IP Library Granted Patent US 12,611,997
Granted Patent B2
US 12,611,997 · App. 18/122,270 · Granted Apr 28, 2026

Laminated glass mounted with camera

Inventors: Changlong He (Fuqing, CN); Feng Cai (Fuqing, CN); Xiong Li (Fuqing, CN); Jianming Zhang (Fuqing, CN); Jinliang Guan (Fuqing, CN)
Assignee: FUYAO GLASS INDUSTRY GROUP CO., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 12,611,997
App. No.
18/122,270
Granted
Apr 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A laminated glass mounted with a camera is provided. The laminated glass includes an external glass panel, an internal glass panel, and an intermediate bonding layer. A bracket is fixed to a fourth surface of the laminated glass. The camera is mounted on the bracket. An opaque resin layer is further disposed between the fourth surface and the bracket. The opaque resin layer has a visible light transmittance less than or equal to 3%. For each of the first surface, the second surface, the third surface, and the fourth surface of the laminated glass, no dark ceramic ink layer is disposed in a region which surrounds each optical transmitting window and has a periphery at least 10 mm away from a periphery of said each optical transmitting window.

Claims (32)

1 . A laminated glass mounted with a camera, comprising an external glass panel, an internal glass panel, and an intermediate bonding layer, wherein

the external glass panel has a first surface facing an outside of a vehicle and a second surface facing an inside of the vehicle, the internal glass panel has a third surface facing the outside of the vehicle and a fourth surface facing the inside of the vehicle, the intermediate bonding layer is configured to bond the second surface and the third surface together;

a bracket is fixed to the fourth surface, the bracket has at least one viewing window, and the camera is mounted on the bracket;

an opaque resin layer is further disposed between the fourth surface and the bracket, the opaque resin layer defines at least one optical transmitting window, each of the at least one optical transmitting window corresponds to one of the at least one viewing window, the at least one optical transmitting window at least partially overlaps the at least one viewing window to make the camera collect an image through the at least one optical transmitting window and the at least one viewing window, the opaque resin layer has a visible light transmittance less than or equal to 3%, and for each of the first surface, the second surface, the third surface, and the fourth surface, no dark ceramic ink layer is provided in a region which surrounds each of the at least one optical transmitting window and has a periphery at least 10 mm away from a periphery of said each of the at least one optical transmitting window;

the opaque resin layer further has an inclined portion extending, in a thickness direction of the laminated glass, into the at least one viewing window, and a minimum distance between the inclined portion and a boundary of a field of view (FOV) of the camera is at least 0.5 mm;

a dark ceramic ink layer is provided on the second surface and/or the fourth surface;

the dark ceramic ink layer comprises a first dark ceramic ink layer located on a peripheral portion of the second surface and/or the fourth surface;

the dark ceramic ink layer comprises a second dark ceramic ink layer located on the fourth surface, and the second dark ceramic ink layer has a visible light transmittance greater than the first dark ceramic ink layer; and

the second dark ceramic ink layer functions as a transition between the at least one optional transmitting window and the first dark ceramic ink layer.

2 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein the laminated glass has a diopter less than or equal to 200 mdpt at a region of the laminated glass corresponding to the at least one optical transmitting window defined by the opaque resin layer.

3 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein for each of the first surface, the second surface, the third surface, and the fourth surface, no dark ceramic ink layer is provided in the region which surrounds said each of the at least one optical transmitting window and has the periphery at least 50 mm away from the periphery of said each of the at least one optical transmitting window.

4 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein the dark ceramic ink layer has a visible light transmittance less than or equal to 1.5%.

5 . The laminated glass of claim 4 , wherein the dark ceramic ink layer is made of a black ceramic ink or a brown ceramic ink, the dark ceramic ink layer comprises an organic solvent and an inorganic powder, a mass of the inorganic powder in the dark ceramic ink layer accounts for 70%-85%, the inorganic powder comprises a glass glaze, a pigment, and an additive, and the glass glaze has an average particle size of 5 μm-10 μm.

6 . The laminated glass of claim 4 , wherein at least one of the external glass panel or the internal glass panel is a bent glass panel formed by subjecting a flat glass panel to heat treatment of at least 560° C. and bending process, and the dark ceramic ink layer is disposed on at least one surface of the flat glass panel.

