Functional glazing provided with a permanent protective film

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11136263-B2
Application number	US-201816765724-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2018
Priority date	Nov 30, 2017
Publication date	Oct 5, 2021
Grant date	Oct 5, 2021

Abstract

A glazing article, includes a substrate made of glass or made of organic substance, on the surface of which are deposited a layer or a stack of layers conferring, on the article, a functionality, in particular solar protection, thermal insulation or anticondensation properties, with a total thickness of between 5 nanometers and 400 nanometers, an organic film covering the layer or the stack of layers, the thickness of the polymer film being between 300 nanometers and 10 micrometers, wherein a texturing element is present under the layer or the stack of layers, the roughness of the surface of the texturing element being such that: the arithmetic mean deviation Ra is between 50 nm and 2 micrometers, limits included, the base length RSm is between 5 micrometers and 300 micrometers, limits included.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A glazing article, comprising a substrate made of glass or made of organic substance, on the surface of which are deposited:
a layer or a stack of layers conferring, on said article, a functionality, with a total thickness of between 5 nanometers and 400 nanometers, said layer or stack of layers being an infrared radiation reflecting layer or an infrared radiation reflecting stack of layers, a low emissivity layer or a low emissivity stack of layers, or an anticondensation layer or an anticondensation stack of layers, an organic film covering said layer or said stack of layers, a thickness of the organic film being between 300 nanometers and 10 micrometers, wherein a texturing element is present under said layer or said stack of layers, a roughness of the surface of the texturing element being such that: an arithmetic mean deviation Ra is between 50 nm and 2 micrometers, limits included, a base length Rsm is between 5 micrometers and 300 micrometers, limits included.

2. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the refractive indices of the substrate and of the organic film, measured at 550 nm, are substantially identical.

3. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the organic film is a polymer.

4. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said texturing element consists of the surface of the substrate.

5. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said texturing element consists of a layer of an organic material positioned between the surface of the substrate and the layer or the stack of layers, the surface of said organic layer in contact with said layer or with the stack of layers, and said organic layer being textured.

6. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said texturing element is made of inorganic glass, of organic glass, of sol-gel material, of polymer or of sintered glass.

7. The article as claimed in claim 6 , wherein said texturing element is positioned between the surface of the substrate and the layer or the stack of layers and is made of PMMA (poly(methyl methacrylate)) or of PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane).

8. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the organic film is chosen from a polymer selected from the group consisting of polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polymethacrylonitrile (PMAN), polycycloolefin, polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), styrene-butadiene (PSB), and polysilazanes.

9. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the organic film is an organic sol-gel layer.

10. The glass article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the stack of layers reflects infrared radiation and comprises at least one metal layer chosen from silver, copper, gold or their alloys.

11. The glass article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the stack of layers reflects infrared radiation and comprises an upper layer that is a dielectric layer of oxide, nitride or oxynitride, on which the organic film is directly deposited.

12. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the substrate is made of glass.

13. The article as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the texturing element is obtained by etching the surface of the glass substrate.

14. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the substrate is made of plastic substance chosen from the group consisting of PMMA, polycarbonate and polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

15. The article as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the texturing element is obtained by application, to the surface of the substrate, of a layer of a textured material.

16. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a R a of the surface of said article is less than 50% of the R a of the surface of the texturing element.

17. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a R a of the surface of the article is less than 50 nm.

18. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the functionality is solar protection, thermal insulation or anticondensation properties.

19. The article as claimed in claim 5 , wherein said organic material is a polymer material.

20. The article as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the organic sol-gel layer is obtained by polymerization of a tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) or methyltriethoxysilane (MTEOS) Solution.

21. The article as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the texturing element is obtained by a process of acid etching or basic etching or by sandblasting.

22. The article as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the texturing element is obtained by embossing or by self-texturing.

23. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the texturing element, the layer or stack or layers and the organic film each cover entirely a same main face of the substrate.

24. The article as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, at each location of the surface of the substrate where the organic film covers said layer or said stack of layers, the texturing element is present at said location under said layer or said stack of layers and between said substrate and said layer or said stack of layers to prevent formation of iridescent zones generated by optical interferences between the organic film and said layer or said stack of layers.

25. The article as claimed in claim 24 , wherein at said location of the surface of the substrate where the organic film covers said layer or said stack of layers, the article has a haze value of less than 10%.

26. The article as claimed in claim 25 , wherein the haze value is less than 5%.

Assignees

• Saint Gobain

Inventors

• Devys Lucie
• Wanakule Nisita
• Schiavoni Michele

Classifications

• C03C17/3652

  the coating stack containing at least one sacrificial layer to protect the metal from oxidation · CPC title

• C03C17/3644

  the metal being silver · CPC title

• C03C17/3626 Primary

  one layer at least containing a nitride, oxynitride, boronitride or carbonitride · CPC title

• C03C17/3618

  Coatings of type glass/inorganic compound/other inorganic layers, at least one layer being metallic · CPC title

• C03C17/36

  at least one coating being a metal · CPC title