IP Library Granted Patent US 12679766
Granted Patent B2
US 12679766 · App. 17/915,899 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

Method for producing a safety tempered vehicle glazing unit and safety tempered vehicle glazing unit

Inventors: Laure-Hélène Guillemot (Compiègne, FR); Svenja Bourone (Aachen, DE)
Assignee: SAINT GOBAIN SEKURIT FRANCE
C03C17/322B60J1/08B60J1/18C03C17/38C03C23/007C03B27/00C03C2218/112C03C2218/114
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Patent No.
US 12679766
App. No.
17/915,899
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for producing a safety tempered vehicle glazing unit, includes a. tempering a glass pane at a tempering temperature; b. cooling the tempered glass pane to a first temperature T1 above room temperature; c. coating the tempered glass pane with a dispersion of an organic resin at the first temperature T1, and d. drying and cooling to room temperature Tr.

Claims (23)

1 . A method for producing a safety tempered vehicle glazing unit formed of a single pane, comprising:

a. tempering a single glass pane at a tempering temperature, including bending the pane to have a concave inner surface;

b. cooling the tempered glass pane to a first temperature T1 above room temperature Tr;

c. coating over the concave inner surface of the tempered glass pane with a dispersion of an organic resin at the first temperature T1, and

d. drying and cooling to room temperature Tr, thus drying the dispersion to form a layer with anti-shatter properties,

wherein the glazing unit with said layer has a light transmission in the visible spectrum of T-ref±5%, where T-ref is a light transmission in the visible spectrum of a reference glazing unit, which is the same glazing unit without said layer,

wherein said layer has a thickness of 90 μm-200 μm.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , comprising a step a1 before step b:

a1. applying a further coating on the glass pane or tempered glass pane, the coating being on the concave inner surface.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the further coating comprises one or more of an IR-light reflective coating or enamel coating.

4 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the further coating comprises an IR-light reflective coating,

wherein the dispersion is a polyurethane dispersion, and

wherein the light transmission of the glazing unit with said layer and the light transmission of the reference glazing unit are equal within a measurement tolerance.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first temperature T1 is between 40° C. and 220° C.

6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein the first temperature T1 is between 40° C. and 100° C.

7 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first temperature T1 is between 50° C. and 80° C.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the dispersion is a polyurethane dispersion.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said dispersion consists of an anionic aqueous solution of a polyurethanic compound including at least one aliphatic or aromatic polyurethanic compound.

10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the coating of step c is a curtain coating step or spray coating step.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the coating of step c is a curtain coating step.

12 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the drying of step d comprises a heating to a temperature T2, the temperature T2 being higher than the first temperature T1, before the cooling to room temperature Tr.

13 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said layer has a thickness of 90 μm-150 μm.

14 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the light transmission of the glazing unit with said layer and the light transmission of the reference glazing unit are equal within a measurement tolerance.