Articles including anticondensation and/or low-E coatings and/or methods of making the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9573845-B2
Application number	US-201514920952-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 23, 2015
Priority date	Feb 26, 2010
Publication date	Feb 21, 2017
Grant date	Feb 21, 2017

Abstract

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation and/or low-E coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation and/or low-E coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An insulating glass (IG) window unit, comprising:
first and second substantially parallel spaced apart glass substrates, the first and second glass substrates of the IG window unit providing substantially parallel major surfaces, a gap being defined between the first and second glass substrates;
wherein the first glass substrate of the IG window unit supports a first coating comprising a plurality of thin film layers including, in order moving away from the first substrate:
(a) a layer comprising indium-tin-oxide (ITO) 75-175 nm thick,
(b) a dielectric layer comprising silicon nitride, wherein the dielectric layer comprising silicon nitride is located over and directly contacting the layer comprising indium-tin-oxide so that the layer comprising indium-tin-oxide is located between the first glass substrate and the dielectric layer comprising silicon nitride, and
(c) a protective layer comprising zirconium oxide, the protective layer comprising zirconium oxide being located over and directly contacting the dielectric layer comprising silicon nitride;

wherein the protective layer comprising zirconium oxide is the outermost layer of the coating and is to be exposed to an external environment adjacent the IG window unit; and
wherein the coating has a hemispherical emissivity of less than 0.23 and a sheet resistance of less than 30 ohms/square.

2. The IG window unit of claim 1 , wherein the coating further comprises a dielectric layer comprising silicon oxynitride located between the first glass substrate and the layer comprising ITO.

Assignees

• Guardian Industries
• Centre Luxembourgeois De Rech Pour Le Verre Et La Ceram S A (C R V C )

Inventors

• Lemmer Jean-Marc
• Murphy Nestor P
• Mclean David D
• Blacker Richard
• Lage Herbert
• Ferreira Jose
• Pallotta Pierre

Classifications

• C03C17/366

  Low-emissivity or solar control coatings · CPC title

• B32B2605/08

  Cars · CPC title

• C03C17/3681

  the multilayer coating being used in glazing, e.g. windows or windscreens · CPC title

• B60J1/02

  arranged at the vehicle front {, e.g. structure of the glazing, mounting of the glazing (on windscreen mounted antenna wire H01Q1/1271)} · CPC title

• C03C17/3435 Primary

  comprising a nitride, oxynitride, boronitride or carbonitride · CPC title