layers. Each layer of the multilayer coating is a metal compound film deposited by sputtering or CVD. In a first embodiment of the three-layer coating each of the inner and outer layers is formed of SnO.sub.x, ZrO.sub.x, TaO.sub.x or AlN.sub.x having a refractive index of 1.8-2.1 and the middle layer is formed of TiO.sub.x having a refractive index of 2.2-2.5. In a second embodiment, each of the inner and outer layers is formed of SnO.sub.x, TiO.sub.x, ZrO.sub.x, TaO.sub.x, ZnO.sub.x, AlN.sub.x or SiN.sub.x having a refractive index of 1.8-2.5 and the middle layer is formed of SiO.sub.x, AlO.sub.x or Si.AlO.sub.x having a refractive index of 1.4-1.7. The heat insulating glass plates are useful as vehicle window glasses, and the second embodiment of the multilayer coating is very suitable for use in laminated glass.

Heat insulating glass with dielectric multilayer coating

The invention provides a heat reflecting glass plate with a multilayer coating on a transparent glass plate. The multilayer coating comprises a film of indium-tin oxide (ITO) of Al=N deposited on the glass surface, a heat reflective film of Ag or Cu deposited on the ITO or AlN film to a thickness of 40-200 .ANG., a metal Zn film deposited on the Ag or Cu film to a thickness of 20-200 .ANG. and an ITO or AlN film as the outermost layer. The multilayer coating may further comprise at least one set of the Ag or Cu film, metal Zn film and ITO or AlN film such that each Ag or Cu film overlies an ITO or AlN film and is overlaid with a metal Zn film and that the outermost layer is an ITO or AlN film. The multilayer coating is excellent in the fundamental characteristics as a heat reflecting and transparent coating and also in moisture resistance.

Heat reflecting glass plate with multilayer coating

A multilayer coating film is provided on one side of a transparent or semitransparent glass plate to afford a golden appearance to the coated glass plate at least when viewed from the uncoated side. Essentially the multilayer coating film is made up of a TiN layer adjacent to the glass plate surface and either a Ti layer or a Cr layer which overlies the TiN layer, and the coating film is formed such that the transmittance of the coated glass plate for visible light becomes not more than 40%. Optionally, the Ti or Cr layer is overlaid with either a TiO.sub.2 film or a Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 film. Also optionally, either a TiO.sub.2 film or a Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 film is interposed between the TiN layer and the glass plate surface. Each layer of the multilayer coating film can be formed by sputter deposition using a relatively simple method, an the multilayer coating has good durability.

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Ise, Japan

Nobuyuki Takeuchi