7 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein at least part of the second dark ceramic ink layer is located between the opaque resin layer and the fourth surface, at least part of the opaque resin layer is directly bonded to the fourth surface, and another part of the opaque resin layer is directly bonded to the second dark ceramic ink layer.

8 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein at least part of a contour of said each of the at least one optical transmitting window is defined by the opaque resin layer, and all of the contour of said each of the at least one optical transmitting window is 1-5 mm greater than a contour of a region of a FOV of the camera on the fourth surface.

9 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein the inclined portion is parallel or substantially parallel to the boundary of the FOV of the camera.

10 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein the opaque resin layer is a resinous material with an opaque body or formed by disposing an opaque coating layer on at least one surface of a resinous material with a transparent body, and the resinous material is made of at least one of styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR), ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM), butyl rubber, polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene (PS), polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic, polyamide (PA), polycarbonate (PC), polyoxymethylene (POM), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), modified polyphenyleneoxide, fluoroplastic, polyimide (PI), polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), polysulfone (PSU) plastic, polyetheretherketone (PEEK), polyarylate (PAR), or poly-p-hydroxybenzoate (PHB).

11 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein the bracket is a plastic bracket, and glass fibers or glass balls are added to the plastic bracket.

12 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein a transparent conducting film is further disposed on at least one of the second surface, the third surface, or the fourth surface.

13 . The laminated glass of claim 1 , wherein the internal glass panel is a chemical tempered glass panel, the internal glass panel has a thickness less than or equal to 1.1 mm, and the external glass panel has a thickness at least 0.7 mm greater than the internal glass panel.

14 . A laminated glass mounted with a camera, comprising an external glass panel, an internal glass panel, and an intermediate bonding layer, wherein

the external glass panel has a first surface facing an outside of a vehicle and a second surface facing an inside of the vehicle, the internal glass panel has a third surface facing the outside of the vehicle and a fourth surface facing the inside of the vehicle, the intermediate bonding layer is configured to bond the second surface and the third surface together;

a bracket is fixed to the fourth surface, the bracket has at least one viewing window, and the camera is mounted on the bracket;

an opaque resin layer is further disposed between the fourth surface and the bracket, the opaque resin layer defines at least one optical transmitting window, each of the at least one optical transmitting window corresponds to one of the at least one viewing window, the at least one optical transmitting window at least partially overlaps the at least one viewing window to make the camera collect an image through the at least one optical transmitting window and the at least one viewing window, the opaque resin layer has a visible light transmittance less than or equal to 3%, a first dark ceramic ink layer is disposed on a peripheral portion of the second surface and/or the fourth surface, and a minimum distance between the first dark ceramic ink layer and a periphery of the at least one optical transmitting window is at least 10 mm;

the opaque resin layer further has an inclined portion extending, in a thickness direction of the laminated glass, into the at least one viewing window, and a minimum distance between the inclined portion and a boundary of a field of view (FOV) of the camera is at least 0.5 mm;

a second dark ceramic ink layer is further provided on the fourth surface, and the second dark ceramic ink layer has a visible light transmittance greater than the first dark ceramic ink layer; and

the second dark ceramic ink layer functions as a transition between the at least one optional transmitting window and the first dark ceramic ink layer.

15 . The laminated glass of claim 14 , wherein a minimum distance between the second dark ceramic ink layer and the periphery of the at least one optical transmitting window is at least 10 mm.

16 . The laminated glass of claim 15 , wherein at least part of the second dark ceramic ink layer is located between the opaque resin layer and the fourth surface, at least part of the opaque resin layer is directly bonded to the fourth surface, and another part of the opaque resin layer is directly bonded to the second dark ceramic ink layer; or

all of the opaque resin layer is directly bonded to the fourth surface.

17 . The laminated glass of claim 14 , wherein the bracket is bonded to the opaque resin layer; or the bracket is fixed to the opaque resin layer through a fitting structure which is additionally disposed on the opaque resin layer and is able to be connected with the bracket.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 16, 2023
From: HE, CHANGLONG; CAI, FENG; LI, XIONG; ZHANG, JIANMING; GUAN, JINLIANG
To: FUYAO GLASS INDUSTRY GROUP CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202011039082.2 · Sep 28, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2021129046 · Nov 5, 2021
Related Publication 20230226987A1 · Jul 20, 2023
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