US4880677A
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Matted glass
Assignee: AGC Glass Europe SA
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Filing: 1987-04-06
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Granted: 1989-11-14
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Expires: 2007-04-06
Abstract
Abstract Light transmitting glass having at least one surface area which is matted by surface pits, including an etched surface area having a population of merging or contiguous surface pits of polyhedral form, each pit having a small area so that at least 30% of visible light normally incident on the at least one surface is diffusely transmitted through the surface and the at least one surface having a total luminous transmittance of normally incident visible light of not less than TT-10 where TT is the total luminous transmittance through the same surface prior to etching expressed as a percentage of the total incident visible light.
Inventors
- 👤 Andre Hecq
- 👤 Jean-Francois Thomas
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 02:55
CPC Classifications
C; C03; C03C; C03C15/00; H; H10; H10F; H10F19/00; H10F19/30; H10F19/80; H10F19/90; H10F19/902; H10F77/00; H10F77/10; H10F77/16; H10F77/169; H10F77/1692; H10F77/40; H10F77/42; H10F77/48; Y; Y02; Y02E; Y02E10/00; Y02E10/50; Y02E10/52; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/24; Y10T428/24355; Y10T428/24364
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
126 words
Light transmitting glass having at least one surface area which is matted by surface pits, comprising; an etched surface area having a population of merging or contiguous surface pits of polyhedral form, which population of merging or contiguous surface pits have a small area so that a disk having a diameter of 10 μm cannot be placed thereon without overlapping at least two pits and so that at least 30% of visible light normally incident on said surface is diffusely transmitted through said surface and said surface having a total luminous transmittance of normally incident visible light of not less than TT-10, where TT is the total luminous transmittance through the same surface prior to etching expressed as a percentage of the total incident visible light.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
126 words
Light transmitting glass having at least one surface area which is matted by surface pits, comprising; an etched surface area having a population of merging or contiguous surface pits of polyhedral form, which population of merging or contiguous surface pits have a small area so that a disk having a diameter of 10 μm cannot be placed thereon without overlapping at least two pits and so that at least 30% of visible light normally incident on said surface is diffusely transmitted through said surface and said surface having a total luminous transmittance of normally incident visible light of not less than TT-10, where TT is the total luminous transmittance through the same surface prior to etching expressed as a percentage of the total incident visible light.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
24 words
Glass according to claim 1, wherein the total luminous transmittance of normally incident visible light through said surface area is not less than TT-3.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
47 words
Glass according to claim 1, wherein at least one said etched surface area is occupied by a said population of surface pits which are of such small size that a disk having a diameter of 5 μm cannot be placed thereon without overlapping at least two pits.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
39 words
Glass according to claim 1, wherein at least one said etched surface area is occupied by a said population of surface pits, substantially all of which pits have a depth in the range 0.1 μm to 1.0 μm inclusive.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
53 words
Glass according to claim 4, wherein at least one said etched surface area is occupied by a dense population of surface pits, substantially all of which pits have a depth and diameter which are so related that the depth of a said pit divided by its diameter lies between 0.02 and 0.5 inclusive.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
56 words
Glass according to claim 1, wherein at least one said etched surface area is occupied by a said population of surface pits, substantially all of which pits have a depth and mean transverse dimension (hereinafter called "diameter") which are so related that the depth of a said pit divided by its diameter is at least 0.01.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
23 words
Glass according to claim 1, wherein the angle of scatter of diffuse light transmitted by such etched surface area is at least 10°.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
21 words
Glass according to claim 1, wherein at least 40% of light normally incident on said etched surface area is diffusely transmitted.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
21 words
Glass according to claim 8, wherein at least 50% of light normally incident on said etched surface area is diffusely transmitted.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
18 words
Glass according to claim 1, wherein the total solar energy transmissivity of the glass is at least 85%.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
18 words
Glass according to claim 10, wherein the total solar energy transmissivity of the glass is at least 90%.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
17 words
Glass according to claim 1, wherein the piece of glass is in the form of a sheet.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
17 words
Glass according to claim 12, wherein the glass sheet has been etched on one main face only.
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