Vehicle windshield and vehicle component using same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10507709-B2
Application number	US-201815937141-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 27, 2018
Priority date	Oct 9, 2015
Publication date	Dec 17, 2019
Grant date	Dec 17, 2019

Abstract

Provided are a vehicle windshield equipped with a transparent film at a visual field area, where a negative effect on a driving visibility due to a boundary line between a forming area and a non-forming area of the transparent film is improved, and a vehicle component having the vehicle windshield. The vehicle windshield includes: a window plate; and a transparent film provided at a surface on a vehicle-interior side of the window plate, wherein the vehicle windshield includes a first area where the transparent film is not provided and a second area where the transparent film is provided, at a central area when viewed from a front side, and a boundary between the first area and the second area has no perspective distortion and is constituted by a boundary line having line width visually recognized by scattering of irradiated light of 10 μm to 200 μm.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle windshield, comprising:
a window plate; and
a transparent film provided at a surface on a vehicle-interior side of the window plate,
wherein the vehicle windshield includes a first area where the transparent film is not provided and a second area where the transparent film is provided, at a central area when viewed from a front side, and
a boundary between the first area and the second area has no perspective distortion and is constituted by a boundary line having line width visually recognized by scattering of irradiated light of 10 μm to 200 μm,
provided that presence or non-presence of the perspective distortion is determined by:
setting a test plate A and the vehicle windshield, wherein the test plate A has a grid pattern with an interval of 10 mm formed on a white background by 0.7 mm width black lines in which each black line forms an angle of 45 degrees with respect to a lower side of the test plate A, such that a surface of the test plate A on which the grid pattern is formed and a surface of the vehicle windshield on a side where the transparent film is not formed are in parallel with each other with a distance of 20 mm;
photographing the surface of the test plate A on which the grid pattern is formed through the vehicle windshield with a camera provided at a distance of 150 mm from a surface of the vehicle windshield on a side where the transparent film is formed such that the boundary line between the coating area and the non-coating area is located approximately at a center in a photographing area; and
determining that the perspective distortion is present when deformation or discontinuity is visually recognized in the grid pattern, and the perspective distortion is not present when neither the deformation nor the discontinuity is visually recognized in the grid pattern.

2. The vehicle windshield according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first area of the vehicle windshield is located diagonally above when viewed from a driver when the vehicle windshield is mounted on a vehicle.

3. The vehicle windshield according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least a part of the boundary line is provided along at least a part of an upper side of the window plate of the vehicle windshield.

4. The vehicle windshield according to claim 1 ,
wherein a whole of the boundary line is provided along an upper side of the window plate of the vehicle windshield.

5. The vehicle windshield according to claim 3 ,
wherein the line width of the boundary line differs according to a position in a vehicle width direction.

6. The vehicle windshield according to claim 1 ,
wherein the transparent film is an antifogging film containing at least one kind selected from the group consisting of an epoxy resin, a urethane resin, and an acrylic resin.

7. The vehicle windshield according to claim 1 ,
wherein a film thickness of the transparent film becomes thicker toward a lower part.

8. The vehicle windshield according to claim 1 ,
wherein the window plate includes a light-shielding area at a peripheral part.

9. The vehicle windshield according to claim 8 ,
wherein a part of an end part of the transparent film is formed to overlap with the light-shielding area.

10. The vehicle windshield according to claim 1 ,
wherein the window plate includes a first light transmissive substrate, a second light transmissive substrate facing the first light transmissive substrate, and an interlayer sandwiched between the first light transmissive substrate and the second light transmissive substrate.

11. The vehicle windshield according to claim 1 ,
wherein the boundary between the first area and the second area is constituted by the boundary line whose line width visually recognized by scattering of irradiated light is 10 μm to 150 μm.

12. A vehicle component, comprising:
the vehicle windshield according to claim 1 ; and
a sensor acquiring information from a vehicle front side through the vehicle windshield,
wherein the sensor is attached to the vehicle-interior side of the second area of the vehicle windshield.

13. A vehicle windshield, comprising:
a window plate;
a light-shielding area provided at a peripheral part of the window plate; and
one or more transparent films provided at a surface on a vehicle-interior side of the window plate,
wherein the light-shielding area includes a sensor light transmission area which is cut out into a shape whose periphery is surrounded by the light-shielding area, at least one transparent film among the one or more transparent films is provided such that a whole outer periphery is located in the sensor light transmission area, and an end part of the at least one transparent film provided at the sensor light transmission area has no perspective distortion and is constituted by a boundary line having line width visually recognized by scattering of irradiated light of 10 μm to 200 μm,
provided that presence or non-presence of the perspective distortion is determined by:
setting a test plate A and the vehicle windshield, wherein the test plate A has a grid pattern with an interval of 10 mm formed on a white background by 0.7 mm width black lines in which each black line forms an angle of 45 degrees with respect to a lower side of the test plate A, such that a surface of the test plate A on which the grid pattern is formed and a surface of the vehicle windshield on a side where the transparent film is not formed are in parallel with each other with a distance of 20 mm;
photographing the surface of the test plate A on which the grid pattern is formed through the vehicle windshield with a camera provided at a distance of 150 mm from a surface of the vehicle windshield on a side where the transparent film is formed such that the boundary line between the coating area and the non-coating area is located approximately at a center in a photographing area; and
determining that the perspective distortion is present when deformation or discontinuity is visually recognized in the grid pattern, and the perspective distortion is not present when neither the deformation nor the discontinuity is visually recognized in the grid pattern.

Assignees

• Agc Inc

Inventors

• Irie Tetsuji
• Sato Nana
• Okawa Jun
• Saito Hideyuki
• Nagata Akio

Classifications

• B60J1/002 Primary

  with means for clear vision, e.g. anti-frost or defog panes, rain shields (window heating in H05B3/84, H05B3/86) · CPC title

• B32B7/12

  using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties · CPC title

• B32B17/10348

  comprising an obscuration band · CPC title

• B32B17/10036

  comprising two outer glass sheets · CPC title

• B32B17/10165

  Functional features of the laminated safety glass or glazing · CPC title