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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yuping Lin, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Assignee:
Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 1/700 ;
Abstract
A coated article is provided with a coating or layer system that includes at least one layer including a boride of zirconium and/or titanium sandwiched between at least a pair of dielectric layers. In certain example embodiments, the coating or layer system has good corrosion resistance, good mechanical performance such as scratch resistance, and/or good color stability (i.e., a low &Dgr;E* value(s)) upon heat treatment (HT).