Projection arrangement for a head-up display (HUD) with p-polarised radiation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12429690-B2
Application number	US-202118007663-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2021
Priority date	Jul 20, 2020
Publication date	Sep 30, 2025
Grant date	Sep 30, 2025

Abstract

A projection arrangement for a head-up display (HUD), includes a composite pane, which includes an outer pane and an inner pane joined to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer and has an HUD region; an electrically conductive coating on the surface of the outer pane or the inner pane facing the intermediate layer or within the intermediate layer; and an HUD projector, which is directed at the HUD region; wherein the radiation of the projector is p-polarised, wherein the electrically conductive coating includes a first dielectric layer or layer sequence, a first electrically conductive layer, a second dielectric layer or layer sequence, a second electrically conductive layer, a third dielectric layer or layer sequence, a third electrically conductive layer, a fourth dielectric layer or layer sequence, a fourth electrically conductive layer, and a fifth dielectric layer or layer sequence.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A projection arrangement for a head-up display (HUD), comprising:
a composite pane, which comprises an outer pane and an inner pane joined to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer and has an HUD region;
an electrically conductive coating on a surface of the outer pane or the inner pane facing the intermediate layer or within the intermediate layer; and
an HUD projector, which is directed at the HUD region;
wherein a radiation of the projector is p-polarised,
wherein the electrically conductive coating comprises a first dielectric layer or layer sequence,
a first electrically conductive layer with a thickness from 11 nm to 14 nm,
a second dielectric layer or layer sequence,
a second electrically conductive layer with a thickness from 10 nm to 13 nm,
a third dielectric layer or layer sequence,
a third electrically conductive layer with a thickness from 10 nm to 13 nm,
a fourth dielectric layer or layer sequence,
a fourth electrically conductive layer with a thickness from 7 nm to 11 nm, and
a fifth dielectric layer or layer sequence,
which are arranged in the order specified starting from a substrate of the composite pane.

2. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the first electrically conductive layer is greater than the thickness of the fourth electrically conductive layer.

3. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein
the thickness of the first electrically conductive layer is from 11.5 nm to 13.5 nm,
the thickness of the second electrically conductive layer is from 10 nm to 12.5 nm,
the thickness of the third electrically conductive layer is from 11 nm to 12.5 nm, and
the thickness of the fourth electrically conductive layer is from 7.5 nm to 10 nm.

4. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein
an optical thickness of the first dielectric layer or layer sequence is from 50 nm to 150 nm,
an optical thickness of the fifth dielectric layer or layer sequence is from 50 nm to 150 nm.

5. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein all dielectric layers or layer sequences of the electrically conductive coating are formed from dielectric layers with a refractive index greater than 1.8.

6. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the second dielectric layer sequence contains a dielectric optically low-refractive-index layer with a refractive index less than 1.8 and at least one dielectric layer with a refractive index greater than 1.8 and wherein the remaining dielectric layers or layer sequences of the electrically conductive coating are formed from dielectric layers with a refractive index greater than 1.8.

7. The projection arrangement according to claim 6 , wherein an optical thickness of the optically low-refractive-index layer is from 20 nm to 40 nm.

8. The projection arrangement according to claim 5 , wherein a sum of optical thicknesses of all layers with a refractive index greater than 1.8 of each of the second dielectric layer or layer sequence, of the third dielectric layer or layer sequence, and of the fourth dielectric layer or layer sequence is in each case from 100 nm to 200 nm.

9. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the composite pane with the electrically conductive coating has, in a spectral range from 450 nm to 650 nm, an averaged reflectance relative to p-polarised radiation of at least 5%.

10. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein a difference between a maximally occurring reflectance and a mean of a reflectance as well as a difference between a minimally occurring reflectance and a mean of the reflectance relative to p-polarised radiation in a spectral range from 450 nm to 650 nm is at most 5%.

11. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the electrically conductive layers are based on silver.

12. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the radiation of the projector is purely p-polarised.

13. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein a surface of the outer pane and of the inner pane facing away from the intermediate layer are arranged parallel to one another.

14. The projection arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the electrically conductive coating is provided with two bus bars that are connected to a voltage source of 12 V to 14 V such that an electric current can be conducted through the coating to heat the composite pane.

15. A method comprising providing a projection arrangement according to claim 1 as an HUD in a vehicle on land, on water, or in the air.

16. The projection arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the thicknesses of the second electrically conductive layer and of the third electrically conductive layer are greater than the thickness of the fourth electrically conductive layer.

17. The projection arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein
the optical thickness of the first dielectric layer or layer sequence is from 90 nm to 110 nm,
the optical thickness of the fifth dielectric layer or layer sequence is from 75 nm to 95 nm.

18. The projection arrangement according to claim 7 , wherein the optical thickness of the optically low-refractive-index layer is from 25 nm to 35 nm.

19. The projection arrangement according to claim 8 , wherein the sum of the optical thicknesses of all layers with a refractive index greater than 1.8 of each of the second dielectric layer or layer sequence, of the third dielectric layer or layer sequence, and of the fourth dielectric layer or layer sequence is in each case from 150 nm to 170 nm.

20. The projection arrangement according to claim 9 , wherein the composite pane with the electrically conductive coating has, in the spectral range from 450 nm to 650 nm, an averaged reflectance relative to p-polarised radiation of at least 7%.

Assignees

• Saint Gobain

Inventors

• Hagen Jan
• Fischer Klaus
• Zimmermann Roberto
• Schulz Valentin

Classifications

• G02B2027/0118

  comprising devices for improving the contrast of the display / brillance control visibility · CPC title

• B32B2605/00

  Vehicles · CPC title

• B32B2255/28

  Multiple coating on one surface · CPC title

• B32B2255/205

  Metallic coating · CPC title

• B32B17/1055

  characterized by the resin layer, i.e. interlayer · CPC title