Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Terufusa Kunisada

Etsuo Ogino

Kenichi Nakama

Tetsuo Minaai

Osamu Asano

Yukinari Sekiguchi

Isao Muraguchi

Koji Nakanishi

Katsuhide Shimmo

Toshiaki Anzaki

Satoru Kusaka

Shinji Kawamoto

Chihiro Sakai

Yasunori Taninaka

A heat insulating and shielding glass panel that is capable of maintaining heat shielding performance even if heat treatment is carried out during manufacture. The heat insulating and shielding glass panel 1 is comprised of a pair of glass plates 11 and 12 that are hermetically joined together at their outer peripheral edges via a sealing frame 13 that fluidizes at low temperature, such that respective one surfaces of the glass plates 11, 12 face each other and a hollow layer 14 is formed between the glass plates; and pillars 15 that are substantially cylindrical spacers that are inserted into the hollow layer 14 as atmospheric pressure supporting members and determine the gap between the glass plates 11 and 12. A low-emission transparent multilayer 17 having an emittance of not more than 0.1 is coated by sputtering on each of surfaces 11and 12of the respective glass plates 11 and 12 facing the hollow layer 14 so as to realize high heat insulation performance. The low-emission transparent multilayer 17 is comprised of ZnO layers 33 and 35 as dielectric layers separated from each other in the direction of film thickness by an SiNx layer 34 as an amorphous layer, and an Ag&#x2014;Pd layer 32 as a metal layer containing Ag and Pd.

Heat insulating and shielding glass panel

A polarizing filter has a laminate structure: wherein one to four layers of first dielectric thin filmsand one to four layers of second dielectric thin filmsare alternately laminated on a transparent flat substrateto form the laminate structure, the layers of second dielectric thin filmshaving a refractive index lower than that of the first dielectric thin filmswith respect to the wavelength of incident light; wherein one layer of the third dielectric thin filmhaving a refractive index intermediate between the refractive indices of the first and second dielectric thin films with respect to the wavelength of incident light is laminated on a surface of the laminate structure. In an optical device using the polarizing filter, the angle of incidence is set to be in a range of from 20 to 70 degrees.

Polarizing filter and optical device using the same

A thin-film structure includes plate-shaped metals or plate-shaped structures in which a plate-shaped metal and a plate-shaped dielectric are in contact. The plate-shaped metal or structures are formed on a transparent base having a surface with line-shaped corrugated structures. The plate-shaped metals or structures are perpendicular to or oblique to the surface of the base. The thin-film structure has characteristics suitable for polarizers used in liquid crystal projectors and the like.

Thin-film structure and method for producing the same

A reflection type diffraction grating according to the present invention has a structure in which a metal film as a first layer with reflectance not lower than 30% with respect to the wavelength of incident light and a transparent dielectric film as a second layer are laminated successively on the surface of the reflection type diffraction grating. With respect to the wavelength of incident light, the metal film has a refractive index selected to be not higher than 1.5 and an extinction coefficient selected to be not smaller than 6.0. The transparent dielectric film has a refractive index selected to be in a range of from 1.30 to 1.46, both inclusively, with respect to the wavelength of incident light and has an optical film thickness selected to be in a range of from 0.20&#x3bb; to 0.38&#x3bb;, both inclusively, when &#x3bb; is the wavelength of incident light.

Reflection type diffraction grating

A heat insulating/heat shielding glass panel is produced by forming a functional film on a sheet of plate glass, which film is high in solar radiation reflectance, small in solar radiation absorptivity, and has emissivity of 0.20 or less, superposing another sheet of plate glass on the side of the functional film, and adhesively sealing the two sheets of plate glass, under the condition that a gap layer is provided between the two sheets of plate glass. Accordingly, there is obtained a glass panel which has a sufficient heat insulating performance and a sufficient heat shielding performance, and in which no warping is generated even when suffering the solar radiation.

A solar-shading light-transmissive panel has a light-transmissive sheet, an absorbing layer disposed on said light-transmissive sheet, a first transparent dielectric layer disposed on said absorbing layer, an Ag-rich layer comprising Ag as a main component disposed on said first transparent dielectric layer, and a second transparent dielectric layer disposed on said Ag-rich layer. The solar-shading light-transmissive panel, which basically has the four layers and can be manufactured relatively inexpensively, has an ornamentally excellent appearance, a relatively high solar-shalding capability, and a relatively high visible light transmittance.

Solar-shading light-transmissive panel and solar-shading multi-layer light-transmissive panel using same

A sunlight shielding translucent glass panel has a transparent glass sheet, an absorbing layer disposed on the transparent glass sheet, and transparent dielectric films and mainly Ag films that are alternately arranged on the absorbing layer.

Sunlight shielding translucent glass panel and sunlight shielding translucent multilayer glass panel assembly

An electromagnetic wave filter for a plasma display panel which is effective in preventing incorrect actions of a remote control of appliances, comprising a transparent substrate, a light transmitting electromagnetic wave shield film, and a resin protective film, wherein the electromagnetic wave shield film is a 7-layered laminate in which a dielectric layer and a metal layer containing silver as the principal ingredient are laminated alternately with the dielectric layer being the first to be provided on the transparent substrate, the dielectric layer has a refractive index of 1.6 to 2.8 at 550 nm, and the metal layer containing silver as the principal ingredient contains 0.1 atomic % or more and less than 0.5 atomic % of palladium based on silver and has a thickness of 5 to 25 nm, whereby the electromagnetic wave shield film has a sheet resistance of 3 &OHgr;/&square; or lower and a near infrared transmission of 20% or lower at 850 nm.

Electromagnetic wave filter for plasma display panel

A face panel for a cathode-ray tube is coated with an antireflection film by forming, on the outer surface thereof in this order, a 44.9 nm-thick praseodymium titanate film as a first layer, a 4.9 nm-thick film of a nickel-iron alloy as a second layer, a 53.4 nm-thick praseodymium titanate film as a third layer, a 3.9 nm-thick film of a nickel-iron alloy as a fourth layer, a 20.6 nm-thick praseodymium titanate film as a fifth layer, and an 84.7 nm-thick magnesium fluoride film as a sixth layer. This coated face panel is free from the problem that conventional cathode-ray tube face panels coated on the outer surface with an antireflection film comprising superposed metal films and transparent dielectric films make the cathode-ray tubes exhibit double images although effective in diminishing the reflection of external light on the surface of the cathode-ray tubes and in enhancing display contrast. The cathode-ray tube using the face panel coated with the specific antireflection film does not exhibit double images, is prevented from suffering static buildup on its surface or from reflecting external light thereon, and can attain higher image contrast.

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Osaka, Japan

Terufusa Kunisada