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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. 07, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2003
Applicant:
Grzegorz Stachowiak, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Inventor:
Grzegorz Stachowiak, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A coated article is provided so as to include a solar control coating having an infrared (IR) reflecting layer sandwiched between at least a pair of dielectric layers. The IR reflecting layer includes niobium nitride (NbN). The use of niobium nitride enables the coated article to have good corrosion resistance to acid(s), good mechanical performance such as scratch resistance, and/or good color stability (i.e., a low ΔE* value(s)) upon heat treatment (HT). The coated article may be heat treated (e.g., thermally tempered) in certain example embodiments of the invention.