Heating element and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10412788-B2
Application number	US-201514842428-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 1, 2015
Priority date	Jun 13, 2008
Publication date	Sep 10, 2019
Grant date	Sep 10, 2019

Abstract

Provided are a heating element, which includes: a transparent substance; a conductive heating line that is provided on at least one side of the transparent substance; bus bars that is electrically connected to the conductive heating line; and a power portion that is connected to the bus bars, wherein 30% or more of the entire area of the transparent substance has a conductive heating line pattern in which, when the straight line that intersects the conductive heating line is drawn, a ratio (distance distribution ratio) of standard deviation in respects to an average value of distances between adjacent intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line is 5% or more, and a method for manufacturing the same.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A heating element comprising:
a transparent substance;
a conductive heating line that is provided on at least one side of the transparent substance; and
a bus bars that is electrically connected to the conductive heating line,
wherein 30% or more of the entire area of the transparent substance has a conductive heating line pattern in which, when a straight line that intersects the conductive heating line is drawn, a ratio of a standard deviation of distances between adjacent intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line to an average value of distances between adjacent intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line is 5% or more, and
wherein the conductive heating line pattern comprises shapes with linked vertexes after a basic unit of a regular polygon is designated and positions of each vertex of the polygon is randomly changed within a unit area that has a circular shape with the vertex of the polygon as its center and a length of any one side of the polygon as its diameter.

2. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein the straight line that intersects the conductive heating line is a line in which the standard deviation of the distances between adjacent intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line is the smallest value.

3. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein the straight line that intersects the conductive heating line is a straight line that vertically extends in respects to a tangent line of any one point of the conductive heating line.

4. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein the straight line that intersects the conductive heating line has 80 or more intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line.

5. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio of a standard deviation of distances between adjacent intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line to an average value of distances between adjacent intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line is 20% or more.

6. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein the conductive heating line has a boundary pattern of figure that form a Voronoi diagram.

7. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein in the conductive heating line, a line width is from 2 micrometers to 100 micrometers, an interval between lines is from 50 micrometers to 30 mm, and a height of the line from the surface of the transparent substance is in the range of 1 to 100 micrometers.

8. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein another transparent substance is further provided on a side on which the conductive heating line of the transparent substance is provided.

9. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein a transmittance deviation of a predetermined circle that has a diameter of 20 cm is 5% or less.

10. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein the transparent substance is glass, plastic substrate or plastic film.

11. The heating element according to claim 1 , wherein in the heating element, an opening ratio is 70% or more, a surface resistance is 5 ohm/square or less, and a heating amount is 100 to 500 W per m 2 .

12. The heating element as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the heating element includes at least two areas that have different patterns that are configured by the conductive heating line.

13. The heating element as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the heating element includes an area in which the conductive heating line is not formed.

14. The heating element as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the conductive heating line is blackened.

15. The heating element as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the heating element is for a front window of a vehicle.

16. The heating element as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the standard deviation value of the intensity of light for each 5° in a circumferential direction of the light source which is measured when the light emitted from the light source that is disposed at the distance of 7 m from the heating element passes through the heating element is 15 or less.

17. The heating element as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the polygon is a triangle, a rectangle, a square, a direct hexagon, or a regular hexagon.

18. A method for manufacturing a heating element, the method comprising:
forming a conductive heating line on a transparent substance; and
forming a bus bars that is electrically connected to the conductive heating line,
wherein, on 30% or more of the entire area of the transparent substance, the heating line is formed in a pattern in which, when a straight line that intersects the conductive heating line pattern is drawn, a ratio of a standard deviation of distances between adjacent intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line pattern to an average value of distances between adjacent intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line is 5% or more,
wherein the conductive heating line pattern comprises shapes with linked vertexes after a basic unit of a regular polygon is designated and positions of each vertex of the polygon is randomly changed within a unit area that has a circular shape with the vertex of the polygon as its center and a length of any one side of the polygon as its diameter.

19. The method for manufacturing a heating element according to claim 18 , wherein the conductive heating line is formed by using a printing method, a photolithography method, a photography method, a method using a mask, a sputtering method, or an inkjet method.

20. The method for manufacturing a heating element according to claim 18 , wherein in the conductive heating line, a line width is from 2 micrometers to 100 micrometers, an interval between lines is from 50 micrometers to 30 mm, and a height of the line from the surface of the transparent substance is in the range of 1 to 100 micrometers.

21. A heating element comprising:
a transparent substance;
a conductive heating line that is provided on at least one side of the transparent substance; and
a bus bars that is electrically connected to the conductive heating line,
wherein 30% or more of the entire area of the transparent substance has a conductive heating line pattern that is formed of closed figures,
wherein a distribution is continuous and a ratio of a standard deviation of areas of the closed figures to an average value of the areas of the closed figures is 5% or more,
wherein the conductive heating line pattern comprises polygonal shapes with linked vertexes after a basic unit of a regular polygon is designated and positions of each vertex of the polygon is randomly changed within a unit area that has a circular shape with the vertex of the polygon as its center and a length of any one side of the polygon as its diameter, or
wherein the conductive heating line pattern comprises polygonal shapes modified so that changed center points of mass become new center points of mass after a basic unit of a regular polygon is designated and positions of the center points of mass of the polygon are randomly changed in the polygon.

22. The heating element according to claim 21 , wherein 30% or more of the entire area of the transparent substance has a conductive heating line pattern that is formed of closed figures wherein a distribution is continuous and a ratio of a standard deviation of areas of the closed figures to an average value of the areas

Assignees

• Lg Chemical Ltd

Inventors

• Choi Hyeon
• Kim Su-Jin
• Hwang Ji-Young
• Oh Seung-Tae
• Kim Ki-Hwan
• Chun Sang-Ki
• Hong Young-Jun
• Hwang In-Seok
• Lee Dong-Wook

Classifications

• H05B2203/013

  Heaters using resistive films or coatings · CPC title

• H05B2214/04

  Heating means manufactured by using nanotechnology · CPC title

• H05B2203/002

  Heaters using a particular layout for the resistive material or resistive elements · CPC title

• H05B3/145

  Carbon only, e.g. carbon black, graphite · CPC title

• H05B2203/011

  Heaters using laterally extending conductive material as connecting means · CPC title