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Granted Patent B2
US 12,415,342 · App. 18/453,731 · Granted Sep 16, 2025

Laminated glass and its use

Inventors: Ralf Biertümpfel (Mainz, DE); Frank Wolff (Mainz, DE)
Assignee: Schott AG
B32B17/1011B32B3/30B32B7/027B32B17/10036B32B17/10045B32B17/101B32B17/10119C03C3/11B32B2307/308B32B2307/4026B32B2457/00B32B2551/00B32B2605/006
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Patent No.
US 12,415,342
App. No.
18/453,731
Granted
Sep 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A laminate includes at least two sheets, one of the at least two sheets including a colored glass and another of the at least two sheets being a further sheet. The sheet including the colored glass in a wavelength range from 875 nm to 1600 nm has an internal transmittance at at least one wavelength of at least 75%. A connecting layer is disposed between the at least two sheets. The laminate has a thickness of at most 6 mm. The laminate in a wavelength range from 400 to 700 nm has an average transmittance τ avg,400 nm to 700 nm of less than 15% where τ avg,400 nm to 700 nm is defined as τ a ⁢ v ⁢ g , 400 ⁢ nm - 700 ⁢ nm = ∫ 400 ⁢ nm 700 ⁢ nm τ ⁢ d ⁢ λ 700 ⁢ nm - 400 ⁢ nm and/or at each wavelength has a spectral transmittance of less than 15%.

Claims (90)

1. A laminate, comprising:

at least two sheets, one of the at least two sheets comprising a colored glass and another of the at least two sheets comprising a further sheet, wherein the sheet comprising the colored glass in a wavelength range from 875 nm to 1600 nm has an internal transmittance at at least one wavelength of at least 75%; and

a connecting layer disposed between the at least two sheets, the laminate having a thickness of at most 6 mm, and wherein the laminate in a wavelength range from 400 to 700 nm has an average transmittance τ avg,400 nm to 700 nm of less than 15% where τ avg,400 nm to 700 nm is defined as

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and/or at each wavelength has a spectral transmittance of less than 15%.

2. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the laminate is at least 1 mm.

3. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the laminate at each wavelength has a spectral transmittance of less than less than 1%.

4. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the further sheet comprises at least one of a glass, a borosilicate glass, a toughened soda-lime glass, a chemically toughened soda-lime glass, an aluminium silicate glass, a chemically toughened aluminium silicate glass, a lithium aluminium silicate glass, or a chemically toughened lithium aluminium silicate glass.

5. The laminate of claim 1 , further comprising a connecting layer comprising a polymer that is disposed between the at least two sheets.

6. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the colored glass comprises the following components in cation %:

silicon 30-80;

boron 0-20;

aluminium 0-2;

sodium 5-35;

potassium 2-25;

nickel 0-0.5;

chromium 0-0.5; and

cobalt 0.03-0.5;

wherein Σsodium+potassium is 15-50, Σnickel+chromium is 0.1-0.5, and a ratio of the sum total of sodium and potassium to the sum total of nickel and cobalt is subject to: Σsodium+potassium/Σnickel+cobalt=70:1 to 200:1.

7. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the colored glass comprises the following components in cation %:

silicon 40-80;

boron 0-20;

aluminium 0-25;

sodium 2-22;

potassium 0.1-10;

chromium 0.05-0.5; and

cobalt 0.03-0.5;

wherein Σsodium+potassium=10-25, Σchromium+cobalt=0.15-0.55, and a ratio of the sum total of sodium and potassium to the sum total of nickel and cobalt is subject to: Σsodium+potassium/Σnickel+cobalt=25:1-150:1.

8. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the colored glass comprises a composition with the following components in wt %:

SiO 2 50-80;

Al 2 O 3 0-10;

B 2 O 3 0-15;

Li 2 O 0-20;

Na 2 O 0-20;

K 2 O 0-25;

BaO 0-10;

CaO 0-10;

MgO 0-10;

ZnO 0-10;

La 2 O 3 0-20;

TiO 2 0-5;

Cl 0-3;

MnO 2 1.0-5.0; and

Cr 2 O 3 0.2-3;

wherein ΣNa 2 O+K 2 O+Li 2 O=5-30.

9. The laminate of claim 8 , wherein the composition of the colored glass meets at least one of the following conditions:

ΣMnO 2 +Cr 2 O 3 =2.7-8; or

MnO 2 /CrO 3 =1.5:1 to 12.5:1.

10. The laminate of claim 1 , further comprising a second further sheet comprising glass, wherein the sheet comprising the colored glass is disposed between the further sheet and the second further sheet.

11. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the sheet comprising the colored glass has a coefficient of thermal expansion α −30° C. to 70° C. of between 7*10 −6 /K and 11*10 −6 /K.

12. The laminate of claim 11 , wherein an amount of a difference between the coefficient of thermal expansion of the sheet comprising a colored glass and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the further sheet is at most 8*10 −6 /K.

13. The laminate of claim 12 , wherein the amount of the difference between the coefficient of thermal expansion of the sheet comprising a colored glass and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the further sheet is less than 6*10 −6 /K.

14. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the further sheet comprises a borosilicate glass.

15. The laminate of claim 14 , wherein the borosilicate glass is at least one of a floated borosilicate glass, a drawn borosilicate glass, or a polished borosilicate glass.

16. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the further sheet comprises elevations on one of the surfaces of the further sheet, wherein the elevations are elongate elevations which each elevate substantially in a normal direction and which have a longitudinal extent greater than two times a corresponding transverse extent of the elevation and have a height which on average, adjusted to exclude wedge-shaped fluctuations in thickness and bulges and on arithmetic averaging of an analysis area of 10*10 cm 2 , is less than 100 nm and for which the transverse extent of the elevation is in each case less than 40 mm.

17. The laminate of claim 1 , wherein the laminate has a thermal stability of at least 70° C. for at least 50 hours.

18. The laminate of claim 17 , wherein the thermal stability is up to 120° C. for at least 0.5 hours.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 27, 2023
From: BIERTÜMPFEL, RALF, DR.; WOLFF, FRANK
To: SCHOTT AG
Reel/Frame 065963/0525 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2022 121 122.3 · Aug 22, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240059050A1 · Feb 22, 2024
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