Plate glass production method, plate glass, and laminated glass production method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11180405-B2
Application number	US-202016814735-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 10, 2020
Priority date	Jan 21, 2015
Publication date	Nov 23, 2021
Grant date	Nov 23, 2021

Abstract

Provided is a sheet glass production process for properly producing sheet glass having a convex shape in section in a width direction orthogonal to the advancing direction of a glass ribbon. A glass ribbon G2 advancing on molten metal 22 is heated so as to have both edge portions G2B heated more intensely than a central portion G2A in a width direction thereof in an upstream zone of the molten metal bath, and a plurality of rolls 23 are rotated in contact with both edge portions G2B of the glass ribbon G2 such that upstream rolls 23A in an advancing direction F1 have a lower peripheral speed than downstream rolls 23B in the advancing direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A laminated glass for a vehicle, the laminated glass comprising:
a first sheet glass, which is a wedge-shaped glass having one end portion thicker than other end,
a second sheet glass, and
an interlayer interposed between the first sheet glass and the second sheet glass,
wherein the first sheet glass has a principal surface with a maximum height Rz of at most 0.3 μm in accordance with JIS B 0601-2001 in a roughness curve having a reference length of 25 mm.

2. The laminated glass according to claim 1 , wherein a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value in a thickness of the first sheet glass is at least 0.1 mm.

3. The laminated glass according to claim 2 , wherein the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value in the thickness of the first sheet glass is at least 0.2 mm.

4. The laminated glass according to claim 3 , wherein the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value in the thickness of the first sheet glass is at least 0.3 mm.

5. The laminated glass according to claim 4 , wherein the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value in the thickness of the first sheet glass is at least 0.5 mm.

6. The laminated glass according to claim 1 , wherein the maximum height Rz of the first sheet glass is at most 0.2 nm.

7. The laminated glass according to claim 1 , wherein the maximum height Rz of the first sheet glass is at most 0.16 nm.

8. The laminated glass according to claim 1 , wherein the second sheet glass has a constant thickness.

9. The laminated glass according to claim 8 , wherein the maximum height Rz of the first sheet glass is at most 80% of a maximum height Rz of the second sheet glass.

10. The laminated glass according to claim 1 , wherein the second sheet glass comprises a wedge-shaped glass having one end portion thicker than other end.

11. The laminated glass according to claim 1 , wherein the interlayer comprises polyvinyl butyral.

12. The laminated glass according to claim 1 , wherein the laminated glass is part of a head-up display for displaying information on a windshield of the vehicle.

13. The laminated glass according to claim 1 , wherein the maximum height Rz of the first sheet glass ranges from greater than 0.05 μm to at most 0.3 μm.

14. A windshield, comprising the laminated glass according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Agc Inc

Inventors

• Yamato Takamitsu
• Sunaga Kouhei
• Hasegawa Akira
• Sugahara Akira

Classifications

• B32B17/10036 Primary

  comprising two outer glass sheets · CPC title

• C03B18/04

  Changing or regulating the dimensions of the molten glass ribbon · CPC title

• B32B17/10871

  in combination with particular heat treatment · CPC title

• B60J1/001

  Double glazing for vehicles · CPC title

• Y10T428/24479

  including variation in thickness · CPC title