Agc Glass Europe

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Agc Automotive Americas R&d, Inc.

Peter Masschelein

Romain Dacquin

Jean-Michel Depauw

Jesus Gedde

Jun Noda

Jacques Dumont

Laurent Goutiere

Kenichiro Shimo

Fredrick M Schaible

Zoltan Kazik

Tatuo Yajima

An electrically heatable glazing panel including a substrate and at least a first electrically heatable zone including: (i) a substantially transparent, electrically conductive coating layer, (ii) at least first and second spaced bus bars substantially parallel and configured to supply electrical voltage across the substantially transparent, electrically conductive coating layer, and (iii) a conductive pathway defined between the at least the first and the second busbars. The glazing panel further includes a conductive pathway provided by a pattern of coated and decoated regions in the substantially transparent electrically conductive coating layer of electrically heatable zone to affect electrical resistivity of the coating in the first electrically heatable coated zone.

Heatable glazing panel

A laminated automotive glazing unit including two glass sheets joined by a thermoplastic interlayer sheet, a system of conductive layers applied to one of the sheets, and including on an edge of the same sheet a substantially opaque masking strip, making contact with the glass sheet, the system of conductive layers covering at least partially the masking strip. The glazing unit further includes busbars for supplying electrical power, the busbars making contact with the layer system in the portion covering the masking strip. The masking strip includes a set of layers that absorb visible radiation, the layers being formed by cathodic sputtering.

Heating glazing unit

The invention relates to a laminated motor vehicle glass panel which consists of two glass sheets joined by means of an intermediate sheet, the glass panel comprising a system of heated layers which is applied to one of the sheets and, to the edge of the same sheet, a substantially opaque masking strip, in contact with the glass sheet, the system of heated conductive layers at least partially covering the masking strip. The glass panel further comprises power supply busbars in contact with the system of layers in the portion covering the masking strip, characterized in that the masking strip has a roughness no greater than 0.5&#x3bc; and preferably no greater than 0.1&#x3bc;.

Heated glass panel

A heated laminated windscreen including two sheets of glass joined by an inserted sheet, and including a system of conductive layers covering most of a surface of one glass sheet of the windscreen. The system is electrically powered by busbars at a top and bottom of the windscreen, with windows which are devoid of layers arranged at the top in the middle of the windscreen. The windscreen further including at least one additional busbar arranged laterally on edges and at the top of the windscreen.

Heated windscreen

A window assembly includes a substrate with an electrically conductive transparent layer that defines an area having a periphery. An outer region devoid of the transparent layer is defined adjacent to and along the periphery. An elongated antenna element is disposed in the outer region. A feeding element couples to the antenna element for energizing the antenna element. The area of the transparent layer defines at least two protrusions being spaced apart from one another and extending integrally from the area and into the outer region. The antenna element abuts and is in direct electrical contact with the at least two protrusions. The feeding element couples to the antenna element at a location between the at least two protrusions or at one of the at least two protrusions.

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Huldenberg, Belgium

Peter Masschelein