IP Library Granted Patent US 12,441,085
Granted Patent B2
US 12,441,085 · App. 17/414,735 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Thin glass-laminated printed steel sheet having excellent surface quality and method for manufacturing same

Inventors: Jung-Hwan Lee (Gwangyang-si, KR); Jae-Seon Hong (Asan-si, KR); Jin-Tae Kim (Gwangyang-si, KR); Joon-Soo Kim (Asan-si, KR); Bum-Gook Lee (Asan-si, KR); Tae-Hyo Park (Asan-si, KR); Myung-Soo Kim (Gwangyang-si, KR)
Assignees: POSCO CO., LTD; CORNING INCORPORATED
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Patent No.
US 12,441,085
App. No.
17/414,735
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a thin glass-laminated printed steel sheet comprising: a printed steel sheet including a metal sheet and a printed layer on which a design or a pattern having a high resolution of 300 dpi or higher is printed on a surface of the metal sheet; an adhesive layer formed by curing an ultraviolet curable adhesive solution on the printed steel sheet, having a thickness of 10 to 100 μm, and being transparent; and a flexible thin glass attached by the adhesive layer, wherein a reference value for color density (D max Comparison) is higher than 1.6, as measured by a spectrophotometer.

Claims (30)

1. A glass-laminated printed steel sheet comprising:

a printed steel sheet including a metal sheet and a printed layer on which a design or a pattern is printed on a surface of the metal sheet;

an adhesive layer formed by curing an ultraviolet curable adhesive solution on the printed steel sheet, the adhesive layer having a thickness of 10 to 100 μm and being transparent; and

flexible glass attached by the adhesive layer, the flexible glass having a thickness of 0.1 to 2 mm,

wherein a reference value for color density (D max Comparison) is higher than 1.6, as measured by a spectrophotometer,

wherein glossiness of the glass-laminated printed steel sheet is 85% or more, based on a 60 degree glossmeter,

wherein image clarity of the glass-laminated printed steel sheet is SW 30 or less and LW 10 or less, based on an image clarity measuring instrument, and

wherein, in evaluating optical properties by the spectrophotometer, an L value is greater than 75, when white point is evaluated (White Point Comparison), a reference value is greater than 440,000, when a HSL (H: Hue, S: Saturation, L: Lightness) value is evaluated for color gamut volume (Gamut Volume) (HSL Comparison), based on maximum saturation (Saturation=1), and a reference value is greater than 200,000, when an absolute value of color gamut volume is evaluated (Cubic Volume Comparison).

2. The glass-laminated printed steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the flexible glass is non-alkali borosilicate glass, soda lime glass, or tempered glass.

3. The glass-laminated printed steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the printed steel sheet further comprises at least one or more of a base color layer or a primer layer, between the metal sheet and the printed layer.

4. The glass-laminated printed steel sheet of claim 3 , wherein a pretreatment layer is further included between the metal sheet and the primer layer.

5. The glass-laminated printed steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the printed steel sheet is an inkjet-printed steel sheet.

6. The glass-laminated printed steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein resolution of the design or the pattern printed on the printed layer is 300 dpi or higher.

7. A method for manufacturing the thin glass-laminated printed steel sheet according to claim 1 , comprising:

preparing a printed steel sheet including a metal sheet and a printed layer on which a design or a pattern is printed on a surface of the metal sheet;

applying an ultraviolet curable adhesive solution to a surface of the prepared printed steel sheet to form an adhesive layer;

attaching flexible thin glass to the prepared printed steel sheet to which the ultraviolet curable adhesive solution is applied;

applying pressure to the attached flexible thin glass; and

irradiating ultraviolet rays to cure the ultraviolet curable adhesive solution.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein a thickness of the flexible thin glass is 0.1 to 2 mm.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the pressure is 2 to 10 kgf.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein a thickness of the adhesive layer, after curing the ultraviolet curable adhesive solution, is 10 to 100 μm.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the ultraviolet curable adhesive solution comprises a polyester acrylate oligomer having six or more functional groups, a urethane acrylate oligomer having two functional groups, at least one photocurable monomer, and a photoinitiator.

12. The method of claim 7 , wherein resolution of the design or the pattern printed on the printed layer is 300 dpi or more.

13. A system for manufacturing the thin glass-laminated printed steel sheet according to claim 1 , comprising:

a coating means coating an ultraviolet curable adhesive solution on a printed steel sheet;

a glass attaching means installed on a rear end of the coating means and attaching flexible thin glass onto the adhesive solution;

a pressing means connected to the glass attaching means and compressing the flexible thin glass to make the glass attaching means and the flexible thin glass in close contact with each other; and

a curing means installed on a rear end of the pressing means and irradiating ultraviolet rays to cure the ultraviolet curable adhesive solution to form a coating film.

14. The system of claim 13 , further comprising a decompression means decompressing the thin glass-laminated printed steel sheet to remove microbubbles in an edge portion of the thin glass-laminated printed steel sheet.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 3, 2023
From: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.; CORNING INCORPORATED
To: POSCO CO., LTD; CORNING INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 063241/0562 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 28, 2022
From: POSCO
To: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
Reel/Frame 061561/0756 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2021
From: LEE, JUNG-HWAN; HONG, JAE-SEON; KIM, JIN-TAE; KIM, JOON-SOO; LEE, BUM-GOOK; PARK, TAE-HYO; KIM, MYUNG-SOO
To: POSCO; CORNING INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 056565/0864 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2018-0165622 · Dec 19, 2018 · national
KR 10-2019-0129600 · Oct 18, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220040958A1 · Feb 10, 2022
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